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Congratulations to Prof. Vincent Gramoli (@vincentgramoli.bsky.socialβ¬), whose startup RedBelly was recently featured in the news: for the first time, the central bank of #Australia is teaming up with a public #blockchain!
Read more: www.msn.com/en-us/money/...
04.08.2025 23:14 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 0 π 3
27.07.2025 22:01 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Banner for the SCS' Research Showcase
The School of #ComputerScience at #USyd will hold its 2025 #Research Showcase on Friday July 25, 1:45β6:15pm.
This year's will revolve around multi-disciplinary collaboration. Discover the latest advances in AI, HCI, cybersecurity, data science, and more!Β
Register: signup.e2ma.net/signup/20161...
17.07.2025 01:10 β π 5 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
βGodfather of AIβ now fears itβs unsafe. He has a plan to rein it in
Pioneering computer scientist Yoshua Bengio says his new AI model will make the world safer. But will it work?
Armin Chitizadeh's article on safety and AI was published at #TheConversation and republished at #UKindependent. Article #TheConversation: theconversation.com/godfather-of... π¨π¨π¨
Article #UKindependent: www.independent.co.uk/tech/ai-gene...
18.07.2025 03:15 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Banner for the SCS' Research Showcase
The School of #ComputerScience at #USyd will hold its 2025 #Research Showcase on Friday July 25, 1:45β6:15pm.
This year's will revolve around multi-disciplinary collaboration. Discover the latest advances in AI, HCI, cybersecurity, data science, and more!Β
Register: signup.e2ma.net/signup/20161...
17.07.2025 01:10 β π 5 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
Are you a top US-based scientist wanting to relocate to Australia? We are now calling for formal applications from both Australian and non-Australian citizens based in the US whose work is internationally recognised as exceptional.
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Applications close: Aug 29, 2025
π science.org.au/gtap/?utm_so...
11.07.2025 00:21 β π 339 π 254 π¬ 12 π 42
FOCS 2025
π ClΓ©ment's paper "Instance-Optimal Uniformity Testing and Tracking" was accepted at #FOCS2025!
πMore about the 66th IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS): focs.computer.org/2025/
π€ @ccanonne.github.io
Joint work with Guy Blanc (Stanford) and Erik Waingarten (U Penn) #TCSSky
11.07.2025 03:00 β π 15 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
π Huge congratulations to A/Prof Anusha Withana, who was awarded a #FutureFellowship by the Australian Research Council for his project, a "Co-Design Framework to In-Situ Fabricate Coevolutionary Enabling Devices"! #USyd
10.07.2025 01:42 β π 5 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
π Huge congratulations to A/Prof Anusha Withana, who was awarded a #FutureFellowship by the Australian Research Council for his project, a "Co-Design Framework to In-Situ Fabricate Coevolutionary Enabling Devices"! #USyd
10.07.2025 01:42 β π 5 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Co-authored with William Umboh (University of Melbourne).
03.07.2025 02:37 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Local Computation Algorithms for Knapsack: impossibility results, and how to avoid them
Local Computation Algorithms (LCA), as introduced by Rubinfeld, Tamir, Vardi, and Xie (2011), are a type of ultra-efficient algorithms which, given access to a (large) input for a given computational ...
π ClΓ©ment and Yun's paper "Local Computation Algorithms for Knapsack: impossibility results, and how to avoid them" is accepted at RANDOM 2025! Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2504.01543
πMore about RANDOM: randomconference.com
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@ccanonne.github.io
#algorithms #sublinearalgorithms #distributedalgorithms
03.07.2025 02:37 β π 8 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0
Faculty of Engineering Women in Engineering Scholarship
A $10,000 scholarship to support female undergraduate domestic students in the Faculty of Engineering.
Details, guidelines, and eligibility requirements:
π Women in Engineering Scholarship:
www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...
π Women in Engineering Excellence:
www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...
Please spread the word! #WomenInEngineering #WomenInSTEM #WomenInComputerScience #USyd
24.06.2025 23:42 β π 4 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
π’ The Faculty of Engineering at #USyd is offering over $1.5M in scholarships to support female domestic undergraduate students starting in 2026.
Applications will open on July 1, close on Sep 30. For more details, see links in reply below. #WomenInSTEM #WomenInEngineering #WomenInCS @sydney.edu.au
24.06.2025 23:37 β π 7 π 3 π¬ 1 π 1
π£ The School of #ComputerScience welcomes the appointment of Prof. Tony Wirth as Interim Head and Prof. Masa Takatsuka as Interim Deputy Head of the school, for the remainder of the year.πππ #USyd
17.06.2025 03:23 β π 11 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
I just stepped down as the head of school of Computer Science after 5 years. It's been a privilege to lead such a wonderful and supportive school. I feel very very lucky.
@sydneycompsci.bsky.social
13.06.2025 09:38 β π 9 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
The faculty and staff of the School of Computer Science, gathered around Joachim Gudmundsson
A wonderful event at the School of Computer Science today, celebrating Prof. Joachim Gudmundsson (@jgudmundsson.bsky.social), who is stepping down at the end of his fruitful term as Head of School. Thank you so much, Joachim!
12.06.2025 10:44 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
The 3 Minute Thesis School heat participants, with the two jury members from the School (A/Prof. Julian Mestre and Dr. Zhanna Sarsenbayeva) in the middle.
Congratulations to the #3MT School Heat PhD finalists, Muhammad Umair, Syeda Amna Rizvi and Zijin Huang! Now onto the Faculty finals!
This recognises their ability to convey the significance of their research in just 3mn, demonstrating outstanding storytelling, focus, and public engagement skills.
06.06.2025 04:19 β π 2 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
The 3 Minute Thesis School heat participants, with the two jury members from the School (A/Prof. Julian Mestre and Dr. Zhanna Sarsenbayeva) in the middle.
Congratulations to the #3MT School Heat PhD finalists, Muhammad Umair, Syeda Amna Rizvi and Zijin Huang! Now onto the Faculty finals!
This recognises their ability to convey the significance of their research in just 3mn, demonstrating outstanding storytelling, focus, and public engagement skills.
06.06.2025 04:19 β π 2 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
@alkist.bsky.social @vincentgramoli.bsky.social @aravind16coiner.bsky.social @lzhou1110.bsky.social
30.05.2025 03:00 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Sydney Blockchain Centre
π¨π¨π£ We now have a Sydney Blockchain Centre led by @jiangshanyu.github.io . It consists of experts from our School on various topics ranging from #distributed #computing, #consensus, #formalverification, to #security and #cryptography. Check out: usyd-desci.github.io/index.html
#Blockchain #USyd
30.05.2025 03:00 β π 3 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0
This is joint work with Jacob Gorman (Supra Research); Lucjan Hanzlik (CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security); Aniket Kate (Purdue University / Supra Research); Easwar Vivek Mangipudi (Supra Research); Pratyay Mukherjee (Supra Research); and Pratik Sarkar (Supra Research).
20.05.2025 00:29 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
VRaaS: Verifiable Randomness as a Service on Blockchains
Web3 applications, such as on-chain games, NFT minting, and leader elections necessitate access to unbiased, unpredictable, and publicly verifiable randomness. Despite its broad use cases and huge dem...
π Aravind's paper "VRaaS: Verifiable Randomness as a Service on Blockchains" was published at IEEE CSF 2025! Paper: eprint.iacr.org/2024/957
πMore about the Computer Security Foundations Symposium: csf2025.ieee-security.org
π€ @aravind16coiner.bsky.social
#Supra #Randomness #Blockchain #Cryptography
20.05.2025 00:29 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 1
The photos above are, of course, only a small sample of the many students we celebrated last week! To paraphrase, this BlueSky margin is too narrow to contain our so-many high-achieving students!
19.05.2025 01:27 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
A group of the students receiving an award at the ceremony, on stage: presented by Dr. Suranga Seneviratne and Prof. Jinman Kim.
A group of the students receiving an award at the ceremony, on stage: presented by Prof. Natialiia Stratiienko and Prof. Jinman Kim.
A group of the students receiving an award at the ceremony, on stage: presented by Dr Mohammad Polash and Prof. Jinman Kim.
Prof. Tony Wirth, Associate Head of School, introducing the ceremony
Celebrating our incredible #USyd #ComputerScience students π during the School of CS' Award Ceremony last Thursday! A truly inspiring cohort: on behalf of the School, lecturers, and professional staff, congratulations! @sydney.edu.au
19.05.2025 01:21 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 1 π 1
Our HCI team received *five* awards at #CHI'25! All of these received best paper honourable mention awards, which are awarded to the top 5% of submissions. #USyd @sydney.edu.au showed up strong at CHI 2025! πππ
16.05.2025 01:53 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
CHI 2025 Yokohama, Japan
CHI 2025 Yokohama, Japan
πππ The paper also won "Honorable Mention Award at CHI 2025". The award recognises this work for advancing the understanding of how people can effectively control supernumerary (extra) arms. #Award #CHI'25
Award list: chi2025.acm.org/best-paper-a...
16.05.2025 01:35 β π 1 π 2 π¬ 0 π 1
Co-authored with Andrea Bianchi, KAIST.
16.05.2025 01:30 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Professor of Physics, Photonics. University of Sydney, currently Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research). Co-Director of NSW Smart Sensing Network. Contributing leading edge research to sovereign capability. Editor-in-Chief of APL Photonics
@sydney.edu.au's flagship public talks program, bringing the world's leading thinkers to the wider Sydney community.
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School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Sydney.
On the land of the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation.
https://maths.usyd.edu.au
Associate Professor @ University of Sydney
Building resilient, trustworthy, and scalable systems via dependable computing, decentralised systems, and security protocols.
Research: Blockchain, Consensus, Security & Privacy
π jiangshanyu.github.io
Assoc.Prof. in Complex Systems @sydneycompsci.bsky.social @sydney.edu.au. I use information theory to research information processing in complex systems in nature, complex networks, computational neuroscience, etc. Author of JIDT software. Views my own/RTs
Crypto & Crypto @U Sydney, https://alkistang.github.io/
Computer Science academic. Keen exerciser (gym, rowing).
Glioblastoma sufferer.
Tackling global grand challenges and transforming the world through project research and education
The official account of the School of Physics at the University of Sydney.
https://www.sydney.edu.au/science/schools/school-of-physics.html
Transforming maths in Australia with research and public outreach.
YouTube http://bit.ly/SMRI_YT
Lecturer @sydney.edu.au @sydneycompsci.bsky.social
Previously Post Doc at @NttResearch, CMU @CyLab. PhD from @UniFAU. Cryptography, Fairness, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
Webpage: http://aravinda-thyagarajan.com
Lecturer at the University of Sydney, Australia. ΰ΄Άΰ΅ΰ΄°ΰ΅ΰ΄¦ΰ΅ΰ΄΅ΰ΄Ώ's Dad. I work in the junction between SE and CySec. Interested in Program Analysis, Mutation Analysis, Repair, Grammar Inference, Generation and Parsing
https://rahul.gopinath.org
Professor of Computer Science (Human-Computer Interaction) @ The University of Sydney.
Immersive systems, Human-AI interaction, HCI methodology
NLP faculty - University of Sydney
he/him
(this account is for professional topics only)
https://www.jkk.name
Senior Lecturer #USydCompSci at the University of Sydney. Postdocs IBM Research and Stanford; PhD at Columbia. Converts β into puns: sometimes theorems. He/him.
Research, campus life and all things #USYD!
Leadership for good.
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