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The Group comprises
members of the academic staff, both departmental and external
affiliates, and research students including PhD., Masters by
Research, and Honors.
Program Leader
Associate Professor Wenny Rahayu
Dr. Rahayu has been
actively working in the areas of database design and implementation
covering object-relational databases, web and e-commerce databases,
semi-structured databases and XML, semantic web and ontology, data
warehousing, and parallel databases. She has worked with industry
and expertise from other disciplines in a number of projects
including bioinformatics databases, parallel data mining, and
e-commerce catalogues. Her PhD thesis has been awarded the Best PhD
Thesis in Australia by the Computer Science Association of Australia
in 2001.
In 2003, Dr. Rahayu received the Dean's award for excellence in
Teaching . She has been invited to give seminars in the area of
e-commerce databases in a number of international institutions. She
supervises a number of PhD students in these areas. She publishes
extensively every year, including three books (one authored and two
edited). She is currently holding a number of large grants,
including grants from the ARC Linkage for an ontology-based
multi-site development system and VPAC Expertise for the
implementation of parallel ontology derivation algorithms. She has
also published over 70 papers in international journals and
conferences.
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External
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Research Students
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Bhatt, Mehul,
PhD.
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Flahive, Andrew, PhD.
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Jethwani, Paras, Honors.
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Le, Dzung, Masters
by Coursework-Research
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Li, Xi (Sean), Honors.
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Lim, Geraldine, Masters by
Research
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Mickhail, Mary, Honors.
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Nassis, Vicky, PhD.
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Nguyen, Quang, Masters
by Coursework-Research
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Pardede, Eric, PhD.
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Robinson, Andrew, PhD.
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Rusu, Laura, PhD.
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Singh, Dalbir, Masters
by Coursework-Research
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Singh, Jotpal, Masters by
Coursework-Research
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Wouters, Carlo, PhD.
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Phone: +61 3 9479 1280
Office Location: PS I, 201
Email:
mbhatt@cs.latrobe.edu.au
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PhD Candidate
Biography
Mr. Bhatt is studying
for a PhD. (commenced April 2004) at the Department
of Computer Science at La Trobe University,
Australia. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce &
Economics degree (BCom, April 2001) from Narsee
Monjee College of Commerce & Economics, Mumbai
University (India) and a Master of Information
Technology (MIT, November 2003) degree from La Trobe
University (Australia). Mr. Bhatt started his
research career as a research scholar at the
Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Group,
University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia) by
way of a National ICT (NICTA) sponsored scholarship.
He extended his internship experience toward his
honours thesis, where he applied a high-level logic
based approach for control in dynamic environments,
focusing on the deliberative aspects of agency in
such environments. In this context, the exemplar of
a simulated soccer environment was used as an
experimental test-bed. Mr. Bhatt has also held
research assistant/programmer positions at La Trobe
University and in that capacity, has contributed
towards various (funded) projects centered around
the use of Ontologies for knowledge representation –
Key results in this context being the development of
a distributed architecture for the extraction of a
sub-ontology from a large-scale base ontology and
the development of an Synthetic Environment Data
Representation Ontology (called sedOnto) with
potential applications in the Environment and
Defence Modeling and Simulation sector. Towards his
PhD. research, Mehul currently maintains an
interdisciplinary interest in the area of Ontologies,
Qualitative Simulation (QS), Qualitative Spatial
reasoning (QSR) and Reasoning about Action & Change
(RAC). On the recreational front, Mehul can be found
in the company of good books & films in his spare
(as well as not so spare) time.
Research Interests
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Qualitative Simulation
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Qualitative Spatial Reasoning
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Reasoning about action and change
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Ontologies and
Semantic Web Technologies
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Distributed Simulation Systems & Interoperability Issues
Personal Website:
http://homepage.cs.latrobe.edu.au/mbhatt/
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Phone:+61 3 9479 1408
Office Location: BG 211
Email: apflahive@latrobe.edu.au
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PhD Candidate
Biography
Between 1998 and 2002,
Mr. Flahive
studied a double degree in Engineering (Electronics) and Computer
Science (Honors) at La Trobe University. In 2003 Andrew accepted candidature at La Trobe University to complete his PhD in Computer
Science. Andrews main research is in the area of Grid Computing,
Semantic Web and Ontology Tailoring. Some of his other research areas
include: Web Search Engines, Product Catalog Databases, Web and
E-Commerce Databases, Distributed Computing and Parallel Algorithms.
Since 2003, Andrew has had several International publications in Books,
Journals and Conference Proceedings. Throughout 2005 Andrew will continue
publishing his work and aims to completed his PhD in early 2006.
Currently he is investigating the Web Services Resource Framework (WSRF)
as well as the upcoming Globus Toolkit 4 (GT4) that will be using the
WSRF. He will be attempting to apply previous work in Ontology tailoring
in the Grid to the GT4 and the WSRF. Later in 2005 Andrew hopes to be
well on the way to writing up his PhD Thesis.
Research Interests
Personal Website:
http://homepage.cs.latrobe.edu.au//
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Phone:+61 3 9479 1408
Office Location: BG 211
Email:
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Honors
Biography
Research Interests Personal Website:
http://homepage.cs.latrobe.edu.au//
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Phone:+61 3 9479 1408
Office Location: BG 211
Email:
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Masters by Coursework-Research
Biography
Research Interests Personal Website:
http://homepage.cs.latrobe.edu.au//
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Office Location: None
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Honors Student
Biography
Mr. Li has finished his honors
degree of information system in Department of Computer Science and
Engineering. His thesis topic is about Ontology Web Information
retrieval techniques and web search engine which aims to build one
semantic web search engine based on ontology knowledge based.
He is now working in the areas of Bioinformatics database design and web
interface design and the implementation of Ontology web based search
engine.
Research Interests
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Ontology Based Information Retrieval
Technology
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Ontology Database Management and
Development
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Object-Oriented Design Method in C++
and Java.
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Bioinformatics Web Interface Design
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Software developing life cycle and
CASE.
Personal Website:
http://homepage.cs.latrobe.edu.au//
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Phone: None
Office Location: None
Email:ga2lim@students.latrobe.edu.au
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Masters by Research
Biography
Ms. Lim is currently
studying for a Masters by Research degree at La
Trobe University. She gained a Bachelor
Bioinformatics/Science (Hons) degree from La Trobe
University wherein she majored in Biochemistry &
Computer Science. Ms. Lim is currently working in
the area of bioinformatics and is pursuing her
research on the assessment of genetic map viewers
and their integration with EnsEMBL.
Research Interests
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Bioinformatics
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Metabolics Data
Personal Website:
http://homepage.cs.latrobe.edu.au//
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Honors Student
Biography
Ms. Mickhail is currently studying
for a Bachelor of Computer Science (Hons) degree at La Trobe University.
Ms. Mickhail has previously held various positions in the industry
mainly involving work as a IT consultant (user interface design,
software testing) and has also been lecturing at the Information
Technology Department, Chisholm Institute (Dandenong). Her honors thesis
investigates design techniques for mobile user interfaces.
Research Interest:
User
Interface Design and Development
Personal Website:
http://homepage.cs.latrobe.edu.au//
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Phone: +61 3 9479 3056
Office Location:
PS-2, Room 304
Email:
vnassis@cs.latrobe.edu.au
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PhD Candidate
Biography
Miss Vicky Nassis
received her degrees on Bachelor of Information
Systems and Bachelor of Business from La Trobe
University in Australia and is currently a PhD
student within the school of Computer Science and
Computer Engineering at the same university. Her
research interests include Object-Oriented
conceptual models, XML and data warehousing. Her
thesis is concerned with the conceptual design of
document warehouses in integration with XML (eXtreme
Markup Language). She has been examining techniques
to overcome some of the problems encountered during
the conceptual design process. She has also been
involved in exploring the issues of XML and its use
in handling publications over the web. She has had
publications in the proceedings of international
conferences, in the field of data warehousing and
knowledge discovery, web systems and intelligence as
well as a journal publication in the subject of data
warehousing and mining.
Research Interests
Personal Website:
http://homepage.cs.latrobe.edu.au/~vnassis/
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Nguyen, Quang
Phone: +61 (0) 411 843 118
Office Location:
Email: h20nguyen@cs.latrobe.edu.au
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Masters by Research
Biography
Mr. Nguyen is studying Master of
Computer Science degree at La Trobe University. He has obtained strong
experience in database design and object-oriented software development.
He has also focused on some areas of software engineering such as
software quality assurance, project management and estimation.
Research Interests
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XML Databases
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Object-Oriented
Software Development
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Object-Relational Transformation Methodology
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Software
Engineering: Software Quality Assurance, Project Management and
Estimation
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Design Patterns
Personal Website:
http://homepage.cs.latrobe.edu.au/h20nguyen/
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Phone: +61 3 9779 1280
Office Location: PS I, 201
Email: ekpardede@cs.latrobe.edu.au
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PhD Candidate
Biography
Mr. Pardede is currently doing his
Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science at La Trobe University under
the supervision of Dr. Wenny Rahayu of La Trobe University and Dr. David
Taniar of Monash University. His research area is in XML Databases
and Internet Computing. From the same university he received his Master
of Information Technology in 2002. He also holds a Master of Quality
Management (U. Wollongong) and a Bachelor of Engineering (Inst. Tek.
Bandung) degrees.
Research Interests
Personal Website:
http://homepage.cs.latrobe.edu.au/ekpardede/
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Phone: +61 3 9479 1408
Office Location: PS I, 201
Email: aj5robinson@cs.latrobe.edu.au
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PhD Candidate
Biography
Mr. Robinson has been actively
working in the areas of web, XML and Genomic databases, semantic web and
ontology. He has worked in the industry in the areas of Software
Engineering and Bioinformatics. In 2002, Mr. Robinson received an award
for Best academic results in Software Engineering. In 2000 he received
induction to the Golden Key Honors society and awarded in Dean's Honors
List at La Trobe.
Research Interests
Personal Website:
http://homepage.cs.latrobe.edu.au//
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Office Location:
None
Email: lirusu@@cs.latrobe.edu.au
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PhD Candidate
Biography
Ms. RUSU received her
B.Sc. (Computer Science) in 1996 and a M.Ec. in
1997, both from The Academy of Economic Studies,
Bucharest, Romania. Currently, she is studying for a
PhD at La Trobe University, Australia, where her
areas of interest are XML data warehousing and XML
data mining. During 2004, Mrs. Laura Rusu worked as
an Associate Lecturer at La Trobe University.
Research Interests
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XML Data Warehouses
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XML Data Mining
Personal Website:
http://homepage.cs.latrobe.edu.au//
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Phone:
Office Location:
Email: dsbijral@cs.latrobe.edu.au
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Masters
of Computer Science (Coursework-Research)
Biography
Mr. Singh is working on the major
thesis as part of the course. The topic for the thesis is "Indexing for
XML databases". He has recently contributed towards the successful
completion of major development project for Infoin Pty Ltd.
The project was on development of an Online Backup System. Mr. Singh has
also been the recipient of an Outstanding Database Designer amongst
competing teams involved in a similar project. He is actively involved
in tutoring a third year course on, "Advance Database Programming". He
is also the representative for masters/honors students in the Department
of Computer Science and Engineering at La Trobe University.
Research Interests
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XML Databases
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XML Data
Warehouse
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Enterprise
Computing
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Web Services
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Computer
Education
Personal Website:
http://homepage.cs.latrobe.edu.au//
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Office Location:
None
Email: j16singh@cs.latrobe.edu.au
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Masters
of Computer Science (Coursework-Research)
Biography
Mr. Singh is
currently enrolled in the Master of Computer Science
course. His previous academic qualification includes
a Bachelor of Technology (Computer Science) from
India. Mr. Singh has work experience in the area of
web development using technologies such as J2EE,
PHP, ASP.NET etc. He is currently working on two
projects involving Web content management using
Oracle 10g and Database development for a Health
Management System.
Research Interests
Personal Website:
http://homepage.cs.latrobe.edu.au/j16singh/
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Wouters, Carlo
Phone:
Office Location:
Email: @cs.latrobe.edu.au
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PhD Candidate
Biography
Research Interests
Personal Website:
http://homepage.cs.latrobe.edu.au//
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