Building Effective Partnerships for Impactful Research Translations Dr. Kla Tantithamthavorn BSE Course Director / Senior Lecturer http://chakkrit.com @klainfo

● Part 1: Industry Partnership ○ What it is? ○ Interactive Workshop: ■ (Explore) How do you engage with industry partners? ■ (Motivation) Why do you engage with industry partners? ■ (Challenges) What are the challenges when engaging with industry partners? ○ (Summary) To develop action plans for Director of Engagement and Impact ● Part 2: Research Impact (RI) Overview

● Industry partnership is the interaction between researchers and research end-users outside of academia, for the mutually beneficial transfer of knowledge, technologies, methods or resources. (ARC Definitions) ● Industry partnership is a pathway to achieve Research Impact ● Two-ways interactions between researchers and partners ● It’s all about: ○ Communication ○ Building effective relationships Industry Partnership Create research impact Identify real-world problems

Pathways to Engagement and Impact

Building Effective Industry Engagement

Example: RAISE CSIRO’s Next Gen AI Program 1. Draft a pitch proposal: What it is? What do we need? What are their benefits? How to participate? 2. Engage: Identify potential partners through Advisory Board, Connections, LinkedIn, Community a. Listen, listen, listen: What are their problems? What do they needs? b. Different partners have different problems, needs, interests, funding $$, etc. 3. Converge: Refine the proposal that converge all real-world problems. RAISE has to deal with 12 parties, 9 companies + 3 universities. 4. Support + Coordinate: Coordination, communication, signatures, approval. 5. Exploit: Program agreement, then launch! Key Components: 1. Idea 2. Team 3. Mentor 4. Support 5. Leadership

● Research impact is the contribution that research makes to the economy, society, environment or culture, beyond the contribution to academic research. (ARC Definition) ● There are different types of research impact. ● To achieve research impact, we must start at the beginning, —not the end. Research Impact: Definitions SOCIETAL ENGAGEMENT

Research Impact is one of the Monash’s Core Values

Research Impact: Pathways

● What is your impact/research goal? What problem is your research aiming to solve? ● Why are you conducting this research? ● Who are the research beneficiaries and who are your project stakeholders? ● When will you involve project stakeholders? ● How will you engage and involve stakeholders and end users? ● What resources will you require? ● Indicators of Impact Reference ● https://libguides.usc.edu.au/c.php?g=92543 1&p=6683916 Research Impact: Planning Canvas

Research Impact: Types, Indicators, and Evidence Reference: https://libguides.usc.edu.au/c.php?g=925431&p=6683916

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An Example of Impact Story https://www.csiro.au/en/research/te chnology-space/data/Waiting-times

Structure: Challenge, Response, Results, Outcome! https://www.csiro.au/en/research/te chnology-space/data/Waiting-times

AIBugHunter: Preventing Cyber Attacks through Code Analysis The Challenge Software is everywhere (e.g., Linux, Android, Chrome), but vulnerabilities can enable cyberattacks and cybercrime, creating massive negative impacts to individuals, organisations, national infrastructure, and national defense. Previous tools were inefficient and inaccurate, not able to keep up with the newly discovered vulnerability patterns. The Response We developed an AI-powered code analysis based on a recent advance deep learning architecture to automatically learn the vulnerability patterns in order to accurately predict whether source code contains vulnerabilities, precisely locate where vulnerabilities are, and automatically recommend fixes to security analysts in a timely manner, while being explainable to indicate the root causes and its potential impacts to organizations. The Results AIBugHunter has discovered as many as 348 vulnerabilities in safety-critical Free Open-Source Software (FOSS) systems. These vulnerabilities are considered as the Top-25 most dangerous CWE types in 2021 (e.g., CWE-190 Integer Overflow, CWE-787 Out of bound Write, CWE-20 Improper Input Validation). The Outcome This project has helped security analysts to detect security weaknesses before attackers do, making software systems more secure and reliable, protecting cyber attacks and cyber crimes from national and international cyberinfrastructure, and providing positive socio-economic impact to everyone. Example Impact Statement (not a perfect one)

Activity: Let’s Craft an Impact Statement. http://tiny.cc/impactstatement https://www.csiro.au/en/research/te chnology-space/data/Waiting-times