Flora Salim’s research is in the cross-cutting areas of human behaviour modelling, machine learning with multimodal time-series and spatio-temporal data, and AI on the edge (IoT, sensors, wearables, digital systems and infrastructures).

Flora Salim is a Professor in the School of Computing Technologies, the co-Deputy Director of RMIT Centre for Information Discovery and Data Analytics (CIDDA), and an Associate Investigator of ARC Centre of Excellence in Automated Decision Making and Society. Flora leads the Context Recognition and Urban Intelligence (CRUISE) group.

Flora's research interests include machine learning on stream and sensor data, behaviour modelling, time-series and spatio-temporal data mining, mobility data science, and ubiquitous computing. She has received more than $10M in research funding in the last 10 years. Her research has been funded by Australian Research Council (ARC), Victorian Government, Microsoft Research, Northrop Grumman Corporation US, Rheinmetall Defence Australia, Qatar National Priorities Research Program, IBM Research, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Bayer Foundation, city councils, and several other industry and local government partners.

She was a Humboldt-Bayer Fellow, Humboldt Fellow (experienced researcher), Victoria Fellow, the recipient of the RMIT Vice-Chancellor's Award for Research Excellence–Early Career Researcher 2016; the RMIT Award for Research Impact - Technology 2018; the RMIT School of Science HDR Supervision Excellence Award 2017; Australian Research Council (ARC) Postdoctoral Research Industry (APDI) Fellow (2012-2015), and IBM Smarter Planet Industry Skills Innovation Award (2010).

She serves as Associate Editor of the PACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), Area Editor of Pervasive and Mobile Computing, and a Steering Committee member of ACM UbiComp. She was a Visiting Professor at University of Kassel, Germany, and University of Cambridge, England, in 2019.

Industry experience:
Senior software engineer, mediaproxy and Xenon Systems

Awards:
2021 PACM IMWUT Distinguished Paper Award for n-Gage paper
2019 Humboldt-Bayer Fellowship, Bayer Foundation, Germany
2019 Humboldt Fellowship (Experienced Researcher), Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, Germany
2019 RMIT Industry Media Star Award
2018 Victoria Fellowship, from veski, Victoria Government
2018 RMIT Award for Research Impact - Technology
2016 RMIT Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Research Excellence – Early Career Researcher
2012 Australian Research Council (ARC) Postdoctoral Fellowship (Industry)
2010 IBM Smarter Planet Industry Skills Innovation Award, IBM Research, USA