Dr. Seng W. Loke

Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering
La Trobe University,
Bundoora, VIC 3086, Australia.
(Melbourne)
Tel: +61 3 9479 3415
Email: s.loke@latrobe.edu.au
Office Location: Beth Gleeson Building, BG 137

BRIEF BIO

I am a Reader and Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering in La Trobe University. I lead the Pervasive Computing Group at La Trobe, and have authored 'Context-Aware Pervasive Systems: Architectures for a New Breed of Applications' published by Auerbach (CRC Press), Dec 2006.

I have (co-)authored more than 230 research publications including 40 journal papers, 10 book chapters, and over 150 conference/workshop papers, with numerous work on context-aware computing, and mobile and pervasive computing. I have been on the program committee of numerous conferences/workshops in the area, including Pervasive'08 and Percom'10 (and 2011). My research has been published in journals such as IEEE Pervasive, Knowledge Engineering Review, Elsevier's Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal, IEEE Transactions on SMC, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Future Generation Computer Systems, MONET, Journal of Systems and Software, Journal of Network and Computer Applications and Theory and Practice of Logic Programming. I have also published in leading conferences in the pervasive, middleware, and services computing areas including Percom (ERA ranking: A), International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC) (ERA ranking: A), Mobiquitous (ERA ranking A), HICSS (ERA ranking: A), and Middleware (ERA ranking: A).

I completed my PhD in 1998 at the University of Melbourne, and the BSc (Hons) in 1994 at the Australian National University winning a University Medal in Computer Science. I was an Honorary Associate of the Centre for Distributed Systems and Software Engineering, Monash University for several years (2006-2011).

TEACHING

2013(@La Trobe)

·       CSE2ICE Internet Client Engineering (Semester 1)

·       CSE4ASD Advanced Systems Design (Semester 1)

·       CSE4MPC Mobile and Pervasive Computing (Semester 2)

 

2012(@La Trobe)

·       CSE2ICE Internet Client Engineering (Semester 1)

·       CSE5BMS Biometrics Security (Semester 2) (cancelled)

·       CSE4MPC Mobile and Pervasive Computing (Semester 2)

 

2011(@La Trobe)

·       CSE2ICE Internet Client Engineering (Semester 1)

·       CSE4ASD Advanced Systems Design (Semester 1)

·       CSE4MPC Mobile and Pervasive Computing (Semester 2)

 

RESEARCH

Current research interests are mainly in pervasive and mobile computing / ubiquitous computing:

• mobile cloud and services computing
• mobile crowd computing, crowdsensing, crowdsourcing
• distributed algorithms and complex systems in the mobile environment
• context-aware mobile applications: mobile health, Intelligent Transportation Systems, pervasive advertising
• activity recognition via mobile sensing
• mobile interaction with users, spaces, and information; mobile experience engineering
• software engineering for mobile applications; programming models and abstractions; performance engineering; resource/energy-aware software
• mobile augmented reality and physical annotations; cross-reality environments and visualizations
• smart (mobile) things
• AI reasoning about Big social/stream Data arising in pervasive computing environments and its applications

Some venues with interesting work: ACM SIGMOBILE events, Percom, PMC, PUC, TMC, TCC, IEEE Pervasive Computing, AI, FGCS, KER, IEEE ITS, TKDE

Current PhD Projects and Supervision:

• human activity recognition and stream reasoning with social and sensor data (which I call human activity reasoning), and its applications:

• Do Manh Thang (PhD - La Trobe University), ASR: Semantic Stream Reasoning with Sensor Data using Answer Set Programming for Activity Recognition, co-supervise with Fei Liu, my role (50%)
• Osama M. Barzaiq (PhD - La Trobe University), Context/Activity-Aware Advertising, co-supervise with Hongen Lu, my role (principal)

• mobile cloud/crowd computing:

• Niroshinie Thotage (PhD - La Trobe University), HoneyBee: Context-Aware Mobile Cloud/Crowd Computing, co-supervise with Wenny Rahayu, my role (principal)
• Javeria Samad (PhD - La Trobe University), Mobile Cloud Computing, co-supervise with Karl Reed, my role (principal)
• Jurairat Phuttharak (PhD - La Trobe University), Declarative Programming of Mobile Crowd Applications for Smarter Decision-Making, co-supervise with Richard Lai, my role (principal)

• context-aware computing and its applications:

• Alaa Almagrabi (PhD - La Trobe University), Mona: Context-Aware Addressing and Messaging for Emergency Management, co-supervise with Torab Torabi, my role (principal)
• Ahmad Alzahrani (PhD - La Trobe University), ALPHAsys: A Context-Aware Physical Annotation System, co-supervise with Hongen Lu, my role (principal)

• intelligent transportation systems:

• Prajakta Aniruddha Desai (PhD - La Trobe University), CARAVAN: A V2V Communication Approach to Vehicular Congestion Management, co-supervise with Jack Singh, my role (30%)

• sensor-based human computer interaction and tasks for services computing:

• Chuong Cong Vo (PhD - La Trobe University), TaskUI: A Task-Oriented Context-Aware Framework for Smart Spaces, co-supervise with Torab Torabi, my role (50%)

 

Recently completed PhD Students:

• Anh-Tuan Nguyen (2011) (PhD - La Trobe University), Place-Based Virtual Communities for Context-Aware Applications, co-supervise with Torab Torabi, my role (principal, 50%)
• Kutila Gunasekera (2012) (PhD - Monash University), On Capabilities for Context-Aware Software Agents, co-supervise with Arkady Zaslavsky, my role (minor, 10%)

Recently completed Masters minor thesis / Honours Students:

• Amin BakhshandehAbkenar (2012), MyActivity: a Cloud-Hosted Ontology-Based Framework for Human Activity Querying, my role (sole supervisor)
• Cindy on Show (2012), Activity Recognition and Human Computation, my role (sole supervisor)
• An Nghi Vu (2012), ZOR: an Indoor Smart Phone Augmented Reality System Based on Bluetooth Technologies, my role (sole supervisor)
• Fahad Zarouni (2011), PivotAds+: a System for Gesture-Based Interactive Public Advertising Multi-Displays, my role (sole supervisor)
• Hamed Al Balushi (2011), Physical-Explorer: a Bluetooth-Based Real-Time Physical Search System using Mobile Phones, my role (sole supervisor)
• Phuc (Eddy) Nguyen (2011), TRACE: a Cross-Reality System for Capturing Availability, my role (sole supervisor)
• Guan Huang (2011), Displays with Gesture Based Easy-Computer Interaction, my role (sole supervisor)
• Sultan R. Alotaibi (2011), Webco: a Framework for Building Web Sites with Adaptive Location-Aware Behaviour, my role (sole supervisor)
• Muhanna M. AlGhamdi (2011), An RFID System for Children Tracking, my role (sole supervisor)
• Naif Ali Al Mudawi (2011), A System for Fine-Grained Zone-Based Positioning using Bluetooth, my role (sole supervisor)
• Deafallah B. Alsadie (2011), Gesture-Based Control of Applications using the iPhone, my role (sole supervisor) (won a best application cash prize in Saudi Arabia)

 

I am also interested in mobile education & health, programming smart things, green computing, and new forms of HCI (using sensors)

 

PUBLICATIONS

View my publications as a list (more PDFs coming, email me if you need copies of papers);
or
in DBLP under the names of either Seng Wai Loke or Seng W. Loke (just union the results from both);
or
in Google Scholar (many with links to PDFs)

 

or for more information ...

If you are wondering what pervasive computing is,

you can look up "youtube university" by watching videos on

pervasive computing,

ubiquitous computing,

ambient intelligence, and

context-aware computing.

or buy my book: Context-Aware Pervasive Systems: Architectures for a New Breed of Applications

You can get it from Amazon in the UK,

or Amazon in the US,

or Amazon in Japan,

or Amazon in Canada,

or Amazon in Germany.

[More Information | My current schedule | Slides for my departmental talk (30th July 2010) | What's recent? (My blog of interesting links) ]

RECENT ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES, SERVICES TO THE COMMUNITY

• Asoociate Director (Research Training) at the Centre for Technology Infusion, La Trobe University (2012)
• ERA Peer Reviewer (2012)
• Selection Committee, Technology Voucher Program (2012) by the Department of Business and Innovation, Victorian Government
• Postgraduate Research Coordinator, Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering (2011)

Last updated, Loke, S.W., December 2012.