Dr Aya Hussein

Dr Aya Hussein

Senior Research Fellow
  • PhD in Computer Science from UNSW- Canberra in 2020
  • MSc in Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, 2015
  • BSc in Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, 2011
UNSW Canberra
School of Systems & Computing

focuses on combining human and machine intelligence by studying interaction schemes that allow humans to teach machines and to effectively team up with them in the field.

I received my PhD in Computer Science from UNSW- Canberra in 2020. During my PhD, I investigated different aspects that facilitates the realisation of high-performance teams that combine human and machine intelligence. In particular, I focused on both Human Factors and Swarm Robotics, where I studied performance, trust,...

E-mail
a.hussein@adfa.edu.au

  • Chief investigator, UNSW Research Infrastructure Scheme - 68,000 AUD granted to the "Heterogeneous Robot Swarms" project, 2023
  • Lead Chief Investigator, UNSW internal fund of 7500 AUD granted to the Distributed Intelligence research group which I lead and have co-founded, 2022
  • Chief investigator, UNSW internal fund of 3000 AUD has been granted to the Deep Learning research group which I have co-founded, 2022
  • Sole Chief Investigator, RG213520 grant from Department of Defence and the Office of National Intelligence in Continual Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous shepherding ($20,000), 2021

Scholarships & Awards:

  • DAIRNet Women in AI scholarship to attend the Australian Defence Science, Technology and Research (ADSTAR) summit 2022
  • UNSW Arc Postgraduate Council Research Student Award for my contribution to both research and school life, 2020
  • Registration Grant for IEEE WCCI 2020
  • Winner of the IEEE CIS Webinar Competition on "Emerging Topics and Applications of Computational Intelligence", 2019
  • Student Travel Grant of the HFES Human Performance Modelling Technical Group 2019
  • Scholarship for attending "Research to Impact" program, Canberra Innovation Network 2019
  • Scholarship for attending Data61 & DST Cyber Summer School, Melbourne 2018
  • UNSW Tuition Fees Scholarship 2017-2020

 

Review Activities:

  • IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems

  • IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems

  • IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics

  • Autonomous Robots

  • Computers in Human Behavior

  • Mathematics and Computers in Simulation

  • Environmental Modelling & Software

  • Others; my full list of verified reviews can be found on my Publons profile.

 

 

 

  • Associate editor at IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence
  • Lead organizer of the IEEE IJCNN special session on “Learning in swarm and multi-robot systems”, 2023. CFP can be found here: IEEE IJCNN 2023 | Special Sessions
  • Sole speaker in a Tutorial session on "Human Teachable Reinforcement Learning" at ICONIP 2022
  • Co-organisation of IEEE IROS workshop on "Cognitive and Social Aspects of Human Multi-Robot Interaction", 2021

  • Development of UGV teleoperation system for the voluntary extra-curricular club activity Exercise Enigma, UNSW Canberra, 2021

  • Manager of the AI lab at UNSW Canberra, 2021 - present

  • Member of the team developing a gesture-based multi-robot control system for the voluntary extra-curricular club activities, UNSW Canberra, 2021

  • Student representative in the Research Leadership Group (RLG) & School Board, School of Engineering and IT, UNSW-Canberra, 2020

  • Volunteer in IEEE SSCI, Canberra, Australia, 2020

  • Volunteer in Canberra Artificial Intelligence Summer School (CAISS2020), Virtual event, 2020

  • Invited presentation at the 3rd IEEE Systems Modelling Conference, Canberra, Australia, 2019

  • Session co-chair in the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual meeting, Seattle, USA, 2019

  • Volunteer in IEEE CIS YoWIENet Student Workshop- UNSW-Canberra, Australia, 2018

  • Volunteer in IEEE International Computer Engineering Conference (ICENCO), Cairo, Egypt, 2012-2016

Professional Memberships:

  • IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS)

  • IEEE Woman in Engineering (WIE)

  • Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES)