The ATO has been a valued ACEMS Industry Affiliate Member since 2016. Over this time, the ATO has leveraged secondments with ACEMS for capacity building and to explore opportunities, including with big data analytics and machine learning.

According to ATO secondees to ACEMS, the benefits have included: the ability to tap into expertise at and beyond the ACEMS QUT host node; having a “highly valuable resource for rapidly investigating and selecting techniques that can meet the ATO’s needs”, and gaining a “deeper understanding of the technical and applied aspects of pertinent statistical methods”.

The Centre has also benefited from such co-locations, enabling closer collaboration and knowledge exchange. ACEMS members’ engagements with ATO colleagues provides a foundation to keep exploring new opportunities for engagement and collaboration beyond the life of ACEMS.