Research Conversazione 2008 Sponsor Prizes
School of Electrical and Information Engineering
Postgraduate
Resmed Award for Addressing Society’s Needs
Winner: Ian Laird
Poster title: Heating up the Fight against Global Warming: Parabolic Trough Collector (PTC) based Thermoelectric Generator (TEG)
Energy Australia Award for Advancing Scientific Knowledge
Prize Winner: Seh Chun Ng
Poster title: The Connectivity of Infrastructure-based Multi-hop Networks
Prize Presenter: Mr Phil McKee, Manager Engineering & Development, Energy
Leighton Holdings Award for Collaboration with Industry
Prize Winner: Gaetano Gargiulo
Poster title: Comparsion of EEG Recording using a new device with dry electrodes with a conventional EEG device
Integral Energy Award for Solving an Industry Problem
Prize Winner: Iman Sadinezhad
Poster title: A self tuning filter for off nominal frequency measurement symmetrical components based on computational intelligence approach
Transfield Award for Next Generation Applications (Computing)
Prize Winner: Thomas Huang
Poster title: Photonic techniques in discrete time signal processor for high speed and wide-tunable applications
Microsoft Award for Next Generation Applications (Information Technologies)
Award Winner Abhaya Parthy
Poster Title 3D sound Field Recording and Playback
Singtel Optus Award for Next Generation Applications (Telecom)
Award Winner Leilei Wu
Poster Title Design optimised method for feedback reduction in cooperative MIMO broadcast channels
EIE Foundation Awards for Next Generation Applications (Other)
Award Winner Aengus Martin
Poster Title Musical Transformations on Sound
Award Winner: Georgios Konstantinou
Poster Title Cascaded Half-Bridge Based Converters
Railcorp Award for Potential for Commercialisation (Computing)
Award Winner Heba Khamis
Poster Title Epileptic Seizure detection-Auto-regressive Spectral Analysis of EEG
Sumitomo Award for Potential for Commercialisation (Information Technologies)
Award Winner Yaozhou Ma
Poster Title Cache-based content delivery in opportunistic mobile ad hoc networks
Telstra Award for Potential for Commercialisation (Telecoms)
Award Winner Farshad Javadi
Poster Title Multi-Path Routing in a cognitive wireless mesh network
Dulhunty Award for Potential for Commercialisation (Other)
Award Winner Xu Li
Poster Title Linear combination of parameters by using linear discriminant analysis on short arc welding fault detection
Presenter Marcel Gan, Dulhunty Power
Undergraduate
Cochlear Award for Biomedical Engineering
Winner: Emma Fitzgerald
Title: 3D Headtracking Using Wiimotes
School of Electrical and Information Engineering
Postgraduate
Resmed Award for Addressing Society’s Needs
Winner: Ian Laird
Poster title: Heating up the Fight against Global Warming: Parabolic Trough Collector (PTC) based Thermoelectric Generator (TEG)
Energy Australia Award for Advancing Scientific Knowledge
Prize Winner: Seh Chun Ng
Poster title: The Connectivity of Infrastructure-based Multi-hop Networks
Prize Presenter: Mr Phil McKee, Manager Engineering & Development, Energy
Leighton Holdings Award for Collaboration with Industry
Prize Winner: Gaetano Gargiulo
Poster title: Comparsion of EEG Recording using a new device with dry electrodes with a conventional EEG device
Integral Energy Award for Solving an Industry Problem
Prize Winner: Iman Sadinezhad
Poster title: A self tuning filter for off nominal frequency measurement symmetrical components based on computational intelligence approach
Transfield Award for Next Generation Applications (Computing)
Prize Winner: Thomas Huang
Poster title: Photonic techniques in discrete time signal processor for high speed and wide-tunable applications
Microsoft Award for Next Generation Applications (Information Technologies)
Award Winner Abhaya Parthy
Poster Title 3D sound Field Recording and Playback
Singtel Optus Award for Next Generation Applications (Telecom)
Award Winner Leilei Wu
Poster Title Design optimised method for feedback reduction in cooperative MIMO broadcast channels
EIE Foundation Awards for Next Generation Applications (Other)
Award Winner Aengus Martin
Poster Title Musical Transformations on Sound
Award Winner: Georgios Konstantinou
Poster Title Cascaded Half-Bridge Based Converters
Railcorp Award for Potential for Commercialisation (Computing)
Award Winner Heba Khamis
Poster Title Epileptic Seizure detection-Auto-regressive Spectral Analysis of EEG
Sumitomo Award for Potential for Commercialisation (Information Technologies)
Award Winner Yaozhou Ma
Poster Title Cache-based content delivery in opportunistic mobile ad hoc networks
Telstra Award for Potential for Commercialisation (Telecoms)
Award Winner Farshad Javadi
Poster Title Multi-Path Routing in a cognitive wireless mesh network
Dulhunty Award for Potential for Commercialisation (Other)
Award Winner Xu Li
Poster Title Linear combination of parameters by using linear discriminant analysis on short arc welding fault detection
Presenter Marcel Gan, Dulhunty Power
Undergraduate
Cochlear Award for Biomedical Engineering
Winner: Emma Fitzgerald
Title: 3D Headtracking Using Wiimotes
Snowy Hydro Award for Computer Engineering
Winner: Sylsien Wong
Title: Vital On-Demand Variable Data Printing for MFP Devices
NHP Award for Digital Systems and Electronics
Winner: Anh-Dung Diep
Title: Dimming a Compact Fluorescent Lamp (CFL)
Presenter: Mr David Sparkes, Manager, NHP
ABB Award for Power Engineering
Winner: Anthony Setiawan
Title: Improvement in 5-Minute Regional Demand Forecaster Using SVM
Microsoft Award for Software Engineering
Winner: Sammy Lo
Title: Porting KeepInTouch to Flash
Macquarie Bank Award for E-commerce
Winner: Daniel Howell
Title: WiiPaintPlus – Painting with the Wii Remote
Presenter: Grant Gardner, Divisional Director, Information Services Division, Macquarie Group
Singtel Optus Award for Telecommunications Engineering
Winner: Ben Sweet
Title: Design of a Data Logger for integration with Wireless Sensor Networks
NICTA Award for Telecoms: Next Generation Applications.
Winner: Jeremy Blackford
Title: An Investigation into Smart Metering Worldwide.
EIE 4th year Special Achievement Award
Winner: Anh-Dung Diep
Title: Dimming a Compact Fluorescent Lamp (CFL)

