• Biography/ Background

  Director (Digital Technologies) Faculty of Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Sciences, The University of Adelaide

  Associate Professor, School of Computer Science, The University of Adelaide

• Awards & Achievements

  2018 - Stephen Cole the Elder Award for Teaching Excellence, The University of Adelaide

  2018 - Women's Research Excellence Award, The University of Adelaide

  2017 - SA Science Excellence Awards STEM Educator of the Year (tertiary education)

  2015 - Office for Learning and Teaching Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning

  2014 - The University of Adelaide Commendation for Excellence in Support of the Student Experience

  2014 - Visiting Fellowship, School of Computer Science, National University of Singapore

  2014 - CORE Award for Outstanding Contributions to Teaching

  2013 - ECMS Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching

  2013 - Visiting Fellowship, School of Computer Science, National University of Singapore

  2012 - Visiting Fellowship, School of Computer Science, National University of Singapore

  2012 - Learning & Teaching Award, Rising Star in 2011, School of Computer Science, The University of Adelaide

  2011 - Visiting Fellowship, School of Computer Science, National University of Singapore

   

• Research Interests

  My main research interests lie in the area of computer systems, broadly defined. Specifically, I am interested in model driven engineering, distributed and cloud computing, verification and validation of distributed systems, and exploring issues in real, deployed, complex systems. I lead the Complex Systems program within the Centre for Distributed and Intelligent Technologies. My education research interests lie in the areas of curriculum design, cognitive load theories, and software engineering best practices.

  Centre for Distributed and Intelligent Technologies

  My discipline research is in the area of systems, where I am interested in modeling and understanding the performance and behavior of large-scale distributed and complex systems. I lead the Complex Systems Program in the Centre for Distributed and Intelligent Technologies. If you are interested in a PhD or a Masters by research project, please visit the relevant websites for ideas about projects or proposals.

  CURRENT STAFF

  • Dustin Craggs, Software Developer
  • Xiaoshan Chen, Software Developer
  • Kin Leong Lee, Software Developer

  CURRENT RESEARCH STUDENTS

  • Alexis Conan Pfaulm - Communication in Contested and Dynamic Environments (PhD)
  • Gavin Puddy - System Execution Modeling (PhD)
  • Michelle McClintock - Security Enterprise Architecture (PhD)
  • Trent O'Connor - Combat System Resource Utilisation (PhD)

  PAST RESEARCH STUDENTS

  • Javier Alvarez Cid-Fuentes [PhD] - Understanding Behavior of Large-scale Distributed Systems  - Dean's Commendation for Doctoral Thesis Excellence
  • Yihong Zhang [PhD] - Data Cleaning in the Internet of Things
  • Scott Bourne [PhD] - Formal Verification of Transactional and Configurable Service-Oriented Processes  - Dean's Commendation for Doctoral Thesis Excellence
  • Ayman Albassam, Educational Learning Analytics (PhD) 
  • Amir Kanan Kashefi [masters] - Selection and Discovery of Components based on Non-functional Requirements (Masters)

  • Yihong Zhang [masters] – Scheduling Data-Intensive Scientific Workflow on Public Clouds 

  • Phuoc Nguyen [masters] – Collecting Validation Data Using Games on New Computing Platforms  

  • Nouf AlRomaih [masters] - SSHARE: Secure Sharing in Social Networks 
  • Nicholas Pacholski, Smart Drone Development Systems, Honours (First Class), 2013 
  • Michael Hemsley [honours] - Modeling human obesity using agent-based systems
  • Benjamin Carter [honours]- MapReduce versus Boston Marathon Bombing
  • Lachlan Birdsey [honours]- Visualizing Interactions in Complex Systems Completed
  • Jinzhe Li [honours]- Studying the Adelaide Effect: Analyzing Big Data 
  • Le Dinh Quoc Vu [honours]– Visualising Execution Status of Parallel Applications on iPads
  • Xi Cao [honours]– Scenario Generation in Global Conflict Blue 
  • Yijia Cai [honours]- Collecting Validation Data Using Games 

   

  Computer Science Education Research

  My education reserach interests include understanding and improving student programming strategies, identifying at-risk students, improving the teaching of software engineering, and designing computer science curricula that is engaging and actual.

   

• Research Funding

  Selected grants and research contracts (~$1.29m)

  2015 Fiddler on the Cloud: Understanding form and function evolution in crustaceans - C. Szabo and P. Munguia, The University of Adelaide Interdisciplinary Research Grant ($27,000) 

  2014-2015 Addressing the Challenge of the Digital Technologies Curriculum (Years 7&8) - K. Falkner, R. Vivian, N. Falkner and C. Szabo, Digital Careers Sponsorship Agreement ($119,588) (2014-2015).

  2014 Advanced Modelling of Communication Protocols - K. Falkner and C. Szabo, DSTO Research Contract ($130,000) 

  2014 Google Computer Science for High Schools - C. Izu, C. Szabo, C. Pope.  Google ($10,000)

  Allocation of Data-Intensive Scientific Workflows on Public Clouds - C. Szabo. Amazon Research Grant ($5,000)

  Review of Model Driven Software Engineering Practice - K. Falkner, C. Szabo. DSTO Research Grant ($420,000)

  2013 Google Computer Science for High Schools - C. Izu, B. Alexander, C. Szabo, C. Pope.  Google ($15,000)

  Review of Model Driven Software Engineering Practice - K. Falkner, N. Falkner, C. Szabo. DSTO Research Grant ($490,000)

  Understanding Multi-Modelling - C. Szabo DSTO Research Grant ($30,000)

  Allocation of Data-Intensive Scientific Workflows on Public Clouds - C. Szabo,  T. Kroeger. Amazon Research Education Grant ($10,000)

  2012 Google Computer Science for High Schools - C. Izu, B. Alexander, C. Szabo, C. Pope.  Google ($15,000)

  2011 Google Computer Science for High Schools - C. Izu, B. Alexander, A. Ghandar, C. Szabo, C. Pope. Google ($15,000)

   

   

• Publications

  Selected recent publications:

  BOOK CHAPTERS

  • K. Falkner, V. Chiprianov, N. Falkner, C. Szabo and G. Puddy, A Model Driven Engineering Method for DRE Defence Systems Performance Analysis and Prediction. In Industry and Research Perspectives on Embedded System Design. A. Bagnato, L.S. Indrusiak, I.R. Quadri and M. Rossi (Eds). IGI Global, June 2014, 434 pages
  • C. Szabo and Y.M. Teo, Semantic Validation of Component-based Models with Emergent Properties, Book Chapter in Ontology, Epistemology, and Teleology of Modeling and Simulation – Philosophical Foundations for Intelligent M&S Applications, edited by Andreas Tolk, Springer-Verlag, 2012.

  • C. Szabo and S. Diallo, Defining and Validating Semantic Machine to Machine Interoperability, Intelligent-based Systems Engineering, ISRL 10, 49-74, Springer-Verlag, 2010.

   

  REFEREED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

  • S. Bourne, C. Szabo, Q.Z. Sheng, Transactional Behavior Verification in Business Process as a Service Configuration, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 2017 (to appear)
  • D. Michell, A. Szorenyi, K. Falkner & C. Szabo, Broadening participation not border protection: how universities can support women in Computer Science, Journal of Higher Education Policy & Management, 2017 (to appear)
  • Y. Zhang, C. Szabo, Q.Z. Sheng, Reduce or Remove: Dealing with Unreliable Sensor in Environmental Sensing Data, Intelligent Data Analysis 2015, (to appear)
  • C. Szabo, Y.M. Teo, Formalization of Emergence in Multi-agent Systems, ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation, 2015 (to appear)
  • Q.Z. Sheng; X. Qiao; A.  V Vasilakos; C. Szabo; S. Bourne; X. Xu: Web Services Composition: A Decade's Overview, Information Sciences (accepted), 2014.
  • C. Szabo, Q.Z. Sheng, T. Kroeger, Y. Zhang, Science in the Cloud: Allocation and Execution of Data-Intensive Scientific Workflows, the Journal of Grid Computing, 2013.
  • Q. Z. Sheng; Zakaria Maamar; Lina Yao; Claudia Szabo; Scott Bourne: Behavior Modeling and Automated Verification of Web Services, Information Sciences, 2013.
  • C. Szabo and Y. M. Teo, An analysis of the cost of validating semantic composability, Journal of Simulation, 6, 152-163 (August 2012).

   

  REFEREED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

  • Y. Zhang, C. Szabo, Q.Z. Sheng, An Estimation Maximization Based Approach for Finding Reliable Sensors in Environmental Sensing, Proceedigns of the  21st IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2015) (to appear)

  • L. Birdsey, C. Szabo, Y.M. Teo, Twitter Knows: Understanding The Emergence Of Topics In Social Networks, Proceedings of the Winter Simulation 2015, Best Applied Paper Award.

  • J. Alvarez Cid-Fuentes, C. Szabo, K. Falkner, Online Behavior Identification in Distributed Systems, SRDS 2015 (to appear)

  • S. Bourne, C. Szabo, Q.Z. Sheng, Managing Configurable Business Process as a Service to Satisfy Client Transactional Requirements, Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Conference on Services Computing, 2015 (to appear)

  • H. Tarmazdi, R. Vivian, C. Szabo, K. Falkner and N. Falkner. Using Learning Analytics to Visualise Computer Science Teamwork. 20th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2015). (to appear).

  • K. Falkner, C. Szabo, D. Michell, A. Szorenyi and S. Thyer. Gender Gap in Academia: Perceptions of Female Computer Science Academics. 20th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2015) (to appear)

  • R. Vivian, H. Tamazdi, K. Falkner, N. Falkner, C. Szabo, The Development of a Dashboard Tool for Visualising Online Teamwork Discussions, ICSE 2015 Companion, (to appear)

  • K. Falkner, C. Szabo, R. Vivian and N. Falkner, Evolution of Software Development Strategies, ICSE 2015 Companion (to appear)

  • C. Szabo, Novice Code Understanding Strategies During a Software Maintenance Assignment, ICSE 2015 Companion (to appear).

  • S. Bourne, C. Szabo and Q. Z. Sheng, TL-VIEWS: A Tool for Temporal Logic Verification of Transactional Behavior of Web Service Compositions, ICSOC 2014 (accepted)

  • Y. Zhang, C. Szabo and Q. Z. Sheng, Cleaning Environmental Sensing Data Streams Based on Individual Sensor Reliability, WISE 2014 (accepted)

  • C. Szabo and Y. M. Teo, Understanding Complex Systems: Using Interaction as a Measure of Emergence, Winter Simulation Conference 2014

  • V. Chiprianov, K. Falkner, C. Szabo and G. Puddy, Architectural Support for Model-driven Performance Prediction of Distributed Real-time Embedded Systems of Systems, ECSA 2014

  • M. Rieckmann, D. Fraser, C. Chiprianov, C. Szabo and K. Falkner, Demonstration of Model-driven Performance Prediction of Distributed Real-time Embedded Systems of Systems, ECSA 2014

  • C. Szabo, Evaluating GameDevTycoon for Teaching Software Engineering. Accepted for the 45th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2014), March, 2014.

  • C. Szabo, Student Projects Are Not Throwaways: Teaching Practical Software Maintenance in a Software Engineering Course. Accepted for the 45th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2014), March, 2014. (Best paper award)

  • C. Szabo and K. Falkner, Neo-Piagetian Theory as a Guide to Curriculum Analysis. Accepted for the 45th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE 2014), March, 2014.

  • L. Birdsey, C. Szabo: An Architecture for Identifying Emergent Behavior in Multi-Agent Systems, AAMAS 2014 (accepted)(short paper) 

  • K. Falkner, V. Chiprianov, N. Falkner, C. Szabo, et al., Modeling scenarios for the performance prediction of distributed real-time embedded systems, Proceedings of the Military Communications and Information Systems Conference (IEEE Stream), (to appear) 2013. 

  • C. Szabo, Y.M. Teo Post-mortem Analysis of Emergent Behavior in Complex Simulation Models, Proceeding of the 27th ACM SIGSIM Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation, 2013.

  • Y.M. Teo, L. Linh and C. Szabo, Formalization of Emergence in Multi-agent Systems, Proceeding of the 27th ACM SIGSIM Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation, 2013.

  • C. Szabo and Y. Chen, A Model-driven Change Traceability Method in System modeling Execution, Proceedings of the 22nd Australasian Software Engineering Conference, 2013.

  • K. Falkner, V. Chiprianov, N. Falkner, C. Szabo, et al., Model-driven performance prediction of distributed real-time embedded defence systems (accepted) ICECCS, 2013.

  • S. Bourne, C. Szabo, Q.Z. Sheng, Verifying Transactional Requirements of Web Service Compositions using Temporal Logic Templates, In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Web Information System Engineering (WISE 2013), October 2013. 

  • A. Tolk, B. Heath, M Ihrig, J. Padilla, E Page, E Suarez, C. Szabo, P. Weirich, L. Yilmaz, Epistemology of Modeling and Simulation, Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference, December, 2013.  (expert panel)

  • S. Bourne, C. Szabo, and Q. Z. Sheng: Ensuring Well-Formed Conversations Between Control and Operational Behaviors of Web Services, the 10th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2012). Shanghai, China, November 12-16, 2012.

  • C. Szabo and Y. M. Teo, An Integrated Approach for the Validation of Emergence in Component-based Simulation Models, Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference, (to appear) 2012.

  • C. Szabo and Y. M. Teo, An Objective-based Approach for Semantic Validation of Emergence in Component-based Simulation Models, Proceedings of the 26th ACM/IEEE/SCS Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation, (to appear) IEEE Computer Society Press,  2012.

  • C. Szabo and T. Kroeger, Evolving Multi-objective Strategies for Task Allocation of Scientific Workflows on Public Clouds, Proceedings of the 2012 Congress on Evolutionary Computation, (to appear), 2012.

  • C. Szabo and Y. M. Teo, An Approach to Semantic-based Model Discovery and Selection, Proceedings of the 2011 Winter Simulation Conference, Arizona, USA pp. 3054-3066, 2011.

  • C. Szabo and Y. M. Teo, Understanding the Cost of Semantic Composability Validation, 25th ACM/IEEE/SCS Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation, pp. 62-69, IEEE Computer Society Press, Nice, France, June 14-17, 2011.

  • C. Szabo and Y. M. Teo, On Validation of Semantic Composability in Data- driven Simulation, Proceedings of the 24th ACM/IEEE/SCS Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation, pp. 73-80, IEEE Computer Society Press, Atlanta, USA, May 19-21, 2010.

  • C. Szabo, Y.M. Teo and S. See, A Time-based Formalism for the Validation of Semantic Composability, Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference, pp. 1411-1422, IEEE Computer Society Press, Austin, USA, December 12-16, 2009 (ACM SIGSIM Best PhD Student Paper Award).

  • C. Szabo and Y.M. Teo, An Approach for Validation of Semantic Composability in Simulation Models, Proceedings of the 23rd ACM/IEEE/SCS Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation, pp. 3-10, IEEE Computer Society Press, New York, USA, June 22-25, 2009.

  • Y.M. Teo and C. Szabo, CODES: An Integrated Approach to Composable Modeling and Simulation, Proceedings of 41st Annual Simulation Symposium, pp. 103-110, IEEE Computer Society Press, Ottawa, Canada, Apr 13-16, 2008.

  • C. Szabo and Y.M. Teo, On Syntactic Composability and Model Reuse, Proceedings of the International Conference on Modeling and Simulation, pp. 230-236, IEEE Computer Society Press, Phuket, Thailand, March 2007.

  Community Service

  Associate Editor

  • ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation

  Programme Chair

  • SIMUTools 2015

  PC MEMBER

  • PADS 2014
  • WSC 2014
  • ASWEC 2014
  • CEC 2014
  • CEC 2013
  • AsiaSim 2013
  • WinterSim 2013
  • PADS 2013
  • APWeb 2013
  • TMS DEVS 2012
  • WinterSim 2012 - Chair of Poster Session, Methodology Track
  • APWeb 2012
  • SIMULTECH 2012
  • SIMULTECH 2011

  External Reviewer

  • Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation, TMS2012, e-Science 2011, PADS 2011, PADS 2010, RIVF 2010, Simulation 2010, CIT2010, PADS 2009, DSRT 2009, RIVF 2008, APSCC 2008,  ICA3PP 2007, APSCC 2006

  
  PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS

  BEFORE you contact me, please read the following. Academic life involves a combination of thinking, designing, implementing, experimenting with the proposed solution, and writing. Your thinking, discussion, design, and experimental analysis skills will be honed during our weekly meetings, at which I expect you to come prepared and on time :) 

  I do expect you to be a good coder and have decent algorithmic skills, but, most importantly, I expect you to be keen to learn and improve if you find that you are lacking in any areas related to your research. In terms of writing, I will read any draft that you submit to me and give you feedback as soon as possible, usually within 48 hours but sometimes within the week (academic life is busy at times).

  Most important: If you as a student work hard, I will work just as hard, so please take that into consideration :) (the reverse also applies sadly).

  And lastly (if you have read this far, good job!): If you are interested in pursuing a PhD, masters/honours under my supervision, contact me by email and include:

   

  • your CV (including the schools you attended, past jobs etc)
  • your transcripts (either a copy or a listing of your grades, not the official one)
  • a topic that you find of interest

• Files

  • NextGen-Code - nextgen-code.zip [1.1MB] (application/zip)

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