Gippsland School of Information Technology

The Gippsland School of Information Technology is one of six schools within the Faculty of Information Technology and hosts one of the five research centres of the faculty in Multimedia and Intelligent Computing (MIC). The aim of this centre is to conduct and lead quality multidisciplinary research and to offer excellent research training opportunities for the most talented research students to be at the forefront of National Research Priority in Frontier Technologies for Building and Transforming Australian Industries.

The school serves both the Gippsland region of the state of Victoria and the wider national and international community through the use of off-campus learning and innovative teaching technologies.

In addition, in collaboration with an off-shore partner in Hong Kong, it delivers courses by partner supported off-campus learning.

Research

The Gippsland School of Information Technology focuses on the following major areas of research:

multimedia signal processing and management - video coding, indexing & retrieval, video & image segmentation
artificial intelligence and bioinformatics - machine learning, data mining, biomedical and bioinformatics
communications - network resource management, mobile and ad hoc networks, wireless sensor networks
information technology infusion and education - small industry technology transfer, computer mediated teaching and learning

The school has a large number of PhD students and it enjoys a close partnership in research, development and research training with a number of IT&T companies, and a number of R&D projects funded by government funding bodies and commercial organisations such as the Australian Research Council and IBM TJ Watson Research Centre, Microsoft Research, Victorian Bioinformatics Consortium.

For further information on the school, visit www.infotech.monash.edu.au/gippsland or email gscit@infotech.monash.edu.au.

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