AI & ML interests

Enabling research excellence, and finding ways to solve the biggest problems for global good.

Sydney Informatics Hub

A Core Research Facility of The University of Sydney.

We are:

  • 👩‍💻 Data scientists 👨‍💻
  • 👨‍💻 Software engineers 👩‍💻
  • 🧬 Bioinformaticians 🧬
  • 🖥️ High performance computing experts ☁️
  • 🤖 Machine learning engineers 🤖

And together we work towards -

Enabling excellence in data and compute intensive research

We provide support, training, and expertise in research data management, statistics, data science, software engineering, simulation, visualisation, bioinformatics, and research computing.

We've:

  • Built an open source platform for annotated plant images to support the democratisation of visual AI in the agricultural industry 🌱🤖 🧑‍🌾 
  • Developed state of the art open source visual AI models for detecting and identifying wildlife in camera trap images 📸 🦊 🐨
  • Created reusable workflows for bioinformatics on Australia's national supercompute resources & commercial cloud 🔬 🧬 
  • Optimised code for simulating plate tectonics, to better understand how our Earth forms! 🌏 🌋 
  • Used machine learning models and echocardiogram data to improve cardiology diagnostics 🩺 🩻 🏩 
  • Collaborated with the Australian Institute of Criminology to detect changepoints in organised criminal behabiour in response to changes in legislation 👮‍♂️ 🕵️‍♀️ 🏍️
  • Modelled so many different soil attributes at high spatial resolution, so that farmers can make better decisions 🛰️🌱 👨🏿‍🌾
  • Engineered a pipeline enabling radioastronomers to detect variables and slow transients using the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder 📡 🌞 🌌

And that's just the tip of the iceberg. Find out more about the many ways we have enabled research and the exciting things we are working on at our website & public facing GitHub.