The sweet sound of success: AEHRC’s Aaron Nicolson listed as top researcher in his field

November 29th, 2024

Dr Aaron Nicolson has been recognised as the top researcher in his field by The Australian’s 2025 Research magazine.

The Australian’s Research magazine highlights leading researchers, universities, and institutions across 250 fields of research, based on the quality and impact of their work. 

Aaron is a research scientist with the AEHRC.

Aaron’s work on artificial intelligence (AI) models earned him the title of top researcher in the field of sound and acoustics.  

He is developing large language models (LLMs) – a type of AI technology – to interpret medical images like X-rays.  

LLMs have the potential to increase accuracy in medical imaging diagnoses and ease some of the burden on doctors by automating a non-automated process. 

Aaron told the Australian that large language models are quite astounding. 

“Large language models have very powerful reasoning capabilities,” Aaron said.  

“I get to develop large language models in order to make automatic radiology report generation as diagnostically accurate as possible.” 

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