Research projects in Information Technology

This project will investigate and develop the ways in which AI algorithms and practices can be made transparent and explainable for use in law enforcement and judicial applications

The use of AI in law enforcement and judicial domains requires consideration of a number of ethical issues.  This project will investigate and develop frameworks that embed ethical principles in the research, development, deployment ,and use of AI systems in law enforcement (LE). A major focus is expected to concern the acquisition, use, sharing and governance of data for AI in this context.

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Complex questions are those that involve discrete, aggregate operators that operate on numbers (min, max, arithmetic) and sets (intersection, union, difference). Recent advances in complex question answering take a neural-symbolic approach and combine meta-learning and reinforcement learning techniques [1,2,3]. On the other hand, the generation of complex questions, the dual problem, is less explored. Recent works on knowledge graph question generation [4,5] have mainly focussed on multi-hop questions.

This scholarship will provide a stipend allowance of $29,000 AUD per annum for up to 3.5 years, plus $4,000 travel allowance. If you are currently in Australia you are strongly encouraged to apply. If successful, you will join Dr. Roberto-Martinez Maldonado, Prof. Dragan Gasevic, and a strong team of academics, researchers and other students at the Centre of Learning Analytics at Monash University, Melbourne.

The Australian Research Council (ARC) Training Centre in Optimisation Technologies, Integrated Methodologies, and Applications (OPTIMA) is seeking applications for ten ARC fully-funded PhD projects with generous top-up scholarships.

We're looking for talented students with a background in mathematics, computer science, statistics, economics, engineering or other related fields. These positions are offered across OPTIMA's nodes located at Monash University or The University of Melbourne. Projects will be available from June 2021 onwards.

The proposed PhD project aims to build a machine learning/deep learning-based decision support system that provides recommendations on precision medicine for paediatric brain cancer patients based on clinical, genomics and functional dependency data (CRISPR, drug screens).

Anomaly detection is an important task in data mining. Traditionally most of the anomaly detection algorithms have been designed for ‘static’ datasets, in which all the observations are available at one time. In non-stationary environments on the other hand, the same algorithms cannot be applied as the underlying data distributions change constantly and the same models are not valid. Hence, we need to devise adaptive models that take into account the dynamically changing characteristics of environments and detect anomalies in ‘evolving’ data.

The relationship between the information-theoretic Bayesian minimum message length (MML) principle and the notion of Solomonoff-Kolmogorov complexity from algorithmic information theory (Wallace and Dowe, 1999a) ensures that - at least in principle, given enough search time - MML can infer any underlying computable model in a data-set.

A consequence of this is that we can (e.g.)

Methods of balancing model complexity with goodness of fit include Akaike's information criterion (AIC), Schwarz's Bayesian information criterion (BIC), minimum description length (MDL) and minimum message length (MML) (Wallace and Boulton, 1968; Wallace and Freeman, 1987; Wallace and Dowe, 1999a; Wallace, 2005).