Celebrating a new award for Australia’s data innovation ecosystem!

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:

• The University of Queensland
• Adelaide University
• Monash University
• The Australian National University
• The University of Western Australia
• UNSW
• University of Melbourne
• Australasian Computing Research and Education (CORE)
• ARC Training Centre for Information Resilience (CIRES)

Help put the spotlight on the next generation of resilient data innovators. Please spread the word – applications will open on 10 March and close on 12 May 2026.  Full details and guidelines available on the ATSE website.