Research Grants

UTS:Information Technology has achieved a record number of research grants in recent years. Grants awarded for 2009 are:

ARC Discovery Projects

Associate Professor Longbing Cao and Professor Chengqi Zhang
"Discovering Activity Patterns Driven by High Impacts in Heterogenous and Imbalanced Data"
ARC Discovery Project - $328,000

Professor Massimo Piccardi
"Automatic Recognition of Human Activity in Surveillance Videos: Overcoming the Curse of Dimensionality"
ARC Discovery Project - $235,000

Dr Shichao Zhang
"Multiple Data Source Discovery: Group Interaction Approach"
ARC Discovery Project - $410,000

ARC Linkage Projects

Associate Professor Longbing Cao, Professor Chengqi Zhang and Dr W Wang
"Pattern Analysis and Risk Control of e-Commerce Transactions to Secure Online Payment"
ARC Linkage Project - $330,000

For 2007 to 2009 the following grants have been awarded:

ARC Discovery Projects

Dr Longbing Cao
"Domain-Driven Actionable Link Discovery"
ARC Discovery Project - $225,000

Professor John Gero
"Situated Design Computing: A New Paradigm to Support Design"
ARC Discovery Project - $515,000

UTS Early Career Researcher Grants

Dr Qiang Wu
"Posture Invariant Human Detection under Complex Situations"
UTS Early Career Research Grant - $24,852

Dr Madhu Goyal
"Development of Fuzzy Attitudes Based Software Agents for Automated Auctions"
UTS Early Career Research Grant - $25,000

UTS Chancellors's Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

Associate Professor Sean He
"A Novel and Fast Text Detection System from Outdoor Scene Video"

Grants were awarded in previous years in the following former research strength areas:

Distributing Knowledge and Intelligence

Human-Computer Systems

Networking and Mobility

Software Engineering

Visual Information Processing