Nick Barnes is a Professor in the School of Computing at the Australian National University, where he started in 2016. He completed his Ph.D. in 1999 at the University of Melbourne. He was a visiting research fellow at the University of Genoa, Italy in 1999. From 2000 to 2003, he was a lecturer within the Computer Science and Software Engineering departments at the University of Melbourne. From 2003-2019 he was at NICTA, which later merged with CSIRO in 2016. He became the program leader of Computer Vision in 2006, where he led a research team of 25 research staff. His research interests lie in computer vision particularly: dense prediction, 3D vision, uncertainty estimation, visual saliency, and prosthetic vision. From his research on these topics, he has published over 145 research papers. He was part of the team with the successful bid for the ARC Special Research Initiative in Bionic Vision from 2010 to 2015. His pioneering work in prosthetic vision processing was a key contribution to the formation of a spin-out company, Bionic Vision Technologies. In 2017, this work was awarded the CSIRO Digital and National Facilitates Science Excellence Award.

Experience

• Professor (2019 - present)

  Barnes Group

  Australian National University

• Associate Professor (2016 - 2019)

  Barnes Group

  Australian National University

• Research Group Leader, Senior Principal Researcher (2016 - 2019)

  CSIRO (Canberra, Australia)

• Program Leader: Vision Processing (2010 - 2016)

  Bionic Vision Australia

• Executive, Research Group Leader (2003 - 2016)

  NICTA (Sydney, Australia)

• Lecturer (1999 - 2003)

  University of Melbourne

• Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1999)

  University of Genoa

• Staff Consultant (1992 - 1994)

  Accenture

Education

• PhD, Engineering (1994 - 1999)

  University of Melbourne

• BS, Computer Science (1988 - 1991)

  University of Melbourne