Thousand Voices

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.

Rochelle Eim is Professor of Sport Science, and a behavioural epidemiologist researcher focusing on community sport participation. She is the Director of PASI (the Physical Activity and Sport Insights) research team at Federation University and Victoria University. Rochelle has a bachelors of applied science in human movement and sport sciences, and a phd in philosophy of sports injury epidemiology. She is the winner of the AI for sport award of the Women in AIawards 2022 Australi/NZ.

Ramona Vijeyarasa is a lecturer, author, and human rights activist. She is the Chief Investigator behind the Gender Legislative Index. She is also a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law and the Juris Doctor Program Head at the University of Technology Sydney. Her international human rights activism has included, advancing anti-trafficking victim reintegration networks in Vietnam and Ukraine, filing briefs before the European Court of Human Rights, the Supreme Court of Moldova, and the Supreme Court of the Philippines, and managing multi-country programs to advance women’s reproductive rights and freedom from violence. Ramona was the 2020 Women’s Leadership Institute Australia Research Fellow. She was the winner of the Women in AI Law Awards, and the 2nd Runner-up for the Innovator of the Year for the Women in AI AWARDS 2022 Australia NZ.

Originally from Georgia, Elena Sitnikova is an award-winning academic and researcher, Associate Professor of Cybersecurity and Networking, at the College of Science and Engineering, at Flinders University. Elena is a global leader in Critical Infrastructure protection and cybersecurity. She is recognized as a national contributor to Australia’s ongoing defence. Her contribution to the field is demonstrated through multiple competitive grants she has received from industry, State and Federal Government partners in Australia. For her educational achievements she has been awarded the internationally recognised Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy and an Australian Award for University Teaching. She is also the winner of the AI in cybersecurity for the Women in AI awards 2022 australi and NZ.

Dr Cori Stewart is Founder and CEO of the ARM Hub, a not-for-profit company on a mission to digitally transform industry. The ARM Hub specialises in AI, robotics and manufacturing, collaborating with industry and universities to modernise manufacturing practises, commercialise R&D, and build workforce capability. Cori has had a distinguished career and is a recognised leader in developing large-scale partnerships between industry, research institutions, governments and the community. Cori has previously held senior university appointments and government policy roles in industry development, the digital economy, creative industries and innovation. Associate Professor Cori Stewart was awarded Women in AI Australia NZ- AI for Manufacturing Winner in 2022 and Women in Technology's Professional Technology Leader of 2020. In this episode we discuss AI and Robotics applications in manufacturing and infrastructures, policies and regulations for AI, collaboration between nonprofits and governments for funding AI innovations, and challenges to face as a leader. Additional links: Thousand Faces investment club: www.thousandfaces.art Discord Community: https://discord.gg/Ss7dhyNpmM Arm hub: www.armhub.com.au/made-with-artificial-intelligence/

Camille Goldstone-Henry is a wildlife scientist, and the Founder and CEO of Xylo systems, a tech biodiversity startup. She is a descendent of Kamilaroi, which is the second largest nation on the eastern coast of Australia, indigenious tribes. As an experienced wildlife conservation manager, she has worked with the world's most endangered species, including the Tasmanian devil and Sumatran tiger. In 2020 she built a cloud-based platform to connect, track and manage conservation projects. The platform aggregates data from various sources and provides insights into some of these conservation projects so that decision makers can optimize resources. Camille is on a mission to turbocharge wildlife conservation globally. She is the Women in AI trailblazer 2022 and Winner of the women of the future 2021 awards. In this episode we talk about indigenious wisdoms, the climate change and conservation projects, and how AI contributes to saving biodiversity.

Adriana Simona Mihaita is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Technology in Sydney, where she leads the Future Mobility Lab. She is an industry-focused academic, aiming to improve people's movement via artificial intelligence in a smart city context. She is an award winning scientist , including winner of the 2022 Women in AI Infrastructure award in Australia and New Zealand, a triple finalist in the 2022 Women in AI awards, In this episode, we talk about digital twins, AI in transportation and traffic management, sustainability, self-driving vehicles and much more. For more information about Simona’s Digital Twin platform Demo: http://digital-twin.datasci.institute/ And her personal publications: http://www.simonamihaita.com/publications.html

In this episode we talk about AI and its applications linked to bioinformatics, genome sequencing, diseases and how AI is helping scientists study and analyze the human genome and diseases, and the effects of climate change. You will hear the story of an inspiring AI expert who shares her incredible journey of becoming an award winning woman in AI. Dr Denis Bauer is an internationally recognised expert in artificial intelligence, who is passionate about improving health by understanding the secrets in our genome using cloud-computing technology. She is CSIRO’s Principal Research Scientist in transformational bioinformatics and adjunct associate professor at Macquarie University. She keynotes international IT, LifeScience and Medical conferences and is an AWS Data Hero. Her achievements include developing open-source bioinformatics software to detect new disease genes and developing computational tools to track, monitor and diagnose emerging diseases, such as COVID-19. She was the winner of the AI in Innovation Category for Women in AI Awards 2022.

Prof Karin is an Executive Dean, School of Computing Technologies at RMIT University. She is a senior academic leader, with a strong desire to create inclusive, cohesive, and productive collaborative research and educational environments. She is also passionate about supporting #WomenInSTEM and diversity and inclusion initiatives. Prof Karin is a computer scientist by training, with an emphasis on artificial intelligence and cognitive science, particularly focused on language representation and processing in the biomedical domain. Her research focuses on the use of computational techniques, particularly natural language processing, machine learning, text mining and knowledge integration, primarily in the context of biomedical data analysis. Prof Karin is a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Digital Health. She has been applying her AI skills in the biomedical domain since 2003, addressing problems ranging from information extraction of biological concepts and events, to the use of text mining to support interpretation of biological data, to detection and prediction of disease from clinical data.

Malliga is the Vice President, Head of Insights & Data at Capgemini, ANZ. She is an experienced data and analytics leader who builds market leading AI capability and drives long term sustainable business growth. Malliga advises executive stakeholders, designs and delivers innovative and fit-for-purpose data and AI solutions at scale. Malliga’s professional experience spans Consulting (Capgemini, EY, PwC, IBM) and industry (Mercer Investments). Malliga is a commercially astute business leader who leads by example. She has a professional reputation for fostering and inspiring high performing teams through strong workplace relationships and collaboration.