The Data Science and Engineering Research Unit (DSERU) is a research unit located in the Faculty of Business, Justice and Behavioural Sciences, within the School of Computing, Mathematics and Engineering. The research conducted by DSERU is centered around data-driven analysis in various fields, including data mining, machine learning, machine vision, cybersecurity, network simulation and modeling, computational intelligence, and robotics. The unit applies these areas of expertise to address real-world problems in information technology and engineering disciplines.
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- Dr Darren Yates from the Charles Sturt School of Computing, Mathematics and Engineering along with Professor Zahidul Islam, Dr Sabih Rehman and other colleagues from Gulbali Institute of Agriculture, Water and Environment, has developed the Combined Location Online Weather Data (CLOWD) app which delivers an online tool to assist farmers in making better crop and pasture management decisions by analysing recent and historic weather for any location in Australia. The app is part of a Food Agility CRC collaborative research project with Charles Sturt University, SunRice and AgriFutures Australia. Further information is available from here.
- Members of DSERU have received the following external funds recently. Congratulations to all involved for these recent grants!
- Congratulations to Prof Mark Morrison, Prof Zahid Islam, Dr Arash Mahboubi, Dr Michael Bewong, A/Prof Yeslam Al-Saggaf, A/Prof Rafiqul Islam, Dr Sabih Rehman, Dr Arif Khan, Dr Anwaar Ul-Haq and Dr Ryan Ip, along with other colleagues from CSU and other institutes, who received $1,400,000 ($375,000 to CSU) from Cyber Security CRC. The project title is ‘SCATES: Securing Critical Agriculture Technology and Emerging Solutions’.
- A/Prof Yeslam Al-Saggaf received $87,870 from the Australian Government eSafety Commissioner (eSafety). The project title is "Protecting children from smartphone's leakage of security sensitive information".
- Dr Michael Bewong, Prof Zahid Islam, Dr Arash Mahboubi, A/Prof Rafiqul Islam, Dr Ryan Ip and Dr Arif Khan received $2,105,000 ($161,303 to CSU) funded by Cyber Security CRC (CSCRC) CISCO, Quintessence Lab, TCS and Government of Western Australia. The project title is "Software security with a focus on critical technologies".
- A/Prof Azizur Rahman received an international grant of $559,901 funded by the Environmental Protection Agency, Ireland. The project title is “An exploitation of remote sensing CMEMS products for monitoring of transitional and coastal waters”.
- A/Prof Rafiqul Islam and Prof Zahid Islam received an amount of $135,000 from Food Agility CRC as PhD Scholarship for a PhD student. The project title is “Understanding the relationship between individual and mob-based animal performance metrics derived from autonomous livestock monitoring sources”.
- Dr Arash Mahboubi, Prof Zahid Islam, A/Prof Rafiqul Islam, and Dr Michael Bewong received an amount of $850,000 ($425,000 to CSU) from Cyber Security CRC and Paraflare. The project title is “THRD: Threat Detection and Response with Heterogeneous Data Sources”.
- A/Prof Rafiqul Islam, Dr Michael Bewong, Prof Zahid Islam, Dr Arash Mahboubi and Dr Ryan Ip received an amount of $50,000 from Cyber Security CRC. The project title is "Sharing Cybersecurity Research Data (SCReeD").
- A/Prof Rafiqul Islam, Dr Quazi Mamun, Prof Manoranjan Paul and Prof Zahid Islam who received an amount of $25,000 from GSK Global Pty Ltd. The project title is “Shipping Container ID Automation – Phase II”.
- Prof Mark Morrison, Prof Zahid Islam who received an amount of $75,000 from Campus Plus under Discovery Translation Fund (DTF). The project title is “HEALTHDM - System Refinement and Early Adoption”.
- A/Prof Azizur Rahman, Prof Zahid Islam, Dr Michael Bewong and Dr Ryan Ip who received an amount of $609,281 from the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry’s Future Drought Fund. The project title is “Supporting rapid intervention through disaster cycles: Helping government, NGOs and community organisations identify where resilience support is needed through rapid identification of risk before, during and after extreme climatic events”.
- Dr Michael Bewong, Prof Zahid Islam, A/Prof Yeslam Al-Saggaf and Dr Ryan Ip who received an amount of $597,729 from Food Agility CRC and Meat & Livestock Limited. The project title is “Potential implications and benefits for the agrifood technology sector from the introduction of the Australian AgriFood Data Exchange”.
- Dr Arash Mahboubi and Prof Zahid Islam who received an amount of $640,000 from Cyber Security CRC and Government of Western Australia. The project title is “Ransomware Resilient File Safe Havens for cloud data”.
- Prof Zahid Islam and Prof Tanveer Zia who received a total amount of $1,687,500 from Cyber Security CRC for two Research Fellows for the project “Privacy Preserving Data Sharing in a Hyperconnected World”.
- A/Prof Lihong Zheng who received an amount of $4,368,791 from Meat & Livestock Australia Donor Company. The project title is “Evaluating a hyperspectral image analysis prototype for offal health and tissue integrity quality assurance for Australian red meat processing”.
- A/Prof Lihong Zheng who received an amount of $600,618 from The Department of Agricultural, Water and Environment. The project title is “Development of drone technology to enhance Tropical Soda Apple (TSA) control in rugged high-value grazing country”.
- A/Prof Lihong Zheng and Dr Ashad Kabir who received an amount of $105,000 from Food Agility CRC. The project title is “Trakka CattleID Scholarship”.
- Dr Ashad Kabir and A/Prof Lihong Zheng who received an amount of $105,000 from Food Agility CRC. The project title is “Trakka MicroServices Scholarship”.
- The mobile app on vine nutrition developed by Prof Manoranjan Paul, A/Prof Lihong Zheng and team members have been commercialised. For more information, please visit this link.
- A/Prof Azizur Rahman received an internal fund with an amount of $2,500 to support in organising the 45th Annual Conference of the Australia and New Zealand Regional Science Association International (ANZRSAI). The core theme of ANZRSAI conference is “Data Science in Regional Policy: Housing And Workforce Dynamic”, and it will be held on 1-2 December 2022 in CSU, Wagga Wagga Campus.
- The Adaptive Decision Forest paper published by Dr Gea Rahman and Prof Zahid Islam in Pattern Recognition has received two external recognitions: Dr Gea Rahman was (1) selected for the “Global Awards on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics" under the category of "Best Researcher Award",and (2) invited as an “Invited Speaker” at the Robotics & AI Research Conference (RoboAICon2023, 23 March 2023 to 25 March 2023, Rome, Italy). Congratulations!
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