The TU Wien public lecture series AI in Science and Engineering explores how AI is transforming these disciplines and features lectures by the internationally renowned scientists Edith Elkind, Kate Smith-Miles, Matthias Scheutz, Shahar Mendelson, and Kristian Kersting. 

Kate Smith-Miles is Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research Capability) and a Melbourne Laureate Professor in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at The University of Melbourne. She is also Director of the ARC Training Centre in Optimisation Technologies, Integrated Methodologies, and Applications (OPTIMA). Prior to joining The University of Melbourne in 2017, she was Professor of Applied Mathematics at Monash University and inaugural Director of the Monash Academy for Cross & Interdisciplinary Mathematical Applications (MAXIMA). She was also previously Head of the School of Engineering and Information Technology at Deakin University with a Chair in Engineering. She obtained her first Professorship in Information Technology at Monash University, where she worked from 1996-2006. Professorships in three disciplines (mathematics, engineering, and information technology) have given her an interdisciplinary breadth reflected in much of her research. She has published 2 books on neural networks and data mining, and around 300 refereed journal and international conference papers in the areas of neural networks, optimisation, machine learning, and various applied mathematics topics.