Rate My Professor Patrick Oliver

Patrick Olivier is Professor of Human-Computer Interaction in the Department of Human Centred Computing, Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University. He also holds the position of Professor of Digital Health in the Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Monash University Malaysia. Olivier earned his BA in Natural Sciences (Physics) from the University of Cambridge in 1989, Postgraduate Diploma in Computing from the University of Bradford in 1990, MSc in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Wales in 1991, and PhD in Language Engineering from the University of Manchester in 1998. Early in his career, he served as Lecturer at Aberystwyth University and the University of York, advancing to Senior Lecturer, Reader, and Professor of Human-Computer Interaction at Newcastle University, UK, where he founded the Open Lab research group. He co-founded Lexicle Ltd. in 2001, pioneering the first commercially deployed 3D synthetic character for automated customer service, and Axivity Ltd. around 2013, which provides the most widely used physical activity monitor in global clinical studies. At Monash, he established Action Lab: Australia, expanding it to Malaysia and Indonesia, focusing on multidisciplinary research intersecting communities, technology, and social innovation. Previously, he was Principal Investigator for the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Digital Civics (supervising 57 PhD students) and the EPSRC Digital Economy Research Centre (20 Research Fellows) in the UK, and he coined the term and field of Digital Civics around 2013.