• [Research] August 2025: My paper A. Hussein “Maintaining Assessment Validity in the GenAI Era: Insights from Human-Machine Interaction” has been accepted for publication at IEEE International STEM Education Conference

• [Research] August 2025: Our paper A. Hussein, D. Sharma, R. Awasthy, M. Wang & A. Imran “Promoting Research Dissemination among Undergraduate Students: A Pilot Internal Conference” has been accepted for publication at IEEE International STEM Education Conference

• [Service & engagement] July 2025-August 2025: I delivered sessions at the short course The AI Advantage: Fundamentals for Government", organised by Innovation Central Canberra.

• [Research] July 2025: Dr. Daniel Baxter has been granted his PhD from UNSW under my supervision as a joint supervisor, with Prof Hussein Abbass as the main supervisor.

• [Service & engagement] July 2025: I participated in "Bridging the Skills Gap: An Industry Roundtable" organised by the School of IT & Systems at UC.

• [Research] July 2025: Our book chapter A. Hussein, S. Elsawah, E. Petraki & H. Abbass "Learner-Centred, Teacher-Centred and Blended Curriculum Design in Swarm Systems" in Thinking Swarms has been published by Springer (open access). Download here.

• [Research] June - December 2025: I participate in the weekly reading group on Explainable Physical AI by the Collaborative Robotics Lab at UC

• [Service & engagement] June 2025: I participated in the workshop "Forging Successful Research Partnerships: Bridging Academia & Industry" organised by Canberra Cyber Hub.

• [Research] June 2025:  I presented the results of our education-focused seed fund on enhancing teaching research nexus at the Faculty of Science and Technology's research forum. 

• [Teaching] [Service & engagement] June 2025: I took the lead to propose and deliver the professional development workshop "Maintaining Assessment Effectiveness in the GenAI Era" that was attended by around 40 UC academics.

• [Research][Service & engagement] June 2025: UG students Prabin Timilsina & Ezeiel Graetz completed their industry internship with Industry Capability Network on using AI-powered data retrieval for marketing. The internship was arranged by ICC and completed under my supervision.

• [Research] May 2025:  Our paper A. Hussein, E. Petraki & H. Abbass “Swarm Imitation Learning from Observations” has be published in IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence (Q1, IF 5.3). Download here.

• [Service & engagement] May - August 2025: I delivered sessions at the short course "The AI Advantage: Fundamentals Business", organised by Innovation Central Canberra.

• [Research] April - December 2025:  I'm a CoI of the research project "Political Misinformation and Media Literacy: Australian Election 2025", award value $87K. My role enabled utilising AI to extract insights from  social media posts.

• [Teaching] [Service & engagement] March - June 2025: I'm working with the Innovation Central Canberra to provide academic mentorship to UC students in their AI industry internships. 

• [Teaching] [Research] [Service & engagement] Feb 2025: I led the organisation of the first IT & Systems Student Research Conference at UC. The conference aims at strengthening the teaching-research nexus at UC by encouraging early UG/PG student engagement in research. Conference website is here

• [Research] January 2025: Our paper A. Hussein, H. Nguyen, and H. Abbass "Machine teaching in Swarm Metaverse under different levels of autonomy" has been published in Philosophical Transactions A. Paper can be found here.  

• [Service & engagement] January 2025: I delivered a presentation on human-AI interaction to Year 12 students at the National Youth Science Forum.

• [Service & engagement] January 2025: I have been elected as the IEEE ACT Women in Engineering Chair for 2025.

• [Recognition & esteem] December 2024: I won the UC GenAI in Education Award for developing an adaptive approach to embracing GenAI for education excellence and connectedness

• [Career Development] December 2024: I obtained the certificate for the "Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) Specialization" by DeepLearning.AI

• [Career Development] December 2024: I completed the "Apply Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)" course by DeepLearning.AI

• [Career Development] December 2024: I completed the "Build Better Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)" course by DeepLearning.AI

• [Career Development] November 2024: I completed the "Build Basic Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)" course by DeepLearning.AI

• [Service & engagement] November 2024: I gave a talk on "Findings & lessons learnt from my approach to GenAI adoption" at the Faculty of Science and Technology's Teaching Community of Practice seminar.

• [Career Development] November 2024: I completed Google's "5-Day Gen AI Intensive Course".

• [Service & engagement] November 2024: I gave an invited talk on "Bridging Minds and Machines - My Research on Human-AI Interactions". The event was hosted by IEEE ACT Women in Engineering.  

• [Service & engagement] October 2024: I was a guest speaker at the Diversity Council of Australia's event on Inclusive AI in recruitment   where I participated in an expert panel discussion on the opportunities and risks posed by AI in recruitment. Over 100 individuals from about 70 organisations registered for the event.  

• [Service & engagement] September 2024: I organised an activity for University of Canberra open day where I showcased games developed by our UC students in 2024. Sample of students' games can be found here 

• [Service & engagement] August 2024: I've been appointed as a member of the University of Canberra GenAI TaskForce.

• [Teaching] August-November 2024: I'm developing new materials for the Soft Computing subjects which I'm concurrently teaching in semester 2 at UC.  

• [Research] July 2024: Our paper J. Zhou, H. El-Fiqi and A. Hussein "Adversarial Patrolling Using a Shepherding Approach " has been accepted for publication in the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC). Paper available here

• [Research] June 2024: Our paper G. Greenwood, H. A. Abbass and A. Hussein "Harmonizing Individual and Group Interests: A Strategy for Fostering Cooperation in Social Dilemma Games" has been accepted for publication in the 2024 International Conference on Emerging Techniques in Computational Intelligence (ICETCI). Paper available here.

• [Career Development] June 2024: I attended the Emotional Intelligence at Work workshop organised by UC

• [Career Development] June 2024: I attended the Project Management Fundamentals workshop organised by UC

• [Career Development] June 2024: I attended the Higher Education Academy Fellowship (HEA) Applications Workshop organised by UC

• [Career Development] June 2024: I attended the Finding Funding - How to use Pivot-RP Workshop organised by UC

• [Service & engagement] June 2024: I provided consultancy to UC’s Learning and Teaching unit regarding a potential student-facing module on GenAI.

• [Teaching] June 2024: Under my leadership, our team received the SciTech Education Focused grant for our project "A Framework for Empowering Teaching-Research Nexus and Enhancing HDR Experience at ITS: A Pilot Study". Grant value: $10K. 

• [Career Development] March 2024: I completed the Supervising Doctoral Studies training by University of Canberra

• [Research] March 2024: Our paper A. J. Hepworth, A. Hussein, D. J. Reid, H. A. Abbass "Contextually aware intelligent control agents for heterogeneous swarms" has been accepted for publication in Swarm Intelligence. Paper available at  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11721-024-00235-w

• [Teaching] February-April 2024: I'm developing new materials for the Game Programming Technique subjects which I'm concurrently teaching in semester 1 at UC.

• [Career Development] December 2023: I have been awarded Associate Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA) in recognition of attainment against the UK Professional Standards Framework for teaching & learning in higher education. 

I've started a new job as a Lecturer in AI & Machine Learning at the University of Canberra 

• [Research] 5 - 6 Dec 2023: I attended the Defence Human Sciences Symposium (DHSS) in Brisbane where I presented our accepted abstract on "Swarm Metaverse for Human-Machine Education and Teaming" 

• [Teaching] 1 Dec 2023: I received my certificate for completing the Foundations of University Learning and Teaching (FULT) program after successfully completing all its assessment tasks.

• [Research] 28 Nov - 1 Dec 2023: I attended the AJCAI conference in Brisbane where I presented our two accepted papers detailed below.

• [Service & engagement] 23 Nov 2023: I attended the CADRE-OCE Workshop organised by NSW Smart Sensing Network where I pitched our Swarm Metaverse and its potential in CBRN.

• [Service & engagement] 22 Nov 2023: I chaired the AI in Defence session at the inaugural AI Symposium organised by UNSW AI institute in Sydney. 

• [Teaching] October 2023: Undergraduate Chief of Defence Force student Muhammad Talha has successfully completed his S2 Y3 research project, under my supervision, scoring HD 

• [Research] 15 Sept 2023: Our paper G. Garrison, H. A.  Abbass, and A. Hussein "Interpretation of Neural Network Players for a Generalized Divide the Dollar Game Using SHAP Values" has been accepted for publication in SSCI 2023. [Available here: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10371984] 

• [Research] 15 Sept 2023: Our paper M. Hussein, M. Keshk, and A. Hussein "Non-Stationarity Detection in Model-Free Reinforcement Learning via Value Function Monitoring" has been accepted for publication in AJCAI 2023 - [Acceptance rate 39%] [Available here: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-99-8391-9_28 ].

• [Research] 15 Sept 2023: Our paper M. Talha, A. Hussein , and M. Hossny "LiDAR Inpainting of UAV based 3D Point Cloud Using Supervised Learning " has been accepted for publication in AJCAI 2023 - [Acceptance rate 39%] [Available here: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-99-8388-9_17 ].

• [Service & engagement] August 2023: I organised the “Strategy Evolution in Social Dilemma Games” seminar in collaboration with IEEE CIS Canberra

• [Service & engagement] August 2023: I'm a UNSW Canberra representative for the AI Symposium organised by the UNSW.AI Institute

• [Service & engagement] August 2023: I have been appointed as the Research Communications Coordinator at the School of Systems and Computing at UNSW Canberra.

• [Teaching] Semester 2-2023: I'm developing the lab material and am teaching lab & lectures for Computer Games ZEIT1110. 

• [Teaching] July 2023: Undergraduate Chief of Defence Force students Muhammad Talha and Muhammad Khan have successfully completed their S1 Y3 research projects under my supervision as the primary supervisor, both scoring HD 

• [Career Development] July 2023: I attended the Adaptive Leadership Masterclass by UNSW

• [Research] June 2023: Our team is a finalist in the the ENAIRE Air Traffic Management technological challenges contest  2023

• [Career Development] June 2023: I attended the "Mental Health First Aid" course at UNSW Canberra. I'm now a certified Mental Health First Aider. 

• [Research] 19 May 2023: Our work "Swarm Metaverse for Multi-Level Autonomy Using Digital Twins" has been published in Sensors.

• [Research] 6 May 2023: Dr. Adam J Hepworth has been granted his PhD under my supervision as a joint supervisor, with Prof Hussein Abbass as the main supervisor and Dr.  Darryn Reid as a co-supervisor.

• [Service & engagement] Feb-Oct 2023: Member of the review panel for honour's students at the School of Engineering & IT.

• [Career Development] 11 Feb 2023: I completed the "Recognise and Respond: Suicide Prevention for Everyday Life" training provided by the Black Dog Institute 

• [Service & engagement] Feb-June 2023: Lead organiser of the IEEE IJCNN special session on "Learning in swarm and multi-robot systems" (2023). Call for papers can be found here: https://2023.ijcnn.org/paper-submission/special-sessions#session-4-22

• [Service & engagement] Jan  2023: I am appointed as an Associate Editor and a member of the Paper Screening Committee at the IEEE Transaction on Artificial Intelligence

• [Research] 28 Nov 2022: We purchased a new set of 8 Jetbot ROS robots for the Distributed Intelligence group at UNSW Canberra

• [Career Development] 23 Nov 2022: I attended the Industry Funding Scheme Workshop at UNSW Canberra​

• [Service & engagement] 22 Nov 2022: I have given a Tutorial session on "Human Teachable Reinforcement Learning" at ICONIP 2022. Tutorial page is here: https://sites.google.com/view/iconip2022tutorial/home 

• [Teaching] Oct 2022: Honours student Bridget Free and 4th year Engineering student Rana Riaz completed their thesis projects successfully

• [Research] 20 Oct 2022:  Our work "Swarm Analytics: Designing Information Markers to Characterise Swarm Systems in Shepherding Contexts " has been accepted for publication in the journal of Adaptive Behavior 

• [Research] 17 Sept 2022: Our work "Autonomous UAV Navigation in Wilderness Search-and-Rescue Operations Using Deep Reinforcement Learning " has been accepted for publication in the Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AJCAI 2022)

• [Service & engagement] Aug-Dec 2022: Member of the HDR review panels for three students at the School of Engineering & IT.

• [Research] 8 Aug 2022: A UNSW internal fund of 7500 AUD has been granted to the Distributed Intelligence research group which I lead and have co-founded

• [Research] 8 Aug 2022: A UNSW internal fund of 3000 AUD has been granted to the Deep Learning research group which I have co-founded

• [Service & engagement] 20-22 July 2022: I attended the Australian Defence Science, Technology and Research (ADSTAR) in Sydney

• [Service & engagement] 13-14 Jun 2022: I participated in the Thinking Swarms workshop organised by Trusted Autonomous Systems and UNSW Canberra, held in Queensland 

• [Recognition & esteem] 8t Jun 2022: I got a scholarship from DAIRNet  to represent UNSW as a female in AI at The Australian Defence Science, Technology and Research (ADSTAR) summit 2022

• [Career Development] 18 May 2022: I attended the Ripple Effect workshop at UNSW Canberra 

• [Research] 12-13 May 2022: I presented our paper on "Autonomous Swarm Shepherding Using Curriculum-Based Reinforcement Learning" at the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2022) 

• [Teaching] May 2022: Undergraduate Chief of Defence Force students Christopher Wise and Muhammad Talha have successfully completed their research projects 

• [Teaching] May 2022: I completed the development and teaching of ZEIT4117 - "Special Topics in Reinforcement Learning" which is the first course on RL at UNSW Canberra

• [Service & engagement] 7 Apr - 9 Jun 2022: I have been participating in ten weekly Swarming Discussions organised by Trusted Autonomous Systems and UNSW Canberra

• [Teaching] Feb 2022: I'll be a member of the AI Panel for the 2022 year at UNSW Canberra

• [Teaching] Dec 2021: I gave a guest lecture on Autonomy & Reinforcement Learning in the “Data Science for Defence Capability" course at UNSW Canberra

• [Research] 22 Nov 2021:  Our work "A machine education approach to swarm decision-making in best-of-n problems" is now published in Swarm Intelligence journal

• [Research] October 2021:  I got a $20,000 grant from the Department of Defence and the Office of National Intelligence for the project "Continual Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous shepherding" - Role: Chief Investigator

• [Teaching] Oct 2021: 4th year Engineering students David King, Rana Hasan, Bradley Newsland, and Christopher Cox completed their thesis projects successfully

• [Teaching] Oct 2021: Undergraduate Chief of Defence Force students Rana Riaz has successfully completed his research project

• [Service & engagement] March 2021:  Co-orgaised IEEE IROS Workshop on "Cognitive and Social Aspects of Human Multi-Robot Interaction"

• [Teaching] Jun 2021:  I developed teleoperation system for multi-robot control to be used for supporting the delivery of ZEIT 4115 - Special Topics in AI course

• [Teaching] May 2021: Undergraduate Chief of Defence Force students Rana Riaz has successfully completed his research project under my supervision

• [Service & engagement] May 2021:  I developed a UGV teleoperation system to be used for Exercise Enigma - VECC at UNSW Canberra

• [Service & engagement] March 2021: I have been appointed as the manager of the AI lab - UNSW Canberra