Robots to maintain infrastructure. Data science for debt recovery. Producing energy from poo...
Robots being developed for infrastructure maintenance. Image: UTS
The Faculty of Engineering and IT has three finalists for the Australian Museum's annual ‘Oscars of Science’ including a team and two individual entries.
UTS Eureka Prize for Excellence in Data Science
Professor Longbing Cao has developed cutting-edge theories and systems to analyse real-life complex data for smarter business transformation. His work has enabled more efficient, active and tailored debt recovery and payment collection practices, producing significant socio-economic benefits to Australia.
Macquarie University Eureka Prize for Outstanding Early Career Researcher
Dr Qilin Wang who has invented an environmentally friendly “closed-loop” technology to transform costly, energy-consuming sewage treatment plants into energy producers.
ANSTO Eureka Prize for Innovative Use of Technology
The Infrastructure Robotics Research Team, Centre for Autonomous Systems has worked on world-first robotics solutions that have transformed maintenance of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, underground water and sewer pipes, and other critical pieces of infrastructure.
And from the Faculty of Science Dr Jiajia Zhou is nominated for the Macquarie University Eureka Prize for Outstanding Early Career Researcher. She has developed a solution to a significant physics problem by using the typically inactive surface of a nanomaterial to convert infrared light into bright visible light.
Read more and see some short videos about their work.
Winners to be announced on Wednesday 28 August 2019.