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 which include highly qualified and experienced academics staff, research fellows, postdoctoral fellows and many talented and motivated postgraduate research students.

Discipline groups

• Distributed Systems and Networking
• Intelligent Systems
• Distributed Software Engineering and Architecture
• Information Storage, Analysis and Retrieval

Postgraduate research degrees at Computer Science and IT

• DR033 Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
• MR047 Master of Applied Science (Computer Science) (Research)
• GC110 Graduate Certificate in Computer Science Research

Research publications

• 2006 research publications (PDF 60kb 9p)
• 2005 research publications (PDF 61kb 10p)
• 2004 research publications (PDF 61kb 8p)

Awards:

• 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.
  
  
• 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 3 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.

Other links

• Research scholarships and tutorships
• Annual Research Students' Conference
• Technical reports
• Intranet: Staff | Students

Contact

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