Achievements
Recent Research Achievements of ICS PhD and MSc students
Electronic Engineering Department
Peter Blockley
Ghaffer Kiani
- Research in wireless security read news article on wireless security
- Mobile Telephony in Pakistan The Dawn
- Blocking the Wireless Internet Hackers Macquarie Globe
Computing Department
Anders Tychsen
- The winner of the Dean's Prize for the best 2005 Research Student Seminar Series is Anders Tychsen, for his presentation "The Game Master- Collaborative Storytelling in Multi Player Computer Games". Anders was presented with a cheque for $500 in the Division Scholarships and Prizes Ceremony.
- Recipient of the Vice-Chancellor' Commendation for outstanding performance in the competitive Macquarie University Postgraduate Research Fund Round and recipient of extra funding granted for research project.
Bhavani Palyagar
Improving Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) processes in software
development organizations has become a necessity for providing maximum value to customers. Requirements Engineering (RE) processes form a critical phase of the SDLC. Unfortunately, the current RE process improvement models do not provide measurement, thus forcing RE processes to be at a lower maturity level compared to other SDLC processes. Bhavani's research addresses this problem with the help of a measurement- based RE improvement framework that has been tested for correctness in large software organizations. Bhavani's publications are:
- A Framework for Validating Requirements Engineering Process
Improvements
http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~bpalyaga/papers/palyagar_RE%20Final%20CRC.pdf - Measuring and Influencing Requirements Engineering Process Quality in Organizations
http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~bpalyaga/papers/palyagar_b.pdf - Towards Improving RE Processes: Prioritizing RE Process Gaps for
Elimination
http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~bpalyaga/papers/AWRE05_22Nov2005.pdf - A Communication Protocol for Requirements Engineering Processes http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~bpalyaga/papers/REFSQ05.pdf
- Capturing and Reusing Rationale Associated with Requirements Engineering Process Improvement: A Case Study
http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~bpalyaga/papers/RESG_Final_Nov2005.doc - Validating Requirements Engineering Process Improvements - A Case Study
http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~bpalyaga/papers/REV-IEEE-RE06.pdf - A Practical Estimation Method for Complex RE
http://www.ics.mq.edu.au/~bpalyaga/papers/APSEC06.pdf
Alex Ng
Alex's paper, submitted to the special IJBPIM issue on Middleware for Web Services (MWS) was selected for the "Most Promising Research" award sponsored by the National Information and Communications Technology Australia.
Megan Vazey
- Winner of the Dean's Prize for the best Postgraduate Research Student Seminar in sem 2, 2006.
- Postgraduate Innovation Award, Megan Vazey and Dr Debbie Richards for "A Collaborative Classification Software Solution"
Brett Watson
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The winner of the Dean's Prize for the best 2006, sem 1 Research Student Seminar Series Brett Watson, for his presentation "Organised Crime in Your Inbox"
Physics Department
Martin Ams
- Journal Paper A report about both theoretical and experimental results of a slit beam shaping configuration for fabricating photonic waveguides by use of femtosecond laser pulses. The method supports focusing objectives with a long depth of field and allows the direct-writing of microstructures with circular cross-sections whilst employing a perpendicular writing scheme. This technique is applied to write low loss (0.39 dB/cm), single mode waveguides in phosphate glass.
- The Physicist Vol 40 number 4
- What's New in Electronics - the light at the end of the tunnel
- The Macquarie Researcher
- The Australian IT newspaper article, 2005
- Martin Ams came in a close second for his presentation "Optical Wave Guides in Glass" in the 2005 Research Student Seminar Series.
Luke Stewart
- Nature paves the way towards next generation computer chips Luke Stewart is currently conducting research on self-assembled photonic crystal devices. His work is an important part of the research being undertaken by the Centre for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS), a collaborative venture combining the expertise of researchers at the CSIRO and five Australian universities including Macquarie, and the Centre for Lasers and Applications (CLA). The collective goal of the CUDOS team is to produce a miniaturised photonic chip - the basis of the next generation of optical systems.
Jin Da Yong
- The Macquarie Researcher - Biotechnology Frontiers
- Innovation in Research: Time-gated luminescence fluorophores and instrumentation - Russell Connally, Dayong Jin, Peter Dekker, Hamish Ogilvy with John Funnell (METS).
- Invention Disclosure: Low-cost, portable and accurate flow cytometer
Dayong Jin and Russell Connally. - Postgraduate Innovation Award: Time-gated luminescence flow cytometer Dayong Jin, Russell Connally and Jim Piper.
- The Macquarie Researcher - Fluorescence
- Saving Lives with Lasers
Lesa Moore
- I'm studying low surface brightness galaxies in the Virgo Cluster. My research is based primarily on an ultra-deep image of the centre of the Virgo Cluster of galaxies, made by scanning and adding together 63 photographic films to produce one highly detailed computer image. I was awarded two nights of observing time on the 8-metre Gemini North telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii (23 rd and 24 th March 2006). I hoped to use this time to make follow-up observations of some of the galaxies to find out if they are in the cluster or if they are much more distant background objects. Unfortunately, the weather was bad and I was not able to make any observations. I did, however, get to see the telescope: http://www.physics.mq.edu.au/~lmoore/Hawaii/hawaii.html
- For aerial photos of the summit of Mauna Kea, visit: http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/images/aerial-tour/aerial-tour.html
Andrew Lee
- With the growing demand for component miniaturisation and speed, there has been growing interest in the development of all-optical processing devices. The success of these devices relies on robust and efficient fabrication methods, which may be easily applied and integrated with existing frameworks. Andrew's research within the Center for Ultrahigh-Bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS) and the Centre for Lasers and Applications (CLA) has been focused on the use of lasers and the development of ancillary processes for the purposes of fabricating optical structures within existing devices such as optical fibres and planar waveguides.
- Journal Publications:
- A. J. lee, M. J. Withford, J. M. Dawes, "Direct-write nanosecond laser microstructuring of heat shrinkable films," Appl. Phys. A ., vol. 80, pp. 1447-1449, 2005. (attached: Alee1.pdf)
- A. J. Lee, M. J. Withford, J. M. Dawes, "Investigation into the power-law dependence of fibre Bragg grating growth," Opt. Comm, vol. 257, pp. 261-269, 2006. (attached: Alee2.pdf)
- Winner of the 2003 Australian Institute of Physics (AIP) postgraduate physics prize for a talk titled: "Direct-write laser nanofabrication of photonic crystal circuitry,". Featured in Campus Review, Jan 28, 2004, and in Postgrad and Beyond http://www.postgradandbeyond.mq.edu.au/enewsletter/05-science/issue_5_stories/story4.htm
- Was featured on the cover page of "The Physicist", August/September, 2003, Vol. 40, No. 4 (attached: Alee3.pdf)
- Interviewed for "Size Matters" broadcast on 2SER 107.3 , 9:30-10:30am (November 3rd), 2005.
Patrick Chen
- Commercial Innovation Award: BluGlass Limited - Scott Butcher, Marie Wintrebert-Fouquet, Patrick Chen (Macquarie University); David Jordan, Michael Taverner, Greg Cornelsen, Chandra Kantamneni
(BluGlass Ltd); Tony Crimmins and George Sim (Winning Corporate
Services Pty Ltd); Warren Bailey and team (Access Macquarie Limited).
Mathematics Department
Elango Panchadcharam http://www.maths.mq.edu.au/~elango/
Journal Papers:
- On centres and lax centres for promonoidal categories http://perso.wanadoo.fr/vbm-ehr/ChEh/articles/Street.pdf . This is a joint paper with Dr. Brain Day, and Professor Ross Street. This was submitted to the International Conference of the hundredth anniversary of Charles Ehresmann's birth ( http://perso.wanadoo.fr/vbm-ehr/ChEh/ ). Abstract of this paper will appear on the journal " Cahiers de Topologie et Geometrie Differentielle Categoriques " Volume XLVI-3 .
- Lax braidings and the lax centre http://rutherglen.ics.mq.edu.au/~street/Laxcentre.pdf This is a joint paper with Dr. Brain Day, and Professor Ross Street. It was accepted by the American Mathematical Society and will appear in " Contemporary Mathematics ". In this paper we highlight the notions of lax braidings and lax centre for monoidal categories and more generally for promonoidal categories. We show that some times the lax centre and centre coincide. We identify lax centres of monoidal functor categories in varies cases.