CIRES is an Australian Research Council (ARC) Industrial Transformation Training Centre with a research program that capitalizes on the diversity of the research team across technology, business and social dimensions to deliver authentic transformational outcomes for our industry and government partners. The Centre is building workforce capacity in Australian organisations to create, protect and sustain agile data pipelines, capable of detecting and responding to failures and risks across the information value chain in which the data is sourced, shared, transformed, analysed, and consumed. The five interrelated research themes of the centre are: agility in value creation from data; data curation at scale; algorithmic transparency; trusted data partnerships; and responsible use of data assets.

Website

https://cires.org.au/

Organisation type

• Australian Research Centre Industrial Transformation Training Centre - Headquarters

Number of research staff

20-100 research staff

Address

Level 5, Hawken Engineering Building (50), Cooper Road, University of Queensland, St Lucia QLD 4072

Strengths and capabilities

• Responsible management of data assests
• Scalable data curation methods
• Algorithmic solutions with a focus on explainability
• Principled and efficient data integrations and linking
• Value capture and value creation from data
• Data driven solutions

Lead researchers

• Professor Shazia Sadiq, FTSE, CIRES Centre Director. Expert In: Data quality management and responsible use of advanced technologies.
• Professor Marta Indulska, Research Director. Expert In: IT business value, data quality, business process management, and open innovation.
• Dr Ida Someh, Chief Investigator. Expert In: Organisational and societal impact of data, analytics, and artificial intelligence.
• Associate Professor Gianluca Demartini. Expert In: Information Retrieval, Semantic Web, and Human-in-the-loop Artificial Intelligence.
• Associate Professor Hassan Khosravi. Expert In: Artificial intelligence in the future of education and learner-centred, data driven learning at scale.

Achievements of the centre

• Published the Manifesto for Information Resilience
• Training the next generation of future leaders in emerging digital technologies through co-designed projects with industry and government partners
• Responding to an urgent need to build workforce capacity to develop resilient data pipelines capable of delivering game-changing productivity gains
• PhD researcher training and mentoring in cutting-edge data science practices and career development from international experts
• Collaboration across academia, the public sector, and industry through Centre partnerships, projects, and events

Key science sectors

More information about the sectors this centre is involved in:

• Digital economy