
TechLauncher: Shaping Future-Ready Professionals
26 Jun 2024
With around 300 students in Semester 1 2024, TechLauncher helps students become job-ready by providing opportunities to enhance both technical and professional skills that are not necessarily taught in a traditional classroom...

Emeritus Professor Richard Hartley elected Fellow of the Royal Society
17 May 2024
Emeritus Professor Richard Hartley FAA FRS has been elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society.

From Super Mario Bros to a passion in computer science
15 May 2024
Childhood interest in video games sparked passion for computer science. Devansu Yadav shared his journey as a first-year Master of Computing student at ANU.

HEXperience of a lifetime – unveiling innovative student startups
10 Apr 2024
Earlier this year, a group of ANU students travelled to HEX International Singapore, a two-week immersive program for idea-stage founders to refine their start-up ideas and learn from leaders in business, social...

Astrocomputing detectives uncover planet-eating stars
21 Mar 2024
New research substantiates the mind-bending astrophysics behind the Netflix sci-fi saga Three-Body Problem and solves an interstellar murder mystery billions of years in the making.

What do playdough and video games have in common? Ask Dr Penny Kyburz!
13 Mar 2024
When you think of creating video games, what comes to mind? Using playdough and creating prototypes out of paper? Associate Professor Penny Kyburz is bringing a unique flair of creativity and innovation...

Computers to fight disease by predicting quantum chemistry
1 Feb 2024
A fortuitous encounter at the Australian National University (ANU) spawned QDX—a new start-up taking the biotech industry by storm

Escape Room garners teaching award, funding to expand
8 Dec 2023
Dr Bernardo Pereira Nunes has won a Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Education, in part for the Escape Room he designed for teaching computer science. A separate teaching grant will facilitate the...

We tell people how atoms move—an interview with Loong Wang
6 Dec 2023
Loong Wang’s first two tech companies were valued at nearly $2 billion when they were sold. He has founded two more since his 2021 pivot to bio-medical technology.

Computing internship leads to life, career change
14 Nov 2023
Andrea Do was working as a medical researcher when she first encountered machine learning. She decided to enrol at the School of Computing, where an internship at a fast-growing tech company changed...