Professor Jacqueline Alderson is the Director of Tech and Human Performance and Special Advisor for the Los Angeles Olympics, LA28, at UCLA DataX. An international research leader in wearable and sensor-based technologies, artificial intelligence, and pro-public technology applications in health and sport, she has published over 250 journal articles, textbooks, book chapters, and reports, and supervised over 75 research students to completion (including 27 Ph.D.s).
She joins UCLA from her role as Professor, Co-Founder, and Tech Director of the Tech & Policy Lab at the University of Western Australia, where she was a tenured faculty member for 25 years. She is an Adjunct Professor of Biomechanics at Griffith University and a Visiting Fellow at the School of Regulation and Global Governance at the Australian National University.
Jacqueline is a Fellow of the International Society of Biomechanics and the International Society of Biomechanics in Sports and has served repeat terms as an Executive Council member and Director of both Societies. In 2023–24 she received the Inaugural Fulbright-American Chamber of Commerce in Australia Professional Alliance Award and was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at Stanford University. She was the 2024 recipient of the prestigious ISBS Geoffrey Dyson Award for career achievement in sports biomechanics.
