Audrey Tam

Professional
Activities

Internal to RMIT

• 2007-present: CSIT Academic Program Leader
• 2004-2006: CSIT Postgraduate Program Leader
• Feb-Jul 2004: Coordinator of Graduate Certificate (Networking)
• Jul 2003-2004: Web Discipline coordinator for professional devt funds & office space
• Mid 2002-2003: member of Master of ICT development team
• Feb-Jul 2003: School representative on Faculty Research Committee
• 2002-2004: Coordinator of Graduate Diploma and Masters of Technology in Internet & Web Technology
• 2002-2003: Advisor for students enrolled in Masters of Technology in Internet & Web Technology
• 2002: PG Programs representative on School IT Committee
• 2002: Data Engineering Activity Unit representative on School Research Committee

External to RMIT

• 2003-present: Reviewer for papers submitted to Australian CS Conference and Australian Database Conference
• 2000: Proposed a method for structuring descriptions of the semantic content of visual data, and participated in a series of core experiments to incorporate this method into the Structured Annotation Descriptor of the MPEG-7 Experimental Model.
• 1997: Reviewer for Prentice-Hall of Nalin Sharda's textbook on multimedia information networking
• Involvement in Australasian Conferences on Parallel & Real-Time Systems (PART '9x) and International Conferences on Visual Information Systems (Visual '9x), specifically:
  • Program Committee member of PART '98
  • Program Committee Co-Chair & Proceedings Co-Editor of PART '97
  • Publicity Committee Chair of Visual '97
  • Organizing Committee Chair of Visual '96
  • Member of Publicity Committee of PART '95
  • Member of Organizing & Editorial Committees of PART '94
• 1996: Created a set of Web pages for Professor Arnold Smeulders at the University of Amsterdam, thereby filling a long-standing need in the pattern-recognition and wider computing communities. The layout and information architecture of these pages are now the standard pattern followed by all members of his research group.
• September 1992: Served on re-accreditation committee for Department of Computer Science at RMIT, Bundoora campus