School of Computer Science

Our research

In an increasingly complex and fast moving world, the School of Computer Science conducts fundamental and applied research into helping people with differing abilities interact effectively with data, keeping data secure, transferring and storing data efficiently, and analysing data to produce new insights.

Our major research partners include:

• the Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre
• the Centre for Data Science
• the Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child
• Games Research and Interaction Design Lab
• Trusted Networks Lab
• Inclusive Technologies for People of Diverse Cognitive Abilities
• Ecosounds
• Acoustic Observatory
• Open Ecoacoustics
• Digital Wellbeing Lab
• numerous individual research projects with a variety of academic and industrial organisations.

Knowledge gained from our research projects also informs our undergraduate and postgraduate teaching courses.

Academic and postdoctoral researchers within the school undertake research projects funded by the Australian Research Council, Cooperative Research Centres and government and industry partners.

Research interests include eco-acoustics, enterprise system software re-engineering, interfaces for users with special needs, geodetic data analytics, human-computer interaction psychology, trusted data sharing in distributed networks, natural language processing, large-scale data analytics, text mining, cryptography, immersive technologies, bioinformatics, parallel programming, secure networking, software security, and wearable technologies.