Mr Ronnie Taib

Pronouns: he,him,his

Principal Research Engineer, Team Leader

https://people.csiro.au/T/R/Ronnie-Taib

Biography

Ronnie Taib is a Principal Research Engineer, passionate about getting machines and
computer systems to adapt to humans, through optimal decision support, improved
processes and safer environments. He managed projects and developed systems and
platforms characterised by the development and integration of low maturity technologies
with complex output, requiring a strong can-do attitude.

Ronnie spent six years in commercial research at Alcatel Research and Motorola Labs,
where he developed strong software architecture and development skills. In the following
ten years, his focus moved to more fundamental research on understanding and measuring
human cognitive load. A generalist engineer and curious about the world by nature, most
of his projects are applied to industrial problems, ranging from infrastructure,
transport, cybersecurity, Earth observations to aeronautical manufacturing. His current
research revolves around data analytics involving real-world complex, heterogeneous
(incl. spatiotemporal), noisy and sparse datasets.

One of Ronnie's core strengths is understanding the needs of the industry, and matching
them against existing research capabilities, while speaking the industry jargon. As
such, he has managed a number of projects and teams over the years, yet keeping a
technical expert role. Ronnie loves to foster people's skills through teaching and
mentoring, and as a community-oriented person, he favours projects with philanthropic or
community benefits.

Other Interests

Ronnie regularly supervises Masters, Honours, undergrad and work experience students, and had the chance to supervise over 60 students over the years. He gives annual guest lectures at the University of Sydney in System design, and has been a STEM Professional in Schools since 2010. Ronnie loves running or rogaining in the Australian bush.

Achievements and Awards

2019-2019

Best paper award at CHI 2019
ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Professional Areas

Current Roles

Team Leader
Data-Centric Model Integration
Project Leader
Non-Destructive Inspection - Boeing Manufacturing
Technical Expert
Digital Water Landscapes - Hybrid modelling
Technical Expert
Earth Analytics Science and Innovation (EASI)

Academic Qualifications

1997

Master of engineering
Ecole centrale de Lyon

Professional Experiences

2004-2016

Principal Research Engineer
NICTA
2001-2003

Senior Research Engineer
Motorola Labs Sydney
1998-2001

Senior Research Engineer
Motorola Labs Paris
1997-1998

Research Engineer
Alcatel Corporate Research Centre

Community and Corporate Citizenship

2004-Present

Occupational First Aid officer
2008-Present

Corporate Blood Donation program coordinator