Month: September 2024

Congratulations to our CIRES Centre Director Professor Shazia Sadiq who has been elected as one of five new members to the Computing Research and Education Association of Australasia (CORE) Academy for 2025!

The CORE Academy is established to honour and recognise individuals who have made significant and cumulative contributions to the development of computing disciplines in Australasia.

As a researcher and educator in data and process management within the UQ School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Shazia’s work has focused on dismantling socio-technical barriers to technology-driven transformation. As director of CIRES, she has helped link research and industry through industry-informed PhD training programs. Shazia actively engages in policy advice and science advocacy activities, including the development of national strategic plans and expert submissions to government initiatives on emerging digital technologies, and was a core author on the government’s Rapid Response Information Report (2023) on Generative AI.

She is also a champion for equity and diversity through her work with the first Australian ACM-W student chapter and DEI@DB, an international group that leads diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts for the database community.

Congratulations Shazia for this well-deserved recognition!

A big welcome back to Brisbane and the Centre to Professor Felix Naumann! Felix is a Professor for Information Systems from the Hasso Plattner Institute in Germany, and is spending a six month sabbatical with CIRES at The University of Queensland.

Felix is a member of the Centre’s International Expert Panel, was a guest speaker at our inaugural PhD School in 2022, and we are so excited to have him join us as a keynote speaker for this year’s PhD School at UQ in October 2024.

He’ll be collaborating with CIRES Director Professor Shazia Sadiq and Chief Investigator Assoc. Professor Gianluca Demartini, and his research will focus on data quality.

“CIRES is a world-renowned centre for excellent research in all things data. I look forward especially to collaborating with faculty and students to advance research in data quality assessment methods. As an academic visitor, I also hope to learn from a new and exciting research environment, gain new insights into research and teaching methods, and ultimately find new academic partners.”

Welcome Felix!!

A warm Brisbane spring welcome to Sarah Pinon who joined us this week from Belgium! Sarah is a visiting PhD researcher from the MINDIT @ NaDI – Management of Information and Digital Transformation research centre at the Université de Namur.

“I’m trilled to join CIRES for the next three months. This incredible collaboration will support a new research project developed with CIRES CIs, Drs. Ida Asadi Someh & Tapani Rinta-Kahila, focusing on the creation of an evaluation framework for the promising new AI generation. Beyond the project, I’m looking forward to fully integrating into life at CIRES through participating in seminars, exchanging ideas, and building lasting connections with researchers from diverse disciplines. I’m excited to see where this journey will lead!”

Welcome Sarah!!