The Hitchhiker's Guide to Translational AI: Bridging the gap between research and real-world impact
The Hitchhiker's Guide to Translational AI: Bridging the gap between research and real-world impact
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AI breakthroughs are exciting – but transforming them into business-ready solutions is where the real challenge begins.
In the highly anticipated return of the Monash Tech Talk Series, join Professor Shonali Krishnaswamy, the Director of the Monash AI Institute and the Associate Dean (Innovation) at the Faculty of IT, as she charts the journey of translational AI.
Professor Krishnaswamy will share practical strategies on embedding AI into your work to ensure it delivers real business value. You’ll also learn the four key challenges that must be addressed to deploy scalable, enterprise-ready AI solutions:
- Architecture and process flow: Discover how to design AI systems that integrate seamlessly into enterprise environments, covering everything from training to scoring and retraining.
- AI testing methodologies: Explore a five-stage rigorous testing framework designed to ensure reliability, performance and alignment with business goals – going beyond traditional accuracy metrics.
- Explaining AI decisions: Learn why explainability in enterprise AI isn’t just a technical challenge, but a business imperative.
- Risk management: Unpack a practical risk management methodology to ensure compliance, governance and ethical AI deployment.
Interested in delivering safe, transparent and effective AI solutions to your workplace? Register now for the opportunity to gain valuable insights and explore potential collaborations with Professor Krishnaswamy and the Monash AI Institute.
This session will be followed by a networking opportunity where industry, colleagues and alumni can join the wider conversation on Monash Tech Talks and their presented initiatives.
About the speaker
Professor Shonali Krishnaswamy
Professor Shonali Krishnaswamy is the Director of the Monash AI Institute and the Associate Dean (Innovation) at the Faculty of Information Technology.
Before joining Monash University, Professor Krishnaswamy was the CTO and Co-Founder of AiDA Technologies, a multi-award winning machine learning start-up based in Singapore. AiDA specialised in delivering AI-based claims processing technologies for health insurers across Singapore and the ASEAN region.
AiDA's marquee product, SMART-CLAIMS, automates health insurance claims processing using AI, while detecting and preventing fraud, waste and abuse. Adopted by major insurers in Singapore and the broader ASEAN region, SMART-CLAIMS played a key role in AiDA’s acquisition by Amplify Health in 2023.
Before starting her entrepreneurial journey, Professor Krishnaswamy was Head of the Data Analytics Department at the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), which is part of the Singapore Government's national R&D arm, the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR).
As Head of Data Analytics at I2R, she led a research team of 70 Data Science researchers and engineers and focused on R&D innovation labs and collaboration projects across multiple industry sectors including financial services, telecommunications, healthcare and aerospace.
She has also previously held academic and professorial appointments in Australia at Monash University and Swinburne University.
Professor Krishnaswamy is the recipient of several national and international awards including an ARC Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship, Monash University Vice-Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Research by an Early Career Researcher, the Institute of Engineers Singapore Prestigious Engineering Award, the ASEAN Outstanding Engineering Award, and an IBM Innovation Award.
In 2020, she was recognised as one of Singapore's Inaugural 100 Women in Technology by the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) and the Singapore Computer Society (SCS). More recently in March 2024, she was recognised as one of Asia's Top 50 Women Technology Leaders.