Sebastian Binnewies

Dr. Sebastian Binnewies is a Senior Lecturer at Griffith University's School of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and serves as Director of the Griffith App Factory. With over $3M in external grant funding, his research focuses on Natural Language Processing, AI Fairness, and Knowledge Representation & Reasoning, with applications in healthcare, climate resilience, and education.

• Senior Lecturer (2021–present)
• Lecturer (2018–2021)
• Associate Lecturer (2016–2018)
• PhD (2011–2015) & Honours Bachelor's in Information Technology (2009–2011) from Griffith University

His research addresses Natural Language Processing for bias mitigation, AI Fairness in decision systems, and Knowledge Representation for healthcare applications. Key projects include:

• Individualised heat-health early warning systems (Wellcome Trust $2.36M)
• SurgeImpact decision support system ($2.09M QRRRF)
• Vascular Access Passport apps ($16.8K–$99.3K grants)
• Social media analytics for public health and education

Recent publications explore:

• Time-series forecasting with dynamic window optimisation
• Personalised abusive language detection via LLMs
• IT service well-being in educational ecosystems
• Heatwave policy influence through the Ethos Project

Scientific contributions include:

• 2025: Nature Climate Change publication
• 2024: IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies
• 2023: Experimental research on heat-induced hyperthermia in aging populations
• 2021: Student Experience of Teaching accolades

As a supervisor, he guides doctoral research in:

• UN SDGs integration in remote work
• Deep learning for cryptocurrency prediction
• Commonsense reasoning in question answering
• Feature-enhanced neural networks for topic modeling

Laboratory leadership includes:

• Directing Griffith App Factory (student enterprise for real-world IT projects)
• Membership in Institute for Integrated and Intelligent Systems (2016–2024)