Dr Brano Kusy

Principal Research Scientist

https://people.csiro.au/K/B/Brano-Kusy

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Biography

Dr. Brano Kusy is a Principal Research Scientist at CSIRO, where he leads the Distributed Sensing Systems research group. His work bridges Edge AI and robotics, with a current focus on scaling AI accuracy via human-validated learning and enhancing robot perception through external IoT sensor streams.

This research leverages his extensive background in scalable, energy-efficient distributed systems, including expertise in wireless communications, localization, and adaptive sampling. Dr. Kusy is highly active in the research community, serving as General Chair for IPSN’20, Program Co-Chair for IPSN'24 and EWSN'26, and serving regularly on program committees for A-ranked conferences such as SenSys, IPSN, EWSN, Percom, and ICDCS. With over 9,000 citations and an h-index of 38, his contributions have been recognized with the ACM SenSys Test of Time and Best Paper Awards. He holds a PhD from Vanderbilt University and previously conducted research at Stanford University under Professor Leo Guibas.

Key research projects:

Sensor/AI Systems for Wildlife and Environments. Design and implementation of multi-modal sensor systems for monitoring motion traces, behaviour, and physiology of animal and plant species, linked to ecosystem rehabilitation, reduced impact of feral species and revegetation of industrial sites. Vision-based surveillance methods for real-time assessment of underwater habitats. On-device real-time AI algorithms to classify behaviour, feeding patterns of animals. Large-scale computer vision ML platforms for monitoring species populations.
Mining/Solar infractructure. Wireless sensor network for sensing microclimate, mechanical and thermal stresses, and analytics of those signals for various applications, such as surface mine rehabilitation or monitoring of solar panels. Underground communications for sensor communication and actuation in mining.
Efficient and Robust Low-power Radio Communication. Design and evaluation of interference-robust multi-radio platforms with improved delivery rates, network stability, and transmission costs at minimal or no increase in energy cost over mainstream radios and radio protocols.
Occupancy, efficiency in built environments. Application of pervasive computing to improve energy usage in office appliances and heating, cooling, and ventilation systems. Large scale monitoring of public spaces for improved maintenance and optimized spatial/temporal use of public infrastructure.

Professional Experiences

2019-now

Research Group Leader
CSIRO
2011-2019

Research Team Leader
CSIRO
2010-now

Project Leader
CSIRO
2017-now

Adjunct Associate Professor
University of Queensland
2011-2017

Adjunct Senior Lecturer
University of Queensland
2007-2009

Postdoctoral Scholar
Stanford University
2006-2006

Summer Intern
Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN, USA
2002-2007

Graduate Student Researcher
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA

Publications

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