CBA names AI researcher Professor Mary-Anne Williams as Chief AI Scientist

The Sydney-based AAAI Fellow joins the UNSW Business AI Lab to lead a team of Distinguished AI Scientists, in the latest step of Commonwealth Bank’s frontier-AI build-out.

Commonwealth Bank of Australia appointed Professor Mary-Anne Williams as its first Chief AI Scientist on Monday, recruiting one of the country’s best-known AI researchers from the University of New South Wales after what the bank described as an extensive global search.

Williams will lead CommBank’s team of Distinguished AI Scientists, a group focused on machine learning, responsible AI, AI security, and generative AI.

Williams holds the Michael J Crouch Chair for Innovation at UNSW and is the founder of the UNSW Business AI Lab and deputy director of the UNSW AI Institute. She is a Fellow at Stanford and a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, sits on Robohub’s Top 25 Women in Robotics list ...