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Dr Aaron Nicolson

Senior Research Scientist

https://people.csiro.au/N/A/aaron-nicolson

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Biography

Aaron is a Research Scientist at the Australian e-Health Research Centre (AEHRC), CSIRO Health & Biosecurity. He leads research in multimodal language modelling for medical image analysis, with a particular focus on radiology report generation and the integration of clinical data. His work combines scientific innovation with clinical translation, co-designing solutions with clinicians to ensure they are rigorous, relevant, and trusted in practice.

Academic Qualifications

  • 2020

    Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
    Griffith University

  • 2017

    Bachelor of Engineering (1st Class Hons, Electronic and Computer)
    Griffith University

Achievements and Awards

  • 2025-2025

    Australia’s top 250 researchers in 2025: Top researcher in acoustics and sound
    The Australian: Research Magazine

  • 2025-2025

    1st place: BioLaySumm - Radiology Report Generation with Layman’s Terms
    BioNLP @ ACL'25

  • 2024-2024

    1st place: Shared task on Large-Scale Radiology Report Generation
    BioNLP @ ACL'24

  • 2024-2024

    3rd place: Discharge Me! Shared Task on Streamlining Discharge Documentation
    BioNLP @ ACL'24

  • 2023-2023

    1st place: ImageCLEFmedical Caption Prediction task
    ImageCLEF @ CLEF'23

  • 2022-2022

    1st place: ImageCLEFmedical Tuberculosis Caverns Detection Challenge
    ImageCLEF @ CLEF'22

  • 2022-2022

    3rd place: ImageCLEFmedical Caption Prediction task
    ImageCLEF @ CLEF'22

  • 2022-2022

    3rd place: ImageCLEFmedical Concept Detection task
    ImageCLEF @ CLEF'22

  • 2021-2021

    3rd place: ImageCLEFmedical Caption Prediction task
    ImageCLEF @ CLEF'21

Current Roles

  • Research Scientist
    Multimodal Language Models for Medical Image Analysis

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Grants

  • 2023-2024

    Pawsey Partner Merit Allocation Scheme

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