Areas of expertise

• Information Retrieval And Web Search 080704
• Software Engineering 080309
• Cybersecurity And Privacy 4604

Research interests

Publications

• Awasthy, R, Flint, S, Sankaranarayana, R et al 2018, 'Bridging the Gap - A Workshop of Industry Practitioners and University Researchers', IEEE Region 10 Conference (TENCON), IEEE Xplore, USA, pp. 2504-2509.
• HOSSAIN, M, Gedeon, T & Sankaranarayana, R 2018, 'Using temporal features of observers' physiological measures to distinguish between genuine and fake smiles [IN PRESS]', IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, vol. online.
• Awasthy, R, Flint, S, Jones, R et al 2018, 'UICMM: A Maturity Model for University-Industry Collaboration', 2018 IEEE International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation, ICE/ITMC 2018, Conference Organising Committee, TBC, pp. 8pp.
• Awasthy, R, Flint, S, Sankaranarayana, R et al 2017, 'Bridging the gap - A workshop of industry practitioners and university researchers', 2017 IEEE Region 10 Conference, TENCON 2017, IEEE, USA, pp. 2504-2509pp.
• Kim, J, Thomas, P, Sankaranarayana, R et al. 2017, 'What Snippet Size is Needed in Mobile Web Search?', Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, CHIIR 2017, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York, USA, pp. 97-106pp.
• Awasthy, R, Flint, S & Sankaranarayana, R 2017, 'Lifting the constraints - Closing the skills gap with authentic student projects', 8th IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, EDUCON 2017, Conference Organising Committee, TBC, pp. 955-960.
• Kim, J, Thomas, P, Sankaranarayana, R et al. 2016, 'Pagination versus Scrolling in Mobile Web Search', ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management CIKM 2016, ed. S. Mukhopadhyay, CX. Zhai, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York.
• Awasthy, R, Flint, S & Sankaranarayana, R 2016, 'Towards improved adoption: Effectiveness of research tools in the real world', Joint of the 4th International Workshop on Quantitative Approaches to Software Quality, QuASoQ 2016 and 1st International Workshop on Technical Debt Analytics, TDA 2016, ed. Fogen K.Mens T.Tahir, IEEE Computer Society, Aachen, Germany, pp. 20-26.
• Al Ismail, M, Gedeon, T, Sankaranarayana, R et al. 2016, 'Big 5 Personality Traits Affect M-Learning Preferences in Different Contexts and Cultures', 3rd International Conference on Computing for Sustainable Global Development (INDIACom), ed. M. N. Hoda, Prof. M. N. Hoda, General Chair, INDIACom, New Delhi India, pp. 1378 - 1382pp.
• HOSSAIN, M, Gedeon, T & Sankaranarayana, R 2016, 'Observer's Galvanic Skin Response for Discriminating Real from Fake Smiles', Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS 2016), Australasian Conference on Information Systems, Darlinghurst, pp. 8pp.
• Yamin, M, Al Ismail, M, Gedeon, T et al. 2016, 'M-learning Preferences and Learning Preferences', 3rd International Conference on Computing for Sustainable Global Development (INDIACom), ed. M. N. Hoda, Prof. M. N. Hoda, General Chair, INDIACom, New Delhi India, pp. 1363-1367pp.
• Kim, J, Thomas, P, Sankaranarayana, R et al. 2016, 'Understanding Eye Movements on Mobile Devices for Better Presentation of Search Results', Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, vol. 67, no. 11, pp. 2607-2619pp.
• Hossain, M, Gedeon, T, Sankaranarayana, R et al. 2016, 'Pupillary Responses of Asian Observers in Discriminating Real from Fake Smiles: A Preliminary Study', Measuring Behaviour 10th International Conference on Methods and Techniques in Behavioural Research, ed. A. Spink, G. Riedel, L. Zhou, L. Teekens, R. Albatal, C. Gurrin, Dublin City University, Dublin Ireland, pp. 170 - 176pp.
• Awasthy, R, Flint, S & Sankaranarayana, R 2015, 'Multi-dimensional approach to bridging the gap between Software Engineering Research and Industry Practice', 24th Australasian Software Engineering Conference, ASWEC 2015, ed. Kuo F.-C.Shen H.Ali, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York, USA, pp. 129-131.
• Kim, J, Thomas, P, Sankaranarayana, R et al 2014, 'Eye-Tracking Analysis of User Behavior and Performance in Web Search on Large and Small Screens', Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, vol. online 11 June 2014.
• Li, Z, O'Brien, L, Flint, S et al 2014, 'Object-Oriented Sokoban Solver: A serious game project for OOAD and AI education', 2014 Frontiers in Education Conference - Opening Doors to Innovation and Internationalization in Engineering Education, IEEE Education Society, New Jersey.
• Kim, J, Thomas, P, Sankaranarayana, R & Gedeon, T 2012, 'Comparing scanning behaviour in web search on small and large screens **', 17th Australasian Document Computing Symposium, AD, Association for Computing Machinery Inc (ACM), Dunedin New Zealand, pp. 25-30.
• Jones, T, Thomas, P, Hawking, D et al 2011, 'Relative Effect of Spam and Irrelevant Documents on User Interaction with Search Engines', ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM 2011), Association for Computing Machinery Inc (ACM), Unknown, pp. 2113-2116.
• Jones, T, Thomas, P, Sankaranarayana, R et al 2011, 'The usefulness of web spam', Australasian Document Computing Symposium (ADCS 2011), ed. Sally Jo Cunningham, Falk Scholer, Paul Thomas, RMIT University, Melbourne Australia, pp. 2-5.
• Hawking, D, Rowlands, T & Sankaranarayana, R 2010, 'Individual Freedom and enlightened self-interest: prerequisites for knowledge worker productivity', Online Information Conference 2010, ed. Conference Program Committee, Conference Organising Committee, England, pp. 91-96.
• Nguyen-Hoan, L, Flint, S & Sankaranarayana, R 2010, 'A Survey of Scientific Software Development', ACM-IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2010), ed. Conference Program Committee, Association for Computing Machinery Inc (ACM), New York, pp. 107-116.
• Rowlands, T, Hawking, D & Sankaranarayana, R 2010, 'New-Web Search with Microblog Annotations', International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2010), ed. Conference Program Committee, Association for Computing Machinery Inc (ACM), New York, pp. 1293-1296.
• Jones, T, Hawking, D & Sankaranarayana, R 2010, 'Live Web Search Experiments for the Rest of Us', International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2010), ed. Conference Program Committee, Association for Computing Machinery Inc (ACM), New York, pp. 1265-1268.
• Tang, T, Hawking, D, Sankaranarayana, R et al. 2009, 'Quality-Oriented Search for Depression Portals', in Mohand Boughanem Catherine Berrut Josiane Mothe Chantal Soule-Dupuy (ed.), Advances in Information Retrieval: 31st European conference on IR Reseach, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, Germany, pp. 637-644.
• Nguyen-Hoan, L, Flint, S & Sankaranarayana, R 2009, 'Improving Scientists' Productivity using Domain-Specific Modeling', Software Engineering Postgraduates Workshop (SEPoW 2009), ed. Dayang...Jawawi et al, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Malaysia, pp. 49-54.
• Jones, T, Sankaranarayana, R, Hawking, D et al 2009, 'Nullification test collections for web spam and SEO', International Workshop on Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web (AIRWeb 2009), ed. D. Fetterly, Z. Gyongyi, ACM, Madrid, Spain, pp. 53-60.
• Rowlands, T, Hawking, D & Sankaranarayana, R 2008, 'Anonymous folksonomies for small enterprise webs: a case study', Australasian Document Computing Symposium (ADCS 2008), ed. Rob McArthur et al, RMIT University, Melbourne, pp. 35-40.
• Rowlands, T, Hawking, D & Sankaranarayana, R 2007, 'Workload sampling for enterprise search evaluation', International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2007), ed. Charles L.A. Clarke, Norbert Fuhr, Noriko Kando, Wessel Kraaij & Arjen P. de Vri, Association for Computing Machinery Inc (ACM), United States, p. 2.
• Hawking, D, Tang, T, Sankaranarayana, R et al. 2007, 'Towards higher quality health search results: Automated quality rating of depression websites', World Congress on Health (Medical) Informatics: Building Sustainable Health Systems (MEDINFO 2007), ed. Klaus A. Kuhn, James R. Warren, Tze-Yun Leong, IOS Press, United States, p. 3.
• Jones, T, Hawking, D & Sankaranarayana, R 2007, 'A Framework for Measuring the Impact of Web Spam', Australasian Document Computing Symposium (ADCS 2007), ed. Conference Program Committee, RMIT University, Melbourne, pp. 108-111.
• Daley, A, Sankaranarayana, R & Zigman, J 2006, 'Homeless replicated objects', International Workshop on Object Systems and Software Architectures (WOSSA 2006), University of Adelaide, Adelaide, pp. 1-6.
• Tang, T, Hawking, D, Craswell, N et al. 2004, 'Focused crawling in depression portal search: A feasibility study', Australasian Document Computing Symposium (ADCS 2004), ed. Peter Bruza, Alistair Moffat, Andrew Turpin, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, p. 8.
• Zigman, J & Sankaranarayana, R 2003, 'Designing a Distributed JVM on a Cluster', European Simulation Multiconference (ESM 2003), ed. David Al-Dabass, Society for Computer Simulation, Nottingham, England, pp. 363-370.
• Wu, C & Sankaranarayana, R 2002, 'Internet Voting: Concerns and Solutions', International Symposium on Cyber Worlds 2002, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc), USA, pp. 261-266.

Projects and Grants

Grants information is drawn from ARIES. To add or update Projects or Grants information please contact your College Research Office.

• Cybersecurity Skills and Technology Accelerator - Fifth Domain/Austcyber (Secondary Investigator)