The future of the ANU’s data science research centre hangs in the balance due to $55 million in innovation funding cuts that have already claimed the university’s tech policy centre and an uplift of its health and medical research.
InnovationAus.com can reveal discussions have dragged for months over resourcing for the ANU Mathematical Data Science Centre, a world-first research and education initiative for the underlying mathematical theory of data science.
The centre has existed thanks to the university’s longstanding discretionary funding for cutting-edge projects. But widespread ANU cuts have forced some of these projects to transition to other funding sources, while others have been shut down altogether.
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