About Us
The Biomedical & Multimedia Information Technology (BMIT) Research Group was established in 1996, and brings together an outstanding team of interdisciplinary research experts working at the forefront of international research in several focused and interconnected areas as shown in the following diagram. This group has 20 staff members with complementary skills from university, industry and hospital backgrounds, as well as many research students. The group works as a team, attracting an average of 2 million Australian dollars in grant money from competitive external research grant bodies and publishing over 200 high quality papers in every 3-year timeframe. More importantly, many of our research results have significant scientific impact and social benefit. Our collaborative structure and industry links facilitate the application of our research outcomes to the healthcare system and multimedia industry. The group has become a leading research facility recognized internationally for its high quality work.
The BMIT Research Group benefits from local collaborative links with the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (RPAH) and other leading hospitals as well as top multinational companies, such as Microsoft and IBM. The group also benefits from international collaborative links with top institutions in Asia, Europe and the USA. Most of our research students spend part of their research time working in the best hospitals, top industrial research institutions and other prestigious universities at home or abroad. They also have the opportunity to work with distinguished academic visitors to our group. As a result, some of our Honours students have been able to publish in first class international journals and some of our postgraduate students have been able to develop innovative research proposals and business plans highly regarded by industry.
The BMIT Research Group has also played a major role in organizing a number of major international conferences and other events, which our students have had the opportunity to participate and be engaged in, allowing them to develop their organization, management and leadership skills, in addition to technical skills. Our graduates are very competitive and successful. Some have received awards/prizes during their study (e.g., honorable mention at the young investigator awards of SNM’06 - a major international meeting in Nuclear Medicine with around 5000 attendees; an IEEE-EMBS’07 student paper award open finalist; the IBM Fellowship, Microsoft Fellowship and ARC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship); some of them are now working as full professors in universities, as senior researchers in world-leading research labs, or as senior industrial leaders. We have ensured that our team provides a stimulating intellectual environment to train the next generation to the highest international standards.
(David) Dagan Feng, Professor, Ph.D, FACS, FATSE, FHKIE, FIEE, FIEEE
Director, Biomedical and Information Technology (BMIT) Research Group
School of Information Technologies, J12
University of Sydney
Australia, 2006
