Chris Bartley

Chris Bartley PhD is an accomplished Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Canva and Co-Founder of Commonality.me, with a strong background in machine learning and project management. As a PhD student at The University of Western Australia, Chris authored a highly regarded thesis on incorporating prior knowledge into black-box machine learning algorithms. Previous roles include Principal Machine Learning Engineer at Octant AI and Senior Project Manager at Water Corporation, where Chris successfully led major engineering projects. Chris's engineering expertise began as a Mechanical Engineer at Engineering Dynamics Consultants and as a Graduate Engineer at GHD. Chris holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science and dual degrees in Information Technology and Mechanical Engineering from The University of Western Australia.