Surya Nepal
Principal Research Scientist
Contact
Cnr Vimiera and Pembroke Rodas
Marsfield, NSW 2122
Tel: 61 2 9372 4256
Fax: 61 2 9372 4585
Surya.Nepal@csiro.au
Themes
- Service Oriented Systems (SOSy)
Projects
- SOA Framework
- Business Process Monitoring & Tracking
- Cloud Computing
- Social Networks for Huamn Services
Biography
Surya Nepal is a Principal Research Scientist working on Service and Cloud Computing. He has also worked on trust and security aspects of collaboration at CSIRO ICT Centre. His main research interest is in the development and implementation of technologies in the area of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) and Web Services. He obtained his BE from National Institute of Technology, Surat, India. After graduating in Computer Engineering in 1993, he worked at the Rastriya Banijya Bank (National Commerce Bank) as a software engineer and software project leader, developing banking software. After nearly two years' work experiences, he took an opportunity to do ME from Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand. After completion of his masters, he started his research career as a research associate working on database transaction and logic programming. He then took an opportunity to do PhD from RMIT University, Australia. In 2000, after completion of his PhD, he joined the CSIRO Division of Mathematical and Information Sciences. At CSIRO, Surya undertook research in the area of multimedia databases, web services and service oriented architectures, and security and trust in collaborative environment. He has also edited a book on “Managing Multimedia Semantics”. He has several journal and conference papers in these areas to his credit.
Academic Qualifications
| 2000 | PhD, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia, Computer Science. |
| 1996 | ME, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand, Computer Engineering |
| 1993 | BE, National Institute of Technology, Surat, India, Computer Engineering. |
Recent Professional Experience
| 2007- | Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia. |
| 2003-2007 | Senior Research Scientist, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia. |
| 2000–2003 | Research Scientist, CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences, Australia. |
| 1997–2000 | Duty programmer/Tutor,RMIT, Australia. |
| 1997 | Research Associate, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand. |
| 1995-1997 | Teaching Assistant, SIIT (Sridhron International Institute of Technology), Thammasat, Bangkok, Thailand. |
| 1995-1997 | Teaching Assistant, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand. |
| 1993-1995 | Software Manager, National Commerce Bank, Kathmandu, Nepal. |
Student Supervision
| 2010 | Danan Thilakanathan, University of Sydney, Data Integrity as a Service in the Cloud |
| 2009 | Jonathan Hunklinger, ANU, Design and Develop a Trust Service for the Service Web; |
| 2007 | Steven Luc and Charles Tong, University of Sydney, Security Framework for Contract Negotiation. |
| 2006 | Cameron Ford, 4th year project, Sydney University. Secure Virtual Electronic Whiteboard for Remote Collaboration. |
| 2006 | Jenny Bhuiyan, 4th year project, University of Technology Sydney. Checking conformance between business processes and service interface descriptions. |
| 2006 | Thi Bich Quyen Chau, 4th year project, University of Sydney. Developing a Tool for Checking Compatibility of Service Contracts in Service Oriented Systems. |
| 2006 | Frederic Jaccard, Masters Thesis, University of Sydney/EPFL Switzerland. Develop and Implement a Data Model for Privacy Preserving Distributed Healthcare Systems. |
| 2006 | Gregoire Krähenbühl, Masters Thesis, University of Sydney/EPFL Switzerland. Develop and Implement Secure Electronic Medical Record Transfer Mechanisms/Protocols for Distributed Healthcare Systems. |
| 2005 | Tony Shi, Summer Project, University of Sydney. GAT Engine Design and Implementation in the .NET Framework. |
| 2003 | Beverly Chua, Summer Project, University of New South Wales. Impact of Spatio-Temporal Resolution on Video Quality. |
| 2002 | Simon Mitchell, Summer Project, Macquarie University. Video Delivery Over Wireless Devices. |
| 2002 | Nistha Koirala, Summer Project, University of Auckland, New Zealand. Translation of MPEG-7 Schema to Relational Databases for Video Annotation, Retrieval and Delivery. |
| 2002 | David Carmichael, Summer Project, University of Sydney. MPEG-2 Compressed Video Analysis Toolkit/MPEG-2 Parser. |
Science Citizenship
| 2010-11: | Program committee member in IEEE Cloud, IEEE IRI, Collaboratecom, SACMAT, ICSOC, WISE, Cloud Computing, etc. |
| 2007-2009 | Program Committee member in International conferences CLOUD, TrustCol, SACMAT, CollaborateCom, NASSUE, etc. |
| 1997-2009 | Reviews papers for international conferences such as ICWS, SCC, CollaborateCom, CLOUD, DEXA, ADC and ACM multimedia; international journals such as VLDB Journal, Data and Knowledge Engineering (D&KE) Journal; IEEE Transactions on SMC; IEEE Transactions on Service Computing; Communication Networks; Wireless Networks; international workshops such as MoMIR, MIR and IWI. |
| 1997-2009 | Chairs technical sessions in international conferences such as ICWS 2009, SCC 200, CoopIS 2006, and CoopIS 2005. |
| 2008 | PhD Thesis Examinor, Monash University |
| 2006 | PhD Thesis Examiner, University of Western Sydney |
| 2006 | Program Committee Member, 1st International Workshop on Mobile Multimedia Information Retrieval (MoMIR) |
| 2006 | Program Committee Member, 2nd Workshop on Innovations in Web Infrastructure |
| 2005 | PhD Thesis Examiner, RMIT |
| 2002 | Program Committee Member, 4th International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval |
| 1999 | Program Committee Member, RMIT Postgraduate Conference |
| 1993- | Member, Nepal Engineering Association (NEA) |
Top 10 Publications
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| S. Chen, S. Nepal, J. Chan, D. Moreland, and J. Zic. A service-oriented architecture to enable virtual storage services: a dynamic collaboration context. Int. J. Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Comput. 2009; 4(2):95-107. |
| D. Moreland, S. Nepal, H. Hwang, and J. Zic. A snapshot of trusted personal devices applicable to transaction processing. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing. 2009. |
| S. Nepal, J. Zic, and T. Chau. An approach to checking compatibility of service contracts in service-oriented applications. Int. J. Web Services Research. 2009; 6(2):42-65. |
| S.Nepal, J.Zic, G.Kraehenbuehl, and F.Jaccard. A trusted system for sharing patient electronic records in autonomous distributed healthcare systems. International Journal of Healthcare Information Systems and Informatics, Vol 2, No. 1, PP 14-34, January |
| P. Greenfield, D. Kuo, S. Nepal, and A. Fekete. Consistency for Web Service Applications. Proceedings of VLDB 2005, Tromso Norway, August 2005, pp 1199-1203. |
| U. Srinivasan, S. Pfeiffer, S. Nepal, M. Lee, L. Gu, and S. Barrass.A survey of MPEG-1 audio, video and semantic analysis techniques. Multimedia Tools and Applications. 2005; 27(1):105-141. |
| S.Nepal and U.Srinivasan. DAVE: A system for quality driven adaptive video delivery. Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR'03), in conjuction with ACM Multimedia 2003, Berkeley, CA, USA, pp. 223-230. |
| S.Nepal, U.Srinivasan and G.Reynolds.Automatic Detection of 'Goal' Segments in Basketball Videos. 9th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM 2001), Sept. 30-Oct.5, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 2001, pp. 261-269. |
| S.Nepal, M.V. Ramakrishna and J.A.Thom. A Fuzzy Object Query Language (FOQL) for Image Databases. 6th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA'99), April 19-22, 1999, Hsinchu, Taiwan, pp. 117-124. |
| S.Nepal and M.V. Ramakrishna. Query Processing Issues in Image(Multimedia) Databases. 15th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE-99), March 23-26, 1999, Sydney, Australia, pp. 22-29. |