Visitors to ISSNIP

2007 Visitors

Dr Jussi Pakkanen (jussip act ee.unimelb.edu.au) from Helsinki University of Technology .

Jussi Pakkanen received his master's degree from the department of
engineering physics, Helsinki University of Technology in 2002. He got
his PhD in computer science from the Helsinki University of Technology
in 2006. His thesis was about indexing and analyzing large image
databases using neural computation methods. He is currently working on
various aspects of sensor network data analysis, such as the
localization problem.

Dr Marcello Espinoza (Marcelo.Espinoza act esat.kuleuven.be) from the Katholieke Universiteit of Leuven

Marcelo Espinoza is currently a Postdoctoral researcher with the SCD/SISTA Research Division of the Electrical Engineering Dept. at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. His main research interests are in the context of nonlinear system identification, where he has been working in the incorporation of prior knowledge to kernel-based estimation techniques, with applications in power load forecasting and time series analysis in general.
During his stay in Melbourne, invited by Prof. Palaniswami, he is working in financial time series models and in other applications for kernel based methods. Particularly, he is interested in the application of kernel-based modeling in the context of sensor networks. 

2006 Visitors

INTERNATIONAL VISITORS:

Prof Havinga, UTwente, The Netherlands
Prof Stuart Milner, University of Maryland, USA
Prof Mohan Kumar, University of Texas, USA
Prof Mihaela Ulieru, University of New Brunswick, Canada
Professor H Weghorn, University of Stuttgart BA, Germany
Associate Professor K T Ko, City University of Hong Kong, China
Prof Jim Bezdek, University of West Florida, USA
Dr Takuya Ito, Tohoku University, Japan
Prof Sushil Prasad, Georgia State University, USA
Supriyo Chatterjea, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Avinash Sridharan, University of Southern California, USA
Dr Andrew Brooks, University of California, Santa Barabara, USA
Pi-Jen Liu, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan
A/Prof Tung-Fung Fan, NMMBA, Taiwan
Prof Ramesh, GM Labs, Bangalore, India
A/Prof Chee Kheong Siew, Nanyang Technical University, Singapore
Dr Sammy Chan, City University Of Hong Kong, China
Dr Zvi Rosberg, Ben Gurion University, Haifa, Israel
Prof Sharat Chandran, Indian Institute Of Technology, Mumbai, India
Liansheng Tan, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China

AUSTRALIAN EXCHANGE VISITS:

Sridhar Poosapadi Arjunan, RMIT University, Australia
Ganesh Naik, RMIT University, Australia

 

2006 Distinguished Visitor Seminars

Prof T Dallessio - University de Roma, Rome, Italy

Professor Dallessio visited Melbourne during January 2006 as guest of A/Professor Dinesh Kant Kumar (RMIT University) funded by the University of Roma Tri, Italy.  The visit included the presentation of a seminar on Human Movement Sensing without Markers at RMIT University.

 

Prof.  H Weghorn - University of Stuttgart BA, Germany

Visited Melbourne during April 2006 as a guest of A/Professor Dinesh Kant Kumar (RMIT University) jointly funded by University of Stuttgart BA and ISSNIP, Professor Weghorn presented a seminar titled Wireless sensors from simple mobile phones at RMIT University.

 

Ass/Prof.  K T KO - CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG

Professor Ko undertook an 8 week study visit at The University of Melbourne from 3rd July to 24th August 2006, sponsored by ISSNIP.  The main collaborators were Professor Zukerman of The University of Melbourne together with NICTA researchers.

 

Prof. MIHAELA ULIERU - UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK, CANADA

Professor Ulieru is a Canada Research Chair, Professor in the Faculty of Computer Science and Director of the Adaptive Risk Management Laboratory at The University of New Brunswick, Canada.  As an invited guest of A/Professor Dinesh Kant Kumar (RMIT University), Professor Ulieru undertook collaborative research during her December visit, networking with researchers and students in Melbourne and Sydney giving invited lectures and seminars on Risk issues and risk management for sensors and sensor networks.

 

PROFESSOR STUART MILNER - UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, USA

Professor Stuart Milner is visiting Australia as a guest of A/Professor Palaniswami at the University of Melbourne, during December 2006 and January 2007.  Supported by ISSNIP. Professor Milner also made valuable contributions ISSNIP events as an invited speaker at ATNAC 2006, the Workshop on Distributed Sensor Networks, the ISSNIP Summer School, the DASP conference as well as offering feedback and guidance to young researchers at the ECR Workshop on Sensor Networks.

 

PROFESSOR MOHAN KUMAR - UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, ARLINGTON, USA

Professor Mohan Kumar also visited Australia as a guest of A/Professor Palaniswami, as key speaker at the Workshop on Sensor Networks and also the ISSNIP Summer School. In addition Professor Kumar also attended the ISSNIP ISAC meeting.

 

DR ALISON BURDETT - TOUMAZ TECHNOLOGIES, UK

Dr Alison Burdett visited Australia as a guest of Dr Vijay Sivaraman (UNSW) as keynote speaker for the Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks in Biomedicine.

 

PROFESSOR SUSHIL K. PRASAD - GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY, ATLANTA, USA

Prof Prasas undertook a two-month research visit to the University of Melbourne, Australia, during summer 2006 to collaborate with Prof. Buyya on Grid and Mobile Computing research, with Prof. Palaniswami on Sensor Networks, and with NICTA.  Prof. Prasad gave a series of talks to the Grid Computing group at University of Melbourne on Parallel Algorithms and Data Structures, and on Middlewares.

 

BRUCE HEMINGWAY, THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, USA

Bruce Hemingway was an ISSNIP visitor during December 2006, giving a keynote talk at ATNAC where he presented an overview and demonstration of his novel, project based, undergraduate learning program about Wireless Sensor Networks. He also conducted an ISSNIP workshop Introduction to Sensor Networks also going through designs being undertaken with a prototype mote under development by Intel.