Dimitrios Georgakopoulos

I am currently the Director of ARC's Industrial Transformation Research Hub for Future Digital Manufacturing and the Director of Swinburne's Key IoT Lab. Before that I was Research Director (2008-2014) at CSIRO’s ICT Centre and a Professor at RMIT University (2014-2016). At CSIRO I led the Information Engineering Laboratory, which was the largest Computer Science research program in Australia. Prior to CSIRO, I held research and management positions in industrial laboratories in the USA, including Telcordia Technologies (where I helped found two of Telcordia’s Research Centers in Austin, Texas, and Poznan, Poland); Microelectronics and Computer Corporation (MCC) in Austin, Texas; GTE (currently Verizon) Laboratories in Boston; and Bell Communications Research (Bellcore) in Piscataway, New Jersey.
I have authored approximately 283 journal and conference articles that have received approximately 23,000 citations. According to the October 2022 update of Elsevier’s science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators, I am in the 2% of top-cited authors globally (top 1% if self-citations are excluded) in both career and 2022 rankings. My research has attracted $77.1M of external research grants/contracts. Just in the past 7 years at Swinburne, I was lead/chief investigator in 21 research projects that have been awarded $59.735M of external research funding, including a $31.135M funding allocation to Swinburne. I am the recipient of numerus international academic research and research impact awards, including 3 best paper awards from CORE A/A* conferences. I have received the Black Duck Open Source Rookie Award for OpenIoT in the USA. In Australia, I won the 2023 National iAward for the Public and Government Sector and 5 earlier State iAwards in 20023. I received CSIRO's 2013 Plant Industry Innovation Award and
I am a CSIRO Adjunct Fellow since 2014. In Swinburne, I received a Vice Chancellor’s Innovation Award (2018) and the Faculty of Science, Engineering & Technology’s Research Award (2019).
I have 13 years of executive experience in world class research organizations, where I I have led 7 major cross-disciplinary research initiatives with approximately $100M government funding that advanced digital transformation in social services, agriculture, water management, security, and defense.