Dr Katherine Rock
2004
Boeing Australia Limited John Monash Scholar
DPhil
Medical image processing
Oxford
United Kingdom
Maths and Science, Law, Business and Economics, Engineering
Intellectual property, patents, trade marks, medical image processing, computer science, microelectronics engineering, artificial intelligence, machine learning
Katherine is a registered Australian and NZ patent attorney, and was most recently Head of Patents at cloud accounting company, Xero. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Patent and Trademark Attorneys of Australia, and sits on various professional committees including the leadership committee for ChIPs ANZ chapter, a non-profit organisation seeking to advance women in technology, law and policy. Katherine holds a DPhil in Engineering Science from the University of Oxford (Brasenose College), an MBA with distinction from the University of Cambridge (Judge Business School, St John's College), and a Master of Intellectual Property from the University of Technology, Sydney. She was the top-ranked graduate in her undergraduate degrees in Engineering and IT at Griffith University in Queensland. She is currently undertaking a Master of Economics at the University of Queensland.