Projects
Data-driven design under uncertainty – Grand Challenge III in the Alan Turing Institute and Lloyds Register Foundation Data Centric Engineering Programme, with a team of four postdocs working on related challenges of quantifying uncertainty, sensitivity analyses, modelling and data science.
Virtual decision room – Part of the EPSRC funded VENTURA Project, creating new ways to visualize the systems interactions in planning infrastructure by enabling local authorities and end users to explore how housing and water systems interact through a virtual decision room.
Construction production control room – A consortium of industry partners and universities are working together in this InnovateUK funded project to provide a control room for visualizing multiple streams of data to improve plannning on the construction site.
Dashboard and interfaces for personal data for lifelong, lifewide learning Applicance computing for health and wellness: creating specialised IoT devices Immersive interfaces: AR, VR, Large interactive surfaces Personalisation and user modelling
PhD and master’s project opportunities
Our academics and their research
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The hidden logic deflating Australia’s infrastructure ambitions
by Dr Bradley Hastings The recent curtailing of the Inland Rail project is an example of Australia’s infrastructure delivery challenge. Looking forward we are aspirational. Yet, looking backward, our ability to deliver on these ambitions is poor, with eighty-six of major transport projects either blowing their budget, their schedule, or both. This gap between aspiration and ability is a cold reality check – communities waiting on projects to improve…
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Australian Major Project Highlights (May – June 2026)
Develop Global proceeds with $570 million mining projectsMining projects in Sulphur Springs and Pioneer Dome will proceed as global commodities trader, Trafigura, commits to purchasing copper, zine and lithium from them.Read more Extra $420 million has been committed to to Queensland’s CopperString Transmission LinkThis major project is aimed at linking the State’s north and north-west regions with the National Electricity Market. Read…
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How AI steals our thinking – and how to steal it back
by Dr Bradley Hastings I remember my shock when a student submitted an essay that that included their entire conversation with AI. Somewhere between the chatbot and the submission portal, they had copied across not just the answer but the prompts they used to generate it. They’re far from alone. Many of my students have stopped trying to disguise AI’s work at all, leaving in the…