Mikhail Prokopenko
Principal Research Scientist
Contact
CSIRO ICT Centre
PO Box 76
Epping NSW 1710
Australia
Tel: 61 2 9372 4716
Themes
- Local Energy Solutions
- National Security Technology Partnerships
Projects
- Smart Grids
- Network Immunology Cyber Security
Science Area
- Sensor Networks
Biography
Dr Mikhail Prokopenko has a strong international reputation in the areas of complex self-organising systems and distributed intelligence: almost 100 publications and patents, including an edited book ("Advances in Applied Self-organizing Systems", Springer, 2008), and journal articles in Complexity-Wiley, Phys Rev E, Europhysics Letters, European Physical Journal B, Artificial Life, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, Human Frontier Science Program Journal.
He received a PhD in Computer Science (Macquarie University, 2002, Australia), MA in Economics (University of Missouri-Columbia, 1994, USA), and MSc in Applied Mathematics (Azerbaijan Institute of Petroleum & Chemistry, 1988, USSR).
Dr. Prokopenko has worked on many CSIRO cross-divisional projects including Low Emissions Distributed Energy within Energy Transformed Flagship, Anomaly Detection for Minerals Down Under Flagship, CSIRO-NASA project on self-monitoring aerospace vehicles, and CSIRO Complex Systems Science Project on Directed Self-Assembly in Multi-Agent Networks. Project partners included NASA, Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate, Boeing Phantom Works, Canon Information Systems Research Australia, Time and People Australia, Royal Australian Navy, and IBM Global Services Australia.
In June 2002, Dr Prokopenko received the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence award for scientific contribution to the RoboCup Simulation League, for the work on entropy of joint beliefs as a measure of multi-agent coordination potential.
In November 2008, Dr. Prokopenko organised The First International Workshop on Guided Self-Organisation (GSO-08) in Sydney, followed by The Second GSO-09 Workshop held in Leipzig, Germany, in August 2009, with Dr. Prokopenko co-chairing it. Dr Prokopenko has worked on a number of international Program and Organising Committees; was a keynote speaker at 6th International Workshop on Agent-Based Simulation (2005); co-chaired sessions on Evolutionary and Self-Organizing Sensors, Actuators and Processing Hardware at international conferences.
Dr Prokopenko is a founding member of ARC Network on Complex Open Systems (COSNet), a member of IEEE Information Theory Society, International Societies for Adaptive Behavior (ISAB) and Artificial Life (ISAL), as well as a member of Advisory Board for Wiley book series on Nature Inspired Computing. He recently served as an editor of a special issue on Guided Self-organisation in HFSP Journal (Human Frontiers Science Program), and a section editor for Encyclopaedia of Machine Learning (Evolutionary Computation).
He is an adjunct Associate Professor at the School of Computer Science and Engineering, the University of New South Wales.
Academic Qualifications
| 2002 | PhD Macquarie University, Computer Science |
| 1994 | MA University of Missouri-Columbia, Economics |
| 1988 | MSc (Honours) Azerbaijan Institute of Oil and Chemistry, Applied Mathematics |
Recent Professional Experience
| 2007- | Team Leader, ICT Centre |
| 2010- | Project leader, Network Immunology Cyber Security |
| 2009- | Project leader, Smart Grids, Energy Transformed Flagship |
| 2005 | Project leader ICT Centre, DISCOVERY: Distributed Intelligence, Sensing and Coordination in Variable Environments |
| 2002-2005 | Senior Research Scientist, ICT Centre/CIP/NASA, Ageless Aerospace Vehicles (AAV) |
| 2003-2004 | Project leader, ICT Centre/CSS, Directed self-Assembly in Multi-agent Networks (DAMAN), CSIRO Complex Systems Emerging Science |
| 2001-2002 | Project leader, CMIS, Adaptive and Interactive Mobile Systems, CMIS Chief's Special Project |
| 1999-2001 | Architecture/software design, CMIS/Canon/CISRA, Intelligent Networked Digital Appliances |
| 1998-2003 | Team leader and architecture/software design and development, CMIS, RoboCup Simulation |
| 1997-1998 | Software design and development, CMIS/Time and People Australia, Staff Optimisation and Rostering Toolkit |
| 1995-1997 | Software design and development, CMIS/Royal Australian Navy/IBM Global Services Australia, APLCRATES Expert System |
Achievements & Awards
| 2008 | CSIRO ICT Centre Publishing Award, for scientific excellence and outstanding contributions both within the ICT Centre and to the international research community |
| 2004 | Most Innovative Technology, The 2004 AJB CEBIT Exhibition Award, Ageless Aerospace Vehicles |
| 2003 | Teamwork award, CSIRO Telecommunications and Industrial Physics Divisional Award to the Ageless Aerospace Vehicle (AAV) Team |
| 2002 | JSAI (Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence) award for scientific contribution to the RoboCup Simulation League |
| 1998-2003 | RoboCup Certificates for successful participation in the Simulation League competitions (team leader of the Cyberoos team) |
| - | 3rd in Pacific Rim RoboCup series 1998 (Singapore, 10 teams); |
| - | 4th in Euro RoboCup 2000 (Amsterdam, 14 teams); |
| - | 3rd in RoboCup Australian Open 2003 (Sydney, 14 teams); |
| - | 9th in RoboCup 2003 (Padua, 45 teams) |
| 1994 | Certificate of Recognition (Fulbright Association and the University of Missouri-Columbia, Edmund S. Muskie Fellow in a Fulbright Program of International Research and Cooperation, USA) |
| 1992 | Two-year Benjamin Franklin Fellowship Grant, USA |
Other Highlights
| 2006- | Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering, the University of New South Wales |
| 2006-2009 | Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Computing, Macquarie University (an adjunct position) |
| 2004- | COSNet: Complex Open Systems ARC Network (a founding member) |
| Member | of IEEE |
| Member | of IEEE Information Theory Society |
| Member | of the International Society for Adaptive Behavior (ISAB) |