Professor Janet Wiles
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Janet Wiles

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Background

Janet Wiles is a Professor in Human Centred Computing at the University of Queensland.

Her multidisciplinary team co-designs language technologies to support people living with dementia and their carers and social robots for applications in health, education, and neuroscience.

She received her PhD in computer science from the University of Sydney, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in psychology. She has 30 years’ experience in research and teaching in machine learning, artificial intelligence, bio-inspired computation, complex systems, visualisation, language technologies and social robotics, leading teams that span engineering, humanities, social sciences and neuroscience. She currently teaches research methods for thesis and masters students, and is developing a new course in human-centred AI. Previous special interest courses include a cross disciplinary course ”Voyages in Language Technologies” that introduced computing students to the diversity of the worlds of Indigenous and non-Indigenous languages, and state-of-the-art tools for deep learning and other analysis techniques for working with language data.

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Availability

Professor Janet Wiles is:
Available for supervision
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Fields of research

Human-centred computing Information and Computing Sciences Machine learning Neural networks

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy, University of Sydney

Search Professor Janet Wiles’s works on UQ eSpace

218 works between 1992 and 2024
All (218) Journal Article (90) Book Chapter (11) Conference Publication (108) Book (3) Other Outputs (4) Edited Outputs (2)

61 - 80 of 218 works

2015

Conference Publication

Detecting anomalies in controlled drug prescription data using probabilistic models

Hu, Xuelei, Gallagher, Marcus, Loveday, William, Connor, Jason P. and Wiles, Janet (2015). Detecting anomalies in controlled drug prescription data using probabilistic models. 1st Australasian Conference on Artificial Life and Computational Intelligence, ACALCI 2015, Newcastle, NSW Australia, 5 - 7 February 2015. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer Verlag. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-14803-8_26

Detecting anomalies in controlled drug prescription data using probabilistic models

2015

Conference Publication

Children's expectations and strategies in interacting with a Wizard of Oz Robot

Worthy, Peter, Boden, Marie, Karimi, Arafeh, Weigel, Jason, Matthews, Ben, Hensby, Kristyn, Heath, Scott, Pounds, Paul, Taufatofua, Jonathon, Smith, Michael, Viller, Stephen and Wiles, Janet (2015). Children's expectations and strategies in interacting with a Wizard of Oz Robot. OZCHI '15, Melbourne, Australia, 7-10 December 2015. New York, NY, United States: ACM. doi: 10.1145/2838739.2838793

Children's expectations and strategies in interacting with a Wizard of Oz Robot

2014

Journal Article

Detecting contaminated birthdates using generalized additive models

Luo, Wei, Gallagher, Marcus, Loveday Bill, Ballantyne, Susan, Connor, Jason P. and Wiles, Janet (2014). Detecting contaminated birthdates using generalized additive models. BMC Bioinformatics, 15 (1) 185. doi: 10.1186/1471-2105-15-185

Detecting contaminated birthdates using generalized additive models

2014

Journal Article

Rodent scope: A user-configurable digital wireless telemetry system for freely behaving animals

Ball, David, Kliese, Russell, Windels, Francois, Nolan, Christopher, Stratton, Peter, Sah, Panjkaj and Wiles, Janet (2014). Rodent scope: A user-configurable digital wireless telemetry system for freely behaving animals. PLoS One, 9 (2) e89949, e89949.1-e89949.10. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0089949

Rodent scope: A user-configurable digital wireless telemetry system for freely behaving animals

2014

Journal Article

Temporally selective contextual encoding in the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus

Rangel, L. M., Alexander, A. S., Aimone, J. B., Wiles, J., Gage, F. H., Chiba, A. A. and Quinn, L. K. (2014). Temporally selective contextual encoding in the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus. Nature Communications, 5 (1) 3181, 3181.1-3181.9. doi: 10.1038/ncomms4181

Temporally selective contextual encoding in the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus

2014

Conference Publication

Event-based visual data sets for prediction tasks in spiking neural networks

Gibson, Tingting (Amy), Heath, Scott, Quinn, Robert P., Lee, Alexia H., Arnold, Joshua T., Sonti, Tharun S., Whalley, Andrew, Shannon, George P., Song, Brian T., Henderson, James A. and Wiles, Janet (2014). Event-based visual data sets for prediction tasks in spiking neural networks. 24th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2014, Hamburg, Germany, 15 - 19 September 2014. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer Verlag. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-11179-7_80

Event-based visual data sets for prediction tasks in spiking neural networks

2014

Conference Publication

Predicting temporal sequences using an event-based spiking neural network incorporating learnable delays

Gibson, Tingting (Amy), Henderson, James A. and Wiles, Janet (2014). Predicting temporal sequences using an event-based spiking neural network incorporating learnable delays. IJCNN 2014: International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Beijing, China, 6-11 July, 2014. Piscataway, NJ, USA: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/IJCNN.2014.6889850

Predicting temporal sequences using an event-based spiking neural network incorporating learnable delays

2014

Conference Publication

Monitoring the impact of Parkinson's disease on community life using everyday technology: development of a remote monitoring platform using smartphones

Chenery, H. J., Liddle, J., Ireland, D., Brauer, S. G., Theodoros, D., Wiles, J., McBride, S., Karunanithi, M., Ding, H., Lamont, R. and Silburn, P. A. (2014). Monitoring the impact of Parkinson's disease on community life using everyday technology: development of a remote monitoring platform using smartphones. 18th International Congress of Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders, Stockholm, Sweden, 8-12 June 2014. Hoboken, NJ United States: John Wiley & Sons. doi: 10.1002/mds.25914

Monitoring the impact of Parkinson's disease on community life using everyday technology: development of a remote monitoring platform using smartphones

2013

Journal Article

Estimating the intensity of ward admission and its effect on emergency department access block

Luo, Wei, Cao, Jiguo, Gallagher, Marcus R. and Wiles, Janet H. (2013). Estimating the intensity of ward admission and its effect on emergency department access block. Statistics In Medicine, 32 (15), 2681-2694. doi: 10.1002/sim.5684

Estimating the intensity of ward admission and its effect on emergency department access block

2013

Journal Article

Making sense of big text: a visual-first approach for analysing text data using Leximancer and Discursis

Angus, Daniel, Rintel, Sean and Wiles, Janet (2013). Making sense of big text: a visual-first approach for analysing text data using Leximancer and Discursis. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 16 (3), 261-267. doi: 10.1080/13645579.2013.774186

Making sense of big text: a visual-first approach for analysing text data using Leximancer and Discursis

2013

Journal Article

Parameter-free search of time-series discord

Luo, Wei, Gallagher, Marcus and Wiles, Janet (2013). Parameter-free search of time-series discord. Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 28 (2), 300-310. doi: 10.1007/s11390-013-1330-8

Parameter-free search of time-series discord

2013

Journal Article

Repeat-encoded poly-Q tracts show statistical commonalities across species

Willadsen, Kai, Minh Duc Cao, Wiles, Janet, Balasubramanian, Sureshkumar and Boden, Mikael (2013). Repeat-encoded poly-Q tracts show statistical commonalities across species. Bmc Genomics, 14 (1) 76, 76.1-76.10. doi: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-76

Repeat-encoded poly-Q tracts show statistical commonalities across species

2013

Journal Article

OpenRatSLAM: An open source brain-based SLAM system

Ball, David, Heath, Scott, Wiles, Janet, Wyeth, Gordon, Corke, Peter and Milford, Michael (2013). OpenRatSLAM: An open source brain-based SLAM system. Autonomous Robots, 34 (3), 149-176. doi: 10.1007/s10514-012-9317-9

OpenRatSLAM: An open source brain-based SLAM system

2013

Conference Publication

Communication between Lingodroids with different cognitive capabilities

Heath, Scott, Ball, David, Schulz, Ruth and Wiles, Janet (2013). Communication between Lingodroids with different cognitive capabilities. 2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2013, Karlsruhe, Germany, 6 - 10 May 2013. Washington, DC United States: I E E E Computer Society. doi: 10.1109/ICRA.2013.6630619

Communication between Lingodroids with different cognitive capabilities

2012

Journal Article

Visualizing punctuated equilibria in discursive change: exploring a new text analysis possibility for management research

Angus, Daniel, Rooney, David, McKenna, Bernard and Wiles, Janet (2012). Visualizing punctuated equilibria in discursive change: exploring a new text analysis possibility for management research. Journal of Business and Management Landscapes, 1 (1), 1-16.

Visualizing punctuated equilibria in discursive change: exploring a new text analysis possibility for management research

2012

Journal Article

Beyond here-and-now: extending shared physical experiences to shared conceptual experiences

Schulz, Ruth, Wyeth, Gordon and Wiles, Janet (2012). Beyond here-and-now: extending shared physical experiences to shared conceptual experiences. Adaptive Behavior, 20 (5), 360-387. doi: 10.1177/1059712312449546

Beyond here-and-now: extending shared physical experiences to shared conceptual experiences

2012

Journal Article

Long summer days: grounded learning of words for the uneven cycles of real world events

Heath, Scott, Schulz, Ruth, Ball, David and Wiles, Janet (2012). Long summer days: grounded learning of words for the uneven cycles of real world events. IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development, 4 (3) 6236014, 6236014.192-6236014.203. doi: 10.1109/TAMD.2012.2207455

Long summer days: grounded learning of words for the uneven cycles of real world events

2012

Journal Article

Human communication as coupled time series: Quantifying multi-participant recurrence

Angus, Daniel, Smith, Andrew E. and Wiles, Janet (2012). Human communication as coupled time series: Quantifying multi-participant recurrence. IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 20 (6) 6161608, 1795-1807. doi: 10.1109/TASL.2012.2189566

Human communication as coupled time series: Quantifying multi-participant recurrence

2012

Journal Article

Maintaining a cognitive map in darkness: the need to fuse boundary knowledge with path integration

Cheung, Allen, Ball, David, Milford, Michael, Wyeth, Gordon and Wiles, Janet (2012). Maintaining a cognitive map in darkness: the need to fuse boundary knowledge with path integration. Plos Computational Biology, 8 (8) e1002651, e1002651.1-e1002651.22. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002651

Maintaining a cognitive map in darkness: the need to fuse boundary knowledge with path integration

2012

Journal Article

Action potential waveform variability limits multi-unit separation in freely behaving rats

Stratton, Peter, Cheung, Allen, Wiles, Janet H., Kiyatkin, E., Sah, Pankaj and Windels, Francois (2012). Action potential waveform variability limits multi-unit separation in freely behaving rats. PLoS One, 7 (6) e38482, e38482.1-e38482.16. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0038482

Action potential waveform variability limits multi-unit separation in freely behaving rats

Current funding

  • 2023 - 2025
    Bridging the Digital Divide: Building Health Self-Efficacy through Communication-Accessible Online Environments
    NHMRC MRFF PPHR - Consumer Led Research
    Open grant

Past funding

  • 2022 - 2023
    AI and automation in language technologies: securing Queensland's data sovereignty
    Trusted Autonomous Systems Defence Cooperative Research Centre
    Open grant
  • 2021 - 2024
    Measuring, Monitoring, and Motivating Adherence to Self-Managed Aphasia Treatment
    NHMRC MRFF - Cardiovascular Health Mission
    Open grant
  • 2018 - 2021
    Opie: Indigenous Language Robots for community-led revitalisation
    Department Communication & the Arts
    Open grant
  • 2017 - 2019
    Discovering patterns in human-robot interaction: new tools for complex adaptive social systems
    Commonwealth Defence Science and Technology Group
    Open grant
  • 2017 - 2018
    Discovering patterns in human-robot interaction: New tools for complex adaptive social systems
    United States Asian Office of Aerospace Research and Development
    Open grant
  • 2016 - 2019
    Lexical splits: a novel perspective on the structure of words (Arts & Humanities Research Council Grant administered by Uni of Surrey)
    University of Surrey
    Open grant
  • 2016 - 2019
    Behavioral, Physiological, and Quantitative Models of Pro-Social Behavior (NIH grant administered by the University of California San Diego)
    University of California, San Diego
    Open grant
  • 2016 - 2018
    Bio-Inspired Peripersonal Space Sensors for Social Interaction
    United States Asian Office of Aerospace Research and Development
    Open grant
  • 2015 - 2018
    Evaluating recurrence as a measure of change in interpersonal dynamics
    ARC Discovery Projects
    Open grant
  • 2014 - 2017
    Human-robot interactions: Social micro-abilities to establish and manage social exchange
    United States Asian Office of Aerospace Research and Development
    Open grant
  • 2014 - 2022
    ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language (ANU lead institution)
    Australian National University
    Open grant
  • 2014 - 2017
    Brain Eager: Socially Situated Neuroscience: Creating a suite of tools for studying sociality and interoception
    University of California, San Diego
    Open grant
  • 2013 - 2016
    The Development of Automated Advanced Data Analysis Techniques for the Detection of Aberrant Patterns of Prescribing Controlled Drugs
    ARC Linkage Projects
    Open grant
  • 2012 - 2015
    Bio-inspired computation: Clock-free, grid-free, scale-free, and symbol-free
    United States Air Force Office of Scientific Research
    Open grant
  • 2012 - 2015
    Situation Tracking in Large Data Streams
    United States Asian Office of Aerospace Research and Development
    Open grant
  • 2011 - 2017
    iRat: A rat-sized rodent for bridging from neural systems to behavioural neuroscience
    University of California, San Diego
    Open grant
  • 2011 - 2013
    Data Mining Applications in the Regulation of Prescription Opioids
    Queensland Health
    Open grant
  • 2011 - 2012
    Interneurons as clock-free regulators of neural information transfer
    University of California, San Diego
    Open grant
  • 2011
    A systems biology approach to elucidate common principles and mechanisms underlying triplet repeat expansion associated genetic defects
    NHMRC Project Grant
    Open grant
  • 2010 - 2012
    Understanding Patient Flow Bottlenecks and Patterns from Hospital Information Systems Data
    UQ Collaboration and Industry Engagement Fund
    Open grant
  • 2010 - 2011
    Talking with Robots:Evolving Grounded Language for Embodied Agents ( ARC Discovery Project administered by QUT)
    Queensland University of Technology
    Open grant
  • 2009
    Talking with Robots: Evolving Grounded Language for Embodied Agents
    ARC Discovery Projects
    Open grant
  • 2008 - 2009
    Structure-Function relationships in stroke data
    Washington University in St Louis
    Open grant
  • 2007 - 2011
    How does the birth of new neurons (on shorter time scales) represent episodes at longer time scales from behavioural, neural and modelling perspectives
    University of California, San Diego
    Open grant
  • 2006 - 2011
    Thinking Systems: Navigating Through Real and Conceptual Spaces
    ARC Special Initiative
    Open grant
  • 2005 - 2006
    The Application of Machine Learning Techniques in Predicting Medical Outcomes
    UQ FirstLink Scheme
    Open grant
  • 2005 - 2007
    Enhancing Intelligent Robot Navigation with the Evolution of a Robot-Friendly Language
    ARC Discovery Projects
    Open grant
  • 2003 - 2008
    ARC Centre for Complex Systems
    ARC Centres of Excellence
    Open grant
  • 2003
    Computational Modeling of RNA Control Networks
    ARC Discovery Projects
    Open grant
  • 2002
    Evaluating connectionist models of normal and impaired semantic memory
    University of Queensland Research Development Grants Scheme
    Open grant
  • 2001
    To attend Complex Systems Summer School & collaborate with colleagues at the Santa Fe Institute Faculty
    UQ Travel Grants Scheme
    Open grant
  • 1998 - 2000
    Evaluating learning in recurrent neural networks: unifying and extending models of linguistic processes
    ARC Australian Research Council (Large grants)
    Open grant

Availability

Professor Janet Wiles is:
Available for supervision

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Supervision history

Current supervision

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Make Your Own Language Adventure Game: Co-Developing Complex Digital Language Materials With Young Learners

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Associate Professor Ben Matthews

  • Master Philosophy

    Robot Learning and Modelling of Attention through Multimodal Sensory Fusion

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Marie Boden

  • Doctor Philosophy

    Adapting Spoken Language Modeling for Data-Resource Constrained Languages

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Marie Boden

  • Doctor Philosophy

    The storyteller social robot

    Principal Advisor

    Other advisors: Dr Marie Boden

Completed supervision

Enquiries

Contact Professor Janet Wiles directly for media enquiries about:

  • Cognitive science
  • Complex systems
  • Computational modelling
  • Human memory
  • Intelligent systems
  • Memory
  • Science - cognitive

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