BCompSc, BInfTech (Hons), PhD
Contact details for Associate Professor Michael Blumenstein
- Dean (Research) in the Science, Environment, Engineering, and Technology Group
- Member, Institute for Integrated and Intelligent Systems
Biography
Michael Blumenstein is an Associate Professor and Dean (Research) in the Science, Environment, Engineering, and Technology Group, and was previously Head of the School of Information and Communication Technology at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia. His research interests include the areas of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (specifically Machine learning and Neural Networks). He has published over 70 papers in refereed conferences, journals and books in these areas.
Michael has successfully secured a number of internal/nationally competitive research grants to undertake these projects with funds exceeding $3 million dollars. Components of his research into the predictive assessment of beach conditions have been developed for use by local government agencies, coastal management authorities and in commercial applications.
Michael has also been invited to serve as Organising Chair, Program Chair and Committee member for a number of national/international conferences in his areas of expertise. He is also the Gold Coast Chapter Convener of the Australian Computer Society.
Research Expertise
- Pattern recognition
- Automated handwriting recognition
- Neural networks and applications
- Video analysis and object detection
- Image processing
- Artificial intelligence