Stephen Gould is a Professor of Computer Science at the Australian National University (ANU) and an expert in AI. He is internationally recognised for his contributions to computer vision, machine learning, and deep learning, with a particular focus on semantic, dynamic, and geometric understanding of images and video. Stephen's career spans academia, industry, and innovation. He has held roles as an Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow, ARC Postdoctoral Fellow, Microsoft Faculty Fellow, Contributed Researcher at Data61, Principal Research Scientist at Amazon Inc, Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Robotic Vision, and Amazon Scholar. He also co-founded Sensory Networks, a startup later acquired by Intel. His academic journey includes degrees in mathematics, computer science, and electrical engineering from the University of Sydney, and a masters and a PhD also from Stanford University. Stephen's research has led to advances in structured probabilistic models, declarative networks, and large-scale scene understanding. He has authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications and actively collaborates with industry to translate research into real-world impact.