Anton van den Hengel, a leading researcher in computer vision, built the 130-person Australian Institute of Machine Learning, widely recognised as one of the best in the world. The capability and reputation of the Institute for research translation is critical to securing funding for growth. His research expertise is in the complex way that information is encoded, especially in images, and methods for recovering it. He is a powerful advocate for importance of machine learning as a critical technology for economic growth and social success. He is primary investigator on $20 million of funding, from ARC, and from firms, including Google.