The Australian Research Council (ARC) Industrial Transformation Training Centre in Optimisation Technologies, Integrated Methodologies, and Applications (OPTIMA), has received Australian Government funding of $4.86 million through the Australian Research Council Industrial Transformation Research Program. The University of Melbourne, Monash University, and an inaugural group of ten industry partners have invested a further $3 million and made significant in-kind contributions. OPTIMA has 18 chief investigators across the University of Melbourne and Monash University, and a further 13 partner investigators across our industry organisations and three international partner universities. Numerous other researchers working in optimisation at other universities are part of OPTIMA as Associate Investigators.
Headquartered in Melbourne Connect, OPTIMA brings together the various interdisciplinary fields with advanced optimisation technologies – mathematics, statistics, computer science, engineering, and economics.
OPTIMA’s initial industry partner cohort spans the energy resources, advanced manufacturing and critical infrastructure sectors. Given the ubiquitous need for optimisation technologies to support decision-making within many more industrial sectors, OPTIMA’s expansion will include opportunities for more industry partners to join in future years.
Beyond working with industry partners, OPTIMA researchers also engage with academic colleagues in other fields on cross-disciplinary research projects, supporting other researchers where optimisation knowledge is required to advance solutions to a wide range of societal challenges.
OPTIMA’s leadership is steered by an Executive Committee, which takes advice from external members of its Industry Advisory Committee (IAC) and Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC), and its’ sub-committees for Education and Training (E&T), Outreach; and Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI).
Optima's Mission
Industrial transformation via increased uptake of trusted and sophisticated optimisation technologies.
Optima's Goal
By connecting industry partners with world-leading interdisciplinary researchers and talented students, OPTIMA’s goal is to advance an industry-ready optimisation toolkit while training a new generation of industry practitioners and over 120 young researchers, producing a highly skilled workforce of change agents for industrial transformation.
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PhDs available with OPTIMA and partners, AGL and AiLECS. More information- https://optima.org.au/optima-jobs/
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Job alert! Part-time OPTIMA Education and Outreach Officer based at Melbourne Connect, Melbourne.
https://optima.org.au/optima-jobs/
OPTIMA AI Prof. Tim Fletcher has been awarded more than a $3.5 million ARC 2023 Industry Laureate to tackle the urgent challenges the urban water industry faces. Congratulations to Tim who partners with OPTIMA and Melbourne Water on two projects.
https://optima.org.au/infrastructure/
OPTIMA's Peter Stuckey and Sevvandi Kandanaarachchi discuss Peter's work in discrete optimisation and why he believes optimisation is the intelligence behind artificial intelligence. https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/r62rCMwvygs5z9wAJCwDgyZ?domain=therandomsample.com.au
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New podcast! Our guest this week is Prof Peter Stuckey from @MonashInfotech & @OPTIMA_ARC. Peter explains how industries use discrete optimisation to make decisions for complex problems - and why he believes #optimisation is the intelligence behind #AI. Our host is @Sevvandik.
Fully funded PhD project with ENGIE at Monash University. Supervised by Hao Wang, Buser Say and Frits de Nijs at Monash University, the project aims to design and implement interoperable AI-based human-in-the-loop algorithms.
Apply:
#phd #optimization
If you are looking for work in optimisation there is an opportunity at Alford Mining Systems.
Ideally, they would like a person with strong C++/CPLEX modelling and optimisation skills.
https://www.seek.com.au/job/66318996?type=standout#sol=bec002a5ebaaf5b096a529e1074abdf28be55b2d
#opportunity #mining #optimisation
This position is not in OPTIMA
We would like to highlight OPTIMA Associate Investigator Sevvandi Kandanaarachchi for International Women’s Day. Sevvandi is a Senior Research Scientist at CSIRO’s Data61. She uses statistics, mathematics and machine learning to find unusual patterns in data.
Our first public-facing seminar of the year will be held in person at Melbourne Connect, delivered by OPTIMA CI Prof. Peter Stuckey on The Bitcoin blockchain: what can mathematical modelling teach us?
Register on the event page.
https://optima.org.au/events/optima-seminar-15-feb-23/
#optimisation #seminar