Dr. Rita MATULIONYTE – Senior Lecturer, Macquarie Law School, Macquarie University, Australia
Dr. Rita Matulionyte is a senior lecturer at Macquarie Law School, Macquarie University (Australia), and an associate senior research fellow at the Law Institute of Lithuania. She researches intellectual property and information technology law, with a focus on legal and regulatory issues surrounding Artificial Intelligence. Dr. Matulionyte has over 40 peer-reviewed research papers published by leading international publishers. Previously, she was a legal research fellow at universities in Germany, Japan, Switzerland and Lithuania. She has prepared research reports for the European Commission, the European Patent Office, for the governments of South Korea and Lithuania, and presented in academic and industry conferences in Germany, US, Japan, Hong Kong, Switzerland, Lithuania, Australia and elsewhere. She is currently a Lead Investigator at the project on the Use of Face Recognition Technologies in Public Sector: Legal Challenges and Possible Solutions, funded by the Lithuanian Research Council.