Robyn Anne Owens is an Australian applied mathematician and computer scientist known for her research in computer vision and face recognition,[1] and on the non-invasive imaging of lactation.
[5] Her 1980 dissertation, Almost Periodic Hardy Spaces, was supervised by David Albert Edwards.
Before becoming vice-chancellor for research, she headed the UWA School of Computer Science & Software Engineering.
[5] With her co-author Peter E. Hartmann, she was a winner of the 2010 Rank Prize in Nutrition, given at the Royal College of Physicians in London, for their work on the imaging of lactation.
[1][9] In the 2023 King's Birthday Honours Owens was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for "significant service to science in the fields of computer vision and mathematics".