Institutes and Centres

SMART Infrastructure Facility

Our faculty is one of the key stakeholders in UoW's new Simulation, Modelling and Analysis for Research and Teaching (SMART) Infrastructure Facility, one of UoW's Strategic Research Priority Areas. This facility is an integrated collection of laboratories designed to facilitate multi-disciplinary research and teaching activities with a focus on infrastructure technology. By bringing together a diverse range of research groups in the one building, the SMART Infrastructure Facility creates an exciting new opportunity for collaboration.

Information and Communication Technology Research Institute

ICTR is on e of the longest running university based research institutes in the field of ICT in Australia and is recognized as a Centre of Excellence in Telecommunications by the New South wales State Government. The ICT Research Institute has significant research capacity in the area of communication and wireless technology, multimedia and information processing, computer and information security and intelligent systems. More information: Information and Communication Technology Research Institute (ICTR)

Centre for Statistical and Survey Methodology

The Centre for Statistical and Survey Methodology (CSSM) undertakes fundamental research, industry-focused and contract research, major consulting projects and professional education in Applied Statistics. Its research involves developing and applying innovative statistical methods to important problems in areas such a Survey Methodology, Biometrics and Environmental Informatics. More information: Centre for Statistical and Survey Methodology (CSSM)

Institute of Mathematics and its Applications

The Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMIA) is a world-class institute producing high-impact research across the full spectrum of mathematics from influential fundamental research through to applications of mathematical modeling in finance, engineering, optics and nanotechnology. It is a hub for international research collaboration, a focus of industry interaction through consultation and committed industry partners and provides a mathematical engine-room for SMART and other UW foci in the mathematical sciences. More information: The Institute of Mathematics and its Applications

Endeavour Energy Power Quality and Reliability Centre

The Endeavour Energy Power Quality and Reliability Centre is a nationally and internationally recognized centre of excellence supporting research, education and consultation in the distribution and transmission system power quality, reliability and distributed generation systems. The focus of the Centre is to work in conjunction with industry to improve the quality and reliability of electricity supply for the benefit of all consumer systems. More information: Endeavour Energy Power Quality and Reliability Centre

Faculty Research Centres

The Decision Systems Laboratory (DSL), which conducts research programs in software modelling, service-oriented computing and agent technology The Intelligent Systems Research Centre The Centre for Digital Ecosystems

Cooperative Research Centres (CRCs)

One of the principal ways in which the Faculty of Informatics engages with industry is via various Co-operative Research Centres (CRCs). CRCs in which Informatics participates include: The SMART Services CRC, (commenced in 2008), a partnership of media, telecommunications and financial companies, government departments, and Universities which supports research projects in intelligent servicing of customer needs, ecosystems for service delivery and services for the future; The Desert Knowledge CRC, which aims to improve economic and social outcomes for indigenous people in remote communities through research and development of technologies with commercial application in the desert environment; and The Smart Internet Technology CRC (concluded in 2007), which aimed to perform world-class research and development of next-generation Internet technologies and applications. UoW's participation in this CRC successfully spawned a number of spin-off companies such as Spatial Voice (now part of Dolby).