Dr Thierry Rakotoarivelo

Thierry's research focuses on the privacy and confidentiality of sensitive information in emerging technologies, such as AI systems. He is interested in:
- the design and use of frameworks to better understand and assess privacy challenges and risks,
- the development of safe and trustworthy technologies to control these issues in real-word applications.

Before joining CSIRO, Thierry was a Senior Researcher with NICTA (National ICT Australia). He designed protocols, frameworks and tools for large scale testbeds (i.e. ORBIT, GENI, PlanetLab and FIRE), reproducible experiments, and their usage in computing and networking courses (FORGE)

Thierry completed his PhD in cotutelle with the University of New South Wales (UNSW, Australia) and the Institut National Polytechnique of Toulouse (INPT, France). Prior to that, Thierry was a Senior Research Engineer at Motorola Australia Research Centre (MARC, now closed), developing QoS technology for mission critical wireless networks.

Some Current Activities at CSIRO
- ML and AI based approaches to improve Supply Chain Resilience, Cost, and Quality
- Data Classification Framework
- Privacy and Confidentiality in AI systems for Science
- Data sovereignty and AI systems (risk assessment and mitigation)

Some Past Activities at CSIRO
- Group Leader (2020 - 2025) for the Privacy Technology group at CSIRO
- Data sharing, privacy and confidentiality, Trusted Agrifood Exports Mission
- Privacy and confidentiality in Data and Machine Learning (Gov, Energy sectors, Ed Tech)
- Machine Learning applied to Structural Health Monitoring