Creates a welcoming and inclusive environment.
Inspires confidence and independent thinking.
Helps students see their full potential.
A role model for academic excellence.
Dr. Sebastian Binnewies serves as a Senior Lecturer in the School of Information and Communication Technology at Griffith University, part of Griffith Sciences. He specializes in fair and responsible AI, human-AI interaction, natural language processing, AI fairness, and knowledge representation, as indicated on his official university profile and Google Scholar. With a Google Scholar profile citing his work 319 times, Binnewies has made notable contributions to these areas. He holds leadership positions as Director of the Griffith NLP Group and Director of the Griffith App Factory, fostering research and development in applied AI and innovative app solutions. His interdisciplinary work includes participation in the Ethos Leadership team for the university's Climate Action Beacon, focusing on climate transitions, health, and projects like heat impacts on older Queenslanders.
Binnewies has earned recognition for teaching excellence, including the Pro Vice Chancellor (Sciences) Learning and Teaching Citation on 3 September and the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Education) Teaching Excellence Commendation on 26 July. He serves as a member of the Gold Coast Business Excellence Awards committee from 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2025. Key publications encompass 'Three methods for revising hybrid knowledge bases' (with Zhiqiang Zhuang and Kewen Wang), 'Partial meet revision and contraction in logic programs' (S. Binnewies, Z. Zhuang, K. Wang, 2020), 'Personalised Abusive Language Detection Using LLMs and Knowledge Graphs' (T. Yao et al., 2024), 'Cryptocurrency Price Prediction Algorithms: A Survey and Future Directions' (D.L. John, S. Binnewies, B. Stantic, 2024), 'Wisdom of Crowds and Commodity Pricing' (J.H. Fan, S. Binnewies, S. De Silva, 2022), 'Enhancing recommender ensemble by estimating input distribution' (Y. Tao et al., 2022), 'A digital heat early warning system for older adults' (M. Oberai et al., 2025), 'Effect of nighttime bedroom temperature on heart rate variability in older adults' (F.K. O'Connor et al., 2025), and 'IT Service Well-being, in the Higher Education Ecosystem' (M. Heidari, G. Torrisi-Steele, S. Binnewies, 2024). He has engaged in STEM outreach, presenting on careers in big data analytics, and supports PhD projects in areas like simulating electron transport and plasma physics.
