Episode #31: Paving the way up into the AI world as an award-winning researcher and professor - Flora Salim
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Professor Flora Salim from sydney Australia, is an award winning researcher, and respected professor. She is a Professor in the School of Computing Technologies, the co-Deputy Director of RMIT Centre for Information Discovery and Data Analytics, and an Associate Investigator of ARC Centre of Excellence in Automated Decision Making and Society. She is the inaugural CISCO Chair of Digital Transport, School of Computer Science and Engineering, UNSW Sydney. She serves as a member of various boards of very highly recognized institutions such as the Australian Research Council (ARC) College of Experts. Her research sits in the cross-cutting areas of ubiquitous computing, machine learning, and data science, with specific interests on time-series and spatio-temporal data; representation learning of spatio-temporal and mobility behaviours; and data-efficient learning with multimodal sensor data. She received the Women in AI Awards 2022 Australia New Zealand in the Defence and Intelligence category.
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