HAI team

The GrapheneX–UTS Human-centric AI Research Centre (HAI) was formed by an enthusiastic individual who firmly believes in the potential of AI to serve humanity and places the human at the centre of its development.

The visionaries behind the formation of HAI

GrapheneX, a leading industry partner, partnered with UTS to establish the GrapheneX–UTS Human-centric AI Research Centre (HAI), which aims to advance Industry 5.0 by combining human creativity and ingenuity with AI and automation for a sustainable and resilient industry. The partnership between GrapheneX and UTS emphasises the importance of collaboration between research organisations, universities, and industries to bridge the gap between innovation and commercialisation. The team comprises experts in frontier materials, advanced manufacturing, digital, and AI sectors to translate ideas into products and transform traditional industries with digital technologies.

Leadership team

Distinguished Professor CT Lin 
Director, Human-centric Artificial Intelligence Centre 

Distinguished Professor CT Lin

Today, in human-AI teaming specific tasks are usually assigned to either humans or AI. This works well if clear boundaries in the interaction between humans and AI exist, allowing clear task assignment. Where the boundary is fuzzy – in evolving and ambiguous situations or where the collaboration is developing and changing – specific task assignment is highly challenging.  

HAI has set out to overcome these challenges to develop human-AI teaming for applications where reliability, precision, safety and speed are paramount. In true human and AI teaming, expanding and complementing human and artificial intelligence results in adaptive and spontaneous cooperation. The key to achieving this potential is co-learning which endows AI and humans with teaming intelligence. 

Dr Thomas Do  
Co-Director, Human-centric Artificial Intelligence Centre

Steering committee 

UTS

GrapheneX

  • Stephen Wee
  • Dr Matthew David 

HAI members 

Trustworthy human-autonomy teaming (tHAT) 

Team Lead: Dr Fred Chang

Spontaneous autonomous swarm intelligence (sASI) 

Team Lead: Dr Khuong Tran  

Natural brain-computer interface (nBCI) 

Team Lead: Dr Thomas Do 

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.