Professor Hugh Durrant-Whyte

Biography

Hugh joined the Ministry of Defence in April 2017 as Chief Scientific Adviser.

Hugh moved to Australia in 1995 where he established and led (as its Director) the Australian Centre for Field Robotics (ACFR) at the University of Sydney until 2010.

Hugh became CEO of National Information and Communications Technology Authority (NICTA) Australia at the end of 2010, and over a 5 year period, he drove innovation in ICT for Australia.

Returning to the University of Sydney in 2015, he established and led the Centre for Translational Data Science, a major university wide initiative to apply machine learning and data science methods to research and scientific discovery across all fields of academic endeavour, before returning to the UK to take up his current post.