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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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Dr Chris McDonald
School of Computer Science & Software Engineering
The University of Western Australia
35 Stirling Highway, Crawley
Western AUSTRALIA, 6009.
+618 6488 2533
+618 6488 1089
chris@csse.uwa.edu.au
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Research
I have strong interests in most aspects of
computer networking,
mobile and wireless computing,
operating systems,
and
programming languages.
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.
Current conference programme committees:
Current research students:
- Chi Yang (PhD student 2008-),
Data aggregation techniques to minimize communication and energy use in wireless sensor networks
(jointly supervised with Rachel Cardell-Oliver).
- Matthew Heinsen Egan (PhD student 2011-),
Explanatory Visual Debugging to Assist Novice C Programmers
(jointly supervised with Amitava Datta).
- Maria Bravo (MSc student 2011-),
Detecting Skyline Points using distributed and threaded shared
memory algorithms
(jointly supervised with Amitava Datta).
- Amardeep Kaur (PhD student 2012-),
(jointly supervised with Amitava Datta).
- Matthew James (BESE Honours student 2011-12),
GPU-based Acceleration of Elastic Wavefield Modelling for
Monitoring CO2 Sequestration
(jointly supervised with Jeff Shragge, Centre for Petroleum
Geo-science and CO2 Sequestration, School of Earth and Environment).
- Jurek Tadek Malarecki (BESE Honours student 2011-12),
Improving OS Visualisation with Tracing Frameworks.
Links:
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Teaching in 2012
Administration
- CSSE Graduate Research Coordinator
- 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 Graduate Research Committee
- member of the FECM Board of Examiners
- member of the FECM Moodle LMS Reference Group
- member of the UWA Wireless Network Project Board
- invited FECM representative on UWA's Learning Links Committee
Software
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