Computer Science and IT research specialties
The School of Computer Science and IT has internationally recognised strengths in both applied and theoretical research. Research activities are organised within four key disciplines groups which include highly qualified and experienced academic staff, research fellows, postdoctoral fellows and many talented and motivated postgraduate research students.
Research publications
Awards:
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Dr. Mingfang Wu, Dr. Andrew Turpin and Professor Justin Zobel won the Best Paper Award at the 2008 Australasian Computer Science Conference. The paper described experiments evaluating how different users click on search results in web search engines after issuing identical queries.
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Professor Lin Padgham won the 2007 RMIT Vice-Chancellor's Award for Research Excellence. Since joining RMIT in 1995, Professor Padgham has built a very strong research group in the area of Intelligent Systems which now involves some 14 RMIT staff and 20 research students.
In presenting the award, Vice-Chancellor Margaret Gardner said that during the past three years Professor Padgham had published more than 26 refereed papers and a monograph on 'Developing Intelligent Agent Systems', been very successful in Australian Research Council grants since 1999 and in particular has secured three Discovery and three Linkage grants in the past three years, collaborated across RMIT, outside her own School and Portfolio, in winning Linkage grants and been very active professionally as editor for two premium international journals in Software Engineering and contributed to the organisation of a wide range of prestigious international conferences.
- In 2006 Kwong Yuen Lai was awarded the Australasian Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award. Dr. Kwong Lai was supervised by Professor Zahir Tari and Dr. Peter Bertok.
- In 2004 the award was won by another PhD candidate of the School – Dr. James Brusey, supervised by Professor Lin Padgham.
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Research Programs Administrator
Email: research@cs.rmit.edu.au
Tel: +61 3 9925 2287
Fax: +61 3 9662 1617
Postal address: GPO Box 2476V, Melbourne VIC 3001
