James Mount is a senior research robotics engineer at QUT, as well as an engineering educator and technology communicator. He holds a Ph.D. in the field of robotics and has worked with universities, governments, and the private sector for over 7 years completing several highly-successful projects. Some of these include assessing the readiness of the Australian roads for autonomous vehicles on a multi-million dollar government contract. The creation of several research papers in high-tier scientific journals. As well as the development and manufacturing of a fleet of mini-autonomous vehicles that are used for research and education.