An array of ultrasound speakers levitating Bee's wing and leg

Advanced Ultrasound Tweezers

This project aims to develop the next generation of acoustic tweezers with moving parts that allow controlled rotation, translation, and flexural motion of micro-objects, ranging from polystyrene beads to microbeams or insects’ parts (thin elastic structures). 

Geometric human head in tones of pink through orange on a dark background

Brain Robot Interface

This project is to build on responses in the human brain when a robot does not operate in a way the human expects and build an innovative brain-robot interface.

Section tissue of breast cancer view in microscopy. Ductal cell carcinoma. Tones of pink

Benchmarking Single-Cell Transcriptomics

Using several single-cell RNAseq datasets of breast cancer generated in the lab; this project aims to compare different computational approaches to extract biologically meaningful data and visualise various features to annotate and functionally characterise tumour cell diversity.

 

Transfer and storage of data sets in shades of blue on a dark background

Fairness in Deep Learning

Deep learning has significantly improved classification accuracy for supervised image recognition tasks. However, these tremendous performances are reported on test-sets which are drawn from distribution identical to their training datasets. 

 

Embryonic stem cells and cellular therapy in red and blue tones

Imaging Profiling Platform

Platelets play a crucial role in blood clot formation, causing heart attack and thrombotic disease, the number 1 killer in Australia.

Microscopic view of cancer cell multiplication in shades of blue and orange

Optimising Cell Types

In the last few years, single-cell transcriptomics (scRNAseq) has become the preferred method to understand the cell composition and function of healthy tissues and tumours, through unsupervised sampling and modelling of transcriptional states in single cells. 

 

Bright blue soundwave levels shown on an electronic display

Sound Transmission Loss

In industrial applications and academic research sound transmission loss (STL) is a practical benchmark metric for the performance assessment and validation of materials and designs.  

 

A female student inspects her bright orange additive 3D printed object

Student Additive Manufacturing

This project involves the development of additive manufacturing research platforms by student teams. To date, a 5 axis, large bed FDM machine with exchangeable plastic filament and syringe extruders has been designed, assembled and tested. Ongoing projects include an industrial inkjet drop-on-demand based UV resin printer and a 6 axis robot arm FDM printer. 

Greyscale geometric hexagonal pattern curving into the distance

Surface Plasmon Resonance Biosensor

It is estimated that almost 145,000 new cases of cancer will be diagnosed in Australia annually.  

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.