Bio: Iven Mareels is Pro Vice-Chancellor Innovation and Executive Dean at Federation University Australia. He is also a Director of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering, and a non-executive Director of Rubicon Water. Previously, he was with IBM, inter alia as Director of IBM Research in Australia (Feb 2018- Mar 2021); and Dean of Engineering at the University of Melbourne (2007-2018).

Iven received the PhD in Systems Engineering, Australian National University (1987), and the Master of Engineering (Electromechanical), Gent University (1982).

He is a Commander in the Order of the Crown of Belgium, and received the Centenary Medal of Australia for contributions to engineering education and research.

He is a Fellow of The Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the International Federation of Automatic Control and Engineers Australia, a foreign fellow of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts and an inaugural fellow of the Asian Control Association. Recently he also became a Fellow of the International Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance.