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Professor Simon Dennis is Professor of Psychology in the Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, at the University of Melbourne. He earned his PhD from The University of Queensland. He serves as Director of the Complex Human Data Hub (CHDH), where the primary aim is to develop Computational Behavioural Science by bringing computational methods to bear on big data to better understand psychological processes. He is also Head of the Memory and Language Lab in the Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences. His research utilizes large-scale real-world data, experimental paradigms, and computational modelling techniques to investigate the cognitive architecture underlying memory and language. Much of his work employs experience sampling technologies, including smartphone apps, social media, and Internet-of-Things devices, to capture people's experiences and behaviors in real-world settings, yielding large longitudinal datasets with high ecological validity. The lab employs probabilistic models, machine learning techniques, signal processing approaches, and dynamic systems methods to simulate human performance and explore how memory and language phenomena manifest from the same neural structures.