An associate professor in Information Technology at ADFA – UNSW Canberra, Kathryn is Deputy Head of School (Teaching) for the School of Engineering and IT. She has published over 100 articles in peer reviewed conference and journals, and her research has been funded by the Australian Research Council and Defence Science and Technology Group. Her technical expertise spans Java and MATLAB programming, Android application development, artificial neural networks, reinforcement learning, game theory and swarm intelligence algorithms.