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Massimo Piccardi's Home Page Prof. Massimo Piccardi School of Computing and Communications, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) Building 10 - Room 4.431 Phone: +61 2 9514 7942 - Fax: +61 2 9514 4535 E-mail: massimo@it.uts.edu.au Home page: http://staff.it.uts.edu.au/~massimo Postal address: Prof. Massimo Piccardi Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology University of Technology, Sydney PO Box 123 Broadway NSW 2007 Australia Massimo Piccardi, M.Eng. in EE (University of Bologna, Italy), Ph.D. in CE/CS (University of Bologna, Italy) Massimo Piccardi is a Professor of Computer Systems with the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology at University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), that he joined in January 2002 as an associate professor. Previously, he was a senior lecturer/assistant professor with the Faculty of Engineering at University of Ferrara, Italy. At UTS, he co-ordinates the activities of the computer vision & visualization research group and serves as a Co-Director of the iNEXT Research Centre. His main research interests are in the areas of pattern recognition, computer vision, image and  video analysis and processing, and computer architecture, with main applications to video surveillance, multimedia, and human-computer interaction (CHI). He has been the author or co-author of more than a hundred scientific papers on international journals and conferences, and two book chapters. He has been the first chief investigator in several research projects including two ARC (Australian Research Council) Discovery Projects and an ARC Linkage Project. Dr. Piccardi is a senior member of the IEEE and the IEEE Computer Society and a member of the International Association for Pattern Recognition.

APAI Stipend and Top-Up available

for PhD studies in 2010-2012

The Australian Research Council has awarded a large research grant for a project on Airports of the Future (ARC Linkage Project LP0990135 for 2010-2013). The project will allocate

·        1 APAI Stipend of $26,669/year (indexed yearly, tax exempt)

·        1 Top-Up of $6,000/year (tax exempt)

for PhD studies on automated human action recognition from surveillance videos, including use of multiple cameras and other sources of data. The PhD studies will be conducted at University of Technology, Sydney, under the supervision of Prof. Massimo Piccardi (http://staff.it.uts.edu.au/~massimo/).

The ideal recipient(s) are prospective PhD students with a strong interest in statistical pattern recognition and real-time video analysis. To be eligible, a candidate must possess an Honours 1 or 2A (or equivalent) undergraduate degree and be admitted and enrol in a full-time PhD at UTS. Preference will be given to applicants with demonstrated excellence in prior studies on image analysis, pattern recognition, machine learning, and statistics.

Interested applicants are invited to contact Prof. Piccardi via email at massimo.piccardi@uts.edu.au.

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