Professor Bhavna Antony
Professor, Information Technology
Campus
Biography
Professor Bhavna Antony is a seasoned researcher and industry veteran with nearly 15 years of experience at the intersection of artificial intelligence and healthcare.
Bhavna's research career has spanned academia as well as industry and is marked by over 40 Q1 journal publications. While her research has specialised in medical image analysis – specifically in ophthalmology – she also has a growing research portfolio in weather and climate science. Her key areas of interest include explainable AI methodologies and multimodal modelling applied to multiple disciplines.
Bhavna teaches undergraduate AI units and coordinates the Bachelor of Information Technology (AI and Data Science). She is also the chair of the newly established Health Informatics Knowledge Management ACM Chapter, fostering hybrid research communities across Australia.
Fields of research
- Multimodal analysis and synthesis
- Computer vision
- Ophthalmology
More about Bhavna
Qualifications
- PhD, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Iowa
- MSc, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Iowa
- BE, Medical Electronics, Visvesvaraya Technological University, (India)
Areas of interest
- Medical-related computer vision
- Explainable AI models
Areas of expertise
Bhavna is an expert in computer vision methodologies applied to volumetric 3D medical scans, temporal data and multimodal data.
Current
- PhD student, Federation University, ‘Multimodal structured latent design to support interpretable outcomes’.
- PhD student, Federation University, ‘Efficient Embeddings & Explainable AI models for the prediction of childhood developmental’.
- PhD student, Deakin University, ‘Using AI and Biosensors to Identify Airborne Allergens and Improve Detection Methods’.
- Machine learning and artificial intelligence
- Capstone projects – IT
Professional association memberships
- IEEE (senior member)
- ACM
- Association of Research in Vision & Ophthalmology (ARVO)
Centre for Smart Analytics (CSA)
Health Innovation and Transformation Centre
- Publications
TUG-IoT: A Mobile Integrated IoT based Timed Up and Go Test
- Conference Proceedings
- DOI reference: 10.1145/3774816.3774843
