Danula Hettiachchi

I am a Lecturer (i.e., Assistant Professor) at the School of Computing Technologies, RMIT University and a researcher interested in Crowdsourcing, Social Computing, Responsible AI and Human-Computer Interaction.

I am an Associate Investigator at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S), a cross-disciplinary, national research centre in Australia, where I previously worked as a Research Fellow.

I completed my PhD on data quality in crowdsourcing at the School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne, where I was part of the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) group. During my PhD, I worked as an Applied Scientist Intern at Amazon (AWS), a Causal Academic at the School of Computing and Information Systems, and the Manager of User Experience Lab, where I supported a wide range of HCI research projects. I have previously worked as a Full-Stack Software Engineer, primarily focused on data engineering and analytics.

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Research Affiliations:

• RMIT University
• The ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S)
• Centre for Human-AI Information Environments (CHAI)
• News, Technology and Society (NTS) Network