Transforming the post-AI education industry + Advances in Speech Audio AI

About the speaker:

Professor Ian McLoughlin (Professor, Singapore Institute of Technology) was Head of the School of Computing at the University of Kent (Medway) from 2015-2019, a professor in the University of Science and Technology of China from 2012-2015. Before that, he spent 10 years at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and 10 years in the electronics R&D industry in New Zealand and the UK. He became a Chartered Engineer in 1998, a Fellow of the IET in 2013, and was twice a Chinese Academy of Sciences President's Fellow. He has over 250 papers, 5 books, and 10 patents in the fields of speech & audio, wireless communications, and embedded systems, and has steered numerous technical innovations from conception through to successful deployment.

Session 1: Made in university: transforming the post-AI education industry

Monday 4th March 10-11.30am, followed by morning tea 11.30-50am 
Abstract: Just like other industries, our particular industry inputs raw material, refines and shapes it into a product, and charges a fee for doing so. We succeed or fail in terms of our ability to accomplish that transformation, and to do so cost-effectively. We have capacity constraints, production schedules and market growth. We are also judged by our product quality, just like any other industry. The main difference, though, is that the materials we process are human beings. This seminar explores transforming the way we prepare graduates for the world of post-chatGPT employment in the 21st century with examples of innovation from my own university (Singapore Institute of Technology).
Note to PhD students who have some work experience: SIT is looking to fill 6 new junior faculty positions in 2024.

Host: UQ Cyber 

For any questions about the the event please email cyber@uq.edu.au.