Research Success
Australian Research Council (ARC) and
National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) grants
Funding is to commence in 2008.
Melbourne Engineering is celebrating an extremely successful outcome in the recent awards of ARC and NHMRC grants commencing in 2008. We achieved a high success rate of 33% of applications submitted, well above last year's figure and above the University as a whole. We were awarded more than $12million. Congratulations to all those people listed below.
- ARC Discovery
- ARC Linkage
- ARC Linkage Infrastructure and Equipment Funding
- ARC Linkage International
- NHMRC success
- Dr James Bailey and Professor G Dong Comparative Analysis and exploration of collections of data clusterings (3 year project of $215,000 total funding from the ARC)
- Mr James Broberg and Prof Z Tari Coordinated and Cooperative Load Sharing between Content Delivery Networks (3 year project of $315,000 total funding from the ARC)
- A/Prof Rajkumar Buyya and Dr J Abawajy InterGrid: Peering Architecture and Policies for Internetworking Disparate Grids (3 year project of $216,000 total funding from the ARC)
- Professor Frank Caruso and Dr A Johnston Engineering and Assembly of Bioinspired Nanostructured Materials (5 year project of $1,675,000 total funding from the ARC)
- Dr Ray Dagastine Forces in high salt concentrations: from mineral processing to proteins (3 year project of $340,000 total funding from the ARC)
- A/Prof George Franks and Professor Peter Scales A new paradigm in near net-shape advanced ceramic component processing (3 year project of $319,000 total funding from the ARC)
- A/Prof Geoffrey Howlett, Professor Will Ducker and A/Prof Dave Dunstan Macromolecular Self-Assembly of Amyloid Fluids (3 year project of $428,000 total funding from the ARC)
- Dr C Kao, Complexity-manageable methodologies and efficient computational tools for analysis and design of large-scale systems (3 year project of $240,000 total funding from the ARC)
- Professor Rao Kotagiri, Dr L Kulik, Dr E Tanin, Dr R Zhang, Professor H Samet and Professor H Jagadish EPOS: Efficient Processing of Moving Object Streams in Data Management Systems (4 year project of $590,000 total funding from the ARC)
- Professor Alistair Moffat and Dr A Vo Static and Dynamic Query Pruning Techniques for Complex Text Retrieval Systems (3 year project of $242, 918 total funding from the ARC)
- Professor Bill Moran, Dr B La Scala, Dr I Clarkson, Professor B Quinn, Dr S Howard and Professor A Calderbank Information Geometry and Compressive Sensing for Radar and Communications (4 year project of $763,000 total funding from the ARC)
- Professor Marcus Pandy, Dr R Baker, Professor H Graham and Mr J Merritt Patient-specific Computational Tools for Diagnosing and Treating Gait Disorders in Children with Cerebral Palsy (3 year project of $350,000 total funding from the ARC)
- Dr William Shieh and Dr B Krongold Coherent Optical Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (3 year project of $240,000 total funding from the ARC)
- Professor Leon Stirling, Dr F Vetere and A/Prof S Howard Socially Oriented Requirements Engineering Software Engineering meets Ethnography (3 year project of $205,000 total funding from the ARC)
- Professor Doreen Thomas, Dr M Brazil and A/Prof Jamie Evans Optimal Deployment of Wireless Sensor Networks (3 year project $250,000 total funding from the ARC)
- Professor Rod Tucker and Dr K Hinton A Green Internet telecommunications technologies and their environmental impact (4 year project of $ 400,000 total funding from the ARC)
- Professor Jannie Van Deventer Gel interactions in geopolymers for sustainable construction (3 year project of $300,000 total funding from the ARC)
- A/Prof Jeff Walker, Professor J Kalma, Dr D Barrett, Professor R Gurney, Dr Y Kerr, Dr E Kim and Professor J Marshall MoistureMap: A soil moisture monitoring, prediction and reporting system for sustainable land and water management (4 year project of $910,000 total funding from the ARC)
- Dr Stephan Winter Intelligent Self-Organising Transport (3 year project of $165,000 total funding from the ARC)
- Dr R Zhang, Dr J Bailey and Professor Rao Kotagiri SeqSeeker: A search engine for large numbers of very long sequences (3 year project of $234,000 total funding from the ARC)
- A/Prof B Vo, Professor A Baddeley and A/Prof A Doucet Performance evaluation and characterization for filtering in multi-object system (3 year project of $270,000 total funding from the ARC)
- A/Prof B Vo and Professor D Suter Visual tracking of multiple objects: A stochastic geometrical approach (3 year project of $235,000 total funding from the ARC)
- Dr P Pivonka, professor T Martin and Dr C Dunstan Bone regulation cell interactions to disease (3 year project of $255,000 total funding from the ARC)
- Dr J Provis Geopolymers for nuclear applications (4 year project of $320,000 total funding from the ARC)
- Dr X Zhang Interfacial Nanofluids (3 year project of $362,000 total funding from the ARC)
- Dr G Shen Translucent Optical Networks: Architecture, Design, Operation and Survivability (3 year project of $235,944 total funding from the ARC)
- A/Prof S Dey; Dr B La Scala; Prof IM Mareels; Dr LS Irlicht; Mr L de Bever; Mr S Bone and Mr A Randall with Victorian Funds Management Corporation as Industry Partner- Robust Optimal Asset Liability Management via Stochastic Control Theory (3 year project of $153, 762 total funding from the ARC plus one Australian Postgraduate Award (Industry) (APAI))
- Prof Leon Sterling; Dr K Taveter and Dr KG Joshi with Jeppesen as Industry Partner- Agent-Based Simulation - New Approaches for Design and Prototyping (3 year project of $108,381 total funding from the ARC plus one (APAI))
- Prof JH Rubinstein; Dr MN Brazil and Prof Doreen Thomas with AMIRA International as Industry Partner- Rapid optimisation in underground mining network design (3 year project of $176,986 total funding from the ARC plus two (APAIs))
- Prof Ivan Marusic; Prof J Soria; Prof MS Chong; A/Prof A Ooi; Dr DR Honnery; Dr JP Monty; Dr N Hutchins and Dr CY Wong with Monash University - Three-Dimensional Optical Laser Velocimetry for the HRNBLWT (High Reynolds Number Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel) (430,000 total funding from the ARC)
- A/Prof GG Qiao; Prof F Caruso; Prof WA Ducker; Prof GP Simon; Prof WD Cook; Dr X Zhang; Dr AJ O'Connor; Prof GW Stevens; Dr A Blencowe; A/Prof GV Franks; Dr SE Kentish; Dr RR Dagastine; A/Prof DE Dunstan; Dr SA Bateman; Dr N Birbilis and Dr JS Forsythe with Monash University and the CSIRO - Polymer Characterization Facility (PCF) ($ 588,000 total funding from the ARC)
- A/Prof JP Walker; Prof W Moran; A/Prof JM Hacker; Prof CT Simmons; Prof DA Gray; A/Prof MJ Lynch and Dr L Ge with The Flinders University of South Australia, University of Adelaide, UNSW and Curtin University of Technology - High resolution airborne radar for environmental research: soil moisture, vegetation, salinity and terrain mapping ($400,000 total funding from the ARC)
- Associate Professor G Egan, Professor S Usui, Professor Z Cho and Dr Leigh Johnston – eResearch in the Neurosciences – Building Collaborations In Asia (3 year project of $34,000 total funding from the ARC)
- Dr Alison Kealy; Dr Stephan Winter; Dr GW Roberts and A/Prof G Retscher with Austria and the UK as collaborating countries - Smart Location Sensors for Emergency Responders (3 year project of $71,600 total funding from the ARC)
- Dr K Crossley; Dr R Hinman; Prof M Pandy; Dr A Schache; Prof B Vicenzino -
Patellofemoral arthritis: Efficacy of physiotherapy and understanding the role of joint stress
($592,100 total funding)