Associate Professor Renata Borovica-Gajic is developing smarter database systems to help scientists and other professionals uncover discoveries hidden in vast amounts of data.
Outstanding Australian innovators have been recognised at the ATSE Awards Gala Dinner for breakthroughs spanning clean energy, precision timing, cancer research, advanced materials, Indigenous education and resilient data systems.
A data-centre founder, a pioneering Navy engineer and a much-loved science communicator are among 34 innovators who will join Australia’s leading tech and engineering Academy in 2026.
ATSE, alongside Australia’s other Learned Academies, condemns the Russian drone strike on Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences in Kyiv and stands in solidarity with Ukrainian scientists.
After motherhood, family responsibilities and two abandoned PhD opportunities, Elevate scholar Sara Yazdanparast is pursuing her research dreamof developing green walls that could clean wastewater and grow food in Australian cities.
New research from an Elevate scholar has found that an AI system can score almost 100% in testing and still perform dramatically differently when put in charge of an electricity system designed to simulate the real world.
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