2010 Trailblazer Winners

Open Category

Winner: Katarina Mikac
Runners Up: Garry Hoban
Highly Commended: Tim Wray

Student Category

Winner: April Ash
Runners Up: Simon Meers
Highly Commended: Peter Sherrell

Entries (projects) listed below photo

Trailblazer 2010 winners
Trailblazer winners Dr Katarina Mikac (fourth from left) and April Ash (fourth from right) pictured with (from left) David Israel (UniQuest), Tim Wray (highly commended student category), Associate Professor Garry Hoban (runner up in open category), Professor Judy Raper, Simon Meers (runner up student category), Peter Sherrell (highly commended student category) and Hedie Meka (a sponsor and judge from Fisher Adams Kelly).
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2010 Trailblazer Finalists

Team Coordinator or Individual Entrant / Category	Entry	Faculty/Institute
April Ash (student) - Winner	Virtu-Real -updating virtual visual displays in real-time	Health & Behavioural Sciences
Michelle Gregory (student)	Early Childhood Computer training	Education
Muhummad Hadi (open)	Preventing progressive collapse of buildings	Engineering
Garry Hoban (open) - Runner Up	Slowmation: student-generated digital animations	Education
Konstantin Hoesch-Klohe (open)	Green business process management	Informatics
Somayeh Jafari (student)	Schizophrenia drug therapy	Health & Behavioural Sciences
Konstantin Konstantinov (open)	Biocompatible composites for cancer treatment	Engineering
Simon Meers (student) - Runner Up	SleepSignal device to help parents	Informatics
Katarina Mikac (open) - Winner	BugID card: instant insect diagnostics	Science
Peter Sherrell (student) - Highly Commended	Hybrid hydrogen utilisation device	Science
Wendy Suiter (student)	Listening chairs	Creative Arts
Willy Susilo (open)	New techniques for CAPTCHA	Informatics
Tim Wray (student) - Highly Commended	The Art Collection Ecosystem	Informatics
Justin Yerbury (open)	Therapeutic for neurodegenerative disease	Science
Yu Zhang (student)	Global Commerce Collaboration Platform	Commerce
Ms.Chen, Wen-Ting (student)	New analytic formulae for pricing options	Informatics

2009 Trailblazer Winners

Category	Name/Team Leader Faculty	Entry
Student Winner	Philippe Bouttefroy Informatics	Vehicle speed detection device
Open Winner	Dr Bridget Munro Health & Behavioural Sciences	Lymphoedema support device for breast cancer patients
Student Runner Up	Mitra Safavi-Naeini Engineering Physics	Small animal imaging technology
Open Runner Up	Dr Grant Mathieson Science	Flexalex Cistern
Student Highly Commended	Sheridan Gho Health & Behavioural Sciences	Better bras for women living with a breast cancer diagnosis
Open Highly Commended	Prof Anatoly Rozenfeld Engineering	Imaging technology to improve prostate cancer treatment outcomes

Trailblazer Winners
Pictured at the Trailblazer awards announcement for 2009 (from left) are Professor Judy Raper (Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Research), Sheridan Goh (student – highly commended), Mitra Safavi-Naeini (student – runner-up), Phillipe Bouttefrot (student – winner), Professor Anatoly Rozenfeld (open – highly commended), Dr Gavin Recchia (sponsor, Davies Collison Cave), Dr Bridget Munro (open – winner), Mr Andrew Davis (UniQuest) and Dr Grant Mathieson (open – runner-up)

Other 2009 Trailblazer Finalists

Team Leader/Individual Entrant	Entry	Faculty
Shulei Chou	Carbon composite with high surface area	Engineering
Tim Coltman	Simulation-based management training tool	Informatics
Rebecca Dabbs	Immune system stimulation to fight cancer	Science
Sayne Dalton	Andy's Fun Food Adventures	Health and Behavioural Science
Bridget Dougherty	Web-based interface for relationships research	Arts
Xueyu Geng	Integrated track drainage and reinforcement system	Engineering
Sim Kim Lau	DVD resource kit for children with cerebral palsy	Informatics
Philip Whitten	Novel hydrogel production	Science
ZhiQuan Zhou	Algorithm for testing internet search engine	Informatics
Tao Li	Career counselling system for mature-age students	Faculty of Education

Proudly supported by platinum sponsors:
Davies Collison Cave and Fisher Adams Kelly
Gold Sponsors: ShelstonIP, Griffith Hack

Trailblazer Winners 2008

Category	Name/Team Leader Faculty	Entry
Staff - Winner	Dr Allison Shorten – Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences	"Informed Birth Choices: Pregnancy Decision Support Package"
Student - Winner	Jennifer Saville – Faculty of Science	"A novel non-invasive technique for the diagnosis of dry eye"
Staff - Runner Up	Dr Chris Lukey – Faculty of Engineering	"Polymer-based alternative to steel mesh for strata support in underground coal mines"
Student - Runner Up	Deirdre McGhee – Faculty of Health & Behavioural Sciences	"Novel sports bra design"
Staff - Highly Commended	A/Prof Steven Roodenrys & Dr Stuart Johnstone - Faculty of Health & Behavioural Sciences	"NeuroCog-TS"
Staff - Highly Commended	Dr Simon Moulton – Faculty of Science	"In vivo site drug delivery: New Technology to replace mulesing in sheep farming"
Student - Highly Commended	Annaleise Riethmuller – Faculty of Education	"Jump start"
Student - Highly Commended	Guanghua Lian – Faculty of Informatics	"Closed – form exact solution approach for pricing variance swaps"

Successful Trailblazer recipients (from left) A/Prof. Steven Roodenrys; Dr Chris Lukey, Dr Allison Shorten; Jennifer Saville; Deirdre McGhee; Annaleise Riethmuller, Dr Simon Moulton and Dr Stuart Johnstone [Absent from photo was Guanghua Lian]

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Trailblazer Winners for 2007

Category	Name/Team Leader Faculty	Entry
Open Winner First	Dr Jun Chen (Science)	“Nanostructured Flexible Carbon Nanotube Electrodes for Energy System.”
Open Winner Runner up	Mr Mitchell Byrne (Health & Behavioural Sciences)	“Medication Alliance - I have developed a Mental Health staff training program that enables staff to understand the individual reasons for a patients non-adherence to medication.”
Student Winner First	Mr Michael Jones & Mr Tony Larchez (Informatics)	"Go-with-the-flow - Every Drop Counts: this invention is a compact water saving device which can be easily fitted to a standard showerhead. It provides an easy way for user control over water usage, based on a volume limit”
Student Winner Runner Up	Ms Ava Simms (Science)	"The OzMUSLE model was developed in order to determine, on an event basis, how soil erosion varies within catchments (area up to 250 km2)”
Open Highly Commended	Prof. Aditya Ghose, Evan Morrison and Alexander Menzies (Informatics)	“Rapid Model Discovery - the process of building IT systems relies significantly on (mainly diagrammatic) software models to describe system requirements or to specify system designs.”
Open: HC	A/Prof. Willy Susilo, Daniel Saffioti and Khin Than Win (Informatics)	“iLearning: Niche Learning Tools using iPod”
Student: HC	Mr Michael Thomas (Science)	“OzID - A new weapon in the fight against obesity, diabetes and heart disease: identifying the molecular structure of fats and oils faster, cheaper and more precisely!”
Student:HC	Miss Kori Nemme (Education)	“SpiritChild: an intervention program for parents and caregivers of children under seven years of age”.

(From Left to Right): Alistair Smith (from Davies Collison Cave), Jun Chen, Michael Thomas , Alexander Menzies, A/Prof Willy Susilo, Mitch Byrne, Ava Sims, Tony Larchez, Evan Morrison, Michael Jones, Prof. Aditya Ghose, Mark Horsburgh (from Fisher Adams Kelly)

Trailblazer winners for 2006 were:

*Name*	*Category*	*Faculty*	*Name of Idea/Invention or Research Outcome*
Dr C. Rujikiatkamjorn, Prof. B. Indraratna, Mr Anass Attya	Open Winner	Engineering	Prefabricated Vertical Cross Drain
Dr Lisa Kervin	Open Runner Up	Education	ClassSim
Dr Stephen Palmisano	Open Highly Commended	Health and Behavioural Sciences	Landing Flare Flight Training Software
Dr Weihua Li & Dr Bin Liu	Open Highly Commended	Engineering	Magnetic Field Sensor Based on Conductive Magnetorheological Elastomer
Mr Mark Gaykema & Mr Joseph Polder	Student Winner	Engineering	The invention is called the Leaf Lobber
Mrs Kara Perrow	Student Runner Up	Science	The targeted delivery of potent cytotoxins in the treatment of malignant disease
Mr Dieter Beaven	Student Highly Commended	Informatics	NanoStorm
Mr John Sampson	Student Highly Commended	Health and Behavioural Sciences	Muscle gain with less pain, or alternatively, the effect of neural drive on neuro-mechanical responsiveness of skeletal muscle.

Award-winners Mark Gaykema (front row, second from left), Anass Attya (middle) and Dr Cholochat Rujikiatkamjorn (second from right) are pictured with the 2006 Trailblazer competition finalists.

Trailblazer winners for 2005 were:

Category	Name/Team Leader Faculty	Entry
Open winner	Miss Anna Henningham, Faculty of Science	"The metabolic Archilles heel of GAS"
Student winner	Mr Luke Scott, Faculty of Engineering	"Vacuum membrane distillation"
Open Runner-Up	Dr Willy Susilo, Faculty of Informatics	"Secure USB Disc Access"
Student Runner-Up	Mr Mark Havryliv, Faculty of Creative Arts	"Audio controlled games"
Student Highly Commended	Mr Nuri Elbasha, Faculty of Engineering	"Enhancing the strength and ductility of high strength reinforced concrete beams"
Student Highly Commended	Mr Peter Kelly, Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences	"Homework generator"
Open Highly Commended	Dr Bridget Munro, Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences	"Stretching straining landing training"
Open Highly Commended	Mr Simon Meers, Faculty of Informatics	"Electro-Neural Vision System"

Pictured at the Trailblazers presentation (from left): Managers of Innovation and Commercial Development (Health, Education and Arts) Aapo Skorulis (left) and (Engineering, Science and Law) Dr Troy Coyle (right) with student recipients (from second left) Mark Havryliv, Luke Scott, Joonsana Baek (representing Willy Susilo), Peter Kelly, Anna Henningham, Simon Meers, Nuri Elbasha and Bridget Munro.