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2007 HDR Annual Review Process for School of Eng&IT

7th, 14th & 21st September, 2007

Please find attached the latest HDR presentation schedule. Research leaders have also been asked to sit in on one or two sessions as an independent assessor.

If for some (unavoidable) reason you need to swap your session/s please contact Dr. Michael Hobbs [mick@deakin.edu.au] or Dr. Hieu Minh Trinh [hmt@deakin.edu.au] by no later than Thursday 23 August.

Details of the conference program will be added later. For now, the following is an outline of the conference events.

Overview
Friday 7 Sept. 2007: Session 1 (Eng)
Friday 14 Sept. 2007: Session 2A (Eng) Session 2B (IT)
Friday 21 Sept. 2007: Session 3A (Eng) Session 3B (IT)

Friday 7 Sept. 2007: Session 1 (Eng)
Room: Haptics Lab Session Chair: Dr J. Abbawajy
Research Leaders: Dr A/Prof. E. Hu, A/Prof. L. Kong, A/Prof. A. Kouzani
09:30am-10:00am Modular robotics in immersed environments
Ross Daniel De Rango
Supervisor(s): Prof Saeid Nahavandi, Dr H. Trinh, Dr Pubudu Pathirana
10:00am-10:30am Cooperative Tracking and Imaging
Adrian Napier Bishop
Supervisor(s): Dr Pubudu Pathirana
10:30am-11:00am Simulation and Control of Complex Networks
Michael Johnstone
Supervisor(s): Dr Doug Creighton, Prof. Saeid Nahavandi, Dr H. Trinh
11:00am-11:30am Tea Break
11:30am-12:00pm Automatic Construction of Realistic 3D Models of Human Lungs from  2D Computed Tomography Images
Shu Ling Alycia Lee
Supervisor(s): A/Prof. Abbas Kouzani, Dr Eric Hu
12:00pm-12:30pm Optimization of fuel consumption and vehicle emission by simulating the integrated air conditioning and engine controls
Hamid Khayyam
Supervisor(s): A/Prof. Eric Hu A/Prof. Abbas Kouzani
12:30pm-01:00pm Cooperative Multi-strategy Image -- Text Translation
Gulisong Nasierding
Supervisor(s): A/Prof. Abbas Kouzani A/Prof. Lingxue Kong
01:00pm-02:00pm Lunch Break
02:00pm-02:30pm Hybrid Cooling Systems for Power Stations
Ferdi Yilmaz
Supervisor(s): A/Prof. Eric Hu
02:30pm-03:00pm Assessment of the new technologies to maximise the internal energy efficiency by modelling the energy flows Status: Current in Victorian power stations
Khayam Ghamami
Supervisor(s): A/Prof Eric Hu
03:00pm-03:30pm Technology Management and Productivity in the Construction Industry
Sirimevan Bandara Wijekoon
Supervisor(s): Dr Selvadore Selvalingam
03:30pm-04:00pm In-situ Stabilisation of Pavements using Cementitious Binders
Mark Gail Symons
Supervisor(s): Dr Selvadore Selvalingam
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Friday 14 Sept. 2007: Session 2A (Eng)
Room: Haptics Lab Session Chair: Dr H. Trinh
Research Leaders: Dr A/Prof. E. Hu, A/Prof. L. Kong, Prof. S. Nahavandi
09:30am-10:00am Haptic Interface Control Design for Multi-Point Interaction
Zoran Najdovski
Supervisor(s): Prof. Saeid Nahavandi, Dr H. Trinh
10:00am-10:30am Input and output analysis of a complex conveyor network
Vu Thanh Le
Supervisor(s): Dr Doug Creighton, Prof. Saeid Nahavandi
10:30am-11:00am Fault detection, isolation and design of tolerant control schemes for dynamic systems
Poh Sim Teh
Supervisor(s): Dr Hieu Trinh, Prof. Saeid Nahavandi
11:00am-11:30am Tea Break
11:30am-12:00pm Robotics and Haptics
Samer Edmond Hanoun
Supervisor(s): Prof. Saeid Nahavandi, Dr Doug Creighton
12:00pm-12:30pm Increased presence of haptic feedback for telerobotic applications
Ben Patrick Horan
Supervisor(s): Prof. Saeid Nahavandi, Dr Doug Creighton
12:30pm-01:00pm Automated Multi-Modal Image Fusion Framework
Mohammed Mahmoud Hossny
Supervisor(s): Prof. Saeid Nahavandi, Dr Doug Creighton
01:00pm-02:00pm Lunch Break
02:00pm-02:30pm Augmented reality and haptics
Matthew Watson
Supervisor(s): Dr A. Bhatti, Prof. Saeid Nahavandi
02:30pm-03:00pm Heterogeneous sensor fusion
Shady Mohamed Korany
Supervisor(s): Prof. Saeid Nahavandi
03:00pm-03:30pm Robotics and Sensor Systems
Michael Zenere
Supervisor(s): Dr Yakov FraymanDr H. Trinh, Prof. Saeid Nahavandi
03:30pm-04:00pm Modelling of the container terminal for studying the electrical energy usage and demand
Thanh Khanh Tran
Supervisor(s): Dr Doug Creighton, Prof. Saeid Nahavandi
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Friday 14 Sept. 2007: Session 2B (IT)   [Top of Page]
Rooms: ka5.110 (G) and T303.1 (B) Session Chair: Dr V. Mak
Research Leaders: Prof. Katherine Blashki, Prof. Andrzej Goscinski, Prof. Lynn Batten
09:30am-10:00am Resource Discovery in Grid Computing
Brett Sinclair
Supervisor(s): Prof. Andrzej Goscinski
10:00am-10:30am State Aware WSDL: The Resources Via Web Instances Framework
Michael Brock
Supervisor(s): Prof. Andrzej Goscinski
10:30am-11:00am Distributed Self-Optimisation for Collective Intelligent Bricks
Connor Lorne Cooper Gray
Supervisor(s): Dr Michael Hobbs, Dr Jemal Abawajy
11:00am-11:30am Tea Break
11:30am-12:00pm Protecting web services from distributed denial of service attacks
Ashley Chonka
Supervisor(s): Prof. Wanlei Zhou, Dr Michael Hobbs
12:00pm-12:30pm Representation and Identity of Player Characters in Role Playing Games
Katherine Billington
Supervisor(s): Prof. Katherine Blashki, Dr Michael Hobbs
12:30pm-01:00pm Exploring the creative growth of computer science students using engaging environments
Sophie Claire Nichol
Supervisor(s): Prof. Katherine Blashki, Dr Michael Hobbs
01:00pm-02:00pm Lunch Break
02:00pm-02:30pm Hidden Markov Models for Automated Gene Identification
Keith Knapp
Supervisor(s): A/Prof. Phoebe Chen, Dr Jacqueline Silcock
02:30pm-03:00pm Knowledge Discovery for High Dimensional Biomedical Data
Feng Chen
Supervisor(s): A/Prof. Phoebe Chen
03:00pm-03:30pm Subspace pattern recognition based automatic face understanding
Xin Geng
Supervisor(s): Prof. Kate Smith-Miles
03:30pm-04:00pm Spam Filtering Using Machine Learning Algorithms
Rafiq Md Rafiqul Islam
Supervisor(s): Dr Morshed Chowdhury for Prof. Wanlei Zhou
04:00pm-04:30pm Securing a Critical Infrastructure of Wireless Sensors
Ping Li
Supervisor(s): Prof. Wanlei Zhou, Dr Robin Doss
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Friday 21 Sept. 2007: Session 3A (Eng)
Room: Haptics Lab Session Chair: Dr H. Trinh
Research Leaders: Dr A/Prof. E.Hu, A/Prof. L. Kong, A/Prof. A. Kouzani
09:30am-10:00am Modelling and optimisation of manufacturing processes using soft computing methods
Jeremy Alan Opie
Supervisor(s): Dr Doug Creighton, Prof. Saeid Nahavandi
10:00am-10:30am Design and implementation of a mircofluidics Lab-on-A-Chip for clinical diagnostics
Khashayar Khoshmanesh
Supervisor(s): A/Prof. Abbas Kouzani, Prof. Saeid Nahavandi
10:30am-11:00am The research on robotic visual servoing system
Zhenying Guan
Supervisor(s): Prof. Saeid Nahavandi, Dr H. Trinh
11:00am-11:30am Tea Break
11:30am-12:00pm Mobile Agents scheduling in Sensor Networks
Timothy John Black
Supervisor(s): Dr Pubudu Pathirana, Prof Saeid Nahavandi
12:00pm-12:30pm Swarm robotics - Shape formation, localization and communication power control
Samitha Wathsala Ekanayake
Supervisor(s): Dr Pubudu Pathirana, Prof. Kate Smith-Miles
12:30pm-01:00pm Optical Flow for Vehicle Safety Systems
Nicholas Joel Bauer
Supervisor(s): Dr Pubudu Pathirana
01:00pm-02:00pm Lunch Break
02:00pm-02:30pm Assessment on Efficacy of ITS (Intelligent Training System) using AR (Augmented Reality)
Da Wei Jia
Supervisor(s): Dr A. Bhatti, Prof. Saeid Nahavandi
02:30pm-03:00pm Management of mechanical seal failures in centrifugal pumps
Gregory Willis
Supervisor(s): Dr Clive Ferguson, Dr Fuchun Huang, Prof. Julian Mote
03:00pm-03:30pm Application of E-prescription in the UAE hospitals and its positive effects on patients
Fahed Matar Al Neyadi
Supervisor(s): Dr Jemal Abawajy
03:30pm-04:00pm Security Negotiation Protocol for Multi-Agents
Raja Al-Jaljouli
Supervisor(s): Dr Jemal Abawajy, Prof Saeid Nahavandi
04:00pm-04:30pm Development of new coding and processing techniques for wireless systems
Shivali Goel
Supervisor(s): Dr Jemal Abawajy, Prof Saeid Nahavandi
04:30pm-05:00pm Mechanisms for establishing trustworthiness
Soon-keow Chong
Supervisor(s): Dr Jemal Abawajy, Dr Shang Gao
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Friday 21 Sept. 2007: Session 3B (IT)
Rooms: kc1.011 (G) T305 (B) Session Chair: Dr R. Doss
Research Leaders: Prof. Katherine Blashki, A/Prof. Phoebe Chen, Prof. Lynn Batten
09:30am-10:00am Finding the real source of internet crimes
Ke Li
Supervisor(s): Prof. Wanlei Zhou, Dr Morshed Chowdhury, Dr Robin Doss, Dr Shui Yu
10:00am-10:30am Voice Recognition Technology for visual artists with disabilities in their upper limbs
Dharani Priyahansika Perera
Supervisor(s): Prof. Katherine Blashki, Dr Jim Eales, Dr Gang Li
10:30am-11:00am Optimisations algorithms for efficient intensity modulated radiotherapy
Luke Mason
Supervisor(s): Dr Vicky Mak, Prof. Lynn Batten, Dr Michael Hobbs
11:00am-11:30am Tea Break
11:30am-12:00pm Authentication in Public Key and Identity Based Infrastructures
Ana Jancic
Supervisor(s): Prof. Lynn Batten
12:00pm-12:30pm Information Security Management
Leanne Ngo
Supervisor(s): Prof Matthew Warren for Prof. Wanlei Zhou
12:30pm-01:00pm Computer Malware Analysis
Ronghua Tian
Supervisor(s): Prof. Lynn Batten
01:00pm-02:00pm Lunch Break
02:00pm-02:30pm Dimensionality Reduction for Content-based Video Retrieval
Yiqing Tu
Supervisor(s): Dr Honghua Dai, Dr Morshed Chowdhury
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