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HomePeopleSean Jude Lyons
Sean Jude Lyons

Position: Current HDR student
School and/or Centres: School of Politics & International Relations

Email: sean.lyons@anu.edu.au

Phone: 0458753158

  • Biography
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Sean Lyons is a PhD candidate at the Australian National University. His research focuses on the intersection of digital archiving in Australia and machine learning. Before joining the Australian National University, Sean was an artificial intelligence (AI) consultant. He developed and delivered AI-driven solutions to save millions of dollars and solve business problems across Australia. Sean holds master's degrees from the University of Melbourne and the University of Sydney. He has previously researched human-computer interactions and the applications of AI to improve our understanding of Renaissance literature. He has also collaborated with academic peers on digital projects, such as the Pico Project (Brown University), the Darwin Correspondence Project (Cambridge University), and most recently the Ferdinand von Mueller Project at the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria (RBGV). Sean is also a subject matter expert in machine learning for cloud infrastructure providers. He contributes to the AI cloud infrastructure examination standards used to assess machine learning engineers.

Linked Transformer Ontologies 

Transformer Attention Mechanisms

Digital Archives and Cultural Heritage

Human-Computer Interaction

Literary and Linguistic Computing

Digital Humanities

Historical Text Analysis

Botanical Data Digitisation