2013 Winners

Listing of students from the School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics who have been recognised for their outstanding academic achievement and/or have received external prizes and awards during the 2013 calendar year of study.

PhD candidate Robert Salama 

I2MTC 2013 Conference was held in Minneapolis, USA, during May 6-9, 2013 (http://imtc.ieee-ims.org/i2mtc-2013).  It focused on research, development and applications in the field of instrumentation and measurement science and technology.  

Listing of students from the School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics who have been recognised for their outstanding academic achievement and/or have received external prizes and awards during the 2012 calendar year of study.

• Name of award: NSW Undergraduate Water Prize 2012.
• Awarding body: Australian Water Association NSW State Branch.
• Thesis title: Development and testing of a regional flood estimation method for eastern New South Wales with most recent flood data.
• Thesis supervisor: Dr Ataur Rahman - Senior Lecturer, Civil and Environmental Engineering. 

• Name of award: ‘Unleash Your App’.
• Awarding body: Optus and National ICT Australia (NICTA).
• Description: Daniel is a final year BCompSci Honours student, awarded for his android mobile ‘green’ app that assists commuters with planning journeys, while also keeping track of their carbon footprint on the way.
• Supervisor:A/Prof Miroslav Filipovic - Academic Course Advisor Honours (Computing, Computer Science, ICT, Maths). 

• Name of award: Inaugural NASSCOM Innovation Student Award, 2012 CeBIT conference.
• Awarding body:NASSCOM.
• Description: A student with the School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, Avtar designed his app as a project with his company ‘Health Pointe’ and with help from his university staff. He was awarded this prize for his sophisticated smart-phone application ‘Step on it Program’. “The app is designed to help monitor the smart-phone user’s body data, for example height, weight and age,” says Avtar, who is studying the Bachelor of Information and Communications Technology.
• Mentor: Dr Joanne Curry – Director of Academic Program Undergraduate ICT.

• Name of award: Student Engineer of the Year 2012.
• Awarding body: University of Western Sydney.
• Thesis title:'Methods to enhance the bond between the steel tube and the concrete in Concrete Filled-Steel Tubular (CFST) columns'. Graduating with honours in 2013.
  
  
• Thesis supervisor: Professor Zhong Tao - Program Director-IM, Honours Coordinator.

• Contest organiser: Australian National University School of Artificial Intelligence.
• Contest description:Scientists in Sydney developed an artificial intelligence programme that can learn to play Angry Birds better than a human. Teams had five weeks to design an artificial intelligence program to compete against humans in the wildly popular game.
• Contest winner: Dengji Zhao, playing Angry Birds for his first time, scored 565,000 points - 35,000 more than the leading computer. Dengji is a PhD student in the School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics.
• Supervisor:A/Prof Dongmo Zhang
• Photo: Janie Barrett, SMH 

• Name of award: Vacation Research Scholarship 2013/13.
• Awarding body:Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute.
• Title:Three dimensional reconstructions of coronary blood vessels.
• Supervisors:Dr Lawrence Park and Dr Aiden O’Loughlin.

• Name of award:Best Paper at the Fourth International Conference on Advances in Databases, Knowledge and Data Applications 2012.
• Awarding body: International Academy Research and Industry Association (IARIA).
• Title:Constructing a Synthetic Longitudinal Health Dataset for Data Mining – Shima Ghassem Pour, Anthony Maeder and Louisa Jorm. Shima is a PhD student in the School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics.
• Supervisor: Prof Anthony Maeder - Academic Course Advisor (PG Graduate Certificate in Health Informatics).