Associate Professor Walayat Hussain

Biography

Associate Professor Dr Walayat Hussain is an Associate Professor of Information Technology at Australian Catholic University and former Head of the Information Technology and Systems Discipline at the Peter Faber Business School. He leads the AI for Decision Excellence (AIDX) Lab, where his work focuses on artificial intelligence, decision support systems, business intelligence, service computing, information systems, machine learning, computational intelligence, cloud computing and the Internet of Things.

Associate Professor Hussain has more than two decades of academic, research and industry experience across Australia and internationally. His research develops AI-enabled methods and decision-making models to help organisations make more informed, reliable and explainable decisions in complex systems. He has published more than 100 scholarly outputs, including books, book chapters, journal articles and conference papers, with publications in leading ERA-A, ERA-A*, JCR/SJR Q1 journals and major international conference venues. He has also edited or co-edited more than seven scholarly books and conference proceedings with leading publishers including Springer, CRC Press and EAI/Springer.

Dr Hussain has supervised higher degree research students to completion and secured more than $600,000 in research funding from local and international funding bodies. He is a Fellow of the European Alliance for Innovation, a member of IEEE, Association for Computing Machinery and the Australian Computer Society, and serves as an Associate Editor for multiple leading international journals. He has also served as guest editor for numerous international journal special issues in areas including artificial intelligence, intelligent systems, service computing, communication systems, decision analytics and emerging technologies.

His recognitions include the National Research Award by the Government of Oman, the VUBS Award for Excellence in Research, multiple international best paper awards, and the FEIT Publication Award from the University of Technology Sydney. His Google Scholar profile (May 2026) records an h-index of 34, more than 3,500 citations and an i10-index above 60. He has collaborated with 94 co-authors across 39 countries, reflecting his strong international research network and leadership in global scholarly collaboration.

Beyond publishing, Associate Professor Hussain has contributed to academic leadership through international conferences and research communities. He served as General Chair of the 7th EAI International Conference on IoT as a Service, General Co-Chair of MMCITRE, General Co-Chair of the 3rd BiGIoT-EDU conference, and Technical Program Committee Chair for BiGIoT-EDU.

Associate Professor Hussain is available to provide expert commentary on artificial intelligence, AI decision-making, responsible and explainable AI, machine learning, business intelligence, digital transformation, cloud and IoT systems, and the use of AI in education, business and public-sector decision-making.

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