Information

Membership Number: FCA1151

Membership Type: Full Fellowship

Division: Mathematics and Information Sciences

Corresponding Email: robyn.owens@uwa.edu.au

Homepage(s): https://www.science.org.au/profile/robyn-owens

https://research-repository.uwa.edu.au/en/persons/robyn-owens

Present and Previous Positions

Emeritus Professor, School of Physics, Mathematics and Computing, University of Western Australia

Former Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) of the University of Western Australia

She currently sits on the Senate of Murdoch University, Chairs the Governing Board for ACCESS-NRI national research infrastructure, and is on the Board of the Australian Maths Trust.

Fields of Scholarship and Research Interests

Robyn was trained in mathematics at UWA, Oxford and the University of Paris. Her research was primarily in computer vision, where she contributed to both theoretical and applied aspects of feature recognition in images and image understanding. She has been acknowledged with several national and international awards, including the 2010 UK Rank Prize. 

She has over 30-years’ experience working as a teacher, researcher, and university leader, focusing on strategy and national policy.

Honors, Awards and Other Membership

Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science

Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences & Engineering

Fellow of the Australian Computer Society

In 2023 she was elected as a Member of the Order of Australia in the Kings Birthday Honours List

Selected Publications

 https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=WPEZ1lYAAAAJ