I worked in the computing industry in various roles for over 40 years, and have combined that corporate experience with an interesting and enjoyable academic career over the past 30 years.

My research interests have been, for a long time, in the fields of Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Management, with a special interest in Machine Learning and Evolutionary Computation.

While I am still interested in those areas and active in the field, recently I decided to act on a long-time interest in physics by undertaking a second PhD, in Theoretical Astrophysics.

I hold a PhD in Theoretical Astrophysics (2023) from Monash University,  a PhD in Computer Science/Artificial Intelligence (2006), a Master of Applied Science in Information Technology (1998), and a Graduate Diploma in Knowledge Based Systems (1997), all from RMIT University. 

I was an Adjunct Principal Research Fellow of RMIT University from 2007 to 2013 in the School of Computer Science and Information Technology (now the School of Computing Technologies), where I was a member of the Evolutionary Computation and Machine Learning Group.

I am currently a member of the COMPAS Group at Monash University.

Publications (click the  icon to open the file)

Theses

• Jeff Riley.

  Probing cosmic history with merging compact binaries. 

  PhD thesis, School of Physics and Astronomy, Monash University. Melbourne, Australia, 2023.





• Jeff Riley.

  Evolving Fuzzy Rules for Goal-Scoring Behaviour in a Robot Soccer Environment. 

  PhD thesis, School of Computer Science and Information Technology, RMIT University. Melbourne, Australia, 2006.





• Jeff Riley.

  An Evolutionary Approach to Training Feed-Forward and Recurrent Neural Networks. 

  Master's thesis, School of Computer Science and Information Technology, RMIT University. Melbourne, Australia, 1998.

Book Chapters

• Kemal Delic and Jeff Riley.

  Enterprise Knowledge Clouds: Architecture and Technologies. 

  In Borko Furht and Armando Escalante, editors, Handbook of Cloud Computing, chapter 10, pp239-254. Springer, 2010.

  ISBN 978-1-4419-6523-3





• Jeff Riley and Kemal Delic.

  Enterprise Knowledge Clouds: Applications and Solutions. 

  In Borko Furht and Armando Escalante, editors, Handbook of Cloud Computing, chapter 18, pp437-453. Springer, 2010.

  ISBN 978-1-4419-6523-3





• Jeff Riley.

  Evolving Fuzzy Rules for Goal Scoring Behaviour in Robot Soccer.   (Online version)

  In Vladan Papic, editor, Robot Soccer, chapter 7, pp139-174. In-Teh, Croatia, 2010.

  ISBN 978-953-307-036-0





• Jeff Riley and Kemal Delic.

  Enterprise Knowledge Clouds: Next Generation KM Systems? 

  In Syed Ahson and Mohammad Ilyas, editors, Cloud Computing and Software Services: Theory and Techniques, chapter 3, pp47-59. CRC Press, 2010.

  ISBN 978-1-4398-0315-8





• Jeff Riley.

  Learning to Play Soccer with the SimpleSoccer Robot Soccer Simulator.   (Online version)

  In Pedro Lima, editor, Robotic Soccer, chapter 15, pp281-306. I-Tech Education and Publishing, Vienna, 2007.

  ISBN 978-3-902613-21-9





• Jeff Riley and Vic Ciesielski.

  Analysing the Difficulty of Learning Goal-Scoring Behaviour for Robot Soccer.   (Online version)

  In Pedro Lima, editor, Robotic Soccer, chapter 16, pp307-336. I-Tech Education and Publishing, Vienna, 2007.

  ISBN 978-3-902613-21-9





• Jeff Riley and Vic Ciesielski.

  Evolution of Fuzzy Rule Based Controllers for Dynamic Environments. 

  In Kay Chen Tan, Meng Hiot Lim, Xin Yao, and Lipo Wang, editors, Recent Advances in Simulated Evolution and Learning, Volume 2 of Advances in Natural Computation, chapter 23, pp426-445. World Scientific, Singapore, 2004.

  ISBN 981-238-952-0

Magazine and Journal Articles

• Jeff Riley.

  Teens and Screens: Age-based Restrictions to Internet Content. 

  Ubiquity, Volume 2025, Issue September 2025, Article No.: 1, pp 1–12, ACM, September 2025.
  ACM Digital Library





• Ilya Mandel, Jeff Riley, Adam Boesky, Adam Brcek, Ryosuke Hirai, Veome Kapil, Mike Y. M. Lau, JD Merritt, Nicolás Rodríguez-Segovia, Isobel Romero-Shaw, Yuzhe Song, Simon Stevenson, Avi Vajpeyi, L. A. C. van Son, Alejandro Vigna-Gómez, Reinhold Willcox.

  Rapid stellar and binary population synthesis with COMPAS: methods paper II. 

  arXiv:2506.02316, 2025
  To appear in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
  





• JD Merritt, Simon Stevenson, Andreas Sander, Ilya Mandel, Jeff Riley, Ben Farr, L. A. C. van Son, Tom Wagg, Serena Vinciguerra, and Holden Jos.

  Implications of modern mass-loss rates for massive stars. 

  arXiv:2507.17052, 2025
  





• Jeff Riley.

  Companion Robots.    Debate (full article)  

  Ubiquity, Volume 2024, Issue December 2024, Article No.: 1, pp 12–22 (debate pp 1-24), ACM, December 2024.
  ACM Digital Library





• Liana Rauf, Cullan Howlett, Simon Stevenson, Jeff Riley, Reinhold Willcox.

  A Trifecta of Modelling Tools: A bayesian binary black hole model selection combining population synthesis and galaxy formation models. 

  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Royal Astronomical Society, October 2024, stae2288.
  arXiv:2406.11885, 2024





• Jeff Riley.

  AI Powers the Digital Economy. 

  Ubiquity, Volume 2023, Issue December 2023, Article No.: 1, pp 1–10, ACM, December 2023.
  ACM Digital Library





• Jeff Riley and Ilya Mandel.

  Surrogate forward models for population inference on compact binary mergers. 

  The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 950, No. 2, American Astronomical Society, June 2023.
  arXiv:2303.00508, 2023.





• Kemal A. Delic and Jeff A. Riley.

  AI in 2156: The Science of Intelligence.    with Appendix  

  Ubiquity, Volume 2022, Issue April 2022, Article No.: 1, pp 1–18, ACM, April 2022.
  ACM Digital Library





• Team COMPAS: Jeff Riley, Poojan Agrawal, Jim W. Barrett, Kristan N. K. Boyett, Floor S. Broekgaarden, Debatri Chattopadhyay, Sebastian M. Gaebel, Fabian Gittins, Ryosuke Hirai, George Howitt, Stephen Justham, Lokesh Khandelwal, Floris Kummer, Mike Y. M. Lau, Ilya Mandel, Selma E. de Mink, Coenraad Neijssel, Tim Riley, Lieke van Son, Simon Stevenson, Alejandro Vigna-Gomez, Serena Vinciguerra, Tom Wagg, and Reinhold Willcox.

  Rapid stellar and binary population synthesis with COMPAS. 

  The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, Volume 258, Number 2, AAS, February 2022.
  arXiv:2109.10352 [astro-ph.IM]





• Team COMPAS: J. Riley et al.

  COMPAS: A rapid binary population synthesis suite. 

  Journal of Open Source Software, 7(69), 3838, ISSN 2475-9066, JOSS, January 2022.
  Journal of Open Source Software





• Jeff Riley.

  Will Machines Ever Think Like Humans? 

  Ubiquity, Volume 2021, Issue June 2021, Article No.: 1, pp 1–26, ACM, June 2021.
  ACM Digital Library





• Ann E. Nicholson, Kevin B. Korb, Erik P. Nyberg, Michael Wybrow, Ingrid Zukerman, Steven Mascaro, Shreshth Thakur, Abraham Oshni Alvandi, Jeff Riley, Ross Pearson, Shane Morris, Matthieu Herrmann, A. K. M. Azad, Fergus Bolger, Ulrike Hahn, & David Lagnado.

  BARD: A structured technique for group elicitation of Bayesian networks to support analytic reasoning. 

  Risk Analysis June 19, 2021.
  arXiv:2003.01207v1 [cs.AI]





• Jeff Riley, Ilya Mandel, Pablo Marchant, Ellen Butler, Kaila Nathaniel, Coenraad Neijssel, Spencer Shortt, and Alejandro Vigna-Gomez.

  Chemically Homogeneous Evolution: A rapid population synthesis approach. 

  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 505, Issue 1, pp663-676, Royal Astronomical Society, OUP, July 2021.
  arXiv:2010.00002 [astro-ph.SR]





• Jeff Riley.

  The Elusive Promise of AI: A Second Look. 

  Ubiquity, Volume 2021, Issue April 2021, Article No.: 1, pp 1–10, ACM, April 2021.
  ACM Digital Library





• Ilya Mandel, Bernhard Mueller, Jeff Riley, Selma E. de Mink, Alejandro Vigna-Gomez, and Debatri Chattopadhyay.

  Binary population synthesis with probabilistic remnant mass and kick prescriptions. 

  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 500, Issue 1, pp1380-1384, Royal Astronomical Society, OUP, January 2021.
  arXiv:2007.03890 [astro-ph.HE]





• Alejandro Vigna-Gómez, Silvia Toonen, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, Nathan W.C. Leigh, Jeff Riley, Carl-Johan Haster.

  Massive Stellar Triples Leading to Sequential Binary Black-Hole Mergers in the Field. 

  The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 907, No. 1, American Astronomical Society, January 2021.
  arXiv:2010.13669 [astro-ph.HE]





• K. Ackley, et al. (OzGrav)

  Neutron Star Extreme Matter Observatory: A kilohertz-band gravitational-wave detector in the global network. 

  Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, Volume 37, [E047], Astronomical Society of Australia, November 2020.
  arXiv:2007.03128 [astro-ph.HE]





• Bolger, F., Nyberg, E., Belton, I., M. Crawford, M., Hamlin, I., Nicholson, A., Oshni Alvandi, A., Pearson, R., Riley, J., Sissons, A., Taylor Brown Lūka, C., Thakur, S., Vasilichi, A., & Wright, G.

  Improving the production and evaluation of structural models using a Delphi process. 

  Decision Support Systems - accepted, in press, June 9, 2020.

  10.31219/osf.io/v6qsp





• Jeff Riley and Santosh Abraham.

  Improving Operating System Crash Dump Performance on a Virtual Machine. 

  Research Disclosure, July 2007.





• Jeff Riley.

  The Elusive Promise of AI. 

  Ubiquity, Volume 7, Issue 26, Article No.: 2, pp 1, ACM, July 2006.
  ACM Digital Library

Conference Papers

• Kemal Delic and Jeff Riley.

  SLA: Smart Log Analytics. 

  In Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Information, Communication and Automation Technologies (ICAT 2015). Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, October 2015.





• Kemal Delic and Jeff Riley.

  On Big Science: A Survey. 

  In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Knowledge Technologies and Data-Driven Business (i-KNOW 2015). Graz, Austria, October 2015.





• Kemal Delic and Jeff Riley.

  Trading Monitoring Cockpit: Conceptual Architecture. 

  In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Knowledge Technologies and Data-Driven Business (i-KNOW 2014). Graz, Austria, September 2014.





• Kemal Delic and Jeff Riley.

  Current and Future Trends in AI. 

  In Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Information, Communication and Automation Technologies (ICAT 2013). Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, October 2013.





• Kemal Delic and Jeff Riley.

  Emergency Control Cockpit. 

  In Proceedings of the 24th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA2013). Prague, Czech Republic, August 2013.
  DOI:10.1109/DEXA.2013.10





• Jeff Riley and Vic Ciesielski.

  Fitness Landscape Analysis for Evolutionary Non-Photorealistic Rendering. 

  In G. Fogel et al., editors, IEEE CEC, WCCI 2010 World Congress on Computational Intelligence, pp2537-2545. IEEE Press 2010.





• Kemal Delic and Jeff Riley.

  Enterprise Knowledge Clouds: Next Generation KM Systems? 

  In Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Information, Process, and Knowledge Management (eKnow 2009), pp49-53. Cancun, Mexico, February 2009.





• Kemal Delic, Jeff Riley, Claudio Bartolini and Adnan Salihbegovic.

  Knowledge-Based Self-Management of Apache Web Servers. 

  In Proceedings of the 21st International Symposium on Information, Communication and Automation Technologies (ICAT'07). Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hercegovena, October 2007.





• Kemal Delic, Jeff Riley and Yassine Faihe.

  Architecting Principles for Self-managing IT Systems. 

  In Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Self-adaptability and Self-management of Context-aware Systems (SELF 2007), pp60-65. Athens, Greece, June 2007.





• Jeff Riley and Vic Ciesielski.

  Analysis of the Difficulty of Learning Goal-Scoring Behaviour for Robot Soccer. 

  In M. Keijzer et al., editors, GECCO 2006: Proceedings of the 2006 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, pp1569-1576. Seattle WA, July 2006.





• Jeff Riley.

  The SimpleSoccer Machine Learning Environment. 

  In Sung-Bae Cho, Hoai Xuan Nguen, Yin Shan, editors, Proceedings of the First Asia-Pacific Workshop on Genetic Programming (ASPGP'03), pp24-30. Canberra, Australia, December 2003.





• Jeff Riley and Vic Ciesielski.

  Evolving Fuzzy Rules for Reactive Agents in Dynamic Environments. 

  In Proceedings of the Fourth Asia-Pacific Conference on Simulated Evolution and Learning (SEAL'02), pp124-130. Singapore, November 2002.





• Jeff Riley and Kemal Delic.

  Augmenting Information Retrieval by Knowledge Infusion. 

  In Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'99). Stockholm, Sweden, August 1999.





• Jeff Riley and Victor Ciesielski.

  An Evolutionary Approach to Training Feed-Forward and Recurrent Neural Networks. 

  In L. C. Jain and R. K. Jain, editors, Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Knowledge Based Intelligent Electronic Systems (KES'98), pp596-602. Adelaide, Australia, April 1998.

Reports

• Jeff Riley.

  Conceptual graph representation of a work order allocation system. 

  Internal report, CS Department, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, 1996.

Professional & Academic Activities

• Senior Editor for Ubiquity, an ACM publication.

• Panelist for the Artificial Intelligence vs Augmented Intelligence round table, at the 30th International Conference on Information, Communication and Automation Technologies (ICAT 2025), Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, September 2025.

• Program Committee member for the 32nd Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI 2019), Adelaide, Australia, December 2019.

• Adjunct Principal Research Fellow of RMIT University (School of CS&IT, Intelligent Systems Discipline), 2007 - 2013.

• International Program Committee member for the 2013 IEEE Conferences on Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems (CIS'13), Manila, Philippines, November 2013.

• Editorial Board member for the IARIA International Journal on Advances in Intelligent Systems, 2009-2011.

• Editorial Board member for the IARIA International Journal on Advances in Life Sciences, 2009-2011.

• Advisory Chair for the 2011 International Conference on Information, Process, and Knowledge Management (eKnow 2011), Guadeloupe, France, February 2011.

• Program Committee member for the 23rd Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI 2010), Adelaide, Australia, December 2010.

• Track Chair (CIS) for the 2010 IEEE Conferences on Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems CIS'10), Singapore, June 2010.

• Advisory Chair for the 2010 International Conference on Information, Process, and Knowledge Management (eKnow 2010), St. Maarten, Netherlands Antilles, February 2010.

• Program Committee member for the 22nd Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI'09), Melbourne, Australia, December 2009.

• Reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, January 2009.

• International Program Committee member for the 2009 International Conference on Information, Process, and Knowledge Management (eKnow 2009), Cancun, Mexico, February 2009.

• Reviewer for the 2008 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games, September 2008.

• Reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, July 2008.

• International Program Committee member for the 2008 IEEE Conferences on Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems (CIS'08), Chengdu, China, June 2008.

• Reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, November 2007.

• International Program Committee member for the 14th HP Software University Association Workshop (HP-SUA 2007), Munich, Germany, July 2007.

• Reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, May 2007.

• Reviewer for the 19th Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI 2006), Tasmania, Australia, December 2006.

• Reviewer for the IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, August 2006.

• International Program Committee member for the 2006 IEEE Conferences on Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems (CIS'06), Bangkok, Thailand, June 2006.

• International Program Committee member for the 2004 IEEE Conferences on Cybernetics and Intelligent Systems (CIS'04), Singapore, December 2004.

• Reviewer for the International Journal of Systems Science (IJSS), August 2004.

• International Program Committee member for the 2nd International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Robotics and Autonomous Systems (CIRAS 2003), Singapore, December 2003.