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Bias in Data Pipelines and Artificial Intelligence Systems
Build and evaluate novel methods to track, quantify, and deal with bias rather than to mitigate or remove it.
- Supervisor
- Professor Gianluca Demartini
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biomedical and clinical sciences, Information and computing sciences
Development of a cooling and antimicrobial coating for common crops
Develop natural crop coatings with antimicrobial, cooling, and moisture control properties to reduce pesticide use and improve crop health in wheat, corn, and soybeans.
- Supervisor
- Dr Alberto Baldelli and Professor Mark Turner
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences
SAAFE CRC Digital Twins for Risk Assessment Modelling
Enable the parameterisation of robust and enhanced risk assessment models and allow them to be tested and validated on a wider range of use cases, scenarios, and sectors.
- Supervisor
- Dr Noorul Amin and Professor Ricardo Soares Magalhaes
- Location
- Gatton
- Research areas
- Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences, Environmental sciences, Information and computing sciences
Parametrising of AI architecture for enhanced canopy trait prediction for wheat utilising high temporal, spatial and spectral hypercubes.
This research optimizes AI models to enhance the accuracy and robustness of wheat canopy trait prediction from hyperspectral data.
- Supervisor
- Dr Xin Guo and Associate Professor Andries Potgieter
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences, Mathematical sciences
After the Future of Work: Platformised Labour in a Hotter Australia
Investigate the growing conflict between digitally-coordinated labour and rising heat from climate change, which deeply impacts it but is not accounted for.
- Supervisor
- Dr Luke Munn
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Human society, Language, communication and culture, Philosophy and religious studies
Incorporating product scale testing into fire safety science
Explore how product scale testing of materials can be combined with the knowledge of the interaction of different materials in different systems to assess the performance of assemblies in fire.
- Supervisor
- Dr David Lange, Dr David Morrisset and Dr Anwar Orabi
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Built environment and design, Engineering
Revisiting material flammability assessment
Revisit fundamental material flammability and explore how cladding materials can be better integrated into fundamental fire safety science.
- Supervisor
- Dr David Morrisset, Dr David Lange and Dr Anwar Orabi
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Built environment and design, Engineering
Spatial analysis of transcription of cell wall related genes
Identify genes that could be manipulated by gene editing to alter biomass composition.
- Supervisor
- Dr Karen Aitken and Professor Robert Henry
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences
Developing biopolymer systems for long-term controlled intra-ruminal release of methane inhibitors in livestock
Investigate how the release dynamics of methane inhibitors from biopolymer systems influence their effectiveness and interaction within the ruminant environment.
- Supervisor
- Dr Celine Chaleat, Professor Bronwyn Laycock and Professor Steven Pratt
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences, Chemical sciences, Engineering
Mechanical design of printable batteries for flexible devices
The project aims to advance the design and fabrication of printable batteries, whose layers have highly mismatched mechanical properties. The project will use both computational modelling and experimental testing to deliver a set of design guidelines for a scalable, and cost-effective battery solution for future flexible devices.
- Supervisor
- Dr Aditya Khanna and Professor Ruth Knibbe
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Engineering