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Professor Guido Zuccon is a Professorial Research Fellow at The University of Queensland, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science School, the AI DIrector for the Queensland Digital Health Centre (QDHeC), an Affiliate Professor at the UQ Centre for Health Services Research, Faculty of Medicine, and an Honorary Reader at Strathclyde University (UK). He leads the Information Engineering Lab (ielab), a research team working in Information Retrieval and Health Data Science. He was an ARC DECRA Fellow (2018-2020).

Guido's main research interests are Information Retrieval, Health Search, Formal Models of Search and Search Interaction, and Health Data Science. He has successfully attracted funding from the ARC via an ARC Discovery Early Career Research Award Fellowship and an ARC Discoverty Project. His research has also been funded by Google (Google Research Awards program), Grain Research and Development Corporation (GRDC), Microsoft (Microsoft Azure for Research Award), the CSIRO (research gifts and PhD Students Top-up scholarships), the Australian Academy of Science (FASIC program), the European Science Foundation, and Neusoft Corporation.

Guido has published more than 100 peer-reviewed research articles at conferences and in journals, in information retrieval and health informatics; of these more than 30 are ranked in the top 10% of his filed (field weighted average) and more than 10 are ranked in the top 1%. He has won best papers award at AIRS 2017 (“Automatic Query Generation from Legal Texts for Case Law Retrieval”), CLEF 2016 (“Assessors agreement: A case study across assessor type, payment levels, query variations and relevance dimensions”), ALTA 2015 (“Analysis of Word Embeddings and Sequence Features for Clinical Information Extraction”), and ECIR 2012 (“Top-k retrieval using facility location analysis”). His research on people using search engines to seek health advice on the web has been widely disseminated by the media (190+ national and international newspaper articles, 10+ TV and radio interviews in 2015; see the media page coverage for that project). Guido is the Consumer Health Search task leader for the CLEF eHealth Evaluation Lab, since 2014. He is one of the TREC 2019 Decision Track organisers: this is an international evaluation effort in Information Retrieval that aims to investigate how people use search engines to make decisions (with a focus in 2019 on consumer health search). Guido has provided scientific tutorials to other researchers in his field at ACM SIGIR 2015 and 2018, ACM CIKM 2015, ACM ICTIR 2016, RUSSIR 2018, WSDM 2019.

Guido has reviewed for top journals and conferences in his field, including ACM TOIS, FnTIR, JASIST, IRJ, ACM TIST, ACM TWEB, IP&M, ACM SIGIR,ACM CIKM, ACM ICTIR, ACM WSDM, WWW, ECIR, ACM SIG-PODS. He was awarded the Best Reviewer Award at ECIR 2014. He has served as general chair, program chair, workshop chair and publicity chair for conferences in his research field, including ADCS (either PC Chair or General Chair in 2013, 2014, 2017), AIRS 2015 (General Chair), ECIR 2015 (Workshop Chair) and WSDM 2019 (publicity chair). Dr Zuccon is the Information co-Director for ACM SIGIR and was one of the recognised IR leaders invited to participate to the 3rd Strategic Workshop in Information Retrieval (SWIRL III, 2018).

Before joining the University of Queensland, Guido was a Lecturer (2014-2017) and Senior Lecturer (2017-2018) at the Queensland University of Technology, Australia, and a Post Doctoral Research Fellow at the Australian E-Health Research Centre (AEHRC), CSIRO (2011-2014), Australia. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Glasgow, UK (2012), focusing on Formal Models of Information Retrieval based on Quantum Theory, and a M.Comp.Eng. summa cum laude at the University of Padova, Italy (2007).

Dr Steven Zuryn is a molecular geneticist within the Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland. After training as a PhD in genetics, he undertook postdoctoral reseach at the Institut Génétique Biologie Moléculaire Cellulaire (IGBMC) in Strasbourg, France. He now leads an international and diverse team of postdoctoral, PhD, Honours, and undergraduate investigators studying epigenetics and mitochondrial biology. His laboratory’s work focuses on the role and impact of mitochondrial dysfunction in neurodegenerative diseases and is particularly fascinated with mutations that accumulate within the mitochondria’s own genome during ageing. His research has been published in the high profile journals Science, Nature Cell Biology, and Nature Communications and has appeared in multiple mainstream media outlets. For his research, he has received multiple international prizes and fellowships, been awarded grants from the NHMRC and ARC as primary chief investigator and is generously supported as a fellow of the Stafford Fox Research Foundation. Steven is passionate about communicating the critical importance of fundamental scientific research as a long-term human endeavour.

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Professor Heather Zwicker (BA Hons UAlberta 1988, PhD Stanford 1993) holds three roles concurrently.

1. As Executive Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at The University of Queensland, Professor Zwicker leads seven schools and one reserach institute across fields including communications, political science, history, education, languages, sociology, criminology, anthropology, archaeology, classics, western civilisation, applied social sciences, policy, literature, and music.
2. As President of the Deans of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (DASSH), Heather leads the peak body of deans in humanities, social sciences and the arts from across Australia and Aotearoa/NZ.
3. As Pro Vice Chancellor for Campus Culture and Leadership (PVC CCL), Professor Zwicker has three main responsibilities: management of UQ's cultural assets, overseeing and improving social cohesion on campus, and developing leadership programs and opportunities for academic staff.

Professor Zwicker's background as a cultural studies researcher enables her to bring postcolonial and feminist theories to bear on problems such as stereotypes, universities, classrooms, cities and grief. She is the winner of several teaching awards including the 3M Fellowship (2013).

She is available to speak on sector-wide issues facing the humanities, arts and social sciences including Job Ready Graduates, the skills agenda, the future of languages, equity access to higher education, EDI, and racism on campus.

Michael Zyphur is a Professor of Quantitative Methods at UQ Business School, University of Queensland. He graduated in 2006 with a PhD in industrial and organizational psychology from Tulane University (New Orleans). He is a former ARC Future Fellow and he has been the lead CI on multiple successful ARC Discovery Project applications. He is currently Professor of Quantitative Methods at the University of Queensland and Director of Instats, and he has held academic positions at the University of Melbourne, University of Washington, and the National University of Singapore. His research focuses on the application of quantitative methods to answer questions in the social and health sciences, particularly with latent variable methods including structural equation modeling (SEM), multilevel modeling (MLM), and multilevel structural equation modeling (MSEM). The new empirical dynamic modeling (EDM) Stata and R packages resulting from his collaborations are now available for download at https://edm-developers.github.io/EDM/

For over a decade Dr Zyphur has taught statistical modeling to over 10,000 researchers and PhD students in seminars and university classes across the globe. He is proficient in Mplus, Stata, SPSS, R, LISREL, and HLM, and he has published roughly 100 academic papers using these software packages in a variety of top-tier journals. His work on statistical modeling and related topics in the social sciences with over 10,000 citations, and Dr Zyphur has helped thousands of researchers and research teams across the globe with their research problems, including in universities, research institutes, corporations, non-profits, government agencies, and the military. Dr Zyphur is currently Director of the Society for Quantitative Methods (SQM), and the Director of Instats, the Institute for Statistical and Data Science (instats.org).