Monday, 29 June 2015
A postgraduate student project has been recognised in Western Australia's premier Information and Communications Technologies awards.
PhD student Matthew Heinsen Egan, from UWA's School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, was a finalist for the ‘Student' award for his project ‘SeeC’ at the 24th WA Information Technology and Telecommunications Incite Awards (WAiTTA).
Project 'SeeC' is a code debugging tool that assists Novice C programmers worldwide to investigate runtime behaviors of programs.
Mathew, supported by his supervisor, Chris McDonald, will now compete at the finals of the National iAwards to be held in Melbourne in August.
Other UWA 2015 finalists included:
UWA’s Professional Computing software development project group of Wan Ying Goh, Leighland Swan, Nikola Milunovic, Marco Susilo and Dennis Robey, supported by their client Dr Laura Boykin, with project ‘Whiteflybase’. The project is an innovative database and information hub for scientific research into the study of white flies – a pest that is threatening basic food security in many countries.
PhD student Umar Asif, supported by his supervisors Ferdous Sohel and Mohammed Bennamoun, with project ‘AIPAR: Artifical Intelligence Personal Assistant Robot’ – a project focused on promoting and maintaining good health through home and service robots.
UWA graduate Simon Chan of Radlink Communications also won the ICT Achiever of the Year Award.
The WAITTA INCITE awards recognise outstanding performance and contributions by members of the ICT community in Western Australia.
Media references
Clara Dodman (Faculty of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics) (+61 8) 6488 5079
Mark Reynolds (School of Computer Science and Software Engineering) (+61 8) 6488 2279
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