Professor Anton van den Hengel addresses attendees at the ADB seminar

Professor van den Hengel (left in front of screen) and Dr Paul Dalby PhD GIA (Affiliated), CEO of Rozetta Institute, (right in front of screen) speak to attendees at the ADB seminar, 16 April 2026

Last week, AIML Chief Scientist, Prof Anton van den Hengel, traveled to Manila to speak at the Asian Development Bank.

The seminar, 'AI and Natural Capital: Building Measurement, Trust, and Investment Readiness,' covered using AI to unlock prosperity and protect the environment in Asia-Pacific.

L-R Yiheng Chi, Yutong Li, and Haiyi Li. Yiheng Chi and Yuton Li co-authored a paper that was recently published in the 47th conference of the European Association of Computer Graphics. Yiheng will soon study at the University of Oxford where he'll pursue a MSc in Mathematical Sciences, Yutong Li will study at Columbia University where she'll pursue a MSc in Data Science. Haiyi Li's paper was accepted into the 47th conference of the European Association of Computer Graphics, and he will pursue a MSc degree in Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University in the United States.

Congratulations to former AIML interns and Adelaide University undergraduates Haiyi Li, Yiheng Chi, and Yutong Li who have each been accepted into prestigious master's degree programs and were recently published in distinguished conferences. All three were interns of AIML senior lecturer, Tim Chen.

AI that understands every variation: creating an engine for standardised agricultural procurement data classification AgProcure × AIML Agricultural procurement, or the purchasing and managing of farming equipment, operations, and supply chains, generates an enormous volume of transactional data. Invoices, spreadsheet...

Same product, different names. One expensive data headache. 📊

In 2025, AgProcure partnered with AIML through the Industrial AI SME Grant Program to explore how machine learning could transform the way agricultural procurement data is classified and analysed.

Read: www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-und...

Congratulations to all AIML members whose papers have been accepted for presentation at several of the world’s leading conferences in machine learning and adjacent fields for mid-year 2026. These… | A... Congratulations to all AIML members whose papers have been accepted for presentation at several of the world’s leading conferences in machine learning and adjacent fields for mid-year 2026. These conf...

Congratulations to all AIML members whose papers have been accepted for presentation at several of the world’s leading conferences in machine learning and adjacent fields for mid-year 2026.

To view the list of accepted papers, please visit: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

AIML Honours student Max Busato.

Congratulations to AIML Honours student Max Busato, who has been awarded a Playford Trust Inc. Commendation Award in recognition of his research and its potential impact on South Australia's defence and advanced technology sector.

Congratulations Max on this well-deserved recognition.

AIML is hiring three talented and driven AI researchers to join the institute. Apply now:

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(L-R) Georgie Healy, Zac Hatfield-Dodds, Mark Richards, Daniel Danilatos, Dr Suneeta Mall, Professor Anton van den Hengel, and Danielle Haj-Moussa at The Deep Tech Founder Salon event.

(Left) Danielle Haj-Moussa hosting the panel conversation.

On 30 March, AIML Chief Scientist Professor Anton van den Hengel joined an expert panel at The Deep Tech Founder Salon in Sydney, Anthropic's first-ever Australian event, hosted by Cicada Innovations in partnership with Main Sequence Ventures. Congratulations to all involved at this event.

A recent article in InnovationAus.com discusses AIML Chief Scientist Professor Anton van den Hengel’s presentation at SouthStart on 18 March on how artificial intelligence has dramatically lowered barriers to entry for starting a new company.

To read the full article visit ➡️ lnkd.in/g58cqdVv

Volunteers and coordinators, Celine Huang with Leading Coding, AIML Events Coordinator Hilary Brookes, AIML Associate Professor Qi Wu, Louis Fang with Leading Coding, and Australian AI Olympiad Board Member Joshua Clarke during Saturday's challenge

Members of the South Australia senior team present their coding methods and findings to attendees

Members of the South Australia junior team present their coding techniques

Last Saturday, 28 March, Glenunga International High School in Adelaide was the site of the 2026 Robotics for Good Youth Challenge Australia.

The challenge was proudly supported by AIML and Leading Coding. We are proud of all challenge participants and will be cheering as they journey to Geneva.

AIML Institute Manager Dr Kathy Nicholson (left) with Professor Tanya Monro AC of DSTG and Adelaide University Professor Justin Brookes at the SMP 2026 gala dinner

A delegation of Adelaide University staff at SMP 2026 including AIML Principal Engineer, Stefan Podgorski (second from left in gray) and Professor Minh Hoai Nguyen (fourth from left in tuxedo)

AIML members Dr Kathy Nicholson, Professor Minh Hoai Nguyen, and Stefan Podgorski trekked to Canberra last week to participate in Science Meets Parliament (SMP).

SMP is designed to strengthen relationships between federal parliamentarians and professionals in science and technology.

AIML MPhil student, Zachary Shinnick

Congrats to AIML Master's student Zachary Shinnick who will be undertaking a six-month visiting research placement with the Torr Vision Group at the University of Oxford.

The placement is part of the Westpac Future Leaders Scholarship he was awarded last year and will take place from April to Oct.

AIML Chief Scientist Professor Anton van den Hengel speaking to students at St Peter’s College Careers Evening.

On 17 March, AIML Chief Scientist Professor Anton van den Hengel spoke at the St Peter's College Careers Evening with high school students and their families.

Drawing on his experience at AIML, Professor van den Hengel spoke about emerging trends shaping the AI field and his own career journey.

AIML Associate Professor Melissa McCradden

AIML Assoc Professor Melissa McCradden has contributed to an initiative exploring the use of AI in paediatric health care.

Key takeaways include:
• Concerns about bias, privacy, and data
• Youth want a voice in how AI is designed and used

To read, please visit ➡️ mediasmarts.ca/research-and...

Refrigeration reimagined with machine learning AIML × Glaciem Cooling Technologies Cooling systems play a critical role in modern infrastructure, from supermarkets and data centres to industrial facilities. But they also account for a significant ...

Can AI make fridges more energy savvy? ❄️

Adelaide-based company Glaciem Cooling Technologies partnered with AIML through the Industrial AI SME Grant Program to explore how machine learning could improve the performance of supermarket refrigeration systems.

Read the case study: lnkd.in/g7qy8ub2

Michael Brown MP, South Australian Assistant Minister for Artificial Intelligence (AI), Digital Economy, Defence and Space Industries (left), presents Dr Hemanth Saratchandran with his award.

AIML is pleased to congratulate Dr Hemanth Saratchandran on receiving the Best Paper Award at the inaugural Kingston AI Symposium gala dinner, held on 19 March at Adelaide Oval, for his presentation titled “Structured Initialization for Vision Transformers”.

Read: arxiv.org/abs/2505.19985

Cambridge EduX Hackathon 2026 - Oceania Edition (Sydney) · Luma Cambridge EduX Hackathon 2026 - Oceania Edition (Syndey) A Cambridge-initiated 7-Day innovation sprint for future Education EduX Hackathon was first developed…

AIML's Responsible AI Research (RAIR) Centre is proud to sponsor the Cambridge EduX Hackathon 2026 — Oceania Edition (Sydney), 2–9 April. This AI and education hackathon brings people across Oceania together to explore how new tech is changing learning. Register: luma.com/eqpw25d9

AIML graduates Dr Sofia McLeod, Dr Georgia Kenyon, Chris Fusco, Dr Jinchao Ge, Dr Jianqiao Zheng, Chang Dong, and Xiangyu Shi.

Hats off to all AIML members who donned their robes and caps at the final UofA School of Computer and Mathematical Sciences graduation ceremony held this week on 16 March. A very warm congratulations to all graduates on this outstanding achievement and we wish you all the very best! 🎓

An overview of the AR&D pipeline presented as Figure 1 in the paper.

Congratulations to AIML members Townim Faisal Chowdhury, Huy Ta and Dr Zhibin Liao, on the acceptance of their paper titled "AR&D: A Framework for Retrieving and Describing Concepts for Interpreting AudioLLMs," at ICASSP2026 to be held in Barcelona from 4–8 May 2026.

Read: arxiv.org/abs/2602.22253

AIML Chief Scientist Professor Anton van den Hengel.

Congratulations to AIML Chief Scientist Professor Anton van den Hengel on being named Chief AI Scientific Advisor at Space Machines Company (SMC). He will help guide AI strategy and scientific oversight for mission-critical systems, including the company’s AI-driven command platform, SolsticeOS. 🛰️

The successful candidate will be supervised by AIML Director Professor Simon Lucey (pictured, right), CSIRO’s Dr Sharif Abuadbba and Dr Kristen Moore, alongside Lockheed Martin Australia’s Dr Gareth Parker and Dr Anee Azim.

Applications are open for a CSIRO Industry PhD Scholarship at Adelaide University. The project will develop AI methods to improve detection and attribution of synthetic media, including deepfakes. Open to Australian, NZ citizens and PRs.

Apply by 31 March 2026:
adelaideuni.edu.au/research/gra...

On 8 March we celebrate International Women’s Day and reaffirm our commitment to gender equality in STEM.

At AIML, more than 50 women across our community are leading, innovating and shaping the future of AI. Diverse perspectives help build fairer, more inclusive technologies.

Happy IWD! 💜

Australian-made AI detects breast cancer risk previously missed A new Australian artificial intelligence tool could transform breast cancer screening by offering a more personalised and accurate way to identify risk.

An Australian-made AI tool predicting breast cancer risk from routine mammograms has been featured by ABC News. BRAIx, developed together with AIML researchers, analyses patterns in mammograms to estimate a woman’s likelihood of developing breast cancer within four years.

Read: bit.ly/4racrJj

Congratulations to every AIML member whose papers were accepted to the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision 2026 (WACV) to be held in Tucson, Arizona on 6–10 March 2026.

For a full list of accepted WACV 2026 papers, please visit: wacv.thecvf.com/Conferences/...

AIML Systems Administrator Hui Wang presenting certificates to the winning teams of the 2026 Summer Grand Discovery Challenge. Top performers: Grant Douglas (Team You Only Grow Once), Arya Raj Khadka (Team Arej), Abraham Paul Jaison, Ashis Jose Kalathil, Rijoy John (Team The Answer is 42), Alexander Ryo Chen, Arpan Mukhopadhyay, Marlon Kha (Team 67Boost).

On 27 Feb, AIML hosted the 2026 Summer Grand Discovery Challenge awards, recognising top HDR and undergraduate teams from 30 participants. Teams applied machine learning to estimate lettuce biomass from images. Congratulations to all for their innovation, rigour, and technical excellence.

Robotics for Good Youth Challenge Australia – National Final 2026 Student robotics teams compete to qualify one Junior and one Senior team to represent Australia at the UN Robotics for Good Final in Geneva.

Join us in Adelaide on 28 March 2026 at Glenunga International High School for the Robotics for Good Youth Challenge – Australia National Final. Students will compete with autonomous robots tackling agriculture and food security challenges.

Register: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/robotics-f...

From blueprint to breakthrough: improving efficiency in architectural drawing interpretation As the construction industry looks for smarter, more sustainable ways to build, Australian–New Zealand company XFrame is changing how buildings are designed, made and reused. Their goal is simple: cut...

Architectural drawings can span hundreds of pages across multiple files and formats, burying key details. In 2025, AU-NZ company XFrame partnered with AIML to explore whether machine learning could interpret and organise this information more efficiently.

Read here: www.linkedin.com/pulse/from-b...

Developing AI for scientific discovery | Researcher spotlight – Dr Xinyu (Henry) Li YouTube video by Australian Institute for Machine Learning (AIML)

Can #AI help discover new medicines or design cleaner energy materials? In this Researcher Spotlight, Dr Xinyu Li (Henry), postdoctoral researcher in the Responsible AI Research (RAIR) Centre at AIML, shares how he is developing AI for scientific discovery.

🎞️ Watch here: youtu.be/-1GIBeRBW9w?...

Authors: (Top row, L-R) Lana Tikhomirov, Professor Carolyn Semmler, Dr Georgia Kenyon, Humphrey Thompson. (Bottom row, L-R) Professor Lyle Palmer, Dr Nikhil Cherian Kurian, Abdu Mohamud, Associate Professor Melissa McCradden.

Congratulations to AIML PhD student Lana Tikhomirov and co-authors on a new paper published in Nature Health on “silent trials” for medical AI. The study highlights the need for stronger evaluation processes before real-world clinical AI integration.

Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Hanwen Tom Zhang, Director of Robotics Application Solutions at Booster Robotics (right), demonstrating Booster K1's agility in kicking a soccer ball.

AIML Associate Professor Qi Wu and Executive Officer for Events, Culture, and Engagement Hilary Brookes with Booster K1.

AIML is pleased to welcome a new addition to our family of robots: Booster K1. Booster K1 will be deployed across research, student projects, and outreach activities, allowing AIML to explore the potential of embodied AI systems in the real world. We look forward to seeing Booster K1 in action!

CSIRO's Data61 Research Director and AI System Evaluation for Safety Theme Lead at the Responsible AI Research (RAIR) Centre, Dr Qinghua Lu

Congratulations to CSIRO's Data61 Research Director and AI System Evaluation for Safety Theme Lead at the RAIR Centre, Dr Qinghua Lu, who was named to the UN Independent International Scientific Panel on AI. She is the only Aussie on the panel.

For the full list, visit www.un.org/independent-...