The Sydney-based AAAI Fellow joins the UNSW Business AI Lab to lead a team of Distinguished AI Scientists, in the latest step of Commonwealth Bank’s frontier-AI build-out.
Commonwealth Bank of Australia appointed Professor Mary-Anne Williams as its first Chief AI Scientist on Monday, recruiting one of the country’s best-known AI researchers from the University of New South Wales after what the bank described as an extensive global search.
Williams will lead CommBank’s team of Distinguished AI Scientists, a group focused on machine learning, responsible AI, AI security, and generative AI.
Williams holds the Michael J Crouch Chair for Innovation at UNSW and is the founder of the UNSW Business AI Lab and deputy director of the UNSW AI Institute. She is a Fellow at Stanford and a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, sits on Robohub’s Top 25 Women in Robotics list, and is the academic whose Sydney-based Social Robotics RoboCup team won the world championship in 2019.
The 💜 of EU techThe latest rumblings from the EU tech scene, a story from our wise ol' founder Boris, and some questionable AI art. It's free, every week, in your inbox. Sign up now!Her published research has, over the past 18 months, focused on how organisations should manage and orchestrate fleets of generative AI agents at scale. That is the subject CBA is now hiring her to extend inside a bank.
