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Professor Aaron Quigley is the Science Director and Deputy Director of CSIRO’s Data61 and an adjunct Professor in the School of Computer Science in UNSW Engineering. Aaron transitioned to his current role, motivated by the chance to make a meaningful impact through research, striving to enhance the quality of life for all in Australia.

Having served as general co-chair for the ACM CHI conference in 2021 Aaron is now the chair elect of the ACM CHI conference steering committee and was named an ACM Distinguished Scientist in 2020. He 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.

  • Doug Aaron and Amelia at Mardi Gras 2024
  • Aaron’s first day with CSIRO in 2023
  • ACM future of computing Academy logo

From 2020 – 2023 he was Professor and head of school for the School of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) in the University of New South Wales in Sydney Australia. From 2010 – 2020, he was the Professor and Chair of Human Computer Interaction in the School of Computer Science at the University of St Andrews, director of the Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (SICSA), board member for ScotlandIS and the DataLab. During this time 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.

  • 2022 Guinness world record Fastest 1000 km achieved by an electric car on a single charge (prototype) – SunSwift Team

Aaron’s research interests include discreet computing, global HCI, pervasive and ubiquitous computing and information visualisation on which he has delivered over 50 invited talks most recently as an ACM Distinguished Speaker. 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, 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.

  • Pervasive 2006 Welcome Reception Dublin Castle


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.

  • ITS and UIST 2013 General Chairs
  • Sara Diamond and Aaron Quigley
  • Juyong Lee, Aaron Quigley and Hui-Shyong Yeo: MobileHCI Honourable Mention
  • Future of Computing Academy
  • Aaron at Weta in Wellington
  • Aaron delivering a graduation address

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