About Us

Wattle Education is a small education startup based in Sydney, NSW.

We make interactive and integrated STEM resources.

Our award winning team has over 6 years experience in designing and building interactive online resources for undergraduate and postgraduate students. We teach complex units that integrate mathematics, statistics, machine learning, data visualisation and programming.

The Team

Dr Alison Wong

Alison is an education-focused Lecturer at the University of Sydney Business School and a researcher in the School of Physics.

Alison holds a PhD in Astrophysics and BA Science (Honours).

Dr Stephen Tierney

Stephen is an education-focused senior lecturer in Business Analytics at The University Sydney Business School. His research interests include machine learning, computer vision, image processing, data visualisation and recommendation systems.

Stephen holds a PhD in Machine Learning and BA Computer Science (Honours).

Recent Achievements

  • University of Sydney Business School Wayne Lonergan Award 2024 for Outstanding Leadership in Teaching (Alison Wong and Stephen Tierney)
  • University of Sydney Business School Dean's Award for Teaching 2023 (Alison Wong)
  • University of Sydney The Early Career Teacher of the Year Award Vice-Chancellor's Award 2023 (valued at $2000) (Alison Wong)
  • B&T Women Leading Tech Awards (Education/Research) presented by Atlassian sponsored by Monash University 2023 (Alison Wong)
  • University of Sydney Educational Innovation Award 2023 for transforming assessment and feedback practices (Stephen Tierney)
  • University of Sydney Business School Toolbox and Innovator Award 2022 (Stephen Tierney, Alison Wong and Priyanka Cheema)