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Professor Javen Qinfeng Shi

Author of Be Cause: You Are the Cause!

Director, Causal AI Group · Interim Director, Responsible AI Research Centre (RAIR)
Director of Advanced Reasoning and Learning, Australian Institute for Machine Learning (AIML)
Professor, University of Adelaide

Be Cause: You Are the Cause! book cover by Professor Javen Shi

📖 New Book Release: Be Cause: You Are the Cause!

A transformative guide to causality, destiny, and self-mastery.

In Be Cause: You Are the Cause!, Professor Javen Qinfeng Shi reveals the hidden laws that shape our lives—blending cutting-edge AI, spiritual wisdom, and metaphysical insights. Perfect for readers of self-help, metaphysics, and consciousness studies who seek to master their destiny.

Available now on Amazon:

News

Sept 2025: Published Be Cause: You Are the Cause! on Amazon.

Research

Professor Javen Qinfeng Shi is a scientist and mystic bridging cutting-edge AI with the inner mysteries of consciousness. His research spans causality, AI, mind, and metaphysics. He is a recipient of the ACM SIGIR 2025 Test of Time Award and the Open Catalyst Challenge at NeurIPS AI for Science 2023, where his team used AI to discover new energy materials.

Beyond the lab, Professor Shi walks the path of a mystic. In Be Cause: You Are the Cause!, he offers a vision for the Aquarian Age—awakening humanity as conscious co-creators, blending scientific brilliance with spiritual wisdom to transform personal destiny and collective evolution.

Publications

See selected publications on Publications page.

Group

Supervising PhD students and postdocs in the Causal AI Group. See more on Group page.

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Contact

📧 Email: javen.shi [at] adelaide.edu.au