Julien Epps, Ph.D

Head of School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications and Professor,
University of New South Wales

Julien joined the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, in the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications in 2007 as a Senior Lecturer, and is currently Head of School and a Professor. Previously, he was a Senior Researcher and Project Leader with National ICT Australia, Sydney. Before that, Julien was a Senior Research Engineer with Motorola Labs, where he was engaged in speech recognition.

Julien is also a Contributed Researcher with Data61, CSIRO, Australia. His current research focuses on characterization, modeling, and classification of mental state and affect from behavioral signals, such as speech, eye activity, and head movement.  Dr. Epps has delivered invited tutorials to major international conferences, such as INTERSPEECH and IEEE SMC, and invited keynotes to workshops of ACII, ACM Multimedia and ACM ICMI.

Julien currently serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing and for Frontiers in ICT (Human-Media Interaction section and Psychology section), and has served as a Guest Editor for the Computer Speech and Language. He was a member of the Advisory Board of the ACM Int. Conf. on Multimodal Interaction from 2015-2017 and is currently an Executive Committee Member of the Association for the Advancement of Affective Computing. Dr. Epps was a General Chair for the Int. Conf. on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction in 2017, and a Program Chair in 2019.

Julien received B.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, in 1997 and 2001, respectively.