Julian Thomas is Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, and a Distinguished Professor in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University.

Distinguished Professor Julian Thomas

Professor Julian Thomas is Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, and a Distinguished Professor in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University. Thomas was elected to the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2017. Recent publications include the Australian Digital Inclusion Index (Telstra, 2016-), Internet on the Outstation: The Digital Divide and Remote Aboriginal Communities (INC, 2016), The Informal Media Economy (Polity, 2015), and papers on automation in digital advertising, the history of mapping and navigation in autonomous vehicles, and recommendation systems in the book industry.