Niusha Shafiabady

• Professor in Computational Intelligence, Australian Catholic University

Professor Niusha Shafiabady is an electrical engineer and internationally recognized expert in computational intelligence.
She is the Founding Director of Women in AI for Social Good and the Head of Discipline of IT and the Academic Director of Computer Science at ACU.
She is the inventor of a European patented optimization algorithm named after herself and is the copyright holder of“Artificial Intelligence Development Solutions”. She has developed two AI tools, an advanced AI tool called Ai-Labz and a secure Q&A tool.
She has published many research articles, particularly in Q1 and A* journals, co/supervised many HDR students, has played significant roles in USD7.7M of grants and is the recipient of different awards and credentials. She won the Women in AI Asia Pacific Award (WAI 2025 APAC) in the category of 'AI in Mining' in 2025 for a project she did for a Fortune 500 industry partner, and has been a finalist for Women in AI Award (WAI 2021) in Australia and New Zealand in the category of 'AI in Defence', and Women in Innovation (Winnovation 2020) Award in South Australia for developing Ai-Labz.
She has received her post-graduate certificate in pedagogy from the University of Nottingham and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy of the United Kingdom.
Her key areas of expertise are design and development of smart algorithms for data analysis and interpretation, prediction of different phenomena, clustering and classification of unorganized data and creating smart decision-making systems for different applications. The highlight of her work is blending academic knowledge and research findings into industrial applications.
She has created expert decision-making systems for a variety of applications using Artificial Intelligence for solving real-life problems in the following areas:
- Oil & Gas: Pipeline failure detection
- Banking and Finance: Loan repayment prediction
- Transportation: Optimal positioning of police vehicles cameras
- Meteorology: Prediction of wind direction & speed and prediction of flood
- Renewable Energy: Hybrid green energy storage systems
- Economy: Prediction of national investment return
- Environmental Hazards: Power plants explosion and leakage prediction
- Commodity: North Brent crude oil price prediction
- Construction: Crane optimal positioning and maximum load capacity
- Department of Justice: Prediction of rehabilitation of detainees
- Stocks: Prediction of equity prices
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Niusha Shafiabady, PhD.
Curriculum Vitae
- Healthcare: Prediction of diseases using recorded data
Her expertise includes but is not limited to:
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning
- Data Analysis
- Modelling
- Deep Learning
- Expert System Design
- Optimization
Her ultimate vision is to utilize her expertise in computational and artificial intelligence for improvement of human
life.

• –present Associate Professor, Charles Darwin University

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