Departmental News 2009
2009-12-17: The deptartment's top undergrad students were announced by HoD Prof. Tanja Mitrovic. Each student received book vouchers. Congratulations to the winners!
The top students were:
- Joel Harrison (1st year)
- Myse Ali Elmadani (2nd year)
- Joseph Scarr (3rd year)
2009-12-04: Four papers written by ICTG were presented at the 17th International Conference on Computers in Education ICCE 2009, in Hong Kong from Nov 30 -Dec 4. PhD student Moffat Mathews and MSc students David Thomson and Jay Holland presented papers in the main conference, while PhD student Sagaya Amalathas presented a workshop paper. Tanja Mitrovic was the program co-chair of one of the six tracks of the conference, on Artificial Intelligence in Education. ICTG team also presented a full-day tutorial on Constraint-based tutoring systems.
2009-12-04: MSc student David Thomson was awarded a Merit scholarship by the APSCE society for his ICCE 2009 paper, based on his Honours project. Well done, David!
2009-12-01: Prof. Tanja Mitrovic takes over as Head of Department.
2009-12-01: Assoc. Prof. Tim Bell takes over as Deputy Head of Department.
2009-11-11: PVC Jan Evans-Freeman presented the Young Researcher Award 2009 to Dr Brent Martin.
2009-11-06: The 2nd PlanetLab New Zealand Workshop on Next Generation Networks and Future Internet: Research and Experimentation, organized by Prof. Krys Pawlikowski and Prof. Harsha Sirisena, was held in the Department. More information is available on the PlanetLab NZ website.
2009-09-08: PhD student Ray Hidayat presented at the 20th British Machine Vision Conference held in London from 7-10 Sep 2009. His presentation is available online.
2009-07-02: Two PhD scholarships available for attending research conferences on new networking technologies.
PhD students interested in research projects related with new networking technologies (such as NGN, NGI and Future Internet) or global experimental networking infrastructures (such as PlanetLab, Geni, OneLab, etc.) can become members the Network Research Laboratory working on PlanetLab NZ and be qualified for travel scholarships which would allow them to attend related international research conferences. The goal of these travel grants is to help students with preparation of their PhD research proposals. Two such scholarships are available. Applications can be considered at any time, but the scholarships need to be taken not later than the end of 2010.
The list of the relevant conferences includes
- GEC6 (6th GENI Engineering Conference, November 16-18, 2009, in Salt Lake, UT, USA)
- IEEE INFOCOM 2010 (March 15-19, 2010, in San Diego, CA, USA)
- GEC7 (7th GENI Engineering Conference, March 16-18, 2010, in Chapel Hill, NC, USA)
- TridentCom 2010 (6th International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for Development of Networks and Communities, May 18-20, 2010, in Berlin, Germany).
- ICC 2010 (IEEE International Conference on Communucations, in Cape Town, South Africa 23-27 May 2010.)
- ACM SIGCOMM 2010 (New Delhi, India, August 30 - September 3, 2010).
Potential applicants should contact Prof. Krys Pawlikowski <krys.pawlikowski at canterbury.ac.nz> for more information.
2009-01-20 MSc Scholarship for research on “Dynamic Optimisation of Wireless Sensor Networks”.
An MSc Scholarship is available* in the area of wireless sensor networks. Please submit a CV which indicates degree held, grade point average and any courses or experience relevant to the described research programme along with the contact details of two referees. Please also include your academic transcript(s). Expressions of interest should be emailed to Prof. Krys Pawlikowski <krys.pawlikowski@canterbury.ac.nz> and Ms Lisa-Marie Brooks <lm.brooks@nzi3.com>.
The project will focus on techniques which ensure that a wireless sensor network is optimised, through dynamic re-configuration, when its structure is changed e.g. through the failure or addition of sensors. For example, one mechanism may follow a basic self-healing process where the sensor rejoins to a nearby available router if its current router is removed from the network. However how can we determine that this mechanism was the best choice? It may be that in such a scenario the solution provides the highest quality of service, but perhaps that route is overloaded with traffic and it would therefore be better to join another router with less traffic? What node on the network would be best placed to make this decision, the coordinator or the sensor itself?
Deadline for applications is 12 noon (NZ local time) on Friday 6th February.
This MSc project would be administered by NZi3 (the National ICT Innovation Institute) and the University of Canterbury. The Institute is a hothouse of strategic ICT research that aims to move ideas from the lab, across the innovation gap, into industry. In order to apply for this scholarship, applicants should hold or expect to obtain an Honours degree or higher in Electrical and Computer Engineering or Computer Science & Software Engineering or an equivalent discipline and be eligible to register for Masters study in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at the University of Canterbury. In addition, applicants must be New Zealand citizens, or have an appropriate New Zealand visa to study in New Zealand, or must be able to obtain this before taking up the scholarship. A scholarship for up to NZ$30k* will be supplied for up to 18 months.
(*) Please note that this project may be subject to funding approval once a suitable student has been identified.
If you have any questions about this exciting opportunity, please email Prof. Krys Pawlikowski <krys.pawplikowski@canterbury.ac.nz> or Ms Lisa-Marie Brooks <lm.brooks@nzi3.com>. Ms Lisa-Marie Brooks can be also contacted by phone at (03) 364 2987 ext. 4895 (or +64 3364 2987 ext. 4895, if you call from overseas).