Professor Andy Koronios is the CEO and Managing Director of the SmartSat CRC.  He is also an Emeritus Professor at the University of South Australia.

Andy has previously held the positions of Dean: Industry & Enterprise at the University of South Australia and Head of the School of Information Technology & Mathematical Sciences at the University of South Australia.

Andy is a Professor of information systems and holds academic qualifications in Electrical Engineering, Computing and education as well as a PhD from the University of Queensland.

He has extensive experience in both commercial and academic environments and his research areas include data quality, information management & governance, data analytics and the strategic exploitation of information.

Andy has led the establishment of a number of research concentrations, labs and research centres.  He served as the Research Program Leader for System Integration & Interoperability in the CIEAM CRC.  He is internationally known for his work in data quality, he has been an adjudicator for the European Corporate Data Quality Awards for several years and Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Information Quality.

Andy has worked both as a consultant as well as a professional speaker on IT issues in Australia and South East Asia and has over thirty years’ experience in the academic environment. He is a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society, a Founding Fellow of the International Institute of Engineering Asset Management, a Distinguished Speaker of the ACM.

SmartSat Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) is a consortium of industry and research organisations developing game changing satellite technologies to catapult Australia into the global space economy.   Andy was the lead in the successful bid for the SmartSat CRC which was established in 2019.