Raja Jurdak

Raja Jurdak is a Principal Research Scientist at CSIRO, where he leads the Pervasive Computing Research Group. He also holds an Adjunct Associate Professor position at the University of Queensland. He has a PhD in Information and Computer Science at University of California, Irvine in 2005, an MS in Computer Networks and Distributed Computing from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at UCI (2001), and a BE in Computer and Communications Engineering from the American University of Beirut in (2000). He is also a Senior Member of the IEEE.

Dr. Jurdak's current research focus is to understand collective intelligence in cyberphysical systems. As our world embeds more resource-limited devices for digital data collection, coordinating among these devices to extract the most information value is key for better understanding the physical world and to determine how to best manage it.

Dr. Jurdak has over over 60 peer-reviewed journal and conference publications, as well as a book published by Springer titled Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks: A Cross-Layer Design Perspective.

More details can be found on Dr. Jurdak's web site at www.jurdak.com