Our Research
The School of Computing and Mathematics within the Faculty of Business at Charles Sturt University is home to about 31 academic researchers as well as over 30 research higher degree students, working in the ICT and Mathematics disciplines. Our research focuses applied research in computing science, ICT security and applied mathematics and statistics which benefit the communities in our region. Our research staff have obtained nationally competitive grants from such as Australian Research Council (ARC) as well as industry and government agencies. And they published their research findings actively in leading national and international journal (most of our publications are searchable from CSU Research Output (CRO). Our research themes are highlighted through the Four Faculty Strategic Research Areas (SRA) within the Faculty:
- Computational Intelligence and Robotics
Leaders: Professor Junbin Gao and Dr Michael Antolovich - ICT Security
Leader: Dr Yeslam Al-Saggaf - Simulation and Modelling
Leaders: Professor Terry Bossomaier and Dr Ken Lodge - Mathematics and Statistics
Leader: Professor Ken Russell
Congratulations!
Congratulations on our staff Professor Junbin Gao, Dr Yeslam Al-Saggaf, Dr Manoranjan Paul and Dr Oliver Burmeister winning prestigious ARC research grants.
2013 ARC Discovery Projects
A probabilistic framework for nonlinear dimensionality reduction algorithms
Chief Investigators: Professor Junbin Gao and Professor Xia Hong (University of Reading, UK)
Grant: $210,000 From 2013 to 2015
Multiview video coding using cuboid data compression
Chief Investigators: Professor Mohammad Murshed (Monash University) and Dr Manoranjan Paul
Grant: $315,000 From 2013 to 2015
2013 ARC Linkage Project
Investigating which strategies are most effective in overcoming the ethical problems facing information and communications technology professionals
Chief Investigators: Dr Yeslam Al-Saggaf, Dr Oliver Burmeister, Professor John Weckert and John Ridge (Australian Computer Society)
Grant: $102,681.00 From 2013 to 2015
School in National News
- The Australian newspaper story Project investigates better ways of managing all aspects of complex data, 4th December 2012. The story describes Prof Junbin Gao's research on data dimensionality reduction.
- The Australian newspaper story Health checks go mobile, 23 July 2013. The story highlights Dr Tanveer Zia's recent research progress over wireless sensors network applied in health care.
- More stories on The Daily Advertiser Hi-tech plan to aid elderly and on ZDNet Health checks via smartphones, tablets on the way
Visitor(s)
- Professor Zhouchen Lin from Peking University of China visited the School (20 July - 17 August 2013).
National Competitive Research Projects in the Last 5 Years
| Project Name | Funding Body | Investigators | |
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DP130100364: A probabilistic framework for nonlinear dimensionality reduction algorithms
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ARC Discovery |
Prof Junbin Gao and Prof Xia Hong (Univ of Reading, UK) |
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DP130103670: Multiview video coding using cuboid data compression
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ARC Discovery |
Prof Manzur Murshed (Monash) and Dr. Manoranjan Paul |
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Investigating which strategies are most effective in overcoming the ethical problems facing information and communications technology professionals
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Linkage | Dr. Yeslam Al-Saggaf, Dr. Oliver Burmeister , Professor John Weckert and John Ridge (Australian Computer Society) |
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Crisis management simulation: developing a methodology for transforming communication response
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ARC Linkage | Prof John Carrol, Prof David Cameron,Dr. Jim Tulip, Z Hibbert, J Arciuli, and Prof Terry Bossomaier |
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Scenario driven management in a network environment Description: Scenario planning is the process of identifying plausible futures and their inherent risks. The organisation, the network within which it is embedded and the environment, in which the network operates, form a complex system of non-linear, dynamic interrelationships. This project will develop a continuous process of scenario planning, capturing learning about the future as it emerges. The project fuses the use of agents for intelligent data colleciton and negotiation with agent-based modelling to build powerful network-based scenario modelling systems for commercial applications. This outcome will place Australia on the frontier of smart information use. partner organisations: NCR Australia Pty Lrd and IMIA Centre for Strategic Business Studies Pty Ltd. |
ARC Linkage | Prof Denise Jarratt, Prof Terry Bossomaier , Dr HA Abbass and Prof R Fayed |
Government and Industrial Research Projects in the Last 5 Years
| Project Name | Funding Source | Investigators | |
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WAREIGS: Wavelet-Network-Based Augmented-Reality-Enhanced Image-Guided Surgery
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ACSRF, Australian Government | Prof Junbin Gao, Dr. Michael Antolovich, Prof Terry Bossomaier , Dr. Manoranjan Paul, Dr. Paul Kwan (UNE) and Professor Daming Shi (Univ of Middlesex, UK) |
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An evaluation of nurse practitioners – aged care models of care program in Australia
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DoHA, Australian Government | Dr Azizur Rahman |
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Investigation of Imaging Techniques to Determine Muck Pile Ore Fragment Size In-Situ
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Newcrest Mining Australia | Dr. Michael Antolovich and Prof Junbin Gao |
Selected Other Research Projects in the Last 5 Years
| Project Name | Funding Source | Investigators | |
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The threats from Data Mining on the privacy of a Facebook User
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Faculty Compact | Dr. Yeslam Al-Saggaf and Dr. Zahid Islam |
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Efficient design for Generalised Linear Models
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Prof Ken Russell | |
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A Concurrent Hybrid Approach to Secure Computer Systems
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CSU Competitive | Maumita Bhattacharya and Xiaodi Huang |
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Twin Measure Framework for Dimensionality reduction
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CSU Competitive | Prof Junbin Gao and Dr David Tien |
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3D Video Coding
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Faculty Compact | Dr. Manoranjan Paul |
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Computational Intelligence for Anomaly Detection in Networks: An Investigation
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Faculty Compact | Dr. Maumita Bhattacharya and Dr. Tanveer Zia |
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Efficient Low-resolution Image Segmentation
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Faculty Compact | Dr. Lihong Zheng and Prof Junbin Gao |
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Agent Detections for Video Surveillance from Challenging Environment
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Faculty Compact | Dr. Manoranjan Paul |
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An analytical study of IT Security Governance (ITSG) in Australian organisations from international perspectives
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Faculty Compact | Dr. Tanveer Zia and Dr. Maumita Bhattacharya |
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Understanding the movement of mobile nutrients in a drip irrigated vineyard with a clay loam soil
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Dr Philip Charlton | |
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“Image Texture Segmentation Based on Wigner Distribution in a Fractional Fourier Domain
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Faculty Compact | Prof Junbin Gao, Dr. Michael Antolovich, Dr. Manoranjan Paul, Dr. Jim Tulip and Dr. David Tien |
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Difference equations and the problem of integrability
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Faculty Compact | Dr Dmitry Demskoy |
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2D mesh refinement implementation in OpenFoam
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Faculty Compact | Dr Zhenquan Li and |
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Statistical analysis of near infrared spectrometry
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Ms Sharon Nielsen and | |
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Small area estimation of housing stress in Australia
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Faculty Compact | Dr Azizur Rahman |
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Improving student performance and engagement in mathematics and statistics through video-based resources Description: Different video-based resources for mathematics and statistics have been developed. This project looks at how effective they are through student surveys, usage data and correlation to marks. In particular, we are interested in how the effect varies across the different mode of study (internal, hybrid and distance). |
Ms Kerrie Cullis, Ms Sharon Nielsen, Dr Michael Kemp and Dr Robert Wood |
PhD Research in Computational Intelligence and Robotics
- Projects in Machine Learning, Data Mining, Computer Vision, Image Analysis, Feature Representation and Learning – Email Professor Junbin Gao
- Projects in Robotics and Machine Vision – Email Dr Michael Antolovich
- Projects in Simulations, Complexity Analysis and Agent-based Modelling – Email Professor Terry Bossomaier
- Projects in Genetic Algorithms, Evolution Algorithm, Artificial Intelligence – Email Dr Maumita Bhattacharya
- Projects in Data Mining, Data Modelling and Data Security Issues – Email Dr Zahid Islam
- Projects in Visualization, Online Social Network Analysis, Internet of Things – Email Dr Xiaodi Huang
- Projects in Video Coding, Video Compression, Computer Vision, Multimedia – Email Dr Manoranjan Paul
- Projects in Spatial Information and Image Processing – Email Dr David Tien
- Projects in Pattern Recognition, Image Processing and Computer Games – Email Dr Jim Tulip
- Projects in Image Processing, Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision – Email Dr Lihong Zheng
PhD Research in ICT Security
- Data Protection in Social Networks Sites - Email Dr Yeslam Al-Saggaf
- Network behaviour analysis – Email Dr Lihong Zheng
- Privacy Preserving Data Mining –
- Privacy Preserving Trust Models for Business to Business Communication – Email Dr Zahid Islam
- Redefining information security metrics to increase the maturity level of security processes –
- Designing deployable information security standards –
- Security issues in an increasing interconnected world of large-scale IT infrastructures –
- Closing the gap between users mental model of the information security system and the reality of the system –
- Data breach prevention strategies for smart devices - Email Dr Tanveer Zia
- Computational Intelligence for Network Security - Email Dr Maumita Bhattacharya
- Privacy Preserving Data Summarisation -
- Big Data Mining -
Email Dr Mohammed Kaosar
PhD Research in Math and Statistics
- Optimising computations for adaptive designs for clinical trials - Email Prof Ken Russell
- A virtual laboratory for gravitational wave data analysis -
- Integrated mapping and modeling of water and carbon footprints of agroecosystems - Email Dr Philip Charlton
- Krylov subspace methods - Email Dr Michael Kemp
- Implementation of a two-dimensional mesh refinement method and its applications in fluid flows -
- Implementation of a three-dimensional mesh refinement method and its applications in fluid flows -
- Modelling shallow fluid dynamics and their numerical simulations - Email Dr Zhenquan Li
- Small Area Estimation of Housing Stress in Australia -
- A Bayesian reweighting technology for spatial microdata simulation -
- Socio-demographic and spatial inequalities in early childhood health, developments and the school readiness of Australian children - Email Dr Azizur Rahman
Welcome to our Honours Program
Our research staff offer a range of Honours projects for undergraduate students to pursue their research career. Please contact relevant supervisors for project details:
- Threats to personal information in Social Networks Sites -
- Invading privacy at country level: the case of Google - Email Dr Yeslam Al-Saggaf
- Secure the cloud –
- Dimension reduction in image analysis –
- Image retrieval and object detection – Email Dr Lihong Zheng
- Business to Business collaboration while hiding sensitive information –
- A Novel Decision Tree Algorithm for Extraction of Hidden Patterns that are Generally Missed Out by Existing Algorithms –
- Complexity Reduction of Artificial Neural Network Algorithms – Email Dr Zahid Islam
- Vulnerability patching in smart phones – Email Dr Tanveer Zia
- Visualize facebook –
- A novel application of Internet of things – Email Dr Xiaodi Huang
- Biologically inspired computation for anomaly detection –
- Very High Dimensional Function Optimisation: A Meta heuristics Approach –
- Financial Fraud Detection: A Computational Intelligence Approach – Email Dr Maumita Bhattacharya
- LTSA-based Image Matting Algorithm –
- Image Filtering with Local Tangent Space Alignment – Email Professor Junbin Gao
- Human/Car detection for video surveillance and security –
- Mind reading through eye tracker – Email Dr Manoranjan Paul
- Measuring information flow in herding phenomena in economics and finance – Email Professor Terry Bossomaier
- Usability requirements for the use of Natural User Interface controls in mobile computing devices – Email Dr Michael Antolovich
- Krylov subspace methods for linear ODE systems – Email Dr Michael Kemp
- Mobile gaming power consumption –
- Opponent Simulation in Computer Games – Email Dr Jim Tulip
Our Research Environment
The academic and research staff within the School enjoy several dedicated lab facilities established under the Australian Research Infrastructure Block Grants (RIBG).
High Performance Computing Facilities
- Research computer system maintained by Spatial Data Analysis Network (SPAN) at Charles Sturt University. The system is configured as 4 x 8 core Intel E7-8837 Xeon processors, 512 Gbytes of RAM, 23 Terrabytes of disk storage, and installed licensed software such as Mathworks Matlab which is critical to the research staff in the School.
Labs
- Mining Research Lab
- 3G Visualization Lab
- Computer Vision Lab
- Robotics Lab
- Intelligent Learning Systems Lab
- High Performance Computing Lab
- Advanced Network Lab
- Research Issues:
Professor Junbin Gao (Chair of the School Research Committee)
Email jbgao@csu.edu.au, phone/Fax: +61 2 6338 4213 - PhD/DIT Research Issues:
Dr Tanveer Zia (PhD Program Coordinator)
Email: tzia@csu.edu.au, phone/Fax: +61 2 6933 2024 - Honours Research Issues
Dr Zahid Islam (Honours Program Coordinator)
Email: zislam@csu.edu.au, phone/Fax: +61 2 6338 4214
























