Latest ARC success for faculty researchers
Deakin newsAssociate Professor Paul Francis from Deakin's School of Life and Environmental Sciences is set to lead a Discovery Project that aims to improve chemical detection through chemiluminescence and is one of two Deakin projects to have been successful in latest round of Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage awards.
The scheme supports collaborative research that connects industry with university researchers and helps to build Australia's prosperity.
The project, “Multi-Colour Electrogenerated Chemiluminescence.”, led by Associate Professor Francis will explore a new approach to chemical detection, in which molecules that emit different coloured light can be selectively switched on or off via electrode. This may provide new capabilities in rapid screening for disease biomarkers, environmental pollutants and bioterrorism agents, using simple, low-cost, portable instrumentation.
Associate Professor Dinh Phung from Deakin's School of Information Technology, is part of a research team on the other project, “Nonparametric Machine Learning for Modern Data Analytics.” Modern data analytics tasks need to interpret and derive values from complex, growing data. This proposal aims to develop "next generation" machine learning methods to cope with the data deluge.