Professor Maurice Pagnucco

Deputy Dean (Education)
Dean's Unit, Level 6, Building K17,
Faculty of Engineering,
University of New South Wales,
NSW, 2052, AUSTRALIA

Telephone: +61 2 9385 5000
Email: morri@cse.unsw.edu.au
WWW: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~morri/
DBLP: https://dblp.org/pid/p/MauricePagnucco.html
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=lqjmockAAAAJ&hl
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mauricepagnucco/?originalSubdomain=au
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7712-6646

Currently I am the Deputy Dean (Education) of the Faculty of Engineering at UNSW.

Previously I served as the Head of the School of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) from July 2010 to September 2019.

Other roles I currently hold include:

Deputy Director of Creative Robotics Lab (CRL) and Co-Director of the Intelligent Environments Lab
Professorial Fellow at the iCinema Centre for Interactive Cinema Research
Vice President, Computing Research and Education Association of Australasia (CORE)
Executive, Australian Council of Engineering Deans (ACED)
College of Experts, Australian Research Council (ARC)

Previous roles I have held include:

President (mid-2016 -- mid-2018) and the Immediate Past President (mid-2018 -- mid-2020) of the Australian Council of Deans of ICT (ACDICT)
Chair of NICTA (now Data61; Australia's national ICT centre of excellence) University Partner Committee
Chair, NSW Steering Committee for Digital Careers.

Research Interests

My main research interests lie in Artificial Intelligence:

Knowledge Representation and Reasoning

Belief Change
Cognitive Robotics
Reasoning About Actions

Computational Machine Ethics
Neurosymbolic Machine Learning
Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence
Reasoning and Truthfullness in Large Language Models
Robotic Vision

My Ph.D. dissertation (1996) investigated The Role of Abductive Reasoning within the Process of Belief Revision (click on this link to view the abstract and, if you wish, download a gzip'ed postscript version). It deals mainly with the belief revision framework developed by Alchourrón, Gärdenfors and Makinson (AGM) and uses this theory to investigate various abductive belief revision operators.

Publications

A list of my publications can be obtained from DBLP and Google Scholar.

Competitive Research Grants

A list of the competitive grants with which I have been involved can be accessed here.

Research Projects for Students

I am actively recruiting PhD, Masters by Research, Postgraduate Coursework Masters research project and Honours/Thesis students. The following link provides a description of some of my current research projects. Interested candidates with relevant academic background please send me an email including your CV and transcripts.

You can follow this link for Honours project suggestions (requires a CSE student login).

I am part of two Vertically Integrated Projects that undergraduate and postgraduate coursework students can be involved in through courses ENGG2600, ENGG3600 and ENGG4600):

Current Teaching

COMP9491: Applied Artificial Intelligence (Term 2)
Vertically Integrated Projects (Terms 1 + 2 + 3; see above)

ENGG2600: Engineering Vertically Integrated Project (Terms 1 + 2 + 3)
ENGG3600: Engineering Vertically Integrated Project (Terms 1 + 2 + 3)
ENGG4600: Engineering Vertically Integrated Project (Terms 1 + 2 + 3)