The Australian Academy of Science has announced the successful recipients of its 2019 J G Russell Award.
The award is aimed at financially helping talented younger researchers in the basic sciences as a token of the community’s regard for them.
Awardees are chosen from the recipients of the . The award recognises the costs involved in experimental research, and can be used towards the costs of equipment, maintenance, and travel.
The recipients are:
- Dr Giulia Ghedini from Monash University to resolve how entire ecological communities respond to global warming and identify the mechanisms that drive these responses.
- Dr Yu Heng Lau from the University of Sydney to uncover a new and generalisable platform technology for controlling chemical reactions on the nanoscale, which could benefit the manufacturing industry.
- Dr Tatiana Soares da Costa from La Trobe University to identify novel and smarter herbicide development strategies for effective weed management to sustain our fauna, flora and agricultural industry.
- Dr Qi Wu from the University of Adelaide to develop an Artificial Intelligence (AI) agent that communicates with humans on the basis of visual input and can complete a sequence of actions in environments by combining computer vision (CV), natural language processing (NLP) and reinforcement learning (RL).
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