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Projects

14

Publications

9

Awards

3

Contact Details

Director, AI@JCU

Biography

Ian Atkinson is the Director of AI@JCU and has held several key positions, including A/Dean Research and A/Dean Graduate Research, and was  Director of the JCU eResearch Centre from 2008-2024. His research focuses on advanced ICT and HPC technologies, with significant contributions to regional innovation and was a pioneer in the field of environmental IOT. Ian has actively promoted an innovation/start-up culture in regional Queensland and has secured >$15M funding.

Research

Projects
Improved feral cattle and buffalo herd management for environmental and economic benefits in remote Northern Australia (Old ID 26983)
09 Dec 2020 - 31 Dec 2023
Develop a deployable hardware and firmware control system (Old ID 26806)
12 Apr 2020 - 11 Apr 2021
Early detection of asset failure using Machine Learning (Old ID 26476)
15 Apr 2019 - 13 Apr 2020
Machine Learning for Structural Health Monitoring (Old ID 26289)
01 Jan 2019 - 31 Dec 2019
Applying new technologies to enhance biosecurity and cattle quality. (Old ID 23456)
15 Jan 2018 - 30 Jun 2021
Smart Ear Tag for Livestock (Old ID 23414)
29 Sep 2017 - 31 Mar 2021
Enhanced landscape scale management of feral pigs and buffalo in large remote landscapes with new technologies enabling real-time data, modelling and analytics (Old ID 23595)
05 Aug 2017 - 30 Jun 2019
Connected urban tropics project (Old ID 22840)
21 Jun 2016 - 30 Jun 2017
Climate Extremes Data Scientist (Old ID 22196)
01 Jul 2015 - 14 Jun 2019
Research Data Services (Old ID 22208)
01 Jun 2015 - 30 Jun 2016
Terrestrial Systems Research Data Services (Old ID 22125)
01 May 2015 - 30 Sep 2017
Marine Science Data Services (Old ID 22126)
01 May 2015 - 31 Mar 2017
SENSOR-Q: Sensor data solutions (Old ID 21566)
14 Nov 2014 - 14 Mar 2017
Queensland Additional Node of the Commonwealth Data Storage Infrastructure (RDSI) Project Providing Critical Infrastructure for Very Large Scale Research Data to Queensland Research (Old ID 21122)
01 Apr 2014 - 31 Dec 2017

Teaching

Research Advisor Accreditation
Advisor Type

Mentor

Taught Modules
[SC1101] Science, Technology and TruthLecturer
2022
[SC1101] Science, Technology and TruthLecturer
2023
[SC1101] Science, Technology and TruthLecturer
2024
[SC1101] Science, Technology and TruthLecturer
2021

Activities

Awards
JCU Senior Staff 'Dugong Award'
2016
University of Melbourne Vice-Chancellors Award for Knowledge Transfer with Professor Marimuthu Palaniswami, for Monitoring of the Great Barrier Reef using Distributed Sensor Networks.
2008
RACI Ollé Prize for best treatise, writing or paper: Self-Assembly in Supramolecular Systems, Book, with Prof. L.F. Lindoy
2001

Output

The Clinical User-experience Evaluation (CUE) – a novel method to understand patient's experience in a clinical trial of telemedicine
2017
Jalil, Sakib; Myers, Trina; Atkinson, Ian; Kim, Katherine (2017) ARM 2017: Academy Health Annual Res...
Conference Contribution ResearchOnline@JCU
The Digital Homestead assists rangeland managers to make timely and informed decisions
2016
Bishop-Hurley, Greg J.; Charmley, Ed; Mills, Scott; Atkinson, Ian; Hay, Rachel; Atkinson, Margaret (...
Conference Contribution ResearchOnline@JCU
Linking people, processes and open data automatically to enhance tropical research on sustainability
2013
Myers, Trina; Trevathan, Jarrod; Atkinson, Ian (2013) Ninth International Conference on Environmenta...
Conference Contribution ResearchOnline@JCU
A generic interface for remote sensor network integration
2012
Lee, Yong Jin; Trevathan, Jarrod; Myers, Trina; Read, Wayne; Johnstone, Ron; Atkinson, Ian (2012) Co...
Conference Contribution ResearchOnline@JCU
Exploring and learning about reef data in serious games
2012
Marsh, Tim; Trevathan, Jarrod; Donaldson, Robert; Atkinson, Ian (2012) Coast to Coast 2012: Living o...
Conference Contribution ResearchOnline@JCU
The Tropical Data Hub (TDH) – a virtual research environment for tropical science knowledge innovation and discovery
2011
Myers, Trina; Trevathan, Jarrod; Atkinson, Ian; Cook, Rob; VanDerWal, Jeremy (2011) eResearch Austra...
Conference Contribution ResearchOnline@JCU
Overcoming the technical problems associated with effective coastal monitoring systems
2010
Trevathan, Jarrod; Atkinson, Ian; Read, Wayne; Johnstone, Ron; Chiffings, Tony; Bajema, Nigel; Lee, ...
Conference Contribution ResearchOnline@JCU
Tools for the rationalisation and management of data collection – the Semantic Reef
2010
Myers, Trina; Atkinson, Ian; Johnstone, Ron (2010) Coast to Coast 2010: actions for change Tools fo Adelaid...
Conference Contribution ResearchOnline@JCU
The North Australian Tropical Research Zone (TRZ) – an informatics platform to enable tropical science knowledge innovation and discovery
2010
Myers, Trina; Atkinson, Ian (2010) AHM 2010: 9th UK e-Science All Hands Meeting: e-Science: novel re...
Conference Contribution ResearchOnline@JCU