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Dr Alan Stenhouse

CERC Fellow

https://people.csiro.au/s/a/alan-stenhouse

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Biography

Alan completed his PhD in Ecology at the University of Adelaide with research on improving the quality of biodiversity data collected using citizen science projects. As part of his PhD research, he developed species observation recording apps, including for the echidnaCSI project which was one of the 3 finalists for the 2021 Eureka Prize for Innovation in Citizen Science and won the South Australian Citizen Science and Engagement Award for Outstanding Science and Research. Prior to returning to Australia for his PhD, Alan had a wide-ranging career in software development internationally, with roles in major tech companies, government agencies, and research institutions, where he has consistently applied cutting-edge technologies to solve complex problems. His interests include software development, human-computer interaction and usability, biodiversity conservation and ecology, citizen science, machine learning/AI and the combination of these areas for positive contributions to our shared world and knowledge systems. As part of the Collaborative Intelligence Future Science Platform (CINTEL FSP), Alan is researching how humans can effectively collaborate with AI systems to improve the management and use of the wealth of data contained in our global biological collections.

Achievements and Awards

  • 2016-2019

    Australian Postgraduate Award
    Australian Government

  • 2021-2021

    South Australian Citizen Science and Engagement Award for Outstanding Science and Research
    echidnaCSI Research Team

  • 2021-2021

    Finalist - Eureka Prize for Innovation in Citizen Science
    echidnaCSI Research Team

Current Roles

  • CERC Fellow
    As part of the Collaborative Intelligence (CINTEL) Future Science Platform, I'm looking at how our National Collections curators and staff can effectively collaborate with AI. I have developed software to aid in collections digitisation through fast metadata extraction and data curation. I am also looking to develop digital curatorial assistants designed to work alongside humans, combining specimen collections data with other datasets, to enable collaborative scientific knowledge discovery and to tackle global challenges.

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