Distinguished Professor Fang Chen is an award-winning, internationally-recognised leader in artificial intelligence (AI) and data science. She is passionately innovative in her work, architecting and implementing data-driven solutions to problems met in industry and governments. Her experience in solving these complex real-life problems in large-scale networks span transport, water, energy, health, agriculture and many more sectors. She is also actively promoting ethical, human-centred AI and won the "Oscar" of Australian science – the Australian Museum Eureka Prize 2018 for Excellence in Data Science, and most recently the UTS 2021 Research Award for Excellence.