Recent & Upcoming Talks

A 10-minute talk during a design thinking workshop for the School of Life and Environmental Sciences.

AI coding isn’t always easy once you get past the basics - concepts and tools for increasing levels of code complexity when working with AI assistance.

Research Insights Series talk on GenAI, paired with a separate talk by Dr. Adele Haythornthwaite, on balancing opportunity and risk in using GenAI for research.

Research portfolio researcher spotlight talk given with Dr. Henry Lydecker on how AI is transforming everyday research work.

Concept development worksheets for an interactive unconference session in which educators were prompted to design their own AI chatbot.

A Sydney Informatics Hub Masterclass on getting the most out of generative AI tools for research, presented with Dr. Henry Lydecker as part of CSIRO’s National AI Month.

A ResBaz Sydney 2023 talk on getting the most out of ChatGPT for research, the traps to avoid, and a glimpse of the future of AI-assisted research.

An overview of the Sydney Informatics Hub, what LLMs are (and aren’t), and the opportunities and risks of tools like GPT, PaLM, Llama and Falcon for research.

A 1-hour masterclass on what ChatGPT is, how we got here, and ideas for using it to accelerate research, along with pitfalls and ethical considerations.

Small summary of work on predator-prey interactions in fish, with Dr. Maud Kent, published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

Pitching opalminer.info - an app to analyse your public transport fare usage data and provide advice on how to save with off-peak fares.

Different measures of inter-rater reliability and when to use them: Cohen’s kappa, Fleiss’ kappa, Scott’s Pi, and Krippendorff’s alpha.

An explanation of the relationship and the difference between Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) and Principal Component Analysis (PCA).

A talk on using Bayesian Logistic Regression on hospital system data to predict Discharge Against Medical Advice (DAMA).