Efficient and effective methods for classifying massive time series data. This project aims to transform the theory and practice of time series classification. The current state of the art cannot handle the massive numbers of time series that describe many critical problems facing humanity, such as disease transmission and climate change. This project seeks to develop methods that can analyse dynamic processes at global scale, delivering the most accurate classifiers feasible within a given comp ....Efficient and effective methods for classifying massive time series data. This project aims to transform the theory and practice of time series classification. The current state of the art cannot handle the massive numbers of time series that describe many critical problems facing humanity, such as disease transmission and climate change. This project seeks to develop methods that can analyse dynamic processes at global scale, delivering the most accurate classifiers feasible within a given computational budget. Expected outcomes of this project include efficient, effective and broadly applicable time series classification technologies. This should provide significant benefits to myriad sectors, transforming data science for time series problems and supporting innovation in industry, commerce and government.Read moreRead less
A Data-Centric Mobile Edge Platform for Resilient Logistics & Supply Chain. This project aims to develop a secure mobile edge computing platform for resilient logistic and supply chain management. It consists of easy-used functions that help businesses realise low latency, high reliability, low cost, and high security in their logistics and supply chain system. To cope with the vast generated application data, we invent new data replication, placement, and deduplication techniques to optimise th ....A Data-Centric Mobile Edge Platform for Resilient Logistics & Supply Chain. This project aims to develop a secure mobile edge computing platform for resilient logistic and supply chain management. It consists of easy-used functions that help businesses realise low latency, high reliability, low cost, and high security in their logistics and supply chain system. To cope with the vast generated application data, we invent new data replication, placement, and deduplication techniques to optimise the mobile edge computing platform from the computation, storage, and network aspects. The invented mobile edge computing platform will enable more intelligent business applications for various industries, e.g., IT, manufacturing, and media, to appear, thus benefiting both the economy of Australia.Read moreRead less
Variable Structure Complex Network Systems with Smart Grid Applications. This project aims to establish a breakthrough theory and technology to help deliver reliability and security of complex network systems, which are subject to structure changes, against faults and cyberattacks. Expected outcomes include a new theory that lays the foundation for understanding such systems, innovative algorithms and tools for their design, and a practical software platform used for ensuring reliability and sec ....Variable Structure Complex Network Systems with Smart Grid Applications. This project aims to establish a breakthrough theory and technology to help deliver reliability and security of complex network systems, which are subject to structure changes, against faults and cyberattacks. Expected outcomes include a new theory that lays the foundation for understanding such systems, innovative algorithms and tools for their design, and a practical software platform used for ensuring reliability and security of such systems. It will be applied directly to critical infrastructure such as the national power grid to help maintain lifeline resilience and achieve economic benefits. It will also provide an opportunity to train the next generation engineers in this cutting-edge technology for Australia.Read moreRead less
Fast Reconstruction and Real-time Rendering of Immersive Light Field Video. This project aims to develop new learning-based methods for reconstructing and rendering 3D immersive videos from multi-view 2D videos. The project expects to generate new knowledge in the areas of data mining, multimedia, pattern recognition and deep learning. Expected outcomes of this project include new deep neural networks to represent 3D videos, neural methods for high-fidelity video rendering and efficient 3D video ....Fast Reconstruction and Real-time Rendering of Immersive Light Field Video. This project aims to develop new learning-based methods for reconstructing and rendering 3D immersive videos from multi-view 2D videos. The project expects to generate new knowledge in the areas of data mining, multimedia, pattern recognition and deep learning. Expected outcomes of this project include new deep neural networks to represent 3D videos, neural methods for high-fidelity video rendering and efficient 3D video reconstruction and rendering algorithms. This should provide significant benefits to a diverse range of practical applications, such as autonomous driving, virtual reality, healthcare, advanced manufacturing, and many other 3D applications.Read moreRead less
Beyond Query: Exploratory Subgraph Discovery and Search System. Exploring co-working user groups in dynamic network data is a vital challenge in many applications, for example, in online education. This project aims to discover new relationships of users and compute their co-working performance in continuous time periods. The outcomes of the project are to design effective subgraph exploratory models, three novel types of subgraph search solutions, and devise a friendly exploratory subgraph sear ....Beyond Query: Exploratory Subgraph Discovery and Search System. Exploring co-working user groups in dynamic network data is a vital challenge in many applications, for example, in online education. This project aims to discover new relationships of users and compute their co-working performance in continuous time periods. The outcomes of the project are to design effective subgraph exploratory models, three novel types of subgraph search solutions, and devise a friendly exploratory subgraph search system for supporting the real-time network data analytics. The success of the project will make a significant contribution to the scientific foundation of graph data mining and its applications in data engineering domains, as well as benefiting co-working performance of people in Australian labor markets.Read moreRead less
Situation-aware Multi-sided Personalised Analytics in Spatial Crowdsourcing. This project aims to create a next generation recommender system that enables enhanced task allocation and route recommendation on spatial crowdsourcing platforms. It expects to address key challenges in situation-aware reliable recommendation for big spatial crowdsourcing data, which is vital in improving users’ service experience and decision making. Expected outcomes of this project include advanced data models, effi ....Situation-aware Multi-sided Personalised Analytics in Spatial Crowdsourcing. This project aims to create a next generation recommender system that enables enhanced task allocation and route recommendation on spatial crowdsourcing platforms. It expects to address key challenges in situation-aware reliable recommendation for big spatial crowdsourcing data, which is vital in improving users’ service experience and decision making. Expected outcomes of this project include advanced data models, efficient algorithms and query techniques to create a Crowd-guided Advanced Spatial Crowdsourcing Analytics (CASCA) system that is effective, efficient, crowd-guided, and situation-aware. It will benefit crowdsourced media data analysis and big data fields, bringing economic and social benefits to Australian industries and users.Read moreRead less
Cost-effective Edge Service Provisioning in the Last Mile of 5G. This project aims to deliver a suite of novel approaches for enabling cost-effective last-mile service provisioning in the 5G mobile edge computing (MEC). This project is the world's first attempt to systematically tackle the critical service provisioning challenges in the last mile where base stations link users to MEC applications. It offers a practical solution for provisioning software vendors' MEC services cost-effectively. Th ....Cost-effective Edge Service Provisioning in the Last Mile of 5G. This project aims to deliver a suite of novel approaches for enabling cost-effective last-mile service provisioning in the 5G mobile edge computing (MEC). This project is the world's first attempt to systematically tackle the critical service provisioning challenges in the last mile where base stations link users to MEC applications. It offers a practical solution for provisioning software vendors' MEC services cost-effectively. This project should drive Australia's 5G transition and innovations, promote its post-COVID economic recovery and resilience by enabling various real-time mobile and IoT applications, e.g., telehealth, remote learning/working, industry 4.0, and ensure its pioneering position in the global 5G research.Read moreRead less
Advanced Machine Learning with Bilevel Optimization. There is an urgent need to develop a new machine learning (ML) paradigm that can overcome data-privacy and model-size constraints in real-world applications. This project aims to develop an advanced paradigm of ML with bilevel optimisation, called bilevel ML. A theoretically-guaranteed fast approximate solver and a new fuzzy bilevel learning framework will be developed to achieve the aim in complex situations; a methodology to transfer knowled ....Advanced Machine Learning with Bilevel Optimization. There is an urgent need to develop a new machine learning (ML) paradigm that can overcome data-privacy and model-size constraints in real-world applications. This project aims to develop an advanced paradigm of ML with bilevel optimisation, called bilevel ML. A theoretically-guaranteed fast approximate solver and a new fuzzy bilevel learning framework will be developed to achieve the aim in complex situations; a methodology to transfer knowledge and an approach to fast-adapt bilevel optimization solutions when required computing resources change. The anticipated outcomes should significantly improve the reliability of ML with benefits for safety learning and computing resource optimisation in ML-based data analytics.Read moreRead less
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE240101089
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$436,847.00
Summary
Trustworthy Hypothesis Transfer Learning. It is urgent to develop a new hypothesis transfer learning scheme that can overcome potential risks when finetuning unreliable large-scale pre-trained models. This project aims to develop an advanced and reliable scheme of hypothesis transfer learning, called Trustworthy Hypothesis Transfer Learning (TrustHTL). A new theoretically guaranteed heterogeneous hypothesis transfer learning framework will be developed to handle heterogeneous situations; a metho ....Trustworthy Hypothesis Transfer Learning. It is urgent to develop a new hypothesis transfer learning scheme that can overcome potential risks when finetuning unreliable large-scale pre-trained models. This project aims to develop an advanced and reliable scheme of hypothesis transfer learning, called Trustworthy Hypothesis Transfer Learning (TrustHTL). A new theoretically guaranteed heterogeneous hypothesis transfer learning framework will be developed to handle heterogeneous situations; a methodology to disinherit risks of pre-trained models and a new fuzzy relation based distributional discrepancy in heterogeneous transfer learning scenarios. The outcomes should significantly improve the reliability of machine learning with benefits for safety learning in data analytics.Read moreRead less
The many lives and deaths of high redshift massive quiescent galaxies. This Fellowship will investigate the recent discovery of very massive, extremely early forming quiescent galaxies and explain their exceptional origin, death, and ultimate place in the local Universe. It is a multidisciplinary project that seeks to produce new knowledge using high-performance computing, software engineering, and sophisticated data analysis techniques. Expected outcomes include novel and improved supercomputer ....The many lives and deaths of high redshift massive quiescent galaxies. This Fellowship will investigate the recent discovery of very massive, extremely early forming quiescent galaxies and explain their exceptional origin, death, and ultimate place in the local Universe. It is a multidisciplinary project that seeks to produce new knowledge using high-performance computing, software engineering, and sophisticated data analysis techniques. Expected outcomes include novel and improved supercomputer simulations of several billions of galaxies processed through a virtual observatory, providing tools and fundamental knowledge for observational, theoretical, and computational astrophysics.Read moreRead less