AI excellence: Monash researchers honoured at Women in AI APAC Awards
Dr Faezeh Marzbanrad and Dr Nicole Robinson from Monash Engineering were recognised at the Women in AI Asia-Pacific Awards for their exceptional work in using AI to tackle health and social issues. Dr Marzbanrad, leading the Biomedical Signal Processing Research Lab, received the AI in Research Excellence (Health) Award for her work on affordable AI-powered healthcare technologies aimed at improving health outcomes in low-resource communities.
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Dr Robinson, a Research Fellow and Lecturer in the Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering and the School of Psychological Sciences, won the AI in Agribusiness and Rural Development Award and was named the overall Women in AI Grand Winner. Her research focuses on human behavior and its integration into software agents and robotic systems, and she is also a Director of LYRO Robotics.