Teaching Awards

Vice-Chancellor’s Team Performance award (Bachelor of IT Core Team) 2009

FIT - Excellence in Teaching Award - Individual, 2008

Vice Chacellor Performance Awards 2007

FIT – Outstanding contribution for Summer Scholarships Students, 2007

FIT Excellence in Teaching Award (Early Career Academic) 2006

Graduate Certificate in Education (Higher Education) 2006

Current Unit Coordination and Teaching

Emerging Technologies (INB102) - Unit Coordinator

Past Teaching

ITB/N254 (Interaction Design), Cooperative Education, ITB/N007( Web Development, ITB/N259 (Advanced Multimedia Systems), ITB/N257 (Multimedia Systems), ITB004 (Introduction to Databases), ITB002 (Professional Studies), ITB222 (Business Systems Analysis), ITB118 (ICT life cycle)

Project Supervisions

Current Projects:

Students looking for projects in the area of mobile applications, multimedia analysis and retrieval are welcome to directly email me to discuss for possible topics.

Past Projects:

Post Graduate Projects:

• Sem 2, 2009: Richard Stark (24cp): Video Surveillance Network
• Sem 2, 2008: Tony Shu Hsien Wang: Optimised News Site for Mobile Safari on iPhone ( ITN162 - 24cp)
• Sem 1 2008: Cyril Rohr (Internship from INSA de Lyon France): Visualisation of Multimodal News
• Summer - Sem 1, 2008: Chris Du (48cp): Video Database
• (Sem 2, 2006) Tavit Chaiyawan (24cp): Developing a Web-based system for XML-based Image retrieval using INEX large corpus (170,000 images with XML metadata)
• (Sem 1, 2006) Adrien Joly (48cp): Access to rich and customized multimedia content anywhere [Research project]. Adrien is an exchange student from INSA de Lyon, France.
• (Sem 1, 2006) Wang Lei (24 cp): An Enhanced Video-on-Demand (V0D) streaming platform collaborates with MPEG 7 and MPEG 21 [Research project]

• (Sem2, 2005) Lei Wang, "Smart Retrieval of Web Service on Mobil Devices "
• (Sem1, 2005) Aung Wynn, "AusRoomMate Website Development"

Undergraduate Projects:

• (Sem 2, 2009): Daniel Siva, Daniel Headford, Robert Sean McNeil (Final Year projec - INB302t)
• SummerVaction Research Scholarships 2008 (5 students): Sarah Killey, David Chung, Tony Wang, Wan Wanmanan, Jennifer Radford
• Sem 2, 2008:
  • Albert Tietz, Timothy Barclay, Sam Horne, Isaac Abuyeh, Yiannis Fthinoyiannis - Voted Best Project of ITB010 (2008).
  • Rodney Howarth, Shari Cahill, Andrew O'Keefe: Vending machine in QUT website
  • Julie Nguyen
• Sem 1 and 2, 2008: Gee-Wai Kwok: Trecvid2008 - Video Summarisation
• Sem 2, 2007: Johannes Sasongko: Computer Vision for News Video
• Summer Vacation Scholarships 2007 (6 students):
  • Johannes Sasongko, Cyril Rohr (News Video Summarisation)
• Zac Fitz-walter, Sam Jones, Craig Stewar (Wii Jam)
• Andy Cher Han Lau (ITB230): Bridging the gap in image retrieval using Classification
• (Sem1-2, 2007: ITB009 and ITB010): Craig Stewart, Peter Reisz, Samuel Jones, Zac Fitz-walter: Gestural Interaction Design using Nintendo Wii Controllers. - Voted Best Project of ITB010 (2007).
• (Sem 1, 2007) Cher-Han Lau (ITB240): Image classification for Wikipedia and Google Image
• (Sem 2 - Summer Vacation Scholarship 2006) Cher-Han Lau: Image retrieval using visual features and XML text analysis, contributing to INEX 2006 - ranked first in evaluation
• (Sem1, 2006: ITB009) (Sem2, 2006: ITB010) Brent Dixon, Jesse Higginson, Nicholas Mykolayenko, Alicia Tidmarsh, Sarah Wiliams (ITB009): TimeLine Generator and Multimedia-rich Wiki for History
• Jess Swee Leng SIM(ITB230): Interactive Mobile Application using GPRS and Pocket PC
• (Sem2, 2005) Nadia Calapis, Marissa Carpenter, "Website Development using Multimedia Enhancements for Road Rules, Queensland"
  (Sem2, 2005) Shu-Ying Yeh, Chen-Ying Yeh, Taylor Chen, "E-Learning Website Multimedia Enhancement"
• (Sem1, 2005) Nathan Brown, Simon Elvery, "Website Development for The Shin Dig Social Group"
  (Sem2, 2004) Hon Jac Yong, Evelyn Wong, Yi-Hung Chen, "Website development for Sushi Deli Hanaichi".

Pictured: Sample outputs from Interacvity Design Unit (ITB/N254)