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Introducing CSIRO

Australia Business Week in India

Craig Roy, Deputy Chief Executive

14 January 2015

CSIRO Australia’s national research agency

Australia – Innovation Destination

CSIRO: Who we are

2000 doctorates 500 masters, Hosting 839

postgraduate research students

3111 publications, 3400 patents, work with

2000 companies every year

Top 10 applied research

agency globally

Top 1% of global institutions

in 14 of 22 research fields

Darwin

Alice Springs

Geraldton 2 sites

Atherton

Townsville 2 sites

Rockhampton

Toowoomba

Gatton

Myall Vale Narrabri

Mopra

Parkes

Griffith

Belmont

Geelong

Hobart Sandy Bay

Wodonga

Newcastle

Armidale 2 sites

Perth 3 sites

Adelaide 2 sites Sydney 5 sites

Canberra 7 sites

People 5500

Flagships 9

Sites 56

Programs 500

Budget $1B+

Murchison

Cairns

Irymple

Melbourne 5 sites

Werribee 2 sites

Brisbane 6 sites

Bribie Island


CSIRO: Our distinct roles

We manage facilities on behalf of the nation


We are a connector and collaborator

CSIRO: Our distinct roles


http://www.uwa.edu.au/

http://www.cggveritas.com/home.aspx

http://www.cdu.edu.au/

Global connections: impact partnerships

80+ countries


Australia-India Strategic Research Fund

http://www.idemitsu.com/index.html

http://www.fraunhofer.de/en.html

http://usda.gov/

CSIRO’S Research Flagships and Lines

BIOSECURITY DIGITAL PRODUCTIVITY ENERGY

FOOD & NUTRITION FUTURE

MANUFACTURING MINERAL RESOURCES

AGRICULTURE LAND & WATER WEALTH FROM OCEANS

SERVICES

FACILITIES & INFRASTRUCTURE

Flagships – Impact Science Lines


How we operate

• Scientific experts in relevant fields • Research centres and facilities • Equipment

We look at company & industry challenges:

CSIRO contributes:

We create solutions and inventions

• Productivity • Safety • Competitiveness

We find partners to help undertake the research:

• Government • Universities • Research institutes • Industry companies

Minerals Down Under

We work with industry companies to help them apply, and realise results


CSIRO and India

• Agriculture (since the 1950s!)

• Water (pollution & resource management)

• Energy (renewable; oil & gas; coal)

• Health technologies

• Radio astronomy

• Ocean & atmospheric sciences

• Global Research Alliance – with CSIR and President Ramesh Mashelkar


CASE STUDIES CSIRO’s expertise


Agriculture

Developing new wheat varieties with longer roots for increased water use efficiency


Extra 0.5 tonnes grain ha-1

Current wheat varieties

New wheat varieties

Partners: Directorate of Wheat Research Indian Agricultural Research Institute Agharkar Research Institute

10 cm deeper roots for 10 mm water at grain development

Funding: Australian government

Energy

SolarGas technology – using the sun’s energy to transform natural gas and water into a higher energy product


Partner: Solar Energy Commission of India Funding: Australian government

Resources

Indian partners • Indian Institute of Petroleum

(synthetic fuel production and stranded gas)

• Central Institute of Mining and Fuel Research (highwall mining design)

• Singareni Collieries Company Ltd and Central Mine Planning and Design Institute Limited (coal mining research and technology)


Water

Water resource management in the Brahmani-Baitarni river basin


Partners: Indian Ministry of Water Resources Central Water Commission State governments of Orissa, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh

Funding: Australian government

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Health technologies

Point-of-care diagnostic tool for tuberculosis


Partner: CSIR’s Indian Institute of Microbial Technology

Funding: Australia-India Strategic

Research Fund

Radioastronomy

Partners in the Square Kilometre Array


Partners: National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA) Tata Research, Development and Design Centre

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Oceanography and climate science

Robotic floats for ocean measurements


Partners: CSIR’s Indian National Institute of

Oceanography Indian National Centre for Ocean

Information Services Funding: Part funding from the Australia India Strategic Research Fund

MANUFACTURING FLAGSHIP CSIRO’s expertise


Manufacturing Flagship Research Programs

High Performance Metal Industries

helps organisations capture

opportunities in the face of a changing metals industry,

through innovative sustainable

processes and high performance alloys and technologies.

Chemicals and Fibres

supports the long term

competitiveness of Australia’s cotton, carbon fibre and

chemical industries through strategic

partnerships and the delivery of resource

efficient breakthrough technologies.

Industrial Innovation

supports the adoption and integration of

transformational technology in

Australia’s manufacturing

industry, through the development of

advanced manufactured

devices and integrated systems.

Biomedical Manufacturing leverages our

expertise in biological and materials science to develop materials and processes that

provide growth opportunities and

commercial competitiveness for

Australia’s high value medical technology

sector.


EBM is an additive manufacturing process that uses an electron beam to melt each layer of metal powder (eg Ti) to the desired geometry.

Electron Beam Melting (EBM)


Traditional Batch Processing Continuous Flow Processing

Continuous Chemical Processing

Photochromic Dye Production • 90% reduction in energy • 90% reduction in solvent waste • Safety


Advanced Materials & Processes

The Manufacturing Flagship partners across a wide range of industry segments:

• Aerospace, automotive, wind energy, oil & gas

• Light weighting

• Functional properties

• From simulation to synthesis and ‘self healing’ materials


Boeing 2011 Partner of the Year - Academia

THANK YOU

Contact details

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The Australian National University

First to learn the nature of things

Naturam primum cognoscere rerum

Professor Ian Young, Vice-Chancellor and President

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History and growth

> Established in 1946

> Undergraduates admitted in 1960

> Seven Colleges formed in 2006

> ANU now has:

– 18,700 students

• 44% graduate

• 26% international

• 30% part-time

– 3,800 staff

• 1,600 academic

• 80% PhD qualified:

highest percentage in the Go8

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Strategic directions Australia’s national university

• In our profile

• In our student body

• In our hosting national facilities

• In our focus on national policy issues

• In our partnership with government

• In our focus of Australia’s place in the world

Australia’s finest university

• In research intensity

• In educational effectiveness

• In our role as a policy resource

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Research > Australian government assessment of research quality (ERA)

– 80% research rated above world standard

> ARC research income per capita 60% above

any other university

> Number of publications per

capita 20% above any other

university

> 60% of ANU budget research-

related

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Research

ANU has produced highest number

of Australian Nobel Prize winners

> 2011 – Brian Schmidt (Physics)

> 1996 – Rolf Zinkernagel and Peter Doherty (Medicine)

> 1994 – John Harsanyi (Economics)

> 1963 – John Eccles (Medicine)

> 1945 – Howard Florey (Medicine)

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International rankings

Times Higher Education 37

QS 24

ARWU 64

TOP 10 in the world • Philosophy (6)

• History (7)

• Earth and Marine Sciences (8)

• Environmental Science (9)

• Geography (9)

• Linguistics (9)

• Politics and International Studies (10)

TOP 30 in the world

• Sociology (14)

• Law (14)

• Modern Languages (18)

• Mathematics (19)

• Accounting and Finance (20)

• Psychology (24)

• Economics (27)

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Alliances

International Alliance of Research Universities > The Australian National University > National University of Singapore

> ETH Zurich > University of California, Berkeley

> Peking University > University of Copenhagen

> University of Cambridge > The University of Tokyo

> University of Oxford > Yale University

Group of Eight Australian Universities > The University of Adelaide > The Australian National University

> The University of Melbourne > Monash University

> The University of New South Wales > The University of Queensland

> The University of Sydney > The University of Western Australia

National alliances > Charles Darwin University > James Cook University

> University of Canberra > University of Newcastle

> University of South Australia > University of Southern Queensland

http://about.anu.edu.au/alliance-partner/

http://www.go8.edu.au/

Industry Partnerships

Examples of our numerous industry partners include:

• Space Environment:

EOS Space Systems, Lockheed Martin (USA), Optus, RMIT University, NASA Ames

Research Center, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology

(Japan).

• Solar Energy partners:

CSIRO, UNSW, NEP Solar, Trina Solar, Solar Energy Research Institute of

Singapore, Zhenfa, CIEMAT, US National Renewable Energy Laboratories.

• Oil and Gas Consortium partners: Shell, Total, Whiting, Saudi Aramco, ExxonMobil, Chevron, Schlumberger, Baker Hughes, Abu Dhabi, Onshore, BHP, BG, BP, Conoco, EOG, FEI, JOGMEC, Maersk, OMV, ONGC, Petronas, PetroBras.

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Case Study

Digital Rock Technology

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Digicore Research Consortium

BG Group

BP

Conoco

EOG Resources

FEI

Japan Oil Gas and Metals National Corp (JOGMEC

Maersk

OMV Group

Oil + Natural Gas Co (ONGC).

Petronas

PetroBras

Primarily in field of oil/gas but inclusive of all materials

research. Conventionals, Unconventionals, Carbon

Capture & Storage

• A joint industry consortium

• Established 2006

• Subscription membership

• >$1M in untied funding pa

Members

Shell

Total

Whiting

Saudi Aramco

ExxonMobil

Chevron

Schlumberger

Baker Hughes

Abu Dhabi

Onshore

BHP

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Digitalcore Pty Ltd

2009 Company founded ANU, UNSW and Researchers seed fund ($2.5M)

Prof Mark Knackstedt (CTO) and Dr Victor Pantano (GM) on leave

from ANU

Lab and office space on ANU campus

2010 Technology recognised Mark Knackstedt, ENI Award

2011 New Investment ANUCV, ANU Enterprise, ACVL , ANU and founders invest $3M – pre

money $10M

Move to off campus office – Labs on campus

Collaborative research projects with ANU

2012 Growth ANU/UNSW/Digitalcore jointly won Eureka Award

In top 60 Australian Start-ups

2013 Merger to create Lithicon

New Investment

Merge with Numerical Rocks AS

New investment ($10M) – combined pre money $24m

2014 Lithicon acquired by FEI Company sold to FEI for $76M

Deliver digital rock services to Oil and Gas Industry

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A leading Australian university

CRICOS No. 00213J a university for the world real R

QUT – AT A GLANCE One of Australia’s largest Universities with 47,000 students :

11,800 postgraduate students, of whom 2,500 are research students

16% of QUT students are international - from 120 countries:

North Asia 40%, SE Asia 14%, South Asia 28%, Europe 10%, Americas 6%

High quality faculties of Science and Engineering, Health, Business, Law

and Creative Industries

Graduates achieve high levels of full-time employment outcomes

Research is consistently in Australia’s top 10 on many measures

Ranked 9th for Australian Government performance-based research block

grant funding - the best performing university without a medical school

88% of QUT research is assessed at world standard or above (Excellence in Research

Australia)

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SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING CENTRE

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• Institute for Future Environments • ARC CoE Maths and Stats Frontiers • ARC CoE Robotic Vision • World-class research facilities • State-of-the-art analytical facilities • The Cube – 2 storey high interactive digital display

• Prime Minister Modi writes a message of support on the QUT AgBot II

• Potential to change global farming practices

• Seed, weed and fertilize crops autonomously CRICOS No. 00213J

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ARC CENTRE FOR EXCELLENCE FOR ROBOTIC VISION

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SUPERBANANAS TIME Magazine Top 25 Invention of 2014


• Research partnership between QUT and the Indian Government

• Developing Indian bananas high in iron and provitamin A

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PULSES 5 pillar strategy to address world food crisis

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• Collaboration with National Institute of Plant Genomic Research

• Developing new varieties of pulses to enable farming of land currently considered unsuitable for production

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BIO OILS FROM AGRICULTURAL WASTE

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• Collaboration with the Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT), Mumbai

• Reducing costs of producing bio oils and chemicals from agricultural waste

• Minimising investment risks and encouraging diversification in farming

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• Local, national and international productions, exhibitions and events that showcase emerging digital and new media works

• Exhibitions, live performances, screenings, festivals and seminars a university for the real world

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CREATIVE INDUSTRIES PRECINCT

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INTRODUCTION TO NEW MEDIA

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• Creative Industries customised training for Indian Ministry of Information & Broadcasting (IMIB) staff

• Improving knowledge of digital communications to reach masses in the New Media landscape

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MEDICAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH FACILITY

• Supports the full research cycle • Meets emerging needs in orthopaedic and

artificial organ research • Comprehensive suite of research and training

facilities • Research and development opportunities in

medical robotics a university for the real world CRICOS No. 00213J

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Deakin University CRICOS Provider Code: 00113B

Laying the foundations for innovation at Deakin University

Carbon Revolution Phase 2

Composites Future Centre

ManuFuture Geelong

Carbon Revolution Phase 1

CADET

Carbon Nexus

CSIRO Fibre Processing

IFM CISR

School of Engineering

AFFRIC

The Geelong Innovation Precinct

World first open access CF pilot production line for research

55 T Commercial scale pilot line

Single Tow Research line

Commissioned Dec 2013

Purpose built for maximal flexibility

Partnership between Despatch Industries and Australian Furnace Engineering

Fully Equipped Laboratories

Training Facilities

Access to World Class Fibre Expertise

Carbon Nexus ... internationally significant carbon fibre and composite research

Jane den Hollander Vice-Chancellor

Carbon Revolution is a Victorian

company that, with support from

Deakin University, has produced

and commercialised the world's

first one piece carbon fibre wheel.

This world’s first technology offers

huge weight savings and therefore

efficiency and performance

benefits to the global automotive

industry

An Innovation Incubator set

within the Geelong Innovation

Precinct for Victoria’s Future

Industry.

Supporting Start Up, Small to

Medium and Innovation

enterprises to establish a vibrant

Advanced Manufacturing sector

and Victorian Jobs.

ManuFuture Geelong … creating a manufacturing innovation hub

The $A55 million Centre for Advanced Design in Engineering Training (CADET) will provide some of the best future-focused engineering and design facilities in Australia.

A Teaching/Learning Centre for new engineering skills integrating design & product development in Engineering training.

From secondary school to PhD, seamlessly linking education, research and industry

• prototyping, additive manufacturing, building new SME areas of manufacturing & capability

Hands on experience in next gen computer controlled manufacturing systems

CADET …21st century approach to engineering training

Bringing together core disciplines with world class facilities and over 300 researchers to address discovery science & industry solutions in …

Steel & Light Metals for Manufacturing

Electromaterials for Batteries & Anti-Corrosion

Fibre Sciences : Natural through Manmade Fibres especially Carbon Fibre & Composites

Nanotechnology & Nanofabrication

Materials Design & Modelling

High end computer modelling & CAE

Institute for Frontier Materials … from molecules to products

A Strategic Research Centre with a team of 60 multidisciplinary researchers …mechatronic, mechanical and software engineers;

State-of-the-art robotics, haptics, simulation and visualisation facilities

Process Modeling and Analytics

Virtual factories and supply chain analysis

Virtual training and product development

Centre for Intelligent Systems Research

Deakin University CRICOS Provider Code: 00113B

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THE UNIVERSITY

OF QUEENSLAND

Ian G Harris

Director Research Partnerships

28 January 2015

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A LEADING UNIVERSITY

• Established in 1910

• More than 400 degree programs

• A$1.67 billion total operating revenue

• A$381m research income (#1 in Australia)

• Leading Australian university in research and its commercialisation

• More than 50,000 students

• More than 11,500 international students from 142 countries

• More than 12,000 postgraduate students

• Over 4600 research higher degree students (India 104)

• More than 7,300 staff

• 220,000+ Alumni in 160 countries

• More than 10,000 PhD graduates

St Lucia

ONE UNIVERSITY – THREE CAMPUSES

ONE UNIVERSITY – THREE CAMPUSES

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A COMPREHENSIVE UNIVERSITY

1. Humanities and Social Sciences

2. Business, Economics & Law

3. Engineering, Architecture &

Information Technology

4. Medicine and Biomedical Sciences

5. Health and Behavioural Sciences

6. Science

(including Vet Science & Agriculture)

Six Faculties

1. Australian Institute for Bioengineering

& Nanotechnology

2. Institute for Molecular Bioscience

3. Queensland Brain Institute

4. UQ Diamantina Institute within the

Translational Research Institute

5. Queensland Alliance for Agriculture &

Food Innovation

6. Sustainable Minerals Institute

7. Institute for Social Science Research

8. Global Change Institute

9. Mater Research Institute

Nine Research Institutes

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A TOP 100 UNIVERSITY

Ranking Body 2012 2013 2014

Academic Ranking of World Universities

90 85 85

TimesHigherEd World University Ranking

65 63 65

QS World University Ranking 46 43 43

Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities (Nat Taiwan U)

72 67 56

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LEARNING

UQ fosters excellence in teaching, and

quality of the student learning environment

LEARNING DISCOVERY ENGAGEMENT

EQUITY AND DIVERSITY

DISCOVERY

UQ is a global leader in finding solutions

to society’s problems

LEARNING DISCOVERY ENGAGEMENT

EQUITY AND DIVERSITY

28 January 2015


• The 2012 Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) exercise

confirmed UQ as one of the nation’s top three universities

• Research at UQ is well above world standard in more specialised

fields than at any other Australian university

• Focus on quality across a broad range of fields

• Encourages technology transfer and commercialisation

• Interdisciplinary research that addresses major research themes

DISCOVERY AT UQ

Major Industry Partnerships

• Dow Chemical Company – Dow Centre for Sustainable Engineering Innovation: A$10 million over six years

– Dow also funds several individual research contracts

– Part of an overarching UQ-Dow Strategic Partnership that will expand into training and education activities, and international collaboration with Sadara, and KAUST in Saudi Arabia

• Baosteel Ltd – Baosteel-Australia Joint Research and Development

Centre • A$25 million over 5 years

• world-first joint venture between Baosteel (China) - and four Australian universities – UQ, UNSW, Monash and Wollongong.


• Rio Tinto Group – Rio Tinto Centre for Advanced Mineral Separation: annual funding of A$2.5-$3

million for five years

– Rio Tinto Alcan Centre: A$2 million over 5 years to fund core research and staff.

– Rio Tinto Education Partnership: A$2.5 million that includes 39 scholarships, two post-doctoral fellowships, creation of new bachelor’s degree in geotechnical engineering, and initiatives to increase female engineering enrolments

• Anglo American

– Anglo American Centre for Sustainable Communition

• A$10 million over five years


• QGC, Santos and Arrow Energy

– Centre for Coal Seam Gas • A$15 million investment

• leadership in research and skills training essential to ensure cost effective establishment of the CSG industry and its sustainable future

• develop capabilities to deal with community concerns over the industry’s environmental and social impacts

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COMMERCIALISATION

• UniQuest Pty Ltd is one of Australia’s largest and most successful university

commercialisation groups

• From an intellectual property portfolio of 1500+ patents it has created over 70

companies

• Since 2000 more than A$450 million has been raised to take university

technologies to market

• $3B annual sales of UniQuest-licensed products based on UQ research

outcomes

• UniQuest – global top 10% of university commercialisation companies

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COMMERCIALISATION IMPACTS

Product / Partnership Details

Gardasil • World’s 1st cervical cancer vaccine

• 100M+ doses in over 120 countries

Triple P Positive Parenting Program • Used in 23 countries & 18 languages

Superconductor image correction

technology

• Installed in 2/3 of the world’s MRI machines

Spinifex Pharmaceuticals • A$55m Series C investment in neuropathic pain treatment

Vaxxas - nanopatch vaccine delivery • A$15M investment

Renewable Energy Venture Capital Fund

(REVCF) investment in Brisbane Materials

Holdings Inc (BMHI)

• Established to commercialise anti-reflective coatings which provide a

3-4% watts peak increase when applied to glass, plastic, and other

substrates.

Shen Bo Energy in Australia China

BioEnergy Pty Ltd

• Established to develop and commercialise sugarcane yield enhancing

technology developed at UQ.

Hydrexia • Magnesium alloy hydrogen storage A$9m Series B funding

Our goal is to make The University of Queensland

the most globally connected university in Australia

28 January 2015


Peter Leihn

Director, Security and

Environment

28 January 2015

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NICTA Overview

Profile

• Australia’s Centre of Excellence in

ICT Research

• Not for profit company since 2003

• Labs in Sydney (HQ), Canberra,

Melbourne, Brisbane

• 750 people - 450 staff, 300 PhD

students with 22 partner universities

• Funded by Federal, State &

Territory Governments and industry

plus contributions from universities

Key Activities

• Research Excellence in ICT

• ~600 research papers per year

• Wealth creation and national benefit

• Engaged with industry and government

• Collaborative projects

• Licenses of patents and software

• Contract research

• Spinouts

• International engagement

• Collaboration, contracts

• Research exchanges

• Student internships

• Grant funding

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NICTA Innovation Model

Making sense of the ever increasing amounts of data available around the world

Understanding the world using images and image sequences

NICTA Research Groups

Design, implementation, and verification of software systems

Using scientific results to model any organisation or system, simulate and optimise it

Improve the experience of users when accessing online information and services, including wireless networks

NICTA Business Teams Connected Life: mobile, NBN and broadband applications Digital Productivity: big data analytics, e-business, e-government, Software Tools: business process compliance, cloud tools, vocab management, static code analysis

Smart Infrastructure: bridges, smart grid, water pipes Transport: roads, traffic management and public transport Logistics: trucks, ports, rail and distribution networks.

Defence: secure and reliable software systems, cyber security Bio-security: hyperspectral analysis Environment: resource characterisation, disaster response, pollution analysis, spatial analytics, NationalMap

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Spin-out companies Industry research engagements

National outcomes

Environmental Monitoring: Air Quality Prediction Service

Project client New South Wales Environment Protection Authority NICTA capability Machine learning, software development Problem addressing Prediction of air quality standard exceedance in mining region limiting production

nationalmap.nicta.com.au

Project client Department of Communications Collaborators • Geoscience Australia • Bureau of Meteorology • Department of Finance • Bureau of Statistics • State Governments NICTA capability Software development Problem addressing Accessing and making sense of open Government data

Spatial Analytics: National Map

Disaster Management: Evacuation Optimisation

Project client Infrastructure NSW, State Emergency Service NICTA capability Optimisation, visualisation, software development Problem addressing Platform to determine constraints in evacuation scenarios and modelling of infrastructure upgrade impacts on evacuation times

Spatial Analytics Groundwater Visualisation

Project client NSW Office of Agricultural Sustainability and Food Security Collaborators • NSW Office of Water • NSW Resources and

Energy • University of New South

Wales NICTA capability Machine learning, software development Problem addressing Quantifying coal seam gas extraction impacts to groundwater systems

Australian Renewable Energy Mapping Infrastructure (AREMI)

Key functionality and benefits • Hosted web-based spatial data

infrastructure to provide open access to Australia's past, present and and future renewable energy data

• Platform for industry and Government to search, visualize and download data in a geospatial context to assist in decision making

• Hosting of legacy datasets and serving of up-to-date datasets from data custodians

aremi.nicta.com.au

…

Decision Support

Probability Distribution

Magnetotellurics Seismic Temperature Gravity

Uncertainty in Quantity of Interest

Candidate Model Candidate Model

Spatial Analytics: Large Scale Data Fusion

Probability of Pretty Hill Formation versus Location

Spatial Analytics: Resource Characterisation

Digital Productivity: Privacy Preserving Analytics

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MAGIG

•Enables organisations to gain new

insight from sensitive data including

information classified as commercially

valuable or protected by legislation (ie.

privacy and medical laws).

•Instead of data being centralised

before processing, MAGIC takes

computation to the data and safely

aggregates the results, removing trust

issues and ensuring autonomy for all

parties including data providers, data

consumers and service providers.

Infrastructure Management: Structural Integrity Monitoring

Project client NSW Roads and Maritime Service NICTA capability Machine learning, software development Problem addressing Structural health of world’s widest bridge

Infrastructure Management: Port Optimisation

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• 120 interactions to move a

container

• Hundreds of supply chain

participants

• Many different IT systems

Infrastructure Management: Transport Analytics

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Curtin: An international university

Curtin delivers programs through more than 90

universities in 20 countries, in conjunction with our global

partners

More than 44,000 students from 110 countries

More than 19,000 international students, with around half

studying in Australia and half studying elsewhere in the world



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• Campuses in Sarawak, Singapore and Sydney

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• Study Abroad and Exchange programs available



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Why Curtin? • The largest university in Western Australia

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Malaysia

• Courses designed in collaboration with industry

• Courses combine theory with practical study to ensure our

graduates are career-ready

• In the top 50 young Universities around the world

• Consistently ranked among the top 300 universities in the world

by QS World University Rankings

• Ranked in 300-400 band of ARWU (Shanghai Jiaotong) and

climbing.



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Curtin University Academic Profile

The University has four faculties:

Faculty of Science and Engineering

Curtin Business School

Faculty of Health Sciences

Faculty of Humanities

In addition

Centre for Aboriginal Studies



Research strategy

"The great university ... should look ever forward; for it the past

should be but a preparation for the greater days to be"

John Curtin, former Prime Minister of Australia:

Build on the University’s research strengths (institutes)

Focus on building overall activity through PhD student numbers,

National Competitive Grants, and quality research outputs

Building our global collaborative research networks, to

increase the quality and impact of research.

Work with our strategically important research and industry

partners

Think big. Need to build large scale research ventures and

partnerships



Research and Development

• Four areas of strategic research focus:

• ICT and Emerging Technologies,

• Resources and Energy,

• Sustainable Development

• Health,

• Over A$73 million per year in research income.

• Ranked amongst the top 30% of Australian Universities for

research income, research publications, and research

student enrolments.

ICT and Emerging Technologies

Petascale Supercomputing in Western Australia

(The Pawsey Centre, iVEC)

Projects Enabled

• National Geo-sequestration Laboratory (NGL)

• Sustainable Energy for the SKA (SESKA)

• Murchison Widefield Array (MWA)

• Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP)

• National Resource Sciences Precinct

• Numerical Modeling in Science and

Engineering

Australia’s Petascale

Supercomputers



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initiatives: examples

Energy

Department of Mines and Petroleum ‘Tight Gas -

Whicher Range Project’ Curtin CSIRO, UWA

($0.75million)

Australia China Natural Gas Technology Fund, first

research contracts awarded ($0.5million)

Aust Centre for Natural Gas Management: new

contract for training Chinese Executives

Woodside Chair in Building Information

Management.

Fuels and Energy Technology Institute



Australian Sustainable Development Institute

(ASDI)

We’re changing today for tomorrow



Research activities in sustainability

• 11 Programs

• 16 Research Centres and Institutes

• ~ 250 researchers and 436 projects

Energy 15%

Water 9%

Climate 6%

Asia 3%

Indigenous 10%

Information 10%

Regional Dev 9%

Education 1%

Food 6%

Resources 22%

Urban Dev 9%



Examples of successful projects

• Centre for Crop and Disease Management ($29m over 5 years)

• Remote Economic Participation CRC ($7m – 7 yrs)

• CSIRO Coastal Flagship Cluster ($3m over 3 years)

• WA Oil Mallee – Bio-fuels project ($2.3m over 3 years)

• Centre of Excellence – Sustainable transport fuels ($1.7m over 3

years)

• National Centre of Excellence Desalination ($1.5m)

• Chair in Sustainability ($1.1m over 5 years)

• Western Power Chair – Smart grids ($500k over 5 years)

• Centre of Excellence – Geothermal Energy ($225k over 3 years)



Health Sciences

• Biomedical Sciences

• International Health

• Nursing and Midwifery

• Occupational Therapy and Social Work

• Pharmacy

• Psychology and Speech Pathology

• Public Health

• Actively pursuing a Medical School



Potential collaboration Curtin University and Indian Universities

Curtin University and the Indian University and Industry sectors

share a combined strength in research and education.

A shared capability in technical and applied research.

Recognised excellence in research, both included in the Shanghai

Jiaotong index, QS rankings and climbing.

A shared vision and capacity for growth.

Strength of the Indian and Western Australian economies.

An established and growing relationship.

In the same region on the Indian Ocean rim.

Alignment of economic and research interests (eg: resources,

energy, sustainability).

Macquarie University Overview

AT A GLANCE

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A Comprehensive University

Research Strengths

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ERAS

Earth Sciences – geochemistry, geology, geophysics, physical geography and

environmental sciences

Environmental sciences – ecological applications, environmental

science and management

Physical sciences and Engineering – astronomical and space

sciences, quantum physics, optical physics, digital communications

Biological sciences – evolutionary biology, ecology, microbiology

and plant biology

History and archaeology – historical studies

Law and legal studies – law

Language, communication and culture – communication and media studies,

linguistics

Philosophy and religious studies - philosophy

Lead institution for two Australian Research Council (ARC) Centres of Excellence and a major node in three

18 Concentrations of Research Excellence (CORE) – high performing research areas

1 of only 2 Australian universities to be rated at the highest level for research in Earth, environmental and physical sciences

#1 in Australia for citation impact of environmental sciences and ecology research and #22 in the world

$25m invested in Higher Degree Research (HDR) scholarships annually

More than 2000 HDR candidates

First Australian university to introduce the Master of Research

4th in Australia for research publications per academic staff member

5th in Australia for international research publication collaborations

Research Excellence

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Research Excellence –

International Collaboration Some Examples

Big History Project – the Big History Institute provides a hub for global scholars

interested in interdisciplinary research on the history of the Cosmos, Earth, Life

and Humanity (co-founded with Bill Gates)

Wireless 5G network – MQ is the only Australian university involved in the three-

year multi-million dollar program led by Intel. Other university partners include

Princeton, Stanford, Cornell, IIT Delhi, New York University.

Synthetic Biology – MQ is part of a global partnership focused on utilising

synthetic biology tools (genome sequencing,

computing and nanotechnology to build the world’s

first eukayotic genome. Other partners include

New York University, Johns Hopkins, BGI China,

and Imperial College London

IDEALAB – MQ is the only non-European partner

university in the Erasmus Mundus International

Doctorate for Experimental Approaches to Language

and Brain (IDEALAB) PhD program. Other partners are

University of Groningen, University of Potsdam,

Newcastle University and University of Trento

Rankings

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Ranked 239th globally in the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU, 2014)

Among the top 10 universities in Australia (ARWU, 2014)

Among the top 40 universities in Asia-Pacific (ARWU, 2014)

5 QS stars in teaching, employability, research, internationalisation, facilities,

innovation, access and specialist subjects (QS, 2014)

> 50% of our subjects are ranked in

the top 100 worldwide, with Earth and

marine sciences, linguistics and

psychology in the top 50 (QS World

University Rankings by Subject)

9th most international university in the

world (Times Higher Education, 2014)

MGSM MBA ranked #49 in the world and

#1 in NSW, #3 in Australia and #5 in the

Asia-Pacific (The Economist Which MBA?, 2014)

Key Objectives

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ONE: ACCELERATE WORLD-LEADING RESEARCH PERFORMANCE

TWO: PREPARE WORLD-READY HIGHER DEGREE RESEARCH CANDIDATES

THREE: ENGAGE AS A WORLD-RECOGNISED RESEARCH COLLABORATOR OF CHOICE

FOUR: DELIVER RESEARCH WITH WORLD-CHANGING IMPACT

ABIZER MERCHANT, REGIONAL DIRECTOR, SOUTH ASIA

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