Computer science
Overview
The Computer Science comprises of five research groups:
Our programs are designed to give talented students research skills for use in the real world. Studying with QUT may be the first step in your research career, or place you in a competitive position for entering the workforce.
Grants and projects
This is just a sample of our research activity in this area.
Student topics
We're looking for students to study these topics.
- Sound explorer
- 3D mosaicing of videos
- Rail road crossing monitoring
- Area covering mobile robots
- Touch screen noticeboard
- Data mining for eResearch
- Eco-sounds citizen science
- Technology for Tinker Tools
- Electronic koala collars
- Web Service Discovery
- Authentication for Small RF Devices
- Mobile environmental assessment tool
- Stair climbing learning with an hexapod robot
- Wikipedia Link Discovery
- Evolutionary Design and Optimisation
- Games design - various topics
- Personality and video game play
- Security-Critical Program Refactoring
- Videogames and Wellbeing
- Bioinformatics Research Projects
- Focussed semantic spaces for processing analogies in conceptual combination
- CFD and/or Math Library Implementation in Reconfigurable FPGA Hardware
- Using human word association data to enhance query expansion in information retrieval
- A new and more efficient method for calculating aggregated QoS values in web service composition and its implementation
- Recommendation Strategies based on user behaviour in online social networks
- Post-quantum cryptography
- Cross-Layer Design and Optimization for Wireless Network Applications
- A survey of the use of service oriented architecture in current IT systems
- Develop a bitwise library for the SUN T2 Niagara architecture
- A feasibility study of healthcare information technology randomised control trial
- Localization and mapping with a network of cameras
- Exploiting Design Patterns to Automatically Parallelize Programs
- Investigating the efficiency of alternative message-passing paradigms in C/C++ parallel code (Area: High Performance Computing)
- Exploiting Design Patterns to Automatically Parallelize Programs
- Acoustic sensing range analysis
- Developing a collision prevention application using extended perception
- Electronic voting for Australia
- Semi-automatic Inference of Ownership Types for Parallelization
- Image classification using re-construction cost
- Discovering Inherent Parallelisation using Dynamic Dependence Tracing
- Vehicle to Vehicle Communications and Positioning
- Enhanced Wikipedia Browser
- Automatic analysis of video streams for road safety
- XML Search Engine evaluation
- Streaking in a museum with an iPhone
- Secure Reprogramming of Sensor Networks
- Sensors for acoustic environmental monitoring
- A test-bed for information security research using cloud computing environments
- Privacy for Social Networks
- Secure smart grid test bed and vulnerability analysis
- Authorship Analysis of SMS Messages
- Wireless Sensor Network Emulator
- A navigation-based energy-efficient driving platform for electric vehicles
- Semantic Annotations to Discovered Knowledge
- Adaptive data processing in A/V sensor networks
- Image retrieval with soft computing
- Investigation of Model Marking and Subsetting
- Digital audio analysis for Violin e-tutor
- XML-RAMDisk (IT28 or IT29 Honours project)
- Document Signature based Search Engine
- Pattern recognition for underwater autonomous vehicles (UAV)
- Topic-based web document classification
- Investigation of Model Differencing and Merging
- Customer relationship management and sentiment analysis
- Rich-media: online collaboration, comment and annotation
- Sound analysis with granular computing
- Games4Good: exploring games as a tool for wellbeing
- Open Source Information Security Management
- Design of an Interactive Recommendation System
- Investigation of API Generation from O???O Models
- Investigation of automatic sound tagging techniques
- Tinkering with sustainability on an iPhone
- Data flow analysis of interrupt-driven embedded software
- Evolutionary Design and Optimisation in Cloud Computing
- A model of the videogame play experience
- Issues and barriers for women in the games industry
- Concurrent processing search engine (IT28 or IT29 Honours project)
- Multiple phase multi-media (image/audio) retrieval
- Secure sensors on the "web of things"
- Natural language processing for biomedical documents
- Beyond waggle: controlling video games with your brain
- Applying Model Checking to Asset Management Decision Support
- Implementation of a tag recommender system
- Computer vision/image processing in Reconfigurable FPGA Hardware
- Augmented Reality Virtual World Collaboration Tools
- Development of Text Mining System for Mining for Customer Opinions
- Semantic support for bioinformatics
- Sentiment Analysis on Social Media Text
- Formal Methods for Design and Verification of Real-Time and Embedded Systems
- RNG Implementation in Reconfigurable FPGA Hardware
- Vehicle to Vehicle Communication Network Simulator
- Bayesian methods about models of invasive species
- Novel approaches to developing recommender systems for the Web 2.0 environment
- Investigation of data mining techniques with environmental sound
- Communicating ecological processes with video games
- On-line assessment of creative works for funding allocations
- Control systems (SCADA) software development
- Model checking as a tool for finding or verifying bugs (IT28 or IT29 Honours project)
- Security and Human Behaviour Applied to Internet Banking
- Effective information security assurance management in contemporary organisations
- Visualisation of Information Security Metrics for Computer Program Code
- Distributed/Cooperative Computing for Reducing Computational Complexity in Bioinformatics
- Control-Theoretic Methods for Real-Time Scheduling and/or Network Access Control
- Physiological Measures of the Videogame Play Experience
- Virtual Infrastructure for Network Security Experimentation
- The use of EEG headsets to measure engagement during video game play
- GameFlow: modeling, understanding, and evaluating player enjoyment in games
- Theory and Applications of Delayed and/or Networked Control Systems
- Automated evaluation of rail level crossing incidents through video image processing
- Integrated wireless solutions for precise GNSS positioning services
- Technology/ media use in early childhood in Australia
- Trust Management and Information Sharing in Web-based Social Networks
- Design and analysis of cryptographic protocols
- Replicating human word association norms using corpus statistics
- Investigation of techniques for automatically generating literature review in English in computer science
- The Optimal Web Service Selection in Web Service Composition
- Evolutionary gateway placement in backbone wireless mesh networks
- Difference between traditional recommendation systems and people to people recommendations in online social networks
- Dataflow Analysis of a Security-Critical Network Design
- Investigate methods of satisfying reliability targets using new approaches to fail safety
- Disaster Management and Emergency Services over Wireless Sensor/Actuator Networks.
- Coordination and Networked Operation of Large Groups of Intelligent Agents
- Using domain name level authentication to defend against phishing emails
- Integrated Modelling and Design for Wireless Networked Control Systems
- Minimizing the Energy Consumption in Cloud Computing by Optimizing SaaS Placement
- Topics and opinion analysis for Twitter messages classification
- Positioning Services and Clock Synchronization through Wireless Data Networks
- Improvements and applications of zero knowledge protocols
- Cooperative Computing of Ad-Hoc Wireless Networks and GPS for Seamless Vehicle Navigation Services
- Cross-lingual Readability Measures for Education Materials
- Investigating the role of heterogeneity in spatial simulation (Area: Simulation Science)
- GameFlow: Modelling, understanding, and evaluating player enjoyment in games
- Focussed semantic spaces for processing analogies in conceptual combination
Research degree enquiries
Commercial research enquiries
Science and Engineering Faculty - Commercial Research and Corporate Education
- Phone: 3138 9948
- Int. phone: +61 3138 9948
- Email: sef.industryenquiry@qut.edu.au
