Prof Shirley Gregor

BSc, GrDipComp, MAppSc, PhD

Shirley Gregor is a Professor Emerita at the Australian National University. Her research interests include artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction and the philosophy of science and technology. Currently her focus is on responsible AI and AI-assisted art.

Professor Gregor spent a number of years in the computing industry in Australia and the United Kingdom before beginning an academic career. Her research has appeared in the leading outlets in her field, including MIS Quarterly, Journal of Management Information Systems, Information Systems Research, Journal of the Association of Information Systems, and European Journal of Information Systems. She has been named in a Stanford University study as being in the top 2% of scientists worldwide for her career.

She has led large, applied research projects aimed at societal benefit that that have embodied and developed her work on design science research.  Projects have been funded by the Meat Research Corporation, the Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, the Australian Research Council and AusAID. Her project in the beef industry on supply chain management and e-commerce 1997-2003 contributed to the award of an Officer of the Order of Australia in the Queen’s Birthday Honour’s list in June 2005.

In 2005 she was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society. In 2010 she was made a Fellow of the Association for Information Systems, the peak global body for the discipline. In 2014 she was awarded a Schöller Senior Fellowship at the Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-Nurenberg. She was given a DESRIST Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017 for contributions to design science research in information systems and technology.