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Schools and research programs - Faculty of Information Technology

Berwick School of Information Technology

The Berwick School of Information Technology is the newest of the six schools within the Faculty of Information Technology. The school, which was created at the beginning of 2001, is the result of a strategic initiative by the faculty to focus its multimedia teaching and research at the Berwick campus.

The school offers a range of undergraduate and postgraduate programs in the multimedia area and attracts significant numbers of international and Australian full-fee students.

Research

The principal areas of research within the Berwick School of Information Technology encompass the various aspects of multimedia system technologies and applications such as:

  • animation, Interactive environments and multimedia visualisation
  • ethical and social implications of IT
  • intelligent multimedia systems
  • IT applications in education
  • mobile technologies
  • software engineering

For further information on the school, visit http://www.infotech.monash.edu.au/berwick or email multimedia@infotech.monash.edu.au.

Caulfield School of Information Technology

The Caulfield School of Information Technology occupies a unique position within the Faculty of Information Technology. The school encompasses a wide range of disciplines, from the technical and applied, through to the social science end of the information technology spectrum. This diversity is reflected in the range of options available for postgraduate study. The school has a clear focus on the real world application of information technology in meeting the demands of today's dynamic and global business environments.

The Caulfield School of Information Technology offers in particular to prospective students the ability to either build on their existing knowledge of IT or gain a first qualification at postgraduate level. A key factor in the postgraduate degrees offered at Caulfield is flexibility of course structure. Students have the ability to generalise across areas of the IT spectrum from business IT through to technical IT, specialise through a professional track (which is formally recognised via a Faculty certificate) or create their own customised program by tailoring the course to suit their needs and those of prospective employers. Many classes are offered in the evening, increasing accessibility for those students currently in the workforce.

Research

Within its academic areas, the school is one of the most active research organisations in Australia. The school has world class research facilities and its research is globally respected. Major research areas include:

  • content based image retrieval
  • distributed and grid computing
  • geographic information systems
  • historical bibliography.
  • information systems education
  • information systems security
  • information systems strategy
  • mobile systems and agents
  • quality management

For further information on the school, visit http://www.infotech.monash.edu.au/caulfield or email frontdesk@infotech.monash.edu.au.

Clayton School of Information Technology

The school is an internationally recognised centre of information technology, software engineering, and the application of IT in business, attracting high-quality students and world-class staff. The school covers a broad range of specialisations from the technical and scientific end of the computing spectrum to business intelligence. The undergraduate degree programs target both applied industry needs and formal computer science.

Discipline area: Business Systems

Research

The Clayton School of Information Technology offers a range of research degrees from the Bachelor of Business Information Systems (Honours) to Master of Business Systems (Research) and PhDs - with a tradition of students progressing in their fields as they graduate from each qualification. Business Systems offers research projects in the following areas:

  • business decision support systems
  • business modelling - optimisation and simulation
  • data mining
  • e-commerce systems
  • financial, accounting and administrative systems
  • logistics and scheduling.

For further information on the school, visit http://www.infotech.monash.edu.au/clayton.

Discipline area: Computer Science and Software Engineering

Research

The school maintains modern teaching and research facilities and hosts a number of leading-edge demonstrator projects in its research laboratories. It enjoys a close partnership in research, development and research training with a number of IT&T companies, and a large number of R&D projects funded by government funding bodies and commercial organisations such as the Australian Research Council, NICTA, Australian Telecommunications and Electronic Board, Microsoft, Telstra and BHP. The school also conducts a number of cross-disciplinary research projects in collaboration with other faculties and external research institutions.

There are several major research groups at present in the school focusing on audiovisual information processing and digital communications, distributed systems and software engineering, optimisation and constraint-solving, and reasoning under uncertainty. Academic and research staff of the school also conduct research in digital systems hardware and architecture including embedded systems; logic and theory including logic programming, algorithms and computational complexity; combinatorial structures used in computing; information theory; inductive inference; visual human-computer interaction; electronic media art with emphasis on the creative meshing of art, science and technology, including computer graphics, rule-based modelling, sound synthesis, and electro-acoustic composition.

For further information, visit http://www.infotech.monash.edu.au/clayton.

Gippsland School of Information Technology

The Gippsland School of Information Technology is one of the schools within the Faculty of Information Technology and hosts one of the research centres within the faculty: the Centre for Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (MCCA). This centre conducts and leads quality multidisciplinary research and offers 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.

Research

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

  • artificial intelligence and bioinformatics - machine learning, data mining, biomedical and bioinformatics
  • communications - network resource management, mobile and ad hoc networks, wireless sensor networks
  • multimedia signal processing and management - video coding, indexing & retrieval, video & image segmentation

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 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 http://www.infotech.monash.edu.au/gippsland or email gsit@infotech.monash.edu.au.

School of Information Technology at Sunway campus

The School of Information Technology is located at the Monash University Sunway campus in Malaysia and is the university's first full campus outside Australia. The campus is about 20 km south-west of Kuala Lumpur at Bandar Sunway.

The school currently offers undergraduate courses - the Bachelor of Computer Science, and the Bachelor of Information Technology and Systems - as well as postgraduate courses - the Master of Philosophy and the Doctor of Philosophy. Students enrol in courses commencing in March and July each year and the semester dates are identical to those in Australia. The campus is equipped with the required teaching and learning resources for the courses it offers. Computers, software, laboratory equipment, a multimedia resource centre, library and reference materials are available to students.

Research

The key research strengths of the School of Information Technology are:

  • autonomous mobile robots.
  • computational techniques and stochastic modelling
  • evolutionary computing and data mining
  • grid and quantum computing
  • intelligence in real-time and embedded systems
  • knowledge representation formalisms
  • machine learning and neural networks
  • multi-agents methodology
  • multimedia information retrieval and image media information
  • pattern recognition and computer graphics
  • supply chain management

Further information can be obtained from the website at http://www.infotech.monash.edu.my or email info@monash.edu.my.

School of Information Technology (Monash South Africa campus)

The School of Information Technology (SIT) is located at Monash South Africa. The campus was opened in February 2001 in Roodepoort, 20 kilometres north-west of central Johannesburg. Currently, the campus has facilities for 1500 students and offers small classes and a multicultural community with more than 70% of students from other African countries.

The school focuses on web technologies and is committed to the open source philosophy. Research areas cover a wide variety of topics, ranging from metals used in chip construction and wireless networks to IT education, web technologies, complex systems and development informatics.

Further information can be obtained from the website at http://sit.monash.ac.za/ or email sit@monash.ac.za.