Month: July 2024

International AI Hackathon

Posted on by Kath Williamson

A team of four EECS undergraduate students from BCompSci and BEng(Hons) won first prize in the International AI Hackathon. The hackathon was held in Bangkok from July 24 to 27. They created a flood prediction application that was 75% more accurate than Google’s flood forecasting, based on the historical data that they used. Representatives of the Thai government expressed interest in supporting the team to continue their work on the project.

The team received funding support from CIRES to travel to Bangkok to participate in the hackathon and CIRES also provided the team with pre-trip training on information resilience.

At the hackathon, Aneesha Bakharia from EECS provided a full-day training workshop on developing software that uses LLMs delivered to all hackathon participants. The hackathon was jointly organised by EECS, King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, and the Thai National Innovation Agency. It was supported by AWS, AMD, and Digital Focus.

Congratulations to First Prize Winners: Pritika Guglani, Abdallah Azazy, Bailey Stoodley, and Sidney Neil

Welcome to Postdoctoral Research Fellow Zixin Wang

Posted on by Kate Aldridge

We’d like to welcome Zixin Wang to CIRES! Zixin joined the Centre as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in July 2024 and is based at The University of Queensland. Her research focuses on domain adaptation and test-time adaptation in computer vision. Her work involves utilizing AI models for data-centric learning across various vision-based contexts, including image classification, segmentation, and 3D detection. She has developed models that contribute to the literature in the multimedia and computer vision field, including the Best Student Paper award at ACM Multimedia 2023.

She is enthusiastic about collaborating with a diverse range of stakeholders, from multidisciplinary researchers to industry and government partners, to advance research on applying AI models in real-world applications.

She will be working closely with Centre Director Professor Shazia Sadiq and looks forward to building successful collaborative relationships across the Centre and making significant contributions to CIRES.