RSAA Colloquium: Cheng Soon Ong (Data61/CSIRO)
On Finding Good Experiments.
Date & time
Date/time
30 Sep 2025 11:00am
Speaker
Speakers
Dr Cheng Soon Ong, Associate Science Director at Data61, CSIRO and a senior principal research scientist at the Statistical Machine Learning Group. Leading machine learning for scientific discovery at CSIRO.
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Event series
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Description
On Finding Good Experiments
https://cheng-soon.ong-home.my/
One of the key choices we have as scientists is to design informative experiments. Using examples from astronomy, we discuss a machine learning perspective of the scientific method. With AI promising accurate predictions, we revisit the question of adaptively designing new measurements that take previous data into account. Following this scientific method framing, we illustrate some recent ideas on using machine learning to recommend experiments in genomics. The goal of this talk is to start a conversation about what it means to recommend experiments in astronomy.
Location
Duffield Lecture Theatre or via ZOOM
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