AI Symposium, 21 November 2024

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Patricia O'Shane Building (E19)

9:30 Opening
Session 1
F. Salim (Chair)
Room 104
Session 2
S. Sequoiah-Grayson (Chair)
Room 105
9:40 AI in Biomedicine and Healthcare 9:40 AI in Business, Education and Training
10:40 Coffee Break with Discussions and Posters
Session 3
W. Midgley (Chair)
Room 104
Session 4
S. Sisson (Chair)
Room 105
11:30 AI in Cyber Security 11:30 Data science, Image and Visual analytics
11:50 Autonomous agents, Embedded AI, Robotics 12:00 AI Ethics, Regulation, Law
12:10 Urban AI, Built environment, Environmental science
12:30 Lunch Break with Discussions and Posters
13:30 Short Keynotes     Prof Toby Walsh, Chief Scientist, UNSW AI Institute (Chair)

Accelerating Research Innovations Using NVIDIA Platforms - Use Cases and Collaboration Modes
Dr Tomasz Bednarz, Director, Strategic Researcher Engagement at NVIDIA
Empowering Researchers with AI: ResTech’s Role in Advancing Research at UNSW
Dr Patrick Tung, AI Imaging Scientist, UNSW Research Technology Services
Australia’s place in the AI universe and how UNSW can make a difference
Dr Sue Keay, Incoming Director, UNSW AI Institute
14:15 Panel on Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Opportunities and Challenges
Prof Michael Thielscher, Acting Director, UNSW AI Institute (Chair)

Prof M Hank Haeusler (Built Environment), A/Prof Fatemeh Vafee (Faculty of Science), Prof Mari Velonaki (Arts & Design)
15:00 Best presentation awards + closing remarks
15:15 Networking drinks


   A. AI in Biomedicine and Healthcare

  1. AI Assisted Prediction and Analysis of Electrocardiograms
    George Parker
  2. AI enabled continuum robots for minimally invasive surgery
    Leo Wu
  3. Multifaceted Representation of Genes via Deep Learning of Gene Expression Networks
    Zheng (John) Su
  4. Attastic: patients' portal to cutting-edge disease research and technologies
    Zheng (John) Su
  5. (Cancelled)
  6. PlasmoCount 2.0: Rapid Multi-Species Malaria Parasite Detection and Staging Across Platforms Using Deep Learning
    Frank Weate
  7. Customary Medicinal Flora of Australia, RAG AI Solutions in the Life Sciences
    Edward Owen Norman
  8. AI-Powered SAAS Platform for seamlessly connecting families, caregivers, and care providers for better person-centred care
    Robert Buhrke
  9. Finding the person in personalised medicine - Using life story work to facilitate advance care planning and end-of-life decision-making among older adults
    Craig Sinclair
  10. AI-assisted super donor selection for fecal microbiota transplant
    Xiaotao Jiang
  11. Mapping cell and protein types across the tree of life
    Fabio Zanini
  12. Eye on the Future: Transforming Medical Diagnostics with AI and Ocular Imaging
    Maitreyee Roy
  13. Predicting Post-gestational Type 2 Diabetes through Integrating Multiomics Data with Deep Learning
    Coco Huang

   B. AI in Business, Education and Training

  1. DCC Help: Better Programming Error Messages with Large Language Models
    Andrew Taylor
  2. Collaborated learning environments supported by AI-Powered Feedback System
    Nick Qi
  3. AI for Lifelong Learning: Perpetual AI Course Assistant; Feedback Copilot: Streamlining Faculty Marking with AI Assistance
    Lamont Tang
  4. SDGoal Getter: creating AI bot for SDG Knowledge System to facilitate SDG education and action.
    Veronica Zixi Jiang
  5. Ensuring the next generation of AI specialists - Data science for high school science teachers
    Lauren McKnight
  6. AI-based chatbots for educational purposes: Academic and career guidance
    Jihyun Lee
  7. Adaptive Socratic Tutor for Critical Thinking: A Neuro-Symbolic AI Approach to Guided Learning
    Chuljin Park; Owen (Hoyeon) Cho
  8. Artificial Intelligence-assisted Tool To Ensure Trust And Explainability In Business Risk Management
    Ripon K. Chakrabortty
  9. AI as a pathway to evidence-based management: the missing piece to reduce aleatory uncertainty
    Christian Criado-Perez Chanin
  10. Knowee AI
    Willow
  11. Decentralised AI Student Assistant - Empowering Student Success and Life Long Learning (Perpetual AI)
    Wendy Loh
  12. Beyond Predictions: Making AI Reliable with Uncertainty and Causal Understanding
    He Zhao

   C. AI in Cyber Security

  1. Trends and Patterns in AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) in NSW
    Rachel Berry
  2. Deep learning Talking Head generation into Presentations
    Sanjay Jha
  3. Dataset for sentiment and sarcasm classification for dialects of English (Sponsor: Google)
    Aditya Joshi
  4. Machine Learning for Modeling Dynamic Systems and Applications
    Ali Shakiba

   D. Autonomous agents, Embedded AI, and Robotics

  1. (Cancelled)
  2. Efficient and Autonomous Learning of Foundation Models for General and Specific Purposes
    Dong Gong
  3. Transformers and Deep Learning for Satellite Manoeuvre Detection
    Yang Yang
  4. Time-Series Multimodal Foundation Models and SensorLLM for General Purpose Behaviour Modelling
    Flora Salim
  5. (Cancelled)
  6. Artificial Intimacy - the other AI. How Virtual Friends engage Human Minds
    Rob Brooks
  7. AI for materials selection in metal 3D printing
    Vitor Rielli
  8. LLM as an HPC Expert: Bridging the Gap Between HPC Systems and Users via LLM
    Yusuke Miyashita
  9. Foundational and applied natural language processing
    Aditya Joshi

   E. Data science, Image, and Visual analytics

  1. Multimodal Emotion Analysis in Video Content: Challenges and Opportunities
    Chedia Dhaoui
  2. The AI and the Chemists - A 2-Way Convo to Optimizing Reaction Yields
    Jonathan Li
  3. Metabolic imaging and AI, the next technology for IVF treatments
    Fabrizzio Horta
  4. Development of a parent attribution measure using large language model (i.e., ChatGPT) to detect psychological attributions from 5-minute speech samples
    Shawn Chua
  5. AI for Defect Detection and Quality Assurance in Manufacturing and Production
    Binayak Bhandari
  6. ViLCo-Bench: VIdeo Language COntinual learning Benchmark
    Yue Tan
  7. Compute Infrastructure for UNSW AI Imaging
    Patrick Tung

   F. AI Ethics, Regulation, and the Law

  1. GenAI in the courtroom: Fact v Fiction [2024] GenAI 1
    Vicki McNamara
  2. Navigating the Tension Between AI Innovation and Export Control Limitations
    Jinjin Zhao

   G. Urban AI, Built environment, Climate and environmental science

  1. FrogID: people powere to the rescue in frog conservation
    Jodi Rowley
  2. Using Large Language Model Agents for Generative, Data-Driven Simulations in Urban Planning Decision-Making
    YUNCHENG (DEVIN) HUA
  3. BTS: Building Timeseries Dataset: Empowering Large-Scale Building Analytics
    Arian Prabowo
  4. My Climate Co-Pilot: An Application of NLP in Climate Adaptation for Agriculture
    Vincent Nguyen

   Posters

  1. AI Assisted Prediction and Analysis of Electrocardiograms
    George Parker
  2. AI-enabled Drug Discovery and Development
    Parvin Mansouri
  3. DNA cis-Regulatory Advanced Genome Tokenisation for cell state analysis
    Zhihao Zhang
  4. AI-Powered SAAS Platform for seamlessly connecting families, caregivers, and care providers for better person-centred care
    Robert Buhrke
  5. AI-assisted brain health screening for the detection of mild cognitive difficulties
    Lucette Cysique
  6. Predicting Post-gestational Type 2 Diabetes through Integrating Multiomics Data with Deep Learning
    Coco Huang
  7. Interpretability and Debiasing in Image Classification
    Yang Song
  8. Baby-Robot Interaction: An Observational Analysis of Young Children’s Interactions with Robot Cleaners
    Eduardo Benitez Sandoval
  9. Compute Infrastructure for UNSW AI Imaging
    Patrick Tung
  10. SDGoal Getter: creating AI bot for SDG Knowledge System to facilitate SDG education and action.
    Veronica Zixi Jiang
  11. AI for Lifelong Learning: Perpetual AI Course Assistant; Feedback Copilot: Streamlining Faculty Marking with AI Assistance
    Lamont Tang
  12. AI assistance for extracting complex table data off paper
    tom sobey
  13. Adaptive E-learning (with collaborator A/Prof Gelareh Mohammadi)
    A/Prof Nadine Marcus
  14. Knowee AI
    Willow
  15. Beyond Predictions: Making AI Reliable with Uncertainty and Causal Understanding
    He Zhao
  16. Understanding the Vulnerabilities of Deep Neural Networks to Backdoor Attacks
    Hassan Ali
  17. The Long Road to Trajectory Privacy
    Erik Buchholz
  18. LLM as an HPC Expert: Bridging the Gap Between HPC Systems and Users via LLM
    Yusuke Miyashita
  19. Alignment LLM/VLM for reinforcement learning: towards better explanation and generalization
    Shuang Ao
  20. Development of an Embodied AI Lifelike Social Companion Robot
    Mahdi Bamdad, Francisco Cruz Naranjo
  21. Transformers and Deep Learning for Satellite Manoeuvre Detection
    Yang Yang
  22. (Cancelled)
  23. RL based Model for General Robotics Control and Explanations
    Shuang Ao
  24. Correlative Microscopy: Linking structure and properties across length scale
    Shery Chang
  25. Guidelines-Based Frontend Code Repair
    Mingyue Yuan
  26. ViLCo-Bench: VIdeo Language COntinual learning Benchmark
    Yue Tan
  27. CFD + AI/machine learning (ML) modelling of the effect of weather on solar farm’s power and degradation of the modules
    Svetlana Tkachenko
  28. BTS: Building Timeseries Dataset: Empowering Large-Scale Building Analytics
    Arian Prabowo
  29. My Climate Co-Pilot: An Application of NLP in Climate Adaptation for Agriculture
    Vincent Nguyen