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

Professor  Amitava Datta
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 AT csse.uwa.edu.au
        amitava.datta AT 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

Java Programming

Introduction to Graphics

Scientific Communication

Computer Networks

Advanced Databases

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

Current Teaching

I am now teaching

• Operating Systems
• Programming and Systems (jointly with Prof. Chris McDonald)

Research

Conferences and workshops

• Algorithms and Data Structures Symposium
• CS4HS
• International Workshop on Cloud Computing and Information Security

PhD Students

• Dr. John Darrington (graduated in 2009)
• Dr. Chris Gunn (graduated with Distinction in 2007)
• Dr. Winnie Louis Lee (graduated in 2007)
• Dr. Gian Lorenzetto (graduated in 2003)
• Dr. Babak Pazand (graduated in 2008)
• Dr. Valance Phua (graduated in 2009)
• Dr. Anthony Prior (graduated in 2008)
• Dr. Jana Sperschneider (graduated in 2012)
• Dr. Kesaraporn Techapichetvanich (graduated in 2007)
• Dr. Chris Thorne (graduated in 2008)
• Dr. Minh Tran (graduated in 2010)
• Dr. Jason Wong (graduated in 2009)
• Dr. Tzu Yen Wong (graduated in 2009)

• Matthew Heinsen Egan
• Deepak Garg
• Amardeep Kaur
• Jonathan Knispel
• Alvaro Monsalve
• Nasrin Moradmand

Masters by Research Students

• Lanny Sitanayah (graduated in 2009)
• Kwan Hui Lim
• Maria Bravo Rojas

Masters by coursework and Research Preliminary Degree Students

• Randal Adamson
• Muhammad Furqon
• Jaspreet Ghai
• Long Ma
• Brian Marshall
• Sean Peters
• Aditya Pullagurla
• Furqan Zahid

PhD Comics

Recent presentations

• Finding like-minded communities of highly interactive individuals on Twitter
  Keynote speech, International Conference on Computer Science and Service System (CSSS 2012)
  Nanjing, August 2012.
  
  

Recent publications

• D. Garg and A. Datta
  Parallel execution of prioritized test cases for regression testing of web applications
  2013 Australasian Computer Science Conference (ACSC 2013)
  January 2013, Adelaide, to appear.



• K. H. Lim and A. Datta
  A seed-centric community detection algorithm based on an expanding ring search
  2013 Australasian Web Conference (AWC 2013)
  January 2013, Adelaide, to appear.



• J. Sperschneider, A. Datta and M. J. Wise
  Predicting pseudoknotted structures across two RNA sequences
  Bioinformatics, to appear.



• D. Garg, A. Datta and T. French
  New test case prioritization strategies for regression testing of web applications
  International Journal of System Assurance Engineering and Management , to appear.



• D. Garg, A. Datta and T. French
  A two-level prioritization approach for regression testing of web applications
  19th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC 2012)
  Hong Kong, December 2012, to appear.



• K. H. Lim and A. Datta
  Tweets beget propinquity: Detecting highly interactive communities on Twitter using tweeting links
  2012 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2012)
  Macau, December 2012, to appear.



• N. Moradmand, A. Datta and G. Oakley
  A computer-assisted framework based on a cognitivist learning theory for teaching mathematics in early primary years
  Australian Computers in Education Conference (ACEC 2012)
  Perth, October 2012, to appear.
  
  
• K. H. Lim and A. Datta
  Enhancing the TORA protocol using network localization and selective node participation
  23rd IEEE Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 12)
  Sydney, September 2012, to appear.
  
  
• A. Monsalve, R. Cardell-Oliver, A. Datta and C. Huebner
  Empirical evaluation of adapting IEEE 802.15.4 contention windows for maximum performance
  23rd IEEE Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 12)
  Sydney, September 2012, to appear.
  
  
• K. H. Lim and A. Datta
  Following the Follower: Detecting communities with common interests on Twitter
  23rd ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (Hypertext 2012)
  Milwaukee, June 2012.
  
  
• K. H. Lim and A. Datta
  Finding Twitter communities with common interests using following links of celebrities
  3rd International Workshop on Modeling Social Media (MSM 2012),
  co-located with Hypertext 2012, Milwaukee, June 2012.
  
  
• K. H. Lim and A. Datta
  An in-depth analysis of the effects of IMEP on TORA protocol
  IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2012), Paris, April 2012.
  
  
• D. Garg and A. Datta
  Test case prioritization due to database changes in web applications
  2nd International Workshop on Regression Testing (Regression 2012), Montreal, April 2012.
  
  

Full list of publications