The Co-Lab is a 15-year collaborative partnership between ASD and the Australian National University (ANU), that brings together researchers, academics and technical leaders to solve national security challenges and nurture Australian talent.
The Co-Lab hosts a variety of student activities throughout the year, facilitates ASD-ANU research, provides training for ASD and ANU staff, and participates in ANU career fairs, showcases, and much more.
Each year the Co-Lab sponsors 20-30 honours students to undertake research that aligns with ASD’s functions and helps the students understand how their research, interests and skills can be applied to solve real world problems for ASD and national security challenges for Australia.
In 2023, the Co-Lab had 20 students from six Colleges, who researched a range of diverse and important topics.
November 2023 saw 15 of these students present their thesis at the Co-Lab to ASD Mentors and ANU staff.
Projects included:
- Software cache prefetching for tracing garbage collection
- Coxeter groups and representations of fusion quivers
- Microlocal analysis of geometric separation
- Silent stalkers: Uncovering and exploiting the inner workings of a Bluetooth tracker
- The role of attention in mismatch negativity: An ERP and Decoding Study
- Benign overfitting in linear discriminant analysis
- IoT Bushfire Detection: Sustaining IoT devices in remote environments
- General time-resolved computed Tomography from First Principles
- A large-scale mixed methods study of reproducibility in Q&A forums across programming languages
- Quantum field-theoretic approaches to quantum tunnelling through external potentials
- Improved reasoning on Non-Classical Logics
- Radiation risks in Space: Modelling the internal radiation environment of satellites in orbit using Geant4
- A study of satellite lines in Eu:YSO
- Utilising mixed reality and machine learning for building Egocentric Datasets
- Categorising the Risk Posed by Microarchitectural Vulnerabilities in ARM64 CPUs
ASD, ANU and the Co-Lab would like to congratulate all the Honours students on their thesis and all their hard work and efforts this year.
Applications for the 2024 Honours Grant Program are now open and close 31 January 2024.
If you would like to know more about the ASD-ANU Co-Lab, or how to apply for the 2024 ASD ANU Co-Lab Honours program, visit: Co-Lab Honours Grant | The Australian National University (anu.edu.au)
Noting Australian citizenship is a requirement for all Co-Lab Honours students
