HDR Opportunities in Information and Communication Technology and Mathematics
Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering
Visual and Audio Signal Processing (Contact: Prof. Salim Bouzerdoum)
Areas of interest: Nonlinear signal processing, image and video processing, speech signal processing and auditory perception, spatial and 3D audio processing, machine vision, machine learning, computational Intelligence, pattern recognition, and smart vision sensors.
Applications: High-resolution through-the-wall radar imaging, biomedical and multimedia signal processing, object detection and tracking, Image enhancement and restoration, speech enhancement, speech coding, spoken language processing, watermarking, biometrics, image and video quality assessment, perceptual filtering, Perceptual evaluation of multimedia experiences, and XML based Multimedia delivery and processing.
Optoelectronic signal processing (contact: Assoc. Prof. Jiangtao Xi)
- 3D profile measurement and digital imaging
- Sensing and measurement based on optical feeedback self-mixing interferometry
- Blind source separation and its applications
Telecommunications
- Multimedia communications: multimedia streaming, immersive multimedia environments, and peer-to-peer communication and delivery.
- Networking: networked virtual environments, scalable networked games, application-aware ad hoc networks, advanced mobile and ad hoc sensor networks.
- Wireless communications: Space-time signal processing, Diversity combining, Propagation of microwaves, Modulation and coding
- Ultra-wide band communication systems
(Contact: Prof. F. Safaei, Prof. E. Dutkiewicz)
Intelligent Mechatronics (Contact: Prof. Fazel Naghdy)
Acquisition, modelling and distribution of human synergistic reactive control and manipulation skills using inertia sensors and wireless IMU; Distributed control through Wireless ad-hoc control networks, Haptic and Virtual Modelling of constrained motion manipulation in medicine (Cochlea implantation), performing arts (practice carillon), and manufacturing (assembly); Multi Objective Intelligent Control for blimp, Position Location using wireless protocols, Tele-presence and tele-operation over the Internet, medical image processing for diagnosis, content based retrieval, image coding.
Power Engineering (Contact: Prof. Danny Soetanto or Assoc. Prof. Sarath Perera)
Power quality surveying; data analysis and reporting methodologies; Harmonics, flicker and voltage unbalance management in distribution and transmission systems; Distribution system reliability improvement through novel methods Photo voltaic inverter systems and distribution systems; Power quality data mining; Equipment immunity to PQ disturbances; Voltage sag characteristics and limits for distribution systems; Distributed generation; distribution system automation and protection
Mathematics and Applied Statistics
Pure Mathematics (Contact person: Prof. I. Raeburn)
Operator theory and operator algebra, Representation theory, Topological groups and harmonic analysis, Calculus of variations and partial differential equations, Geometric analysis, Combinatory logic, lambda calculus and type theory
Engineering and Applied Mathematics (Contact person: Dr. M. Nelson):
Nanotechnology: Mathematical and mechanical modelling of nano-particulate flow with applications in biology and medicine. Renewable Energy: using ocean waves. Using ocean waves to generate electricity and/or desalinizing sea water. Nonlinear Waves: Solitary wave interaction and evolutions for higher-order extensions to integrable models. Granular materials: Mathematical modeling of flow of granular materials. Treatment of Industrial Wastewaters: Many industries produce highly contaminated wastewaters which must be processed before they can be released into the environment. Mathematical models for the activated sludge process are being developed and analysed using the tools of non-linear dynamical systems theory.
Statistical and Survey Methodology (Contact person: Professor D. Steel)
Statistical design, including survey and experimental design; Analysis of data from complex populations, including survey, longitudinal, spatial and aggregated data; Statistical modelling, including semi-parametric and nonparametric methods, generalised linear mixed models, statistical machine learning, time series, quasi-likelihood, multi-level modelling, and estimating equations; Data quality and survey methods, including telephone, household and Internet surveys; Small area estimation; Analysis of linked data; Statistical confidentiality: Statistical Education.
Mathematical Finance (Contact person: Professor S.-P. Zhu)
Pricing Exotic Options and Financial Derivatives, Computational Finance, Quantitative Risk Management, and theory of stochastic analysis and its applications in finance
Mathematics Education (Contact person: Dr. A. Porter)
Gaming approaches for learning mathematics, statistics or computing; Development of problem solving approaches for learning mathematics and/or statistics; Experiential approaches for learning mathematics and/or statistics.
Computer Sciences and Software Engineering
Computer Security (Contact: Assoc. Prof. Willy Susilo or Assoc. Prof. Yi Mu)
Computer and Communication Security, Cryptography and Combinatorial Design, Information Theory and Coding, Network Security, and Multimedia Security
Software Engineering (Contact: Prof. Aditya Ghose)
Software Testing, Requirements Engineering, Business process management, Service-oriented systems, Agent-oriented software engineering, Constraint programming, and
Knowledge representation and reasoning.
Multimedia Information Processing (Contact: Philip Ogunbona)
Image/Video Processing, Human Activity Detection and Recognition, Image/Video Annotation and Retrieval, Multi-modal Biometrics and Crypto-biometrics, Multimedia Security and Forensics, and Virtual Reality.
Intelligent Systems (Contac: Assoc. Prof. Minjie Zhang)
Robotics, Machine Learning, Machine Vision, Ultrasonic Sensing, Safety, Risk and Hazard Analysis, Distributed Systems, Agent and Multi-agent techniques, and Data Mining and Modeling.
Information Systems and Information Technology
Business Services
Interdisciplinary service research that includes supply chain management, operations management, customer relationship management, marketing, information technology, RFID and location based services.
Contact: Dr Tim Coltman or Dr Katina Michael
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