Research Grants for Last Nine Years


Present:

Mixture Models for High-Dimensional Clustering with Applications to Tumour Classification, Network Intrusion, and Text Classification (with Dr. Angus Ng, Department of Mathematics, UQ). $220,000. Funded by the Australian Research Council, 2008-2010.

Multivariate Methods for the Analysis of Microarray Gene-Expression Data with Applications to Cancer Diagnostics (with Dr. Angus Ng, Department of Mathematics, UQ, and Dr. Alex Ng, Department of Medicine, Harvard University). $895,099. Funded by the Australian Research Council, 2007-2011.

Diagnostics for Mixture Regression Models: Applications for Public Health (with Dr. A. Lee and Dr V. Burke, School of Public Health, Curtin University of Technology). $124,500. Funded by the National Health & Medical Research Council, 2007-2008.

Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence in Bioinformatics (with MA Ragan (Director), TL Bailey, K Burrage, Y-P Chen, MR Fellows, M Hegland, M Langston, JS Mattick, BJ Marsh, PA Moscato, S Ranganathan, I Rigoutsos, A Rodrigo, RD Teasdale, and X Zhou). $3,300,000. Funded by the Australian Research Council, 2008-2010.

Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre in Bioinformatics (with MA Ragan (Director), TL Bailey, K Burrage, Y-P Chen, MR Fellows, SM Grimmond, JS Hallinan, M Hegland, P Kodali, BJ Marsh, PA Moscato, RM Muhlberger, BA Pailthorpe, I Rigoutsos, RD Teasdale, and X Zhou). $3,168,000. Funded by the Australian Research Council, 2004-2007.

Associate Investigator on Noncoding RNAs as Prognostic Markers and Therapeutic Targets in Breast Cancer (with Professor J. Mattick, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, UQ, and Dr M. Brown, School of Molecular & Microbial Sciences, UQ). $528,500. Funded by the National Health & Medical Research Council, 2007-2009.


Past:

Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre for Complex Systems (ACCS). (with PA Lindsay (Director), HA Abbass, DA Abramson, P Adams, K Burrage, K Deb, RG Dromey, J Foster, DG Green, IJ Hayes, SM Kaplan, R Neilson, BA Pailthorpe, PM Sanderson, J Quiggan, and G Theraulaz). Funded by the Australian Research Council, 2003-2007. Resigned February, 2006.

Unsupervised Learning of Mixture Models in Data Mining Applications. $165,000. Funded by the Australian Research Council, 2003-2005.

Classification of Microarray Gene-Expression Data (with Professor K.E. Basford, School of Land and Food, UQ). $129,813. Funded by the Australian Research Council, 2003-2005.

Hierarchical finite mixture modelling of health outcomes: a risk-adjusted random effects approach (with Dr. A. Lee, School of Public Health, Curtin University of Technology and Dr. K. Yau, Department of Management Sciences, University of Hong Kong). $110,000. Funded by the National Health & Medical Research Council, 2003-2004.

Development of market driven computational biology infrastructure for advanced education and training (with Dr. R. Brandon, Associate Professor P. Timms, Dr. R. Brandon, Mr. S. Hendriks, Professor B. Pham, Professor E. Douglas, and Professor D. Wyatt) $244,350. Funded by the Innovation Access Program, 2003-2004.

On Algorithms for the Automatic Analysis and Segmentation of Correlated Images (with Dr. D. Wang, CMR, UQ and Professor P. Smyth, Department of Information and Computer Science, UCI). $155,000. Funded by the Australian Research Council, 2000-2002.

The Classification of Multiply Observed Features in Terms of Fitted Densities (with Professor K.E. Basford, School of Land and Food, UQ; Professor C.E. McLaren, Department of Medicine, UCI; Professor P. Smyth, Department of Information and Computer Science, UCI). $163,000. Funded by the Australian Research Council, 2000-2002.

Artificial Neural Networks and the EM Algorithm. $150,572. Funded by the Australian Research Council, 1999-2001.

A Clustering Algorithm for Use in Data mining. $14,000. Funded by the Australian Research Council, 2000.

The Analysis of Plant Adaptation Data with Emphasis on Unbalanced Sets. (with Professor K.E. Basford, School of Land and Food, UQ). $144,000. Funded by the Australian Research Council, 1997-1999.

On Mixture Regression Models with Constrained Components for Application to Failure Data on Heart Valves. $19,333. Funded by the Australian Research Council, 1999.

Robust Cluster Analysis. $17,200. Funded by the Australian Research Council, 1998.

On Mixture Models in Medical Imaging. $6,840. Funded by the Australian Research Council, 1997.