It is with great sadness that I am writing to let CORE members know that Professor Lin Padgham has passed away this week, after a long illness.

Lin has provided extraordinary service to the Australasian Computing Community over an extended period. She served as CORE President in 2015 and 2016, and as Secretary/Treasurer for a number of years prior to that. She was awarded CORE’s John Hughes Distinguished Service Award in 2019.  She continued her valuable contribution as a co-opted member of the CORE executive until 2026.  Lin has also been a tireless champion of conference and journal rankings activities, working to create tools and processes that allow these to be supported in a scalable manner, and be based on measurable and useful attributes. She established the international consortium, ICORE, that now manages and funds this ranking activity.  Other contributions to the community have included terms served on the ARC Panel for Centres of Excellence and the ARC College of Experts. Within RMIT Lin served as Head of School, and initiated and led the Intelligent Agents Research group, internationally recognized as an active centre of high quality research in cognitive agents.

Lin’s generous contributions to the Computer Science community, her enthusiasm, and knowledge will be very much missed.

Published:  Rachel Cardell-Oliver, CORE President, 4 March 2026