Dr Kelvin Ross

Dr Kelvin Ross has over 30 years of experience in software engineering and enterprise IT applications.  Kelvin started his IT career in safety critical software engineering in defence.  After completing his PhD in safety critical systems engineering and several years consulting in defence and transportation systems, he moved to the commercial sector and founded KJR, specializing in software testing and assurance. 

Kelvin is recognized as expert in testing and assurance of software applications across a broad range of industry domains, including e-health, public administration, finance, insurance, retail and telecommunications.  In addition to Kelvin’s role as Chairman of KJR, Kelvin is a Director of the Queensland AI Innovation Hub, IntelliHQ, Co-Founder & CTO of Datarwe, and broadly engages in technology advisory roles, including director roles AI innovative startups.  He has broad interests in Machine Learning, which he sees as the dominant technology driver for the next several decades, particularly within the Healthcare sector.  

Kelvin is an Associate Adjunct Professor at the Institute for Intelligent and Integrated Systems (IIIS), Griffith University, and organiser of Young Women Leaders in AI, Gold Coast AI and Machine Learning meetup group, member of ACS AI Ethics national committee, several roles in national technical working groups (NATA and ACS), and held several board positions.