Research
The research activities within electrical engineering include the Communications and Signal Processing Group (CSP), Communications Technology Research Group (CTRG), Renewable Energy and Power Systems Research Group (REEPS) and the Instrumentation and Control Systems Research Group (ICRG). Key research partnerships include those with the Australian Cooperative Research Centre for Integrated Engineering Asset Management (CIEAM), CSIRO Intelligent Grid Cluster, Western Australian Telecommunications Research Institute (WATRI), Australian Research Council and various government and industry bodies.
Computing at Curtin has an active research program with a large and growing band of PhD students. Several researchers in the Department are well known internationally for contributions to their fields. We also host the only ARC Centre of Excellence in WA for research into large scale pattern recognition. The Department of Computing is active in research and has a full graduate program. Areas of research include:
- Large Scale Pattern Recognition
- Artificial Intelligence
- Computer Graphics
- Parallel and Distributed computing
- Software Engineering
- Database Management