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Understanding local government artificial intelligence policy landscape
Artificial intelligence (AI) is driving transformation across all areas of society today. An umbrella term encompassing a range of technologies both sophisticated and simple that are used to make predictions, inferences, recommendations, or decisions with data. AI is used in many products and services that people use, interact with, or are impacted by every day. It already in place of local government and assisting government officials in providing services effectively and conduct their activities more efficiently to the public. The …
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- PhD, Master of Philosophy, Honours, Vacation research experience scheme
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- Faculty of Engineering
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- School of Architecture and Built Environment
Investigating the application of sustainable AI practices in construction
The construction industry plays a vital role in the global economy and there is a growing interest in utilising artificial intelligence (AI) to improve its productivity and efficiency. Despite the industry's significant contribution to the economy, it has faced challenges such as large cost overruns, extended schedules, and quality concerns. Nevertheless, AI is making significant strides to remove these issues by revolutionising various aspects of the construction industry. This is evident from enhancing project planning and design to improving construction …
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- PhD, Master of Philosophy, Honours, Vacation research experience scheme
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- Faculty of Engineering
- School
- School of Architecture and Built Environment
Investigating smart campus development trends in Australian universities
Smart campus is an emerging concept following the smart city research movement and is predominantly argued to be a miniature replica of the smart city providing an ideal prototype for university campus development. The smart campus concept has attracted much attention, predominantly due to the rise in artificial intelligence, internet-of-things, cloud computing and big data applications in advancing university campus operation efficiency. In recent years, Australian universities started to invest in smart campus technologies and development opportunities.ReferenceA brief background on …
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- PhD, Master of Philosophy, Honours, Vacation research experience scheme
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- Faculty of Engineering
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- School of Architecture and Built Environment
Exploring the effects of interactions with intelligent agents in immersive systems
This research project aims to investigate the effects of interactions with intelligent agents on player experiences in various contexts, including videogames, learning-teaching, and complex data analysis. The intelligent agents will be developed using ChatGPT as a backend, and the studies will be conducted in both single-player and multiplayer settings, utilizing virtual and augmented reality technologies.
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- PhD, Master of Philosophy, Honours, Vacation research experience scheme
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- Faculty of Science
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- School of Computer Science
Artificial intelligence (AI) to balance fluctuations of intermittent renewable energy sources
Artificial intelligence (AI) can play a significant role in analyzing and predicting energy consumption and production patterns from renewable sources such as solar and wind (Lyu & Liu 2021). This is particularly important due to the key challenge of intermittency, where major renewable sources for electricity, such as solar and wind, are subject to the inconsistencies of the weather (Watson et al., 2022).In this project, we investigate how AI and machine learning algorithms can optimize smart grids and other components …
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- PhD, Master of Philosophy, Honours, Vacation research experience scheme
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- School of Information Systems
- Research centre(s)
- Centre for Data Science
CLIN01 - Application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and emerging trends in medical imaging
Artificial intelligence (AI) machine learning and deep learning have opened new possibilities for analysing data and improving service delivery and patient safety in healthcare. In the field of medical radiation practice, AI is increasingly being integrated into everyday procedures. As a result, medical radiation students must possess the necessary skills and knowledge to utilise emerging technologies like AI.The Medical radiation practice Board (MRPBA) recently published (Oct 2022) updates to accreditation standards and professional capabilities that require education providers and educational …
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- Vacation research experience scheme
- Faculty
- Faculty of Health
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- School of Clinical Sciences
Mathematical modelling of cell-to-cell communication via extracellular vesicles (EVs)
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are membrane bound packages of information constantly being released by all living cells, including bacteria. There are many types and sizes of EVs. Each EV type contains its own distinctive cargo consisting of characteristic DNA, RNA, and proteins. We are just beginning to understand the many roles of EVs to maintain the health of the cell producing the EVs, and to communicate with other cell types that take up the EVs produced by neighbouring cells. Since EVs …
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- Honours, Vacation research experience scheme
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- Faculty of Science
- School
- School of Mathematical Sciences
Bushfire design of residential buildings
This project aims to investigate the bushfire performance of residential buildings in the bushfire-prone areas of Australia. This includes a detailed review of:bushfire characteristicsradiant and convective heat ratestype of materials used to construct bushfire safe housesstructural and fire performance of external wall and roof panelsstructural and architectural building design requirementsThis comprehensive review will contribute towards developing conceptual models and design methods for external wall and roof systems for residential buildings in bushfire zones.
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- Master of Philosophy, Honours, Vacation research experience scheme
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- Faculty of Engineering
- School
- School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Research centre(s)
- Centre for Materials Science
Bushfire building risk assessment using drones
The project will investigate the feasibility of using drones to conduct bushfire risk assessments for buildings. It involves:learning about data capturing and analysis technique and methodsconducting field scale study and risk analyses for buildings in bushfire-prone areas.We're looking for civil engineering students with interest in:advanced technologydata analysestechnical writing.
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- Honours, Vacation research experience scheme
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- Faculty of Engineering
- School
- School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Bushfire performance of lightweight and fire resistant wall panels
This project will investigate the structural bushfire performance of lightweight and fire resistant cement based blocks and wall panels. This includes axial compression tests and fire resistance tests of individual blocks currently available in the industry. The performance will be summarized based on the raw materials and the mix proportion of the blocks.
- Study level
- Master of Philosophy, Honours
- Faculty
- Faculty of Engineering
- School
- School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Research centre(s)
- Centre for Materials Science
Kidnapped robot in a digital twin environment
Mobile robots are starting to be commonly used in manufacturing environments but they often get confused when they are switched on and off regarding where they are and what they should be doing. This is known as the 'kidnapped robot' problem, where the robot is to re-localise itself each time it is rebooted or a new task is presented.The advent of 'digital twins' has enabled a robot to build a map of its environment, which can aid in its localisation. …
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- Vacation research experience scheme
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- Faculty of Engineering
- School
- School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics
- Research centre(s)
- Centre for Robotics
Curvature dependence of reaction-diffusion wave front speed with nonlinear diffusion.
Reaction-diffusion waves describe the progression in space of wildfires, species invasions, epidemic spread, and biological tissue growth. When diffusion is linear, these waves are known to advance at a rate that strongly depends on the curvature of the wave fronts. How nonlinear diffusion affects the curvature dependence of the progression rate of these wavefronts remains unknown.
- Study level
- PhD, Master of Philosophy, Honours, Vacation research experience scheme
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- Faculty of Science
- School
- School of Mathematical Sciences
- Research centre(s)
- Centre for Biomedical Technologies
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