Category: Announcement

We’d like to welcome Hrishi Patel to CIRES! Hrishi is a PhD researcher based at The University of Queensland. He will be working on the “Expanding Data Sets to Allow Improved Critical Care for Children – Outpatient Risk Prediction” in collaboration with our government partner Queensland Health, partner investigator Dr Adam Irwin, Dr Sen Wang, and Professor Shazia Sadiq.

Hrishi has a Masters of Data Science from UQ, and a keen interest in machine learning, learning analytics, and data science teaching. Welcome Hrishi!

We’d like to welcome Pa Pa Khin to CIRES! Pa Pa is a PhD researcher based at Swinburne University of Technology. Her PhD project “Curating Systems of Engagement” is a collaboration with partner Astral Consulting, and supervised by Dr Paul Scifleet, Associate Professor Amir Aryani, and Marie Felsbourg (Astral Consulting). Pa Pa’s research interests include Enterprise Information Management, Systems of Engagement, and Knowledge Management Systems. 

Welcome Pa Pa!

Welcome to Dr Hui Yin who joins CIRES as our first Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Swinburne University of Technology.

Hui’s research focus includes natural language processing, ai, machinelearning, and data mining, with an emphasis on online social media text mining. Hui received her PhD in Data Science from Deakin University in June 2022, and was a research fellow with Deakin before joining CIRES. She will work closely with Chief Investigator Associate Professor Amir Aryani, and joins our Swinburne colleagues Paul Scifleet, Chengfei Liu, Steve Petrie, and Lufan Zhang. She is looking forward to collaborating with CIRES partners and researchers across the Centre.

Welcome Hui!

We’d like to welcome Muhammed Elyas Meguellati to CIRES! Elyas is a PhD researcher based at The University of Queensland. He will be working on the Customer Data Stories project in collaboration with our industry partner Allianz Worldwide Partners Australia, partner investigator Mr Shane Downey MPhil, Associate Professor Gianluca Demartini, and Professor Shazia Sadiq.

Elyas has a Masters Degree in applied computing from the University of Malaya, and his research interests include natural language processing and deeplearning. Welcome Elyas!!

Welcome back to 2023! We’d like to extend a very warm welcome to our first CIRES Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Junliang Yu!

Junliang is based at The University of Queensland and his work will particularly focus on dealing with data sparsity and noise problems in real-world datasets, and on promoting algorithmic transparency.

During his PhD, he published over 10 peer-reviewed papers in the most prestigious conferences including the Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), World Wide Web (WWW), IEEE’s International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), AAAI, the Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), and journals including IEEE’s Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TDKE) and the International Journal on Very Large Data Bases (VLDBJ).

Junliang’s research interests are data mining and machine learning, with a particular focus on recommender systems, tiny machine learning, and self-supervised learning. He will work closely with Centre Director Professor Shazia Sadiq and CIRES Chief Investigator Associate Professor yin hongzhi.

Junliang is looking forward to building successful collaborative relationships across the Centre and making great contributions to CIRES.

Happy Birthday to us! Today marks 1 year since we finalised our Collaborative Research Agreement and officially commenced as CIRES. It has been a fantastic first year in the Centre and we’d like to acknowledge the efforts and contributions of all our CIRES colleagues and collaborators. Thank you everyone and looking forward to the next year together!

We are delighted to announce that the Australian Research Council’s Industrial Transformation Training Centre for Information Resilience (CIRES) has officially commenced. Our Collaborative Research Agreement has been finalised and our important work can begin.

CIRES aims to build workforce capacity in Australian organisations and help them achieve information resilience. Our Centre brings together end-users, technology providers, and cutting-edge research, to lift the socio-technical barriers to data driven transformation. We will train a new generation of research leaders in collaboration with our Industry Partners: Aginic, Astral, Allianz Partners, Health & Wellbeing Queensland, Max Kelsen, Queensland Department of Education, Queensland Health, and the Queensland Police Service.