In partnership with industry, the Institute conducts applied research with commercialisation potential and benefits for the community. Research programs encompass: health informatics, which aims to improve healthcare with the use of IT and computer sciences including the role of IT planning, robotics and mobile applications in healthcare; bioinformatics, which aims to understand the molecular mechanisms and development of predictive bioinformatics methods for protein folding, stability, and binding of ligands, peptides, and DNA; and environmental informatics, which looks at how information can be acquired, processed, modelled, and communicated for environmental sciences and management.

Website

https://www.griffith.edu.au/institute-integrated-intelligent-systems

Organisation type

• University research centre

Number of research staff

20-100 research staff

Address

Room 1.45a, Science 2 Building (N34), Griffith University, 170 Kessels Road, Nathan QLD 4111

Strengths and capabilities

• Bioinformatics
• Health informatics
• Environmental informatics
• Autonomous systems
• Software Engineering
• Signal processing
• Artificial intelligence
• Knowledge representation
• Big data/machine learning
• Computer vision and image processing

Facilities and major equipment

• Robotics laboratory
• Image processing laboratory
• Big data laboratory
• HCI laboratory (idea lab)
• Optimisation laboratory

Lead researchers

• Professor Vladimir Estivill-Castro—Authority in algorithms, robotics and machine learning
• Professor Kuldip Paliwal—Authority in signal processing
• Professor Yongsheng Gao—Authority in image processing

Key science sectors

More information about the sectors this centre is involved in:

• Advanced manufacturing
• Biotechnology
• Defence, aviation and space
• Engineering
• Environment and nature
• Health and medical
• Digital economy