Leadership Insights

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.

Spotlight on Women in Tech: Mars Buttfield-Addison

Meet data scientist, astrophile, author and virtual universe builder Mars Buttfield-Addison. A PhD candidate based in our Sandy Bay Tasmania office, Mars is applying machine learning methods to detect and track satellites and space debris.

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Event recap: Australia’s National AI Centre and the opportunity for business

Did you miss the CSIRO Conversations: Australia's National AI Centre (NAIC) and the opportunity for business event? Don’t worry, we’ve put together a handy recap.

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.

Spotlight on Women in Tech: Amelia Luu

A Robotics Field Engineer at CSIRO’s Data61, Amelia Luu is applying her skills and experience to help revolutionise Australian industries. A member of the Wildcat software team, Amelia considers collaborating with partners to integrate cutting-edge tech as one of her favourite parts of the job.

Spotlight on Women in Tech: Dr Sarvnaz Karimi

A Principal Research Scientist at CSIRO's Data61, Dr Sarvnaz Karimi has over 12 years of experience working in health informatics, applying her expertise at the intersection of Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing (NLP), and Machine Learning.

Spotlight on Women in Tech: Ms Farina Riaz

Meet Ms Farina Riaz, a postgraduate student at CSIRO’s Data61 who is currently working on quantum artificial intelligence (AI) and its applications. We chat to her about her most impactful projects, career journey, and how STEM industries and research organisations can attract more talented women.

Spotlight on Women in Tech: Dr Qinghua Lu

Meet Dr Qinghua Lu, the team leader of Data61's Software Engineering for AI program and an expert in blockchain and software architecture. We chat to her about her career, current projects, the creation of responsible AI, and what the STEM industry can do to attract and enable women.

Meet Stela Solar, Director of the National AI Centre

Meet Stela Solar, our new Director of the National AI Centre. Stela is returning from her position as Global Director – Artificial Intelligence Solution Sales and Strategy at Microsoft in the US to lead the National AI Centre.

Spotlight on Women in Tech: Prof Sally Cripps

Prof Sally Cripps heralds the dawn of a ‘new era’ for data science, moving beyond prediction to demonstrating causality. Here, the newly appointed Research Director of our Analytics and Decision Sciences program talks about what attracted her to Data61, the projects she’s most proud of, and what she’s currently working on.

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