Stephen Tierney

22/11/2024

Alison Wong and I presented at the Education track of PyCon AU 2024 about our use of Karel to increase in confidence, interest and ultimately ability in programming.
Video here.

8/11/2024

My feedback on YoLink devices and network was discussed during Follow-up™ at 23:15.

6/11/2024

Alison Wong and I were awarded the University of Sydney Business School (USBS) Wayne Lonergan Award, which is the most competitive teaching award in the school and is accompanied with a $10,000 AUD prize. We were awarded for leading significant initiatives in modernising programming education, which has impacted over 10,000 enrolments in courses we have coordinated and over 7,000 enrolments in other courses.

28/10/2024

I've updated past work on the Two Candles, One Cake problem by providing new visualisations and generalisation ability.

1/10/2024

I've updated the Too Many Guns site to use MapLibre and partial property updates. The later change removes the need for client side callbacks.

29/08/2024

My feedback on the topic of enforcing structured output from LLMs was discussed during Follow-up™ at 30:23.

26/07/2024

Alison Wong and I presented at the University of Sydney Business School Learning and Teaching Forum about our project using Karel to help students visualise code execution and encourage students to practise programming.

06/06/2024

My feedback on the topic of an 'infinite context' method from Google for LLMs was discussed during Follow-up™ at 27:30.

14/05/2024

I spoke at a Business Analytics 'Brown Bag' with Alison Wong about our project using Karel to o help students visualise code execution and encourage students to practise and develop their programming skills.

3/11/2023

I received the Educational Innovation Award in the category 'Transform assessment and feedback practices' for my feed-forward assessment design in QBUS5010 Introduction to Dashboarding.

18/8/2023

Alison Wong and I presented at the Education track of PyCon AU 2023 about our approach to assurance of learning for automatically marked assessments.

18/8/2023

Alison Wong and I presented at the Education track of PyCon AU 2023 about realtime collaborative programming in a university education context.

7/8/2023

Alison Wong and I were awarded a Teaching and Learning Innovation Grant to the value of $5000 for the support the design, deployment, and evaluation of a games-based, playful, or simulated learning intervention.

31/05/2023

I co-presented at the University of Sydney Business School Learning and Teaching Forum about a reflective approach to students as partners that was developed for QBUS5010 Intro to Dashboarding and Data Visualisation. The approach was designed and deployed by Andrew Cram, Enosh Yeboah, Alison Casey and myself.

4/5/2023

The University of Sydney Business School's honour society, Beta Gamma Sigma recognises academic staff and business professionals through the Chapter Honouree Award.

The student who nominated me wrote:

Dr. Tierney is very passionate about the subjects he teaches, especially in area of coding. He was the unit coordinator for Qbus5010 and Buss6002, in which he was very supportive. Especially in Ed Discussion, consultation sessions and emails, he was very active and responded in a timely manner. Moreover, his teaching materials were easy to understand and well-organised, which allows me to master the knowledge more thoroughly. His passion in the field really inspired me to pursue mine.

31/03/2023

I co-authored a blog post about a reflective approach to students as partners that was developed for QBUS5010 Intro to Dashboarding and Data Visualisation. The approach was designed and deployed by Andrew Cram, Enosh Yeboah, Alison Casey and myself.

1/1/2023

I was promoted from Lecturer to Senior Lecturer in the 2022 promotions round. The position is equivalent to Associate Professor in the US.

17/11/2022

As a team, Alison Wong, Priyanka Cheema and myself were awarded the University of Sydney Business School (USBS) Toolbox & Innovator Award, which recognises high quality, novel teaching practices and exceptional contributions to the USBS teaching community.

28/09/2022

I co-presented at the University of Sydney Business School Learning and Teaching Forum about embedding dynamic and interactive visualisations in learning material using plotly.

28/09/2022

Priyanka Cheema and I presented at the University of Sydney Business School Learning and Teaching Forum about detecting and reducing academic misconduct in an introductory programming unit.

1/8/2022

I designed and developed this introductory dashboarding unit with assistance from Ardi Mirzaei. Students learn how dashboards systems work, how they are built and to analyse dashboard designs using principles of visual analytics. The students use plotly Dash to implement their dashboards.

21/7/2022

I wrote a proof of concept solver for John Siracusa's Frame Game. I created an interactive dashboard and wrote an overview of how it works.

16/7/2022

I solved the 'Two Candles, One Cake' problem using Python. Symbolic, numeric and simulation solutions are provided.

27/06/2022

Co-authored blog post on interactive elements of BUSS6002.

18/3/2022

I spoke at a Business Analytics 'Brown Bag' seminar on wordle strategies and the broader applications for diagnoses and sequential experimental design.

23/1/2022

I wrote a fast solver for wordle written in Python. This package offers multiple solving strategies and empirical comparison of each.

17/11/2021

Alison Wong and I presented at the University of Sydney Business School Learning and Teaching Forum about our innovative approach to teaching online.

20/10/2021

I added support for the SCD4X CO2 sensor to ESPHome. Pull request on Github.

20/10/2021

I added support for the LTR390 UV and ambient light sensor to ESPHome. Pull request on Github.

16/09/2021

I was interviewed by the USYD Co-Design Research Group about our innovative approach to teaching online.

10/09/2021

Alison Wong and I presented at the Education track of PyCon AU 2021 about our innovative approach to teaching online.

18/08/2021

I added support for the PMSA003I particulate matter sensor to ESPHome. Pull request on Github.

1/8/2021

KNN filtering reduces computation requirements for Subspace Clustering. Theorertical justification is provided and empirically validated. View on Google Scholar. I was responsible for conceptualization, methodology, investigation, software, validation, writing - original draft.

19/5/2021

I added support for the SHT4X temperature and humidity sensor to ESPHome. Pull request on Github.

1/3/2021

I designed and devleped this introductory programming unit. The unit teaches programming with Python and covers traditional programming topics such as OOP and data structures, through to everyday business tasks such as handling and visualising data.

27/10/2020

Andrey Vasnev and I presented at ISF 2020 about the Forecast Lab, which provides easily accessible economic and financial forecasts.

10/10/2021

This Sydney Morning Herald article uses visualiations from my 'Teacher Pay Comparison' dashboard.

14/04/2021

I completed the Graduate Certificate in Educational Studies (Higher Education). The 1 year course is designed to develop scholarly, research-led approaches to teaching while engaging in activities and tasks aimed at cultivating critical reflection about higher education.

10/03/2021

On 10th March 2021 I was admitted as a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. This accreditation is in recognition of attainment against the UK Professional Standards Framework for teaching and learning support in higher education.

13/7/2020

I wrote a Python implementation of 'Better Estimates from Binned Income Data'. This technique allows distributions to be estimated from binned data.

16/6/2020

I made a supplemental dashboard to accompany submission to 'Valuing the teaching profession' inquiry. The dashboard uses plot.ly Dash and the code is available on Github.

2/4/2020

We extend subspace clustering to data that represents functions and curves. View on Google Scholar.

3/10/2019

I recreated this Greens NSW website using Dash. Code on Github.

21/4/2019

I wrote a wrapper for Dash to support multi page apps.

7/2/2019

I wrote a Python package for function caching that prevents re-entrant calls.

23/11/2015

We show that fusing multiple noisy images under a total variation penalty improves reconstruction. This idea can be selectively applied to individual pixels of each source image in the case of corrupted sections of images. View on Google Scholar.

12/7/2015

We show that forcing the affinity matrix of SpatSC to be low-rank improves performance. View on Google Scholar.

25/11/2014

We show that the pixel affinity from a high resolution image can be used to enhance low resolution images of the same scene. This technique is general enough to support fusion between any image types. View on Google Scholar.

2014

We show that subspace clustering on sequential data can be dramatically improved by incorporating spatial constraints. View on Google Scholar.

26/11/2013

We show that iteratively refining an alpha matte can lead to impressive results with very sparse labels. View on Google Scholar.

3/12/2012

We show that total variation regularisation improves alpha mattes. View on Google Scholar.