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National AI Centre’s Artificial Intelligence Leadership Summit

Leaders from around the country flew into Sydney last Thursday to help drive Australia's artificial intelligence (AI) opportunity at the National AI Centre's (NAIC) AI Leadership Summit.

Spotlight on Women in Tech: Dr Maisie Li

Dr Maisie Li develops innovative tools, powered by machine learning and artificial intelligence (ML/AI), to help us get to the bottom of biology faster and with greater accuracy. We caught up with her to find out more and discover her gene-ius ideas for improving diversity in the AI workforce.

Spotlight on Women in Tech: Dr Hansi Weeratunge

Since high school, Dr Hansi Weeratunge was fascinated by the power of science and maths and complex problems they could solve. She’s now applying that curiosity at CSIRO’s Data61, where she’s developing robotic solutions that could improve farming techniques and manufacturing processes.

Spotlight on Women in Tech: Dr Eromanga Adermann

As someone who enjoys pondering the mysteries of the universe, it's no surprise that Dr Eromanga Adermann choose CSIRO's Data61 to solve them. A quantum physics enthusiast, Dr Adermann is developing next-generation tech to enable quantum computing.

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.