Professor Michael Small is the CSIRO-UWA Chair of Complex Systems and Interim Director of the UWA Data Institute at The University of Western Australia. He is an applied mathematician working in the area of complex systems, dynamical systems and chaos, with a particular emphasis on the application of mathematical techniques to real-world problems.
Michael is best known for developing new paradigms for the analysis of time series data from deterministic dynamical systems – particularly in the domain of statistical hypothesis testing, data-driven model building, and using complex networks as a model of dynamical processes.
Michael has spent more than 10 years working in research within the electronic and information engineering sectors. His focus is on understanding how structure, pattern and dynamics emerge from complex systems – particularly in engineering.

Michael is supervising Dr Shuixiu Lu. He is also Co Supervising PhD students Braden Thorne, Gabriel Gonazalez and Ryan Leadbetter