Dr Wei Lai

Administrative Responsibilities

• Program Panel Member, Bachelor of Multimedia (Multimedia Software Development)

Qualifications

• PhD (Newcastle)

Research Interests

• Information Visualization
• Software Engineering and Software Visualization
• Image Recognition and Processing
• Internet and Web Applications

Recent Publications

• Mao Huang, Quang Nguyen and Wei Lai. “Creating Visual Browsers for Large-Scale Online Auctions”, to appear as a Book chapter in E-Service Intelligent Springer 2006.
• X. Huang and Wei Lai. “Clustering Graphs for Visualization through Node Similarities”, Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, pp. 225–253, 17 (2006)
• Wei Lai, X. Huang, R. Wibowo and J. Tanaka. “On-Line Web Information Visualization with Filtering and Clustering Graph Layout”, the IEEE Computational Intelligence Bulletin, pp 11-17, Vol. 5, No. 1, June 2005.
• Dongang Yu and Wei Lai. “Reconstruction and Recognition of Broken Handwritten Digits Based on Skeleton and Morphological Structure”. International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 19, No.3 (2005) 271-296.
• Xiaodi Huang, Wei Lai and Peter Eades, “A Framework of Filtering, Clustering and Dynamic Layout Graphs for Visualization”, Australian Computer Science Comminication, pp. 87-96. Number 1, Vol. 27, 2005.
• Xiaodi Huang and Wei Lai. “Web graph clustering for displays and navigation of cyberspace”. Web Mining: Applications and Techniques, Edited by Dr. Anthony Scime. Idea Group Inc., pp253-274, 2005
• Donggang. Yu and Wei. Lai, "New Algorithms for Feature Description, Analysis and Recognition of Binary Image Contours", Computational and Information Science, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp.1168-1174, Vol. 3314, 2004, Springer-Verlag,
• Wei Lai, Maolin Huang and Kang Zhang. “Generating and adjusting web sub-graph display for web navigation”. Intelligent Agents for Data Mining and Information Retrieval, Idea Group Publishing, pp 240-252, 2004.
• Maolin Huang, Peter Eades and Wei Lai. “On-line visualization and navigation of the global web structure”, International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, pp. 27-52, Feb. 2003.
• Wei Lai and Peter Eades. “Removing edge-node intersections in drawings of graphs”. Information Processing Letters, 81(2002):105-110.

Teaching Areas

• Unix Systems Programming
• Programming in Java
• Operating Systems

Academic Discipline

• Computer Science and Software Engineering