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Research Groups

Situated within the Faculty of Engineering, Physical Sciences and Architecture, the School of Information Technology & Electrical Engineering has a strong, internationally recognised research base.   ITEE staff and students publish widely and attract highly competitive grant funding and industry sponsorship.  More than 50 academic staff and 245 research higher degree students are active in the following key research areas:

Biomedical Engineering Cognitive Systems Engineering Complex & Intelligent Systems Data & Knowledge Engineering eResearch

Microwave & Optical Communications Power & Energy Systems Security & Surveillance Systems & Software Engineering Ubiquitous Computing

 

Research Centres

The School has forged links with a number of national and international centres of research excellence at the forefront of technological innovation, in areas such as sustainable energy, information security, complex systems, computational modelling, human cognition and genomics:

 

UQ School Centres ARC Centre for Complex Systems* ARC Research Network in Enterprise Information Infrastructure* Australian Creative Resources Online Catalyst Research Centre for Science & Technology Centre for Research in Language Processing & Linguistics Centre for Discrete Mathematics and Computing Centre for Medical Diagnostic Technologies in Queensland (MedTeQ)* (* ITEE is the lead participant)

UQ University Centres (ITEE has links) ARC Key Centre for Human Factors and Applied Cognitive Psychology Centre for Magnetic Resonance Centre for Microscopy & Microanalysis ARC Special Research Centre for Functional and Applied Genomics ARC Special Research Centre for Quantum Computer Technology (Queensland node)

For a complete listing of all our centres of research excellence please follow the link.

 

 

Industry-funded research and development

The University of Queensland is one of Australia's largest providers of industry-funded research and development expertise and its research commercialisation model is current best practice.  The School of Information Technology & Electrical Engineering plays an important role in contributing to that reputation.  Research projects are sponsored by such high-profile organisations as:

	Microsoft	CSIRO	Qld Power Engineering Alliance (PEA)
	NASA	Cricket Australia	Powerlink Queensland
	Boeing	Sun Microsystems	ABB Corporate Research
	Software Engineering Australia	Westinghouse Rail	Alstom Power (Australia)
	Siemens Medical Engineering	Qld Rail	IEnergy
	Peregrine Semiconductor Australia	Tarong Energy	Energex
	AirServices Australia	Ergon Energy	DSTO
	SAP	CS Energy	Stanwell Corp

 

 

Commercial Ventures

Some of the University's successful commercial spin-off ventures that have their roots in ITEE have been:

ActiveTorque Pty Ltd - developing engine control systems for a cleaner, more fuel-efficient world. CiTR Inc - electronic business solutions for the Internet, telecommunications, enterprise and government markets - now known as ISMC Solutions Pty Ltd. Fultec Pty Ltd - advancing electrical surge protection for sensitive systems. Groundprobe Pty Ltd - slope stability radar and ground penetration radar systems.  Winner of the the 2005 AusIndustry Emerging Exporter Award. Magnetica Ltd - magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) applied primarily to medical situations.  Winner of the 2006 'Rising Star' category in the Queensland Premier's Smart Awards. MITEC Pty Ltd - took enhancements to microwave technology to the world - later acquired by CODAN Pty Ltd. WAVE Instruments - a medical device company developing innovative healthcare solutions for the remote monitoring of cardiology and sleep disorders as well as medical imaging. PetaLogix - an embedded Linux® solutions provider that aims to be the premier service provider for Linux on Reconfigurable Logic devices.

For more information, see the ITEE Research Report.

For more information on individual ITEE researchers and their activity, see UQ reSEARCHers.