Dr Qinghua Lu

Dr. Qinghua Lu is the Acting Research Director of Software and Computational Systems (SCS) Research Program at CSIRO and a Senior Principal Research Scientist specialising in AI engineering and responsible AI.

Dr. Lu is the only member from Australia among the 40 experts appointed to the UN’s Independent International Scientific Panel on AI, the first global scientific body dedicated entirely to AI. She has led/co-led major national AI initiatives, including Australia’s Voluntary AI Safety Standards and Department of Industry’s General-Purpose AI Risk Assessment Methodology. Internationally, she represents Australia in key international AI safety initiatives, including the Frontier Model Forum. She was the winner of Asia-Pacific Women in AI Trailblazer Award in 2023.

Dr. Lu has published over 200 papers in premier international journals/conferences. She is the lead author of the world’s first practitioner-focused Responsible AI book, Responsible AI: Best Practices for Creating Trustworthy AI Systems, which reached #3 Amazon’s AI best-seller, and the co-author of Engineering AI Systems: Architecture and DevOps Essentials. Her Responsible AI Pattern Catalogue has been adopted by Australia’s National AI Centre Digital Pathways and the National Framework for the Assurance of AI in Government, and is widely used by industry to improve AI products or assess AI frameworks.

Papers

Recent Publications: Google Scholar profile

Community Services

Here is the list of professional services in the recent 5 years.
* Steering Committee Member, International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)
* Software Engineering in Practice Track Chair, International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'28)
* Area Chair of Software Engineering for AI, International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'26)
* Organisation Chair, Annual International Workshop on Agentic Engineering (AGENT)
* Organisation Chair, Annual International Workshop on Responsible AI Engineering (RAIE)
* Program Chair, AIware'25
* Program Chair, 4th International Conference on AI Engineering (CAIN'25)
* Local Chair, WWW'25
* PC member or reviewers: ICSE, FSE, ICSA, CAIN, AIware, AAAI, IJCAI, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CAI, BPM, SAML, ECSA, etc.
* Associate Editor: IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence
* Associate Editor: IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials
* Associate Editor: IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering
* Editorial Board Member: Empirical Software Engineering Journal
* Editorial Board Member: Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, Springer Nature
* Associate Editor: Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
* Associate Editor: Blockchain Research and Applications, Elsevier
* Associate Editor: IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering

Awards

She is the recipient of multiple prestigious awards, including the 2023 APAC Women in AI Trailblazer Award and the IEEE Hyper-Intelligence Technical Committee (HITC) Mid-Career Award in the same year. Her influential paper, “Towards a Roadmap on Software Engineering for Responsible AI”, which has shaped the future direction of the field, is widely cited and earned the ACM Distinguished Paper Award. Her paper titled “Toward Responsible AI in the Era of Generative AI: A Reference Architecture for Designing Foundation Model-Based Systems” received the IEEE Software 2024 Best Paper Award, further cementing her leadership in advancing responsible AI and AI engineering.