Dennis Del Favero

Scientia Professor Dennis Del Favero is an ARC Laureate Fellow and Chair Professor of Digital Innovation at the Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture, University of New South Wales. He serves as Executive Director of the iCinema Research Centre and Director | Research of EPICentre, with visiting positions at IUAV University of Venice and University of California Santa Barbara.

• Major research areas include interactive cinema, digital innovation, AI aesthetics, and immersive visualization systems
• Current projects: iFIRE (wildfire visualization), iDESIGN (theater design), netARCHIVE (ephemeral art archiving), memorySCAPE (war commemoration), and iMODEL (operatic rehearsal systems)
• Collaborations with Royal College of Art, Stanford University, Fire and Rescue NSW, and European Network on Extreme Fire Behavior (NERO)

Scientific recognition includes 22 ARC grants, 29 international grants, and presentations in 116 first-tier international venues. His work has been praised by Clare Stewart (BFI London Film Festival) as "positioning Australia as a creative and technological leader."

Research supervision includes PhD and MA candidates like Frank Wu, Mario Flores Gonzalez, and Nagida Helsby-Clarke. He co-developed iDATA (360° 3D museum browser) and Retrospect: War, Family, Afghanistan (interactive defense heritage database).