Where to next for digital health in the post Pandemic World?

Presented by Professor Tim Shaw Date: 12pm-1pm, Wednesday 25th Oct 2023 Venue: J02, PNR Learning Studio 315 Healthcare is in the midst of a digital disruption which has been accelerated by the COVID-19 Pandemic. This talk will explore how digital technologies are being used in health care, what are the key barriers to digitisation and […]

The Art and Science of Causal Discovery

F23 Michael Spence Building Auditorium (2) 105

Presented by Professor Sally Cripps Date: 12pm-1pm, Wednesday 29th Nov 2023 Venue: F23 Michael Spence Building Auditorium (2) 105 Understanding and identifying which factors impact outcomes is at the core of scientific discovery. Graphical models and the Bayesian paradigm are useful frameworks to describe and analyse these cause-and-effect relationships however, they are not without challenges […]

Machine Learning with Noisy Labels

J12 Board Room 124, Computer Science Building

12pm-1pm, Wednesday 14th Feb 2024 Presented by A/Prof. Tongliang Liu Venue: Rm 277, Sydney Knowledge Hub Abstract: With the rise of large AI models, data assets have gained increasing importance. Understanding how to identify and correct label errors in our datasets is crucial. This is because label errors are pervasive in the era of big data, […]

(Differential) Privacy: What, Why, How, and When?

12pm-1pm, Wednesday 13th March 2024 Presented by Dr. Clement Canonne Venue: Rm 277, Sydney Knowledge Hub Abstract: This talk will provide an overview of differential privacy, one of the leading approaches to data privacy, with a focus on what guarantees it provides, why these guarantees are meaningful and necessary, how to understand and think about its “privacy […]

Time for Trust? Scale and relationality in understanding trust relations between people, technologies and institutions

Rm 277, Sydney Knowledge Hub

  12pm-1pm, Wednesday 10th April 2024   Presented by Prof. Terry Flew, ARC Laureate Fellow and Professor of Digital Communications, The University of Sydney Venue: Rm 277, Sydney Knowledge Hub This talk will provide an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of trust research, considering how both the scale of interactions (local, national, global) and the manner in […]

Unravelling missing secrets of coronary artery disease with large scale clinical, advanced imaging, and “omics” data

Rm 277, Sydney Knowledge Hub

12pm-1pm, Wednesday 8th May 2024   Presented by Prof. Gemma Figtree. Gemma  is a Professor in Medicine, The University of Sydney Venue: Rm 277, Sydney Knowledge Hub Abstract Identification of the four standard modifiable cardiovascular risk factors (SMuRFs)-diabetes mellitus, hyperlipidaemia, hypertension, and cigarette smoking-has allowed the development of risk scores. These have been used in conjunction […]