Professor Glen Tian

Professor, School of Computer Science

PhD (University of Sydney), PhD (Zhejiang University)

Professor Yu-Chu Tian received the Ph.D. degree in computer and software engineering from the University of Sydney, Sydney NSW, Australia, in 2009, and the Ph.D. degree in industrial automation from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, in 1993. He is currently a Professor with the School of Computer Science, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane QLD, Australia. His research interests include big data computing, cloud computing, computer networks, optimization and machine learning, networked control systems, and cyber-physical system security. The areas of applications of his research include power systems, hospitals, medical big data, vehicular networks, and transport systems.

Professor Tian is the Editor-in-Chief for Handbook of Real-Time Computing, a book series of major reference works published by Springer. As an Associate Editor, he is serving the journal of Information Sciences published by Elsevier and Asia-Pacific Journal of Chemical Engineering published by Wiley. He is an ACM Reviewer for Computing Reviews. He is a technology provider to several Australian companies for big data computing, cloud computing, networks and communications, power systems, and medical systems. Prof Tian has supervised nearly 30 Higher Degree Research (HDR) students to completion, and has provided supervision and mentoring to 30+ postdocs and research fellows.

Professor Tian has worked in Zhejiang University, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Curtin University, the University of Maryland at College Park, and currently Queensland University of Technology. He has been leading QUT's Big Data Lab, and was the Leader of QUT's Networks and Communications Discipline.

As the Chief Investigator, Professor Tian has secured over 20 research grants/projects of the total funds in excess of $5m, including 6 Australian Research Council (ARC) grants, 1 MRFF-TTRA (Medical Research Future Fund - Targeted Translation Research Accelerator) grant, 3 Australian Cooperative Research Centres (CRC) grants, 1 Australian Government Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST) international Linkage grant, and 1 ATN-DAAD Australian-Germany Collaborative Project Grant. He holds a patent on real-time control of large-scale and continuous galvanising line. Prof Tian has published a monograph (by World Scientific Publishing Co.) and 300+ research articles, among which 6 are highly cited papers in Web of Science. His publications have been cited 5300+ times in Google Scholar Citations with the h-index of 37 (as at 28 Oct 2021).

For Prospective PhD Students:

I supervise PhD students for research topics related to big data computing, cloud computing, computer networks, smart grid communications and control, optimization and machine learning, medical big data, and cyber-physical system security.

I do NOT supervise students on telecommunications, power systems, text mining, software engineering, cybersecurity, video and image processing, human-machine interaction, and eHealth.

Potential research areas for future PhD students:

1. Medical big data processing and machine learning from EEG signals, CT iamges, and MRI images for brain injury diagnosis and atheroma assessment;
2. Big data bioinformatics, particularly for the identification of the functions and characteristics of gene regulatory networks;
3. Topology and protocols (particularly routing) for smart grid communications in wide area networks (WANs), neighborhood area networks (NANs), and home area networks (HANs); and large-scale optimization for smart grid communications;
4. Topology, protocols, and services for the connectivity of large-scale IoT networks in layer 2 and above; IoT-satellite communication networks;
5. Distributed computing of big data processing incorporating with evolutionary computing, machine learning, and other techniques;
6. Virtual and physical resource optimization in cloud computing, edge computing, task offloading, and their applications;
7. Networked control systems, and cyber-physical system security

For further information, please refer to my personal homepage: users.tpg.com.au/yctian

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