Event description

A discussion panel of UWA’s data scientists and the audience will explore the future of data science. Data collection and computation and becoming cheap, plentiful and ubiquitous.

This panel will bring together several (5-6) leading data scientists from across UWA and WA industry to briefly outline their interests in data science, and to then discuss the future directions of “data science” as a discipline.

Is data science a distinct discipline? How does this new technology change the way that we do science? Is this a paradigm shift or just a new and vastly improved toolkit?

 
Presented by the UWA Institute of Advanced Studies and the Mega Data Cluster WA.
 
Chair: 
Michael Small,  CSIRO-UWA Chair of Complex Engineering Systems, School of Mathematics and Statistics, UWA
 
Panellists:
  • Dr Edward Cripps, Senior Lecturer, UWA Centre for Applied Statistics
  • Associate Professor Rachel Cardell-Oliver, School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, UWA
  • Dr Laura M. Boykin, Senior Research Fellow, Computational Biology, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UWA and ARC CoE Plant Energy Biology
  • Eun-Jung Holden, Research Professor, Centre for Exploration Targeting (CET), UWA
  • Tom Ridsdill-Smith, VP Data Science, Woodside Energy

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Speakers

SPEAKER - Edward Cripps

Dr Edward Cripps

  • The University of Western Australia
  • Senior Lecturer, UWA Centre for Applied Statistics
SPEAKER - Laura Boykin

Dr Laura Boykin

  • The University of Western Australia
  • Senior Research Fellow, Computational Biology, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, ARC CoE Plant Energy Biology
SPEAKER - Michael Small

Professor Michael Small

  • The University of Western Australia, Mineral Resources Flagship, CSIRO
  • CSIRO-UWA Chair of Complex Engineering Systems, School of Mathematics and Statistics

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