Tomas Trescak

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About Tomas Trescak

Dr. Tomas Trescak is a researcher and a lecturer at the Western Sydney University, disrupting research and education patterns with machine learning, robotics, artificial intelligence, gamification, virtual reality and augmented reality, enhancing cutting-edge research and development, as well as learning and performance of digital natives. In his latest achievements, Tomas was awarded- Gold medal for the Australia's best ICT higher education educator of the year, awarded by Australian Computer Society, during Global Disruptor Awards 2015 - Leader of the team winning the Best young innovator award, during the Unearthed challenge, the data science competition organised by leaders of Australia's natural resource management - Winner of the global Meteor Hackathon team challenge in category of applications with 100 lines of code or less - Best paper and best poster award for his work on co-creating Virtual Reality simulation of life of Australia's First People. Furthermore, In his career, Tomas: Won other prestigious awards, e.g. Endeavour Research Fellowship and the Outstanding PhD Delivered a virtual reality application, simulating aboriginal life in the Parramatta basin in year 1770, which was presented with great success during Yarramundi lecture in December, 2014 Delivered medium scale e-business portals for Spanish consultancy company that generated strong revenue for clients. Collaborator in open-source initiatives, including Meteor.js, Velocity and XWT With outstanding results, taught people in the academic and professional environment. Highly ranked and praised in academic assessments and evaluations. Language enthusiast, programming in more than 15 languages and speaking 5 more. Participated in organisation of international congresses and conferences. Reviewer for highly ranked journals (e.g. MIT, Leonardo publisher) and conferences (e.g. AAMAS, IJCAI, Invited speaker at several academic and industry events.