Peter Lamb

Principal Research Scientist

Contact

Building 108, North Road, ANU Campus

Tel: 61 2 6216 7047
Fax: 61 2 6216 7111
Email

Themes

• Sensors and Sensor Networks Transformational Capability Platform

Projects

• Sensor Informatics

Science Area

• Semantic Data Management

Biography

After graduating in Electrical Engineering in 1978, I worked at the University of Melbourne as technical officer, engineer and systems programmer, working on one of the earliest Unix installations in Australia.
I had the opportunity to work for a year in 1981 as a Research Associate in Computer Science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), in a project developing an information retrieval system for the Lilith personal computer developed at ETH.
On my return to Australia, I had a number of part-time programming and tutoring positions while I worked on an MSc at the University of Melbourne in VLSI design tools; this included participation in the CSIRO-sponsored VLSI Multi-Project Chip program.
On completing my MSc, in 1984, I took a lecturing position in Electrical Engineering at the same University.
In 1985 I was offered the opportunity to work part-time as a systems administrator and work on my doctorate on mixed-mode electrical simulation in the Integrated Systems Laboratory at the ETH. Following completion of my doctorate in 1990, I continued working on solid modelling for VLSI design at the ETH.
In 1992 I joined the then CSIRO Division of Information Technology, where I have worked in Spatial Information Systems, a data model for interoperability in mining and exploration systems, in Intelligent Transportation Systems, on traffic simulation and vehicle location systems, in Grid Computing and eScience, primarily working on the Australia Telescope Online Archive, and on a pipeline for data reduction for users of the archive. From October 2004 to June 2007, I worked in the CSIRO ICT Centre Information Security and Privacy project, initially as a team member and as project leader from July 2005, concentrating on access control for data integration and streaming data access for sensitive health records.
From July 2007, I was a team member, then project leader in the Sensor and Sensor Networks Theme in the ICT Centre working on access control in streaming XML data. In 2009-10 I led the Sensor and Sensor Networks TCP Environmental Sensing project, and in 2010-11 he led the TCP’s Sensor Informatics project.
I will be taking leave from CSIRO from 4 July 2011 until 16 March 2012, when I intend to retire.

Academic Qualifications

1991	Doctor of Technical Sciences in Computer Science, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich
1983	MSc in Computer Science, University of Melbourne
1978	Dip Computing Studies, University of Melbourne
1977	BEng Hons (Electrical), University of Queensland

Recent Professional Experience

2010-2011	Sensor Informatics project leader, CSIRO Sensor and Sensor Networks TCP
2009-2010	Environmental Sensing project leader, CSIRO Sensor and Sensor Networks TCP
2008-2009	Semantic Sensor Networks project leader, CSIRO ICT Centre
2007-2008	Semantic Sensor Networks team member, CSIRO ICT Centre
2006-2007	Information Security & Privacy (ISP) Team leader, CSIRO ICT Centre
2005-2006	ISP Project leader
2004-2005	Research Scientist, ISP
2003-2004	eScience Stream Leader, CSIRO ICT Centre
2002-2003	Grid Computing Group Leader, CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences (CMIS)
2001-2002	Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) Activity Leader, Spatial Information Systems Group, CMIS
1999-2001	Project Leader, ITS Project, CMIS
1995-1999	Research Scientist, ITS Project, CSIRO Division of Information Technology & CMIS

Achievements & Awards

1982-1983	University of Melbourne Postgraduate Scholarship
1978	IEEE Student Paper Contest, 1st prize Australian Section,
1978	IEEE Student Paper Contest, 1st prize Region 10 Undergraduate Paper

Other Highlights

2004	Public release of the Australia Telescope Online Archive on the ATNF website (December 2004).
1995	Selected for CSIRO Research Management Course
1994	Selected for CSIRO R&D Project Leaders Course

Summary of Science & Technical Output

Student Supervision

2005	Lan Nguyen, Postdoctoral fellow CSIRO
2007	Gaëlle Caniot, CSIRO Industrial Trainee, Undergraduate Polytech' Montpellier
2010-11	Mukaddim Pathan, Postdoctoral fellow CSIRO
2010-11	Ali Salehi, Postdoctoral fellow CSIRO

Top 10 Publications

Publication details
T. Murphy, P. Lamb, C. Owen and M. Marquarding. "Data Storage, processing and visualisation for the ATCA". Pubs Astron. Soc. Australia, Vol. 23 No. 1, pp25-32, 2006
P. Lamb, G. Walker and P. Kilby, "The TRITRAM Traffic Simulator", Proc. 8th ITS World Congress, Sydney, September 2001, ITS Australia, ITS Japan, ITS America & ERTICO.
S. Thiébaux and P. Lamb. "Combining Kalman filtering and Markov localisation in network-like environments". 6th Pacific-Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI-2000), LNCS vol 1886, pp 756-766, Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, August
S. Thiébaux, P. Lamb, and B. Robinson. "Updating turn probabilities at intersections in response to traffic incidents. 4th International Conference of ITS Australia (ITSA-99), Adelaide (Australia), May 1999.
B. Robinson and P. Lamb, "High fidelity parallel/distributed simulation of traffic using the TRITRAM simulator", Proc. SCS International Simulation Multiconference: High Performance Computing, 92-7, Atlanta, USA, April 1997.
W.L. Power, P.R. Lamb & F.G. Horowitz, "Data Transfer Standards and Data Structures for 3D Geological Modelling'', Applications of Computers and Operations Research in the Mineral Industries, Australasian Inst. Mining & Metallurgy, July 1995.
P.R. Lamb, "Tiling very large rasters'', Proc. 6th Int'l Symp. on Spatial Data Handling, Edinburgh, Sept 1994.
P.R. Lamb, N. Hitschfeld & W. Fichtner, "Generating Solid Models for VLSI Process and Device Simulation'', Workshop on Numerical Modeling of Processes and Devices for Integrated Circuits: NUPAD IV, May 1992, Seattle, also Technical Report 92/6, Integra
P.R. Lamb, "An Object-Oriented Approach to Mixed-Mode Electrical Circuit Simulation'', Proc. SCS Multiconference on Object Oriented Simulation, Jan. 1990, San Diego, Calif.
P.R. Lamb & L. C. Westphal, "Simplex-directed Partitioned Adaptive Filters'', International Journal of Control, Vol. 30 No. 4, 1979. A version of this paper was awarded 1st prize Australian Section & 1st prize Region 10 Undergraduate Paper, IEEE 1978

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