Athena is commercial project funded by the Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) that runs to June 2026. The focus of this work is the development of a scheduling system for training and tracking of resource personnel required by the defence forces of Australia and international defence forces. This will provide an Australia-wide system that can support current and future training needs and demands of defence personnel in the army, navy and airforce. Furthermore, recruits in the Australian Defence Force (ADF) undergo complex and specialized training. However, the complex nature of defence closed workforce systems and the dynamic nature of the defense environment means that planning training can be very difficult. Areta is a platform that is used to tackle these scheduling challenges.

Youth AI aims to provide the Australian community with the infrastructure they need to lead the next generation of AI-assisted youth mental healthcare. The goal is for young people to receive the care that is best for them when they need it most. This will allow young people to not experience severe illness or recover quickly so that they do not experience lifelong disability at immense cost to them, their families, and society.

Hospital in the Home is a collaboration with the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI – https://www.mcri.edu.au/). It focuses on development of a web application for intelligent coordination of doctors and nurses in scheduling visits to patients at home.

This project is a collaboration with researchers in the School of Population and Global Health (https://mspgh.unimelb.edu.au/) at the University of Melbourne. It focuses on development of a mobile app that can be used to identify types of food and applying augmented reality to estimate the volume and hence calorific content of food.

This project is a collaboration with Phoenix Australia (www.phoenixaustralia.org). It focuses on development of a mobile phone app to train attention with specific focus on supporting individuals with post traumatic stress disorder.

This project is a collaboration with researchers in the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology in the Department of Biomedical Engineering (https://biomedical.eng.unimelb.edu.au/). It focuses on development of a customised smart-phone App that records motion data from wearable sensors (inertial measurement units) placed on the upper and lower limbs. The App then sends the motion data from the phone to a cloud-based server, which can then be viewed in real-time using a web-based program. This capability was designed to support remote display and data logging of ankle, hip, knee, shoulder and elbow joint angles during activities of daily living in the home setting. Ultimately, this capability seeks to mitigate the need for a patient to travel to a specialised clinic for 3D motion analysis, which can be costly for both the patient and healthcare system.

The AIO project (https://www.aio.eresearch.unimelb.edu.au/) has been funded by ARDC (https://ardc.edu.au/). Building on the ADO project, AIO collects and analyses social media data at scale. This includes data from BlueSky, FlickR, Foursquare, GDELT, Mastodon, Reddit, Twitter and YouTube comments. The platform is used by hundreds of researchers and students at the University of Melbourne.

The ICU/Recovery Toolkit is a resource under development for the Canrex group at the Dept of Physiotherapy at the University of Melbourne, providing dynamic guidance instruction on patients discharged from ICU care, and a method of clinical accreditation through guideline testing for ICU clinicians. Due for release in mid 2026, the application is currently going through co-design development with all participating stakeholders with representatives from all areas of the globe.

The Rhythmo study allows participants to upload heart rate, sleep and step data from their smart-watches to a data-processing application, that then visualises their multi-day heart-rate cycle and provides an analogous chronotype from the animal kingdom. Led by the Dept of Biomechanical Engineering at the University of Melbourne, the results from this study will inform the relationship between an individual’s unique heart-rate rhythm and its relationship to conditions such as epilepsy.

The GenI-Airspace study investigates the relationship between genetic testing and the risk factors involved in patients undergoing treatment for prostate cancer. Led by the Dept of Surgery at the University of Melbourne, the hypothesis is to be able to apply active surveillance for those with lower genetic risk scores. The study is currently actively recruiting with a target of over 2000 patients across three study stages.