Information and Systems (engineering)

Working across disciplines to enable society to understand, shape, and adapt to the disruptions caused by the stream of new data sources and information technologies.

The Information and Systems Engineering ECP is RMIT’s Platform for Interdisciplinary Information Innovation. The explosion in new information and communication technologies, sensors, data streams, and automation present new challenges and opportunities to society every day. The ISE ECP is connecting world-leading research and researchers from multiple disciplines with governments, businesses, and citizens in responding to challenges and opportunities that change brings.

Our Vision

Professor Matt Duckham, Director, RMIT Information and Systems (Engineering) ECP

We are working with government, industry, and citizens to meet the opportunities and challenges that arise from the explosion of new information technologies and data streams, always looking to the next wave of change.

Creating impact in the community

Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Network

A Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Network (CBBN) has been established at RMIT and is connecting with external networks and industry to support collaborative research partnerships and funding applications for future research programs. This project includes a focus on accelerating research opportunities and outcomes in glycoinformatics – a relatively new field of bioinformatics that studies the structure, actions and interactions of carbohydrates.

Intelligent building asset management system

RMIT is partnering with a leading property compliance firm and a major inner metropolitan council to develop and trial a new generation intelligent building asset management and inspection system. The new system combines predictive modelling software with integrated data capture and analytical technologies, including automated sensors. It has the potential to reduce building inspection times by 50 per cent and accurately predict which buildings to prioritise for maintenance or renewal.

Research and innovation priorities

Big data, telecommunications, and sensors

Focusing on data capture, collation and analysis and telecommunications. This area encompasses:

radio frequency and microwave systems;
wireless, optical, mobile and satellite networks;
sensing and gathering data;
big data storage, retrieval, and analysis;
signal/image processing; and
big data visualisation and insight.

Energy modelling and analytics

This area focuses on modelling control and analytics of advanced and renewable energy sources, and its usage with maximum efficiency, minimum losses and reduced greenhouse gas emissions.

Cyber security

Focusing on protecting the profusion of computational systems in our society. This encompasses all aspects of cyber security, including:

hardware and software development;
privacy and detecting intrusion;
systems design;
management; and
public policy.

Automation and intelligence

This area focuses on how to understand and exploit data.

It covers using data-focused computational and mathematical tools to optimally design, predictively model, prescriptively simulate, and intelligently control the operation of complex cyber and physical systems.

ECP Post-COVID-19 Restart Initiatives

Along with harnessing existing research networks and projects to respond to COVID-19, RMIT’s Enabling Capability Platforms (ECPs) launched five cross-platform initiatives in June 2020 to address various key areas for post COVID-19 recovery.

Find out more about our restart initiatives