Cat Kutay is descended from seafarers of Aboriginal and Celtic origin. Cat is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Science and Technology at Charles Darwin University. She works with Aboriginal communities for online language learning, story sharing and data analysis as a way for Aboriginal culture and knowledge to be acknowledged and integrated into Australian engineering approaches.

Cat Kutay's research is in the areas of: Indigenous knowledge management, particularly through online and mobile systems; Human-computer Interaction, in particular the presentation of information for exploration and pattern matching; Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL); and Artificial agents for emergent narrative in games and language processing.

Associate Director Education Design, Center for Learning & Teaching ANU