Maurice Pagnucco

Professor Maurice Pagnucco is Deputy Dean (Education) of the Faculty of Engineering and former Head of School of Computer Science and Engineering at University of New South Wales. His research specializes in knowledge representation, cognitive robotics, and artificial intelligence, with applications in automated reasoning and machine ethics.

He holds BSc (Hons I) and PhD degrees from University of Sydney. Academic appointments include positions at University of Sydney, Macquarie University, University of Toronto, and UNSW. Leadership roles include Presidency of Australian Council of Deans of ICT and committee positions with Data61.

Research integrates symbolic and sub-symbolic AI approaches, with current projects in cognitive robotics disassembly, machine ethics formalization, and visual question answering. Recent publications address domain adaptation in medical imaging, trajectory prediction, and neural-symbolic integration.