Andreas Wicenec

Alumni

University of Western Australia

Biography

My research sits at the intersection between computer science, natural sciences, and mathematics. In particular I'm interested in applications of novel computer science approaches to complex scientific problems and then maturing them into an operational environment, solving real-world problems at scale and in a reliable, reproducible way. In the past I have had the absolute privilege to be able to contribute to six of the biggest astronomical facilities, during the process of bringing them from early design and planning stages to full operations. This involved staying on-top of modern hardware, software and data reduction and analysis trends and technologies, while keeping the scientific goals and requirements as the primary driver. I was involved in designing and implementing globally distributed storage, archiving and processing systems as well as the scientific analysis and development of analysis software, including processing control and scheduling software at exa-scale. The analysis methods used range from traditional methods to the latest ML/AI technologies, including the application of fuzzy logic based algorithms and spiking neural networks.