Investing in AI and mental health: training our future graduates

The Women's Mental Health Clinic (WMHC) in CCS's Department

of Psychiatry is one of the collaborating members of the successful

 bid for the CSIRO Next Generation Graduates Program

With strong support from industry and in partnership with Monash Data Futures Institute, the Faculty of IT at Monash University will be leading and contributing to three projects in CSIRO Data61’s Next Gen Graduates Programs – ready to deliver critical skills in artificial intelligence (AI) and emerging tech.

The cohort-based, industry-driven, cross-disciplinary training program focuses on expanding the pipeline of homegrown, job-ready graduates to unlock the immense economic opportunities offered by AI and emerging technologies.

Students in the program will be embedded in industry, working on breakthrough solutions to research problems co-designed by end-users.

The Women's Mental Health Clinic (WMHC) in Central Clinical School's (CCS) Department of Psychiatry is one of the collaborating members of the successful bid for the CSIRO Next Generation Graduates Program worth in total $1,043,674 to train 17 PhD/Masters students. Dr Gemma Sharp said, "Professor Jayashri Kulkarni and I will focus on developing graduates who are skilled in both mental health and AI research, which is a strong arm of my group's research." 

The application will involve collaborators from different schools and faculties across Monash and Melbourne Universities. Dr Sharp said, "Jayashri and I are proud to represent CCS and be in a position to produce quality mental health/AI graduates from the Department of Psychiatry." 

See IT Faculty story: www.csiro.au/en/work-with-us/funding-programs/programs/Next-Generation-Graduates-Programs/R1-Artificial-Intelligence