SPACE awards and patents

SPACE awards and patents

List of awards and patents in the SPACE research centre.

Awards

  • Dr Brett Carter and Dr Jos Campbell have been awarded Victorian Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in 2013
  • Professor Kefei Zhang was awarded the Research Excellence Award from RMIT in 2013
  • Professor Kefei Zhang was awarded for the highest research income in public sector grants in 2012 at the Platform Technologies Research Institute (PTRI) Planning Day
  • Professor Kefei Zhang won $2.8 million Space Research Program project in 2010
  • Erjiang Fu was awarded Student Travel Fund at the 2010 OPAC Austria International Conference
  • Ming Zhu was awarded Research Student Travel fund from RMIT Graduate School for attending IPIN and LBS international conference
  • Suqin Wu received 2008 US ION GNSS Conference Student Paper Competition Awards and Travel Fund
  • Ms Sue-Lynn Choy was shortlisted for Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship 2008
  • PhD students, Ming Zhu and Erjiang Fu, received 2007 US ION GNSS Conference Student Paper Competition Awards and Travel Fund
  • Erjiang Fu was awarded the Best Student Paper at the 2007 CPGPS Conference
  • Professor Kefei Zhang was elected as 2007 President of the Chinese Professionals in Global Positioning Systems (CPGPS)
  • Professor Kefei Zhang was awarded a “visiting program of outstanding scientist“ programme to Hubei province during 2006 – 2007

Patents

  • Monitoring sports (USPTO Application No: 20060212271, Class 702188000), Zhang, Kefei and Grenfell, Ron
  • Monitoring Sports and Swimming (Australian Application Number: 2006222730, Applicant: SportZco Pty Ltd), Davey, Neil, Grenfell, Ronald, James, Daniel, Mackintosh, Colin, Zhang, Kefei
  • Monitoring Sports (Australian Application Number: 2006222732, Applicant: SportZco Pty Ltd), Davey, Neil, Grenfell, Ronald, James, Daniel, Mackintosh, Colin, Zhang, Kefei
  • Method of determining a position of a global positioning system receiver, full patent (No.2005220178, application filed on 4 October 2005), co-inventor
  • Autonomous real-time GPS (ARTGPS), Australian provisional patent applications (No. 2004906382, 2004) , Zhang, J., Zhang, K. and Grenfell, R
  • Monitoring sports, European Patent Office (Patent No. 03769038.5-2318-AU0301430, date of filing - 31 Oct, 2003), Zhang, K. etc.
  • Monitoring water sports performance (United States Patent 7272499), Grenfell, Ronald, Zhang, Kefei, Mackintosh, Colin, James, Daniel, Davey, Neil.
  • Monitoring Sports (European Patent EP1562680), Grenfell, Ronald, Zhang, Kefei, Mackintosh, Colin, James, Daniel, Davey, Neil.
  • Monitoring on water sports, Australian provisional patent applications 2002952407 (filed 1st Nov. 2002) and 2003903123 (filed 23rd June 2003)
  • Monitoring sports Method of determining a position of a global positioning receiver, International patent application (application No: WO 2004/039462 A1, application filed in Nov 2002 and June 2003), Grenfell, R., Zhang, K., Mackintosh, C. James, D. and Davey, N.
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