Professor Michael Sheng is a Chair Professor and Associate Vice President (Global Engagement) at BNBU. He completed his PhD in Computer Science from the University of New South Wales in 2006. With nearly 30 years of leadership experience in higher education and industry, he is a world-renowned computer scientist specialising in web technologies, dedicated to the international development of computer disciplines and cutting-edge research. From 2006 to 2016, he served as Deputy Head and Acting Head of the School of Computer Science at the University of Adelaide. Between 2017 and 2026, he was Distinguished Professor and Head of the School of Computing at Macquarie University.
Professor Sheng specialises in services computing, the Internet of Things (IoT), machine learning, and big data analytics. He has authored 8 monographs and nearly 500 high-quality publications, with over 33,000 citations and an H-index of 81 as of October 2026. The quality and impact of his work has been recognised with the Microsoft Research Fellowship Award in 2003, the Chris Wallace Award for Outstanding Research Contribution in 2012, which is a prestigious award given to only one computer scientist each year working in Australia and New Zealand. He was awarded the Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellowship in 2014. In 2021, Microsoft Academic recognised him as one of the Most Influential Scholars in Service Computing, ranking 4th globally. In 2025 and 2026, ScholarGPS honoured him as the Top Lifetime Impact Scholar in Web Information Systems (World Rank 3). He has been listed in the Annual and Lifetime Impact Rankings of the World’s Top 2% Scientists for seven consecutive years since its inception.
