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Research Priorities

Research, research training, and teaching in engineering and information sciences at the ANU are currently focused in a number of areas:

Advanced materials
Engineering new multiphase materials for specific applications based on a deep knowledge of the molecular structure at the nano and micro levels, and the science of structure.property relationship.

Automated reasoning
Mechanised reasoning, pure and applied logic, and logic-based artificial intelligence.

Machine Learning
Kernel methods for learning, statistical learning theory, on-line learning, and reinforcement learning.

Control theory and signal processing
Theoretical and experimental work on system identification, system validation, model-based control, and hybrid systems together with communications signal processing, optimal filtering, signal acquisition and analysis.

High-performance and parallel computing, and networks
Linear algebra, computational science, data mining, high speed networks, computational and data grids, tele-collaboration and visualisation, and computational cluster design.

Advanced manufacturing and operational systems
New and optimised methods of manufacturing and their integration into product design processes.

Non-parametric statistics and numerical methods
The development and analysis of computational techniques and parallel algorithms for the effective modelling of large and high-dimensional data and complex phenomena.

Optoelectronics and photonics
Broad spectrum of activities including devices such as optical fibres, lasers, detectors, solar cells, modulators, waveguides and switches that use materials and structures such as semiconductors, nanocrystals, quantum dots, carbon foam, glasses and plastics to manipulate light.

Robotics and sensing technology
The development of autonomous systems involving machines sensing and interacting with the world, such as active vision systems, autonomous vehicles, scene and environment modeling from vision sensors, and robot navigation.

Software engineering, programming language systems, and information systems
Algorithms, programming language semantics and implementation, management and psychology of the software process, and the design and use of information systems, including Web systems.

Sustainable energy technologies
Solar power and energy, fusion energy, geothermal energy.

Telecommunications engineering, communication devices and subsystems
Providing high-rate digital data via wireless links to small remote and mobile terminals at low cost and long battery life.