Dr Brian Ballsun-Stanton is a Solutions Architect (Digital Humanities) at Macquarie University's Faculty of Arts. He specializes in AI integration in higher education, leading initiatives such as the university's 'Guidance Note: Using Generative AI in Research' and winning the 2024 Faculty of Arts Educational Leadership Award. His work spans AI policy, pedagogy, and interdisciplinary applications across languages, security studies, and law. With over 15 years' experience as a data scientist, he has pioneered open-source tools like FAIMS Mobile for field research and led AUD$3.5M+ in grants focused on big data analysis of violent extremism and archaeological projects. Education: PhD in Philosophy of Data (not explicitly stated, inferred from biography). Research Interests: Generative AI ethics, digital humanities, social network analysis, and the intersection of technology with humanities scholarship. He focuses on AI-enhanced learning, critical evaluation of large language models, and FAIR data principles in epigraphy and archaeology. Articles Trends: Recent work emphasizes AI policy frameworks, generative AI applications in education, and computational methods in archaeology. Earlier publications explore far-right online ecosystems and social media analysis. Awards: 2018 DataApp Prize (environmental data transparency), 2024 Educational Leadership Award. Grants/Projects: Led projects on violent extremism (AUD$3.5M+), FAIMS Mobile development, and Roman Dalmatia military communities. Technical Director of FAIMS Project since 2013. Labs/Teams: Technical lead for the FAIMS Project, collaborating internationally on archaeological digital tools and open-source field data systems.






