NewsFilter news by categorySelect multiple categories to view cross-referenced news.OpportunityAwardsCentre NewsAnnouncement Found 95 Results 06 Nov, 2024Managing Difficult Research ProjectsOn 5 November, CIRES hosted the Thesis Whisperer herself Professor Inger Mewburn at UQ. This full-day intensive workshop focused on managing difficult research projects. Here are some testimonials fro ... 01 Nov, 2024CIRES End-of-Year CelebrationWe finished the week on a high on 31 October by hosting our Centre’s end-of-year celebration at CIRES HQ. The event recognised the contributions and achievements of our research cohort of Postdo ... 21 Oct, 2024Postdoctoral Research Fellow position at UQApplications close 20th November 2024 We are recruiting for a Level A postdoc fellow to join us in the ARC Training Centre for Information Resilience (CIRES) at The University of Queensland in sunny ... 29 Sep, 2024Professor Shazia Sadiq elected to the CORE Academy for 2025Congratulations 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 fo ... 18 Sep, 2024Welcome back to CIRES, Professor Felix Naumann!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 sabbati ... 16 Sep, 2024Welcome to visiting PhD researcher, Sarah PinonA 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 Transformati ... 04 Sep, 2024Redesigning Work with Artificial IntelligenceIt is amazing to see that work redesign approaches proposed in our AI thought leadership report – Redesigning Work with Artificial Intelligence: Accelerating the Adoption of Artificial Intellige ... 03 Sep, 2024Hassan Khosravi and RiPPLE finalists for Queensland AI Research Project of the YearCIRES Chief Investigator Hassan Khosravi and the RiPPLE team have been named a finalist for the Queensland AI Research Project of the Year at the Queensland AI Awards 2024 for their project RiPPLE: Ha ... 09 Aug, 2024CIRES Third Information Resilience SymposiumOn Wednesday 7 August, CIRES hosted our third Information Resilience Symposium. This year’s event explored the important topic of learning in the age of AI, featuring state-of-the-art insights throu ... 02 Aug, 2024CIRES CI A/Prof Gianluca Demartini – ARC Future Fellowship 2024Congratulations to CIRES Chief Investigator & Theme Leader, Associate Professor Gianluca Demartini who has been awarded an Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellowship! The ARC announced $1 ... 01 Aug, 2024Building business success from AI and digital innovationOn 1 August, CIRES Centre Director, Shazia Sadiq was a panellist for the Business Matters event “Building business success from AI and digital innovation” hosted by Business Chamber Queensland, in ... 24 Jul, 2024International AI HackathonA 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 pr ... 12 Jul, 2024Welcome to Postdoctoral Research Fellow Zixin WangWe’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 adap ... 24 May, 2024Finalist! Qld State iAwardsA team led by CIRES CI, Prof Hongzhi Yin, has been selected as a finalist by the iAward judging panel for their entry “Personalized On-Device Large Language Models” in the category of Technology P ... 08 Mar, 2024Women in Computing ACM-W ChapterCIRES celebrated 2024 International Women’s Day with the launch of the UQ Association for Computing Machinery – Women (ACM-W) Chapter, a new initiative to support and encourage women in computing ... 06 Mar, 2024Best CIRES Demo Award 2024We are excited to announce the inaugural Best CIRES Demo Award 2024. This year, CIRES will select the best demo developed by one of our CIRES PhD researchers, Affiliated PhD researchers, Masters Thesi ... 29 Feb, 2024Visiting Researcher Dr Barb Wixom MIT CISROn 26 February, CIRES welcomed Dr Barb Wixom and Dr Alan Thorogood from the MIT CISR (MIT Center for Information Systems Research). Barb is the Principal Research Scientist at MIT CISR & member of ... 20 Feb, 2024How AI’s decisions could transform our trust in technology and its role in our livesHow do you think explainable (generative) AI and the ‘why’ and ‘how’ behind AI’s decisions could transform our trust in technology and its role in our lives? CIRES CI, A/ ... 09 Feb, 2024Use of Generative AI in Australian SchoolsCIRES Centre Director Professor Shazia Sadiq attended the Australian Parliamentary Inquiry into the use of generative AI in Australian schools, with the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences &a ... 01 Feb, 2024Visiting Researcher Professor Susan P. WilliamsWelcome to Professor Susan Williams from the Universität Koblenz Germany, who is visiting our Swinburne University of Technology node from the 4th to 9th February 2024. Sue is a Professor of Enterp ... 24 Jan, 2024AI in Education: Call for increased ethics, collaboration & rigourAs the use of AI in education rapidly evolves and generates increasing interest, how can we obtain a comprehensive view of its current state-of-the-art developments in research and practical applicati ... 17 Jan, 2024Enterprise AIJanuary 2024 Centre Director, Prof Shazia Sadiq was interviewed by ABC National Radio on the AI regulation plans announced by federal government. The Australian Government has released an interim rep ... 11 Jan, 2024AI in Law EnforcementCIRES CI A/Prof Gianluca Demartini was interviewed by The Guardian about the use of Artificial Intelligence in law enforcement. ‘Some mistakes will happen’. Here is a link to the article. ... 10 Jan, 2024CACM Article: Data Bias ManagementThe January 2024 issue of the Communications of the ACM, Association for Computing Machinery is out and its cover features CIRES CI, A/Prof Gianluca Demartini’s work on Data Bias Management: Env ... 28 Dec, 2023CIRES participates in Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial IntelligenceAn exciting week for AI as the Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence [AJCAI] at The University of Queensland yesterday from 28 Nov – 1 Dec 2023 with an agenda packed day of tutori ... 14 Dec, 2023Postdoctoral Research Fellow position at UQApplications close 9th January 2024 We are recruiting for a Level A postdoc fellow to join us in the ARC Training Centre for Information Resilience (CIRES) at The University of Queensland in sunny B ... 10 Dec, 2023Dr Javad Pool – ACPHIS PhD MedalCongratulations to our Postdoctoral Research Fellow Dr Javad Pool who received the prestigious ACPHIS PhD Medal last week. It is awarded annually for the best Australian PhD thesis in the discipline o ... 07 Dec, 2023CIRES participates in Australasian Conference on Information SystemsA number of CIRES students and staff participated in the 34th Australasian Conference on Information Systems [ACIS 2023] 5-8 December 2023, Wellington New Zealand. CIRES posdoctoral researcher, Dr Jav ... 30 Nov, 2023Dr Javad Pool – 2023 Award for ExcellenceCongratulations to our CIRES Postdoctoral Research Fellow Dr Javad Pool who has received a 2023 Award for Excellence from the Faculty of Business, Economics and Law (BEL) at The University of Queensla ... 30 Oct, 2023ARC Discovery Projects 2024 SuccessBig congratulations to CIRES CIs who have been awarded 2024 ARC Discovery Projects: Professor Zi Huang; Dr Tong Chen; Dr Yadan Luo; Dr Sen Wang; Professor Shazia Sadiq: Video-sharing platforms are a c ... 25 Oct, 2023Promotion SuccessWe would like to share the exciting news of recent promotion successes of CIRES CIs. Please join us to congratulate: Professor Hongzhi Yin Associate Professor Sen Wang Senior Lecturer Rocky Chen ... 19 Oct, 2023CIRES CI Hongzhi Yin 2023 Young Tall Poppy Science Award FinalistCongratulations to CIRES Chief Investigator Associate Professor Hongzhi Yin for being a finalist in Queensland's 2023 Young Tall Poppy Awards. Hongzhi was nominated for his research to return control ... 18 Oct, 2023ITRP Managers SymposiumOn 16-17 October, CIRES Centre Manager Kate Aldridge and Coordinator Kathleen Williamson attended the 2023 ARC National ITRP Managers Symposium held in Adelaide; meeting with ARC representatives and f ... 28 Sep, 2023Why data-smart leaders create teams of “purple people”“Data Is Everybody’s Business” by Barb Wixom, Leslie Owens, and Cynthia Beath with MIT CISR (MIT Center for Information Systems Research) features contributions from CIRES Chief Investigator, Id ... 12 Sep, 2023UQ AI Research Network LaunchesUQ Research and Innovation Week 2023 saw the launch of the University’s new Research Networks, which provide a platform for a collaborative and transdisciplinary approach to fields of research with ... 09 Aug, 2023Welcome to Data Engineer Zhuochen WuWe’d like to welcome Zhuochen Wu to CIRES! Zhuochen joined the Centre as a Data Engineer in November 2022 and is based at Swinburne University of Technology. Her main work includes data curation ... 09 Aug, 2023Welcome to Data Engineer Shaoyang FanWe’d like to welcome Dr Shaoyang Fan to CIRES! Shaoyang joined CIRES as a Data Engineer in July 2023 at The University of Queensland. Shaoyang is a data scientist and specialises in microtask c ... 06 Aug, 2023Dr Sen Wang CI for new ARC Training Centre in Predictive Breeding in AgricultureCongratulations to School of EECS, Professor Helen Huang, and CIRES CI, Dr Sen Wang, for the successful $5M funding of the ARC Training Centre in Predictive Breeding for Agricultural Futures. The Cen ... 03 Aug, 2023Best Paper Award ICTIR 2023Congratulations to CIRES Chief Investigator Associate Professor Gianluca Demartini and fellow authors who received the Best Paper Award for their work “Perspectives on Large Language Models for ... 01 Aug, 2023Computational Social Science Reading groupWe have a number of reading groups happening across the Centre and it’s a key part of our cross-collaboration between our university partners Swinburne University of Technology and The Universit ... 03 Jul, 2023Managing the risk of AIWhat are generative AI systems really doing with our data? Professor Shazia Sadiq has forecast that developing and applying policy ‘guardrails’ will be critical to prevent rampant unethical misuse ... 21 Jun, 2023Keynote at 2023 ACM SIGMOD/PODSCIRES Centre Director, Professor Shazia Sadiq presented a keynote “DEI Perspectives in Information Technology Education” on June 21 at the 2023 ACM SIGMOD/PODS International Conference on Manageme ... 06 Jun, 2023NSTC Rapid Response on Generative AIOn 6 June, Hon Ed Husic MP, Minister for Industry and Science, launched the NSTC Rapid Response on Generative AI: https://lnkd.in/gfbb5f8c. The development of the report was drawn together through the ... 06 Jun, 2023Welcome to Postdoctoral Research Fellow Javad PoolWelcome to Dr Javad Pool who joins CIRES as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The University of Queensland. Javad completed his PhD in Business Information Systems with the UQ Business School, focusin ... 05 Jun, 2023CIRES Presentation to GoogleThe Head of Research of Google Australia, Dr Grace Chung, visited UQ on 5 June. Prof Marta Indulska presented an overview of CIRES and research into Responsible AI, while Dr Hassan Khosravi spoke on E ... 15 May, 2023Welcome to New CIRES CI, Dr Rocky ChenWe are pleased to announce the appointment of Dr Rocky Tong Chen as a Chief Investigator with CIRES! Rocky is a lecturer in Business Analytics with the Data Science group at The University of Queen ... 15 May, 2023Welcome to New CIRES CI, Associate Professor Wojtek TomaszewskiWe are pleased to announce the appointment of Associate Professor Wojtek Tomaszewski as a Chief Investigator with CIRES! Wojtek is the Deputy Director (Research) and a Research Group Leader at the Ins ... 11 May, 2023Welcome to PhD Researcher, Eslam ZaherWe’d like to welcome Eslam Zaher to CIRES! Eslam joined the Centre as a PhD Researcher in April 2023 and is based at The University of Queensland. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Communication ... 19 Apr, 2023Welcome to PhD Researcher, Huy NguyenWe’d like to welcome Van Nhat Huy Nguyen (Huy) to CIRES! Huy has joined the Centre as a PhD Researcher in April 2023 and is based at The University of Queensland. He holds a Bachelor of Computer ... 19 Apr, 2023Tutorial at DASFAA 2023CIRES Postdoctoral researcher, Dr Junliang Yu, and CIRES CIs, Dr Rocky Chen and A/Prof Hongzhi Yin, presented a tutorial on Self-Supervised Learning for Recommendation: Foundations, Methods and Prospe ... 18 Apr, 2023Welcome to Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Lei HanWelcome to Dr Lei Han who joins CIRES as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The University of Queensland. Lei joined the Centre in April 2023 and his passion lies in developing innovative solutions in ... 12 Apr, 2023Welcome to PhD Researcher, Jorge RetamalesWe’d like to welcome Jorge Retamales to CIRES! Jorge has joined the Centre as a PhD Researcher in April 2023 and is based at The University of Queensland. He holds a Masters Degree in Informatio ... 12 Apr, 2023PhD Scholarship – Allianz Worldwide Partners AustraliaApplications closed 21st June 2023. PhD Scholarship at UQ with Allianz Worldwide Partners Australia Value Measurement of Data Products Full details and how to apply Another excellent PhD schola ... 11 Apr, 2023Welcome to PhD Researcher, Hongliang NiWe’d like to welcome Hongliang Ni to CIRES! Hongliang is a PhD researcher based The University of Queensland. Her PhD project “Bias Mitigation in Human in the Loop Decision Systems” ... 11 Apr, 2023PhD Scholarship – Queensland Department of EducationApplications closed 16th May 2023. PhD Scholarship at UQ with the Queensland Department of Education On-demand Dataset Builder This project will develop a prototype system to showcase the scala ... 06 Apr, 2023Welcome to PhD Researcher, Hrishi PatelWe’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 ... 06 Apr, 2023Welcome to PhD Researcher, Pa Pa KhinWe’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 w ... 05 Apr, 2023Postdoctoral Research Fellow position at UQApplications closed 8th May 2023. We are recruiting for a Level A postdoc fellow to join us in the ARC Training Centre for Information Resilience (CIRES) at The University of Queensland in s ... 09 Mar, 2023Call for Applications: 2023 Visiting Student SchemeApplications are now open for the 2023 CIRES Visiting Student Scheme. This scheme will support high calibre research students for 8-12 weeks term visits to the ARC Training Centre for Information Resi ... 05 Mar, 2023Researching the changing landscape of social media algorithmsOn 5 March, CIRES CI, A/Prof Gianluca Demartini spoke with Spencer Howson at Radio 4BC about the work CIRES is undertaking on social media platform algorithms and how harmful online content and fake n ... 27 Feb, 2023ATSE #FellowFriday featuring Professor Shazia SadiqCIRES Centre Director Professor Shazia Sadiq was featured in the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences & Engineering’s (ATSE) Fellow Friday series. In this piece, “Preparing for ... 27 Feb, 20232022 Australian Awards for University TeachingCongratulations to our CIRES Chief Investigator and Theme Leader Associate Professor Hassan Khosravi and The RiPPLE Team, for their Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning, which wa ... 13 Feb, 2023Welcome to Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dr Hui YinWelcome 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, machinelearn ... 24 Jan, 2023The Web Conf 2023 – Accepted Paper from CIRESFull paper “Human-in-the-loop Regular Expression Extraction for Single Column Format Inconsistency” by Shaochen Yu, Lei Han, Marta Indulska, Shazia Sadiq and Gianluca Demartini accepted at ... 24 Jan, 2023Welcome to Visiting PhD Researcher, Catherine SaiWelcome to Catherine Sai (Kate) who has joined CIRES for two months as a visiting PhD researcher from the Technical University of Munich. Kate has a Masters in Industrial Engineering from Karlsruhe In ... 17 Jan, 2023Welcome to PhD Researcher, Muhammed Elyas MeguellatiWe’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 ... 04 Jan, 2023Welcome to Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dr Junliang YuWelcome 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 pa ... 24 Dec, 2022CIRES CI Dr Hassan Khosravi wins UQ Staff Excellence AwardCongratulations to CIRES CI, Dr Hassan Khosravi, whose work in developing the RiPPLE learning platform has received a commendation for innovation at The University of Queensland Staff Excellence Award ... 09 Dec, 2022Information Governance and Management Survey 2022-23Large cybersecurity breaches are showing the challenges ahead for Executives and Information management professionals. Our colleagues at Swinburne University of Technology are actively engaged in indu ... 09 Dec, 2022PhD Scholarships at UQ in 2023Applications closed 15 January 2023. To register your interest for future PhD projects, please email cires@uq.edu.au More PhD scholarship opportunities with CIRES! We have two positions based at The ... 24 Nov, 2022CIRES Centre Director Prof Shazia Sadiq wins UQ Faculty Staff Excellence AwardCongratulations to our CIRES Centre Director Professor Shazia Sadiq on receiving a UQ Faculty Staff Excellence Award for Leadership! Shazia has been a devoted lecturer for two decades, and an advocate ... 26 Oct, 2022Postdoctoral Research Fellow positions at UQApplications closed 9 January 2023. To register your interest for future opportunities, please email cires@uq.edu.au This is an exciting opportunity for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to contribute ... 24 Oct, 2022Expert Opinion Podcast: Creating a skilled workforce in AustraliaCIRES Centre Director Professor Shazia Sadiq from the UQ School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering is a fellow of the Academy and joined stephen matchett from the Campus Morning Mail ... 01 Oct, 2022PhD Scholarship, Curating Systems of EngagementApplications closed 1 November 2022. To register your interest for future PhD scholarship opportunities, please email cires@uq.edu.au PhD Scholarship, Curating Systems of Engagement at Swinburn ... 30 Sep, 2022Postdoctoral Research Fellow at UQApplications closed 17 October 2022. To register your interest for future opportunities, please email cires@uq.edu.au We are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to join our CIRES team at UQ. Th ... 24 Aug, 2022Expert Interviews – Challenges in Data Intensive DomainsVideo series which focuses on researchers at The University of Queensland working in data intensive domains with major data challenges. Featuring interviews with Australia’s top scientists including ... 24 Aug, 2022PhD Scholarships at UQApplications closed 6th October 2022. To register your interest for future PhD scholarship opportunities, please email cires@uq.edu.au Multiple positions available We are recruiting for some exciting ... 27 Jul, 2022CIRES is 1!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 ... 14 Jun, 2022PhD Scholarship opportunity: Customer Data StoriesApplications closed 15th July 2022. To register your interest for future PhD scholarship opportunities, please email cires@uq.edu.au This project will investigate how the availability of collec ... 19 May, 2022Explainable Artificial Intelligence in educationExplainable Artificial Intelligence in education There are emerging concerns about the Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics (FATE) of educational interventions supported by the use of A ... 15 May, 2022PhD Scholarships at UQApplications closed 19th June 2022. To register your interest for future PhD scholarship opportunities, please email cires@uq.edu.au Multiple positions available We are recruiting for some exc ... 04 May, 2022The cross roads for Australia’s digital futureHey Siri, what does Australia’s digital future look like? Read about the recommendations to successfully pursue and realise a digital future for Australia by CIRES Centre Director Professor Shaz ... 24 Mar, 2022Five PhD projects underwayOur CIRES family is growing! Our first cohort of PhD students has commenced at the ARC Training Centre for Information Resilience (CIRES). Welcome Krishna Dermawan, Samual MacDonald, Daisy Xu and He ... 01 Mar, 2022VLDB Journal: 17-point Information Resilience ManifestoOn behalf of the research team at the ARC Training Centre for Information Resilience (CIRES), I am delighted to share our vision for Information Resilience, outlined in our recently published paper in ... 01 Mar, 2022Third Round of PhD scholarship opportunities at UQApplications closed 10th April 2022. To register your interest for future PhD scholarship opportunities, please email cires@uq.edu.au CIRES is seeking highly motivated PhD researchers to join t ... 12 Nov, 2021Paper: Improving Social Alignment During Digital TransformationCIRES researcher Prof Andrew Burton-Jones explores what leaders can do to improve and sustain social alignment over time in this paper in Communications of the ACM. ... 12 Nov, 2021Blog: Avoiding Data DisastersFollowing on from the recent panel discussion, Dr Rachel Thomas, CIRES Strategy Board Member provides more detailed and expanded thoughts on data & information resilience: Avoiding Data Disasters ... 26 Oct, 2021PhD scholarship opportunity, SwinburneApplications closed 30th November 2021. To register your interest for future PhD scholarship opportunities, please email cires@uq.edu.au Applications have closed for our PhD project “Info ... 21 Sep, 2021The Conversation article: Digital tech is the future, but Australia risks being left in the pastCentre Director Professor Shazia Sadiq and colleague Thas Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas have authored this article in The Conversation to accompany the new report released today “Australia’ ... 21 Sep, 2021Second Round of PhD Scholarships at UQApplications closed 24 October 2021. We are seeking highly motivated PhD researchers to join the Centre for exciting projects with the following industry & government partners: Aginic, Max ... 16 Sep, 2021The Brilliant article: How one scientist is cleaning up the world’s dirty dataCentre Director Professor Shazia Sadiq was featured in this piece by The Brilliant looking at how data underlying algorithms is collected and the biases embedded in them. The way to disrupt this cycle ... 11 Aug, 2021Associate Professor Hongzhi Yin awarded ARC Future FellowshipCongratulations to University of Queensland Researcher and Centre Chief Investigator Associate Professor Hongzhi Yin who has been awarded a prestigious Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellows ... 01 Aug, 2021First Round of PhD ScholarshipsApplications closed 12 September 2021. Be the first to know about the next round of CIRES PhD Scholarship opportunities, follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn. We’re recruiting! 5 PhD positio ... 28 Jul, 2021Centre for Information Resilience Commences!We are delighted to announce that the Australian Research Council’s Industrial Transformation Training Centre for Information Resilience (CIRES) has officially commenced. Our Collaborative Resea ... 06 May, 2021Momentum Article: Fixing data gone wrongThe top 5 capabilities all businesses need to build an information resilience plan Recent industry reports identify ‘data gone wrong’ as the biggest risk factor for emerging digital techno ...
