Science of human behaviour informs tax system review

How can ‘doing your tax’ be made simpler? Science has some answers.

Improving social welfare services with powerful data analysis

CSIRO is developing sophisticated technologies to help the Department of Human Services (DHS) understand and respond to unexpected trends in demand for social worker services.

Opportunities to develop your mathematical sciences career

CSIRO Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics offers students opportunities to explore new horizons and be part of a team that values excellence in science. We encourage our quantitative scientists to deepen their knowledge in their field and participate in cross-disciplinary teams that deliver science with big impact.

International collaboration to develop statistical tools for ecological management

Environmental statisticians from CSIRO and Keio University, Japan, are working together to develop solutions for environmental problems.

Estimating whale numbers in the Southern Ocean

Using statistics, researchers can use observation data of whale numbers from ships and aerial surveys to better estimate whale populations for conservation management.

Monitoring water quality in South-East Queensland

CSIRO is helping to develop water quality monitoring programs for the bays, estuaries and freshwaters of South-East Queensland. CSIRO worked with government, industry, universities and the community to develop a water quality management strategy for the bays, estuaries and freshwaters of South-East Queensland.

Statistical bioinformatics for agribusiness

Using statistics, mathematics and informatics to help understand biological traits that are important to agribusiness.

Sustainable ocean ecosystems and living resources

The Wealth from Oceans Flagship is delivering science and technology to help sustain life in Australia's ocean realm.

Understanding the full impact of social service delivery

CSIRO and the Department of Human Services (DHS) are working together to gain a more complete understanding of the hard-to-measure impacts of human services.

Smart statistics for bioinformatics

CSIRO is developing new statistical tools for analysing microarray data to enable faster drug discovery and development of simpler clinical diagnostic tests.

Dr Simon Dunstall: creating decision-harmony in supply networks

Dr Simon Dunstall has a background in engineering and mathematics. He works on planning and operations management in supply networks.

Dr Simon Barry: helping to further our understanding of environmental resources

Dr Simon Barry uses his expertise in modelling and monitoring methodologies to lead research projects with the aim of helping environmental resource managers and stakeholders understand what resources we have, their quality and how to manage them for sustainability.

Dr Sharon Dane: examining social inclusion among the Australian population

Dr Sharon Dane employs her research background in the field of social psychology to identify the role of social inclusion in predicting quality of life.

Services science

Globally, services science is a new and emerging area as the services sector itself grows in importance and size.

Research and innovation for the services economy: a CSIRO perspective

At a Services Science workshop in CSIRO, Louise Ryan presented a perspective on how CSIRO can best contribute to this new field.

Using statistics to predict seabed fauna

Wealth from Oceans Flagship environmental statisticians are working to predict the type and distribution of marine seabed fauna on Australia's continental slope.

Scheduling boats, crews and missions

CSIRO services scientists have worked with the Royal Australian Navy and the Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) to solve some important fleet scheduling challenges.

Dr Ross Darnell: statistical modelling of marine and freshwater ecosystems

Dr Ross Darnell is a senior applied statistician with the CSIRO Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics, focusing on statstical modelling of aquatic ecosystems.

Risk management and decision support overview

CSIRO is helping businesses and organisations understand and manage risk to make better use of their information for decision making. CSIRO is conducting risk research that assists businesses and organisations in avoiding the avoidable and reducing the impact of the unavoidable.

Automated detection of road cracks

CSIRO’s automated road sensing system, RoadCrack, is able to find cracks in road paving down to a width of one millimetre at high speeds, reducing the cost and increasing the accuracy of road crack detection.  

Rice gene machine information management system

CSIRO has developed software and processes to help biologists, lab managers and technicians manage the mass of data generated by large-scale, high-throughput plant mutagenesis experiments.

Restoring near-city catchments

The Restoring Near-City Catchments project aims to guide management plans for the restoration and protection of healthy waterways and water ecosystems in near-city catchments around Australia.

Dr Rene Weiskircher: helping to simulate distributed electricity generation

Dr Rene Weiskircher is a researcher with CSIRO's Intelligent grid: a vision for Australia's future energy network.

Reditus™ finance software

Reditus™ is a dynamic design, pricing and trading tool for the finance industry.

Dr Raj Das: creating and applying computational simulation tools

Dr Raj Das is engaged in the development and application of computational modelling and simulation tools using mathematical techniques called smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) and the finite element method (FEM).