Professor Paul Kennedy is Head of the Computer Science school in the Faculty of Engineering and IT, University of Technology Sydney (UTS). He leads the Biomedical Data Science Laboratory in the UTS Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute and is co-director of the UTS Ontario Tech Joint Research Centre for AI in Health and Wellness. His research focuses on biomedical data science, particularly in paediatric cancer; text analytics of social media data and scientific literature; and bioinformatics approaches for use in vaccine discovery. Since 2003, he had co- led projects with the Children’s Hospital Westmead, developing AI methods to predict patient outcomes. He is currently developing approaches to map population-level cancer treatment pathways. He is on the ISO/IEC SC42 committee for standards development in Artificial Intelligence.