ICT Centre Research Opportunities

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ICT CentreResearch Opportunities ICT Centre
Projects

• Dr Mark Cameron
• Research Team LeaderInformation Engineering
  Laboratory Canberra
• 21 May 2009

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Outline

• Industrial Traineeships
• Postgraduate / Honours Scholarships
• Vacation Scholarships
• Postdoctoral Fellowships
• The Projects
• POWDER Browser
• Scaling the Semantic Web
• Web Service Management
• Immersive Environments
• Information Services

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Research Opportunities

• CSIROs Information and Communication
  Technologies (ICT) Centre is the hub for ICT
  research in CSIRO, and is uniquely placed to
  provide students interested in science,
  engineering and related fields with opportunities
  to build a career in ICT.
• The ICT Centres mission is to deliver the
  enabling power of ICT across many industries.
  Through CSIRO, we have the advantage of being
  able to innovate in ICT and apply the results for
  the benefit of Australia, based on our
  understanding of the needs and problems of the
  many sectors in which we work.

Our capabilities The ICT Centre has four
capability-based Laboratories Information
Engineering Conducting research into
information retrieval, transformation,
understanding and delivery while preserving
security, privacy and trust for enterprise
information systems for specific
domains. Autonomous Systems Conducting research
into systems that sense, think and act, interact
with the physical environment and manage its
resources. Networking Technologies Conducting
research to better utilise our advanced network
infrastructure develop science for network
management while creating novel broadband
application technologies and demonstrators. Wirel
ess Technologies Conducting research into radio
technology for communications, imaging,
positioning and supporting astronomy. We also
participate in two long-term joint ventures the
Australian e-Health Research Centre (AEHRC) and
the Tasmanian ICT Centre. The AEHRC is jointly
funded by the Queensland Government and CSIRO. It
is a leading national research facility in ICT
for healthcare innovations. The Tasmanian ICT
Centre is addressing national research priorities
in areas such as energy and water use while at
the same time building ICT capability in
Tasmania.
Our programs Some 240 researchers are currently
employed by the ICT Centre at a range of
locations across Australia. They work in a wide
range of ICT research and application areas. The
Centre has a number of Award, Fellowship and
Scholarship programs that are specially designed
for students and graduates to gain employment in
science related fields.
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Industrial Traineeships

• Who should apply Recent Graduates and Final
  Year Students
• Locations Canberra, Brisbane, Sydney, Hobart
• Duration 3 or 6 months

In the interest of contributing to the training
and experience of tertiary students in science,
engineering and other relevant fields, and to
enhance links with tertiary education
institutions, CSIRO will offer traineeships in
the form of work experience undertaken in
conjunction with the formal training of selected
students which is closely aligned to the ICT
Centres core research strategy. The aim of this
program is to contribute to the training and
experience of tertiary students in disciplines
relevant to CSIRO's work by providing
opportunities for work experience within CSIRO.
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Postgraduate/Honours Scholarships

• Who should apply Postgraduate Students who
  possess an APA
• Locations Canberra, Brisbane, Sydney, Hobart
• Duration 3 years (12 months for Honours)
• The ICT Centre has provided funding for CSIRO
  undergraduate scholarships with six universities
  The University of Sydney The University of New
  South Wales University of Technology Sydney
  Macquarie University The Australian National
  University The University of Queensland
  Queensland University of Technology.
• Students awarded with these scholarships will
  participate in projects that CSIRO and the
  University mutually agree on, with CSIRO
  co-supervising the student projects.
• The aim of postgraduate studentship program is
  to facilitate the training of postgraduate
  students of science and engineering, in
  accordance with CSIRO's interests and its science
  training obligations under its charter.

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Vacation Scholarships

• Who should apply Undergraduate students
• Locations Canberra, Brisbane, Sydney, Hobart
• Duration 8 12 weeks

The aim of the vacation scholarship program is to
contribute to the training and experience of
promising undergraduates in science or
engineering, by providing them with an
opportunity to undertake scientific research in a
field of mutual interest to CSIRO and to the
scholars. There will be 40 scholarships
available for students across all ICT Centre
sites for next summer (2009/10) and they will be
advertised in August 2009. Students will be
asked choose their three preferred topic areas
(and the associated locations) for undertaking
vacation work. Applicants will be assessed
based on the quality of their academic record to
date, achievements, the topic area and referee
reports. Vacation students will commence their
scholarship in November/December 2009.
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Postdoctoral Fellowships

• Who should apply PhD Graduates
• Locations Sydney, Canberra, Brisbane, Hobart
• Duration 3 year term
• CSIROs purpose in offering postdoctoral
  fellowships is to provide young scientists with
  the opportunity to gain experience in order to
  develop capability for the nation and refresh
  and add value to CSIROs research activities
  through original insights, new knowledge and/or
  techniques.
• A postdoctoral fellowship is intended, first and
  foremost, to enhance the persons research
  capability so that they are better able to pursue
  a career in science either within CSIRO or beyond.

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Outline

• Industrial Traineeships
• Postgraduate / Honours Scholarships
• Vacation Scholarships
• Postdoctoral Fellowships
• The Projects
• POWDER Browser
• Scaling the Semantic Web
• Web Service Management
• Immersive Environments
• Information Services

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POWDER Browser (Kerry Taylor)

• POWDER (Protocol for Web Description Resources)
  Lets you define predicates that are automatically
  assigned to a set of resources
• Designed for Linking Open Data descriptions are
  external to the resource itself.
• W3C Semantic Web standard in June 2009
• Project goal to develop a navigate/query
  interface for POWDER resources possibly
  integrated with an OWL (description logic)
  reasoner
• Suit student interested in UI, Semantic Web,
  Biology
• Alternative similar projects also possible

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Scaling the Semantic Web (Kerry Taylor)

• The W3Cs Web Ontology Language will have new
  sub-language OWL-EL that has lower computational
  complexity.
• Project aim to test the performance of the
  reasoning over very large structural ontology
  (use various reasoners compare OWL-EL with OWL
  2.0)
• Extend work three years ago (Taylor
  Lefort)quantify the improvement on large
  part-whole ontologies
• Suit student interested in performance
  evaluation, computational logic, Semantic Web

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Web Service Management System

• Xuan Zhou
• Information Engineering Lab

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Service Oriented Computing is a Trend

• Everything as Service
• Information Service
• Software as a Service (SaaS)
• Hardware as a Service (HaaS)

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What Computer do You Need?
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Web Services Need to be Managed Web Service
Management System (WSMS)
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Project 1 Service Query
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Project 1 Service Optimization
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Project 3 Service Composition
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Project 4 Service Change Management
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Project 5 Service Trust Management
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Immersive Environments Projects

• Working in remote mining, sensor networks, sports
  training systems with Australian Institute of
  Sport.
• Connecting people data and robots.
• Work in 3D gaphics, mobile and video interfaces.
• Possible honours projects -
• Taxi sharing project Group people going to
  common destinations
• AIS sports training project
• Connecting virtual worlds e.g. Second Life to
  Real the real world for mining.
• Other associated projects. Please come and talk
  to us.

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Information services

• Investigate ways to help people interact with
  information searching, summarising,
  understanding, drawing links, displaying
• Understanding what people look for, where, and
  how
• Integrating large-scale search and natural
  language technologies
• Using new technology (gaze tracking,) to predict
  how well search software performs

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Contacts

• Mark.Cameron_at_csiro.au
• Kerry.Taylor_at_csiro.au
• Xuan.Zhou_at_csiro.au
• Ken.Taylor_at_csiro.au
• Paul.Thomas_at_csiro.au

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More information

• For more information and current career
  opportunities please visit the CSIRO careers
  website at www.csiro.au/careers

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Thank you
CSIRO ICT Centre Dr Mark Cameron Research Team
Leader Phone [phone] Email
mark.cameron_at_csiro.au Web www.csiro.au