Jess Moore is an applied data scientist in the ANU School of Computing with over 15 years post PhD experience as a practising data scientist leading data analytics, data strategy and data governance teams, and is the Chief Operating Officer and applied data scientist of the Software Innovation Institute (SII).

She supervises software and research engineering projects at SII, which is developing data science analytics and software engineering open source solutions for personal data access and control in the health and ed tech sectors, and is training ANU graduates in these new technologies.

Her research interests are in engineering software applications over Social Linked Data (SOLID) server technology and Personal Online Data Stores (PODs), consent management, analytics and data mining and data systems for complex governance collaborations.

In the School of Computing, she is the program convenor for ANU’s applied data analytics and data engineering programs. She also has a PhD in Astronomy and Astrophysics from the ANU and BSc Hons (Physics) from University of Melbourne, and has previously held two non-executive Board Director roles.

SII collaborates with community, public and private sector organisations that require research and engineering with new computing technologies in data privacy, knowledge graphs and machine learning for public good applications.

More information: sii.anu.edu.au

Activities & Awards

  • Graduate, Founder’s Institute Pre-seed Accelerator Program (2013)
  • Australian Government Medallion for Outstanding Achievement (2008)
  • Joan Duffield PhD Scholar, Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Australian National University (1999)