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Dr Kerry Schott AO and Dr Marnie Shaw field questions at the second ANU Future of Neighbourhood Batteries Conference on 29 November 2023. Dr Shaw remarked is twice the size from last year.
Energy experts gather to plan future of neighbourhood batteries in Australia
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Computer scientists and medical doctors are developing algorithms that can screen for and help diagnose ovarian cancer long before symptoms appear.
Computers to bolster fight against ovarian cancer
A new discovery will allow high-speed computing and machine learning to improve the early detection and treatment of ovarian cancer. In Australia,...
Feiyue Tao feared her research would suffer if she accepted a summer internship with Google, but it didn't prevent her from earning a Postgraduate Medal for Academic Excellence,
Gamble pays off as computing standout lands at Google
As the deadline neared for the submission of Master of Computing thesis, Feiyue Tao wondered if she had made a mistake in accepting a summer internship with...
Professor Yuerui (Larry) Lu and his team have discovered a new type of semiconductor structure that will improve the speed and the energy efficiency of smart phones and computers.
Discovery of exciton pairs could enable next-gen technology
Electrical engineers from The Australian National University (ANU) have demonstrated how to create exciton pairs in a new type of semiconductor structure, paving the way for next generation technologies required for high speed computing...
Rosa Rosmery Soto Ruidias, Carina Li, Ho Yan Or, and Natasha Pegler: the only team thus far to escape a computer science "Escape Room" designed by Dr Bernardo Pereira Nunes.
Escape Room unlocks inventive path to learning
An ANU Escape Room aims to teach computational thinking, problem-solving, and collaboration while having a bit of fun.
ANU School of Engineering PhD graduand Chalaka Fernando (far right), sat down with ACT Minister for Transport and City Services Chris Steel MLA (far left), and Professor Matthew Doolan from UNSW (Fernando’s primary supervisor) to discuss his research on how we can reduce the environmental impacts of our daily commute.
Shared EV mobility the key to reducing greenhouse gas emissions
Personal transport in Australia is a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions with cars and light commercial vehicles making up...
Open Day returns
Over 3,000 people visited the ANU campus on 3 September, 2022, the first in-person Open Day since before the pandemic. Future students and their parents were greeted with a festival-like environment and offered numerous opportunities to...
Biomedical Engineer, Dr Nicolo Malagutti
Getting the dose right
Each year, more than four million Australians are administered anaesthetic. [i] And while anaesthesia-related mortality is very low (3.29 per million or roughly 13...
The Evolve project team, led by Professor Lachlan Blackhall, at the Engineers Australia Canberra Excellence Project Awards.
Evolve project takes out Engineers Australia Canberra Excellence Project Award
Congratulations to the Battery Storage and Grid Integration Program (BSGIP) at The Australian National University (ANU), who along with partner Zepben have recently won this year’s Engineers Australia Canberra Excellence Project Award...
Interim Dean Nick Birbilis presents an award of commendation for Outstanding Team Performance to Natalie Vigliotta, Christie Liu, and Minyue (Petal) Wang for organising the School of Computing's 50th anniversary gala. The top award in this category went to members of the Work Health and Safety Team.
Professional staff recognised at 2022 Dean's Awards
Members of the ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science (CECS) community recently joined Interim Dean Nick Birbilis at the Birch Innovation Space to celebrate the winners of the 2022 Dean's Awards for Professional Staff. ...
Associate Professor Marta Yebra and Dr Andrew Tridgell are testing a system that will pinpoint lighting strikes and dispatch drones to investigate possible bushfires.
Drone fleet, algorithms to help limit future bushfires
When humans start bushfires, intentionally or not, the fires tend to be near other humans and are reported quickly. Not so fires that begin deep in the bush. ...
Louise Bardwell with her parents, Susie and Alan, on graduation day, 15 July, 2022.
Humanitarian engineering was her doorway, now it is the key
“Engineering is not just putting up bridges or wiring circuits,” explained Louise Bardwell after teaching a hands-on engineering workshop for high school girls visiting The Australian National Univeristy (ANU). “It is a...
Leader in multi-disciplinary health impact promoted to Professor
"Hanna has completely reshaped engagement and impact within the College, and the University more broadly. Fostering a culture of altruistic, future focused research partnerships and outcomes."...
Members of ANU Rocketry brought their latest rocket, Halo, to help greet new starters on the first day of Orientation Week.
New starters greeted with inspiring words, rocket, courtyard luncheon
Student-led organisations set up stalls — and in one case, a rocket capable of leaving earth's atmosphere — to introduced themselves and welcome new students to ANU.
Thien Truong, PhD was one of 225 graduates of the ANU College of Engineering & Computer Science to participate in the 15 July, 2022 Conferring of Awards ceremony.
Graduates celebrate, reflect at Conferring of Awards ceremony
Graduates of the ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science gathered at Llewellyn Hall on 15 July to receive diplomas, celebrate achievements, and begin new chapters of their lives. In all, 225 students crossed the stage at...
Feiyue Tao was awarded the Postgraduate Medal for Academic Excellence.
Medal winners announced at Conferring of Awards ceremony
Congratulations to medal winners Feiyue Tao, who has been awarded the Postgraduate Medal for Academic Excellence, and Edmund Hofflin, who is the University Medal winner for undergraduate studies. Feiyue receives her Masters in Advanced...
TechLauncher industry partner Serina Bird.
The Joyful Fashionista meets TechLauncher
When Serina Bird signed up to be an industry partner in The Australian National University (ANU) TechLauncher program, she was in the process of realising an ambition to build an online shopping community where people of all shapes and...
Dr Bjorn Sturmberg. Image: Jamie Kidston/ANU
Electric vehicles pass the remote road test
Electric vehicles can handle the distances required to travel to essential services in remote and regional Australia, a new study from The Australian National University (ANU) has shown. ...
Computational social science: As a step toward endowing artificial intelligence with moral reasoning capabilities, Josh Nguyen and a team of ANU experts analysed 100,000 threads from the popular web forum Reddit.
Algorithm charts moral culture in 100k dilemmas
Should we sacrifice the life of one person to save the lives of five others? For social scientists, hypothetical dilemmas with stark, life-and-death consequences play an important role in theorising about philosophical...
Dr Kean Fong, Dr Marco Ernst, and Dr Wensheng Liang developed a new bifacial solar cell, which can absorb both direct and reflected solar energy, thanks to funding from the Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics (ACAP). The Albanese government recently announced ACAP will receive $45 million over the next eight years.
$45m injection to electrify innovation in Aussie solar tech
The Australian National University (ANU) will play a critical role in researching and developing cheaper, more efficient and more sustainable solar technologiesthanks to a multi-million dollar cash splash that will ignite a spark in...
Rocketry leader lands at Airbus
The aerospace engineering major was not yet available at The Australian National University (ANU) when Allissa Li graduated in 2019 with a double degree in Science and...
