Prof Georgakopoulos is the Director of ARC's Industrial Transformation Research Hub for Future Digital Manufacturing. Before that he was Research Director (2008-2014) at CSIRO’s ICT Centre (where he led the largest Computer Science research program in Australia) and a Professor at RMIT University (2014-2016). Prior to CSIRO, he held research and management positions in industrial laboratories in the USA, including Telcordia Technologies (where he helped found two of Telcordia’s Research Centers in Austin, Texas, and Poznan, Poland); Microelectronics and Computer Corporation (MCC) in Austin, Texas; GTE (currently Verizon) Laboratories in Boston; and Bell Communications Research (Bellcore) in Piscataway, New Jersey. He has authored approximately 350 journal and conference articles that have received approximately 25,000 citations. According to the recent update of Elsevier’s science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators, he is in the 2% of top-cited authors globally (top 1% if self-citations are excluded) in both career and yearly rankings. His research has attracted approximately $80M of external research grants/contracts. In addition, he led seven major multi-organisational cross-disciplinary research initiatives with approximately $100M government funding that advanced digital transformation in social services, agriculture, water management, and defense. He is the recipient of a dozen of research and industry awards.