About Us

Kailash Awati

(PhD Physics, PhD Chemical Engineering)

Kailash Awati is a staff member at the UTS Connected Intelligence Centre where he teaches into the Master of Data Science and Innovation program. Prior to these roles, he worked for a pharmaceutical multinational where he set up a global IT service center specializing in business intelligence and data analytics while working as an enabler across the business.

Over the last several years, Kailash has worked as a business intelligence manager, data analytics specialist, facilitator & sensemaker, project manager and engineering software developer in organisations ranging from startups to established firms. Earlier, in what seems to him like another life, he did research in fluid dynamics and other areas of physics and applied mathematics.

His current professional interests which include data and text analytics, decision making, sensemaking, knowledge management and collaborative approaches to problem solving in large organisations.

Kailash is the co-author of the Heretic’s Guides series of books. The first one, Heretic’s Guide to Best Practices, deals with collaborative approaches to managing complex problems. It won an Axiom Business Book Award in 2012 and was nominated for the Foreword Book of the Year Award in 2013. His second book, The Heretic’s Guide to Management, is about managing ambiguity in organisations.

Rory Angus

(BIT, MDSI, Grad Cert DSI, MCSE)

Rory graduated from the University of Canberra with a Bachelor of Information Technology and over the last twenty years has worked in Data and Information Technology both in the UK and Australia. He has spent the last decade working for Australia’s largest diversified property fund as their Data Warehouse lead. As it was a small team he worked across the entire data lifecycle from gathering initial client requirements, through the development lifecycle, and then onto business support and end user training. In particular, he has developed and delivered in house, technically focused, training courses targeted at the understanding and use of reporting solutions.

He has completed his Masters of Data Science and Innovation at the University of Technology, Sydney and has received a GPA of over 3.80. He has recently completed a stint at the NSW Data Analytics Centre as a Data Science Scholar. This has provided him an opportunity to work with government data and all the attendant regulatory frameworks. Additionally, he has lectured at UTS in various areas around data and information system design. His work in the public, private and educational sectors has given him a deep understanding of how data is used in various organisational settings.