Supervisors in Information Technology, Monash University

I completed a Bsc (hons I) and a MSc at the University of Melbourne in 1987. I completed my PhD in Computer Science at the University of Cambridge, England, in 1992.  I was a postdoc at Manchester University from 1992-1994. I joined the ANU as a Research Fellow in 1994. I was an ARC QEII Fellow at ANU from 1997-2002. I was appointed as an Associate Professor at ANU in 2002. I took a "voluntary" redundancy from the ANU in 2020. I joined Monash at 20% FTE as a professor in 2024.

Mohammad is a Lecturer (i.e., to Assistant Professor) in the Department of Software Systems and Cybersecurity at Monash University. His research is centered on developing advanced solutions for large-scale distributed systems, with a particular focus on the Internet of Things (IoT), Cloud/Fog/Edge Computing, Applied Machine Learning, and Applied Security. Before joining Monash, Mohammad was a Senior Research Associate at UNSW Sydney and Cybersecurity CRC, where he collaborated with Cisco on a joint project.

I have been Professor of Software Engineering since 2002 and for most of this time I have been working on "Automated Software Engineering" – developing techniques and tools to support software engineers (and often end users) in capturing requirements, designing, generating, testing and deploying complex software systems, very often by using human-centric visual modelling languages.

Automatic translation from one language to another using machines, aka machine translation (MT), has been one of the main goals of AI. The majority of the MT literature works at the sentencelevel, by treating the document to be translated as a bag of sentences and translating sentences independently. Coherent translation of documents is out of reach for current state-of-the-art MT systems, since several discourse phenomena cannot be translated correctly without referring to extra-sentential context.

I am interested in sequential decision-making problems of the type that appear in the areas of AI Planning and Heuristic Search. Often these problems involve one or more agents moving through a task environment. Our job in this case is to find a collision-free trajectory that brings each agent from an initial start location and to a desired target position. Such problems appear in many settings including Robotics, GPS Navigation and in Computer Games.

I am an associate professor of software engineering in the Faculty of IT at Monash University and associate dean (academic development). My research focuses on human and social aspects of software engineering specialising in agile software development.

Alon Ilsar is an Australian-based drummer, composer, instrument designer and researcher. He is the co-designer of a new gestural instrument for electronic percussionists, the AirSticks. He is researching the uses of the AirSticks in the field of health and well being, making music creation more accessible to the broader community. Alon holds a PhD in instrument design through the University of Technology Sydney, under the supervision of Andrew Johnston.