UNSW Computing

Students taking the computer science stream of DESN2000 now have access to an improved hardware platform, custom-built by Dr Hasindu Gamaarachchi and Dr Hammond Pearce. It's built around a computer chip that is 100 times more powerful. 🔗unsw.edu.au/news/2024/05/c…

Last month, Dr. Aditya Joshi presented at “AI and the courts” symposium organised by the National Judicial College of Australia in Canberra. He delivered an introductory talk on AI and NLP to an audience comprising judges and judicial officers in courts from across the country.

We have an exciting PhD opportunity in the area of AI/LLMs for Hardware Design and Security. Our research group has done significant work in this field, and there is huge future potential. Register your interest here: lnkd.in/gUyMWqDf

Associate Professor Haris Aziz was a featured expert on the APAC network channel, where he discussed issues around fairness and preferences in AI. 🎧Listen here: apacnetwork.com/story/how-ai-i…

The project, “A scalable workflow for the audio monitoring of biodiversity across urban and remote Australia”, is led by A/Prof. Will Cornwell and received $812,771 in funding from NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water.

🔊 Prof. Flora Salim and Dr Arash Shaghaghi are CIs of a project that will make it cheaper and easier to process and analyse audio biodiversity data, boosting Australia’s capacity to evaluate the efficacy of the management interventions required to deliver Nature Repair projects.

The project is a part of their research aspiration to make NLP models robust for “all” English speakers. Google’s Research Scholar program is focused on funding world-class research conducted by early-career professors.

Dr Aditya Joshi, with a collaborator from University of Surrey, has received a Google Research Scholar grant of US$60,000.👏 The project titled ‘A benchmark for sentiment and sarcasm classification for dialects of English’ will focus on Australian and Indian varieties of English.

📢 Exciting opportunity at UNSW Computer Science and Engineering! Collaborating with experts in academia and industry, you’ll undertake research focusing on the areas of Human Computer Interaction, Artificial Intelligence, and swarm systems. linkedin.com/jobs/view/3797…

Congratulation to A/Prof. Nadine Marcus for hosting a great roundtable discussion on “AI-Enabled Adaptive Learning” at the Empowering Future Minds with AI Forum, Dec 4 to 5 in Sydney. More details: charteredcertifications.com/learning/confe…

Currently, there are 4.2 million registered domains, and DNS abuse has affected many SMEs resulting in huge financial losses. The project aims to identify the causes of DNS abuse in .au domains and suggest countermeasures.

🙌 Congratulations to Dr. Sushmita Ruj (Lead), Dr Rahat Masood, Prof. Salil Kanhere, and Prof. Sanjay Jha, who have won a research contract with auDA to explore Domain Name System (DNS) abuse in .au domains.

👏 Congratulations to A/Prof. Yulei Sui for being elected as a Fellow of Engineers Australia (FIEAust), the highest level of membership with Engineers Australia. Prof. Sui is recognised for his contributions to software engineering.

🚀 Join the Final Talk of 2023! Explore the Future of #STEMLearning with Cognitive Load Theory and Embodied Cognition by Prof. Fred Paas. 📅 Tues 28th Nov 🕒 12:30pm 🌐 ICS, UNSW Sydney or online 🔗 Co-hosted by @unsw.ai & @UNSWCOMPUTING tinyurl.com/yj3rrewd #STEMEducation

@TobyWalsh uncovers the legacy of Ada Lovelace, who imagined the future of technology more than 100 years before smartphones and AI. This piece is part of the series Writing Objects by Powerhouse, which brings to life stories of the museum's objects. powerhouse.com.au/stories/the-un…

🏆 @UNSW students win South Pacific ICPC Regional Finals for the fourth consecutive year! Team Hell Hunt Again crushed it by solving 11 problems, qualifying for the 48th ICPC World Finals next Sept in Kazakhstan.

💬Join us for a fascinating conversation between UNSW's Rob Brooks and evolutionary biologist Carl Bergstrom! The lecture will explore Bergstrom's book, which aims to unblur the line between fact and fiction in a world inundated with deep fakes, fake news and misinformation.

👏Please join me in congratulating @hypaik who has been promoted to Associate Professor! Dr Paik's research projects focus on new distributed application platforms such as blockchains and Distributed Ledger Technology.

📙Keep your eyes open for the upcoming textbook 'Natural language processing' (NLP) by Aditya Joshi and Pushpak Bhattacharyya, expected Oct '23. The book presents the foundations and frontiers of NLP via the lens of ambiguity in human language.

CSE researchers won the Best Paper Award at the IEEE DAPPS '23, for the paper "VCTP: A Verifiable Credential-based Trust Propagation Protocol for Personal Issuers in Self-Sovereign Identity Platform". Congrats Rahma Mukta, Rue Teh, Hye-Young Paik, Qinghua Lu and Salil Kanhere!👏