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Professor Rei Safavi-Naini and her research team from the Centre for Information Security have won a Microsoft Research Asia grant worth over $20,000 to fund cutting-edge research into building tougher security for online transactions such as online banking. The University of Wollongong will provide matching funds to increase the support for the research

It is the first time a research team from a regional university has won the grant and Professor Safavi-Naini is the first-ever Australian winner of a security-funding research grant. Team members include Associate Professor Willy Susilo, Associate Professor Yi Mu, Dr Jeffrey Horton, Dr Joonsang Baek and Dr Wanqing Li.

Senior researchers at the Microsoft Research Asia Labs in Beijing have now invited Professor Safavi-Naini to present the proposed research project at a regional workshop to be held in China this month involving over 200 Asia-Pacific professors.

http://media.uow.edu.au/releases/2006/0222a.html

Dr Lan Nguyen, a recent PhD graduate of University of Wollongong, School of Information Technology and Computer Science and member of the Centre for Information Security, within TITR received 'Special Commendation' from CORE (Computer Research and Education), Australasian Computer Society.

He was nominated for the Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation award and was runner up after a very stiff competition. The award was presented by Professor Jenny Edwards, President of CORE, at the Australasian Computer Science Week that was held in Hobart.

Dr Nguyen's thesis was entitled 'Cryptographic Privacy Enhancing Technologies' and was supervised by Professor Rei Safavi-Naini. Since graduating Dr Nguyen has joined CSIRO Information Engineering Laboratory as a research fellow.

Additional information about CORE can be found at their website http://www.core.edu.au/

Greg Schiemer, New metallophones for just intonation tuning systems, $14,740 Shirley Agostinho, Investigating how learning designs can be represented to facilitate dissemination and reuse of innovative pedogogical strategies in university teaching, $3,000 Irina Verenikina, Jan Herrington, The affordances of computer play in developing children's ability for higher order thinking, $7,500 Kwan-Wu Chin, Increasing mesh networks capacity with directional antennae, $10,000 Prashan Premaratne, Human face detection using instantaneous 3D scanning, $9,335 Christian Ritz, Scalable spatial audio coding, $9,000 Willy Susilo, Khin Win, Protecting privacy of health information with fuzzy authentication system, $10,000

Canada

University of British Colombia

* Lori Lockyer (Education): A collaborative evaluation program to assess the impact of medical education initiatives.

China

Chinese Academy of Sciences

* Eryk Dutkiewicz and Xiaojing Huang (Informatics): Expanding research collaboration between the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the University of Wollongong.

* Philip Ogunbona and Wanqing Li (Informatics): Human motion analysis and recognition for video surveillance.

France

University of Paris 13

* Salim Bouzerdoum (Informatics): Joint research/teaching program between SECTE and Galilee Institute.

ARC Linkage International Award application submitted by UOW researchers have been successful

Congratulations to the following research team:

* Dr Jiangtao Xi, A/Prof Yanguang Yu, Prof Joe Chicharo, Dr Enbang Li, and A/Prof Huiying Ye for their project "Measuring the linewidth enhancement factor and optical feedback level factor of semiconductor lasers based on optical feedback self-mixing interferometry"

Dr Willy Susilo was a Trailblazer winner for 2005 with his research on “Secure USB Disc Access” – receiving $3000. The competition is in collaboration with UniQuest, The University of Queensland’s commercialization company and is designed to foster innovation, progress ideals, inventions or research outcomes as well as reward UoW researchers.

RIBG Pool 2, 2005 Funding Allocations

The following teams were successful, congratulations on collaborative efforts!:

Barry Harper, Anthony Eyers, Jan Herrington, Sue Bennett, Lori Lockyer, Shirley Agostinho, Doug Reid "Interactive Digital Television" $20,000

Eryk Dutkiewicz, Philip Ogunbona, Mehran Abolhasan, Paul Boustead, Kwan-Wu Chin, Daniel Franklin "High Speed Wireless Ad Hoc Network Laboratory"$53,000

A RILE research team headed by Associate Professor Tony Herrington won a grant of $30,000 from the NSW Department of Education and Training (DET) to investigate the impact and transfer of knowledge of teachers who participated in an online ICT professional development program. The team (Dr Tony Herrington, Dr Jan Herrington, Dr Garry Hoban and Dr Sue Bennett) will seek to establish the critical factors for teacher engagement and success in integrating ICT-based practice in schools.

The research study is to further understanding of how teachers engagement with the 'Integrating ICT into teaching and learning' online modules affects their willingness and capacity to integrate ICT into their teaching practice.

The research will employ a multiple case study approach to address the following questions:

• What are the challenges and consequences for teachers when they transfer professional learning into practice?
• What are the conditions that support teachers to expand the use of ICT in their teaching and professional learning?
• What is the impact of teacher professional learning on student ICT experiences?

Dr Enbang Li had an article published in the February 2005 issue of Laser Focus World Magazine on “The optical phase shifting with acoustic-optic devices” developed by the Photonic and Electronic Signal Processing Group, TITR, and partner in the Opto-electronics National Key Lab at Tianjin University, China.

Dr Enbang Li’s presentation on 18 March as part of TITR seminar series, covered the basics of fiber Bragg grating technology and its applications in both optical communications and optical fiber sensing areas. Fiber Bragg grating (FBG) has become a hot topic in photonics research in recent years.

The new TITR website is finally on-line. The site has been updated to conform with the University standard. It now has a look-and-feel like many other University pages.

TITR Launches its inaugural newsletter.

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Research centres in TITR have had success is obtaining ARC funding. For more details, visit the Office of Research's website:

ARC Discovery and ARC Linkage