The University of Western Australia
School of Computer Science and Software Engineering
Chris McDonald currently holds the appointments of associate professor in the School of Computer Science & Software Engineering at The University of Western Australia and adjunct associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire.

Chris has recently taught in the areas of computer networking, computer & network security, software design & implementation, C programming, and operating systems at The University of Western Australia and Dartmouth College and, together with these areas, his research interests include network simulation, ad-hoc & mobile networking, and programming language implementation.

Postal address Dr Chris McDonald
School of Computer Science & Software Engineering
The University of Western Australia
35 Stirling Highway, Crawley
Western AUSTRALIA, 6009.
Phone number +618 6488 2533 Fax number +618 6488 1089 email address email: chris@csse.uwa.edu.au

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Research

I have strong interests in most aspects of operating systems, programming languages and computer networking. As an active member of our school's Mobile, Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks group, my current interests include network protocol simulation, ad-hoc and mobile networks, and computer & network security.

Hoping to supervise these projects in 2010 .

Current research students:

  • Chang Liu (PhD student 2008-), Location-aware mobile application services (jointly supervised with Rachel Cardell-Oliver).
  • Chi Yang (PhD student 2008-), Data aggregation techniques to minimize communication and energy use in wireless sensor networks (jointly supervised with Rachel Cardell-Oliver and Terry Woodings).
  • Gareth Davies (Masters of Computer Science student 2010), A WiFi Guided Guide.
  • Anurag Sharma (Masters of Computer Science student 2009-10), Wireless networks for high-speed vehicles.
  • Andreas Tryti (Masters of ICT student 2009-10), Visualization of 802.11 network threats.
  • James Andrewartha (BESE Honours student 2010), Self-filling distributed file-systems.
  • Matthew Heinsen Egan (Honours student 2010), Visualization of dynamic memory allocation.

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Teaching in 2010
Administration
  • CSSE Graduate Research Coordinator
  • member of the CSSE Senior Management Advisory Committee
  • member of the CSSE Teaching & Learning Committee
  • member of the CSSE Research Committee
  • coordinator of the Ad-hoc & Wireless Sensor research laboratory
  • member of the FECM Research Committee
  • member of the FECM Scholarships Committee
  • member of the FECM Board of Examiners
  • invited FECM representative on UWA's Learning Links Committee
  • participating in UWA's ITS security standards review
Software