Research of national and international significance
Located in the heart of Australia’s largest high-tech precinct, Macquarie’s information and computing science researchers are uniquely positioned to collaborate with major industry partners.
Areas of specialisation
- AI4Tech
- Algorithmic and learning theories
- Applied computing
- Applied statistics
- Artificial intelligence
- Computer vision
- Pattern recognition
- Cybersecurity and privacy
- Data management and data science
- Distributed computing and systems
- Graphics, augmented reality and games
- Humanoid AI
- Human-centred computing
- Information systems
- Internet of things and reinforcement learning
- Large multimodal modelling
- Machine learning
- Metaverse AI
- National language processing
- Software engineering
- Theory of computation.
Learn more about our research themes.
Research collectives
Research highlights
Our researchers have been fighting global phone scams, working to develop cyber-security products for the data-driven economy, and helping robotic agents in our defence force to communicate securely.
We have teamed with Facebook to help establish ethical norms in virtual worlds, and with the CSIRO to build sustainable cities through the Internet of Things.
We collaborate closely with local, national, and international organisations and companies to deliver high-impact computing and information research. Our research partners include:
- CSIRO’s Data61
- Department of Defence
- Defence Science and Technology
- Organisation (DSTO)
- Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
- Australian Federal Police
- NSW Government
- Wesfarmers
- HSBC
- TATA Consultancy Services
- Domain
- ITIC
- trUUth
- Faethm
- Prospa
- Yirigaa.
Research news
Read more about the breakthroughs happening in the areas of research relating to information and computing sciences.