Major James Casey is a graduate of the Australian Defence Force Academy and the Royal Military College – Duntroon. He was commissioned into the Royal Australian Artillery, holding instructional and regimental appointments that involved planning at combat team, battle group, and brigade levels before joint staff appointments in Defence Headquarters. MAJ Casey holds Bachelor of Arts and Master of Business degrees from the University of New South Wales. … James …

Major Atonio Nagauna is an Infantry officer in the Republic of Fiji Military Forces. He has deployed to peacekeeping missions in Iraq, Egypt and Occupied Golan. He is a graduate of the Royal Military College (Duntroon) and the Australian Command and Staff Course. He holds a Master of Defence and Military Studies from ANU and a Master of Training and Development from Griffith University. Major Nagauna is currently Second-in-Command Third Battalion Fiji Infantry Regiment. … Atonio …

Ms Sonya Russell is a career public servant with the Australian Department of Defence. She was the International Policy Liaison Officer to Headquarters Joint Operations Command in 2017 and Policy Advisor on Operation HIGHROAD in Afghanistan from late 2017 to 2018. She posted to Port Moresby as the inaugural Strategic Policy Advisor to Papua New Guinea’s Department of Defence. Ms Russell is currently the Director of International Policy Division’s Pacific East section. … Sonya …

Colonel Jason Logue recently accrued 30 years of service in the ADF - the past 20 of which have been almost solely focused on planning, integrating and achieving effects in the information environment. In the absence of a formalised career approach, he is one of the handful of ADF officers with more than a single posting as an information staff officer working across capability specialist and information environment generalist roles. He has undertaken a broad range of information environment related …

Anant Mishra is an Associate Fellow at the Centre for Joint Warfare Studies (CENJOWS) Headquarters Integrated Defence Staff (HQ IDS). He undertakes his research on interoperability during complex operations. He is a Visiting Fellow at the International Centre for Policing & Security, University of South Wales, Pontypridd. … Anant …

Duncan Foster is an Infantry Officer.  At various times during his career, he has served in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Battalions of the Royal Australian Regiment. He is a graduate of the Royal Military College Duntroon, the Capability and Technology Management College and the Australian Command and Staff College. … Duncan …

Lieutenant Ian Richards is an Air Battle Manager at No. 3 Control and Reporting Unit at RAAF Base Williamtown. He graduated Royal Military – Duntroon in 2019 into the Corps of Royal Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, transferring to the Royal Regiment of Australian Artillery in 2020. His postings include, 12 Platoon Commander Australian School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering and C Troop Commander, 16 Regiment, Royal Regiment of Australian Artillery. … Ian Peter …

Flight Lieutenant Daniel P Baxter is a current Jericho Fellowship Scholar. Daniel is an Electronics Engineer (Networks), resident at the University of New South Wales as a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science. He received his B.Eng in Electrical Engineering from the University of New South Wales, Canberra (2017). His current research focus is explainable artificial intelligence for human-swarm teaming, neural machine translation, and real-time reasoning for action production for intelligent swarm …

Mr Joshua C Keene is a Machine Learning Researcher at 12th Level and formerly an Operations Research Analyst at the Defence Science and Technology Group, specialising in joint force modelling and simulation. Josh received his BE (Hons) in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from the University of Queensland (2020). His current research at 12th Level is focused on merging classical optimisation, machine learning, and quantum computation techniques to solve complex problems. More broadly, Josh is interested …

Squadron Leader Kate J Yaxley is the 2021 Sir Richard Williams Scholar, 2021 Australia-New Zealand Women in AI in Defence award winner, and an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of New South Wales, where she is a Ph.D. candidate in Electrical Engineering. Kate is an Electronics Engineer (Aviation), specialising in electromagnetic warfare. Kate received her M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology (2015) and B.Eng in Electrical Engineering from the University of New South …