Jana Makar

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AI app to identify cerebral palsy in infants

“Our eyes cannot focus on the arm, leg and eyes at the same time, but a machine can learn the connectivity in the limbs’ movements.”
Subject: 
Medical Science

NeSI exploring cloud-native services for research developers

As more domains integrate computational and data-focused approaches to the way they work, we're seeing research communities' needs evolve beyond traditional models of queue-based High Performance C... Read more

This image depicts a Deep Learning model's prediction of adult Tarāpuka (Black-billed gulls) sitting on nests in a colony. The ground truth is pictured on the left, and the prediction is on the right. Image courtesy of Saif Khan.

Using Deep Learning to detect braided river bird populations

"To be honest, being an ecologist, I was a bit nervous to approach people from advanced data science space. But this fear diminished quickly as all involved in the project was more than ready to understand my needs and was ready to work with my strengths.
Subject: 
Biology
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Tools to better understand and address water quality issues

"The team at NeSI worked with us to provide a solution to achieve significant speed-up in legacy R- and FORTRAN-based code for catchment model runs."
Subject: 
Earth Science
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AI software learns, tracks and predicts cybersickness in virtual reality users

“It would take me a day to train one machine learning model [on my desktop], but I'd train something like 56 models in a day on Mahuika.”
Subject: 
Medical Science
Photo of NIWA's Baring Head atmospheric station. Photo by Dave Allen, NIWA.

Automating workflows to help scientists address crucial carbon cycle questions

"The transformation of our CYLC setup into a fully automated and more flexible workflow has had a remarkable impact on our research processes."
Subject: 
Earth Science

Lunch n Learn webinar: Exploring cloud-native services for research developers

Join us for a Lunch 'n Learn webinar that shares our early access roll-out of new tools for easier and more adaptable collaboration around research data.NeSI has launched a Research Developer Cloud... Read more

Job opportunity: Researcher Support Team Lead

NeSI has a brilliant opportunity for a research computing professional to lead our national Researcher Support Team. You will take on overall management and operational responsibility for the team ... Read more

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Entering a new era in genetic analysis

“We’re looking forward to be able to learn, discuss, try, and then pass this knowledge on.”

Webinar: Learn more about the benefits of RDA Membership

The Research Data Alliance (RDA) builds the social and technical bridges that enable open sharing and re-use of data. It is an international community-driven, member-based organisation focused on t... Read more