Two Australians have recently been recognised as part of our global Google PhD Fellowship program. This program recognizes and supports outstanding PhD students pursuing work in computer science, related disciplines or promising research areas. Australia’s two recipients are a part of a cohort of 39 outstanding PhD candidates from America, Canada, Europe, China, and India.
Tor Lattimore from the Australian National University, Research School of Computer Science, was awarded the Google Australia Fellowship in Machine Learning . His project entitled ‘Theory of General Reinforcement Learning’ extends the theory of reinforcement learning allowing us to consider ways of building more powerful artificial intelligence.
Yiran Shen from the University of New South Wales, School of Computer Science & Engineering, received the Google Australia Fellowship in Computer Networking. Yiran’s research in Object Tracking in Camera Networks via Compressive Sensing aims to broaden the applications and limits of embedded camera networks - by improving the efficiency of algorithms and the capability of embedded camera networks by an order-of-magnitude.
By supporting these two outstanding Australian Fellows we recognise their significant academic achievements and hope that they will go on to be leaders in their respective fields. We look forward to building even stronger links between industry and academia to help push important research forward in Australia.
Posted by Sally-Ann Williams, Google Engineering Community & Outreach Manager
