Winners and finalists

This award honours outstanding research at UTS that demonstrates sustained research excellence at the highest level over a period of several years.

Award winner

Distinguished Professor Chin-Teng (CT) Lin, Faculty of Engineering and IT

Transcript

We want today is talking about AI in our new centre. We bring human intelligence and artificial intelligence  together. Any 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.

Finalists

Distinguished Professor Brian Oliver, Faculty of Science

Professor Talis Putnins, Faculty of Business 

This award recognises an academic or a team of academics for their outstanding research and outstanding teaching at UTS, especially those who demonstrate their ability to successfully integrate research, teaching and learning across a range of research and teaching activities.

Award winner

Dr Marie Morelato, Faculty of Science

Transcript

My research focuses on forensic intelligence,  which shifts the primary role of forensic science from a service provider to the  criminal justice sytem to a more proactive, disruptive and preventive role. In particular,  I focus a lot on drug markets and in order to better understand the trafficking and consumption of drugs in Australia. My research focuses on analysing and also  combining a large variety of data sources.

Finalists

Distinguished Professor Tracy Levett-Jones, Faculty of Health

This medal is awarded for research that has achieved considerable impact outside the academic community, including within the creative and/or professional practice(s). It recognises the contribution that research makes to the economy, society, environment or culture beyond the contribution to academic research.

Award winner

Distinguished Professor Martin Loosemore, Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building 

Transcript

Our research is primarily concerned with trying to develop a sense of social consciousness in one of the largest industries in Australia the construction industry which means developing an awareness of and concern for the general unfairness and injustices in society. My end goal will be able to ask the average person in the street what they thought of the industry and for them to be able to respond to me and say that they'd be proud to work in the industry no matter what their background.

Finalists

Distinguished Professor Tuan Van Nguyen, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology

Dr Emma Camp, Faculty of Science

Award winner

Associate Professor Diep N. Nguyen, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology

Award winner

Associate Professor Nicolas Hart, Faculty of Health

Award winners

Andrew Tovey, Professor Jason Prior, Dr Erica McIntyre, Aditi Phansalkar, Laure-Elise Ruoso, Alexandra Butler, Institute of Sustainable Futures

Award winner

Associate Professor Negin Shariati and Dr Rasool Keshavarz, Faculty of Engineering and Informaton Technology

Award winner

Winner: 

Dr Jiayan Liao, Faculty of Science

Award winner

Dr Alexandra Thomson, Faculty of Science