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Professor Bhavna Antony

Professor, Information Technology

Campus

Berwick 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)

Bhavna is part of the Centre for Smart Analytics (CSA), which aims to develop new knowledge and innovative solutions to develop smart and resilient cities, regions and industries.

Health Innovation and Transformation Centre

Bhavna is part of the Health Innovation and Transformation Centre, which aims to answer complex global healthcare questions that impact the health and wellbeing of our regional, national and international communities.
  • Publications

TUG-IoT: A Mobile Integrated IoT based Timed Up and Go Test

Preface - Proceedings of 2025 18th Conference on Health Informatics Knowledge Management, HIKM 2025

  • Book Chapters
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