Raja Jurdak
CSIRO - ICT Centre
University of Queensland - ITEE
Dr. Raja Jurdak
CSIRO, Brisbane, Australia
Email: rjurdak[at]ieee[dot]org
Phone: +61-7-33274059
Address:
CSIRO ICT Centre
QCAT Technology Court
Pullenvale QLD 4069
Australia
Profile
I am a Principal Research Scientist at CSIRO's ICT Centre, where I lead the Pervasive Computing Group. I have a PhD in Information and Computer Science at University of California, Irvine in September 2005, an MS in Computer Networks and Distributed Computing from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at UCI (2001), and a BE in Computer and Communications Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture at the American University of Beirut in (2000).
I have worked and studied in four continents (so far), in both academic and R&D organizations, and greatly enjoyed the diversity of these experiences, both professionally and personally. In 2005, I was a Project Scientist at UCI, before joining University College Dublin, Ireland as a research fellow in 2006. I then joined CSIRO, Australia in 2008, and was appointed as an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Queensland in 2009. I most recently held a Visiting Scientist appointment at MIT's CSAIL Lab in 2011.
Of course my interests are not solely focused on research, as I like to play sports (football, beach volleyball) and music (electric and acoustic guitar, as well as some piano).
Honours and Awards
- CSIRO Medal for Environmental Achievement
- Endeavour Executive Award
- Elected as IEEE Senior Member
- Enterprise Ireland Commercialization Award
- Irish Research Council Embark Award
Selected Publications - All Publications
M. Hansen, R. Jurdak, and B. Kusy. "Unified Broadcast in Sensor Networks," In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), Chicago, USA, April, 2011.
B. Kusy, C. Richter, W. Hu, M. Afanasyev, R. Jurdak, M. Bruenig, D. Abbott, C. Huynh, and D. Ostry. "Radio Diversity for Reliable Communication in WSNs," In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), Chicago, USA, April, 2011.
R. Jurdak, P. Corke, D. Dharman, and G. Salagnac. "Adaptive GPS Duty Cycling and Radio Ranging for Energy-Efficient Localization," In proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (Sensys), pages 57-70. Zurich, Switzerland, November 2010.
P. Corke, T. Wark, R. Jurdak, W. Hu, P. Valencia, and D. Moore. "Environmental Wireless Sensor Networks," Proceedings of the IEEE, Special Issue on Emerging Sensor Network Applications, Vol. 98, No. 11, pages 1903-1917, November 2010. (Invited paper)
R. Jurdak, A.G. Ruzzelli, G.M.P. O'Hare and R. Higgs, "Directed Broadcast with Overhearing for Sensor Networks," ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, vol 6, iss 1, Dec., 2009, 1-35.
R. Jurdak, A. G. Ruzzelli, and G.M.P. O'Hare. "Radio Sleep Mode Optimization in Wireless Sensor Networks," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol. 9 No. 7, July, 2010.
P. Valencia, P. Lindsay, and R. Jurdak. "Distributed Genetic Evolution in WSN," In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), Stockholm Sweden, April, 2010.