Contact Details:
Name: Dr Barbara La Scala
Address:
Dept.of Electrical and
Electronic Engineering
University of Melbourne
Victoria 3010, Australia
Email: b.lascala@ee.unimelb.edu.au
Tel: +61 3 8344-3934
Fax: +61 3 8344-6678
Education:
- B.Sc. in Statistics and Computer Science (First class Honours),
University
of Melbourne, 1987.
- PhD in Systems Engineering, Australian National University, 1994
.
Employment History:
- May 2004 -
- Senior Research Fellow
- Aug 2002 - Apr 2004
- Research Fellow
- Melbourne Systems Laboratory
- Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
- The University of Melbourne
- 1999 - 2002
- Airborne Algorithms Team Leader
- Preston Aviation Solutions (formerly The Preston Group)
- Melbourne, Australia
- 1998 - 1999
- Tracking Algorithms Team Leader
- JORN Project
- RLM Systems Pty Ltd
- Melbourne, Australia
- 1995 - 1998
- Research Fellow
- Centre for Sensor Signal and Information Processing (CSSIP)
- Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
- The University of Melbourne
- 1988 - 1991
- Programmer
- Statistics Research Section
- Australian National University
- Canberra, Australia
Research Areas:
- Tracking and data fusion algorithms
- Optimisation and control of distributed systems
- Simulation algorithms
Grants and Contracts:
- 2008-2011 ARC Discovery Grant Information
Geometry and Compressive Sensing for Radar and Communications.
Value: $763,000 with Prof Bill Moran, Dr Vaughan Clarkson, Prof Barry
Quinn, Dr Stephen Howard and Prof Robert Calderbank.
- 2008-2010 ARC Linkage Grant Robust
Optimal Asset Liability Management via Stochastic Control Theory
with the Victorian Funds Management Corporation. Value: $154,000 with
Prof Iven Mareels and Dr Subra Dey.
- 2006-2008 ARC Linkage Grant Automated On-Line Analysis and
Contaminant Detection in Mineral Ore Processing with Scantech Pty
Ltd. Value: $240,000 with Prof Bill Moran and Dr Du Huynh.
- 2006 Contract with C&C-DSTO on Sensitivity Analysis
Algorithms
for Bayesian Networks. Value: $75,000 with Dr Nickens Okello.
- 2006 Contract with ANZ Pty Ltd Early Default Prediction for
Credit Card Customers. Value: $75,000.
- 2006 Contract with MOD-DSTO Development of WTA Algorithm.
Value: $60,000 with Dr Sofia Suvorova.
- 2005 Contract with EWRD/MOD-DSTO Optimised
Weapon Target Allocation. Value: $120,000 with Dr Sofia
Suvorova.
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