Dr Qinghua Lu serves as Group Leader of the Software Systems Research Group at CSIRO's Data61 in Australia, where she leads pioneering research at the intersection of artificial intelligence and software engineering. With over 200 publications in premier international venues, she has established herself as a global authority in Responsible AI and Software Engineering for AI. Her research program focuses on two critical areas: Agent Engineering and Evaluation, and AI Safety/Responsible AI. She has developed architectural patterns for foundation model-based agents, reference architectures for trustworthy AI systems, and multi-layered safety frameworks including the influential Swiss Cheese Model for AI Safety. Her work bridges theoretical research with practical applications through tools like Prompt Sapper for AI chain development and SoapOperaTG for knowledge graph-based testing. Dr Lu actively shapes national and international AI policy as a contributor to Australia's AI Safety Standard, Frontier Model Forum, OECD.AI's trustworthy AI metrics, and the EU General-Purpose AI Code of Practice. She has received numerous accolades including the 2023 Asia-Pacific Women in AI Trailblazer Award and an ACM Distinguished Paper Award for her seminal work 'Towards a Roadmap on Software Engineering for Responsible AI'. As a prolific author, her book 'Responsible AI: Best Practices for Creating Trustworthy AI Systems' (2023) became Amazon's No. 3 AI book bestseller, recognized as the world's first responsible AI book for practitioners. Her follow-up work 'Engineering AI Systems: Architecture and DevOps Essentials' (2025) further establishes her leadership in AI system engineering. Dr Lu maintains active leadership in the academic community as Area Chair of Software Engineering for AI at ICSE'26, Program Chair for AIware'25 and CAIN'25, and associate editor for IEEE Transactions on AI. Her editorial service extends to multiple prestigious journals including Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials.












