On May 7, join us at the Rose of Australia (Erskineville, in Sydney) at 8pm for an engaging and oh-so-topical talk by our very own Zhanna Sarsenbayeva, on "Using #AI to build better lives"! #RaisingTheBar #USyd #RTB2026
www.rtbevent.com/zhanna-sarse...
Applications for the Faculty of Engineering's Vacation Research Internship program are now open! If you are an UG or PG student in Australia, join us this Winter for a research internship in one of the School of Computer Science's 40 projects!
Apply by ⏰ April 19: www.sydney.edu.au/engineering/...
Applications for the Faculty of Engineering's Vacation Research Internship program are now open! If you are an UG or PG student in Australia, join us this Winter for a research internship in one of the School of Computer Science's 40 projects!
Apply by ⏰ April 19: www.sydney.edu.au/engineering/...
Delighted and thankful to see our research and researchers supported by Google, as part of an effort to build a stronger digital future in Australia!
Have a peek at some of the projects supported by Google in the School of Computer Science: www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion... #USyd
Delighted and thankful to see our research and researchers supported by Google, as part of an effort to build a stronger digital future in Australia!
Have a peek at some of the projects supported by Google in the School of Computer Science: www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion... #USyd
So humbled to have received the @IEEE TEMS mid-career prize that recognises 10 years of consistent contributions to the field of blockchain. Thank you to my colleagues, nominators and assessors.
Here is our very own poet, computer scientist and lecturer Katy Gero who had a chat with The Atlantic about The Human Skill that eludes AI. To read more: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2... #Media #AI #Creative #Writing
Former PhD students Jiachi Chen (now Professor at Zhejiang University) received the Early-Career Award and Yuanzhe Zhang (now postdoc at NTU) received the outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation/Thesis award.
Details will be out online soon!
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 Multiple #Awards from #IEEE_TEMS TC on #Blockchain and #DLT 2025. Mid-Career Award for @vincentgramoli.bsky.social, outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation award for @lzhou1110.bsky.social and Technical Achievement award for @jiangshanyu.github.io. Congratulations!
🔗 www.ieee-tems.org/tc-blockchai...
A projected award on the screen, "Recognising over 40 years of service" awarded to Professor Judith Kay, School of Computer Science
(Judy was not able to attend the ceremony, and received her award in absentia)
Greg Ryan, receiving his award recognising over 40 years of service in the School of Computer Science, from Hesham El Gamal, Dean of Engineering at the University of Sydney
Alan Fekete, receiving his award recognising over 30 years of service in the School of Computer Science, from Hesham El Gamal, Dean of Engineering at the University of Sydney
And both congratulations, hats off, and huge thanks to Greg Ryan and Profs Judy Kay and Alan Fekete, for their outstanding and continued service to the School! Steering the ship and guiding us through during 40 years for Greg and Judy, and 30 for Alan! #USyd
Dr. Mafruha Mowrin Hossain, receiving an award for "Emerging Achievement in Teaching" from the Dean of Engineering, Hesham El Gamal.
Dr. Armin Chitizadeh and Dr. Karlos Ishac, receiving an award for "Collaboration for Impact" from the Dean of Engineering, Hesham El Gamal.
Congratulations to Mafruha Mowrin Hossain, Armin Chitizadeh, and Karlos Ishac, who were recognized last week for their amazing teaching contributions to the School by a Dean's Award!
Wonderful news for the Sydney Mathematical Research Institute (SMRI), #USyd, and Australia!
www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion...
On the postdoc job market? "As foretold" some time ago, the Sydney Algorithms and Computing Theory group at @sydneycompsci.bsky.social is hiring postdocs (2 years, renewable) in Theoretical Computer Science and Algorithms!
usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/USYD_E... #TCSSky
Coauthor: Sampson Wong (The University of Copenhagen)
🎉 Yuan Sha and Joachim Gudmundsson's paper "Linear time single-source shortest path algorithms in Euclidean graph classes" has been accepted at #SoCG2026!
🔗 More about SoCG'26: computational-geometry.org/cg-week/socg/
👤 @jgudmundsson.bsky.social
#computationalgeometry #theory #algorithms
Coauthors: Chia-An Fan (The University of Tokyo), Shuto Takashita (The University of Tokyo), Masahiko Inami (The University of Tokyo)
We actually forgot one: that's 15 (and counting). Truly an amazing crop!
📄 SRL Proxemics: Spatial Guidelines for Supernumerary Robotic Limbs in Near-Body Interactions, by Hongyu Zhou, Yihao Dong, Zhanna Sarsenbayeva, and Anusha Withana from the School of CS at #USyd
This Friday, February 6 at 5pm, Centre for Complex Systems at the School of #ComputerScience is welcoming Prof. Paul Davies (Arizona State U) for a public lecture on "Navigating the Quantum Wonderland"
Join us to celebrate a century of quantum mechanics!
www.eventbrite.com.au/e/navigating...
This Friday, February 6 at 5pm, Centre for Complex Systems at the School of #ComputerScience is welcoming Prof. Paul Davies (Arizona State U) for a public lecture on "Navigating the Quantum Wonderland"
Join us to celebrate a century of quantum mechanics!
www.eventbrite.com.au/e/navigating...
Co-authored with Paul Gerhart (TU Vienna)
🎉 Jay Taylor (UG Honor's student) and Sri AravindaKrishnan Thiagarajan (@aravind16coiner.bsky.social)'s paper "How To Make Delegated Payments on Bitcoin: A Question for the AI Agentic Future" has been accepted at #FC2026!
🔗 FC 2026: ifca.ai/fc26/
#Blockchain #Bitcoin #Cryptography #AgenticPayments
📄 Auditorily Embodied Conversational Agents: Effects of Spatialization and Situated Audio Cues on Presence and Social Perception
by Yi Fei Cheng, Jarod Bloch, Alexander Wang, Andrea Bianchi, Anusha Withana, Anhong Guo, Laurie M. Heller, David Lindlbauer
📄 TactDeform: Finger Pad Deformation Inspired Spatial Tactile Feedback for Virtual Geometry Exploration
by Yihao Dong, Praneeth Perera, Chin-Teng Lin, Craig Jin, Anusha Withana
📄 "Dancing Your Boundaries": Spatial Guidelines for Supernumerary Robotic Arms in Near-Body Interaction
by Hongyu Zhou, Yihao Dong, Shuto Takashita, Zhanna Sarsenbayeva, Anusha Withana
📄 Searching Through Complex Worlds: Visual Search and Spatial Regularity Memory in Mixed Reality
by Lefan Lai, Tinghui Li, Zhanna Sarsenbayeva, Brandon Syiem
📄 Understanding the Effects of Interaction on Emotional Experiences in VR
by Zheyuan Kuang, Tinghui Li, Weiwei Jiang, Sven Mayer, Flora Salim, Benjamin Tag, Anusha Withana, Zhanna Sarsenbayeva
📄 Gaze and Speech in Multimodal Human-Computer Interaction: A Scoping Review
by Anam Khan, Florian Weidner, Jungwoo Rhee, Yasmeen Abdrabou, Andrea Bianchi, Eduardo Velloso, Hans Gellersen, Joshua Newn
📄 One Body, Two Minds: Alternating VR Perspective During Remote Teleoperation of Supernumerary Limbs
by Hongyu Zhou, Xincheng Huang, Winston Wijaya, Yi Fei Cheng, David Lindlbauer, Eduardo Velloso, Andrea Bianchi, Zhanna Sarsenbayeva, Anusha Withana
📄 Narratives and Perspectives: How AI Summaries Steer Users' Opinions and Engagement on Social Media
by Jarod Govers, Cherie Sew, Eduardo Velloso, Vassilis Kostakos, Jorge Goncalves