Joanna Batstone
British physics researcher and data scientist
Joanna L. Batstone is a British Physics and AI researcher and data scientist. She was the Director of the Monash Data Futures Institute from 2020-2025, and was awarded as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering in 2023.
Education
Batstone was awarded a Bachelor of Science (Hons) degree in Chemical Physics and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in physics from the University of Bristol, United Kingdom. Subsequently, Batstone conducted postdoctoral research at AT&T Bell Laboratories in New Jersey and held a Lectureship position in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Liverpool, UK.
Career
Batstone worked as a Postdoctoral Member of Technical Staff at the AT&T Bell labs, in Murray Hill, New Jersey, from 1985 to 1987. She then worked at the University of Liverpool, Great Britain, from 1987-1989 as a Lecturer in the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, before joining the IBM Thomas J Watson Research Centre, in New York. Batstone held a range of technical and business leadership roles in IBM’s Research and development laboratories including work with IBM Watson Data & AI. Batstone completed IBM international assignments in Dublin, Ireland from 2011-2014 with IBM Global Technology Services and in Melbourne, Australia, from 2014-2017 as the Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for IBM Australia and New Zealand and the Director of IBM Research Australia. Batstone returned to New York in 2018 with IBM Watson and was Vice President Innovation IBM Corporate strategy.
Batstone joined Monash University, from 2020 onwards as the inaugural Director of the Monash Data Futures Institute.
She has been a keynote speaker at Science Technology Australia events, including discussions on corporate investment in R&D, as well as on using AI for social good, at the University of New South Wales.
Batstone has been involved in researching AI and machine learning address a variety of issues, including helping people living with diabetes as well as to identify malignant melanomas and the use of data to help stop human trafficking.
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