Thank you Professor Sadiq for your leadership and vision in shaping the future of data, AI and responsible technology in Australia and globally.
CIRES is proud to support the new Resilient Data Engineering Award, launching in 2026 as part of the prestigious Australian Academy of Technological Sciences & Engineering (ATSE) Awards.
This award recognises early career data researchers, professionals and teams who are building the resilient data pipelines that underpin critical national systems and decision making.
CIRES Centre Director Professor Shazia Sadiq FTSE led this initiative in partnership with ATSE, and with fantastic support for the award from heads of computing across Australia.
Information resilience is the ability to build and maintain agile data pipelines that can detect and respond to failures and risks across the entire data lifecycle. Promoting information (or data) resilience among engineers, scientists, and researchers is essential to developing a workforce that can drive a data savvy society, fuel Australia’s future economy, and uphold responsible data management practices.
“This award recognises and celebrates the back-end work done by data scientists and data engineers, work that brings credibility, efficiency, and impact to so many discoveries. It is an exciting opportunity to celebrate the future leaders designing the robust, trustworthy data systems that Australia increasingly relies on,” Professor Sadiq said.
A huge thank you to all the contributing partners:
Our Centre Director Professor Shazia Sadiq FSTE is this week’s FellowFriday! Thank you ATSE for profiling Shazia and her amazing work and leadership in data science, AI and responsible data management.
A Professor at The University of Queensland, Professor Sadiq’s research focuses on helping organisations build and protect agile, ethical and resilient data systems for advanced analytics and AI. Her work also addresses the socio-technical barriers that shape successful data-driven transformation. She is Director of the ARC Training Centre for Information Resilience (CIRES) and has been a passionate advocate for ethical educational technology for over two decades.