Professor Seng W. Loke

BIT,BSc(Hons) (ANU), PhD (1998) (Melb)

Director of the Center for Software, Systems & Society (CS3)

Co-Director of the IoT Platforms and Applications Lab in the Centre for Internet of Things Ecosystem Research and Experimentation (CITECORE),

School of Information Technology,

Deakin University (Burwood Campus),

221 Burwood Highway,

Victoria 3125,

Melbourne, Australia.

Email: seng.loke@deakin.edu.au

Office Location: Building T, Level 2.

Deakin Web: http://www.deakin.edu.au/about-deakin/people/seng-loke or check out my new Deakin Web: https://experts.deakin.edu.au/40150-seng-loke/

https://experts.deakin.edu.au/40150-seng-loke/ ACM Web: https://dl.acm.org/profile/81452600055

Linkedin Web: https://www.linkedin.com/in/seng-loke-0165077/ 

Google Scholar Web: https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=ZbdN-0AAAAAJ&hl=en

DBLP Web: https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/l/Loke:Seng_W=

ResearchGate Web: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Seng_Loke

Academia Web: https://deakin.academia.edu/SengLoke

Orcid Web: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5339-9305

Publons Web: https://publons.com/researcher/1644188/seng-loke/

Other current and previous affiliations:

I am also involved in the Quantum IT@Deakin special interest group. 


Previous affiliation:

Department of Computer Science and Information Technology, La Trobe University,  Bundoora, VIC 3086, Australia.  (Melbourne) 

Email: s.loke@latrobe.edu.au 

Want to see my publications, browse below to Recent News to see recent work, or go straight to my "usually out of date" list of publications.

What do I work on? 

Finally, a mind map suggestive of my current research activities ... (generated in April 2023) [Note: some of the boxes overlap from time to time!]

Recent news 

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Brief Bio

I am Professor (Level E, Full) in Computer Science at the School of Information Technology in Deakin University. I was Reader and Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Information Technology in La Trobe University. I led the Pervasive Computing Lab at La Trobe, and have authored 'Context-Aware Pervasive Systems: Architectures for a New Breed of Applications' published by Auerbach (CRC Press), Dec 2006, and  more recently authored 'Crowd-Powered Mobile Computing and Smart Things' published by Springer (2017) and 'From Distributed Quantum Computing to Quantum Internet Computing: an Introduction' published by Wiley-IEEE (2023). I completed my PhD in 1998 at the University of Melbourne, and the BSc (1st class Hons) in 1994 at the Australian National University winning a University Medal in Computer Science. I was an Honorary Associate of the Centre for Distributed Systems and Software Engineering, Monash University for several years (2006-2011).

My recent research interest has led me to Distributed Quantum Computing and Quantum Internet Computing. My recent book is here (and on Amazon.com.au and Amazon.com) and some resources on this topic are here.

For many years, my research had mainly been in pervasive (ubiquitous) computing and mobile computing, Internet of Things (IoT), focusing on issues concerning systems and information, with current emphases on complex cooperation among Things (including urban robots, smart vehicles viewed as smart things, i.e. Internet of Vehicles, Internet of Drones, Internet of *), crowd-powered mobile computing, mobile Big Data, mobile Big Systems, the social impact of technology innovation, Mobile/Physical Web/Cloud development, and how they might interact. Some of my work can be categorised under cyber-physical systems

Recent problems/challenges I have looked into as the Internet of Things move to the complex Internet of Cooperative Autonomous Things (or Artificial Intelligence for/in Things), include:

I am also very much interested in inter-disciplinary (trans-disciplinary, multi-disciplinary, anti-disciplinary) research, with some of my current and previous projects involving the applications of IT (and IoT) in smart city, and other sectors such as health, agriculture, transport, ecology, and energy.

My  research has been supported by organizations such as the Australian Research Council, the AutoCRC, the Australian Army, and the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science, and companies such as Alibaba. My work has been on a range of topics: 

I have (co-)authored 4 books, 320+ research publications including over 90+ journal papers, over 10 book chapters, and 190+ conference/workshop papers, with numerous work on context-aware computing, and mobile and pervasive computing. I have been on the program committee of numerous conferences/workshops in the area, including Pervasive'08 and Percom'10 (and 2011, 2023, 2024). My research has been published in journals such as IEEE Internet of Things Journal, ACM Transactions on the Internet of Things, ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, IEEE Pervasive, Knowledge Engineering Review, Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal (Elsevier), ACM Computing Surveys, IEEE Transactions on SMCIEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, The Computer Journal (OUP), Future Generation Computer Systems, MONET, Journal of Systems and Software, Expert Systems and Applications, Journal of Network and Computer Applications and Theory and Practice of Logic Programming. I have also published in leading conferences in the pervasive, middleware, and services computing areas including Percom (CORE ranking: A), International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC) (CORE ranking: A), Mobiquitous (CORE ranking A), International Conference on Web Services (CORE ranking A), HICSS (CORE  ranking: A), and Middleware (CORE ranking: A). 

For more, please see my always-slightly-out-of-date CV.

PUBLICATIONS

View my books below or my publications as a list (more PDFs coming, email me if you need copies of papers); 

or

in DBLP under the names of either Seng Wai Loke or 

take a look at what Semantic Scholar has on me;

or 

in Google Scholar (many with links to PDFs)

Books

Not so recent news

2021 news:

2020 news:

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2019 news:

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temi robot
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IEEE Access

          See the full paper here.

          

2018 news:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eKfwEzulhuP8C0CLLL-78ycawgyN_MHm/view?usp=sharing

           Please click on the image above or find the full preprint in my publications.

          

2017 news:

This SpringerBrief provides a synergistic overview of technology trends by emphasizing five linked perspectives: crowd+cloud machines, extreme cooperation with smart things, scalable context-awareness, drone services for mobile crowds and social links in mobile crowds. The authors also highlight issues and challenges at the intersection of these trends. 

Topics covered include cooperative vehicles when vehicles are viewed as smart things, cloud computing, Internet of Things, mobile and wearable computing, crowd computing, the culture of thing sharing, collective computing, and swarm dynamics. The brief is a useful resource and a starting point for researchers, students or anyone interested in the contemporary computing landscape.

2016 news:

TEACHING

2023&2024(@Deakin)

2022(@Deakin)

2021(@Deakin)

2020(@Deakin)

2019(@Deakin)

2018(@Deakin)

2017(@Deakin)

2016(@La Trobe)

2015(@La Trobe)

·       CSE2ICE Internet Client Engineering (Semester 1)

·       CSE4ASD Advanced Systems Design (Semester 2) 

·       CSE4MPC Mobile and Pervasive Computing (Semester 2)

2014(@La Trobe)

·       On OSP (Semester 1)

·       CSE4ASD Advanced Systems Design (Semester 2) (cancelled)

·       CSE4MPC Mobile and Pervasive Computing (Semester 2)

 

2013(@La Trobe)

·       CSE2ICE Internet Client Engineering (Semester 1)

·       CSE4ASD Advanced Systems Design (Semester 1) 

·       CSE4MPC Mobile and Pervasive Computing (Semester 2)

 

2012(@La Trobe)

·       CSE2ICE Internet Client Engineering (Semester 1)

·       CSE5BMS Biometrics Security (Semester 2) (cancelled)

·       CSE4MPC Mobile and Pervasive Computing (Semester 2)

 

2011(@La Trobe)

·       CSE2ICE Internet Client Engineering (Semester 1)

·       CSE4ASD Advanced Systems Design (Semester 1) 

·       CSE4MPC Mobile and Pervasive Computing (Semester 2)

 

RESEARCH SUPERVISION AND INTERDISCIPLINARY PROJECTS

Current PhD Projects and Supervision:

Recently completed PhD Students:

2010 and earlier:

Recently completed Masters minor thesis / Honours Students (all below at La Trobe University):

Other Projects:

I am also interested in mobile education & health, programming the smart Internet-of-Things, and new HCI (using sensors)

 

MOBILE APPS

Some apps my team has done:


OTHER information ..

[More Information (including past supervised PhD completions) | Slides for my departmental talk (30th July 2010) | What's recent? (My blog of interesting links) ]

Some venues with interesting work: ACM SIGMOBILE events, Percom, PMC, PUC, TMC, TCC, IEEE Pervasive Computing, AI, FGCS, KER, IEEE ITS, TKDE


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