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Chris McDonald
currently holds the appointments of associate professor in the
School of Computer Science & Software Engineering
at The University of Western Australia
and adjunct associate professor in the
Department of Computer Science
at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire.
Chris has recently taught in the areas of
computer networking;
security & privacy;
mobile & wireless computing;
software design & implementation;
C programming;
and
operating systems
at The University of Western Australia and Dartmouth College.
Together with these areas,
his research interests include
wireless, ad-hoc, & mobile networking;
network simulation;
and
programming language implementation.
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Research
I have strong interests in most aspects of operating systems,
programming languages and computer networking.
As an active member of our school's
Mobile,
Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks group,
my current interests include
network protocol simulation,
ad-hoc and mobile networks, and
computer & network security.
Hoping to supervise these
projects in 2010
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Current research students:
- Chang Liu (PhD student 2008-),
Location-aware mobile application services
(jointly supervised with Rachel Cardell-Oliver).
- Chi Yang (PhD student 2008-),
Data aggregation techniques to minimize communication and energy use in wireless sensor networks
(jointly supervised with Rachel Cardell-Oliver and Terry Woodings).
- Gareth Davies (Masters of Computer Science student 2010),
A WiFi Guided Guide.
- James Andrewartha (BESE Honours student 2010),
Self-filling distributed file-systems.
- Matthew Heinsen Egan (Honours student 2010),
Visualization of dynamic memory allocation.
- Jack Langman (BESE Honours student 2010-11),
Attack sequence detection with WiFi traces.
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Teaching in 2010
Administration
- CSSE Graduate Research Coordinator
- member of the CSSE Senior Management Advisory Committee
- member of the CSSE Teaching & Learning Committee
- member of the CSSE Research Committee
- coordinator of the Ad-hoc & Wireless Sensor research laboratory
- member of the FECM Research Committee
- member of the FECM Scholarships Committee
- member of the FECM Board of Examiners
- member of the FECM New Courses Transition Working Party
- member of the UWA Wireless Network Project Board
- member of the Monadelphous Integrated Learning Centre Working Party
- participating in UWA's ITS security standards review
- invited FECM representative on UWA's Learning Links Committee
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Software
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+618 6488 2533
+618 6488 1089
email: chris@csse.uwa.edu.au