Postgraduate research

Postgraduate research

Contacts and inquiries
Research strengths and laboratories
Formal external research links

Applicants for research degrees should discuss their proposed research with either the Program Leader for Postgraduate Research Degrees or their chosen supervisor before submitting applications. The Faculty's Research Officer can assist applicants in contacting members of staff and in completing the application form.

Contacts and inquiries

General inquiries should be directed to:

or (within the Faculty)

Research strengths and laboratories

The Faculty of Information Technology practices excellence in research and research training and is committed to the production of high quality research output in collaboration with other faculties, other universities and industries in Australia and overseas. The Faculty's increasing research activities driven by a substantial number of excellent research leaders amongst the academic staff has resulted in a significant increase in high quality research publications, PhD completions and competitive research grants awarded; in particular research grants from the Australian Research Council.

In 2007, UTS recognised and approved funding for the establishment of three Research Strengths at the Faculty of Information Technology. These groupings of the Faculty's research strengths were achieved as a consequence of a thorough analysis of networks of expertise and communities of interest and based on the review of ICT research at UTS. Each Research Strength includes a number of specialised research laboratories that bring together Faculty staff, experts, research students and external organisations to develop new and innovative ideas and apply them in practice. The quality and relevance of research in the research laboratories is enhanced by well-established links, both with industry and with overseas research institutions. Graduate research students, academics, visiting researchers and research assistants undertake collaborative research within these laboratories.

The Faculty's newly established Research Strengths and their corresponding research laboratories are as follows.

Centre for Intelligent Information Systems (UTS:CIIS)

The vision of the Centre for Intelligent Information Systems (CIIS) is to develop theoretical foundations, innovative technologies and practical systems that will result in next generation enterprise intelligent information systems. The four research laboratories under CIIS are Knowledge Discovery; Decision Support and e-Service Intelligence; Infrastructure Enhancement; and Innovation and Technology. The outcomes of the researches under CIIS will be applied for a broad range of businesses, including finance, marketing, security, health, government and engineering.

Centre directors

Laboratories and contacts

Centre for Innovation in IT Services and Applications (iNEXT)

iNEXT is a world-class research environment for developing and nurturing innovation for the NEXT generation IT services and applications, including Internet-enabled business applications, mobile health services, high-end visualisation technologies, novel image processing architectures and advanced video surveillance systems.

Future Internet: iNEXT aims to develop those enabling mechanisms that will allow the transformation of the current connectivity infrastructure into the service infrastructure of tomorrow's Internet.

Applications and Services: iNEXT aims to develop innovative applications with special focus on assistive mobile health and Internet-enabled business applications.

Visual Information Processing: iNEXT aims to define novel visualisation techniques and intelligent recognition algorithms for extracting important information from video streams and wireless sensor networks for surveillance and environmental monitoring purposes.

Commercialisation of such applications and services is particularly emphasised. iNEXT includes a significant research training component, graduating many research students in the past years.

Centre directors

Laboratories and contacts

Centre for Human Centred Technology Design (HCTD)

The Centre for Human Centred Technology Design (HCTD) is committed to information and communications technology design research, methods and approaches, as defined by its commitment to the human, that is, to those who will use the technology.

HCTD's approach furthers the development of a much needed socio-technical perspective on technology design that can both balance and extend the more common technology driven or management driven perspectives. HCTD's focus is on understanding the complex interplay between the drivers of social, organisational and technical change and how these shape, and are shaped by, the design, implementation and use of information and communication systems. The Centre's research outcomes contribute to the design and development of ICT that fit easily and appropriately into the social, cultural and organisational contexts within which they will be used.

Centre directors

Laboratories and contacts

Formal external research links

The faculty research groups have a number of formal links to external organisations such as Cooperative Research Centres (CRC) and ARC Research networks. These include:

Capital Markets CRC: ims to be the technology provider of choice to global securities businesses / markets. It supports research programs in corporate governance, data mining, interoperability, language technology, market design and visualisation. For details, contact:

Australian CRC for Interactive Design (ACID): the primary focus is on innovative and creative interaction design for computer systems. For details, contact:

ARC Research Network in Enterprise Information Infrastructure (EII): a network of 12 universities focusing on research in emerging advanced technologies and practices for large-scale enterprises, government agencies and community groups. For details, contact: