Mehmet A. Orgun is currently a professor at the School of Computing, Macquarie University, Sydney. He received the BSc and MSc degrees in computer science and engineering from Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey in 1982 and 1985 respectively; and the PhD degree in computer science from the University of Victoria, Canada in 1991. He is a Senior Member of IEEE (SMIEEE).

His current research interests include artificial intelligence, knowledge discovery, biomedical image processing, multi-agent systems, and trusted & secure systems; he has graduated 30 PhD, 2 Masters (Honours) and 5 Masters students to date, in these research areas and others. He was the chief investigator in a number of Australian Research Council (ARC) grants, under both the Discovery and Linkage schemes, with the total funding amount exceeding $4 million dollars. He has also conducted successful collaborative research projects with various industry partners including the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) and the Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) of Australia.

His professional service includes editorial and review board memberships of several leading journals and program committee and senior program committee memberships of numerous national and international conferences. Recently, he was the program co-chair of The 14th Pacific-Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI 2010); and conference co-chair of The 12th International Conferences on Security of Information and Networks (SIN 2019). 

Awards:

• The Best Student Runner Up Award, Anan Du, Shuchao Pang and Mehmet A. Orgun, Point-level Label-free Segmentation Framework for 3D Point Cloud Semantic Mining, The 2023 International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications (ADMA'23), Shenyang, China, August 21-23, 2023
• The Best Paper Award, Seyed Mohssen Ghafari, Amin Beheshti, Aditya Joshi, Cecile Paris, Shahpar Yakhchi, Alireza Jolfaei and Mehmet A. Orgun, A Dynamic Deep Trust Prediction Approach for Online Social Networks, The 18th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing & Multimedia (MoMM2020, acceptance rate: 25%), November 30 - December 2
• The Best Student Paper Award & Top 5 Picks Award, Jun Zou, Yan Wang and Mehmet Orgun, A Dispute Arbitration Protocol Based on a Peer-to-Peer Service Contract Management Scheme, 23rd International Conference on Web Services (IEEE ICWS2016, research track, acceptance rate 14%), June 27-July 2, 2016, San Francisco, USA (CORE rank A)
• The Best Paper Award, Guanfeng Liu, Yan Wang, Mehmet A. Orgun and Ee-Peng Lim, A Heuristic Algorithm for Trust-Oriented Service Provider Selection in Complex Social Networks, IEEE The 7th International Conference on Services Computing (IEEE SCC2010) (research track, acceptance rate: 29/165 =18%), July 5-10, 2010, Miami, Florida, USA (CORE rank A)
• The best paper award in the theme of Application, Akther Shermin and Mehmet A Orgun; Using Dynamic Bayesian Networks to Infer Gene Regulatory Networks from Expression Profiles. In Sung Y. Shin, Sascha Ossowski (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2009 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, March 9-12, 2009, ACM Press, pages 799-803.