Hanna Kurniawati
Professor
ANU College of Systems & Society
School of Engineering

Hanna Kurniawati is a Professor in the School of Computing and holds the SmartSat CRC Professorial Chair for System Autonomy, Intelligence & Decision-Making. She leads the Robust Decision-making and Learning Lab at the ANU and is the ANU Node Lead and Planning & Control Theme Lead for the Australian Robotics Inspection and Asset Management (ARIAM) Hub. Hanna’s research spans robotics, decision-making under uncertainty, motion planning, computational geometry applications, integrated planning and learning, and reinforcement learning. Her works on scalable methods for planning under uncertainty, especially under the Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP) framework, have received multiple recognitions, including a best paper award at ICAPS’15, a finalist for the best paper award at ICRA’15, and the RSS’21 Test of Time Award. She is a keynote speaker at IROS’18 and ICRA’25. Hanna was President of the Australian Robotics and Automation Association, a Senior Editor of IEEE RA-L, the Award Chair of CoRL’22, a Program Co-Chair of ICRA’22, and is an Editor of IEEE TRO.

Hanna Kurniawati