School of Computer Science & Software Engineering The University of Western Australia

Amitava Datta
Associate Professor
School of Computer Science & Software Engineering
The University of Western Australia
35 Stirling Highway
Perth, WA 6009
Australia

Phone :  +61 8 6488 3449
Fax   :  +61 8 6488 1089
e-mail: datta@csse.uwa.edu.au

Please note that I am unable to support any summer internship.

Teaching

In the past, I have taught the following courses :

Programming Language Implementation

Programming Structures

Concurrent Programming

Object Oriented Programming

Parallel Algorithms and Applications at University of Freiburg, Germany.

Operating Systems

Introduction to Graphics

Mobile and Wireless Computing
Multimedia lecture recordings for this course are here

Current Teaching

I am now teaching Operating Systems

Research

Program committee

• 2001 International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS '01), San Francisco.
• 2002 IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC '02), Bangalore.
• 2002 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications ( PDPTA '02), Las Vegas.
• 2002 IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems ( PDCS '02), Cambridge, USA.
• 2003 International Conference on Computational Science (Organizing Committee member) ICCS '03, Melbourne, Australia and St. Petersburg, Russia.
• IASTED International Conference on Computer Science and Technology, CST 2003, Cancun, Mexico, May 2003.
• 2003 IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems ( PDCS '03), Marina del Rey, California, November 2003.
• 2004 International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP '04), Montreal, Canada, August 2004.
• 2004 International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing (EUC-04), Aizu, Japan, August 2004.
• IASTED International Conference on Advances in Computer Science and Technology (ACST 2004) St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands, November 2004.
• 16th IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems(PDCS 2004), MIT, Cambridge, USA, November 2004.
• 2005 International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS '05), Denver, Colorado, April 2005.
• First International Symposium on Pervasive Computing and Applications (SPCA 06), Xinjiang, China, August 2006.
• The Fourth ACM International Workshop on Mobility Management and Wireless Access (MobiWac 2006), Malaga, Spain, October 2006.
• 21st IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2007) , Niagara Falls, Canada, May 2007.
• International Conference on Computer Vision and Graphics 2006 (ICCVG 2006), Warsaw, September 2006.
• 2nd International Conference on Information Science and Security, Seoul, May 2007.
• First ACM Workshop on Educational Multimedia and Multimedia Education (EMME 2007), September 2007, Augsburg, Germany.
• 22nd IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA '08), Gino-Wan, Okinawa, Japan, March 2008.
• 2008 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS '08), Miami, Florida, April 14-18, 2008.
• 32nd Australasian Computer Science Confernece (ACSC 2009), Wellington, New Zealand, January 2009.

Editorial board

• Journal of Universal Computer Science
• Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications

PhD Students

• John Darrington
• Amer Filipovic
• Dr. Chris Gunn (graduated with Distinction in 2007)
• Jonathan Knispel
• Dr. Winnie Louis Lee (graduated in 2007)
• Dr. Gian Lorenzetto (graduated in 2003)
• Nicholas Lowe
• Dr. Babak Pazand (graduated in 2008)
• Valance Phua
• Dr. Anthony Prior (graduated in 2008)
• Jana Sperschneider
• James Strauss
• Dr. Kesaraporn Techapichetvanich (graduated in 2007)
• Dr. Chris Thorne (graduated in 2008)
• Minh Tran
• Jason Wong
• Tzu Yen Wong

Masters by Research Student

• Lanny Sitanayah

Masters by coursework Students

• Tarun Bakshi (MCS)
• Dzivi Ps (MCS)

Honours Students

• Shin Kee Chung
• Adam Neumann
• Dulnuwan Wimalatissa

I also collaborate with

• Sreyasee Das Bhattacharjee
• Rhushabh Goradia
• Christine Maindorfer
• Tobias Lauer
• Khaireel Ahmad Mohamed
• Asad Amir Pirzada
• Robin Pomplun

PhD Comics

Recent publications

• A. Datta and S. Soundaralakshmi
  A review of state-of-the-art routing protocols for mobile ad hoc networks
  Mobile Intelligence: When Computational Intelligence meets Mobile Paradigm
  L. T. Yang, A. Waluyo, L. Tan, J. Ma and B. Srinivasan (Eds.)
  John Wiley & Sons, in press, 2008.
  
  
• J. Sperschneider and A. Datta
  KnotSeeker: heuristic pseudoknot detection in long RNA sequences
  RNA, 14(4), 630-640, 2008.
  
  
• B. Pazand and A. Datta
  An energy-efficient node scheduling scheme for wireless sensor networks based on minimum dominating sets
  ACM/Wiley International Journal of Network Management, to appear.
  
  
• W. L. Lee, A. Datta and R. Cardell-Oliver
  FlexiTP: A flexible-schedule-based TDMA protocol for fault-tolerant and energy-efficient wireless sensor networks
  IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 19, no. 6, pp. 851-864, June 2008.