The University of Melbourne

Curriculum Vitae
Stephan Winter

Dipl.-Ing. Dr.-Ing. habil.

Current affiliation

Associate Professor
Department of Geomatics
University of Melbourne
Victoria 3010
Australia

Tel:  +61 3 8344 7875
Fax: +61 3 9347 2916

winter@unimelb.edu.au
http://www.geom.unimelb.edu.au
http://www.geom.unimelb.edu.au/winter
 

Personal

Born Ruwiedel
May 24, 1963
Wuppertal, Germany
 

Education
·   Habilitation
Technical University Vienna, Austria
Thesis: Unified Behavior of Vector and Raster Representation
(GeoInfo Series Vol. 20)
Experts: A. U. Frank, P. F. Fisher, M. Worboys
Venia legendi in "Geoinformation".
6/2001
·   Dr.-Ing. (Ph.D.), cum laude
University of Bonn, Germany
Thesis: Uncertain Topological Relations between Imprecise Regions (in German)
(DGK C-465)
Advisors: W. Förstner, M. Molenaar, H.-P. Helfrich
6/1996
·   Dipl.-Ing. (MSc)
University of Bonn, Germany
Thesis: Measurement of Reseau Marks in Digitized Images (in German)
Supervisor: G. Kupfer
9/1990
Professional appointments
·   Deputy Head of Department
Department of Geomatics, The University of Melbourne
2009-
·   Associate Professor
Department of Geomatics, The University of Melbourne
2007-
·   Senior Lecturer
Department of Geomatics, The University of Melbourne
2003-2007
·   Visiting Faculty
University of Muenster, Germany
2005
·   Visiting Faculty
University of Redlands, CA
2003
·   Visiting Faculty
Carinthia Tech Institute, Austria
2002/03
·   Universitäts-Dozent (Associate Professor)
Institute for Geoinformation, Technical University Vienna
2001-2003
·   Assistant Professor
Institute for Geoinformation, Technical University Vienna
1998-2001
·   Senior Research Assistant
Institute for Geoinformation, Technical University Vienna
1997-1998
·   Research Assistant
Institute for Photogrammetry, University of Bonn
1990-1997
Awards and honors
·   Invitation to the workshop Generalization of Spatial Information, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany. 2009
·   Keynote talk at the Tenth Brazilian Symposium on GeoInformatics (GeoINFO 2008), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2008
·   U. V. Helava Award, ISPRS 2008
·   Invitation to the workshop Representation, Analysis and Visualization of Moving Objects, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany. 2008
·   Best paper award, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 2007
·   Hanse Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship, Delmenhorst, Germany 2007
·   Invitation to the NSF Workshop on Agent-Based Modeling of Complex Spatial Systems, Santa Barbara, CA. 2007
·   Invitation to the workshop Spatial Data: Mining, Processing, and Communicating. Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany. 2006
·   Invited lecturer at the GI Fall School, University of Münster. 2005
·   Invitation to the workshop Spatial Cognition: Specialization and Integration, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany. 2005
·   Invitation to the 4th International Workshop on Computational Cartography and Spatial Modeling, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany. 2003
·   EURESCO travel grant for Conference on Modeling for Wayfinding Services in Bad Herrenalb, Germany 2003
·   Invited lecturer at the First EDUGI.NET Summer School, Münster. 2002
·   Invitation to the 3rd International Workshop on Computational Cartography and Spatial Modeling, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany. 2001
·   Scholarship for the ESF-GISDATA and NSF-NCGIA Second Summer Institute in Geographic Information, Berlin. 1996
Professional activities

Chair / Organizer:

·   Co-Chair of the Dagstuhl Seminar on Computational Transportation Science, 21-26 March 2010, Dagstuhl, Germany 2010
·   Co-Chair of the International Workshop on Presenting Spatial Information: Granularity, Relevance, and Integration, 21 September 2009, in conjunction with the Conference on Spatial Information Theory, Aber Wrac'h, France 2009
·   Co-Chair of the ISPRS WG II/1, Cognition and Modeling of Space and Time 2008-
·   Chair of the International Workshop on Computational Models of Place, PLACE'08, in conjunction with the International Conference on Geographic Information Science, 23 September, Park City, USA 2008
·   Chair of the Eighth International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT'07), Mount Eliza, Australia (proceedings) 2007
·   Chair of the International Workshop on Social Space and Geographic Space, in conjunction with COSIT'07, 19 September 2007, Mt Eliza, Australia (proceedings) 2007
·   Chair of the Workshop on Spatial Information Theory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, 4.11.2005 2005
·   Chair of the Workshop on Trust and Reputation in Ad-Hoc Local Communities, Melbourne, Australia 2005
·   Co-Chair of the ISPRS WG II/6, System Integration and Interoperability 2004-2008
·   Chair of the Interoperability Working Group in the Association of GI Laboratories in Europe (AGILE) 2002-2003
·   Chair of the Workshop Interoperability in Action, Lyon 2003
·   Chair of the EuroConference on Ontology and Epistemology for Spatial Data Standards, La Londe, France 2000
·   Co-Chair of the Working Group on Databases in the ISPRS (WG IV/I) 1996-2000
·   Local organizer of the OpenGIS Consortium TC/MC Meeting in Vienna 1998
·   Local organizer of the CHOROCHRONOS Intensive Workshop in Vienna 1997

Program Committees:

·   Member of the Program Committee Geoinformatik 2010, Kiel, Germany 2010
·   Member of the Program Committee GIScience 2010, Zurich, Switzerland 2010
·   Member of the Program Committee 13th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science, Guimaraes, Portugal 2010
·   Member of the Program Committee of the ISPRS Commission II Symposium, Hong Kong 2010
·   Member of the Program Committee of the 3rd International Conference on Geospatial Semantics, Mexico City, Mexico 2009
·   Member of the Program Committee of the Second International Workshop on Computational Transportation Science, in conjunction with ACM GIS 2009
·   Member of the Program Committee of the 17th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM GIS) 2009
·   Member of the Program Committee of the ISPRS Workshop on Quality, Scale and Analysis Aspects of Urban City Models, Lund, Sweden, 3-4 December 2009
·   Member of the Program Committee of the 6th International Symposium on LBS & TeleCartography, Nottingham, UK 2009
·   Member of the Program Committee of the German Artificial Intelligence Conference, KI 2009, Paderborn, Germany 2009
·   Member of the Program Committee of the International Workshop on Adaptation in Spatial Communication in conjunction with AGILE'09, Hannover, Germany 2009
·   Member of the Program Committee of the International Workshop on Theory and Applications Frontier of Location Based Services, Qingdao, China 2009
·   Member of the Program Committee of the 9th International Symposium on Web and Wireless GIS, Maynooth, Ireland 2009
·   Member of the Program Committee of the Third Workshop on Behavior Monitoring and Interpretation (BMI'09) 2009
·   Member of the Program Committee of the 12th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science, Hannover, Germany 2009
·   Member of the Program Committee of the Ninth International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT), France 2009
·   Member of the Program Committee of the Tenth Brazilian Symposium on GeoInformatics (GeoINFO 2008), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2008
·   Member of the Program Committee of the Workshop on Computational Transportation Science in conjunction with MobiQuitous 2008 2008
·   Member of the Program Committee of the Workshop on You-Are-Here Maps: Creating a Sense of Place through Map-like Representations in conjunction with Spatial Cognition '08, Freiburg, Germany 2008
·   Member of the Program Committee of the 5th International Conference on Geographic Information Science, Park City, USA 2008
·   Member of the Program Committee of the 8th International Symposium on Web and Wireless GIS, Shanghai, China 2008
·   Member of the Program Committee of the 16th ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, Los Angeles, USA 2008
·   Member of the Program Committee of the GI-Days 2008, Münster, Germany 2008
·   Member of the Program Committee of the 5th Symposium on Location Based Services & TeleCartography, Salzburg, Austria 2008
·   Member of the Program Committee of the First International Workshop on Location and the Web, Beijing, China (in conjunction with WWW2008) 2008
  Member of the Program Committee of the Workshop on Methodologies and Resources for Processing Spatial Language, Marrakech, Morrocco 2008
·   Member of the Program Committee of the Workshop on Behavior Monitoring and Interpretation, Bremen, Germany 2008
·   Member of the Program Committee of the 11th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science, Girona, Spain 2008
·   Member of the Program Committee of the EuroSDR & ISPRS Geosensor Networks Workshop 2008, Hannover, Germany 2008
·   Member of the Program Committee of the Conference on Photogrammetric Image Analysis 2007, Munich, Germany 2007
·   Member of the Program Committee of GeoInfo 2007, the IX Brazilian Symposium on Geoinformatics, Campos do Jordão, Brazil 2007
·   Member of the Program Committee of the Second Conference on Geospatial Semantics 2007, Mexico City, Mexico 2007
·   Member of the Program Committee of the ACM GIS 2007, Seattle, USA 2007
·   Member of the Program Committee of the Münsteraner GI-Tage, Münster, Germany 2007
·   Member of the Program Committee of the Seventh International Workshop on Web and Wireless GIS, Cardiff, UK 2007
·   Member of the Program Committee of the Workshop on Behaviour Monitoring and Interpretation, Germany 2007
·   Member of the Program Committee of the 10th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science, Aalborg, Denmark 2007
·   Member of the Program Committee of the Symposium on LBS and Telecartography, Hongkong, China 2007
·   Member of the Program Committee of the ACM SAC track "Advances in Spatial and Image-based Information Systems (ASIIS)", Seoul, Korea 2007
·   Member of the Program Committee of the Second Conference on Geosensor Networks, Boston, USA 2006
·   Member of the Program Committee of the Eighth Brazilian Symposium on Geoinformatics - GeoInfo 2006, Campos do Jordão, Brazil 2006
·   Member of the Program Committee of the 2nd International Workshop on Web Portal-based Solutions for Tourism, Münster, Germany 2006
·   Member of the Steering Committee of the ISPRS Workshop on Multiple Representation and Interoperability of Spatial Data, Hannover, Germany 2006
·   Member of the Program Committee of the International Conference Spatial Cognition 2006, Bremen, Germany 2006
·   Member of the Program Committee of the First International Workshop on Modern Decision Support in Geographical Domains, Thessaloniki, Greece 2006
·   Member of the Program Committee of the Third International on Spatio-Temporal Database Management (STDBM 2006), Seoul, Korea 2006
·   Member of the Program Committee of the Third International Workshop On Conceptual Modeling for Geographical Information Systems (CoMoGIS2006), Tucson, Arizona 2006
·   Member of the Program Committee of the Second International Workshop on Semantic-based Geographical Information Systems (SeBGIS'06), Montpellier, France 2006
·   Member of the Program Committee of the ACM GIS 2006, Washington, DC 2006
·   Member of the Program Committee of the ISPRS Technical Commission II Symposium, Vienna, Austria 2006
·   Member of the Program Committee of the International Symposium on Web and Wireless GIS, Hongkong 2006
·   Member of the Program Committee of the International Conference on GIScience, Münster, Germany 2006
·   Member of the Program Committee of Advances in Spatial and Image-based Information Systems (ASIIS'06), Dijon, France 2006
·   Member of the Program Committee of the Geosensor Networks Workshop at MDM 2006, Tokyo, Japan 2006
·   Member of the Program Committee of the ISPRS Technical Commission II Symposium, Vienna, Austria 2006
·   Member of the Program Committee of the 7th Brazilian Symposium on Geoinformatics (Geoinfo 2005), Sao Paolo, Brazil 2005
·   Member of the Program Committee of the First International Workshop on Web Portal-based Solutions for Tourism (IWWPST’05), Finland 2005
·   Member of the Program Committee of the First International Workshop on Semantic-based Geographical Information Systems (SeBGIS'05), Cyprus 2005
·   Member of the Program Committee of the 5th International Workshop on Web and Wireless GIS, Lausanne 2005
·   Member of the Program Committee of the Second International Workshop on Conceptual Modeling for GIS 2005
·   Member of the Program Committee of the Third Symposium on LBS and Telecartography, Vienna 2005
·   Member of the Program Committee of the First Conference on Geospatial Semantics 2005  (GEOS 2005), Mexico City, Mexico 2005
·   Member of the Program Committee of the Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT) 2005, Ellicottville, NY. 2005
·   Member of the Program Committee of the Münsteraner GI-Tage, Münster, Germany 2005
·   Member of the Program Committee of the DEXA 2005 Second International Workshop on Geographic Information Management, Copenhagen  
·   Member of the Program Committee of the International Workshop on Geographic Hypermedia in conjunction with AAG 2005, Denver 2005
·   Member of the Program Committee of the First International Workshop on Conceptual Modeling for GIS, Shanghai 2004
·   Member of the Program Committee of the International Conference on Spatial Cognition, Frauenchiemsee 2004
·   Member of the Program Committee of the Third International Conference on Geographic Information Science, Maryland 2004
·   Member of the Program Committee of the DEXA 2004 First International Workshop on Geographic Information Management, Zaragoza 2004
·   Member of the Program Committee of the International Symposium on Spatial Data Quality, Vienna 2004
·   Member of the Program Committee of Münsteraner GI-Tage 2004, Münster 2004
·   Member of the Program Committee of the International Conference on Spatial Data Handling, Leicester 2004
·   Member of Program Committee of Münsteraner GI-Tage 2003, Münster 2003
·   Member of Program Committee of 6th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science, Lyon 2003
·   Member of Program Committee of 4th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science, Brno 2001

Editorial Boards:

·   Journal of Spatial Information Science 2009
·   Spatial Cognition and Computation 2007
·   Journal of Location Based Services 2006
·   Journal of Spatial Science 2006
·   ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing  

Referee for:

·   Environment and Planning B  
·   International Journal of Geographical Information Science  
·   GeoInformatica  
·   Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing  
·   Transactions in GIS  
·   CaGIS  
·   Cartographica  
·   The Cartographic Journal  
·   Annals of American Geographers  
·   The Professional Geographer  
·   Sensors  
·   Discrete Optimization  
·   Computers & Geosciences  
·   Information Sciences  
·   Information Systems  
·   International Journal for Remote Sensing  
·   Journal of Data Semantics  
·   Environmental Modelling and Software  
·   International Journal of Digital Earth  
·   Photogrammetrie – Fernerkundung – Geoinformation  

Representative

·   Surveying and Spatial Sciences Institute, Commission on Spatial Information and Cartography, Victoria Regional Chair 2008-
·   Spatial Sciences Institute, Commission on Spatial Information and Cartography, National Representative 2007-2008
·   Member of the Steering Committee of the Conference on Spatial Information Theory 2007-
·   Representative of the University of Melbourne in the OpenGIS Consortium 2003-
·   Lead delegate of the Technical University Vienna in the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science 2001-2003

Member in Professional Societies:

·   Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE),
IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society
2006-
·   Association for Computing Machinery (ACM),
SIG Spatial
2000-
·   Association of American Geographers (AAG) 2002-06
·   Surveying and Spatial Science Institute, Australia and New Zealand (SSSI) 2005-
·   ICA Commission on Maps and the Internet 2004-
·   IAG WG 4.1.2 Indoor and Pedestrian Navigation 2004-
     
Funded projects
·   Dagstuhl Seminar on Computational Transportation Science 2010
(Co-organizer, 46% acceptance rate)
40k€
·   Cognitive Engineering for Navigation Assistance Go8/DAAD Australian – German Research Co-operation Scheme, 2008-09
(Australian lead investigator, 28% acceptance rate)
19 k€
·   Intelligent Self-Organising Transport
Australian Research Council Discovery Project, 2008-10
(sole investigator, 21.4% acceptance rate)
101 k€
·   Smart Location Sensors for Emergency Responders
Australian Research Council Linkage International Award, 2008-10
(co-investigator)
44 k€
·   COSIT'07
(including sponsoring from Google (USA), Shell (NL), PSMA (AU), Victorian Government (AU), CRCSI (AU))
(lead)
100 k€
·   International Workshop on Social Space and Geographic Space, in conjunction with COSIT'07
ARCRNSISS, 2007
(lead)
9 k€
·   Special Study Program 2007
Fellowship, HWK Delmenhorst, Germany
Faculty of Engineering, U Melbourne

4 k€
3 k€
·   Virtual Sensor Network Lab
A. E. Rowden White Foundation, 2007
 (co-applicant)
60 k€
·   Supplement to Access to Spatial Data
CRC-SI, 2006
(sole investigator)
31 k€
·   Earth Viewers for Australian Spatial Information
CRC-SI, 2005
(co-investigator)
26 k€
·   Research and Research Training in Telegeoinformatics
Faculty of Engineering, U Melbourne, 2005
(co-investigator)
6 k€
·   CEWAY
Australian Research Council Linkage Project, 2005-2008 (lead investigator, 37% acceptance rate)
283 k€
·  

Supplement to Access to Spatial Data
CRC-SI, 2005
(sole investigator)

16 k€

·   Trust and Reputation in Ad-Hoc Networks
Workshop grant, ARCNSISS, 2005
(lead)
3 k€

·  

Internal grant
Faculty of Engineering, U Melbourne, 2005
6 k€
·   ARC Research Network in Spatially Integrated Social Science
Australian Research Council
(co-applicant; lead of Robert Stimson)
 870 k€
·   Webmapping and mobile location
Faculty of Engineering, U Melbourne, 2004
3 k€
·   Moving objects for route planning in urban transportation networks
Travel grant, Australian Academy of the Sciences, 2004
4 k€
·   PhD tuition waiver
Faculty of Engineering, U Melbourne, 2004
46 k€
·   Access to Spatial Data
Cooperative Research Center for Spatial Information, 2004 (sole investigator)
329 k€
·   Early Career Researcher Grant
U Melbourne, 2004
23 k€
·   NAVIO
FWF Austria, 2003
(lead investigator, 35% acceptance rate)
195 k€
·   GEORAMA
European Commission IST 5FP, 2002
(WP sole investigator, 20% acceptance rate)
288 k€
·   Ontology and Epistemology for Spatial Data Standards
EuroConference (ESF and European Commission), 2000
(sole)
35 k€
Consulting
·   Landmarks in Route Directions. Sensis (Telstra Corp. Ltd.), Australia 2008
·   RoadsOne: Location Reference System Requirements Analysis. VicRoads, Victoria, Australia 2005
·   Intelligent Access Maps. Association of Australian and New Zealand Road Transport and Traffic Authorities (AUSTROADS) 2004
·   Member of the Technical Advisory Board of the Spatial Interoperability Demonstration Project, Australian Spatial Information Business Association 2004/05
Active project participation
·   ETeMII (EC)

2001-2002

·   preANVIL (EC) 2000

·  

GIPSIE (EC) 1998-2000
·   TOPGIS (EC) 1997
·   Interactions of Continental Geosystems and their Modeling (DFG) 1991-1997
·   Photogrammetric Scanner (Zeiss) 1990-1994
Teaching experience

Lecturer

·   Applications of GIS and RS (3rd year level) 2006
·   Distributed Spatial Computing (5th year level) 2006-
·   Integrated Spatial Systems I, II (4th year level) 2006-
·   Advanced Topics in GIScience (5th year level)

2005-

·   Investigative Project (5th year level) 2005-
·   Web-Mapping and E-Commerce (2nd year level) 2004-2005
·   Spatial Analysis (3rd year and 5th year level) 2004-
·   Fundamentals of GIS (5th year level) 2004-
·   Introduction to GIS (1st year level) 2003
·   Environmental Mapping (2nd year level) 2003-2005
·   Applications and Development of GIS (3rd year level) 2003-2005
·   Navigation (at U Münster) 2003, 2005
·   Geographic Modeling and Spatial Analysis
(at U Redlands)
2003
·   Interoperability (at Carinthia Tech Institute, 3rd year level) 2002
·   Management of geometric data (3rd year level) 1998-2003
·   Geographic Information Systems for CS (3rd year level) 1998-2003
·   Seminar of Geosciences (4th year level) 1998-2003
·   Location Based Services (interdisciplinary project) 2001-2003
·   Selected chapters in GIS (4th year level):
Interoperability, Scheduled Route Planning, Partitions, Shortest Paths, Pedestrian Navigation Services, Geographic Information in XML, Mobile Navigation Services, Address Matching, Time in GIS
1997-2003
·   Surveying for Architects (undergraduate) 1997-2003
·   Surveying for Planners (undergraduate) 1997-2003

Teaching assistant

·  

Labs in digital image processing (undergraduate)

1991-1996
·   Labs in digital photogrammetry (undergraduate) 1991-1996
Teaching advancement
·   School of Engineering Education Committee 2008-
·   Departmental postgraduate coordinator (coursework) 2006-
·   Participated in the 2006 Engineering Education Seminar 2006
·   Learning Management System pilot participant 2005
·   Coordinator of the GIS curriculum review in the Department of Geomatics 2005
·   Concept and coordination of Advanced Topics in GIScience 2004-
·   Development of Web-based Mapping and E-Commerce 2004
·   Convenor of the Research Seminar of the Department of Geomatics 2004-
·   Convenor of the Interdepartmental Seminar on Spatial Information Theory 2004-
·   Major revision of Spatial Analysis 2004
·   Major revision of Fundamentals of GIS 2004
·   Major revision of Applications and Development of GIS 2004
Present students

*: co-supervision
**: associate
  • Lohr, Ines: Wayfinding by Gut Feeling. Master thesis, TU Berlin, Germany.
  • Santosa, Sigit: Indoor Centrality. Master of Applied Science Research Project, Department of Geomatics, University of Melbourne, Australia.
  • Kazerani, Aisan: Dynamic Demand in Ride Sharing Simulations. Master of Applied Science by Research, Department of Geomatics, University of Melbourne, Australia.
  • Arundel, Jonathan: Supporting the Management of an Outbreak of Varroa destructor. PhD thesis, Department of Geomatics, University of Melbourne, Australia.
  • Wu, Elina: In Dialog with Navigation Services. PhD thesis, Department of Geomatics, University of Melbourne, Australia.
  • Shi, Mingzheng: A Decentralized Information Fusion Approach to Global and Local Data Integration. PhD thesis, Department of Geomatics, University of Melbourne, Australia.
  • * Muhammad Jaffar Sadeq. PhD thesis, Department of Geomatics, University of Melbourne, Australia.
  • * Maphanyane, Joyce: Investigating Land Cover Changes and Trends by Traditional Ecological Knowledge. PhD thesis, Department of Geomatics, University of Melbourne, Australia.
  • * Guan, Lin-Jie. PhD thesis, Department of Geomatics, University of Melbourne, Australia.
  • ** Pultar, Edward: Travel Behavior with Cost-Free Accommodation. University of California at Santa Barbara, USA
Past students

*: co-supervision
**: associate
  • Leung, Marconi (2008/09): Tracking variables in a ride-sharing simulation. MERIT Summer Research Experience project, School of Engineering, The University of Melbourne.
  • Lee, Yen-Sen (2008): Determining the spatial characteristics for suitable Street Art locations. Final year project, Department of Geomatics, The University of Melbourne.
  • Moore, Daniel (2008): How to find Schelling Points in a Spatial Network. Final year project, Department of Geomatics, The University of Melbourne.
    Prize of the SSI for most innovative poster 2008
  • Faba, Michael (2008): Finding Schelling Points Amongst Lynchian Edges in Melbourne. Final year project, Department of Geomatics, The University of Melbourne.
  • Wan, Dean (2008): Exploring and Comparing Software for Space Syntax Analysis. Final year project, Department of Geomatics, The University of Melbourne.
  • Braun, Matthias (U Münster): Multiple Clients in Ad-Hoc Shared Ride Planning by Mobile Geosensor Networks. MSc thesis, Institute for Geoinformatics, University of Münster, Germany.
  • * Gaiser, Vincent (U Twente): Improving Spatial Awareness in an Indoor Environment with Wireless Positioning Technology. MSc thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Twente, NL.
  • Tomko, Martin: Destination Descriptions in Urban Environments. PhD thesis, Department of Geomatics, The University of Melbourne.
  • Almotairi, Abdulhameed (2007). Principal Requirements of Wayfinding in a Campus Environment. Investigative Project, Department of Geomatics, University of Melbourne, Australia.
  • * Daniel Loiterton: Virtual Environments and Autonomous Agents for Urban Park and Garden Management. PhD thesis, Department of Geomatics, University of Melbourne, Australia.
  • * Richter, Kai-Florian (2007): Context-Specific Route Directions. PhD thesis, Mathematics and Informatics, University of Bremen, Germany.
  • Dupke, Sören (2007): Tracking Rides in a Hybrid Peer-to-Peer Ride Sharing System. Research project, Department of Geomatics, The University of Melbourne.
  • Wu, Yun Hui (2007): Agent Behavior in Peer-to-Peer Shared Ride Trip Planning. Master thesis, Department of Geomatics, The University of Melbourne.
  • Guan, Lin Jie (2007): Trip Quality in Peer-to-Peer Shared Ride Systems. Master thesis, Department of Geomatics, The University of Melbourne.
  • * Chen, Xiaogang (2007): Multiple Representations for the Enhanced Comprehension of Changing Landscapes. PhD thesis, Department of Geomatics, University of Melbourne, Australia.
  • Leigh, Rupert (2006): Mobility Models of Agents in Transport Simulations. Final year project, Department of Geomatics, The University of Melbourne.
  • Wong, Chris (2006): Multi-Criteria Optimization for Shared-Ride Trip Planning. Final year project, Department of Geomatics, The University of Melbourne.
  • Gaisbauer, Christian (2006): Route Choice Strategies for Shared-Ride Trip Planning in Geosensor Networks. Diploma thesis, Institute for Geoinformation and Cartography, Technical University Vienna, Austria.
  • * Tessmann, Sven (2006): Time Geography for Efficient Shared-Ride Trip Planning in Transportation Networks. Diploma thesis, Institute for Geoinformatics, University of Münster, Germany.
  • * Elias, Birgit (2006): Extraction of Landmarks for Navigation. PhD thesis, Institute for Cartography, University of Hannover, Germany.
  • Cao, Trang (2005): Real-time Communication Strategies in a Shared-Ride System. Final year project, Department of Geomatics, The University of Melbourne.
  • Andrae, Stefanie (2005): Towards Travel Diaries. Diploma thesis, School of Geoinformation, Carinthia Tech Institute, Austria.
  • Ragaas, Victorio (2005): Quality of Public Transport in Victoria. Master of Science Thesis, Department of Geomatics, The University of Melbourne.
  • Mock, Andrew (2004): ATM Site Selection: What role can GIS play? Final year project, Department of Geomatics, The University of Melbourne.
  • Lau, Wei Seng; Lin, John (2004): A Melbourne Public Transportation Route Planner. Final year project, Department of Geomatics, The University of Melbourne.
  • Dodkins, Julie (2004): Tracking Analyst for the Analysis of Mobile Behavior. Final year project, Department of Geomatics, The University of Melbourne.
  • Yabo, Huang; Jie, Liu (2004): Webmapping for Real Time Tracking. Investigative project, Department of Geomatics, The University of Melbourne.
  • Taylor, Sarah (2003): Identifying Green Voters with GIS. Final year project at the Department of Geomatics, The University of Melbourne.
  • Chua, Lynn (2003): Disabled Parking Bay Study in the City of Whitehorse. Final year project, Department of Geomatics, The University of Melbourne.
  • * Henzinger, Gerald (2003): Sensor Integration in Mobile Guides. Diploma thesis, Institute for Geoinformation, Technical University Vienna, Austria.
  • Graf, Margot (2003): Network Voronoi Diagrams. Diploma thesis, Institute for Geoinformation, Technical University Vienna, Austria.
  • Nothegger, Clemens (2003): Automatic Selection of Landmarks. Diploma thesis, Institute for Geoinformation, Technical University Vienna, Austria.
  • Gruber, Bernhard (2003): Location Based Services with Access to Distributed Data. Diploma thesis at the Institute for Geoinformation, Technical University Vienna, Austria.
  • Cziferszky, Andreas (2002): Route planning for hikers. Diploma thesis at the Institute for Geoinformation, Technical University Vienna, Austria.
  • * Höferl, Karl-Michael (2002): A Route Information and planning tool for mountain bikers in Krems / NÖ. Diploma thesis at the Institut für Stadt- und Regionalforschung, Technical University Vienna, Austria.
  • Wenzl, Peter (1999): A Technical Concept for Pay-per-Use in Geomarketing Services. Diploma thesis at the Institute for Geoinformation, Technical University Vienna, Austria.
  • Lang, Dieter (1999): Vector-Based GIS-Algorithm for Planning and Optimizing Cellular Telecommunication Networks. Diploma thesis at the Institute for Geoinformation, Technical University Vienna and University Vienna, Austria.
  • Sedlak, Michael (1998): Integration of Yellow Pages into Car Navigation Systems. Diploma thesis at the Institute for Geoinformation, Technical University Vienna, Austria.
  • Busch, Thomas (1997): Applicability of a CAD System to Manage and Visualize Building Data). Diploma thesis at the Institute for Photogrammetry, University of Bonn, Germany.
Other supervision
  • Dr Zhang-Cai Yin. Post-doctoral visiting researcher from the School of Resources and Environmental Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, China, 2009-2010.
  • Dr Carlos Vieira. Post-doctoral visiting researcher from the Universidade Federal de Vicosa, Brazil, 2005-2006
  • Dr Alexander Klippel. Post-doctoral research fellow, 2004-2006, moved on to Penn State University, USA
PhD examiner
  • University of Maine, USA
  • University of Auckland, New Zealand
  • University of New South Wales, Australia
  • University of Hannover, Germany
  • University of Bremen, Germany
Research administration
·   University representative for the Open Geospatial Consortium 2003-
·   Member, Helava Award Jury, ISPRS 2008-2012
·   Reviewer, Swiss National Science Foundation (occasionally)  
·   Member of the Departmental Human Ethics Advisory Group 2003-06
·   Department representative for the Melbourne Research Agreement Module 2005-06
·   Chair of examination (continuing)  
Professional development
·   EHS Roles and Responsibilities for Supervisors and Managers. The University of Melbourne. 5/2009
·   Outlook Advanced. IT Services. The University of Melbourne. 4/2008
·   Teaching and Learning Forum. Centre for the Study of Higher Education, The University of Melbourne. 6/2007
·   Performance Development: Performance Development and Diversity. The University of Melbourne. 9/2006
·   Performance Linked Communication PDF for Faculties and Divisions. Human Resources, The University of Melbourne. 9/2006
·   Leadership Inside Out. Human Resources, The University of Melbourne. 3-9/2006
·   Designing & Implementing a Broad, General Undergraduate Curriculum. Center for the Study of Higher Education, The University of Melbourne. 8/2006
·   Introduction to MERLIN. Student Administration, The University of Melbourne. 8/2006
·   Learning, Innovation and Diversity Committee Curriculum Perspectives Seminar. Faculty of Engineering, Melbourne. 2/2006
·   New Arrangements for Costing and Pricing of Research Grants and Contracts. Melbourne Research and Innovation Office. 2/2006
·   The PhD examination process. School of Graduate Studies, The University of Melbourne. 10/2005
·   Media training for Engineers. Faculty of Engineering and the Media office of the University of Melbourne. 8/2005
·   How to develop research partnerships with industry. Melbourne Research and Innovation Office. 6/2005
·   New Policy on the Management of Research Data and Records. Melbourne Research and Innovation Office. 6/2005
·   Managing the student experience in changing times. Center for the Study of Higher Education, The University of Melbourne. 5/2005
·   Introduction to the new Learning Management System. Center for the Study of Higher Education, The University of Melbourne. 4/2005
·   How to negotiate a research contract. Melbourne Research and Innovation Office, The University of Melbourne. 4/2005
·   Effective teaching for new academics. Faculty of Engineering, The University of Melbourne. 3/2005
·   Performance Development: The Performance Discussion. The University of Melbourne. 9/2004
·   CORDIS: Gateway to research partnerships with Europe. Forum for European-Australian Science and Technology Cooperation. 8/2004
·   Maximizing Research Performance. The University of Melbourne. 8/2004
·   How to Cost and Price Research Grants and Contracts. Melbourne Research and Innovation Office. 7/2004
·   Roles and Responsibilities of Supervisors and Managers. Staff Development Unit, The University of Melbourne. 6/2004
·   Recruitment and Selection of Academic Staff. Staff Development Unit, The University of Melbourne. 5/2004
·   Manual Handling and Ergonomics. EH&S, The University of Melbourne. 4/2004
·   How to negotiate research contracts with industry. Melbourne Research and Innovation Office. 4/2004
·   Core Skills for Effective Teaching. Center for the Studies of Higher Education, The University of Melbourne. 3/2004
·   Postgraduate Supervision Skills. School for Graduate Studies, The University of Melbourne. 2/2004
·   Foundations of Effective Teaching. Center for the Studies of Higher Education, The University of Melbourne. 2/2004
·   Reassessing Teaching and Learning in the Faculty of Economy and Commerce. Faculty of Engineering, The University of Melbourne. 12/2003
Industry experience
·   Carl Zeiss, Oberkochen (D)
Photogrammetric Development (internship)
1989
·   Bundesanstalt für Gewässerkunde, Koblenz (D)
Photogrammetric Department (internship)
1988

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