David Ireland is a Senior Research Scientist at the Australian E-Health Research Centre. Here he works with speech & occupational therapists and other clinicians in realising technology interventions that have gone on to win national awards in research & development.
He received a Bachelor of Engineering in Microelectronics, Master of Philosophy, and a PhD in electronic engineering and computer science from Griffith University. Reportedly a "legend in chatbots for health" he has developed chatbot technology for applications in chronic pain, autism spectrum disorder, smoking cessation, Parkinson’s disease, dementia and genomics.
He is an associate editor for the journal of Artificial General Intelligence, where he contributes and edits on publications related to the philosophy of AI.