100 AI INNOVATIONS
CHANGING THE WORLD
100 UQ AI Innovations Changing the World
Artificial intelligence is changing how we live, learn, work and solve problems. But behind every AI innovation is something very human – curiosity. A question that hasn't been answered. A challenge that seems impossible. A belief that there might be a better way.
At The University of Queensland, those questions are being explored every day by researchers, students and partners from across disciplines. In laboratories, hospitals, classrooms, businesses and communities, they are applying artificial intelligence to challenges ranging from healthcare and education to environmental sustainability, scientific discovery and advanced technology.
This collection celebrates 100 examples of AI innovation from across the University. Together, they offer a glimpse into a much larger and rapidly growing ecosystem of research and discovery. They are stories of people, partnerships and ideas, and just the beginning of what is still to come.
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- Advancing AI
- Energy & Resources
- Environment & Agrifood
- Health & Biomedical
- Advanced Manufacturing
- Space & Defence
- Urban Design & Sustainable Infrastructure
- Australian organisations in critical sectors such as finance, government and health are under growing risk of cyber attack. The early warning signs of an incursion are often already sitting in the network data these organisations collect – the challenge is making sense of it quickly enough to prevent a breach.
- Grain growers can access a more accurate view of the season ahead, using a UQ-built system called CropVision to forecast wheat and sorghum yields up to four months before sowing.
- Researchers at The University of Queensland are helping drive Australia's transition to digital manufacturing through the ARC Industrial Transformation Research Hub for Future Digital Manufacturing.
- UQ researchers have developed AI-powered melanoma surveillance tools that help detect hard-to-spot skin cancers more consistently and accurately, improving early diagnosis and access to screening for Australians, particularly in regional and rural communities.
- Generative AI can answer questions, write essays and summarise to a professional standard — allowing students to complete tasks while bypassing the effort through which understanding is built. Offloading their thinking to AI means students may lack the judgement, problem-solving capabilities and deep understanding required to create original solutions to real-world challenges.
- A University of Queensland spin-out, Cortisonic, is commercialising a new class of ultra-low-energy computing technology that uses high-frequency sound waves, known as hyper-sound, rather than conventional electronics to process information.
- Australian organisations in critical sectors such as finance, government and health are under growing risk of cyber attack. The early warning signs of an incursion are often already sitting in the network data these organisations collect – the challenge is making sense of it quickly enough to prevent a breach.
- Generative AI can answer questions, write essays and summarise to a professional standard — allowing students to complete tasks while bypassing the effort through which understanding is built. Offloading their thinking to AI means students may lack the judgement, problem-solving capabilities and deep understanding required to create original solutions to real-world challenges.
- The volume of scholarly literature is growing faster than any one researcher can keep up with, and making sense of it at scale is hard. Existing AI tools tend to do one narrow job well — retrieving papers or answering a question about a single document — but struggle to move fluidly from simple retrieval through to synthesising across many papers and generating new knowledge.
- A University of Queensland spin-out, Cortisonic, is commercialising a new class of ultra-low-energy computing technology that uses high-frequency sound waves, known as hyper-sound, rather than conventional electronics to process information.
- AI is accelerating the discovery of new medicines, agricultural chemicals and safer industrial compounds — but these systems can fail in silent, dangerous ways. A UQ team is pinpointing where AI predictions break down, and building safeguards to make them trustworthy.
- Grain growers can access a more accurate view of the season ahead, using a UQ-built system called CropVision to forecast wheat and sorghum yields up to four months before sowing.
- UQ researchers have developed AI-powered melanoma surveillance tools that help detect hard-to-spot skin cancers more consistently and accurately, improving early diagnosis and access to screening for Australians, particularly in regional and rural communities.
- UQ researchers have developed an AI-assisted MRI analysis tool that objectively measures tongue muscle changes in people with MND, helping address delays in diagnosis and improving access to treatment, support and clinical trials.
- Researchers at The University of Queensland are helping drive Australia's transition to digital manufacturing through the ARC Industrial Transformation Research Hub for Future Digital Manufacturing.