Contacts
I am currently Professor in the School of Computing, College of Engineering, Computing and Cybernetics at ANU. Prof. John Taylor was formerly a Chief Research Scientist and Research Group Leader in CSIRO Data61, and Chief Computational Scientist at the Defence Science and Technology Group. He has broad experience in leading complex, multi-site, large scale interdisciplinary teams of research scientists, computational scientists, computer scientists and software engineers to deliver high quality strategic science. He has held leadership positions managing large and diverse programs of research and teaching at prominent universities and research laboratories in both Australia and the United States of America. In these positions he has taken the lead in developing the vision, the culture of excellence, setting the strategic directions, building high performing teams and delivering on the strategic goals.
Research interests
My research program can be broadly described as falling within AI for science, an area of intense world-wide research interest.
I undertake research in the application of artificial intelligence/machine learning to a range of challenging science problems. This work includes the development of novel AI/ML algorithms, their optimization, and their application to a range of science and engineering domains.
Current research topics include: -
- Scalable ML/AI models addressing challenging science problems running on HPC systems
- ML model optimization
- Ocean SST Forecasts
- Data Driven Weather Forecasting
- Future state of the Great Barrier Reef
- Extreme Weather Events including Marine Heatwaves
- Machine Condition Monitoring
Groups
- Researcher, Earth systems
- Researcher, Extreme events and future scenarios
- Researcher, Risk, vulnerability and resilience
