Dr. Raja Jurdak
Principal Research Scientist/Research Group Leader
Contact
Tel: 61 7 3327 4059
Fax: 61 7 3327 4455
Email
Science Area
- Sensor Science and Technology
Biography
Raja Jurdak is a Principal Research Scientist at CSIRO ICT Centre, where he leads the Pervasive Computing Group. Previously, he was a researcher at the University of California Irvine, University College Dublin, and most recently a visiting Scientist at MIT. He has a PhD in Information and Computer Science at University of California, Irvine in September 2005, an MS in Computer Networks and Distributed Computing from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at UCI (2001), and a BE in Computer and Communications Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture at the American University of Beirut in (2000). He is a senior member of the IEEE and the IEEE Communications Society.
The driving interest of his research efforts is to understand collective intelligence in cyberphysical systems. As our world embeds more resource-limited devices for digital data collection, coordinating among these devices to extract the most information value is key for better understanding the physical world and to determine how to best manage it.
Academic Qualifications
| 2005 | PhD University of California, Irvine, Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks |
| 2001 | MSc University of California, Irvine, Computer Networks and Distributed Computing |
| 2000 | BEng American University of Beirut, Computer and Communications Engineering |
Recent Professional Experience
| 2011 | Visiting Scientist, MIT |
| 2010-present | Associate Professor (Adjunct), UQ Brisbane |
| 2010-present | Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO ICT Centre, Brisbane |
| 2009-2010 | Senior Lecturer (Adjunct), UQ, Brisbane |
| 2008-2010 | Senior Research Scientist, ICT Centre, Brisbane |
| 2006-2008 | Research Fellow, University College Dublin |
| 2005-2006 | Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California, Irvine |
Achievements & Awards
| 2011 | CSIRO Medal for Environmental Achievement |
| 2010 | Endeavour Executive Award - Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relation |
| 2010 | Elevated to IEEE Senior Member |
Summary of Science & Technical Output
| Books/Book chapters | 3 |
|---|---|
| Journal | 14 |
| Refereed Conference/Workshop | 39 |
| Technical/Client Reports | 0 |
| Invited Presentations | 7 |
| Patents | 6 |
Grants
| 2008 | Enterprise Ireland Commercialization Award |
| 2006-2008 | Embark Fellowship, Irish Research Council on Science Engineering and Technology |
Student Supervision
| PhD | |
| 2011-present | Bryce Thomas, PhD student, James Cook University |
| 2009-present | Philip Valencia, PhD student, University of Queensland |
| 2010-2011 | Teddy Shih, PhD student, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology |
| 2006-2008 | Antonio Ruzzelli, PhD, University College Dublin, Ireland |
| MSc | |
| 2008-2009 | Alessio Barbirato, MSc thesis, University College Dublin |
| Undergraduate | |
| 2010 | Lauren Yang, University of Queensland, Australia |
| 2010 | Cameron Mcgill, University of Queensland, Australia |
| Visitors | |
| 2011 | Alexandre Barreira, Visiting MSc student, CSIRO/Georgia Tech/UTC, USA/France |
| 2010-2011 | Alban Cotillon, Industrial trainee, INSA Lyon Australia/France |
| 2010-2011 | Sofiane Moad, Visiting PhD student, INRIA, Rennes, France |
| 2010 | Jonathan Hussy, Industrial trainee, ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
| 2010 | Tiziana Campana, Visiting PhD student, UCD Ireland |
| 2010 | Morten Tranberg Hansen, Visiting Phd student, Aarhus University, Denmark |
| 2010 | Thibaud Rohmer, industrial trainee, IRISA, France. Now PhD student at UCD, Ireland. |
| 2009-2010 | Justin Bush, industrial trainee, University of Melbourne, Australia |
| 2009-2010 | Jeremy Soh, industrial trainee, University of Sydney, Australia |
| 2009 | Elizabeth Basha, visiting Phd student, MIT, USA. Now Assistant Professor at University of the Pacific, USA. |
| 2009-2010 | Dhinesh Dharman , industrial trainee, National Institute of Technology, Dargapur, India |
| 2009-2010 | Hassane Slaibi, industrial trainee, American University of Beirut, Lebanon |
| 2008 | Sebastien Bergeaud, Internship, EPITA, Paris France |
| 2008 | Florian Pierre, Internship, EPITA, Paris, France |
| 2008 | Alessandro Zampieri, Internship, University College Dublin |
| 2008 | Jean-Francois Lagoutte, Internship, Ecole Polytechnique de Nantes |
| 2008 | Phillipe Bayle, Internship, Ecole Polytechnique de Nantes |
| 2008 | Olivier Pernet, Internship, ENSIMAG Grenoble France |
| 2008 | Loic Petit, Internship, ENSIMAG Grenoble France. Now PhD student at Orange Labs, France. |
| 2008 | Edward Oubrayrie, Internship, ENSIMAG, Grenoble France |
| 2007 | Samuel Boivineau, Internship, Ecole Polytechnique de Nantes France |
| 2007 | Thomas Chamaurd, Internship, University of Toulouse France |
Science Citizenship
| 2012 | TPC member WuWNet |
| 2012 | TPC member CPSCom |
| 2012 | TPC member CONET |
| 2012 | TPC member ICDCS |
| 2011 | TPC member WuWNET |
| 2011 | TPC member ISSNIP |
| 2011 | TPC member for CONET |
| 2011 | TPC member for ICDCS |
| 2010 | Chair, Internet of Things Panel, Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) |
| 2010 | TPC member for RealWSN |
| 2010 | Steering Committee member for ISSNIP conference |
| 2010 | Reviewer for ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks |
| 2010 | Reviewer for IEEE Embedded Systems Letters, 2010. |
| 2009 | TPC member of WUWnet workshop |
| 2009 | Reviewer for IEEE Communications Letters |
| 2009 | Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing |
| 2009 | Reviewer for IPSN/SPOTS track |
| 2009 | Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing |
| 2009 | TPC of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Dresden, Germany |
| 2009 | TPC of Workshop on Underwater Networks in conjunction with The IEEE 23rd International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-09) |
| 2009 | TPC of 1st International Workshop on Cooperation in Pervasive Environments (CoPE 2009), which will be held in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom) 2009, Dallas Texas |
| 2008 | Chair of the Security and Modeling Session at 17th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN) |
| 2008 | Workshop Co-Chair of the IEEE Intl. Conference on Sensor Networks, Ubiquitous and Trustworthy Computing (SUTC) |
| 2008 | Reviewer for NSF OCE - Ocean Technology and Interdisciplinary Coordination |
| 2008 | TPC of ACM International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems, Vancouver, British Coloumbia. |
| 2008 | TPC of IEEE Wireless LANs and Wireless PANs Symposium, International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), Crete, Greece. |
| 2008 | TPC member of the First ACM International Workshop on Integrated Heterogeneous Sensor Networks (HeterSenet 2008), co-located with ACM MobiHoc. Hong Kong. |
| 2008 | TPC member of OMNeT++ 2008, 1st OMNeT++ Developers Workshop, Marseille, France |
| 2008 | Reviewer for Journal of Computer Systems, Networks, and Communications |
| 2008 | Reviewer for Elsevier Computer Networks Journal |
| 2007-2008 | European COST Action 2100 Management Committee delegate for the Republic of Ireland |
| 2007 | Organizing Committee of the IEEE SMC UK and RI 6th Conference on Cybernetic Systems Dublin, Ireland |
| 2007-present | IEEE Communication Society Technical Committee (TC) member on Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks |
| 2007-present | IEEE Communication Society Technical Committee (TC) member on Satellite Communications |
| 2007-present | IEEE Communication Society sub-Technical Committee member on Autonomic Communications |
| 2007 | TPC member of IEEE UNWAT Workshop at SENSORCOMM |
| 2007 | TPC member of IEEE SMC UK and RI Cybernetic Systems |
| 2007 | Reviewer for the 7th International Conference on Next Generation Teletraffic and Wired/Wireless Advanced Networking |
| 2007 | Reviewer for Innovations in Information Technology |
| 2007 | Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications |
| 2006-2007 | TPC member for IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications (ICWMC) |
| 2006 | TPC member for IEEE International Conference on Digital Telecommunications (ICDT) |
| 2006 | TPC member for IEEE International Conference on Systems and Network Communications (ICSNC) |
| 2006 | Reviewer for The Computer Journal |
| 2006 | Reviewer for IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering |
| 2006 | Reviewer for Wiley International Journal of Communication Systems |
| 2006 | Reviewer for Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks Journal |
| 2006 | Reviewer for IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) |
| 2005-2008 | Reviewer for IEEE Communications Magazine |
| 2005 | Reviewer for IEEE International Symposium on Personal Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC) |
| 2005 | Reviewer for IEEE Network |
| 2004-2006 | Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Computers |
| 2004 | Reviewer for IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) |
Top 10 Publications
| Publication details |
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| R. Jurdak. Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks: A Cross-Layer Design Perspective. Springer-Verlag. ISBN: 978-0-387-39022-2, 2007. |
| R. Jurdak, P. Baldi, and C.V. Lopes. "Adaptive Low Power Listening for Wireless Sensor Networks," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. Volume 6, Issue 8, pp. 988-1004. August, 2007. |
| R. Jurdak, A. G. Ruzzelli, and G.M.P. O'Hare. "Radio Sleep Mode Optimization in Wireless Sensor Networks," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol. 9 No. 7, July, 2010. |
| R. Jurdak, C. V. Lopes, and P. Baldi. "A Survey, Classification, and Comparative Analysis of Medium Access Control Protocols for Ad Hoc Networks," IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials 6(1):2-16, 2004. |
| R. Jurdak, P. Baldi, C. V. Lopes. "U-MAC: A Proactive and Adaptive UWB Medium Access Control Protocol," Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Journal, Special Issue on UWB Communications, 5(5):551-566, 2005. |
| R. Jurdak, C. V. Lopes and P. Baldi. "Battery Lifetime Estimation and Optimization for Underwater Sensor Networks." In Sensor Network Operations, published by Wiley-IEEE Press, edited by Shashi Phoha, Thomas F. La Porta and Christopher Griffin. pp. 397-420. ISBN: 0-471-71976-5. May, 2006. Edited volume resulting from overflow to special issue on Sensor Networks in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. |
| R. Jurdak, P. Corke, D. Dharman, and G. Salagnac. "Adaptive GPS Duty Cycling and Radio Ranging for Energy-Efficient Localization," In proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (Sensys), Zurich, Switzerland, November 2010. |
| P. Corke, T. Wark, R. Jurdak, W. Hu, P. Valencia, and D. Moore. "Environmental Wireless Sensor Networks," Proceedings of the IEEE, Special Issue on Emerging Sensor Network Applications, Vol. 98, No. 11, pages 1903-1917, November 2010. (Invited paper) |
| R. Jurdak, C.V. Lopes, and P. Baldi. "Software Acoustic Modems for Short Range Mote-Based Underwater Sensor Networks," In proceedings of IEEE Oceans. Singapore, May, 2006. |
| B. Kusy, C. Richter, W. Hu, M. Afanasyev, R. Jurdak, M. Bruenig, D. Abbott, C. Huynh, and D. Ostry. "Radio Diversity for Reliable Communication in WSNs," In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), Chicago, USA, April, 2011. |
Number of citations
| ISI | 105 |
|---|---|
| Google Scholar | 773 |