Associate Professor Hao Shi

Dr Hao Shi joined Victoria University as a Lecturer in 1992 and is now Associate Professor in the College of Arts, Business, Law, Education and IT at Victoria University. She completed her PhD in the area of Computer Engineering at University of Wollongong and obtained her Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China.

She enjoys the opportunity to explore new and emerging research areas that emphasise real industry applications. Together with colleagues, she was awarded a competitive and prestigious ARC e-research grant for 'Peer-to-Peer Collaborative Research Network for Sharing and Managing Digital Legal Information'. As one of the Chief Investigators, she successfully completed the development of the P2P Research Network prototype to facilitate the legal users and applications.

She is the 'Women in IT' (WiT) Coordinator. The WiT group aims to create a sense of community and a sense of belonging for female IT students and staff at Victoria University.

Hao has been actively engaged in research and development and external consultancy activities. She was the General Chair, Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA 2009). She is currently working on a pilot study on real-time monitoring of Metro tunnel performance using wireless sensors. Her research interests include:

• Wireless and mobile communications
• Location-based applications
• Image processing and artificial intelligence
• Internet technologies and smart living.