Rate My Professor Seng Loke

Professor Seng Loke is a Professor in Computer Science at Deakin University’s School of Information Technology within the Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment. He earned his PhD from the University of Melbourne in 1998 and his BSc with First Class Honours from the Australian National University in 1994, receiving the University Medal in Computer Science. Before joining Deakin, he was Reader and Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Technology at La Trobe University, where he led the Pervasive Computing Lab. He also served as an Honorary Associate at Monash University’s Centre for Distributed Systems and Software Engineering from 2006 to 2011. At Deakin, he holds leadership roles including Director of the Centre for Software, Systems and Society (until the end of 2025), co-lab leader of the Centre for Internet of Things Ecosystems Research and Experimentation, and Research Theme Leader for Intelligent Built Environments in the Live+Smart Research Lab. He is an adjunct professor at La Trobe University and Southern Cross University.

Seng Loke’s research focuses on distributed quantum computing and quantum internet computing, pervasive and ubiquitous computing, mobile computing, Internet of Things (IoT) emphasizing complex cooperation among smart things like Internet of Vehicles, Drones, and urban robots, crowd-powered mobile computing, cyber-physical systems, emergent coordination in smart cities, context-aware services, and interdisciplinary applications in smart cities, health, agriculture, transport, ecology, and energy. He has authored four books: Context-Aware Pervasive Systems: Architectures for a New Breed of Applications (Auerbach/CRC Press, 2006), Crowd-Powered Mobile Computing and Smart Things (Springer, 2017), The Automated City: Internet of Things and Ubiquitous Artificial Intelligence (Springer, 2021), and From Distributed Quantum Computing to Quantum Internet Computing: an Introduction (Wiley-IEEE, 2023). With over 320 research publications including more than 90 journal papers, his work has significant impact, evidenced by over 7,800 citations on ResearchGate. Loke has received the Deakin School of Information Technology’s 2019 Research Impact Award, IEEE and ACM Distinguished Speaker status, EAI Distinguished Member (2021), JSPS Invitational Fellowship (2023), and appointment to the ARC College of Experts (2023). He serves as Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications and on editorial boards of several journals, and contributes to program committees of conferences such as PerCom and WWW.