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IBM THINKLab Australia

Located in Melbourne, the IBM THINKLab provides a unique space to connect with and gain insights from IBM researchers and industry experts. Senior decision makers can collaborate with IBM Research in inspiring and interactive ways to envision how they reimagine and transform the way they do business.

The THINKLab is home to a large-scale interactive visualization featuring an array of research innovations. A display system allows users to interact with content through touch and gestures creating the ability to work on projects in a new and visual way.

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Sahitya Pidaparthi
THINKLab Client Engagement Leader
IBM Research – Australia
e-mail: sahityap@au1.ibm.com

Prof. Iven Mareels

Prof. Iven Mareels is the Lab Director of IBM Research – Australia. He is an eminent leader in the Australian research community and joined IBM Research in February 2018 following a 20-year career at the University of Melbourne, where he spent the past 10 years as the Dean of the Melbourne School of Engineering. Prof. Mareels works with our research teams in Melbourne and our network of global labs to accelerate the work IBM Research leads in the areas of health informatics, artificial intelligence, blockchain and quantum computing.

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BEACH: Building Energy Analytics for Cooling & Heating

In commercial buildings in most developed nations, HVAC systems (heating, ventilation and air conditioning) consume between 40% and 70% of a building’s total energy demand. As a result, energy bills are often one of the three highest operating expenses. IBM Research – Australia is addressing this challenge with an IoT-based solution called BEACH, which stands for Building Energy Analytics for Cooling and Heating.

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Responsible computing: Quantifying and reducing our carbon footprint

Climate change is a defining challenge of our time. As our world is becoming increasingly digitalised, the ever-growing volume of data and need for computing is driving significant global growth of data centers. IBM Research – Australia is working with our global teams to quantify, model and reduce the carbon footprint of data centers to enable a sustainable, renewables-powered future for the digital economy.

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From wearables to THINKables: Managing and treating epilepsy using AI

IBM scientists are using advanced machine learning techniques to develop new methods of personalised treatment for epilepsy patients.

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Medical image analytics: Developing a cognitive clinical support system for skin and eye diseases

Medical images are a very important source of information in the diagnoses process. Thanks to the development of new medical technologies, there is an increasing number of images available to doctors, which they may need to analyse in a short amount of time.

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Infectious disease outbreak surveillance and control

IBM scientists are applyling their data analytics expertise to monitor outbreaks of infectious diseases. There has been enormous scientific progress in the modelling and analysis of outbreaks. At IBM Research – Australia, we are developing a data analytics tool that will serve as decision support software to epidemiologists working on outbreak control.

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