Research Fellow - Canberra, Australia - Australian National University

Australian National University

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Canberra, Australia

1 week ago

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Olivia Brown

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Description

Classification:
Academic Level C

Salary package:
$ 132,275 - $ 147,019 per annum plus 17% superannuation

Terms:
Full time, Fixed term (up to 2 years)

Take leadership of activities in integration and implementation of technologies for the rapid detection and suppression of bushfires, using your skills in autonomous systems, networked data processing, and computer vision.

Undertake collaborative and cross-disciplinary research, leading a consortium of academics and external partners.

Bushfire Research Centre of Excellence

The Bushfire Research Centre of Excellence (BRCoE) is a research centre jointly funded by ANU and Optus, with the vision of a paradigm change in bushfire management where early ignitions are accurately and reliably detected and suppressed before they become catastrophic and uncontrollable.

The Centre fosters and evaluates research an innovation for a range of technologies to drive Australian resilience against catastrophic bushfires.

The BRCoE is located in both Fenner School of Environment and Society and the School of Engineering. The position will be located in the School of Engineering.

About the College
The _ANU by 2025_ _Strategic Plan calls for the University to serve society through transformational research and education.

As one of the great universities of the world, ANU is driven by a culture of excellence in everything we do.

Our lived experience is increasingly one of large-scale systems of people, whose actions and interactions are influenced by our digital, physical and biological environment.

The ANU College of Engineering, Computing and Cybernetics (CECC) hosts three of the key disciplines necessary to help us design, build, regulate and secure the future.

CECC brings together expertise in social, technical, computational, ecological and scientific systems to build a new approach to systems design and build new national capabilities in data-driven policy and business development.

The work we do in the College directly supports one of the four pillars of _ANU by 2025_:
to strengthen our national mission and meet our unique responsibilities as Australia's national university.

We will deliver on our mission by building a strong community, providing transformative educational experiences, conducting high-impact research, seeking meaningful engagement, and becoming a resilient organisation post COVID-19.

We welcome and openly acknowledge differences in expertise, research / education / professional focus, experience and perspective.

CECC is a vibrant and diverse community of more than three thousand students, staff, and visitors.

Our College comprises three schools:
the School of Computing, School of Cybernetics, and School of Engineering, supported by the Professional Services Group.

The School of Engineering brings together a diverse and welcoming community that is motivated to seek "wicked problems". We connect divergent thinkers, to explore and pose solutions, that cross the traditional interdisciplinary and global boundaries. We have evolved from our foundational strength in systems thinking, reaching beyond traditional engineering fields.

This systems approach embraces our core strengths and is shaped around four focus areas:
Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Mechatronics. Join us in our fundamental quest of discovery and passionate pursuit of knowledge that goes beyond our lived world.

About the opportunity

This position is a fixed term for a period of up to 2 years appointment to contribute to the Bushfire Research Centre of Excellence activities in integration and implementation of technology demonstrators.

The position will report to Professor Robert Mahony and will have a leading role in the scout drones project, developing and demonstrating technology for beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) flight capability and developing algorithms for guidance and data fusion for visual bushfire ignition validation and situational awareness in deep bushland.

The position will also play a key role in integrating ground-based visual fire detection technology and Internet of Things (IoT) ground sensors for early detection of bushfires.

The Centre is also leading a consortium in the XPRIZE Autonomous Wildfire Response competition and this role will play a leadership role in coordinating partners and integrating technologies for the Centre demonstrators.

Applications are particularly invited from researchers who undertake high impact collaborative and cross-disciplinary research, and whose expertise contribute to the activity Centre, School, and College.

Our commitment to diversity, belonging, inclusion and equity

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