Research Conversazione 2011 Winners
Aerospace, Mechanical & Mechatronic Engineering
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
| Postgraduate | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1st Prize (Tom Svetiev Memorial Prize – presented by SEMF) | Ali Fathi | Fabrication of Porous Interpenetrated PLEOF/Gelatin Hydrogel for Bone Repair |
| 2nd Prize (StantonChase) | Aydin Berenjian | Extraction of Menaquinone-7 for Supplementation of food |
| 3rd Prize (ABMauri) | Rajab Khalilpour | Optimization of Postcombustion Carbon Capture Processes Integrated with Coal-Fired Power Plants |
| Postgraduate | ||
| 1st Prize (BOC Gases) | James Greer | Modelling and control of batch crystallization |
| 2nd Prize (Dow Chemical Company) | Jonathan Hammond | Kurnell Refinery Steam System Review |
| 3rd Prize (ICD Asia Pacific) | Alejandro Descarrega | Production of high value chemicals from the decomposition of biomass |
Civil Engineering
| The John Main Prize for Research in Civil Engineering - Undergraduate | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1st Prize: $500 | Annabel Davis & Bonney Emmett | The Behaviour of Lapped Z-Purlins in Combined Bending and Shear |
| 2nd Prize:$300 | Damian Ferdinando | Wind Power Mixing Devices in Reservoirs: Wave Overtopping |
| 3rd Prize:$200 | Jacek Rachocki | The Application of Breakage Mechanics in Modelling Secondary Fragmentation in Block Cave Mining |
| Michael Fraczak & Michael Saba | Anchorage Behaviour of Corroded Friction Rock Stabilisers | |
| Annie B Wilson Prize for Research in Civil Engineering - Postgraduate | ||
| 1st Prize: $300 | Benjy Marks | Polydisperse Granular Segregation |
| 1st Prize: $250 | Shiao Huey Chow | Free Falling Penetrometer Tests into Clay |
| 1st Prize: $200 | Kate McDonnell | Nanoengineering Nanotubes: Improvement of Bundled Properties |
Electrical & Information Engineering
| Undergraduate | ||
|---|---|---|
| ABB Prize for Power Engineering - Undergraduate | Alan Luc | The Performance of Iec 61850 Goose Messaging |
| Ausgrid Prize for Power Engineering - Undergraduate | Li Ma | Grid-Connected Photovoltaic System |
| Dulhuntly Power Prize for Potential for Commercialisation - Undergraduate | Andrew Scott | Losses of Transportable Grid Storage |
| Fujitsu Prize for Computer Engineering | Shuning Bian | A Novel Low Cost Device for Infant Fat Monitoring |
| Leighton Holdings Prize for Collaboration with Industry – Undergraduate | Fergus Tang | |
| Microsoft Prize for Software Engineering - Undergraduate | Eric Man | Scaling Machine Algorithms |
| NHP Prize for Digital Systems and Electronics | Adam Bynes | |
| NICTA Prize for Next Generation Applications (Telecoms) | Praveen Paul | Optically Controlled Phased Array Networks (Poster not avalable) |
| ResMed Prize for Biomedical Engineering – Undergraduate | Shuning Bian | A Novel Low Cost Device for Infant Fat Monitoring |
| Telstra Prize for Potential for Commercialisation (Telecoms) – Undergraduate | Merrilyn James | GIC & Three Phase Power Transformers |
| Transgrid Prize for Potential for Commercialisation - Undergraduate | Reneil Sabater | DC-DC Uninterruptible Power Supply |
| Tyree Industries Prize for Electrical Engineering – Undergraduate | Stephen Phan | Core Functionalities for User Modelling Ecosystems |
| Win a Lenovo ThinkPad Competition – Undergraduate | Shuning Bian | A Novel Low Cost Device for Infant Fat Monitoring |
| Postgraduate | ||
| Ausgrid Prize for Power Engineering – Postgraduate | Boyang Hu | A New Interleaving Technique for PV Systems to Reduce Ripples of Battery Charging Current |
| Dulhuntly Power Prize for Energy Technology - Postgraduate | Wenzhu Huang & Di Zhang | Grid-Com Demo Systemdi Zhang |
| Leighton Holdings Prize for Collaboration with Industry – Postgraduate | Wenzhu Huang & Di Zhang | |
| Microsoft Prize for Software Engineering - Postgraduate | Jingyu Zhang | A Service Oriented Mobile-Cloud Framework for Biodefence Research |
| ResMed Prize for Biomedical Engineering – Postgraduate | Tony Barry | Measurements In A Phantom For Cardiac Electrosurgery |
| Singtel Optus Prize for telecommunications Engineering | Charbel Antoun | Smart House Energy Management System: A Mixed-Integer Linear Programming Approach |
| Telstra Prize for Potential for Commercialisation – Postgraduate | Neda Aboutorab | Channel Estimation and ICI Cancellation for High Mobility MIMO-OFDM Systems |
| Transgrid Prize for Potential for Commercialisation - Postgraduate | Yang Du | A Study on the Harmonic Issues at CSIRO Microgrid |
| Tyree Industries Prize for Electrical Engineering – Postgraduate | Liwei Li | New Microwave Photonic Filter Based on Dispersion Controlled Technique |
| Win a Lenovo ThinkPad Competition – Postgraduate | Neda Aboutorab | Channel Estimation and ICI Cancellation for High Mobility MIMO-OFDM Systems |
School of Information Technologies
| Undergraduate | ||
|---|---|---|
| IBM Prize for 4th Year Project Work (Information Systems) | Jacqueline Chan | The role of IT patterned Interactions among key Management Strategies : implications for ITBV |
| Microsoft Prize for 4th Year Project Work (Computer Science) | Tak Wai Derek Chan | Interaction with large Screen Displays using Computer Vision and depth Information |
| Amadeus Prize for 4th Year Project Work (Computer Science) | Stephen Merity | Improved Pruning and Supertagging via shift-reduce CCG Parsing |
| Postgraduate | ||
| Macquarie Group Prize for Research Project Work Within a Masters by Coursework degree | Goodal Nyirenda | Automated visual tracking of Tumour Evolution using temporal PET-CT data |
| Smart Services CRC Prize for Research Project Work (Computer Science) | John Stavrakakis | Full Shaded Surface Reconstruction for Realtime Remote 3D Graphics |
| Smart Services CRC Prize for Research Project Work (Information Systems) | Pei Dong | Real-Time Moving Object Segmentation and Tracking for H.264/AVC Surveillance Videos |
| NICTA Prize for Research Project Work (Computer Science) | Livio Constantinescu | |