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Dr Charlie Mao
Position: Senior Research Fellow Dr Charlie Mao
Division/Portfolio: Division of Information Technology, Engineering and the Environment
School/Unit: School of Mathematics and Statistics
Campus: Mawson Lakes Campus
Office: OC1-47
Telephone: +61 8 830 23196
Fax: +61 8 830 25785
Email: Charlie_dot_Mao_at_unisa_dot_edu_dot_au
URL for Business Card: http://people.unisa.edu.au/Charlie.Mao

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Charlie MAO is a senior research fellow in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of South Australia. He has been working as a physicist, senior phyicist and principal scientist, and project manager in a digital printing technology R&D company, Research Laboratories of Australia (RLA) from 1996 to 2009. He was a research scientist in department of soil science at University of Adelaide from 1995 - 1996, and a university lecturer from 1985-1990 at Wuhan University of Technology. He received B.Eng and M.Eng in PR China in early 1980s and PhD in Australia in 1995.

He has extensive experience in a) mathematical modelling; b) image processing, analysis, and algorithm development; c) colloid and surface science; and d) mineral processing. From 2002 to 2009, he has managed and participated several large international clients funded digital printer R&D projects and managed more than a quarter of RLA internal funded core research projects.

He also has extensive experience in software development, and can use several major program languages efficiently.

A detailed curriculum vitae as at 27 August 2009 (pdf 134 KB) can be downloaded.

Qualifications

Doctor of Philosophy (Applied Science), IWRI, University of South Australia (1995)

Master of Engineering (Mineral Processing), Wuhan University of Technology (1984)

Bachelor of Engineering (Mineral Processing), Wuhan University of Technology (1982)

Research interests

  • Mathematical modelling
  • Colloid and surface science
  • Image processing, analysis, and algorithm development
  • Singal processing, analysis, and algorithm development
  • Computational finance
  • Mineral processing

Research publications

Conference papers

  • Charlie M. Mao and Alvin Chowles, Image Fixing Quality Assessment: A Crease Test Apparatus, 23rd International Conference on Digital Printing Technologies and Digital Fabrication 2007, Anchorage, Alaska; Sept 2007; p. 395-399.
  • Charlie M. Mao and Alex Ozerov, A New Approach to Image Fixing Quality Assessment - A Pen Offset Apparatus and Image Processing Analyzer, IS&T's NIP22: International Conference on Digital Printing Technologies, Denver, Colorado; Sept 17, 2006; p. 458-462.
  • Alexander B. Ozerov and Charlie M. Mao, A Novel High Field Electrophoretic Cell for Characterisation of Concentrated Liquid Toners, IS&T's NIP19: International Conference on Digital Printing Technologies, New Orleans, LA; Sept. 28, 2003; p. 590-594.
  • Mao, Minghua; Fornasiero, Daniel; Ralston, John; Sobieraj, Slawek. Use of depressants in the separation of zircon from rutile and ilmenite (1999). Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum
  • Mao, Minghua; Fornasiero, D.; Ralston, J.; Smart, R.St.C. and Sobieraj, S. "The Surface Chemistry of Zircon Flotation with Potassium Alkylamine Bis-Methylenephosphonate". 8th International Conference on Surface and Colloid Science, Adelaide, 1994.

Refereed publications

  • Mao, M.; Fornasiero, D.; Ralston, J.; Smart, R.St.C. and Sobieraj, S. "Electrochemistry of the Zircon-Water Interface". Colloids and Surfaces, 85 (1994) 37.
  • Mao, M. "Study on Asbestos Fibre Movement in Hydrocyclone". Nonferrous Metal (International Edition), 38(4) 36, (1986).
  • Mao, M. "The Development of Hydrocyclone Techniques". Nonferrous Metal, 38(3) 58, (1986).

Patent

  • Mao, Minghua (Charlie), 2008, ELECTROSTATOGRAPHIC PRINTING MACHINE, RESEARCH LABORATORIES OF AUSTRALIA PTY LTD, [WO2008098285].

Selected Software Developed (Used internally or externally)

Theoretical Modelling

  • Toner particle trajectory and image development under dynamic electric field in development region (2D model) (VB).
  • Simulation of thermal distribution and energy consumption in hot roll fusing system (1D model) (VB).


    • Application for Scientific Instruments
  • Real-time data acquisition and analysis (VB).
  • High field toner cell data acqusition and process (VB).


    • Image Processing
  • Image quality assessment (Java).
  • Graphic and colour space manipulation (C#).


    • Information Management
  • Intranet management system: database, server end web page and report generation on project resource management and goods ordering (PHP, SQL, HTML and Java Script).


    • Misc
  • Experimental design and result analysis based on Taguchi Methods (VBA).
  • Simplex curve fitting (C#).
  • Zip application.

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    Community Service

    Organisation Name:   TWiki.org
    Type of Organisation:   Community organisation
    Organisation URL:   http://twiki.org/
    Level of involvement:   Member of TWiki Community Group
    Year from:   2009
    Comments:   a) Original developer and maintainer: Perl script to convert both Microsoft word and OpenOffice writer documents to TWiki Markup format. Algorithm to convert table with rowspan and colspan is unique. The script reduces conversion time from several hours (manually) to less than a minute.
    b) Maintainer: MS Word to TWiki Markup Language Add-On (in VBA) since Ver. 1.486.



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