MDFI Seed Grants to foster international partnerships in AI for Good

The 2022 MDFI Seed Grant Program aims to support research in AI and data science with a focus on fostering collaborations across Monash international campuses as well as with international partners, to tackle major research Global Challenges around climate change, geopolitical security and thriving communities.

Announcing the successful applicants, MDFI Director Professor Joanna Batstone said -
"The selected projects are a great example of the ambitious and highly novel research taking place at Monash, that align well with our Impact 2030 vision. Congratulations to all the grant recipients. We look forward to supporting their research journey going forward."

The successful seed grant projects and their leaders are:

• Socio-political Readiness for AI and Big Data in Developing Countries
  Dr Md Khalid Hossain (Faculty of Information Technology), Associate Professor Gillian Christina Oliver (Faculty of Information Technology), Dr Aashish Srivastava (Faculty of Business and Economics), Dr Tanjila Kanij (Faculty of Information Technology) and Dr Ridoan Karim (Monash Malaysia)


• Interdisciplinary Data Perspectives: Co-developing Sustainable Future Visions for the Citarum River, Indonesia
  Dr Michaela Prescott (Monash Arts, Design and Architecture), Associate Professor Shanti Sumartojo (Monash Arts, Design and Architecture), Dr Paris Hadfield (Monash Sustainable Development Institute), Associate Professor Alex Lechner (Monash Arts, Design and Architecture), Dr Alyas Widitya (Monash Indonesia), Dr Dwinanti Marthanty (Universitas Indonesia) and Dr Reni Suwarso (Universitas Indonesia)


• Artificial Intelligence-enabled Cancer diagnosis, Type Classification and Mutation Prediction
  Associate Professor Jiangning Song (Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences) Professor Alex Boussioutas (The University of Melbourne), Professor Pietro Liò (University of Cambridge, UK), Professor Seiya Imoto (The University of Tokyo, Japan) and Assistant Professor Daokun Zhang (Faculty of Information Technology and Monash University Suzhou Campus, China)


• AI for Assessment of Global Mortality Risk Associated with Tropical Cyclones
  Associate Professor Shanshan Li (Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences), Professor Yuming Guo (Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences), Associate Professor Zongyuan Ge (Faculty of Engineering and Monash e-Research Centre), Professor Qi Zhao (Shandong University, China) and Dr Thomas Vogt (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany)


• Towards Automated Identification of Political Misinformation
  Dr Yuan-Fang Li (Faculty of Information Technology), Professor Robert Thomson (Faculty of Arts), Professor Mark Andrejevic (Faculty of Arts) and Professor Christina Schneider (University of California, San Diego, USA)


• Machine Learning Assisted Voltammetric Screening of Electrocatalysts for Green Energy Production 
  Associate Professor Jie Zhang (Faculty of Science), Professor Alan M Bond (Faculty of Science), Dr Cameron L Bentley (Faculty of Science), Associate Professor Jonathan Keith (Faculty of Science), Dr Shirui Pan (Faculty of Information Technology), Dr Mahsa Salehi (Faculty of Information Technology) and Professor Patrick R Unwin (University of Warwick, UK)