UNSW RIIS Student Samah Said was awarded a CIRES Travel Grant to help cover expenses to attend the Information Resilience Ph.D. School
The PhD School is a 2-day, in-person event held at Melbourne Connect, Carlton Victoria. It targeted current (at any stage of candidature) or prospective PhD students interested in exploring and understanding cutting-edge data science practices, pathways toward academic or industry careers, and prospects of next-generation research in the field.
It included:
- Knowledge exchange and sharing, featuring talks and tutorials delivered by world-leading researchers including Prof Gao Cong, Nanyang Technical University, Singapore and Prof Jenny Zhang, RMIT University
- Social networking, facilitated by interactive short presentation/poster sessions, banquet, roundtable discussions, etc.
- Mentorship from both academic and industry, with the possibility of establishing long-term collaborations.
This event was hosted by the Centre for Information Resilience), an Australian Research Council (ARC) Industrial Transformation Training Centre