Dr Jill Freyne
Research Director, Nutrition & Health
Contact details:
- jill.freyne@csiro.au
- +61293724453
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PO BOX 76
EPPING NSW 1710 AUSTRALIA
Biography
Dr Jill Freyne is the Research Director, Nutrition and Health at CSIRO. Jill received her PhD in Computer Science from University College Dublin, Ireland, and has held research positions at the Clarity Centre for Sensor Web technologies and IBM Research in Cambridge, MA, USA prior to joining CSIRO in 2009.
Jill has significant research experience in the development and validation of digital Health services, lifestyle interventions, and recommender systems. Jill works with Australian and International industry partners to devise engaging and sustainable health technology solutions, aimed specifically at encouraging individuals to change the way that they engage with their health.Through clinical trials the technologies are evaluated to understand and quantify their impact on individuals, care teams and carers, thus contributing to the body of evidence required to see large scale adoption and innovation in digital health service delivery.
Jill is the author of over 60 publications in top tier journals and conferences. Jill is the Program Co-Chair of the 10th ACM conference on Recommender Systems and serves as a senior PC member of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent User Interfaces and Recommender Systems, and serves as a reviewer for top tier journals and conferences.
Fields of Research
Current Roles
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Team Leader
Engagement and Effectiveness Team
Academic Qualifications
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2006
PhD. University College Dublin, Ireland. Computer Science
Professional Experiences
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2013
Stream Leader, Broadband Health, DPAS
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2011
Senior Research Scientist, Information Engineering Laboratory, Marsfield
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2009-2011
Research Scientist, Tasmanian ICT Centre, CSIRO
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2008
Visiting Researcher, School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh
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2008-2009
Visiting Researcher, Collaborative User Experiece Group, IBM Research, Cambridge, MA (USA)
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2006-2009
Post Doctoral Fellow, School of Computer Science and Informatics, University College Dublin
