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Deputy Director Karin Verspoor elected a Fellow of ATSE
Congratulations to Karin Verspoor for being elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering - AI in Healthcare leader.
Dr Pip Karoly receives NHMRC funding to deliver new epilepsy management strategies
Dr Pip Karoly has been awarded a $1.6 million National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) funding to establish seizure risk forcasting as a clinical standard for epilepsy management.
Prize money donated towards Kirill Kokorin's research
Professor Graeme Clark donates own prize for pioneering research.
Professor Timothy Baldwin appointed MBZUAI Provost
Congratulations to Professor Timothy Baldwin who has been appointed as the Provost of the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI).
Centre Deputy Director, Professor Karin Verspoor receives 2021 Brilliant Women in Digital Health award
Congratulations to Centre Deptuty Director, Professor Karin Verspoor who is one of the successful recipients of the Telstra Health inaugural 2021 Brilliant Women in Digital awards, which recognises and celebrates women in digital health for their outstanding achievements, while raising awareness about the opportunities in the sector and inspiring others...
Centre Director, Professor Timothy Baldwin again named as Computational Linguistics Field Leader in The Australian 2021 Research Magazine
Congratulations to Centre Director, Professor Timothy Baldwin on again being named Field Leader in Computational Linguistics in The Australian 2021 Research Magazine Engineering & Computer Science Australia’s Research Field Leaders released today. He was amongst 50 scholars named as Australia’s leading researchers in chemical and material sciences - one selected...
Postdoctoral position available: Research Fellow in Brain Computer Interfaces
Come and work with us! We are currently advertising for a Research Fellow in Brain Computer Interfaces.
Professor David Grayden wins 2021 Melbourne Excellence Award
Congratulations to Professor David Grayden and the BioDesign Innovation Program Team for winning the Norman Curry Award for Innovation and Excellence in Educational Programs in the 2021 Melbourne Excellence Awards announced today.
2021 International Seminar Series - Professor Leigh Hochberg, Brown University
We are delighted that Professor Leigh Hochberg from Brown University will be presenting our June webinar on Thursday, 17 June 2021 at 10.00 am (AEST).
Meet our newest team member!
Welcome to Reachy Robot, our newest team member! Reachy is assisting our Stream 2 reachers to build a system that would allow the robot’s arm to be controlled via a non-invasive brain-computer interface (BCI). The system will combine the BCI signal with trajectory information and computer vision data to assist...
Professor Timothy Baldwin wins MSE Excellence Award
Congratulations to Centre Director, Professor Timothy Baldwin for winning the 2020 Melbourne School of Engineering award for Outstanding Graduate Researcher Supervisor, which recognises achievements in supervision and development of the next generation of Australia’s scientific researchers.
ITTC Healthcare Symposium
Today we held our first symposium to discuss the latest and greatest work happening in the ARC Training Centre in Cognitive Computing for Medical Technologies. We were lucky enough to have guest speaker Dr Michael D Abramoff share insight into his journey as Co-Founder of Digital Diagnostics. Dr Abramoff spoke...
Centre Deputy Director, Professor Karin Verspoor part of the team awarded funding from the MCDS 2020 Seed Funding Program
Congratulations to Centre Deputy Director, Professor Karin Verspoor who is part of a team awarded $20,000 in funding from the Melbourne Centre for Data Science 2020 Seed Funding Program. Their project is on “AI at the forefront of the eye”: an artificial intelligence platform to transform the analysis of in...
NHMRC Development Grant awarded to Professor David Grayden
Congratulations to Professor David Grayden, Professor Tony Burkitt, Professor Mark Cook and their team at The University of Melbourne on being awarded an NHMRC Development Grant of $934,902 for their Stentrode Neuro-stimulator project. Epilepsy affects over 65 million people worldwide and approximately 30% of sufferers do not respond to drugs....
Centre Director, Professor Timothy Baldwin again named as Computational Linguistics Field Leader in The Australian 2020 Research Magazine
Congratulations to Centre Director, Professor Timothy Baldwin on again being named Field Leader in Computational Linguistics in The Australian 2020 Research Magazine Engineering & Computer Science Australia’s Research Field Leaders released today. He was amongst 50 scholars named as Australia’s leading researchers in chemical and material sciences - one selected...
Professor Timothy Baldwin recognised as Melbourne Laureate Professor
Congratulations to Centre Director, Professor Timothy Baldwin on being recognised by The University of Melbourne as a Melbourne Laureate Professor. This is a significant honour that rewards exceptional academic distinction and performance.
Professor Timothy Baldwin appointed as Vice-President-Elect of ACL
Congratulations to Centre Director, Professor Timothy Baldwin on being appointed to the position of Vice-President-Elect of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).
Professor Timothy Baldwin named as Computational Linguistics Field Leader in The Australian 2019 Research Magazine
Congratulations to Centre Director, Professor Timothy Baldwin on being named Field Leader in Computational Linguistics in The Australian 2019 Research Magazine Engineering & Computer Science Australia’s Research Field Leaders released today. The University of Melbourne’s Natural Language Processing Group were named as the leading institution in Computational Linguistics.
2019 Australian Museum Eureka Prize Winners
Congratulations to Professor David Grayden, Professor Tony Burkitt and the team at the Endovascular Bionics Laboratory at The University of Melbourne and Synchron Inc on winning the 2019 UNSW Eureka Prize for Excellence in Interdisciplinary Scientific Research. Skilfully bringing together a wide variety of disciplines, Synchron and the Endovascular Bionics...
ARC and IBM build $10 million AI centre with Melbourne Uni
Centre Director, Prof Tim Baldwin, was recently interviewed by the Australian Financial Review about the partnership between the Australian Research Council, IBM Research-Australia and the University of Melbourne to build the ARC Training Centre in Cognitive Computing for Medical Technologies focusing on developing AI applications for medical technologies.
Launch of ARC Training Centre in Cognitive Computing for Medical Technologies
Senator for Victoria, Jane Hume, today launched the Australian Research Council (ARC) Training Centre in Cognitive Computing for Medical Technologies, based at The University of Melbourne, which is receiving $4.1 million in Federal Government support through the ARC Industrial Transformation Research Program. The new industrial transformation training centre will focus...
Participant Agreement Signing
The official Participant Agreement for the ARC Training Centre in Cognitive Computing for Medical Technologies was signed on Dec 1, 2017.