Chief Investigators

Dr Andrew Treloar has a B.A. (Hons - first class), majoring in Germanic Languages and Linguistics, a Grad. Dip. in computer science, and an M. A. with the topic "A Computer-assisted analysis of characterisation in Virginia Woolf's 'The Waves'", all from Melbourne University. In 1999 he received his Ph. D. from Monash University with the topic 'Hypermedia Online Publishing - Transformation of the Scholarly Journal'.

Andrew is currently Director, Information Management and Strategic Planning within Information Technology Services at Monash University. A major part of this role is implementing the Monash University Information Management Strategy. He is also the ARROW Technical Architect and DART Project Architect. He has held a number of management roles within ITS in the Web and Internet technologies area.

For much of his career he was an IT academic, rising to the rank of Senior Lecturer in Information Management at Deakin University. He has taught extensively in the areas of the Internet, database management, project management and electronic information sources.

He has also consulted in Australia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, South Korea and Fiji.

His research areas include institutional repositories and scholarly communication.

He never gets enough time for practising his cello, reading, talking to his chooks, or working in his vegetable garden. Further details at http://andrew.treloar.net/.>

Dr Asad Khan has over 10 years of experience in research, design, development and management of networks, computers and software systems. This includes hosting enterprise applications, supporting Internet services, developing messaging infrastructure, network support systems, data storage services and research applications. He was among the conveners of the HPC Group at Monash University and currently maintains a consultative role within the University's IT Services Division.

He is the co-founder and sponsor of the Monash SunGrid Project, which provides Grid computing to a number of world class research projects including climate change modeling, protein crystallography, grid computing test-bed and financial modeling applications. In 1995 he co-authored one of the first books on parallel finite element computations. He has 30 Journal and Conference publications in the areas of parallel computations, pattern recognition, artificial intelligence, Grid computing and server-less (P2P) applications.

He has been an invited speaker at a number of international universities and NATO Advance Research Workshops and has been awarded a number of research grants and industrial contracts from Science and Engineering Research Council (UK), British Gas, Marine Technology Directorate (UK), Alphawest, Sun Microsystems, Australian Research Council (ARC) and Department of Education Science & Technology (DEST). The current research areas include work on server-less (P2P) and wireless sensor networks, grid computing and pattern recognition. Dr Khan was awarded a Ph D from Heriot Watt University Edinburgh in 1994, for 'Computational Schemes for Parallel Finite Element Analysis'. He also has an MSc from the same university, awarded in 1990 in Structural Engineering, with distinction. His first degree was a BSc (1st class) from the University of Engineering & Technology, Lahore in 1980.

Ann Monotti is the author (with Sam Ricketson) of the book 'Universities and Intellectual Property, Ownership and Exploitation', Oxford University Press, UK, 2003. She has published widely in both Australian and European journals on intellectual property related issues. She is an Australian correspondent for the European Intellectual Property Review and a member of the Editorial Board for the International Journal of Information Policy and Law.

She is member of the Monash University Faculty of Law being Associate Dean (Research) in 2004 and is Associate Dean (Postgraduate Studies) in 2006. She is a member of the Intellectual Property Committee of the Law Council of Australia. She has won several research grants to pursue research in relation to universities and ownership of intellectual property access to and protection of biomedical research materials.

Professor Abramson has been involved in computer architecture and high performance computing research since 1979. Previous to joining Monash University in 1997, he has held appointments at Griffith University, CSIRO, and RMIT. At CSIRO he was the program leader of the Division of Information Technology High Performance Computing Program, and was also an adjunct Associate Professor at RMIT in Melbourne. He was also a program manager in the Co-operative Research Centre for Intelligent Decisions Systems and the Co-operative Research Centre for Enterprise Distributed Systems.

Abramson is currently a professor of Computer Science in the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University, Australia.

Abramson has chaired a number of international conferences, and has published over 120 papers and technical documents. He has given seminars and received awards around Australia and internationally and has received over $3.6 million in research grants. He also has a keen interest in R&D commercialization and is involved with Axceleon Inc, who produce an industry strength version of Nimrod, and Guardsoft, a company focused on commercialising the Guard relative debugger.

Abramson’s current interests are in high performance computer systems design and software engineering tools for programming parallel, distributed supercomputers and stained glass windows.

Ian leads the VeRG or Visualisation, and e-Research Grid Laboratory at James Cook University, Townsville (JCU), Queensland. VeRG is involved in research into Grid technologies, both in terms of internal design and methodology, and in terms of novel applications in support of collaborative investigations in the sciences and humanities. Ian is also the JCU Manager of High Performance Computing.

Jane Hunter is a Professorial Research Fellow at the School of Information and Electrical Engineering at the University of Queensland. Since completing a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge in 1994, she worked as a senior research fellow and project leader at the Distributed Systems Technology CRC - investigating the knowledge management of mixed-media data repositories using semantic web technologies. In particular she has developed metadata schemas, ontologies, indexing and annotation tools, plus search and integration interfaces for large mixed-media collections within educational, cultural and scientific domains.

Between 1999 and 2002, she was a Chief Investigator on the Harmony International Digital Library project (jointly funded by the NSF, JISC and DEST) which developed the ABC ontology adopted by MIT's DSpace system. In 2000-2001 she was Head of Australia's delegation to MPEG (Moving Pictures Experts Group), an editor of the ISO/IEC MPEG-7 standard for multimedia content description and co-chair of two MPEG-7 Working Groups. Over the past five years, she has been a member of the Dublin Core Advisory Board, the W3C's XML Schema and Web Ontology Working Groups and the Internet2 Middleware VidMid/ViDe working group, plus the liaison between MPEG and the W3C.

In 2001-2002, she was an Inaugural Queensland-Smithsonian Fellow and worked with the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) developing an Indigenous knowledge management system. She is currently a member of the DELOS Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries Working Party on Knowledge Extraction and Semantic Interoperability and co-chair of APAN's (Asia Pacific Advanced Network) e-Science working group. She is on the Editorial Board of IEEE Multimedia, the Elsevier Journal of Web Semantics and the International Journal of Digital Curation, plus on the programme committees of numerous international conferences associated with semantic web and digital libraries. Over the past five years she has published four book chapters, 10 (peer-reviewed) international journal papers and 25 (peer-reviewed) international conference papers in the areas of multimedia digital libraries and the semantic web.

Professor Xiaofang Zhou joined the University of Queensland in 1999. He is the Research Director and the Acting Network Convenor of ARC Research Network in Enterprise Information Infrastructure (EII) and is also a Chief Investigator of ARC Centre in Bioinformatics.  Dr. Zhou received his BSc and MSc degrees in Computer Science from Nanjing University in 1984 and 1987 respectively, and PhD in Computer Science from the University of Queensland in 1994.

From 1994 to 1999, he worked as a Senior Research Scientist and Project Leader in CSIRO. He has also held visiting positions in University of Tokyo, National University of Singapore, Microsoft Research Asia and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. His research interests include spatial information systems, high performance query processing, Web information systems, multimedia databases, data mining, bioinformatics and e-Research.