Ann E. Nicholson (born June 1965 in London, England) is an Australian academic specialising in computer science. She completed a BSc (Hons) in 1986 and an MSc in 1990 in Computer Science at the University of Melbourne. In 1988, she was awarded a Rhodes scholarship to the University of Oxford, where she completed her 1992 doctorate titled "Monitoring Discrete Environments using Dynamic Belief Networks" in the Robotics Research Group under J.M. Brady.
After beginning work in the United States in 1992 as a post-doctoral research fellow at Brown University in Rhode Island, Nicholson took up a lecturing position at Monash University in 1994, where she later served as Dean of the Faculty of Information Technology. A researcher specialising in Bayesian networks and Bayesian artificial intelligence, she has published more than 120 papers with over 7,000 citations and co-authored leading books in the field.[2,3,4] Nicholson established the consulting company Bayesian Intelligence in 2007 and serves as Honorary Secretary to the Victorian Rhodes Scholarship Selection Committee.[1,5] In 2022, she was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering.[6]
She was married to Paul Konstanty from 2000 to 2019 and has two children.[1]
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External resources include a list of her research publications and a short interview with Nicholson conducted via Women in STEMM Australia. Additionally, she is featured in an interview on "Data Modelling with Bayesian networks" on YouTube, and has a blog post titled "How to model with Bayesian networks".