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ISSNIP PhD/ECR Forum

The Fifth International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing ISSNIP 2009 held under the umbrella of the ARC Research Network on ISSNIP is an annual forum for sensor network research.

The ISSNIP PhD/ECR Forum, taking place within the ISSNIP 2009 conference, is an opportunity for PhD students and early career researchers (ECR - five or fewer years post PhD) to present preliminary results and works in progress to a conference audience of leading international researchers. This is a valuable opportunity to seek feedback on outstanding research questions, generate exposure for current research programs and establish new collaborative research links.

The forum will feature a poster session, a demonstration session and a panel session:

• Poster session: The poster session enables participants to display their work to an international conference audience.

• Demos: Provides an opportunity for participants to present working demonstrations of their current research.

• Panel session: A panel session will be held as part of the forum, looking into the issues, challenges and benefits of collaborative research and how to develop and sustain such links.

Posters and demos addressing the following areas (but not limited to) are invited:

• Intelligent Sensors:
  • Micro, nanosensors, MEMS and other novel senor technologies.
  • Other sensor networks embedded technologies.
• Sensor Networks:
  • Sensor Network Security and Intrusion Detection.
  • Network Scheduling and Optimization.
  • Sensor Fusion, Tracking and Localization.
  • Protocols in Sensor Networks.
  • Multimedia Sensor Network.
  • Body Area Networks.
  • Sensor Networks in Healthcare.
  • Environmental Monitoring using Sensor Networks.
  • Intelligent Transportation System.
  • Bioinspired Sensor Networks.
  • Large Scale Sensor Network Deployment.
  • Other Sensor Network Applications.
• Information Processing in Sensor Networks:
  • Coding, Compression and Information Theory.
  • Data Processing, Storage and Management.
  • Middleware in Sensor Networks.
  • Distributed Information Processing.
  • Fault Tolerance and Identification.
  • Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning in Sensor Networks.
  • Networked Sensing and Control.
  • Embedded Software for Sensor Networks.
  • Sensor Network Signal Processing and Data Modelling.
  • Energy Efficient Algorithms.
  • Other sensor information processing topics.

Forum Speaker Profiles:

The panel session is titled "Successful Research Collaboration in a Competitive World". Collaborative research involves people/organisations working together to achieve a particular research outcome. This helps converge different ideas and expertise from different disciplines to yield a synergetic research output. Nowadays, collaboration plays an important role not only in winning competitive grants but addressing critical interdisciplinary challenges. Initiating collaboration between researchers, research organisations and industry, evolving and sustaining such links can be challenging, especially for early career researchers. The ISSNIP PhD/ECR forum features a panel session consisting of leading international researchers, who will share their experience on initiating, sustaining and managing such collaboration from the unique perspectives of the different disciplines.

The panel is comprised of the following speakers:

Prof Mohan Kumar: Computer Science & Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington, USA.

Since Spring 2001, Kumar has been with CSE@UTA. He is also an adjunct professor at the Curtin University of Technology, Perth Australia. His current research interests are in pervasive computing, opportunistic networks and computing, wireless networks and mobility, mobile agents and distributed computing. He initiated pervasive computing research activities at CSE@UTA in 2001 and directs the Pervasive and Invisible Computing (PICO) lab. He is the lead PI in two recently funded NSF awards: Collaborative virtual observation in dynamic, heterogeneous environments; and Distributed Opportunistic Computing. He is a Co-PI in a recently funded project by the AFRL on Middleware for Dynamic Distributed Repositories and the NSF funded ARCADIA project. He was the lead PI in the NSF funded PICO project on the development of middleware services for pervasive computing. Current research work includes the application of pervasive computing into such areas as telemedicine, manufacturing and security. He has published over 150 refereed articles in journals and conference proceedings. He co-founded the IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing (PerCom) and the Elsevier's Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal. He served as the Program Chair, PerCom 2003 and the General Chair, PerCom 2005, and he is currently the Chair of the PerCom Steering Committee. Mohan is a senior member of the IEEE. He received the Vice-Chancellor's Excellence Award in 1999.

Prof Subhash Challa: Prinicipal Reseacher, NICTA, The University of Melbourne, Australia.

Prof. Subhash Challa received PhD from Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia in 1999. Part of his PhD was completed at Harvard Robotics Lab, Harvard University, Boston, USA. Prof. Challa is a senior prinicipal reseacher at National Information and Communication Technology Australia (NICTA) where he leads a major ICT for Life sciences projects. Between 2003-2007, he was the Proessor of Computer Systems at UTS, Sydney and led the Networked Sensor Technologies Lab (NeST). He was a Tan-Chun-Tau Fellow at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 2002-2003 and also senior research fellow at the University of Melbourne where he led a number of tracking and data fusion projects in collaboration with DSTO, DARPA, BAE, Raytheon, Tenix Defense, Thales, RTA, NSW Police and others. He has been the plenary, tutorial and invited speaker at various information fusion and sensor network conferences worldwide, including IDC 2007 (Adelaide, Australia), Sensors Expo 2006 (Chicago, USA), ISSNIP conferences ( 2005, 2004) and Fusion Conferences (2003, 2005, 2006). He is co-authoring of reference text "Fundamentals of Object Tracking," to be published by Cambridge University Press, UK. He is also the associate editor of the Journal of Advances in Information fusion. He has published about 70 papers in various International journals and conferences.

Prof Paul Havinga: Faculty of EWI, The University of Twente, The Netherlands.

Prof. Paul Havinga is with the Pervasive Systems group in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Twente, the Netherlands. His research has resulted in over 180 scientific publications in journals and conferences. He made a broad range of contributions to the research of wireless sensor networks (WSNs), including but not limited to operating system architectures, middleware, medium access control, routing, service discovery, data aggregation, cross-layer optimization, localization, security and various applications of WSNs.He serves as a program committee chair, member, and reviewer for many conferences and workshops. He is regularly invited for keynote presentations on his work. He regularly serves as an independent expert to review and evaluate international research projects for the EU, US and other governments.

Prof. Havinga has significant experience as a project manager in several international research projects on wireless sensor networks (WSNs). He initiated and successfully completed the European Information Society Technologies (IST) project EYES. He was/is the project manager of (i) the project Smart Surroundings on ambient intelligence, the project CONSENSUS on collaborative sensor networks, (iii) the project Featherlight on lightweight distributed systems, (iii) the project Harsh on wireless communication in harsh environments, and (iv) the project "Pieken in de Delta" on wireless food sensor systems. He was/is a work package leader in the European projects CoBIs, Embedded WiSeNts, AWARE, SENSEI, and e-SENSE, addressing various areas of WSNs. In 2004, he founded the company Ambient Systems, which has been developing very low power embedded wireless networking platforms and applications. He has been a managing director of the company from 2004 till 2007. He moved to his current position as the CTO in 2007 to manage the research agenda. In May 2007, he received the ICT Innovation Award for the successful transfer of knowledge from university to industrial use. In June 2007, he received the "van den Kroonenberg award" for being a successful innovative entrepreneur.

Associate Professor Richard Baker: NHMRC Practitioner Fellow, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Technical Director, Hugh Williamson Gait Analysis Service, Royal Children's Hospital.

Richard is a biomechanical engineer who for the last eight years has led the clinical gait analysis service at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne. Over the same period he has maintained an active research profile at the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute. Between 2005 and 2008 he was Director of the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) funded Centre of Clinical Research Excellence in Clinical Gait Analysis and Gait Rehabilitation. In 2008 he won a Practitioner Fellowship from the NHMRC to support a personal research programme over five years. Richard has over 50 peer reviewed papers and has won over $5million in research funding from a variety of sources. He is Associate Editor for Gait and Posture. He is regularly invited to make presentations at international meetings and was invited to give the Jurg Bauman Keynote Address to the first ever joint meeting of the European Society for Movement Analysis in Children and the GCMAS in Amsterdam in 2006.

Dr. Jorge Pereira: Principal Scientific Officer, European Commission

Author Guide for PhD/ECR Forum Contributions:

Prospective participants are invited to submit a one page abstract of their work. Submissions should use the author template given here. Abstracts should be submitted in final form, in pdf format to issnip2009@issnip.org with the subject of the email as "ISSNIP PhD/ECR Forum". Accepted abstracts will be made available in an online repository on the ARC Research Network on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP) website. Attendance is mandatory for accepted abstracts.

Important dates:

Accepted posters and demos should be registered by the deadline of October 22, 2009. You can register for ISSNIP PhD/ECR Forum on Student registration rate. Please visit the conference registration webpage here to download the registration form. You must specify "ISSNIP PhD/ECR Forum" in the "Paper ID" item of the registration form. You must also send a copy of the student/staff ID with the registration form.

Guidelines for Poster Presenters - ISSNIP PhD/ECR Forum 2009:

Each poster presenter will be provided with a 1m by 2.4m vertical board. This can accommodate A0 size paper in portrait (preferable) or landscape orientation. You may prepare your posters in A1 or A0 size paper. Materials to attach the posters to the boards will be available at the conference venue. Posters must be put up during the lunch break (12.30 pm) prior to the poster session. Materials to attach the posters to the boards will be available at the conference venue.

Guidelines for Demo Presenters - ISSNIP PhD/ECR Forum 2009:

Each demo presenter will be given a poster board (with the above dimensions), a power supply of 240V and a table during the session. Demos must be set up during the lunch break (12.30 pm) prior to the session. Materials to attach the poster to the boards will be available at the conference venue.

Co-chairs:

• Sutharshan Rajasegarar, The University of Melbourne, Australia
• Tharshan Vaithianathan, NICTA Australia

Coordinator: Kapil Kumar Gupta, The University of Melbourne, Australia.

Contact information:
  ISSNIP 2009
  Dept of Electrical and Electronic Engineering,
  University of Melbourne, Victoria - 3010, Australia
  Email: issnip2009@issnip.org