We are looking for an outstanding academic leader at Level E (Professor) with an excellent track record of teaching and research in the discipline of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The appointee will provide leadership and mentorship in the AI discipline within the School of Computing and leverage your international standing to provide a focal point for the further development of the discipline at Macquarie University. You will have a distinguished scholarly research record and a renowned reputation in the field. Your role will ensure research, teaching, and engagement activities within this discipline excel, you will mentor and support staff to develop them and grow their careers. You will demonstrate research excellence, contribute to the development and management of our teaching programs, provide leadership amongst national and international peers, and represent the University at public forums.

How do I start a career as a deep learning engineer? What are some of the key tools and frameworks used in AI? How do I learn more about ethics in AI? Everyone has questions, but the most common questions in AI always return to this: how do I get involved? Cutting through the hype to share fundamental principles for building a career in AI, a group of AI professionals gathered at NVIDIA's GTC conference in the spring offered what may be the best place to start. Each panelist, in a conversation with NVIDIA's Louis Stewart, head of strategic initiatives for the developer ecosystem, came to the industry from very different places. But the speakers -- Katie Kallot, NVIDIA's former head of global developer relations and emerging areas; David Ajoku, founder of startup aware.ai;

If you're looking for a free introductory AI course for beginner's, Microsoft has got you covered. The aptly-named Artificial Intelligence for Beginners is put together by Microsoft Azure Cloud Advocates, and consists of a 12 week, 24 lesson curriculum designed to introduce learners to the wonderful world of AI. You can see specific course content, laid out lesson by lesson, here. Lessons are taught using a variety of materials. You can find a mind map of the course here. If you are interested in knowing more, you might want to get to know the instructors for the course in the video below.

With excellent, high-quality students, a vibrant research environment, being based in the Suzhou Industrial Park, which houses over 100 Fortune 500 companies, and in close proximity to other higher education institutions, this is a unique opportunity to engage in multi-disciplinary research collaborations and enhance your future career prospects in a teaching and research focused role. The Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence and Department of Software Systems and Cybersecurity strive to provide a welcoming and open culture that is inclusive of students and staff of diverse genders, sexes, sexualities, religions and cultures and people with disabilities. In accordance with Monash University's commitment to Athena Swan principles, we particularly encourage applications from women in data science and artificial intelligence. For further information, please see our website: www.monash.edu/it/edi/women-in-it. If deep engagement with Monash Australia and its teaching & research staff, and the opportunity to collaborate with experts across the Faculty of Information Technology within a world top 100 University, is of interest to you, we look forward to receiving your application!

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Despite the continuous efforts in improving both the effectiveness and efficiency of code search, two issues remained unsolved. First, programming languages have inherent strong structural linkages, and feature mining of code as text form would omit the structural information contained inside it. Second, there is a potential semantic relationship between code and query, it is challenging to align code and text across sequences so that vectors are spatially consistent during similarity matching. To tackle both issues, in this paper, a code search model named CSSAM (Code Semantics and Structures Attention Matching) is proposed. By introducing semantic and structural matching mechanisms, CSSAM effectively extracts and fuses multidimensional code features. Specifically, the cross and residual layer was developed to facilitate high-latitude spatial alignment of code and query at the token level. By leveraging the residual interaction, a matching module is designed to preserve more code semantics and descriptive features, that enhances the adhesion between the code and its corresponding query text. Besides, to improve the model's comprehension of the code's inherent structure, a code representation structure named CSRG (Code Semantic Representation Graph) is proposed for jointly representing abstract syntax tree nodes and the data flow of the codes. According to the experimental results on two publicly available datasets containing 540k and 330k code segments, CSSAM significantly outperforms the baselines in terms of achieving the highest SR@1/5/10, MRR, and NDCG@50 on both datasets respectively. Moreover, the ablation study is conducted to quantitatively measure the impact of each key component of CSSAM on the efficiency and effectiveness of code search, which offers the insights into the improvement of advanced code search solutions.

Cancer is one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Fast and safe early-stage, pre- and intra-operative diagnostics can significantly contribute to successful cancer identification and treatment. Artificial intelligence has played an increasing role in the enhancement of cancer diagnostics techniques in the last 15 years. This review covers the advances of artificial intelligence applications in well-established techniques such as MRI and CT. Also, it shows its high potential in combination with optical spectroscopy-based approaches that are under development for mobile, ultra-fast, and low-invasive diagnostics. I will show how spectroscopy-based approaches can reduce the time of tissue preparation for pathological analysis by making thin-slicing or haematoxylin-and-eosin staining obsolete. I will present examples of spectroscopic tools for fast and low-invasive ex- and in-vivo tissue classification for the determination of a tumour and its boundaries. Also, I will discuss that, contrary to MRI and CT, spectroscopic measurements do not require the administration of chemical agents to enhance the quality of cancer imaging which contributes to the development of more secure diagnostic methods. Overall, we will see that the combination of spectroscopy and artificial intelligence constitutes a highly promising and fast-developing field of medical technology that will soon augment available cancer diagnostic methods.

This paper proposes a new family of algorithms for the online optimisation of composite objectives. The algorithms can be interpreted as the combination of the exponentiated gradient and $p$-norm algorithm. Combined with algorithmic ideas of adaptivity and optimism, the proposed algorithms achieve a sequence-dependent regret upper bound, matching the best-known bounds for sparse target decision variables. Furthermore, the algorithms have efficient implementations for popular composite objectives and constraints and can be converted to stochastic optimisation algorithms with the optimal accelerated rate for smooth objectives.

The pairwise objective paradigms are an important and essential aspect of machine learning. Examples of machine learning approaches that use pairwise objective functions include differential network in face recognition, metric learning, bipartite learning, multiple kernel learning, and maximizing of area under the curve (AUC). Compared to pointwise learning, pairwise learning's sample size grows quadratically with the number of samples and thus its complexity. Researchers mostly address this challenge by utilizing an online learning system. Recent research has, however, offered adaptive sample size training for smooth loss functions as a better strategy in terms of convergence and complexity, but without a comprehensive theoretical study. In a distinct line of research, importance sampling has sparked a considerable amount of interest in finite pointwise-sum minimization. This is because of the stochastic gradient variance, which causes the convergence to be slowed considerably. In this paper, we combine adaptive sample size and importance sampling techniques for pairwise learning, with convergence guarantees for nonsmooth convex pairwise loss functions. In particular, the model is trained stochastically using an expanded training set for a predefined number of iterations derived from the stability bounds. In addition, we demonstrate that sampling opposite instances at each iteration reduces the variance of the gradient, hence accelerating convergence. Experiments on a broad variety of datasets in AUC maximization confirm the theoretical results.

We explore the merits of training of support vector machines for binary classification by means of solving systems of ordinary differential equations. We thus assume a continuous time perspective on a machine learning problem which may be of interest for implementations on (re)emerging hardware platforms such as analog- or quantum computers.