People

 

Listed here are the current staff, postgraduate students, honorary associates and research fellows who make up the Intelligent Systems Group.

Academic staff

Dr. Peter Busch

Dr. Peter Busch [Faculty Member; PhD Computer Science, 2004, Macquarie University, Australia] Knowledge Management, Knowledge Acquisition and Reuse, Qualitative Modelling, Organisational Learning.

Dr. Abhaya Nayak

Dr. Abhaya Nayak [Faculty Member; PhD Philosophy, 1994, Rochester University, USA] Belief Revision, Nonmonotonic Reasoning, Reasoning about Action, and Intelligent Information Assimilation.

Dr. Mehmet A. Orgun

Dr. Mehmet A. Orgun [Faculty Member; PhD Computer Science, 1991, University of Victoria (UVic), Canada] Intelligent agents amd multi-agent systems, temporal reasoning, knowledge discovery and dataflow computation.

Prof. Shoba Ranganathan

Prof. Shoba Ranganathan [Professor of Bioinformatics, Department of Chemistry (Macquarie); PhD Chemistry, 1983, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi] Computational Structural Biology, Comparative Genome Sequence Analysis.

Dr. Deborah  Richards

Dr. Deborah Richards [Faculty Member; PhD Computer Science, 1999, University of New South Wales, Australia] Knowledge management, ripple down rules.

Dr. Yan Wang

Dr. Yan Wang [Faculty Member; Doctorate Degree of Engineering in Computer Science and Technology , 1996, Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), P. R. China ] Trusted computing, mobile agents, social networks, web services, security, e-commerce.

Dr. Jian Yang

Dr. Jian Yang [Faculty Member; PhD Multidatabase Systems, 1995, The Australian National University] Web service technology; business process management; interoperability, trust and security issues in digital libraries and e-commerce; social networks.

Postgraduate students

Oldooz Dianat

Oldooz Dianat [PhD Student] Bayesian games, epistemic logics, model checking.

Md. Abul Kalam Farhad

Md. Abul Kalam Farhad [MRes Student] Data mining.

Mahmud Hasan

Mahmud Hasan [PhD Student, Macquarie University, Australia] Semantic web, information extraction, ontologies.

Armin Hezart

Armin Hezart [PhD Student, Macquarie University, Australia] Coalition in a multi-agent system, knowledge formation and representation.

Sudath Heiyanthuduwage

Sudath Heiyanthuduwage [PhD Student] E-learning systems, ontologies, description logics.

Kalyan Janakiraman

Kalyan Janakiraman [PhD Student] Spatio-temporal reasoning, image analysis.

Hong Lai

Hong Lai [PhD Student] Quantum cryptography, security.

Rock Mei

Rock Mei [PhD Student] Social networks, recommender systems.

Raj Shrestha

Raj Shrestha [MRes Student] Data mining.

Xiaoming Zheng

Xiaoming Zheng [PhD Student] Trusted computing, social networks, recommender systems.

Associates & Fellows

Dr. Shermin Akhter

Dr. Shermin Akhter [Honorary Associate; PhD Computer Science, 2012, Macquarie University, Australia] Gene mapping, machine learning.

Dr. Lee Flax

Dr. Lee Flax [Senior Research Fellow; PhD Computer Science, 2003, Macquarie University, Australia] Logic, hamming distance between formulae, belief revision.

Dr. Norman Foo

Dr. Norman Foo [Honorary Associate (UNSW); PhD Computer Science, 1974, University Of Michigan, USA] logic and model theory applied to areas in descending order of priority - artificial intelligence, systems theory, and software correctness.

Dr. Dzung Le

Dr. Dzung Le [Honorary Associate; PhD Computer Science, 2012, Macquarie University, Australia] Semi-structured Databases, Query Optimization.

Dr. Chuchang Liu

Dr. Chuchang Liu [Honorary Associate (DSTO); PhD Computer Science, 1999, Macquarie University, Australia] Formal methods, secure computing, temporal logic.

Dr. Wei Qiang Lin

Dr. Wei Qiang Lin [Honorary Associate (ATO); PhD Computer Science, 2004, Macquarie University, Australia] Temporal data-mining, deductive databases.

Dr Leszek Maciaszek

Dr Leszek Maciaszek [Honorary Associate; PhD University of Economics, Wroclaw, Poland, 1977] Enterprise information systems, databases, object technology, and software engineering.

Bhavna Orgun

Bhavna Orgun [Honorary Associate, MSc(Hons), 2003, Macquarie University, Australia] Ontology negotiation protocols, multi-agent systems, machine learning.

Dr. Morri Pagnucco

Dr. Morri Pagnucco [Honorary Associate (UNSW / NICTA); PhD Computer Science, 1996, University of Sydney , Australia] Belief revision, reasoning about actions, computational aspects, approaches to abduction/explanation, theory revision and scientific theory formation.

Dr. Yusuf Pisan

Dr. Yusuf Pisan [Honorary Associate (UTS); PhD Computer Science, 1998, Northwestern University, USA] Interactive Entertainment and Computer Games, Computer Graphics, Diagrammatic Reasoning, Qualitative Reasoning, Planning, and Software Engineering.

Dr. Mikhail Prokopenko

Dr. Mikhail Prokopenko [Honorary Associate (CSIRO); PhD Computer Science, 2001, Macquarie University, Australia] Entropy and self-organisation in complex multi-agent systems and networks, artificial life and distributed artificial intelligence, logic of actions, and autonomous reasoning systems.

Dr. Liyin Xue

Dr. Liyin Xue [Honorary Associate (ATO); PhD Computer Science, 2003, Macquarie University, Australia] Data mining, real time collaborative editing systems.

Dr. Kebing Zhang

Dr. Kebing Zhang [Honorary Associate; PhD Computer Science, 2008, Macquarie University, Australia] Visual data mining, visual programming.