Doctor Seyed Shahrestani

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Biography

Seyed completed his PhD degree in Electrical and Information Engineering at the University of Sydney. He joined UWS in 1999, where he is currently a Senior Lecturer with the School of Computing and Mathematics. His main teaching and research interests include: computer networking, management and security of networked systems, analysis, control and management of complex systems, artificial intelligence applications, and health ICT. He is also highly active in higher degree research training supervision, with successful results.

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Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise

Seyed has established collaborations with several researchers and groups around the globe. He has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley.
Seyed’s research in complex systems, has resulted in establishment of a framework for global control of complex nonlinear, and possibly chaotic, systems. In addition to introducing new concepts and strategies, the framework utilizes established methods for analysis and control of complex nonlinear systems but with new intent.
In computer networking, Seyed’s research has provided some original solutions to problems in two important aspects of the Internet, namely: network security and management. These works include novel approaches and the use of AI and particularly fuzzy logic and soft computing to enhance modeling and management of large networks and enterprises.

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Grants / Current Projects

Wireless/Mobile Community Healthcare, $43,934, UWS.
Intelligent Motion Control, $5,000, UWS.
Equity through online Education, $5,000, UWS.
UWS and Cisco Strategic Alliance, $982,500, Cisco Systems.

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Publications

S. A. Shahrestani and D. J. Hill, “Global Control of Stressed Power Systems,” in Proc. 39th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Sydney, 2000, pp. 3080 –3085.

J. Gal, L. Gall, G. Murray, S. A. Shahrestani, C Johnson CW, I. Klineberg, and S. Palla, “Muscle moment arm parameters related to the mandibular helical axis,” Journal Of Dental Research, Vol. 79, P 153, 2000.

S. A. Shahrestani and D. J. Hill, “Global control with application to bifurcating power systems,” Systems and Control Letters, vol. 41, no. 3, pp. 145-155, 2000.

S. A. Shahrestani, “Fuzzy Detection and Integrated Network Management,” Enhancing the power of the Internet: Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, Editors: M. Nikravesh, L. A. Zadeh, B. Azvine, and R. Yagar, pp. 359-378, Springer, 2003.

Kumudu S. Munasinghe and Seyed A. Shahrestani, “Performance Analysis of Multi-tunnel Virtual Private Networks in Wireless Environments,” WSEAS Trans Communications, vol 4, pp 334-345, 2005.

P. Ray, S. A. Shahrestani, and F. Daneshgar, “The Role of Fuzzy Awareness Modelling in Cooperative Management,” Journal of Information Systems Frontiers, vol 7, no 3, pp 299-316, 2005.

Seyed A. Shahrestani, “Utilization of Structure and Concepts in Handling Network and Information Management Complexity,” in Proc. 9th International Conference on Communications, Athens, July 2005.

Houssein Hallani and Seyed A. Shahrestani, “The Impact of Malicious Nodes on the Performance of Wireless Ad-hoc Networks," in Proc. 6th International Business Information Management Conference, Bonn, Germany, June 2006.

Houssein Hallani and Seyed A. Shahrestani, “'Wireless Ad-hoc Networks:
Employing Behaviour History to Combat Malicious Nodes,” in Proc. International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Systems, Gold Coast, Australia, December 2007.

Seyed A. Shahrestani, “Improving Network Intrusion Detection through Soft Computing and Natural Immunology,” in Proc. 8th International Conference on Applied Computer Science (ACS'08), Venice, Italy, 2008.

Seyed A. Shahrestani, “Utilization of Soft Computing to Improve Cooperative Management Efficiency,” WSEAS Transactions on Circuits and Systems, vol 7, Issue 7, pp620-629, 2008.

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