Griffith University

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy - Griffith University, 2001
• Bachelor of Information Technology (with Honours)  - First Class Honours, Griffith University, 1997
• Bachelor of Computer Science - Griffith University, 1996
  

Employment history

2007-present 

• Head of School, School of Information and Communication Technology, Grifith University - Gold Coast
  

2005-2007

• Deputy Head of School, School of Information and Communication Technology, Griffith University - Gold Coast
• Senior Lecturer, School of Information and Communication Technology, Griffith University - Gold Coast

2000-2005

• Lecturer, School of Information and Communication Technology, Griffith University - Gold Coast
  

Awards and honours

2008

• IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Chapter Award (International recognition of service in research for Queensland)
  

2007

• Nominated for the Queensland Pearcey, Pearcey Awards Foundation
• Outstanding Teaching Evaluation Outcome for courses taught - 6210INT and 7005INT, Griffith University, Dean (Learning and Teaching) for Semesters 1 and 2, 2007 respectively
  

2006

• Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology Citation, Certificate of Commendation, Griffith University
  

2005

• Nominated for Australian Computer Society Queensland ICT Professional of the Year Award
• Nominated for Griffith Award for Excellence in Teaching, Griffith University
  

2001 

• Nominated for Griffith Award for Excellence in Teaching, Griffith University
  

Memberships and affiliations

• Convenor, Australian Computer Society Gold Coast Chapter
• Member, Australian Computer Society
• Member, IEEE
• Committee member, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Queensland Chapter
  

Community activities

Level 1

• Invited Member, ICT Skills Leaders Group (2008 - present).
• Elected Convenor, Australian Computer Society Gold Coast Chapter (2006 - Present).
• Invited to serve as an international referee for a research grant application submitted to the NWO (Dutch Research Council) in the area of handwriting recognition and forensic document analysis (2004).

Level 2

Education

• Member, Australian Council of Deans of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), (2008 - Present).
• Council Member, The Southport School (TSS), Queensland (2008 - Present).
• Member, Group X - Committee for Promoting ICT in Queensland (2007 - Present).

Research

• Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Principles and Applications in Information Science and Technology (PAIST) (2007 - Present).
•     Program Committee Member, International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2009).
• Program Committee Member, Hybrid Intelligent Systems Conference (HIS 2009).
•     Program Committee Member, International Conference on Wavelets and Pattern Recognition (ICAWPR 2008).
• Technical Committee Member, World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2008).
• Program Committee Member, International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE 2008).
• Program Committee Member, Hybrid Intelligent Systems Conference (HIS 2008).
•     Program Committee Member, International Conference on Soft Computing as Transdisciplinary Science and Technology (CSTST'08).
• Organising Co-Chair, Australian Artificial Intelligence Conference (AI 2007); (2006 -2007).
• Program Committee Member, International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Multimedia Applications (ICCIMA 2007).
•     Program Committee Member, of Australian Artificial Intelligence Conference (AI 2006).
• Program Co-chair, Asia Pacific Information Technology Symposium (APIS 2005).
•     Program Committee Member, International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Multimedia Applications (ICCIMA 2005).
• Program Committee Member, International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP 2004).
• Program Committee Member, Simulated Evolution and Learning Conference (SEAL 2004).
• Session Chair, International Conference on Information Technology Computing and Coding (ITCC 2004).
• Organising Committee Member, Australasian Computer Science Week (ACSW 2001); (2000 - 2001).
• Session Chair and Registration Desk Assistant, (ICCIMA 1999).
• Regular Reviewer for pattern recognition and computational intelligence journals including: IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Pattern Recognition, IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics ? Part B, International Journal of Document Analysis and Recognition, Journal of Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering (ICAE), International Journal of Neural Systems (IJNS), International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications (IJCIA), Ocean Engineering and Computers & Education.
• Keynote Address, International Conference on Cognition and Recognition (ICCR), Mysore, India (2008).
• Invited Presenter, University of Nevada Las Vegas, United States (2004); Honorarium Received.
• Invited Presenter, Nicholas Copernicus University, Torun, Poland (2003); Honorarium Received.
• Invited Presenter, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (2003); Honorarium Received.
• Invited Presenter, Central Queensland University, Australia, (2003).

Level 3

• Member, Gold Coast Business Excellence Awards Committee, Gold Coast, Queensland (2006 - Present).
• Steering Committee Member, IT Gold Coast Capabilities Study, Gold Coast, Queensland.

Media mentions and appearances

• Courier Mail Story ? `Prescription to Decipher Doctor? discussing handwriting recognition and new book release, August 7th, 2008.
• APCmag on-line Story ? `Soon, Computers will read handwriting?, July 31st, 2008.
• Gold Coast Channel 9 News Interview and Story ? discussing credit card fraud, signature verification and new book, July 16th, 2008.
• The Australian ? `Electronic Path to Bridge Safety? discussing successful ARC Linkage grant, July 1st, 2008.
• ABC Coast FM Radio interview - discussing signature verification, June 11th, 2008.
• MIS Financial Review ?The Scoop? Podcasts ? March 10th (Next Generation CIOs) and May 19th, 2008 (Biometric Secrets Revealed).
• Image and Data Manager ? November/December 2007 issue (Master of Enterprise Architecture).
• Weekend Bulletin, Paradise Magazine - 5-page profile, May 2007.
• Australian Financial Review - Commentary on IT enrolments in Queensland, January 2007.