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Head of School

Professor Chris Messom

BSc hons, MSc, PhD

Biography
Prof Chris Messom is the Head of School of Information Technology, Sunway Campus and the Associate Director (Malaysia) of the Monash e-Research Centre. Prof Chris Messom brings to the School of IT, extensive experience in intelligent systems, GRID computing and e-Research.


Research interests
Intelligent Systems, GRID Computing, e-Research


Research publications

Selected Journal Publications

Messom, C.H. and Barczak, A.L.C., "Stream Processing for Fast and Efficient Rotated Haar-like Features using Rotated Integral Images", Int. J.Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications, 2009, accepted.

Kalamdani, A., Messom, C.H. and Siegel, M., "Robots with Sensitive Feet", IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Magazine, Vol 10, No 5, pp 46-53, October 2007, ISSN 1094-6969.

Messom, C. H., Sen Gupta,G., Demidenko, S., "Hough Transform Run Length Encoding for Real-time Image Processing", IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol 56, no 3, pp 962-967, June 2007, ISSN 0018-945.[copyrighted]

Sen Gupta,G., Mukhopadhyay, S. Messom, C. H., Demidenko, S., "Master-slave Control of a Teleoperated Anthropomorphic Robotic Arm with Gripping Force Sensing", IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol 55, no 6, pp 2132-2141, 2006, ISSN 0018-9456.[copyrighted]

Barczak, A.L.C., Johnson, M.J. and Messom, C.H., "Real-time Computation of Haar-like features at generic angles for detection algorithms", Research Letters in the Information and Mathematical Sciences, v. 9, pp. 98 - 111, 2006.

Sen Gupta,G., Messom, C. H., Demidenko, S., "Real-Time Identification and Predictive Control of Fast Mobile Robots using Global Vision Sensing", IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol 54, No 1, pp 200-214 2005.[copyrighted]

Barczak, A.L.C., Messom, C.H., Johnson M.J., "Performance Characteristics of a Cost-Effective Medium-Sized Beowulf Cluster Supercomputer", Res. Lett. Inf. Math. Sci, 2003 (5), pp 1-10, ISSN 1175-2777.

Sarrafzadeh, A., Messom, C., Overmyer, S., Mills, B., Fan, C., Hosseini, H., Bigdeli, A., Biglari-Abhari, M., "The Future of Computer-Assisted Management Education and Development", Int. Journal of Management Literature 2(3&4), 2002, pp 241-255, ISSN 0972-4095.

Messom, C.H., "Genetic Algorithms for Autotuning Mobile Robot Motion Control", Res. Lett. Inf. Math. Sci, 2002, (3), pp 129-134, ISSN 1175-2777.

West, A.A., Hinde, C.J., Messom, C.H., Harrison, R. & Williams, D.J., "Design issues associated with neural network systems applied within the electronics manufacturing domain", Journal of Electronics Manufacture, 10(1), December 2000, pp 19-48, ISSN 0960-3131. [copyrighted]

Selected Book Chapters

Messom,C.H., "Vision Controlled Humanoid Toolkit", Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence vol 3213, pp 218 - 224, Springer Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg 2004.[copyrighted]

Messom, C.H., Sarrafzadeh, A, Johnson, M.J., Chao F., "Affective state estimation from facial images using neural networks and fuzzy logic" in Neural Networks Applications in Information Technology and Web Engineering, Editor Dianhui Wang.[copyrighted]

Meyer, T., Messom, C, " Improvisation in Theatre Rehearsals for Synthetic Actors", Entertainment Computing - ICEC 2004, Proceedings of Third International Conference, 2004, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol 3166, Springer 2004, ISBN 3-540-22947-7, pp 172-175.

Meyer, T., Messom, C, " Development of Extemporaneous Performance by Synthetic Actors in the Rehearsal Process", Entertainment Computing - ICEC 2004, Proceedings of Third International Conference, 2004, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol 3166, Springer 2004, ISBN 3-540-22947-7, pp 586-591.

Selected Refereed Papers

Messom, C.H.,"Synchronization of Vision Based Sensor Networks with Variable Frame Rates", 15th International Conference on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice(M2VIP'08), 2008

Messom, C.H., Barczak, A.L., "Stream Processing of Integral Images for Real-Time Object Identification", 3rd (2008) New Zealand Workshop in High Performance and Grid Computing, The Ninth International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies (PDCAT'08), 2008.

Messom, C.H., Barczak, A.L., "Classifier and Feature Based Stereo for Mobile Robot Systems", IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, 2008, pp 997-1002, ISSN 1091-5281. Sen Gupta, G., Messom, C, Demidenko, S., "Obstacle Avoidance in a Collaborative Environment", IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, 2008, pp 991-996 ISSN 1091-5281.

Gerdelan, A., Johnson, M.J., and Messom, C.H., "Performance Analysis of Virtualised Head Nodes Utilising Cost-Effective Network Attached Storage". Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing 2007, ISBN 978-0-9579303-3-9. Best Paper Award and Best Presentation Award

Walker, M., Edwards, H. and Messom, C.H., "Confidence Intervals for Computational Effort Comparisons", European Conference on Genetic Programming (EuroGP 2007), LNCS 4445, pp 23-32, Springer Verlag, ISSN 0302-9743. Best Paper Award nomination

Barczak, A.L. and Messom, C.H. "Real-time Rotationally Invariant Features for Environmental Feature Detection by Mobile Robots and Sensor Networks", IEEE International Workshop on Robotic and Sensor Environments, 2007, pp 19-24, ISBN 1-4244-1527-6.[copyrighted]

Messom, C.H., Sarrafzadeh, A., Gerdelan, A. and Johnson, M.J., "Operating System Virtualization for management and delivery of E-learning", Proceedings of E-Learn 2007, pp 7267-7273, ISBN 1-880094-63-0.

Walker, M., Edwards, H. and Messom, C.H., "The Reliability of Confidence Intervals for Computational Effort Comparisons", Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2007), pp 1716-1723, ISBN/ISSN 9781595936974.

Walker, M., Edwards, H. and Messom, C.H., "Success Effort for Performance Comparisons", Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2007), ISBN/ISSN 9781595936974.

Walker, M., Edwards, H. and Messom, C.H., "Success Effort and Other Statistics for Performance Comparisons in Genetic Programming", IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computing, CEC 2007, pp 4631-4637 ISBN 1-4244-1340-0.

Messom, C.H. and Barczak, A.L., "Fast and Efficient Rotated Haar-like Features using Rotated Integral Images", Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2006, ISBN 978-0-9587583-8-3.[copyrighted]

Kalamdani, A., Messom, C.H. and Siegel, M., "Tactile Sensing by the Sole of the Foot: Part I: Apparatus and Initial Experiments Toward Obtaining Dynamic Pressure Maps Useful for Stabilizing Standing, Walking, and Running of Humanoid Robots", IEEE International Workshop on Haptic Audio Visual Environments and their Applications, Ottawa, Canada 4-5 November 2006, pp 147-151, ISBN 1-4244-0761-3.[copyrighted]

Kalamdani, A., Messom, C.H. and Siegel, M., "Tactile Sensing by the Sole of the Foot: Part II: Calibration and Real-time processing", Third International Conference on Automonous Robots and Agents, 2006, pp 437-442, ISBN-10: 0-473-11566-1.[copyrighted]

Research Publications Edited:

Mukhopadhyay, S.C., Messom, C.H., Sen Gupta, G., L De Silva, "The Second International Conference on Sensing Technology", 2007, ISBN 978-0-473-12432-8.

Mukhopadhyay, S.C., Messom, C.H., Sen Gupta, G., L De Silva, "The Fourth International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Robotics and Agents", 2007, ISBN 978-0-473-12433-5.

Sen Gupta, G., Mukhopadhyay, S.C., Messom, C.H., "The First International Conference on Sensing Technology", 2005, ISBN 0-473-10504-7.

E-mail
C.H.Messom@infotech.monash.edu.my
Phone
(+603) 5514 6079
Fax
(+603) 5514 6129
Location
Room No. 2-4-28
   



Professor Chris Messom