Research in the Faculties of Informatics

and Engineering

University of WollongongAUSTRALIA

CRICOS: 00102e

About the University of Wollongong• Began in 1951

• Currently just over 22,000 , including over 5,200 on-shore international students from over 80 countries

• Over 75,000 graduates worldwide

• 15 Research Strengths

• 10 Faculties – Arts, Commerce, Creative Arts, Education, Engineering, Graduate School of Business, Health and Behavioural Sciences, Informatics, Law & Science

Awards and Accolades (i)

UOW 5-star ratings in Good Universities Guide,

***** Skills of graduates

***** Staff Qualifications

***** Research

***** Graduate satisfaction

***** Graduate outcomes - getting a job

***** Staff-Student Ratios

Awards and Accolades (ii)UOW is ranked:• in the top 200 universities in the world

• in the top 100 universities by employers

• number 1 in Australia for teaching

• This puts us comfortably in the top 2% of universities in the world

We are Australia’s 10th largest city but with only 200.000 people, it is quiet. We have art galleries, cinemas, libraries, theatres, and an entertainment centre.Only 80 kms from Sydney Wollongong

We are on the coast and have many beautiful beaches and parks.

Peak hour is from about 4.50 to 5.10 pm

Research Strengths & other research groups

• The University has a number of recognised “Research Strengths” which it promotes appropriately.

• These may be called Strengths, Institutes or Centres, for historical reasons

• Faculties also have Centres and Groups which are often highly productive but are not officially Research Strengths

• Information and Communication Technology Research  (ICTR) Institute

• Institute for Innovation in Business and Social Research (IIBSoR)

• Institute for Mathematics and its Applications

• Centre for Statistical and Survey Methodology

• Smart Services CRC

Research Strengths in Informatics

• Centre for Medical Radiation Physics

• Engineering Manufacturing

• Engineering Materials Institute (EMI)

• ARC Centre of Excellence for Electro-materials Science (ACES)

• Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials

• CRC for Rail Innovation

Research Strengths in Engineering

Special Research Initiatives (i)

• SMART infrastructure project– Simulation and modelling of complex systems

and how they interact– Model a shipping port, the roads and railways

that feed into and out of the port– A $40 million building, new professors– Up to 100 PhDs working on projects as they

arise• So, if you can do simulation or modelling ...

Special Research Initiatives (ii)

• Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute– Mostly clinical medical research into disease

prevention and treatment but some work on health informatics, such as modelling aging in the population

– Possible research in bioinformatics – analysing large data sets

Faculty of InformaticsSchool of Computer Science & Software Engineering

School of Mathematics & Applied Statistics

School of Information Systems & Technology

Electrical, Computer & Telecommunications Engineering

Informatics

SCSSE SECTE

SISAT SMAS

Scope of the Disciplines

ElectricalEngineering

ComputerEngineering

Computer Science

SoftwareEngineering

InformationTechnology

InformationSystems

Organisational Organisational NeedsNeeds

SoftwareSoftwareHardwareHardware

Telecom.Engineering

MathsMaths

School of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering

DISCIPLINES•Electrical Engineering•Computer Engineering•Telecommunications Engineering

STRENGTHS•Engineering Manufacturing•Smart Internet Technology•Desert Knowledge•Telecommunications and Information Technology

COLLABORATORS* Motorola, IBM, Apple, Hawker de Havilland, Sun MicroSystems among others

Information Communication Technology Research

One of the 15 Research Strengths of the University

Wireless Research

Networks

Photonics Interactive Learning

Wireless Technologies

Information Security

Audio Processing and Management

Visual Info Processing &

Content Management

50 staff and 70 PhD students

Centre for Information Security • Cryptography

– Authentication codes, Distributed Authentication Systems, Secret-sharing schemes, Broadcast encryption, Fingerprinting

• Multimedia Security and Digital Rights Management – Encryption and authentication for image and video data,

Watermarking, Combined encryption and compression

• Network Security – Multicast Security, Firewalls, Programmable Networks,

Wireless Security

• Access Control – Database Security, Access Control for Hierarchical

Information Systems, Mutual Identification and Authentication, Smart Cards

• Privacy

Electronic & Photonic Signal Processing

• Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) device fabrication and application

• optical communication systems

• FBG sensors

• 3-D dynamic profilometry measurement

• Opto-electronic signal detection and processing

• Acoustic and audio signal processing

Centre for Wireless Technologies

• Industry focused Research and Development

– A number of technology transfers for WLAN QoS, mesh networking and software defined radio

– Active participation in IEEE standards (802.11 and 802.15)

• Current projects

– QoS for Mesh Networking

– Advanced UWB physical layer

development

Centre for Wireless Research

• Microwave Antenna -Testing Facility for Far-Field and Spherical Near-

Field Measurements

• Smart Antennas - For Broadband Wireless Data Systems

• Space-Time Block Codes- Using Orthogonal, Amicable and General Designs

• Australian Communications Research Network ACoRN

Visual Info Processing & Content Management

• Multimedia Content Management– Image annotation, indexing, retrieval, video

summarization, media adaptation

• Multimedia Signal Processing– Image and video segmentation, classification, video

surveillance, scene analysis, colour image processing, stereo image processing, auto-focusing, video surveillance, image and video compression, Digital TV,

• Biometrics

– Speaker identification, Face recognition, Fingerprint recognition, Multi-sensors

• Multimedia Security– Image and Video Watermarking and Authentication

School of Computer Science and Software Engineering Research

• Security: computer and communication security, cryptography theory, information theory and coding

• Software Engineering: software testing and requirements engineering

• Multimedia Information Processing: watermarking, image and video processing, digital camera image processing, video surveillance, biometric security, multi agent systems

• Intelligent Systems: robotics, machine learning and

machine vision, ultrasonic sensing, safety, risk and hazard analysis, distributed systems

School of Information Systems and Technology

1. Health Information Systems

2. E-Government & IT Governance

3. Service Oriented Computing (Web services, SOA etc)

4. Multi agent systems

5. IT and business

6. New technologies: RFID, LBS etc

7. Social issues of technology use

8. Community Informatics

Business and Society

Technology

SISAT

SISAT Research Foci

1. RFID (Radio Frequency Identification)Location based services, pattern recognition, and the evolution of the barcode to individual item tagging technology

4. Supply Chain ManagementUsing IT to support a company’s supply chain is a challenging but hugely beneficial step. It is vital that we understand the costs and benefits of SCM automation if it is to be successful.

SISAT Research Foci continued5. E-government and IT governance

Two important strands:

i) How governments use and deploy technology, and still

protect civil rights

ii) What are the best ways to manage the IT function in a large organisation/corporation

School of Maths & Applied Statistics

• Institute of Mathematics & Applied Statistics– Centre for Engineering and Applied

Mathematics – Centre for Mathematical Finance– Centre for Pure Mathematics– Mathematics and Statistics Education– Nanomechanics Research Group

• Centre for Statistical & Survey Methodology

• 40 local and international postgraduate research students make SMAS an exciting and dynamic choice for postgraduate study.

Statistics overview • Close links with the Australian Bureau of Statistics (federal

govt. agency) with full funding of one Professorial Chair

• The statistics group have long running consultancies with government

organizations in Australia, New Zealandand the UK.

C* AlgebraSMAS has appointed a high profile team of four academics,

including a research professor, who are experts in C* algebra.

Faculty of Engineering

Three Schools:• Mechanical, Materials & Mechatronics (MMM)• Civil, Mining and Environmental (CME)• Engineering Physics

• More than 80 full-time academic staff and more than 50 full-time researchers

Engineering Research• Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials• Engineering Manufacturing• Engineering Materials• Centre for Medical Radiation Physics• Advanced Structural Engineering & Construction Materials• Geotechnical Engineering Research Group• Sustainable Water and Earth Research Group• Centre for emerging networks and applications• Photonic and Electronic Signal Processing Group• Rail Engineering and Technologies• Intelligent Manufacturing Systems and Technologies

School of CMEDISCIPLINES• Civil Engineering• Mining Engineering• Environmental Engineering

STRENGTHS• Advanced Structural Engineering and

Construction Materials• Mining and Metallurgy• Geotechnical and Railway

Engineering• Longwall Mining• Outburst Coal and Gas explosions• Sustainable Water Engineering

School of MMMDISCIPLINES

• Mechanical Engineering

• Materials Engineering

• Mechatronic Engineering

STRENGTHS

• Steel Manufacture

– Primary Processing

– Casting and Rolling

– Metallic Coatings

• Intelligent Polymers - Nano-structured Electro-materials

• Superconductors (ISEM)

• HiTech lab

Engineering Physics

DISCIPLINES:• Astronomy and Astrophysics• Condensed Matter Physics• Medical Radiation Physics

STRENGTHS:• Centre for Medical Radiation

Physics– Radiotherapy and Nuclear

Medicine– Radiation Protection– Radiation Medical

Instrumentation– Proton Therapy

Programs - research

RESEARCH PROGRAMS• Master of Engineering – Research (1.5 years)• PhD Engineering or Physics (3 years)

Benefits:- Dual supervision by UOW supervisors- Purpose built laboratories and research facilities- Collaboration possibilities with Chinese Universities- Industry Collaboration- IPRIS, Endeavor and Govt Scholarships

Admissions - research

Research:• Admission to a research degree normally

requires the completion of a recognised four-year Bachelor (Honours) degree awarded at Class II, Division 2 or higher in a discipline relevant to the intended area of research. Completion of a Masters by Coursework degree containing substantial research or research methodology may also be considered.

Language CompetencyNon-native English speakers must achieve ONE of the following:

IELTS (International English Language Testing System) with a minimum score of 6 (minimum of 6 in reading & writing and 5 in listening & speaking).

TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) with– 550 (paper based examination) – 213 (computer based examination) and 4.0 TWE/Essay

Rating, – 79 (internet based examination) with not lest than 18 in

reading; 17 in listening and 16 in speaking.

WCA, English for Tertiary Studies score of 50%•English test results should be no more than two years old. Students are strongly advised to enquire about the English tests early, as testing centers are frequently fully booked in advance.

Tuition Fees

PhD and Research Masters $10450*

These fees are international tuition fees in A$ per session. There are two sessions per year. These fees do not include accommodation or living costs.

Students with scholarships may have their fees waived, particularly if their project is in one of the Faculty’s areas of research focus

* Fees are current as at May 2007 & are subject to change

Contact DetailsInformatics Contact: Rachel WeineEmail: rachel_weine@uow.edu.auWebsite: ww.uow.edu.au/informatics

Engineering Contact: Anji PhillipsWebsite: www.uow.edu.au/eng

University of Wollongong, NSW 2522 AustraliaPhone ： +61 2 42213012Fax ： +61 2 42215979

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