Collaborative Human-Centric AI Systems (CRUISE) Lab, led by Prof. Flora Salim, works on machine learning for time-series, spatio-temporal data, and multimodal sensor data, and on trustworthy AI (including fairness, explainability, mechanistic interpretablity) for decision making systems. Our research is supported by the ARC, CRC, and many local and international industry and government partners. cruiseresearchgroup 🤗 CRUISEResearchGroup flora.salim@unsw.edu.au
Recent News
- 2026-11-05 — Big news for CRUISE at SIGSPATIAL 2026 hosted at the University of California, Riverside! Peibo Li and co-authors won Best Short Paper for “An Empirical Evaluation of Cross-City POI Recommendation on a Large-Scale Benchmark”. Our collaborative paper “Inferring Locations and Correcting Bias in Infectious Disease Data Using Human Mobility” was runner-up for Best Application Paper. CRUISE members Ashiq Shukoor Iqbal, Dawn Lin, Devin Hua, Du Yin, Edward Dong, Flora Salim, Lihuan Li, and Wilson Wongso also presented their work.
- 2026-10-15 — The Australian Research Council (ARC) funded the ARC Research Hub for AI-Powered Resilient Cities ($5,000,000), led by Flora as Director, with Hao, Aditya, and Benjamin serving as Chief Investigators (CIs).
- 2026-09-30 — Flora was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE), recognising her contributions to technology, science, and engineering.
- 2026-09-25 — CRUISE has 12 papers accepted at NeurIPS 2026: 7 in the main research track, 2 in the main Evaluations & Datasets track, and 3 in workshops. Congratulations to all authors and collaborators!
- 2026-08-13 — CRUISE has 1 paper accepted at CIKM 2026, 1 at CoLLAs 2026, 3 across UbiComp/IMWUT/ISWC 2026, and 11 at SIGSPATIAL 2026, covering topics from urban mobility and spatial AI to time-series forecasting, multimodal sensing, and continual learning. Congratulations to all authors and collaborators!
- 2026-06-05 — Flora was elected Vice Chair of ACM SIGSPATIAL following the 2026 ACM SIG election.
- 2026-05-29 — Flora presented a public seminar at Geoscience Australia titled “Building our own multimodal AI models: what does it look like for Australian Geoscience data?”.
- 2026-02-13 — Flora is giving a talk at the Precision Convergence Webinar Series, co-hosted by The McGill Centre for the Convergence of Health and Economics (MCCHE) and the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, titled “Foundation Models for Time-Series and Spatio-Temporal Data”.