The glomerulus is the filtering component of the kidney. In many diseases, it can be the target of an inappropriate inflammatory response. As part of this response, white blood cells accumulate in the glomerulus where they cause damage. The aim of the project is to determine how these white blood cells accumulate in the glomerulus, specifically asking the question, what molecules present on the white blood cells and the glomerular blood vessels are required for this accumulation?
Next generation data mining techniques for analysing large evolving networks. In order to understand complex systems such as the Internet or gene interactions, we need to analyse how the networks in these systems function and evolve. This project will provide new methods for extracting knowledge from large network databases so that scientists can learn about the operation of these complex systems.
Multi source inference from heterogeneous dynamic networks. Sophisticated big data applications in engineering, the social sciences and biology are now generating flows of data across multiple sources possessing a variety of structures. An emerging challenge is how to develop data mining methods that can cope with this complexity and diversity to make inferences and provide practical insights. This project will develop methods in tensor data mining that provide a new foundation for extracting us ....Multi source inference from heterogeneous dynamic networks. Sophisticated big data applications in engineering, the social sciences and biology are now generating flows of data across multiple sources possessing a variety of structures. An emerging challenge is how to develop data mining methods that can cope with this complexity and diversity to make inferences and provide practical insights. This project will develop methods in tensor data mining that provide a new foundation for extracting useful knowledge from multi source heterogeneous data sets. This will help accelerate discoveries in the next generation of data driven science.Read moreRead less
Real-time and self-adaptive stream data analyser for intensive care management. The clinical benefit of this project will be in improved success rates and reduced mortality and risk in surgery and intensive care units. The Information and communication technology (ICT) benefit of this project is associated with the novel online algorithms and models aligned with the stream data research, and will be enhanced by our stream compression techniques. The stream data analyser developed in this projec ....Real-time and self-adaptive stream data analyser for intensive care management. The clinical benefit of this project will be in improved success rates and reduced mortality and risk in surgery and intensive care units. The Information and communication technology (ICT) benefit of this project is associated with the novel online algorithms and models aligned with the stream data research, and will be enhanced by our stream compression techniques. The stream data analyser developed in this project will be suitable for more than medical surveillance data; it will also improve the processing of other kinds of massive stream data (for example data from remote sensors, communication networks and other dynamic environments). The project involves a scientifically rich collaboration that will enhance the skills of PhD students and staff and drive the field forward.Read moreRead less
Novel conversion process for carbon dioxide to chemicals. This project aims to develop a novel sorption enhanced material and system to convert atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) to methanol. Climate change is one of the primary long-term problems confronting humankind today. Since the production of CO2 through burning fossil fuel is far greater than the current usage of CO2, there is currently little alternative to storage. As a result, there is concerted effort globally to develop alternate use ....Novel conversion process for carbon dioxide to chemicals. This project aims to develop a novel sorption enhanced material and system to convert atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) to methanol. Climate change is one of the primary long-term problems confronting humankind today. Since the production of CO2 through burning fossil fuel is far greater than the current usage of CO2, there is currently little alternative to storage. As a result, there is concerted effort globally to develop alternate uses and conversion technologies for CO2. This project will help further this goal.Read moreRead less
Using data mining methods to remove uncertainties in sensor data streams. This project will develop key techniques for removing uncertainties in sensor data streams and thus improve the monitoring quality of sensor networks. The expected outcomes will benefit Australia by enabling improved, lower-cost monitoring of natural resources and management of stock raising.
Deep Data Mining for Anomaly Prediction from Sensor Data Streams. Sensor data streams are crucial for anomaly predictions in real-life monitoring. However, balancing efficiency and accuracy in predicting anomalies with sensor streams is a great challenge; it requires new techniques that go beyond detecting anomalies and predicting trends. This project will develop a deep mining method for anomaly prediction from sensor streams; it will comprise mining algorithms at various levels - from compress ....Deep Data Mining for Anomaly Prediction from Sensor Data Streams. Sensor data streams are crucial for anomaly predictions in real-life monitoring. However, balancing efficiency and accuracy in predicting anomalies with sensor streams is a great challenge; it requires new techniques that go beyond detecting anomalies and predicting trends. This project will develop a deep mining method for anomaly prediction from sensor streams; it will comprise mining algorithms at various levels - from compressing massive raw data, to recognition of abnormal waveforms preceding anomalies, and to retrieving and summarising similar past anomalies for creating descriptions of future anomalies. The project will demonstrate our method in health/environment monitoring applications, and its adoption will save resources, money and lives.Read moreRead less
Knowledge discovery from data in the context of prior beliefs. This project will invent user-centric technologies for discovering knowledge from data that are distinguished by taking account of the user's beliefs, enabling more useful discoveries to be made. This project will also invent methods that identify the relative potential value of those discoveries, helping the user derive greater value from their data assets.
Combining generative and discriminative strategies to facilitate efficient and effective learning from big data. Effective extraction of information from massive data stores is increasingly problematic as data quantities continue to grow rapidly. Quite simply, effective techniques for learning from small data do not scale. However, the problem is even worse than this. Big data contain more information than the small data in which context most state-of-the-art learning algorithms have been develo ....Combining generative and discriminative strategies to facilitate efficient and effective learning from big data. Effective extraction of information from massive data stores is increasingly problematic as data quantities continue to grow rapidly. Quite simply, effective techniques for learning from small data do not scale. However, the problem is even worse than this. Big data contain more information than the small data in which context most state-of-the-art learning algorithms have been developed. For small data overly detailed classifiers will overfit the data and so should be avoided. In contrast, big data provide fine detail and hence will benefit new types of learner that can capture it. This project will deliver learners that are not only capable of capturing this detail, but do so with the efficiency required to process terabytes of data.Read moreRead less
BigPrivacy: Scaling privacy preservation for big data applications on cloud. This project aims to research scalable privacy preservation for big data applications on cloud. Privacy preservation is a major concern for big data applications on cloud, such as health data analysis where user privacy must be preserved. Scalable solutions can preserve privacy so that data analysis such as health diagnosis can be performed quickly. The expected deliverable is a unified scalable privacy preservation fra ....BigPrivacy: Scaling privacy preservation for big data applications on cloud. This project aims to research scalable privacy preservation for big data applications on cloud. Privacy preservation is a major concern for big data applications on cloud, such as health data analysis where user privacy must be preserved. Scalable solutions can preserve privacy so that data analysis such as health diagnosis can be performed quickly. The expected deliverable is a unified scalable privacy preservation framework with associated algorithms and its prototype, which cloud systems can deploy for big data applications.Read moreRead less