Mr Suneel S. Randhawa

Mr Suneel S. Randhawa is Chief of Information Sciences Division in the Defence Science and Technology Group within the Australian Department of Defence in Adelaide, Australia.

Mr Randhawa's expertise and research interests lie in Cyber Security and Cyber Warfare, with an emphasis on the intersection between Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Autonomy.

Mr Randhawa began his career with Defence Science and Technology Group in 1995, commencing in the Advanced Computer Capabilities group. He successfully received the prestigious Defence Science Fellowship in 2002 facilitating a secondment to SRI International in the USA.

Mr Randhawa has received several commendations including for his work on the Situation Awareness Common Operating Picture (SA-COP) for Headquarters Joint Operations Command in 2012 and in 2017 for his steerage of the Mission Assurance Research Collaboration (MARC) between the United States and Australia. Both awards highlighted Mr Randhawa's longstanding productive relationships with international partners in Cyber research.

Mr Randhawa holds an Honours degree in Electrical and Electronics and a Masters in Engineering (Biomedical Engineering) with a research focus in Automatic Speech Recognition.