It was my pleasure to deliver the opening keynote at this year’s IEEE Blockchain Conference. Apart from featuring CSIRO’s Data61‘s recent research in distributed trust architecture/blockchain and responsible data usage/AI, I also had some fun venturing into the Metaverse (where digital twins meet with NPCs? … including a Free Guy movie reference). Web3 is still too…

Here are my software architecture keynote slides on “Distributed Trust Architecture – The New Reality of ML-based Systems.” It’s based on the latest scientific papers and projects from CSIRO’s Data61 Thanks to all the co-authors! Abstract: Rarely are ML-based systems in the real world about training a model over some centralised datasets and then integrating…

I had the great pleasure to present at Reserve Bank of Australia on CSIRO’s Data61 latest innovations in blockchain, RegTech, data sharing/analytics, responsible AI and the upcoming Digital Finance CRC. Enjoyed the thoughtful questions at the end. A confluence of factors will make the coming years very interesting – payments system innovation, central bank digital…

After all the high-level responsible/ethical AI principles and frameworks, how do we operationalise them? What about the confusion among the terms – trust, trustworthiness, ethical AI, responsible AI and trustworthy AI? Interpretability vs Explainability? What are CSIRO’s Data61 and our collaborators across Australia working on right now? I am sharing some thoughts and updates via a SIGGRAPH…

I recently joined a virtual panel organised by Attorney-General’s Department sharing lessons and opportunities in using RegTech in Industrial Relations for the reform working groups. Here are the slides.CSIRO’s Data61‘s RegTech project (led by Mark Staples) uses rules-as-code principles to turn text rules in legislations, guidance, advices, policies, controls, agreement and contracts into machine understandable code…