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Dr Ante Prodan is a complex-systems scientist and AI systems architect. He is Managing Director of CLARA Pty Ltd, Chief Advisor on AI to the Mental Wealth Initiative at the University of Sydney, and an affiliate researcher at the School of Public Health, University of Sydney. He has been an Independent Director of CSART since 2019.

His current work covers generative AI and complex systems. He builds AI-assisted tools for health data extraction, analysis and surveillance that combine large language models with simulation and run on modest hardware without cloud services. He also studies how generative AI is changing economies, labour, health and energy systems.

From 2010 to 2025 he worked at Western Sydney University, most recently as Senior Lecturer in Computational Epidemiology. With the Sax Institute, the Australian Prevention Partnership Centre and the Brain and Mind Centre at the University of Sydney, he built system-dynamics, agent-based and discrete-event models for state and national governments in Australia. These models informed decisions on suicide prevention, mental health services, alcohol harm, tobacco control, childhood obesity and cardiovascular risk.

He began his career as a software developer in Croatia in the early 1990s. He holds a PhD in computer science from the University of Technology Sydney, completed through a linkage project with Bell Labs.

Personal website: ante.tso-services.work