The Faculty of Information Technology (formally known as ''Faculty of Computing and Information Technology'') at

Monash University Monash University () is a public university, public research university based in Melbourne, Victoria (state), Victoria, Australia. Named after World War I general Sir John Monash, it was founded in 1958 and is the second oldest university in the ...

is one of the 10 primary faculties at

. It's located at Monash's Clayton campus in

Melbourne, Australia Melbourne ( , ; Boonwurrung/ or ) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second most-populous city in Australia, after Sydney. The city's name generally refers to a metropolitan area also known ...

, and has additional course offerings in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and Suzhou, China.

History

The Faculty was established as ''Faculty of Computing and Information Technology'' in 1990 following a merger between Monash University and the

Chisholm Institute of Technology Monash University, Caulfield campus is a campus of Monash University located in Caulfield East, Victoria, Caulfield East, which is a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, in the state of Victoria (Australia), Victoria. The campus comprises 13,400 stu ...

, later it was renamed to the Faculty of Information Technology. It was founded by Clifford John Bellamy, who became the founding dean and left the office in 1996.

Structure

The Faculty at Monash University's Clayton campus operates three distinct departments, each offering a range of undergraduate, graduate, and certification programs. In addition to these departments, the Faculty is home to several specialized research labs and also hosts a number of research centres and institutes.

Departments

* Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence * Department of Software Systems and Cybersecurity * Department of Human-Centred Computing

Institutes

* Monash Data Futures Institute * Monash Energy Institute

Centres

* AiLECS * Centre for Learning Analytics at Monash (CoLAM) * Monash Assistive Technology and Society * Monash Blockchain Technology Centre

Labs

* Augmented Intelligence and Multimodal analytics (AIM) for Health Lab * Biomedical Imaging Analytics Lab (Linked FIT-MBI Lab) * Emerging Technologies Research Lab * HumaniSE Lab * Monash Laboratory for the Foundations of Computing * SensiLab

Clubs and societies

The faculty students engage in various co-curricular activities in multiple student societies: * Computing and Commerce Association * diversIT * MonSec * Monash Electronic Gaming Association * Monash Association of Coding * Monash Energy Club * Wired Monash – IT

Notable alumni

The faculty has a wide network of over 33,000 alumni across 155 countries. * Beng Chin Ooi, computer scientist * Luke Sayers, Australian businessman

References

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