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Leonie Tickle
Tickle leads Macquarie Business School, ranked among the world's top ten institutions for business and management research impact. An actuarial scientist, her mortality forecasting models are used by actuaries and demographers to price annuities and assess longevity risk, connecting academic research with the insurance and superannuation industries.
Michael Sheng
Sheng, who led Macquarie's School of Computing from 2017 to 2026, researches the Internet of Things, web services and big data analytics, with more than 18,000 citations. His collaborations with international teams produce widely used surveys and methods for connected systems, from fraud detection on graphs to reinforcement learning for drone fleets.
Nick Titov
Titov founded MindSpot, Australia's national digital psychology clinic, which has delivered online assessment and treatment to more than 300,000 people. His trials of internet-delivered cognitive behavioural therapy shaped how governments fund digital mental health services, and his implementation frameworks guide clinics being established in other countries.