Who are the BeefLedger Research Team?
This page introduces the key members of the research team at Queensland University of Technology with whom BeefLedger collaborates through various projects.
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This page introduces the key members of the research team at Queensland University of Technology with whom BeefLedger collaborates through various projects.
Last updated
Professor Marcus Foth | Team Leader Trans-disciplinary Research
Marcus Foth is Professor of Urban Informatics in the QUT Design Lab, Creative Industries Faculty at Queensland University of Technology. He is also an Honorary Professor in the School of Communications and Culture at Aarhus University, Denmark.
Professor Foth founded the Urban Informatics Research Lab in 2006 and the QUT Design Lab in 2016. Ahead of their time and before the term “smart cities” became popular, the lab pioneered a new field of study and practice: Urban informatics examines people creating, applying and using information and communication technology and data in cities and urban environments.
Professor Uwe Dulleck | Lead Research in Applied Mechanism Design
Uwe obtained his PhD at Humboldt University Berlin in 1999. Before Uwe joined QUT he was a Professor of Economics at the University of Linz, Austria and an Assistant Professor at the University of Vienna.
In 2015 Uwe was the Chairman of the Program Committee for Australia’s Conference of Economists, the leading and largest conference for research and applied economists in Australia. He is an active public speaker on Behavioural Economics and its applications to Public Policy, Business Decision Making and Regulation.
Uwe has led work on the development of mechanisms that contribute to the significant mitigation of product fraud risk. This work will be published in 2021, and has informed the design approach of BeefLedger's tokenised digital assets identification methods.
Dr Felicity Deane | Team Leader
Smart Contract & Legal Compliance Interfaces
Felicity is a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia. She completed a Bachelor of Law and a Bachelor of Commerce at the University of Queensland in 1999.
She commenced PhD studies in December 2009 at Queensland University of Technology. Her PhD entitled, ‘The Clean Energy Package and WTO Law: An Analysis of Compliance Issues’ was subsequently completed in August 2013
She has published extensively in areas where economics and the law intersect, in particular regarding emissions trading and other forms of market based mechanisms. Most recently she led a multidisciplinary project which analysed the Regulation of Sugarcane farming practices in Queensland, and has particularly reviewed the option of using a cap and trade model for this regulation. Felicity’s recent research interest is in the area of Blockchain technology and its use to promote sustainable agricultural practices and food security.
Dr Cao Shoufeng | Smart Contracts & Supply Chain Risk Researcher
Dr Shoufeng Cao is a post-doctoral research fellow attached to the BeefLedger Export Smart Contracts team at Queensland University of Technology.
Dr Cao obtained his PhD degree from the University of Queensland, Australia. He started his post-doc research journey by liaising with industry peak bodies, government agencies and Hort Innovation to conduct production, market as well as cross-border supply chains intelligence study and identify regional development and strategic investment actions with the aim of supporting Northern Australia’s mango, avocado and lychee industries to seize affluent Asian markets for prosperous, sustainable and healthy development.
His main responsibility is to design cross-border digital beef supply chains as well as develop and execute smart contracts to improve the transparency, traceability and efficiency of cross-border beef supply chains and facilitate cross-border payments.
Dr Shi Xiaoxiang | Advisor
Chinese Regulatory Landscape
Dr Shi is currently an assistant professor of Intellectual Property Law in East China University of Political Science and Law (ECUPL), and a senior lawyer at Watson & Band (Shanghai Office).
He is undertaking research on the China regulatory landscape insofar as it impacts on smart contracts design and the general deployment of blockchain technologies in the supply chain space.
Lachlan Robb | Researcher
Legal Compliance
Lachlan is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Law at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), and is exploring the role of technology and innovation upon law firms.
His research involves using ethnography to collect information from how law firms are practically responding to technology and what ideas like blockchain mean to legal teams on a day-to-day basis.
Within the BeefLedger research team he is researching the legal compliance elements of the cattle industry and how this translates into compliant smart contract functions.
Jock McQueenie | Researcher
Social Investment through Technology
John (Jock) McQueenie’s background is as an artist and arts educator. He is the founder and director of 3C Projects, a consultancy practice specialising in the design of cross sector and transdisciplinary creative partnerships.
His research will focus on how blockchain-enabled valorisation mechanisms can be mobilized to deliver greater remuneration transparency linking consumers and producers more directly. He will explore ways in which data value can be created and captured in novel ways, to bring new economic opportunities to regional (primary producing) communities.
