CSIRO Postgraduate Scholarships

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Thai: Hi, I’m Ty, and I’m part of CSIROs Postgraduate Scholarship Program.

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Justin: Hi, I’m Justin, and I’m part of the CSIRO Postgraduate Scholarship Program.

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Kallol: Hi, I’m Kallol; I’m part of CSIRO Postgraduate Research Scholarship Program]

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Thai: So far the experience has been really rewarding. We get to see the ultimate outcome of what our project may lead to. And I was so excited that I get to work with a renowned company, analysing minerals in rocks, using nuclear magnetic resonance, which was what I really wanted to do in the first place.

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Justin: My project is aimed at using high energy X-rays to measure the amount of gold and other precious metals in mineral ore samples. CSIRO have completely shattered my preconceptions of what research was and how research was conducted. Being only really exposed to it in a University and academic sphere, it was really eye opening to see how some real world research is actually conducted and then applied to something that is useful.

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Kallol: My work has two phases. The first phase is to build a policy base security model to secure the IOT network space. The second phase comes with the introduction of how to identify malicious flows from the IOT network devices. In a lot of ways CSIRO is helping me to build my career in this cyber-security world and in this Australian context, I think, CSIRO is the bestest spot to work with.

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Justin: Working with CSIRO has opened up a lot of opportunities for me that I feel I wouldn’t have otherwise had access to in a University, where a lot of it is very laboratory based and you don’t tend to do anything more than that.

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Thai: The culture in CSIROs actually extremely relaxed, more relaxed than I thought it would be.

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Justin: Everyone is just a fountain of information on anything you might want and they’re always ready to help you if you have questions, or if you need help conducting experimental work.

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Kallol: It’s very friendly. They gave me the tools and they gave me some introductions as well, how to do the work, from there on I started working.

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Justin: I would very strongly recommend doing projects with CSIRO; it’s been a really enriching experience in just all aspects of the project.

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Thai: Everyone just encourages you to learn to read, to experiment and just see where your motivation takes you, I guess (laughs).

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Justin: If I could sum up my experience with CSIRO in one word, it would be engaging.

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Thai: If I could think of one word that would sum up my experience at CSIRO, it would be rewarding.

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Kallol: If I could think of one word that would sum up my experience is excellent. I love working with CSIRO.

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