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School of Engineering & Mathematical Sciences

Computer Science & Computer Engineering

Computer Network Engineering

S. Singh, B. Soh, N. Chilamkurti, S. Ghosh, R. Lai, P. Veeraragahavan, P. White, J. Cao

  • Intrusion detection
  • Mobile computing
  • Wireless networking
  • Distributed and parallel simulation
  • QoS
  • Congestion control in multicast networks
  • Performance issues in fast ATM/MPLS switches
  • Pervasive computing
  • Biometric based authentication
  • Network and web security
  • Wireless network security
  • Cryptographic protocols
  • Network protocols
  • Next generation communication protocols
  • Software reliability
  • Optimization
  • Digital copyright protection and management
  • Scheduling of tasks in discrete real time systems
  • Real time and performance issues
  • Distributed query processing
Software Engineering

W. Rahayu, T. Torabi, K. Reed, K. Nguyen, A. Hannington, A. Talevski, T. Murnane, K. Ong

  • Design decision tracking system
  • Web-based design tracking
  • Multi-site software development
  • Component based simulation
  • Software quality
  • Software architecture
  • Software testing and estimation
  • Systematic approach to GIU design & implementation
E-Commerce & Web Technology

B. Soh, W. Rahayu, J. Cao, F. Liu T. Torabi, C. Wouters, S. Pulis, J. Munro, B. Kateli

  • E-Commerce database
  • B2B e-Commerce
  • E-Commerce
  • E-Commerce and payment systems security
  • XML and XQL
  • Ontology
  • Metadata for resource catalogue
  • Mobile e-Commerce security
  • Next generation Internet
  • Object oriented language in Web information specification
  • Web-service management systems
  • On update propagation in replicated Web-proxy environment
  • Logic programming
  • Evolutionary computing
  • Security protocols
Intelligent Systems Engineering

J. Wang, R. Hall, F. Liu, J. Main, M. Witten, G. Sterling

  • Intelligent agents
  • Case based reasoning
  • Computational linguistics
  • Intelligent systems design and analysis
  • Junk Email identification systems
  • Congestion forecasting and control
  • Fuzzy logic
  • Approximate reasoning in PT-resolution
  • Integrating conditional proof into automated deduction
Database Systems

W. Rahayu, J. Cao, D. Wollersheim

  • Bioinformatic databases
  • Object-relational databases
  • Database query optimization
  • Data warehousing
  • Parallel databases
  • Hybrid data allocation scheme for mobile database management
  • Mobile transaction management
  • Web data management systems
  • Heterogeneous database management systems
Data Mining

J. Wang, W. Rahayu, R. Hall, K. Nguyen, J. Auer, B. Lewis

  • Adaptive data mining techniques
  • Parallel data mining
  • Health informatics
  • Guideline production systems
  • Clinical decision support
  • Data mining algorithms
  • Neural classification systems
  • Data mining of XML databases
  • Image engineering
  • Adaptive colour regulator
  • Soft image retrieval
Games Programming

J. Rankin, R. Hall, A. Ma

  • Graphics games development
  • Games builder
  • Computer graphics
Mathematical Software Development

I. Robinson, M. Hill, T. Li

  • Automatic cubature algorithms
  • Fast selection algorithms
  • Numerical integration

Electronic Engineering

Telecommunications Engineering

Communication Systems Engineering

J. Armstrong, J. Devlin, M. Feramez, J. Royston, G. Tobin, C. Chai, M. Ngu, T. Salim, A. Suraweera, B. Kayal, H. Ye

  • Digital communications systems
  • Modulation techniques for high speed digital communication systems particularly onthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)
  • Coding techniques for digital communications
  • Use of digital signal processing in high performance transmitters and receivers
  • Performance studies of digital communication satellite links
  • Switching and control of SSTDMA systems
  • Dynamic protocol formats to improve integration with terrestrial networks
  • Satellite communication gateways
  • Cahnnel quality of HF communication links
  • Design of microwave circuits for satellite applications
  • Antennas and receiver for satellite communication
  • Mobile communication via satellite
  • Microwave
  • Digital receiver design
  • HF receivers and data transmission
  • Frequency synthesis techniques
  • Microwave ultra wideband Chirp radars
  • Non invasive testing and imaging
  • Microwave ISAR systems
  • Statistical modeling and characterization of VHF radio channels beyond line-of-site
  • Digital microwave radio communications
  • Cellular mobile radio communication networks planning and performance evaluation
  • Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM)
  • Satellite communication and Global Positioning Systems
  • Telecommunication networks planning
  • Design
  • Performance and Management
  • Adaptive communications systems
  • Orthogonal Frequency-Division multiplexing
  • Satellite witched TDMA scheduling algorithms
  • Combinational geometry applied to matrix decomposition
  • Algebraic structures for signal processing
  • Production of diagrams and graphs using the Metafont language
Optical Communications

L. Cahill, D. Elton, B. Gibson, J. Katsifolis

  • Semiconductor laser dynamics
  • High speed circuits for optical sources and receivers
  • Mid infrared detectors
  • Photonic switching
  • Fibre sensors
  • Computer aided design
  • Image processing and signal processing
  • High speed circuits for laser and photo diodes
  • Microwave circuit design
  • Optical sensors
  • Electro-chemical instrumentation and signal processing
Communication Signal Processing

D. Deng, D. Tay, A. Sameul, H. Ye, S. Marusic

  • Algebra structures for signal processing
  • Neural Networks
  • Nonlinear signal processing
  • Image processing and image data compression
  • Medical imaging
  • Wavelet Transforms
  • Multirate filter banks
  • Multidimensional filters
  • Image compression
  • Document image processing
  • Time series analysis
  • Watermarking
  • Multiuser communication
  • Multimedia signal processing

Electronic Systems Engineering

Semiconductor Materials and Devices

B. Usher, T. Warminski, T. Dieing

  • Molecular beam epitaxial growth of semiconductor materials
  • Studies of growth processes and interface formation
  • Characterization of single and multiplayer structures by high precision X-ray diffraction and topography
  • Strained layer structures and the role of dislocation dynamics in the relaxation of strain
  • Characterization of semiconductor materials by different electron microscopic and X-ray spectroscopic techniques (including synchrotron radiation)
  • Studies of microscopic correlations between structural and chemical features of strained layer structures
Biomedical Engineering

J. Cameron, G. Rathbone, P. Junor, V. Georgiev

  • Cardiovascular mechanics and the relationship of arterial mechanical properties
  • Integrated echocardiographic analysis stations
  • Physiological control systems
  • Muscle modeling
  • Bioinstrumentation
  • Joint sounds analysis
  • Patient data monitoring systems
  • Biosensors
  • Transducers and chemical instrumentation
  • Biomedical instrumentation and biomedical signal processing
  • Microwave and ultrasound hyperthermia cancer therapy
  • Magnetic resonance signal processing
  • Anaesthesia and respiratory monitoring
  • Sensors for biomedical and industrial applications
Electronic Design Automation

J. Whittington

  • Environmental instrumentation
  • Low power/high accuracy digital communication and control networks and protocols
  • Low power environmental acquisition and control systems
  • Design automation (EDA) methodologies
  • VHDL
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