Professor Simon Dennis is the Head of the School of Psychology. He holds qualifications in computer science, mathematics and psychology from the University of Queensland and his research expertise is in human memory and language processing. He is also involved in information retrieval and machine learning research.His research activity spans human memory and language, human computer interaction and educational research. He have held grants from various agencies including the National Science Foundation, the Australian Research Council, the Institutes of Educational Sciences, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the Defense Science and Technology Organization and Defense Research and Development Canada. He has peer reviewed journal publications in outlets including the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Psychological Review, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology and the Journal of Memory and Language. Other indicators of impact include two patents - one on sentence representation and one on dynamic text visualization. Dennis & Humphreys (2001) was chosen by the Australian Psychological Society as one of the 12 most influential contributions by Australian psychologists between 1999-2002 and the Handles text visualization suite on which I have been working for Defense Research and Development Canada was deployed in Afghanistan by the Canadian psychological operations unit.
