Meet the Professors – 8 July

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The 2019 Meet the Professors series is a wonderful chance for staff and students to celebrate the careers and achievements of our newly promoted and recruited professors. Our speakers will share their specialist knowledge and provide insights into ‘what’ and ‘who’ influenced their lives and careers.
 
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 Professor Lyria Bennett Moses, UNSW Law 
Lecture: What Lawyers Need to Understand about Technology
Given the limited number of law students studying engineering, mathematics, computer science and other technical subjects, legal debate about the implications of new technologies are often ill-informed. This stretches from magical thinking about the impact of artificial intelligence on legal practice and decision-making to solving the wrong substantive doctrinal dilemmas. For example, responses to new technologies are often framed in terms of a need for “regulation” of particular products or practices rather than a re-consideration of how substantive legal doctrines need to evolve. If law is to continue to meet its objectives, we need to embed core technological literacies into the law curriculum and improve our understanding of the challenge law faces in an evolving socio-technical landscape.
Please see Professor Lyria Bennett Moses webpage <A HREF="https://www.law.unsw.edu.au/staff/lyria-bennett-moses" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">HERE</A><A TARGET="_blank" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer"></A>
 
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Professor Jake Olivier, School of Mathematics and Statistics, UNSW Science 
Jake Olivier is a Professor in the School of Mathematics and Statistics, and Deputy Director of the Transport and Road Safety Research Centre. He is the current president of the NSW Branch of the Statistical Society of Australia and immediate past chair of the Biostatistics Section. His research interests are vulnerable road user safety and statistical methods for evaluating public health interventions.
Lecture: Improving methods for evaluating road safety policy
Statisticians have an important role to play in shaping road safety policy. Public discourse can often be divisive and emotive, and it can be difficult to discern “real” information from fake news or alternative facts. Decisions need to be well-informed and statisticians should be leaders in identifying relevant data for a testable hypothesis using appropriate methodology. It is also important for a statistician to identify when the data or methods used are not up to the task or when there is too much uncertainty to make accurate decisions. I will discuss some examples from my own road safety research.
Please see Professor Jake Olivier webpage <A HREF="https://research.unsw.edu.au/people/professor-jake-olivier" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">HERE</A>
 
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Location: The Chancellery, Council Chambers (C22), UNSW Sydney, Kensington. 
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