Monash wins QCIF door prize at eResAU2023

Simon Michnowicz’s win of QCIF’s door prize at last month’s eResearch Australasia conference (eResAU2023) means Monash University will receive a free KeyPoint tenancy for 12 months, valued at $37,500. 

KeyPoint is a trusted research environment for analysing and sharing sensitive research data. 

QCIF congratulates Monash University and Simon, a Senior HPC Consultant at the Monash eResearch Centre.  

Record number of QCIF speakers at eResAU2023 

QCIF’s team presented a record number of talks at the hybrid online and Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre-based eResAU2023 conference. 

Nineteen QCIF staff either presented or co-authored talks at the conference, held from 17–19 October. 

Eight staff participated in eResAU2023 in other ways, such as acting as a session chair, being involved in Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions, or presenting a poster. 

QCIF CEO Sach Jayasinghe was the co-Chair of the conference Program Committee alongside QCIF board member Professor Linda O’Brien.  

Sach acted as session chair for three themed sessions at eResAU2023, namely: Developing and Training for Now and the Future; Enabling Platforms and Services; and Leveraging Data Assets.  

Listed below are the talks QCIF staff either presented at the conference or co-authored (QCIF staff are highlighted in bold):   

• KeyPoint – A universal trusted research environment for sharing, accessing and analysing sensitive data , Peter Marendy, Stephen Bird, Hoylen Sue, Diego Guillen, John Perry, Vitaly Gnyubkin, Michael Mallon, Mark Hoffmann, Kathy Dallest, Jason Ferris, Dom Gorse

   

• Building infrastructure for sensitive data workloads , Michael Mallon, John Perry, Stephen Bird

   

• Delivering a secure, trusted and scalable infrastructure environment for data governance, control and management of sensitive data for remote analysis for the Australian landscape , Mathew Ishac, Stephen Bird

   

• Building Galaxy Labs to advance life science research, Anna Syme, Madeline Bassetti, Winnie Mok, Cameron Hyde, Nigel Ward, Gareth Price

   

• DReSA – a story of continuing collaboration in skills training , Melissa Burke, Kathryn Unsworth, Nick May, Mark Crowe, Kay Steel, Ann Backhaus, Frederick Fung, Anastasios Papaioannou 

  
  

• Driving community engagement with National Research Infrastructures , Melissa Burke

  , Fathima Haseen, Aditi Subramanya, Emma Joughin, Ann Backhaus, Sarah Thomas, Kerry Mora, Jo Condon, Kathryn Unsworth, David Poger, Aidan Heerdegen, Kelsey Druken, Natalia Bateman, Roger Edberg 

  
  

• AI Skill Training Pathway: Bridging Gaps and Fostering Inclusivity

  : Frederick Fung, Slava Kitaeff, Anastasios Papaioannou, Partric Tung, Jingbo Wang, Maxime Rio, Mike Laverick, Mitchell Hargreaves, Mark Crowe, Abdullah Shaik 

  
  

• Technical tools for humanities researchers: a productive placement case report , Evelyn Ansell

  , Simon Musgrave, Sam Hames, Sara King 

  
  

• Curating species lists: Aggregating data to enhance context , Keeva Connolly, Kathryn Hall 

  
  

• The impacts of collaborative software development between eResearch and the Australian Rivers Institute , Isaac Jennings, Jan Hettenhausen, Jagriti Tiwari

   

• Presenting the idea behind SciDir – A scientific software distribution repository for bringing reproducible software containers securely to HPCs in Australia , Steffen Bollmann, Aswin Narayanan, Sarah Beecroft, Greg D’Arcy, Nigel Ward, Peter Marendy.

   

Six QCIF staff also took part in the following Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions at eResAU2023:  

• Head out on the HPC Highway: Opening Up HPC to Under-Represented & Cross-Disciplinary Domains , Jingbo Wang, Fred Fung, Marlies Hankel, Fathima Haseen, Ann Backhaus, Sarah Beecroft 

  
  

• Putting Babel fish in our ears – creating a language for developers to talk to infrastructure designers and users for mutual gain , Keeva Connolly, Steven Manos, Winnie Mok, Tiff Nelson,

  Nigel Ward, Farah Zaib Khan, Peter Brenton, Kathryn Hall 

  
  

• Not an author or facilitator, but Melissa Burke presented a flash talk in the following BoF session about her experience of participating in the Centre for Scientific Collaboration and Community Engagement’s (CSCCE) “ Scientific Community Engagement Fundamentals” course:

  How do you keep the candle lit and not burn it from both ends (as a community & as a community member). 

QCIF Skills Development Manager Mark Crowe co-authored a poster for eResAU2023 alongside ARDC’s Paula Martinez, titled: The Queensland Research Software Developers Forum – Connecting Members of a Dispersed Community. 

Lastly, Gareth Price ran two Galaxy Australia demonstrations at the AARNET booth, alongside AARNET’s Olivier Allart. 

QCIF also had a booth at eResAU2023 and thanks all conference delegates who stopped by for a chat. 

The eResearch Australasia conference provides an opportunity for delegates to engage, connect and share their ideas and exemplars concerning new information-centric research capabilities, and how technologies can help researchers to collaborate, collect, manage, share, process, analyse, find, understand and reuse information. 

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