Information Technology experts

Computer science research strengths at Murdoch include image recognition and processing, parallel computing, complex adaptive systems and bioinformatics. Distributed systems, software engineering and communication networks are also important areas of research effort.

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	Professor Matthew Bellgard High performance computing; artificial intelligence Professor Matthew Bellgard is Chair in Bioinformatics at Murdoch University, and the Director of the Western Australian State Government Centre of Excellence and Centre for Comparative Genomics at Murdoch University. His pioneering research has resulted in developments in pairwise molecular sequence alignment and artificial intelligence, early detection of nucleotide composition differences in closely related bacterial species, and advances in the development of web-based integrated systems in high performance computing. Matthew delivers web-based informatics solutions through the Centre to organisations including universities, Cooperative Research Centres, State Government research facilities and industry.
	Dr Kirsty Best Social and individual consequences of new media technologies Dr Kirsty Best specialises in investigating all aspects of new media including online dating, mobile technologies, Web 2.0, privacy and surveillance issues, digital rights management and creative commons, the culture and ethics of hacking, user control over technology, open source software, wikis and blogs. She is currently examining isolation, illness and the Internet, with a particular focus on knowledge and connection, and the difficulties in using computers for those with cognitive and physically challenging illnesses. Dr Best is also investigating the individual’s sense of control, or lack of control, over digital devices such as mobile phones, PDAs and laptops.
	Dr Graham Mann Artificial intelligence, robots and human-machine interactions Dr Graham Mann is an expert in robotics and human-machine interactions. His work on natural language programs, neural networks, and other intelligent software has culminated in the designing and building of a number of innovative robots, the latest including a teleoperated hexapod crawler for visual inspection and maintenance in remote industrial sites, and a vision-based model brick-handling robot arm. Dr Mann is a Director on the Board of the Mars Society Australia, which supports research toward a future human mission to Mars.  He is currently building a prototype pressurized vehicle for Mars explorers called the Starchaser Marsupial Rover.