Announcing 2025 Australian Economic Accelerator Funding

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DCC

Grants and Awards

DCC has received 5 grants and awards totalling $635,000.00

2025 Australian Economic Accelerator (AEA) Grant
Department of Education $500,000.00

This grant supports the research and development of soverign, pedagogical AI agents for the Australian education system. The project aims to create the models which power future educaitonal platforms.

2025
Australian Financial Review Award for Teaching and Learning Excellence
Australian Financial Review AWARD

Large language models like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini are poised to change how we live and work. Our team's research into the impact of generative artificial intelligence tools on learning has shown us that these systems often provide excessive assistance, finding they over-help almost 50 per cent of the time, even when prompted otherwise, potentially harming learning.

2024
UNSW Faculty of Engineering EFFECT Grant
UNSW Faculty of Engineering $20,000.00

This project involves developing a web-based extension that will provide a natural conversational prompts during compiler error debugging.

2024
Google Award for inclusion research program
Google $100,000.00

This paper presents the Debugging C Compiler (DCC), a system that composes a suite of compilers with static and dynamic analysis tools to support introductory C programming students. Using C in our introductory computing courses exposes students to low-level mechanics of the operating system...

2023
UNSW Faculty of Engineering EFFECT Grant
UNSW Faculty of Engineering $15,000.00

This project involves developing a web-based extension that will provide a natural conversational prompts during compiler error debugging.

2023