Our award-winning teaching staff have helped make UQ one of the top teaching and learning institutions in Australia.

Students learn from and work with leading academics and researchers who pass on leading-edge methods that are not always available in textbooks.

This page highlights some of ITEE's academics and researchers.

Associate Professor Udantha Abeyratne
Biomedical Engineering
Udantha Abeyratne's expertise is in areas of medical instrumentation and signal processing. In particular, he has contributed to medical ultrasound imaging and tissue characterisation; electrophysiological signal acquisition and processing; and novel technologies for the diagnosis of sleep disorders.

Associate Professor Shazia Sadiq
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Shazia Sadiq is involved in teaching and research in databases and information systems. Her main research interests are innovative solutions for Business Information Systems that span several areas including business process management, governance, risk and compliance, data quality management, workflow systems, and service oriented computing.

Professor Tapan Saha
Power & Energy Systems

Tapan Saha's research interests are in: Electricity Market Simulation Tools; Condition Assessment of Medium-Voltage Cables; Application of New Generation Technology in systems analysis; Intelligent Diagnostics of Aged Power Transformers; and Electricity market analysis.

Professor Heng Tao Shen
Data & Knowledge Engineering

Heng Tao's research interests include multimedia/mobile/web search, database management and P2P/cloud computing. Heng Tao has published and served on program committees in many prestigious international publications. He is also the winner of the Chris Wallace Award for Outstanding Research Contribution in 2010 from CORE Australasia.

Dr Stephen Viller
Ubiquitous Computing

Stephen Viller is a lecturer in the Information Environments Program and a researcher in UQ's Interaction Design research division. His research and teaching focus is on people-centred design methods, particularly applied to the design of social, domestic and ubiquitous computing technologies and understanding people in context.

Professor Janet Wiles
Complex & Intelligent Systems
Janet Wiles is the director of UQ's Complex and Intelligent Systems Group. She directs a multi-disciplinary project on Thinking Systems, which investigates navigation in humans, animals (such as bees) and robots. Her research interests are in: complex systems biology; computational neuroscience; computational modelling methods; artificial intelligence and artificial life; and human memory, language and cognition.

 

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