QUT-CSIRO Digital Agriculture PhD Scholarship
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Employer: CSIRO |
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Job location: Brisbane, QLD Australia |
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Apply before: Not specified |
Summary
CSIRO and QUT are offering a joint scholarship to a PhD candidate who has undertaken studies in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or Computer Science. You will get the opportunity to work on a cutting-edge project in digital agriculture and play an integral role in the development of visualisation methodologies for the interpretation of modelled output and uncertainties to facilitate decision-making.
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• Are you passionate about the development of visualisation methodologies to facilitate spatio-temporal decision-making in agriculture?
• Want to access CSIRO’s world-class facilities and resources while completing your PhD?
• Apply for a QUT-CSIRO PhD scholarship now!
CSIRO and QUT are offering a joint scholarship to a PhD candidate who has undertaken studies in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or Computer Science. You will get the opportunity to work on a cutting-edge project in digital agriculture and play an integral role in the development of visualisation methodologies for the interpretation of modelled output and uncertainties to facilitate decision-making.
Project Title: Turning predictions into decisions: innovation to facilitate spatio-temporal decision-making in the agricultural sciences
Project Details:
As agriculture meets the digital age, we are faced with challenging decisions about when to sow, when and how much to fertilise and when to irrigate. With the aid of high performance computing, models that represent complex agricultural processes can be used to simulate a wide range of farming scenarios in space and through time. Coupled with other sources of information (e.g. measured data and expert information) the challenge becomes being able to quantify the uncertainties and interpret the outputs in such a way that can facilitate on-ground decision-making.
This PhD project will develop cutting-edge statistical machine-learning methods, as well as innovative visualisations and interactive experiences to facilitate spatio-temporal decision-making in agriculture.
With the recent advancements and interest in the communication of uncertainties to guide decision-making, this research is timely. It will complement the current suite of activities within Digiscape, a future science platform within CSIRO that is helping to bridge the gap between agricultural science and digital technology to improve prediction and forecasting in agricultural systems to assist in spatio-temporal decision-making.
This project will have direct input into the Digiscape platform, led by Dr Petra Kuhnert. Digiscape is bringing to bear:
• cutting-edge climate science
• new sources of locally and remotely sensed data
• informatics for agro-ecosystems
• rigorous analysis of uncertainties
• innovation in both the ICT and social dimensions of systems integration.
For further information on this project please visit: https://www.qut.edu.au/research/study-with-us/student-topics/topics/turning-predictions-into-decisions-innovation-to-facilitate-spatio-temporal-decision-making-in-the-agricultural-sciences
Location: Brisbane, QLD
Scholarship: This CSIRO-QUT Digital Agriculture Scholarship is worth $32k annually, plus $5k per year for development, training, and/or travel
Tenure: Up to 3 years (concordant with PhD at QUT)
Reference: 61464
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