Posts by Alison Donnellan

Welcome Professor Aaron Quigley

Welcome Professor Aaron Quigley, the new Deputy Director and Science Director of CSIRO’s Data61. Here, the newest member of the Data61 leadership team discusses how he got into tech, his areas of specialisation, career highlights, and favourite piece of advice.

Our 2022 Year in Review highlights

It’s been an extraordinary year. Uncertainties and challenges have remained, but so too has perseverance, innovation, and successes. We’re proud of the science excellence, adaptive transformation and future building that CSIRO’s Data61 has achieved this year. Here are our highlights for 2022.

The Future of Australian Sport report

Commissioned by the Australian Sports Commission and developed by CSIRO's Data61, The Future of Australian Sport report identifies six megatrends that will reshape Australian sport on the Green and Gold decade to the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Our award-winning Multi-Robot Navigation Stack

Designed in response to the DARPA Subterranean Challenge, the Navigation Stack enables a robotic team to navigate challenging environments outside of communications range.

Spotlight on Women in Tech: Dr Muneera Bano

Meet STEM superstar and diversity and inclusion champion Dr Muneera Bano. The ‘Most Influential Asian-Australian Under 40’ in 2019 and a member of Science and Technology Australia’s Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee, Dr Bano is now a Principal Research Scientist within the Diversity and Inclusion in Artificial Intelligence Program at CSIRO’s Data61.

Introducing multiple criteria decision analysis

Thinking about using multiple criteria decision analysis but don’t know how? This explainer video provides a great introduction with pointers on where to access more information and support.

AI think tanks to explore diversity and inclusion in Australian AI: Prof Didar Zowghi

The National AI Centre Think Tanks are providing an action centric approach to building Australia’s responsible AI capability. Today we meet Professor Didar Zowghi, chair of the Diversity and Inclusion in AI Think Tank.

The latest award-winning science at CSIRO’s Data61

Discover the innovation and impactfulness that sets these award winners apart and join us in congratulating the teams behind them.

How we’re using machine learning to detect coral-eating COTS

The Great Barrier Reef is one of Australia’s most diverse and unique landscapes. Covering more than 2,900 individual reefs, it is home to unmatched marine biodiversity. A multidisciplinary group of researchers from Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, have been working on projects using innovative science and technology to help combat some of the threats facing our reef. Meet the team and learn more about their work here.

Meet our Responsible AI Science leaders

There are many benefits to Artificial Intelligence (AI) - it can make fast work of huge amounts of data, speed up processes, and collaborate with humans to provide a better outcome than either could create on their own. However, if not done ethically, the development of AI technology can come with significant risks. For this reason, the development of responsible AI sits at the heart of our work and we have brought together one of the largest groups of responsible AI researchers in the country. Meet the science leaders guiding this work.

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