Minh is a post-doctoral research fellow in the Centre for Complex Systems and Services (CS3) at Swinburne. Minh received a PhD from Swinburne in 2006, a Master of IT degree from Swinburne and a Bachelor of Computer Science from Melbourne University in 2002 and 2000, respectively.

Minh is currently working in the Proactive Maintenance Project, funded by Advanced Automotive CRC and General Motors Holden (GM Holden). Previously, Minh worked as a postdoc fellow at Smart Internet Technology CRC (SITCRC) in the research field of context-aware collaborative systems. More information about Minh's current and past research can be found at the research and publication pages.

Research interests

  • Awareness support in Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (authoring, communication, games, online communities, digital identity)
  • Adaptive, Context-aware Pervasive Computing (system architecture, user modelling, SOA)
  • Semantic Web (e.g., user intent discovery, adaptive information access, smart search/browser)
  • HCI, Usability, User Interface Technology

Grants

  • 2009 - Researcher Development Scheme (RDS), Social context: supporting context-aware automotive telematics systems: $14K (1 year)
  • 2008 - CRC for Advanced Automotive Technology (AutoCRC) Postgraduate Research Scholarship, Context-Aware Vehicle: Enabling Adaptive Distraction-Free Vehicle-Environment Interactions: $99K (3 years)
  • 2007 - The FICT Dean's Collaborative Grants Scheme (DCGS), Adoption and Diffusion of Virtual Collaborative Technologies: $14K (1 year)
  • 2006 - Smart Internet Technology CRC (SITCRC) Post Graduate Development Extension Program, Relaxed Instant Messenger Technologies: $90K (1 year)

Projects

  • May 07 - Present:
    • The Proactive Maintanence project funded by AutoCRC. The project develops Web-based systems for vehicle testing and diagnosis.
    • Context-aware pervasive systems
    • Context-aware vehicles
    • Other potential projects in the pipeline: context-aware services (e.g., resource-aware, process-aware)
  • Feb 06 - Apr 07: The Presence project @ Smart Internet Technology CRC (SITCRC). The project investigated the use of text-based CMC (e.g., Instant Messaging) to support group communication and knowledge sharing.
  • PhD: My PhD focused on awareness modelling and context-awareness mechanisms in synchronous, distributed groupware.

Professional activities

  • Program Committee member: AUIC 2007, 2008, 2009 (10th Australasian User Interface Conference)
  • Organising Committee Chair: CSCWD 2007 (Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design)
  • Program Committee member: APWeb/WAIM 2007 (Asia-Pacific Web Conference/ Web-Age Information Management)

Upcoming conferences

  • ICSE 2010:Inter. Conf. on Software Engineering (May 2-8, South Africa), A+
    Submission: Sep. 6, 2009
  • PERCOM 2010: IEEE Inter. Conf. on Pervasive Comp. and Comms (March 29, Mannheim, Germany), A+
    Submission: Sep. 28, 2009
  • PERVASIVE 2010:Inter. Conf. on Pervasive Computing (May 17-20, Helsinki, Finland), A+
    Submission: October 16, 2009
  • ICECCS 2010: 15th Inter. Conf. on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (22-26 March, University of Oxford), A
    Submission: October 30, 2009
  • Mobisys 2009: Inter. Conf. on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services (June 22-25, Krakow, Poland), A
    Submission: (Approx) Nov. 30, 2009
  • ICSOC 2009:Inter. Conf. on Service Oriented computing (Nov, 24-27, Stockholm, Sweden), A
    Submission: June (8)15, 2009
  • MobiQuitous 2009: Inter. Conf. on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (13-16 July, Toronto), A
    Submission: 20 Mar., 2009
  • MobileHCI 2009: 11th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (15-18 Sep, Germany), A
    Submission: 16 Feb., 2009
  • UbiComp 2009: Inter. Conf. on Ubiquitous Computing A+
    Submission: 17 Apr., 2009
  • CHI 2009: ACM Conf. on Human Factors (April 5 - 9, Boston), A+
    Submission: Sep. 19, 2008
  • ICDCS 2009:29th Inter. Conf. on Distributed Computing Systems (June 22-26, Montreal, Canada), A
    Submission: around November, 2008
  • MODELS 2008:Inter. Conf. on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (28 Sep - 3 Oct, Toulouse)
    Submission: May 2, 2008
  • CSCW 2008: ACM Conf. on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, A
    Submission: April 18, 2008
  • WWW 2009: ACM Inter. Conf. on World Wide Web ( April 20 - 24, Madrid), A+
    Submission: November 3, 2008
  • UIST 2008: ACM Sym. on UI Software and Tech, A
    Submission: April 3, 2008
  • DIS 2009: ACM Conf. on Design Interactive Sys, A
    Submission: Around August, 2008
Maintained by: Minh Hong Tran