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Internal Grants Awarded in 2008

Research Development Scheme 2009

Applicant Faculty Project Amount
Dr. Alan Colman ICT A platform for validating adaptive service compositions $17,000.00
Dr. Darren Croton ICT Fourteen billion years of galaxy evolution in the Swinburne Supercomputer $13,000.00
Dr. Ihab El-Katatny EIS Hybrid scaffold modelling and fabrication using electrospinning for tissue engineering application $26,000.00
Dr. Lara Grollo LSS Exploiting the information inherent in the binding sites of dengue-fever-virus specific antibodies from patients who have cleared infection to establish an antigenic map of the viral glycoprotein that could be used in the design of both vaccines and anti-viral therapies $26,000.00
Dr. Peter Mahon LSS Hyperspectral imaging applied to concentration profiling in electrochemical systems at the microscopic level $19,641.00
Dr. Akbar Rhamdhani EIS Spontaneous droplet explosion during liquid-metal processing $17,521.00
Dr. Tracy Ruan EIS Low velocity impact response of metallic honeycomb and foam sandwich panels $15,000.00
Dr. Minh Hong Tran ICT Social context: supporting context-aware automotive telematics systems $14,000.00
Dr. Ben Williams LSS Human timing systems and emotion regulation $12,000.00

Special Studies Program 2009

Applicant
Faculty
Host Institution
Project Title
Funding Amount
Ali Bab-Hadiashar EIS University of Copenhagen, DENMARK Computer-aided assessment of COPD from CT images $5,000 + $5,000 teaching relief
Nanette Carter Design University of Melbourne, AUSTRALIA 'Do it yourself': The making of the modernist home in Australia 1946-1966 $5k + $5k teaching relief
Duncan Forbes ICT McMaster Uni, CANADA Near-field cosmology with globular clusters $5,000 + $5,000 teaching relief
Billy Todd ICT RMIT & Griffith Uni, AUSTRALIA Nonequlibrium molecular dynamics: Theory, algorithms and applications $5,000 + $5,000 teaching relief
Ian De Vere Design Aalborg University, DENMARK Research and scholarly work in global innovation management and product design engineering $5k + $5k teaching relief


Visiting Distinguished Researcher Awards 2009 round 1 (Jan 09 - Dec 09)

Swinburne Applicant Faculty Visiting Distinguished Researcher Home Institute
Alex Babanin EIS Prof. Georgui Golitsyn Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics, RUSSIA
Matthew Bailes ICT Assoc. Prof. Ingrid Stairs University of British Columbia, CANADA
Min Gu EIS Dr. Daniel Jaque Garcia Universidad Antonoma de Madrid, SPAIN
Pat Johnston LSS Prof. Patricia Michie University of Newcastle, AUSTRALIA
Ryszard Kowalczyk ICT Dr. Matthias Klusch German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence, GERMANY
Chengfei Liu ICT Prof. Guoren Wang Northeastern University, CHINA
Yos Morsi/Masood EIS Prof. Xiumei Mo Donghua University, CHINA
Feng Wang ICT Prof. Paolo Carloni International School for Advanced Studies, ITALY
Yun Yang ICT Prof. Leon Osterweil University of Massachusetts, USA



Visiting Professor Award Scheme - 2008 Round 2

Swinburne Applicant Faculty Visiting Professor Home Institution Amount Awarded
Prof Geoffrey Brooks EIS Visiting Professor Gordon Irons McMaster University, Canada $6k + $250 Catering
Dr Jarrod Robert Hurley ICT Visiting Professor William E. Harris McMaster University, Canada $6k + $250 Catering
Prof Klaus Dietrich Neumann LSS Visiting Professor Jeffrey K Olick University of Virginia, USA $6k + $250 Catering
Dr Kathy Arthurson LSS Visiting Professor Elizabeth Shove Lancaster University, UK $6k + $250 Catering


Internal Grants Awarded in 2007

Visiting Professor Award Scheme - 2008 Round 1

Swinburne Applicant Faculty Visiting Professor Home Institution Amount Awarded
Dr Alexander Vladimirovitch Babanin FE&IS Professor Vladimir Zakharov University of Arizona, US $6k + $250 catering
Prof Matthew Bailes / Dr Willem van Straten FICT Professor Kramer Jodrell Bank Observatory, UK $6k + $250 catering
Prof John Beynon FE&IS Professor Robert H. Wagoner Ohio State University, US $6k + $250 catering
Prof Jun Han FICT Professor van Vliet Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands $6k + $250 catering
A/Prof Elena Ivanova FLSS Professor Hartmut Laatsch Georg-August-University, Gottingen, Germany $6k + $250 catering
A/Prof Chengfei Liu FICT Professor Sheth Wright State University, US $6k + $250 catering
Dr Michael Thomas Murphy FICT Professor Robert F. Carswell University of Cambridge, UK $6k + $250 catering
A/Prof Feng Wang FICT Professor Xiang-Jun Chen University of Science and Technology, China $6k + $250 catering
Prof Andrew William Wood FLSS Professor Shoogo Ueno Kyushu University, Japan $6k + $250 catering
Prof Yun Yang FICT Professor Inverardi University of L'Aquila, Italy $6k + $250 catering

Swinburne Linkage Projects Encouragement Scheme -
2008 ARC LP Round 1

Name Faculty Project Title Awarded Amount
Dr R Deam Engineering and Industrial Sciences The application of Viscous Turbines to micro Combined Heat and Power $2,000.00
Prof M Gu Engineering and Industrial Sciences Spectroscopy of complex and Biological micro-objects for biosensing applications $2,000.00
Prof Y Morsi Engineering and Industrial Sciences An advanced diagnostic computational tool for early identification and analysis of breast cancer $2,000.00
Dr M Motamed Ektesabi Engineering and Industrial Sciences Intelligent Drive and Fault Diagnosis of Brushless DC Motors $2,000.00
Prof R Nagarajah Engineering and Industrial Sciences Design of a Robust Sensing System for Fuel Level Measurement $2,000.00
Prof C Stough Life and Social Sciences Efficacy and mechanism of bacopa monniera in improving cognition in the elderly $2,000.00
Prof C Stough Life and Social Sciences Does Emotional Intelligence predict final year academic results and student retention in secondary schools? $5,000.00
Prof I Young Chancellery A Global Satellite Altimeter Database for Ocean Engineering Applications $5,000.00


SUT Linkage Projects Encouragement Scheme - 2008 ARC LP Round 2

Name Faculty Project Title Awarded Amount
A. Babanin Engineering and Industrial Sciences Oceanic conditions within extreme tropical cyclones $5,000.00
G. Brooks Engineering and Industrial Sciences Eco-efficient use of carbon/hydrogen waste materials to lower the carbon footprint in metals production $2,000.00
T. Burke Life and Social Sciences Labour market transformation and the workforce needs of the social housing sector $2,000.00
J. Chon Engineering and Industrial Sciences Metallic nanoparticle doped phase change media for development of low recodring power super-resolution near-field structure disk $2,000.00
D. Crewther Life and Social Sciences Biomarkers and objective assessment of cognitive and brain effects of fish oil dietary supplementation $3,000.00
M. Gilding Life and Social Sciences Biotechnology clusters and networks in Australia: Structure and dynamics in international perspective $2,000.00
K. Hulse Life and Social Sciences Families on the edge: Lived experiences of citizenship of homeless families $5,000.00
R. Kenley Business and Enterprise Councils, active citizens and entrepreneurship: Overcoming barriers to sustainable economic development in small rural towns $2,000.00
C. Nagarajah Engineering and Industrial Sciences An artificial intelligence approach to industrial process control through sensor signal pattern recognition $2,000.00
C. Nagarajah Engineering and Industrial Sciences Smart sensor for fluid level measurement in hazardous and dynamic environments $2,000.00
P. Newton Life and Social Sciences Hybrid buildings: Towards carbon-neutral housing $2,000.00
P. Stoddart Engineering and Industrial Sciences Optical fibre touch sensor for cochlear implants $5,000.00
P. Taylor Business and Enterprise Working late and the spectre of uselessness: Sustaining labour supply in a globalising economy $5,000.00
T. Wyeld Life and Social Sciences The role of the Digital Songlines game engine in maintaining and communicating indigenous cultural heritage knowledges, locally, regionally and globally $2,000.00
Y. Yang Information and Communication Technologies Peer-to-peer based grid workflows for enabling transaction-intensive e-business processes $2,000.00


Special Studies Program - 2008

Name Faculty Project Title Awarded Amount
Dr Alexander Vladimirovitch Babanin E&IS Coupling wave models and climate models $5,000
Mr Alexis Sergio Esposto Lilydale Institutions and economic performance: A comparative study between Australia and Argentina $5,000
Dr Sarah Tahli Maddison ICT Understanding planet formation: the growth of dust grains $5,000
Dr Gregory Ward Murray LSS Modelling individual differences in circadian function $5,000


Swinburne Researcher Development Scheme - 2008

Name Faculty Project Title Awarded Amount
Dr Kathy Arthurson ISR Social mix and neighbourhood regeneration: Connecting global policy perspectives to local experiences - an international forum for collaboration, exchange and comparison $8,937
Dr Indra Bains CAS Turbulence in star formation: its cause and effects $10,400
Dr Deirdre Helen Barron, Dr Denise Mary Whitehouse HEDS Innovative school design: an investigation of the design of school environments and pedagogical possibilities $9,307
Dr N. D. Ramesh Bhat CAS Swinburne involvement in a large-scale survey for pulsars and transients with the world's largest radio telescope $8,720
Dr Philip Andrew Branch CAIA Lawful interception of peer-to-peer voice over IP traffic $11,885
Dr Jinjun Chen CITR Modelling temporal-verification-aware Grid Workflows $28,000
Dr Alan Colman CITR Representing and aggregating quality attributes in adaptive contract-based service compositions $21,590
Dr Sharon Grant HECB Measuring occupational stress in entrepreneurs: Development and validation of an entrepreneurial stress scale $25,620
Dr Monsur A Imteaz, Dr Graham Jenkins CSI Development of a Decision Support Tool (STORMKIT) for Stormwater System Analysis and Design $20,000
Dr Patrick James Johnston BSI A study of brain activity associated with abnormal inhibitory processes in schizophrenia using the Stop Signal Task $26,400
Dr Fei Ching Kuo, Dr Robert Graham Merkel CITR Enhancement of cost-effectiveness of adaptive random testing $25,526
Dr Conrad Perry HELS Extending the CDP+ model of reading aloud $9,650
Dr Petya Puncheva HECB Organisational legitimacy and social capital accumulation: An exploratory study of sustainable solutions for NGOs, business and communities in rural Victoria and Tasmania $14,545
Dr Theresa Ann Savage HECB Indigenous entrepreneurs: Building enterprise through reclaiming culture. Comparative analysis of indigenous entrpreneurship in Australia and Japan $10,841
Dr Willem van Straten CAS Mining for Pulsars $12,957
Dr Antony Tang CITR An investigation into the impact of architectural constraints on software architecture $26,905