Prof Robyn Owens

About

Prof Robyn Owens

Robyn Owens was previously the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) at UWA and was responsible for research policy development and leadership of the University’s research activities, postgraduate education, industry liaison, intellectual property and commercialisation.

Robyn Owens has a BSc (Hons) from UWA and a MSc and a DPhil from Oxford, all in Mathematics. She worked at l’UniversitÉ de Paris-Sud, Orsay, continuing research in mathematical analysis before returning to UWA to work as a research mathematician.

She has lectured in Mathematics and Computer Science at UWA, and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Berkeley, as well as for shorter periods in Thailand and New Zealand. Her research has focused on computer vision, including feature detection in images, 3D shape measurement, image understanding, and representation. She is a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society and a winner of the UK Rank Prize. In 2012, Professor Owens was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering.

Prof Owens led development and research training through her previous role as Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research and Research Training) at UWA. Prior to this, she was Head of the School of Computer Science and Software Engineering at UWA. She is currently Chair of the Universities Australia DVCR committee and a Board member of the Australian Astronomy Observatory Advisory Council, the Integrated Marine Observing System and the Population Health Research Network.