Mark Staples

Mark has been with Data61 since its merger with NICTA in late 2015. He is a Senior Principal Researcher in the Software and Computational Systems program, and leads a Challenge pilot across Data61 on visible and connected supply chains. He coordinates most of the blockchain research at Data61, and leads various blockchain projects including work towards the Australian National Blockchain. He is the Data61 representative on Standards Australia's blockchain and distributed ledger technology standardisation committee as part of ISO's technical committee TC307.

In 2017 Mark led a NISA-funded project with The Treasury on technical risks and opportunities for blockchain-based systems.

He joined NICTA as a researcher in 2004. Between 2008 and 2011, he led the Managing Complexity research group (was "Empirical Software Engineering") at the ATP lab. In 2010-2011, he was also the founding leader of the international research collaboration Fraunhofer Project Centre on Transport and Logistics at NICTA. As an activity of the Project Centre and in