Prof Trina Myers

STAFF PROFILE

Position

Head of School

Faculty

Faculty of Sci Eng & Built Env

Department

School of Info Technology

Campus

Melbourne Burwood Campus

Biography

Professor Trina Myers is the Head of School for the School of Information Technology (SIT) at Deakin University. Trina holds a PhD in Computer Science from James Cook University. Trina is the a member of the executive and immediate past President of the Australian Council of Deans of ICT (ACDICT) that aims to promote and advance ICT education, research and scholarship on behalf of Australian universities.

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Research interests

Trina's research interests focus predominately on natural language processing and semantic technologies, data and knowledge management, collective intelligence and the Internet of Things (IoT). Semantic technologies (linked data) are a subset of Artificial Intelligence (AI) that enables the integration of knowledge, information and disparate data. She works predominantly in multi-disciplinary research projects that have included other disciplines such as Health Science, Archaeology, Marine and Environmental Science, Conservation Management, AgTech, Business, among others.

Teaching interests

  • Active learning methodologies
  • Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL)
  • Blended learning
  • Collective Intelligence

Knowledge areas

Semantic technologies
Ontology engineering
Sensor networks
Knowledge management
Internet of Things
Collective Intelligence

Awards

• 2023 Fellow, Australian Computer Society
• 2020: Australian Awards for University Teaching (AAUT) Teaching Award
• 2020: Women in IT Professional Leadership Award (Finalist)
• 2020 - Asia-Pacific International Triple E Entrepreneurial Educator of the Year Award (1st runner-up)
• 2019 - Australian Computer Society, National Digital Disruptor ICT Educator of the Year 2019, Gold Disruptor.
• 2016 - Advance Queensland Community Digital Champion
• 2014 - Australian ICT Educator of the Year (AIIA iAwards)
• 2013 - OLT Australian Award for University Teaching – Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning. Office for Learning and Teaching
• 2013 - JCU Early Career Researcher Adviser of the year