New South Wales researchers were honored at the 2023 Asia-Pacific Women in AI Awards for their pioneering work in artificial intelligence.
Associate Professor Fatemeh Vafaee of UNSW Science and Yang Song, Associate Professor of Scientia of UNSW Engineering were honored for their research on AI and AI innovation in healthcare, respectively.
The Women in AI Awards recognize women who have contributed to excellence in AI across industries in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific.
Participants were judged on their innovation, leadership and inspirational potential, global impact, and their use of AI to provide social benefit to their communities.
A/Professor Vafaee, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, received the AI in Health award for developing AI to address challenges in digital medicine and cancer diagnostics. A/Prof. Vafaee works on integrating multimodal data from various sources, including genomics, medical imaging, and clinical data, to enhance predictions of clinical outcomes. By combining different types of biological data, she seeks to unravel the complexity of biological processes and better understand health and disease.
A/Prof Vafaee was also named runner-up for the “APAC Women in AI Innovator of the Year” award, selected from over 180 submissions across all award categories. She said the use of AI to advance non-invasive cancer diagnostics, personalized medicine and precision treatment is a testament to the unwavering support of our outstanding team, industry partners and clinical collaborators. .
“We really appreciate your support. Together, we are shaping the transformative impact of AI on digital medicine,” said Dr. Vafaee.
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A/ Professor Song, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, received the AI in Innovation Award for his work on developing reliable deep (machine) learning methods that can generalize well when dealing with highly heterogeneous and dynamic data. was awarded. She has developed many state-of-the-art deep learning models that can effectively augment or mimic human intelligence in radiology and pathological imaging research, as well as environmental and human behavioral analysis.
A/Professor Song said she was honored to receive the award in recognition of her significant contributions to artificial intelligence.
“I would like to thank my mentors, collaborators and students. It gives me motivation to keep developing,” said Professor Song.
“I hope my work will have a real-world impact in important areas such as medicine, natural disaster management, and robotics.”
Women important to AI design
Professor Flora Salim, Deputy Director for Engagement at UNSW’s AI Lab, winner of the 2022 Women in AI Defense and Intelligence Award, congratulated the A/Professors. Vafaee and Song talk about winning.
“The Women in AI Awards are a great way to celebrate the remarkable achievements and influence of women AI researchers in the Asia-Pacific region,” said Professor Salim.
“It is important that the contributions of women in designing AI solutions are recognized and celebrated, as they enable more diverse and comprehensive AI-enabled applications and AI progress in the region.” is.”
“I would like to congratulate my colleague A/Prof. Vafai and Song. To see their great work in developing useful solutions to improve healthcare and AI technology being praised by their colleagues and the community.” is wonderful.”
Women in AI is a global non-profit network dedicated to empowering women and minorities to become great innovators in AI and data.
The awards ceremony was held at a gala dinner at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney.
