News
October 2024
APOGCE 2024
Maharti Triharta who is jointly supervised by Prof. Sally Male, A/Prof. Victor Sojo and Prof. Elaine Wong, presented at the Asia Pacific Oil and Gas Conference (APOGCE2024) on “Engineering Sustainable Careers: Exploring Parenthood Timing Factors Among Australian Engineers”. Great job Maharti for getting the O&G industry to sit up, listen and be proactive to ensure equitable participation throughout the lifecycle of an engineer.
September 2024
2024 Stawell Scholarship Awarded to Yuxiao Wang
Hearty congratulations to Yuxiao for being awarded the 2024 Stawell Scholarship. This Scholarship is made possible by Sir William Foster Stawell in 1873 for the encouragement of the School of Engineering by supporting graduate researchers in the field of Engineering with a project or proposal that will enhance their research outcomes. Well done Yuxiao, the team is so proud of you!
August 2024
ACM SIGCOMM 2024
Elaine Wong kicked off the ACM, Association for Computing Machinery SIGCOMM 2024 (4-8 August 2024) with an invited keynote at the Workshop on Hot Topics in Optical Technologies and Applications in Networking.
May 2024
Keynote at Optical Network Design and Modelling (ONDM) 2024
Elaine Wong presented the keynote at ONDM 2024 in Madrid Spain on “Machine Learning in Next-Generation Optical Access Networks”. The keynote discusses future trends, rationale and challenges in using machine learning in the access network segment, and how the research group is addressing these challenges to progress machine learning models into production environments. Congratulations Elaine!
April 2024
Xiangyu Yu awarded the prestigious 2024 Kenneth Myer Memorial Scholarship
We are delighted to announce that Xiangyu Yu has been awarded this prestigious scholarship, valued at AUD10,000. The scholarship will enable Xiangyu to visit collaborators in Europe to further his research in concept drift detection in machine learning enhanced optical networks. Congratulations Xiangyu!
April 2024
Dr. Sourav Mondal joins the group
We warmly welcome Dr. Sourav Mondal to the group. Sourav is an alumni of the group having graduated with a PhD (2020) in Strategic Deployment of Artificial Intelligence-Enhanced Cloudlets for Low-latency Human-to-Machine Applications under the supervision of Elaine Wong and Goutam Das. Over the last three years, Dr. Mondal has welcomed opportunities at Trinity College Dublin as an EDGE/Marie Skłodowska-Curie Post-doctoral Fellow Curie Fellow and at Qualcomm India as Senior Lead Systems Engineer. Welcome Sourav!
March 2024
Elaine Wong presents at Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2024 Panel
Elaine Wong was invited to present at the OFC 2024 Panel on Can New Access Technology and Architectures Support the Beyond 5G Network Vision. This panel brought together experts among operators, vendors and academics to discuss how PON architectures should evolve, what supporting technology will be available in the near to medium term and whether it can fully support future beyond 5G network vision. Elaine’s talk on “The Nexus of 5G and Beyond Applications and Machine Learning” spotlights the need for harnessing machine learning in the x-haul segment in support of the overarching design principles of IMT-2030.
December 2023
Elaine Wong is appointed Pro Vice-Chancellor (People and Equity) at the University of Melbourne
Elaine commenced as Pro Vice-Chancellor (People and Equity) in December 2023, reporting to the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (People & Community). In this role, Elaine works closely with the leadership team within the Office of the Provost. As Pro-Vice Chancellor (People and Equity), Elaine is responsible for amplifying the University’s Diversity & Inclusion Strategy, stewarding and implementing necessary change to policy, practice and culture to key areas of equity such as diversity and belonging, disability inclusion, gender equity, and LGBTIQA+ inclusion, such that our diverse students and staff are welcomed. The PVC (People and Equity) also has the responsibility to convene and create momentum and common purpose across the University’s work on Respect. We congratulate Elaine in her new role.
November 2023
Igor Kardush presents his first conference paper at Asia Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP) 2023.
We congratulation Igor on his first conference presentation at ACP 2023 in Wuhan, China on “Tidal Traffic Prediction for Reliable Optical Network Orchestration in Industrial 5.0”. Well done and fantastic effort, Igor!
May 2023
IEEE/Optical Journal of Optical Communications and Networking (IF 4.508)
Congratulations Elaine Wong, Sourav Mondal and Lihua Ruan on their recent publication ” Machine learning enhanced next-generation optical access networks—challenges and emerging solutions [Invited Tutorial]“. It an absolute honour to contribute an Invited Tutorial journal article to motivate the continued push to advance optical access networks and rationalize the use of machine learning in these networks. The publication unreservedly highlights the challenges that are especially amplified due to the traffic dynamicity and heterogeneity, data scarcity, and computation-resource constraints of optical access networks. It also presents a novel fast and self-adaptive machine learning enhanced dynamic bandwidth allocation scheme in an illustrative future use case of supporting immersive human-to-machine communications over the mobile fronthaul of next-generation mobile networks.
April 2023
IEEE/Optica Journal of Lightwave Technology (IF 4.439)
Congratulations to A/Prof Ke Wang, Dr. Tingting Song, Prof. A. Nirmalathas, Prof. Christina Lim, et al., on our publication “Evolution of Short-Range Optical Wireless Communications”. This publication presents a deep dive into key short-range optical wireless communications (OWC) applications in indoor personal or local area communications, underwater wireless communications, wireless data center networks, and vehicular communications. It also introduces some recent widely studied advanced techniques to boost the performance of short-range OWC systems. Click here to find out more about the paper.
March 2023
Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC 2023)
IT’S A WRAP!!! After almost 15 months of planning, over many cups of coffees and early morning meetings, Elaine Wong and fellow OFC co-chairs, Fotini Karinou and Nicholas Fontaine are extremely proud to have curated an engaging and inclusive technical program at OFC2023.
OFC Conference 2023 hosted over 11,500 participants and 515 exhibiting companies and served as the platform for several start-ups to make their debut. Suffice to say, I think we managed to welcome back the entire ecosystem with a focus on inclusivity.
International Women’s Day 2023
Elaine Wong and along with fellow OFC co-chairs, Fotini Karinou and Nicholas Fontaine hosted the first International Women’s Day Breakfast Panel at OFC 2023. They discussed the important roles of innovation, technology and culture change can play in alleviating the barriers to STEM participation and inclusion for women and girls with a panel of thought-leaders and champions, Michal Lipson (Optical President), Jun Shan Way (Verizon and General Chair 2022), Rafaela Frota and Bernhard Schrenk. It was a full house and standing-room event, signalling the strong interest within the OFC community to work together towards a more equitable access to STEM education and career.
February 2023
We welcome Xiangyu Yu to the team. Xiangyu will be embarking on a PhD project investigating concept drift and its detection in optical access networks. Welcome Xiangyu!
January 2023
Optical Fibre Technology
We start the year off with a publication in OFT. The article titled “From 5G to beyond: Passive optical network and multi-access edge computing integration for latency-sensitive application” presents a comprehensive review of the capabilities of integrated PON-MECs in delivering emerging latency-sensitive applications. As importantly it also outlines specific use case scenarios of emerging latency-sensitive applications that would benefit from an integrated PON-MEC network.
Have a look here if you are interested in knowing more about the intersection of PONs and MECs and how both these technologies together can empower future latency-sensitive applications!
December 2022
Communication Magazine (IF: 9.03) publication
What a productive year it has been! And we are not done yet…a massive congratulations to Igor Kardush on his first publication from his PhD research on optical network architectures and technologies to enable Industry 5.0. Please click here to access the article published in the IEEE Communication Magazine (Impact Factor: 9.03).
November 2022
IEEE Photonics Conference 2023
Congratulations to Elaine Wong and Lihua Ruan on their invited paper at the IEEE Photonics Conference 2022 “Towards 6G: The Evolution of Passive Optical Networks” . The paper highlights and subsequently addresses the challenges in supporting heterogeneous services over the optical fronthaul mobile networks. Check out our abstract here.
September 2022
Nature Careers publication
Check out our new article in Nature Careers (https://lnkd.in/gZdBYXTM) that discusses the rationale behind our gender-based affirmative action in recruitment, lessons learned, and as importantly how it has catalysed a change in our workplace culture through complementary inclusion initiatives and actions that benefit all staff.
Appointment to the IEEE Network Editorial Board
Congratulations to Elaine Wong on her appointment to the Editorial Board of IEEE Network (Impact Factor: 10.294) as Technical Editor.
IEEE Network – The Magazine of Global Internetworking. is published bimonthly, offering readers topics of interest to the networking community. As such, IEEE Network provides a focus for highlighting and discussing major computer communications issues and developments. The articles are intended to be surveys or tutorials, slanted towards the practical, and comprehensible to the nonspecialist, as well as practitioners. Follow this link to find out more about IEEE Network.
European Conference on Optical Communication 2023
Congratulations to Elaine Wong and Lihua Ruan on their invited paper at the ECOC 2022 (Basel, Switzerland). The paper “Towards 6G: Machine Learning Driven Resource Allocation in Next Generation Optical Access Networks (Invited)” focuses on transfer learning within the mobile fronthaul and how this technique can expedite and self-adapt to address the dynamicity and heterogeneity of 6G services. Check out our abstract here.
August 2022
25th General Congress for Optics and Photonics of the International Commission for Optics (ICO-25)
Congratulations to Lihua Ruan and Elaine Wong on their invited paper at the General Congress (Dresden, Germany). In line with Congress theme of “Advancing Society with Light”, Elaine Wong presented on federated converged access networks for human-machine communications and how the use of immersive technology can connect humans over vast distances, with many applications directly addressing the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. Click here to find out more about the significance of this congress and here on our work.
Eureka Prizes Award Ceremony
The University’s VIEWS Academic Lead Professor Elaine Wong, the University of Melbourne‘s Senior Development Manager (Indigenous) Hope Perkins, VIEWS Program Manager Michelle Bellino attended the Eureka Prize Awards Ceremony alongside RMIT, Swinburne and Monash leaders. Although VIEWS did not emerge as the winner that night, we are
July 2022
Finalist – Eureka Prize for STEM Inclusion
The Victorian Indigenous Engineering Winter School (VIEWS), a cross-university collaboration which aims to engage more Indigenous Australians with STEM subjects, has been selected as an Australian Museum 2022 Eureka Prizes finalist. Congratulations to all involved in making this program such a success, including the University’s VIEWS Academic Lead Professor Elaine Wong, the University of Melbourne‘s Senior Development Manager (Indigenous) Hope Perkins and VIEWS Program Manager Michelle Bellino.
June 2022
IEEE Meeting Series
Elaine Wong attended the IEEE Meeting Series (June 2022) in her capacity as a Member of the IEEE Technical Activities Board Committee on Diversity and Inclusion. For more information on the initiaitves and activities of the Committee, please visit here.
IEEE Network publication
Very excited to announce the publication of out latest work in IEEE Network (IF 10.67), where we propose and validate a novel solution framework that supports the dynamic addition and the rapid onboarding of new machines/robots in human-to-robot/machine applications. Harnessing data samples from a real H2M/R application for training and validation, the framework enables human operators to remotely control machines/robots over extended distances through accurately forecasting their haptic feedback. By globally coordinating and sharing this learning across the network, up to 72 percent of the time can be saved when onboarding new machines/robots.
You can check out this publication and the other selected articles as part of the “Special Issue on Next-Generation Optical Access Networks to Support Super-Broadband Services and 5G/6G Mobile Networks” here.
May 2022
Elevation to Fellow Grade
Elaine Wong has been elevated to Fellow of the Institute of Engineers Australia. Congratulations!
April 2022
March 2022
Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC 2022)
Elaine Wong presents a tutorial “The Evolution of Machine Learning in Optical Access Networks” by E. Wong, S. Mondal and L. Ruan, at the prestigious Optical Fiber Communication Conference this year. The tutorial covers the drivers for implementing machine learning over current and future optical access, barriers to production environments, and emerging machine learning approaches to alleviate these challenges.
February 2022
Elsevier Computer Networks publication
Our newly published journal paper in Elsevier Computer Networks on “An Economic and Non-cooperative Load-balancing Framework among Federated Cloudlets” can be downloaded here. The work looks at an innovative framework which facilitates load-balancing among federated cloudlets for low-latency applications. Congratulations Sourav, Goutam and Elaine!
Elaine Wong is appointed to the IEEE Photonic Society Publications Council
The Photonics Society Publications Council oversees the Society’s full publications portfiio and recommends to the Board of Governors actions appropriate for the maintenance of high quality, timeliness, and coverage of the Society’s Field of Interest. Congratulations Elaine!
January 2022
ARC College of Experts 2022
The Australian Research Council (ARC) has recently announced the outcomes of the 2022 College of Experts nominations. A warm congratulations to Elaine Wong for being elected to the ARC College of Experts 2022.
The ARC College of Experts play a key role in identifying research excellence and members are experts of international standing drawn from the Australian research community, including higher education, industry, and public sector research organisations.
Journal of Optical Communications and Networking Invited Tutorial publication
Our new invited journal publication covering the evolution of optical access networks in supporting cellular networks is now available here. It is an exciting read on what the drivers are for the road ahead.
First publication of the year
A great start to the new year. Our article on “Intelligent Radio Resource Allocation for Human-Robot Collaboration,” DOI (identifier) 10.1109/OJCOMS.2022.3141201 has been published. This work will be a crucial enabler to realise a human-centred 6G society. Congratulations Ye Feng, Thas Nirmalathas, Lihua Ruan and Elaine Wong!
Welcome to our newest member
We warmly welcome Maharti Triharta to the research group and wish her well in her PhD journey. To find out more about Maharti and her research, please click here.
December 2021
Congratulations to Elaine Wong on her appointment as Program Chair of the Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2023. What an honour and a fitting end to a productive and rewarding year. We wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! See you back in January 2022 with more research news.
November 2021
Our new conference publication entitled “Application Based Energy Optimization for Computation Offloading in Hierarchical MEC Network” was presented by Dr. here.
at the International Conference on Information and Automation for Sustainability (ICIAfS). You can find the full paper
Congratulations to Elaine Wong and the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology (FEIT), University of Melbourne for taking out the Engineers Australia Gender Diversity Award 2021 (Most Encouraging Non-for-Profit Category). For for more information on the Award and the gender initiatives led by FEIT, see here.
Oct 2021
Elaine Wong co-chairs and moderates the NoF2021 panel on “Rationalizing Edge Computing in the New Era of Beyond 5G” with panelists Marco Ruffini from Trinity College Dublin, Stuart Clayman from University College, London and Leonardo Goratti from Safran Passengers Innovation, Germany.
Sept 2021
Joined by an esteemed panel – Professor Shanton Chang, Professor Leigh Johnston, Dr Rajitha Senanayake, Hannah L. and Olivia Panjkov, Elaine Wong chairs the Girl Power in Engineering & IT panel on diversity and inclusion.
Elaine Wong is the UoM academic lead for the Victorian Indigenous Winter School (VIEWS) 2021. Along with RMIT, Swinburne and Monash Universities the program virtually hosted years 10, 11 and 12 Indigenous high school students from Kalgoorlie WA to the Blue Mountains in NSW, the Sunshine Coast in QLD to Bendigo in VIC. Kits and materials were sent across the Nullarbor and around the country, to ensure that all students could participate in workshops and experiential learning.
August 2021
Congratulations to Dr. Lihua Ruan! She was awarded the John Melvin Memorial Scholarship for Best PhD Thesis in the Melbourne School Engineering. A very worthy accolade for Lihua! The award was presented during the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology Awards Night on the 29th July 2021.
Citation: Through comprehensive theoretical,simulation based and experimentalinvestigations, Dr. Ruan’s thesis provided insights into emerging human-to-machine(H2M) traffic characteristics yielding novel resource allocation solutions that will support future tactile-haptic applications.
July 2021
Congratulations to Elaine Wong on her GENIE (Gender Initiative for Excellence) Fellowship from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. She will be visiting Prof. Lena Wosinska and her team at Chalmers to drive gender equality initiatives and to collaborate on the topic of Resilient Environments for Human-to-Machine Communications.
Our invited journal publication on a unified optical network architecture for future wireless LANs is now published in the Journal of Optical Communications and Networking (JOCN). You can access the article here.
June 2021
Congratulations to Dr. Chathurika Ranaweera on presenting the tutorial on “4G to 6G: Disruption and Drivers of Optical Transport Networks.” at OFC 2021. A significant achievement!
May 2021
Elaine Wong will serve as Guest Editor of the IEEE Network Magazine, Special Issue on “Next-Generation Optical Access Networks to Support Super-Broadband Services and 5G/6G Mobile Networks” to be published March 2022. Deadline is 15th September 2021.
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April 2021
Elaine Wong is appointed to the OSA Corning Women in Optical Communications Scholarship selection committee. Find out more about the scholarship at:
Congratulations Chathurika Ranaweera and team on the recent article on “Rethinking of Optical Transport Network Design for 5G/6G Mobile Communication” published in the IEEE Future Networks.
March 2021
Elaine Wong was invited to the inaugural WILab panel session on “Technology to Reinvigorate Melbourne” with Lord Mayor of Melbourne Sally Capp, Prof. Thas Nirmalathas (FEIT), Simon Young (Cisco) and Nikos Katinakis (Telstra).
Watch the panel session below:
Elaine Wong shared the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology‘s experience in targeted recruitment at the University of Melbourne‘s International Women’s Day 2021 signature event on “Building gender diversity in non-traditional disciplines” along with Prof. Aleks Owcrawek (UoM Science), Prof. Julie Willis (UoM ABP), and Prof. Fiona Jenkins (ANU), and introduced by UoM Vice Chancellor Prof. Duncan Maskell.
Elaine Wong is appointed Panel Co-Chair of the 12th International Conference of Network of the Future 2021.
Elaine Wong is appointed Co-Chair of “Track 3: Network Architectures, Management and Applications” of the Asia Communications and Photonics Conference 2021 (Shanghai 5-8 Nov 2021).
February 2021
We welcome Igor Kardush to the group! Igor’s bio can be found here.
Our invited journal article on the recent progress in indoor optical wireless access networks is now available.
Congratulations to Sampath Edirisinghe on the acceptance of his conference paper at ICC 2021.
Elaine Wong co-hosts the Inaugural Australian National University (ANU) – University of Melbourne (UoM) Graduate Student Panel.
January 2021 (Updated 14th January 2021)
Elaine Wong is appointed to serve on the 2021 OSA Fellow Members Selection Committee
Elaine Wong commences her 1-year term as Secretary on the IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology Steering Committee.
Elaine Wong is appointed Chair of the Subcommittee N4: at the 2021 Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC2021).
Elaine Wong is appointed as Co-Chair (alongside Chadi Assi, Concordia University) of the Optical Networks and Systems (ONS) Symposium of the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Communication (ICC 2021)
January 2021
A great start to the new year! Our work has been featured in the first issue of the IEEE Internet of Things Journal (9.936 Impact Factor) in 2021. You can download the publication here.
December 2020
Elaine Wong presents keynote on “Minimising the Impact of the Covid-19 on the Academic and Professional Careers of Women in STEM” at the IEEE 3rd Malaysian Women in Engineering (WIE) Congress.
November 2020
Elaine Wong (co-authors Sampath Edirisinghe, Chathurika Ranaweera, Christina Lim and Thas Nirmalathas) presents invited talk on “Data and Control Plane Separation for Interoperable Indoor Wireless Access Connectivity” at ECOC 2020.
Congratulations to Elaine Wong, Thas Nirmalathas, Christina Lim and all others from EEE who featured among the World’s top 2% scientist list, according to a Stanford University study. The study can be found here.
October 2020
Tingting Song (co-authors E. Wong, A. Nirmalathas, K. Alameh, C. Lim, K. Wang) presents technical talk on “Novel Spatial Modulation Channel Index Detection in Optical Wireless Communications with Signal Space Diversity” at the IEEE Photonics Society Conference, 2020.
September 2020
Omer Bashir commences his PhD degree with team. Welcome Omer!
Elaine Wong welcomes prospective students at the University of Melbourne (Melbourne School of Engineering) Open Day 2020.
August 2020
Elaine Wong presents seminar at the IEEE Industry Application Society (IAS) VIC Chapter, IEEE Women in Engineering Student Affinity Group and IEEE Student Branch at the University of Melbourne joint event on “Gender Equity in STEM”
August 2020
Elaine Wong presents tutorial on “The Role of Access Network Technologies in 5G and Beyond Networks” at the 14th Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO-PR 2020).
July 2020
Sourav Mondal is awarded the prestigious EDGE – Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship to work on Edge Intelligence Network Slicing at the Trinity College Dublin with Marco Ruffini. Congratulations Sourav!
June 2020
Congratulations Tingting Song on winning the IEEE Photonics Society Graduate Student Scholarship. One of 10 worldwide. Congratulations Tingting!
May 2020
Elaine Wong (with co-authors Sourav Mondal and Lihua Ruan) presents invited talk on “Alleviating the Master-Slave Distance Limitation in H2M Communications through Remote Environment Emulation” at ONDM 2020.
Elaine Wong participates in the ONDM 2020 WOMEN IN PHOTONICS AND DIVERSITY DIMENSIONS IN RESEARCH workshop and presents her views on “The Impact of Covid-19 Lockdown on the Female Academic”
April 2020
Together with Thas Nirmalathas, Elaine Wong provides her views on the additional capacity strain on the Internet during the COVID-19 pandemic in Pursuit,
March 2020
Thas Nirmalathas presents invited talk at OFC 2020.
- T. A. Nirmalathas, T. Song, S. Edirisinghe, L. Tian, C. Lim, E. Wong, K. Wang, C. Ranaweera, and K. Alameh, “Gigabit/s Optical Wireless Access and Indoor Networks,” in Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2020, OSA Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, 2020), paper M2H.5
Sourav Mondal presents technical paper at OFC 2020.
- S. Mondal, L. Ruan, and E. Wong, “Remote Human-to-Machine Distance Emulation through AI-Enhanced Servers for Tactile Internet Applications,” in Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2020, OSA Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, 2020), paper M1A.6.
Lihua Ruan presents technical paper at OFC 2020.
- L. Ruan, S. Mondal, I. Dias, and E. Wong, “Low-Latency Federated Reinforcement Learning-Based Resource Allocation in Converged Access Networks,” in Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2020, OSA Technical Digest (Optical Society of America, 2020), paper W2A.28.
January 2020
News coverage on the team’s breakthrough in forecasting haptic feedback to overcome distance limit in human-to-machine applications. Congratulations team!
January 2020
Elaine Wong is elected Fellow of the Optical Society (OSA) in 2020. Congratulations Elaine!
Elaine Wong commences her 2 year term as IEEE Communication Society member representative on the IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology Steering Committee.
Elaine Wong commences her 2-year term as Secretary of the Optical Networking Technical Committee (ONTC) of the IEEE Communication Society.
Elaine Wong serves as Co-Chair of C9:Optical Communication Systems and Networks of the 14th Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO-PR 2020).