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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.

Spotlight on Women in Tech: Emma Krantz

Emma Krantz first discovered computers by osmosis, exploring the early internet of the 90s on her dad’s knee. Now a Senior Software Engineer at CSIRO’s Data61 at just 26 years old, we caught up with Emma about working at CSIRO and her experiences as a queer woman in tech.

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.

Spotlight on Women in Tech: Dr Kristen Moore, WIA nominee

Meet Dr Kristen Moore - Senior Research Scientist within our Distributed Systems Security group, artificial intelligence (AI) expert, and Women in AI 2022 award nominee. Recognised for her scientific excellence in the application of AI to cyber security, we chat to Dr Moore about her nomination, cyber deception, what she's working on now, and the advice she would give to women starting out in the tech industry.

A day in the life of three Data61 Vacation Studentship participants

Over the past 8-12 weeks, our Undergraduate Vacation Studentship participants have been immersed in real projects with real impact, supervised by some of Australia’s leading science and tech experts. From thwarting hackers to designing mixed reality experiences, the projects underway are as diverse as the rapidly expanding skillsets of this impressive bunch.

Data61’s 2020 Year in Review highlights

As we mark our fifth year, we take a look back at some of this year’s highlights, including our teams’ innovative COVID work, the research we’ve commercialised - such as the NSW Digital Twin and Wildcat robotic mapping technology – our joint report with Austrade on the future of global trade and investment, our numerous award wins and research paper acceptances, and finally, the appointment of Data61’s new Director, Jon Whittle.

Research Excellence: October awards

While it’s been a challenging year, October has delivered a slew of good news for research excellence at CSIRO’s Data61, […]

Adelaide’s new hub for security data science

It’s perhaps best known for producing some of the nation’s top wine, but last July, Adelaide landed on the CSIRO’s […]

Ribit finds new home at Stone & Chalk

Ribit, our student job and internship matching platform, has been acquired by its anchor client, Australia’s largest emerging technology incubator […]

Spotlight on National Reconciliation Week

National Reconciliation Week (NRW) is celebrated across Australia each year between 27 May and 3 June. This year’s theme is – In […]