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Student innovators win McCusker Prize for new, lifesaving technologies
16 Jan 2024
Engineering student Nicholas Bull won a McCusker Prize Humanitarian Engineering for his research on water purification in Timor-Leste. The other prize went to an ANU Computing team deploying AI to battle bushfires....
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Systems Engineering is future-fitted engineering
11 Dec 2023
The award-winning Systems Engineering program at ANU is unique in Australia. We asked students, alumni, and academics to explain how and why.
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We tell people how atoms move—an interview with Loong Wang
6 Dec 2023
Loong Wang’s first two tech companies were valued at nearly $2 billion when they were sold. He has founded two more since his 2021 pivot to bio-medical technology.
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Computing internship leads to life, career change
14 Nov 2023
Andrea Do was working as a medical researcher when she first encountered machine learning. She decided to enrol at the School of Computing, where an internship at a fast-growing tech company changed...
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Pioneering woman launches PhD with ANU Computing
4 Oct 2023
Chunyi Sun skipped a year of school during her youth in Nanjing, China and had started university a year early when a surprising swerve in her study interests led her to The...
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Medal-winning scholar takes machine learning to new heights
25 Sep 2023
Edmund Hofflin recently accepted a PhD position at Oxford University. “This will be in mathematics, focused on the background theory of artificial intelligence,” said the School of Computing’s 2022 University Medal winner....
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Pioneering Women Scholarship welcomes computing standout from Sri Lanka
20 Sep 2023
The Australian National University (ANU) is addressing underrepresentation of women in computing through a new Pioneering Women Program. We spoke to inaugural scholarship recipient Sumayya Ziyad about the award, her study journey...
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Solar racing team sets off for World Solar Car Challenge
19 Sep 2023
The Australian National University (ANU) solar car team are ready to set off on an adventure, leaving Canberra on Saturday 30 September to drive all the way to Darwin for the Bridgestone World...
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ANU engineering student experiment to be tested by ISS astronauts
18 Sep 2023
What do chopsticks and space robots have in common? Japanese astronauts onboard the International Space Station (ISS) are about to find out.
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Welcoming our students to Semester 2
20 Jul 2023
The Australian National University (ANU) welcomed new and returning students this week, as we get ready for Semester 2 2023.