Professor Kevin Burrage
Positions Held
Federation Fellow 2003-2008
Professor of Computational Mathematics, University of
Queensland
Director of the Advanced Computational Modelling Centre,
University of Queensland.
Joint positions within Mathematics, ITEE and Institute
for Molecular Bioscience.
Prizes and Honours
1988 - Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications.
1994 - Federal Government Gold Technology Productivity Award.
Employment
1978 Junior Lecturer in Department of Mathematics, Auckland
University.
1979-1980 Science Research Council Fellow at University of
Sussex.
1981-1988 Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Computer Science Auckland
University.
1989 Senior Lecturer in Mathematics at Auckland University.
1989-1990 Visiting Senior Research Fellow University of Liverpool
(U.K.).
1991 - Chair of Computational Mathematics at the University
of Queensland.
1995 - Director - Advanced Computational Modelling Centre
University of Queensland.
2000 - 2001 CEO of the Queensland Parallel Supercomputing
Foundation.
2003 - Federation Fellow.
Graduate Students
5 Masters students and 16 PhD students (finished and current) from 1994-2003
Research Interests
Scientific computation, high performance computing, stochastic models and simulation in environmental modelling, finance and the life sciences, visualisation.
Recent Principal Research Grants
Chen, Burrage, Ragan, Zhou, Integrating database technologies
and visual analysis on Genome Data, ARC Discovery 2001-2003,
$334K.
Burrage, Thompson ,Donovan, Howse, Modelling, simulation and
risk analysis in the Australian energy markets, ARC SPIRT
2001-2003, $197K.
Burrage, de Jersey and Hamilton DETYA Science lectureships
Initiative, Data mining & visualisation in biotechnology
2001 –2005, $1.26M.
Burrage, Greenfield and Hay, High Performance Computing Initiative,
State Government, 2001-2003, $10M.
CI on the ARC Centre in Complex Systems.
CI on the ARC Centre in Bioinformatics.
Selected Professional Activities
1998 Chair of the Australian Cooperative Supercomputing
Facility.
1997 – 1998 Committee member of the Modelling and Simulation
Society of Australia.
1999-2001 Council member of the Australian Mathematics Society.
2000-2001 Founding CEO of QPSF.
Membership of Editorial Boards
1998 - 2002 Advances in Comp Maths
1999 - SISC (SIAM)
2001 - Numerical Algorithms.
Industry Experience
Various consulting & collaborative projects in financial
and environmental modelling.
2002-2003 $160K funding from Eli Lilly with the Centre for
On-Line Health (UQ) on visual modelling of the effects of Schizophrenia.
Patents
K.E. Gates, G.R. Hanson and K. Burrage (1996) Computer Simulation
of Magnetic Resonance Spectra Employing Homotopy, World Wide
Provinsional Patent Application 4277/96.
K.E. Gates, G.R. Hanson and K. Burrage (1997) Computer Simulation
of Magnetic Resonance Spectra Employing Homotopy, World Wide
Patent Application 48552/97.
Selected Recent Publications
- L.Croft, S. Schandoff, F. Clark, K. Burrage, P. Actander
and J.S. Mattick (2000): ISIS the intron information system
reveals the frequency of alternative splicing in the human
genome, Nature Genetics, 2000 Apr;24(4):340-1.
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K. Burrage and P.M. Burrage (2001): Order conditions of stochastic
Runge-Kutta methods by B-series, SIAM J. Num. Anal., Vol.
38, No. 5, pp 1626-1646.
- K. Burrage, J. Erhel, B. Pohl , A. Williams (1998): A deflation
technique for linear systems of equations, SIAM J. Sci. Comput.,
19, 4, 145-1260.
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K. Burrage and P. M. Burrage (1998): High strong order methods
for non-commutative stochastic ordinary differential equation
systems and the Magnus formula, Special Issue on Uncertainty
and Predictability, Physica D, 133, 34-48.
- P. Christen, I. Altas, M. Hegland, S. Roberts, K. Burrage,
R. Sidje (1999): A parallel finite element surface fitting
algorithm for data mining, Parallel Comp. Fundamentals &
Applications, 275-282.
- K. E. Gates, M. Griffin, G. R. Hanson, K. Burrage (1998): Computer simulation of magnetic resonance spectra employing homotopy, J. of Magnetic Resonance, 135, 104 - 112.