I am working on several projects for the ISE ECP this year to support particular disciplinary groups
including the Cybersecurity teams, HDRs and the
data sensory groups, just to name a few. I am
always looking for ways I can support ISE ECP affiliates - feel free to contact me (Mark Sanderson)
if your ideas meet this platform's research priority areas: Data, telecommunications and sensors; Automation & Intelligence; Energy Production & Transformation; and Cybersecurity. You can find further details about the
priority areas by clicking here.
I received a great level of interest from affiliates for the
2019 ISE ECP CDF round and am really excited about the proposals we received. Final assessments are now in and awaiting final approval by the ECP Directors and the ADVC, Research Capability. Recipients will be advised soon after this final stage and I look forward to how they will progress during the year. For those who missed out, I encourage you to try again during our next round.
Several interesting events are listed in this issue of the newsletter. The Biomedical and Health Innovation ECP is running the 'Healthy Ageing' Symposium on Monday 6 May. An exciting line-up of industry speakers and RMIT researchers will deliver talks on their current work on Healthy Ageing, an issue that is relevant to all. The 2019 Winter School in Mathematical & Computational Biology will take place from 1-5 July. I encourage you to think about supporting your students, HDRs and ECRs to attend this event.
If you are interested in submitting a grant on protecting the internet, Mozilla has opened its Research Grants 2019 with a closing date of 1 June.
We are always looking out for stories to add to our newsletter. If you are interested in sharing your research journey in our future issues, please contact us. Send us an email by clicking here.
Cheers for now,
Mark Sanderson
Building Capabilities
'Healthy Ageing' Symposium
Monday 6 May, 2019
9.00 am - 1.00 pm
Building 16, Level 7,
Conference rooms 1 & 2
Green Brain, RMIT University,
City campus
The Biomedical and Health Innovation ECP invites you to the 'Healthy Ageing' Symposium, which will host expert speakers from industry as well as RMIT researchers from various disciplines to
represent a truly multidisciplinary approach to this themed event.
Confirmed Industry speakers include:
Prof Katie Flanagan, Head of Infectious Diseases, Launceston General Hospital & Clinical Professor at the University of Tasmania
Matiu Bush, Senior Strategist, Business Innovation, Bolton Clarke
Sarah Evans, Aged, Disability and Community Care (ADCC), Telstra Health
Debra O’Connor, Deputy Director, National Ageing Research Institute (NARI)
We will be joined by our BHI ECP Sector Expert Research Advisory Group (SERAG), many of whom attended the EFI2019 this year. Members attending include:
Penelope Lane, CEO, Optix Advisory
Andrew Crettenden, Executive Director Strategy & Planning, St Vincent's Hospital
Andrew Batty, Managing Director, Lincoln Consulting Group
Katie Flanagan, Head of Infectious Diseases, Launceston General Hospital & Clincial Professor at the University of Tasmania
Confirmed RMIT speakers include:
Prof Madhu Bhaskaran, Assoc. Dean, HDR, School of Engineering
Dr Kylie Quinn, Vice Chancellor's Research Fellow, School of Health & Biomedical Sciences
Dr Dein Vindigni, Senior Lecturer, School of Health & Biomedical Sciences
Assoc. Prof Flora Salim, Deputy Director, Centre for Information Discovery and Data Analytics (CIDDA), School of Science. We will also have a speaker from the School of Design.
We have also had a large interest from our BHI ECPaffiliates to present a talk at the Healthy Ageing Symposium. Those selected include:
Professor Ian Macreadie, School of Science (Biosciences & Food Technology)
Professor Olga Troynikov, School of Engineering
Assoc. Prof Tao Gu, Computer Science & Software Engineering, School of Science
Dr Shadi Houshyar, VC’s Research Fellow, School of Engineering
Dr Chayn Sun, School of Science (Geospatial Science)
Ms Judith Glover, School of Industrial Design
LUNCH will be provided.
If you are interested in attending this event, please REGISTER by Friday 3 May. Click here to register. If you are based at the Bundoora west campus and need transport, please choose this option in the registration form.
Researcher Portal: Game-Changing for Researcher Support
The reviews are in and people are loving the new Researcher Portal. Following the first release earlier this year, some exciting new features have just been added including filters across Milestones, Publications and Project lists and enhanced visibility of contracts, and more.
The Researcher Portal is designed to provide one place for research information and support through the lifecycle of a project.
If you’re a researcher, please give it a try and let us know what you think via the Portal’s feedback tool.
Towards a Sustainable Development Goals
Transformation Platform for RMIT
Following the recent launch of the
ECP Concept Paper, the RMIT Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Innovation Platform has released the following documents and are available for you to view:
2019 Winter School
in Mathematical & Computational Biology
1-5 July 2019
Queensland Bioscience Precinct
The University of Queensland, Brisbane
ATTENTION:
Postdoctoral researchers,
Advanced graduate students,
Honours students,
Postgraduate students.
THEMES:
Next generation sequencing & bioinformatics
Long read bioinformatics and applications
Data science and machine learning for bioinformatics
Getting started with bioinformatics software
To register to attend this event, click here.
For more information, contact Lanna Wong, Winter School Coordinator.
Funding Opportunities & Grants
Mozilla Research Grants 2019H1
The Mozilla Research Grants program
helps Mozilla keep the Internet safe, open, and accessible to all, as
it evolves. Where appropriate, they
are particularly looking for proposals
that support their aim to grow an
internet that truly puts people first, where individuals can shape their own experience and are empowered, safe and independent.
For the 2019H1 funding series, Mozilla will only be accepting proposals to answer 12 specific research questions, in three categories: The categories are"
Growing the Web,
New Interaction Modes, and
Privacy & Security.
For details about these 12 specific research questions and further details on this grant, click here. Closing Date: 1 June at 7.22 am in your local timezone (GMT +10)
For more information, contact jkaye+grants@mozilla.com
Research Collaborations
RMIT University part of SmartSat CRC
RMIT University recently became a
part of the new cooperative research centre for smart satellite technologies
- SmartSat CRC - joining industry, government and university partners
to unlock the wealth of data from
space.
The centre is led by the University
of South Australia and Nova Systems and will see Australia as a leader in
intelligent satellite systems, advanced
communications and earth observation
driven data analytics. RMIT will play a
vital role in Victorian industry collaborations.
Those on board to represent RMIT are (some are also ISE ECP affiliates): Clare Russell, Quin Chang, Suelynn Choy,
Simon Jones, Kandeepan Sithamparathan (SMIEEE),
Michelle Gee and Mark Sanderson.
Interested in registering as an ECP Affiliate? Do you know someone who is? Just clickhere to register. You send the link to someone you know who would like to join the ECPs.
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