Recognising the outstanding efforts of UTS staff

The UTS Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Research Excellence were established in 2010 to celebrate the excellence in research, support and impact happening across our campus and in the wider community. 

The Vice-Chancellor’s Research Excellence Awards recognise the outstanding contributions UTS staff make towards helping shape the world we live in.

Find out how to nominate someone for a research award. Note: nominations for 2025 have closed.

Everything you need to know about the award submission process.

Winner of the 2024 Chancellor’s Medal for Research Excellence

Distinguished Professor CT Lin, Co-Director of the Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute (AAII), was awarded top honours at the 2024 Vice-Chancellor’s Awards for Research Excellence. The prestigious Chancellor’s Medal for Research Excellence recognises outstanding research at UTS, demonstrating sustained excellence at the highest level over the years.

Professor Lin’s innovations help combat chronic pain, aid blind people, control artificial limbs and assistive robots, detect fatigue, and assist individuals in mastering complex and high-risk situations through human-machine teaming.

2024 winners and finalists

Distinguished Professor Chin-Teng Lin, winner of the Chancellor's Medal for Research Excellence

Everyone today is talking about AI. In our new centre, we bring human intelligence and artificial intelligence together. Many of the concerns people have today about AI are because it is not yet human-centric. People wonder, how do we work with AI? Can we trust it? These are challenges we want to solve.

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For questions and general enquiries, please email researchawards@uts.edu.au.