Professor Michael Bruenig

Head of School

School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering
Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology
m.bruenig@uq.edu.au
+61 7 336 53869

Overview

Professor Michael Brünig is the Head of School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering (ITEE) at The University of Queensland (UQ), a role he took over in 2016 but with an interruption from 2019-2021 to lead UQ’s Business School.

Prof Brünig is a strategic thinker, an innovation expert, and an experienced change manager with international experience from Europe, the United States, and Australia. He is passionate about building strong performing teams and has experience in bringing large projects with substantial funding to fruition, igniting entrepreneurial spirit in students and staff, and driving impact from research through partnering, commercialisation and spin-off companies.

Before joining UQ, Prof Brünig worked with the CSIRO. As an executive manager with the organisation, he led an initiative to establish a $140m National Research Flagship on Digital Productivity and later guided the business through a merger to create Data61, a national research powerhouse focusing on data innovation. Professor Brünig started his career in research and development in the automotive industry in Germany and Silicon Valley in the United States after completing his PhD at RWTH Aachen, Germany.

Prof Brünig is a sought-after expert with respect to research translation. He sits on multiple boards as non-executive director, is technical advisor to start-up companies in Australia and is frequently consulted as a subject matter expert. Within UQ, Prof Brünig has helped to create UQ Ventures and UQ Innovate, units that foster entrepreneurship among students and academics and provide the creative environment to be successful.

Under Prof Brünig’s leadership, UQ started multiple significant initiatives, including UQ Cyber, the National Industry 4.0 Energy Testlab, the AI Initiative and with partners the QLD Government AI Hub. He is also highly influential in shaping UQ’s curriculum. He initiated the Bachelor of Computer Science, the Master of Cyber Security that is modelled using the US National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education framework and UQ’s first full online Master of Business Analytics. He also was a key contributor to creating the Graduate Certificate in Clinical Informatics and Digital Health.

Qualifications

  • PhD, RWTH
  • MSc, RWTH

Publications

  • de Lima, Lucas Carvalho, Ramezani, Milad, Borges, Paulo and Brunig, Michael (2023). Air-Ground Collaborative Localisation in Forests Using Lidar Canopy Maps. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 8 (3), 1-8. doi: 10.1109/lra.2023.3243498

  • Tam, Benjamin, Kottege, Navinda, Hudson, Nicolas and Brunig, Michael (2022). Adaptive Sequential Composition for Robot Behaviours. 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Kyoto, Japan, 23-27 October 2022. Piscataway, NJ United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/iros47612.2022.9982012

  • Cometta, Silvia, Jones, Robert T., Juárez-Saldivar, Alfredo, Donose, Bogdan C., Yasir, Muhammad, Bock, Nathalie, Dargaville, Tim R., Bertling, Karl, Brünig, Michael, Rakić, Aleksandar D., Willcox, Mark and Hutmacher, Dietmar W. (2022). Melimine-modified 3D-printed polycaprolactone scaffolds for the prevention of biofilm-related biomaterial infections. ACS Nano, 16 (10), 16497-16512. doi: 10.1021/acsnano.2c05812

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Supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy

  • Doctor Philosophy

  • Doctor Philosophy

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Publications

Journal Article

Conference Publication

Other Outputs

  • Pounds, Pauline, Davis, Edwin and Bruenig, Michael (2022). Force sensing device. AU2017365703B2.

  • Pounds, Pauline, Davis, Edwin and Bruenig, Michael (2021). Force sensing device. CN110023730B.

  • Pounds, Pauline, Davis, Edwin and Bruenig, Michael (2020). Force sensing device. EP3545277A4.

  • Pounds, Pauline, Davis, Edwin and Bruenig, Michael (2019). Force sensing device. 16463110.

  • Pounds, Pauline, Davis, Edwin and Bruenig, Michael (2018). Force sensing device. WO2018094454A1.

Grants (Administered at UQ)

PhD and MPhil Supervision

Current Supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor

  • Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor