Professor René Hexel currently serves as Dean (Learning & Teaching) and Pro Vice Chancellor (Sciences) at Griffith University, where he directs the Cyber-Physical Systems Lab. With over 85 peer-reviewed publications, he specializes in safety-critical real-time systems and autonomous system verification. 2022–present: Dean (Learning & Teaching), Griffith Sciences 2016–2022: Deputy Head of School (L&T), Griffith School of ICT 2007–2016: Director for Internationalisation, Griffith School of ICT 1999: PhD from Vienna University of Technology His research focuses on safety-critical systems , time-triggered protocols , and human-in-the-loop AI , with applications in aerospace, automotive, and healthcare robotics. Recent work explores humanoid robots for dementia care and verifiable executable models. Key article trends show expertise in: Formal verification techniques Robotics communication protocols Explainable machine learning Real-time system architectures Embedded system validation Human-robot interaction design Research grants include: Australian Space Manufacturing Network (2023–2025) SPASE STEM program grant (2022) Social media wellness monitoring (2019–2020) Internal Griffith grants (2003–2010) He has supervised 12 PhD candidates across topics including: Autonomous system verification Robotics security VR sickness mitigation Intelligent control systems Distributed real-time architectures Professor Hexel previously held academic positions at Vienna University of Technology and founded an IT consulting firm specializing in safety-critical systems.






