Professor Aaron Quigley is Dean (designate) of the College of Systems and Society in the Australian National University, chair of the ACM CHI Steering Committee, ACM Distinguished member and an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science in the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney Australia. Aaron was named an ACM Distinguished Scientist in 2020 and in 2025 he received the ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Service Award. Aaron is Australian and originally comes from Dublin in Ireland.
From 2023-2025 he served a 3 year term as the Science Director and Deputy Director of CSIRO’s Data61. From 2020 until the start of 2023 he served as head of school of Computer Science and Engineering and Deputy Dean of Engineering in UNSW. For ten years before this, he was the Chair of Human Computer Interaction in the School of Computer Science at the University of St Andrews where he served as director of the Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA), board member for ScotlandIS and the DataLab which he co-founded.
Aaron’s research interests include AI and HCI, discreet computing, pervasive and ubiquitous computing and information visualisation on which he has delivered over 50 invited talks. Aaron has published over 230 internationally peer-reviewed publications including edited volumes, journal papers, book chapters, conference and workshop papers. He has served as general, TPC, paper and conference chair for ACM CHI, ACM UIST, ACM ITS, ACM MobileHCI, ISMAR, ACM EICS, ACM IUI and Pervasive. Aaron holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Newcastle and a 1st class honours degree in Computer Science from Trinity College in Dublin Ireland.
During his time in UNSW and CSIRO he was a member of the University of Sydney’s Faculty of Engineering Industry Advisory Board and Chair of the Industry Advisory Board for the School of Computer Science in the Faculty of Engineering. In addition he served as a Member of The Board Of Advisors for Yirigaa, member of the board of advisors for InferenceFrame and SIGGRAPH Asia 2023 Doctoral Consortium Co-Chair.
During his time in Scotland he was a visiting Professor in the National University of Singapore, Tokyo Tech and the University of Tohoku. Prior to this he worked in the University of Tasmania, the University College Dublin, the University of Sydney, Mitsubishi Electric Laboratories and the University of Newcastle.
Aaron’s research interests include intelligent user interfaces (Ai-HCI), discreet computing, pervasive and ubiquitous computing and information visualisation on which he has delivered over 50 invited talks. Aaron has published over 210 internationally peer-reviewed publications including edited volumes, journal papers, book chapters, conference and workshop papers.
Aaron is an IEEE Senior Member, keynote chair for MobileHCI 2024, Honorary General chair for the 22nd IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), Doctoral Consortium Co-Chair for the ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2023 conference, member of the Australian Academy of Science’s National Committee for Information and Communication Sciences and he serves on the Yirigaa Advisory Board.
Aaron was the technical program Chair for the ACM EICS 2022 conference. In total Aaron has had chairing roles in thirty international conferences and has served on over ninety conference and workshop program committees.
His research and development has been supported by the EPSRC, AHRC, JISC, SFC, NDRC, EU FP7/FP6, SFI, Smart Internet CRC, NICTA, Wacom, IBM, Intel, Nvidia, Google, Microsoft and MERL and has held 7 patents. Aaron has held academic and industry appointments in Singapore, Australia, Japan, USA, Germany, Ireland and the UK.
Details of Aaron’s publications can be found here, from his Orcid profile. Aaron’s pages on publications and talks provide papers he has written and talks he has delivered. Aaron’s full biography, teaching, publications, talks, professional activities, grants and blog of news items back to 2005 etc. can be found from the menu above.
