39th AUSIT National Conference:
Speakers

… is a Senior Lecturer and Lead for Digital Health and AI at the School of Population Health, UNSW Medicine and Health, and a practising Medical Officer in Emergency Medicine at Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital. His research sits at the intersection of multilingual communication, clinical AI and health equity. He leads the TRIBOT program – an NHMRC-funded multilingual conversational AI triage assistant designed to support Arabic-speaking patients with limited English proficiency across Western Sydney emergency departments. The project brings together a multidisciplinary team of clinicians, linguists, AI researchers and community representatives to ensure both clinical safety and communicative accuracy. Dr Narasimhan holds a PhD from UNSW, is a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Digital Health, and is an Advanced Trainee in Public Health Medicine with the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. He has over 50 peer-reviewed publications and approximately $9 million in career research funding.

… is Director of the Interpreting & Translation programs at UNSW Sydney. She holds a BA in T&I, a Diploma of Education, a master’s in applied linguistics, a PhD in court interpreting / forensic linguistics, and a Doctorate Honoris Causa. She is the sole author of The Discourse of Court Interpreting (2004/2010) and Community Interpreting (2007), co-author of four other books and has over 100 other publications. Professor Hale was AUSIT National President from 2014 to 2017, and is an AUSIT Fellow and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. She is a NAATI-certified conference interpreter, is regularly invited to international conferences as a keynote speaker, and has delivered numerous presentations on how to work with interpreters. She is currently one of the Chief Investigators of the TRIBOT project, leading the linguistic team.

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… is a NAATI-certified English–Arabic interpreter and translator and a PhD candidate. After completing a degree in computer engineering and a long career in information technology, he transitioned in 2014 into linguistics – interpreting and translation. He has since completed two master’s degrees in the field, and is pursuing a PhD in court interpreting at Western Sydney University. Sam’s interest in linguistics began as an undergraduate student in Sofia, Bulgaria, where he worked for two years as a casual Bulgarian–Arabic translator. Recognised for his expertise in court interpreting, he has been invited on several occasions to present to members of the Administrative Review Tribunal (formerly the Administrative Appeals Tribunal) on effective ways to work with interpreters. His current practice and research work focus on court interpreting and AI-assisted interpreting and translation. Sam is currently working as one of the Arabic language experts on the TRIBOT project.

… is a PhD candidate in computer science and engineering at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney, where he conducts research at the intersection of natural language processing, multilingual AI and large language models (LLMs). His work focuses on developing language technologies that are robust across dialects and languages, with applications spanning machine translation, conversational AI, healthcare and inclusive language technologies. His research has been published at leading venues including ACL, NAACL, COLING and INTERSPEECH, and has been supported by the NHMRC and Google Research. Alongside his research, Dipankar teaches neural networks, deep learning and algorithms at UNSW, and serves as a reviewer for premier AI conferences including NeurIPS, ACL Rolling Review and WWW.

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