For researchers, DH scholarship is fueling new ways of interrogating content, analysing insights, and outputting discoveries, and is fundamentally shifting how scholars partner together to make new types of research possible. Collaboration is a key driver of change as people with diverse backgrounds and skills come together to address common barriers related to applying new computing tools to content that may not always be prepped and accessible. Together with libraries, Gale is poised to help colleges and universities launch, enhance, or accelerate their digital scholarship programs, strengthening connections with faculty and students. Gale Digital Scholar Lab, developed with participation from beta testers across a wide range of institutions and organisations, is designed to transform the way scholars and students access and analyse Gale primary source materials by offering solutions to some of the most common challenges facing researchers in the digital humanities today. By integrating an unmatched depth and breadth of digital primary source matter with the most popular DH tools, Gale Digital Scholar Lab provides a new lens to explore history and empowers researchers to generate world-altering conclusions and outcomes. Through advanced humanities computing tools that make natural language processing (NLP) for historical texts accessible, more efficient, and impactful, the footprint of digital humanities can be expanded to more classrooms around the globe. This session will showcase The Gale Digital Scholar Lab, a cloud based text and data mining tool allowing researchers, academics and students text and data mine Gale Primary sources and also the ability to upload their own content into the Lab for analysis.
Damian Almeida Gale
This panel explores the critical ways that Community can bolster personal wellbeing on the often grueling and isolating PhD journey. Our special guest experts will share lived experiences and advice on both building and accessing community, online and offline.
Arash Araghi SUPRA
Arash Araghi (HDR Equity Officer) is an Engineering PhD candidate exploring pragmatic solutions toward understanding the underlying release mechanisms of small drug molecules of short biological half-life. He also serves as the HDR Equity Officer in SUPRA representing research students to the University and advocating for the best research and education practices.
A two-hour hands-on workshop giving a brief history of the last few months of development of "Generative AI." These tools, these Large Language Models, offer present promise and peril -- disruption -- to ways of working and of learning. Outside the "hype," these tools are "calculators for words" and allow the same manipulation and reflection of a user's words as a calculator offers for a user's numbers. The workshop will guide users into using various free and paid tools, and the effective use of Large Language Models through chain of thought prompting.
Remember: a LLM is "Always confident and usually correct."
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There will be multiple hands-on activities throughout the workshop, so please bring a fully charged laptop.
The slides for previous workshops are available CC-BY
Dr Brian Ballsun-Stanton Macquarie University
Overview
This seminar will show you real-world examples how MATLAB makes AI easy and accessible with tools such as interactive apps generating MATLAB code. MATLAB provides AI capabilities similar to those of dedicated AI tools like scikit-learn or TensorFlow—and more importantly, only MATLAB lets you integrate AI into the complete workflow for developing a fully engineered system, from data preparation to deployment.
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Dr Emmanuel Blanchard MathWorks
Dr Emmanuel Blanchard is a senior application engineer at MathWorks who first joined the company as a training engineer in 2014. He focuses on data analytics. Prior to joining MathWorks, he was a Lecturer in Mechatronic Engineering at the University of Wollongong. He holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Tech. He also worked as a Systems / Controls Engineer at Cummins Engine Company and as a research assistant in several research institutions in California and Virginia.
This presentation delves into an innovative study that establishes a standardized approach following accredited clinical genome testing for genetic diseases. Our research, centered around 499 individuals with genetic heart ailments in Australia, employs advanced bioinformatics analysis and lab-based functional assessments. Notably, we identified additional disease-causing variations in 10 previously undiagnosed participants. The results show that a combination of secondary bioinformatics analysis and lab studies can better identify the cause of inherited heart diseases, leading to improved diagnoses and better management for affected individuals and their family members.
Yuchen Chang Centenary Institute
This panel explores the critical ways that Community can bolster personal wellbeing on the often grueling and isolating PhD journey. Our special guest experts will share lived experiences and advice on both building and accessing community, online and offline.
Find out about UTS’s work to innovate its support of HDR students by developing a capability framework and identifying pressure points in students’ research journeys. With student capacity and wellness in mind, UTS seeks to create a community of research practice through its broad development and wellness program. Aside from skills development, we are also seeking to combat feelings of isolation and disconnection by a range of networking events.
Amy Cotton University of Technology Sydney
Amy currently implements a program with 200 learning and social opportunities for Higher Degree Research students on behalf of GRS, UTS. This includes a strong focus on wellbeing as a vital part of researcher development. She brings a diverse range of experiences to her current role, including designing and implementing statewide professional development programs for tens of thousands of teachers for the Independent Education Union, Teacher Learning Network, Victorian Department of Education and several teaching associations. She has worked as a policy negotiator and advisor, union organiser, public spokesperson, learning designer and teacher. Amy is the director of Cotton Education Services, a learning design company which builds facilitation and online solutions for development of employees or members. In her spare time, she builds communities online to help stave off loneliness for isolated people.
This panel explores the critical ways that Community can bolster personal wellbeing on the often grueling and isolating PhD journey. Our special guest experts will share lived experiences and advice on both building and accessing community, online and offline.
Hillary Davis SUPRA
Hillary is a 2nd year astrophysics PhD student at the University of Sydney. Her research is in Galactic Archaeology – a study of the history of the Milky Way galaxy. She is also a tutor of 1st and 2nd yr undergraduate physics, and holds a position as a General Councillor in SUPRA.
Sharing some of the tricks and tips to help users get more out of REDCap without the need for External Modules or Adminstrator assistance. These include useful but overlooked features, alternative uses of features as well as some useful tricks that will help you build and run your REDCap project.
Dr Cameron Fong University of Sydney
Are you always on the lookout for productivity hacks to cope with the webform-ocracy of modern research work? This is an interactive session on the changing nature of research work, and how the systems we design can start to address some of the challenges in being a researcher. Together we will unpack codesign methodologies that centre the experience of being a researcher in developing solutions for digital research infrastructure. We're keen to involve people doing AND supporting research in the humanities, creative arts and social sciences. Novice and seasoned practitioners of open science alike are extremely welcome.
Tom Honeyman ARDC
This presentation will explore techniques in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), the study of the relationship between language and its social context, for analysing qualitative data. In particular,this presentation will address how SFL intersects with new advances in generative artificial intelligence and natural language processing (NLP). The examples in this presentation relate to social media data, covering the collection of social media data, the development of social media corpora using corpus linguistic tools, and how manual SFL analyses and automated NLP analyses can intersect. The overall aim of this presentation is to introduce the audience to SFL and provide a number of resources and tools for researchers interested in this particular methodology and its future.
Olivia Inwood Western Sydney University
The Data Directory Cataloger is a Python program that helps research groups to catalog their data directories. The entire Python program is less than 500 lines. Researchers just drop a README text file containing a few metadata fields into directories containing their data. The Python program scans directories for those README files. It collates the metadata into Markdown documents. A static website generator then creates a web site from those documents. The UTS is currently using this to help research groups to document their data on our HPC data storage system.
Dr Michael Lake University of Technology Sydney
This presentation will show how the version control system git and web-enabled platforms like GitHub can be used by researchers to collaborate effectively both within their own teams and with other researchers and open-source projects.
Mike Lynch University of Sydney
Mike Lynch is a Data Science Group Lead at the Sydney Informatics Hub. He is a software engineer with extensive experience in building platforms and systems to support research, with a particular interest in research data management and metadata standards.
So everyone is using ChatGPT these days but how exactly can you get the most out of it for your research? In this talk I'll show you three killer ways you can take advantage of these new AI magic tricks so you can use them like a research wizard. I'll briefly overview the traps to avoid, and then show you a glimpse of the future where AI does the boring parts of your job for you!
Dr Gordon McDonald University of Sydney
This workshop will be an interactive demonstration in which you will be introduced to the use of Python for cheminformatic modelling using Google Co-lab notebooks. The session also demonstrates the utility of cloud computing for educational purposes negating the need for students to setup complicated infrastructure before getting down to the learning part of their activities. Participants will access an online data source via a Google Colab Jupyter Notebook and generate fingerprint representations of chemical data for subsequent modelling in SciKitLearn. The final model will be predictive of psychedelic activity based on the structure-activity relationship found in a set of phenethylamine molecules. Participants will need a Google account to be able to make their own cheminformatics models in this workshop.
Dr Slade Matthews University of Sydney
Slade Matthews is a researcher and educator whose career has been marked by his dedication to the intersection of biomedical science and machine learning. He is committed to fostering mathematical literacy among students and has made contributions to both research and education in the field. He holds two teaching awards for university teaching. Slade's primary research focus centres on the fusion of experimental design, statistical analysis, and machine learning to investigate biomedical problems, especially in toxicology. He has published 43 publications in peer-reviewed journals and has been cited 1275 times.
EarthByte - 2023 finalists in Eureka Prize for Excellence in Research Software
Professor Dietmar Müller University of Sydney
Dietmar Müller is Professor of Geophysics at the School of Geosciences, University of Sydney. He received his undergraduate degree from the Univ. of Kiel, Germany, and his PhD in Earth Science from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego/California in 1993. After joining the University of Sydney he built the EarthByte Research Group, pursuing geodata synthesis and modelling through space and time. The EarthByte Group's virtual globe software, recently shortlisted for a Eureka Award, has a myriad of applications from providing boundary conditions for high-performance computing Earth evolution models to critical mineral exploration with end-users in over 190 countries. Dietmar currently leads STELLAR, a multi-year industry project aimed at developing big and complex spatio-temporal data analysis and modelling to support the energy transition and critical mineral exploration exploration. He held an Australian Laureate Fellowship from 2009-2014, and is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and the American Geophysical Union.
Tools like ChatGPT, Midjourney, and Bing AI have arrived and are changing the way we work. We are in an era of assistive thinking: AI tools can help improve our productivity, creativity, and analytic thinking. This session will explore ways generative AI can be used productively by researchers - as well as some of the caveats and limitations associated with the technology.
Dr Pat Norman
Dr Pat Norman is the Research and Development Lead for Sydney Executive Plus, an executive upskilling initiative at the University of Sydney Business School. His doctoral research explored professional identity, ethics, and education policy enactment in the context of neoliberalism. Pat's research interests include professional identity and practical wisdom, artificial intelligence, the future of work and management, and approaches to flourishing under neoliberalism. Pat collaborates on the delivery of programs related to megatrends and the future of work, corporate foresight and strategy, changing management practices, AI fluency, and innovation in business. He also writes on pop culture and social theory, and has published research in Critical Studies in Education, the Australian Educational Researcher, and Teaching in Higher Education.
This panel explores the critical ways that Community can bolster personal wellbeing on the often grueling and isolating PhD journey. Our special guest experts will share lived experiences and advice on both building and accessing community, online and offline.
Venessa Paech University of Sydney
Venessa (BFA, MA) is Australia’s leading expert in online communities. She has led community for Lonely Planet, REA Group, Envato and Australia Post, and as a private consultant helps organisations design, build and maintain thriving communities (including: ABC, Teach for Australia, SANE and Woolworths). Venessa co-founded the longest running conference for community professionals in the world - Swarm - and in 2023 launched the first ever dedicated conference for online moderation. She is Co-Founder and Director of Australian Community Managers (ACM), the national centre of excellence for community management training, research and resources. Venessa created and teaches the first post-graduate online community management Unit and a Community at Work intensive for executives at the University of Sydney, where she is a fellow PhD Candidate researching AI and communities.
Tools like ChatGPT, Midjourney, and Bing AI have arrived and are changing the way we work. We are in an era of assistive thinking: AI tools can help improve our productivity, creativity, and analytic thinking. This session will explore ways generative AI can be used productively by researchers - as well as some of the caveats and limitations associated with the technology.
Professor Kai Riemer University of Sydney
Professor Simon Ringer University of Sydney
Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research Infrastructure)
Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) have an ability to enable seamless human-computer interaction, aiding in tasks like communication, control and cognitive augmentation. In this session, we will explore the better understanding of BCI and its diverse applications.
Dr Avinash Singh University of Technology Sydney
Dr Avinash Singh is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the School of Computer Science in the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia. He works in the intersection of AI/machine learning, cognitive neuroscience, signal processing and mixed-reality to design and develop real-world neuroadaptive Brain-Computer Interfaces/Neurotech systems. He also serves as co-chair in the IEEE Neuroethics Framework for Workplace sponsored by IEEE Brain and the IEEE Standards committee on Unifying BCIs technologies and standards.
This panel explores the critical ways that Community can bolster personal wellbeing on the often grueling and isolating PhD journey. Our special guest experts will share lived experiences and advice on both building and accessing community, online and offline.
Liz Stokes ARDC
Liz advocates for research trainers and connects global training communities to deliver a national skills advantage for Australian researchers. They lead a national Carpentries Partnership to help researchers train peers in programming, and coordinate a regional network of ResBaz organisers across Australia and New Zealand. At the Australian Research Data Commons, Liz also runs an internal community of practice for Community Facilitators.
The Sydney Informatics Hub is pleased to present a special methods workshop hosted by the Australian Text Analytics Platform. At the workshop, you will learn how to use the Document Similarity tool, which enables users to efficiently identify duplicated content within document collections. You’ll be shown how to use the tool to inspect identified similarities and differences, placing highlighted documents side-by-side, and facilitating informed decisions on content retention. Further, other ATAP tools like Juxtorpus will be demonstrated on this session with an example application to analyse internet privacy policies, comparing different versions of such documents as they are updated over time as individual documents or a collection of policies.
Dr Chao Sun University of Sydney
The way Research Data Management is presented should be accessible to all areas of research so that greater engagement from students/researchers is received. Case studies which include research output from non-STEM projects will be explored to identify different concepts of what research data looks like, and how digital tools can be applied.
Dr Shannon Taylor University of Sydney
On premise quantum computing is a reality thanks to Quantum Brilliance’s compact quantum accelerators. The technology developed by Quantum Brilliance allows for low power consumption devices that operate at room temperature and are easy to install in any lab.
We build the full stack, from quantum diamonds to all the layers of control and programming SW, all the way to quantum simulators and emulators.
Start coding quantum algorithms today using our open source simulator Qristal SDK and explore avenues for quantum utility in your research.
At ResBaz 2023, we are here to connect our teams of scientists, engineers and product managers to the up and coming research community.
Stop by at our booth to try for yourself what it takes to start coding quantum algorithms, assist to live demos, or simply to have a chat about the unavoidable consequences of the quantum computing revolution.
Dr Michael Walker Quantum Brilliance
Michael began his career in theoretical physics before moving into biological modelling and later completing an MPhil in bioinformatics. He then applied machine learning to molecular modelling in drug design before a stint in epidemiological modelling before joining Quantum Brilliance
On premise quantum computing is a reality thanks to Quantum Brilliance’s compact quantum accelerators. The technology developed by Quantum Brilliance allows for low power consumption devices that operate at room temperature and are easy to install in any lab.
We build the full stack, from quantum diamonds to all the layers of control and programming SW, all the way to quantum simulators and emulators.
Start coding quantum algorithms today using our open source simulator Qristal SDK and explore avenues for quantum utility in your research.
At ResBaz 2023, we are here to connect our teams of scientists, engineers and product managers to the up and coming research community.
Stop by at our booth to try for yourself what it takes to start coding quantum algorithms, assist to live demos, or simply to have a chat about the unavoidable consequences of the quantum computing revolution.
Simon Yin Quantum Brilliance
Simon has been developing Qristal , an open source SDK that integrates quantum computing on HPC sites. He is an alumni from Sydney Uni (B.Eng,electrical + B.Commerce) and has a MSc in HPC from National University of Singapore. He has also worked previously for Cochlear, UNSW CQCT, Intersect, Childrens Cancer Institute and UNSW ResTech
This three-hour hands-on tutorial teaches the fundamentals of using Linux and High Performance Computing, using the NCI Gadi HPC system. No prior experience is assumed!
This three-hour hands-on tutorial teaches the fundamentals of using Linux and High Performance Computing, using the NCI Gadi HPC system. No prior experience is assumed!
John Zaitseff UNSW Sydney