Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology

Professor Michael Bruenig

Head of School
School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering
Head of School
Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology
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Researcher biography

Professor Michael Brünig is the Head of School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at The University of Queensland (UQ), a role he took over in 2016 but with an interruption from 2019-2021 to lead UQ's Business School.

Prof Brünig is a strategic thinker, an innovation expert, and an experienced change manager with international experience from Europe, the United States, and Australia. He is passionate about building strong performing teams and has experience in bringing large projects with substantial funding to fruition, igniting entrepreneurial spirit in students and staff, and driving impact from research through partnering, commercialisation and spin-off companies.

Before joining UQ, Prof Brünig worked with the CSIRO. As an executive manager with the organisation, he led an initiative to establish a $140m National Research Flagship on Digital Productivity and later guided the business through a merger to create Data61, a national research powerhouse focusing on data innovation. Professor Brünig started his career in research and development in the automotive industry in Germany and Silicon Valley in the United States after completing his PhD at RWTH Aachen, Germany.

Prof Brünig is a sought-after expert with respect to research translation. He sits on multiple boards as non-executive director, is technical advisor to start-up companies in Australia and is frequently consulted as a subject matter expert. Within UQ, Prof Brünig has helped to create UQ Ventures and UQ Innovate, units that foster entrepreneurship among students and academics and provide the creative environment to be successful.

Under Prof Brünig's leadership, UQ started multiple significant initiatives, including UQ Cyber, the National Industry 4.0 Energy Testlab, the AI Initiative and with partners the QLD Government AI Hub. He is also highly influential in shaping UQ's curriculum. He initiated the Bachelor of Computer Science, the Master of Cyber Security that is modelled using the US National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education framework and UQ's first full online Master of Business Analytics. He also was a key contributor to creating the Graduate Certificate in Clinical Informatics and Digital Health.

Publications

Journal Articles (13)
Conference Papers (28)

Journal Articles

de Lima, Lucas Carvalho, Ramezani, Milad, Borges, Paulo and Brunig, Michael (2023). Air-ground collaborative localisation in forests using lidar canopy maps. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 8 (3), 1818-1825. doi: 10.1109/lra.2023.3243498
Cometta, Silvia, Jones, Robert T., Juárez-Saldivar, Alfredo, Donose, Bogdan C., Yasir, Muhammad, Bock, Nathalie, Dargaville, Tim R., Bertling, Karl, Brünig, Michael, Rakić, Aleksandar D., Willcox, Mark and Hutmacher, Dietmar W. (2022). Melimine-modified 3D-printed polycaprolactone scaffolds for the prevention of biofilm-related biomaterial infections. ACS Nano, 16 (10), 16497-16512. doi: 10.1021/acsnano.2c05812
Qi, Xiaoqiong, Bertling, Karl, Taimre, Thomas, Agnew, Gary, Lim, Yah Leng, Gillespie, Tim, Robinson, Ashley, Brünig, Michael, Demić, Aleksandar, Dean, Paul, Li, Lian He, Linfield, Edmund H., Davies, A. Giles, Indjin, Dragan and Rakić, Aleksandar D. (2021). Observation of optical feedback dynamics in single-mode terahertz quantum cascade lasers: Transient instabilities. Physical Review A, 103 (3) 033504, 033504-1-033504-7. doi: 10.1103/physreva.103.033504
Gao, Lianli, Bruenig, Michael and Hunter, Jane (2014). Estimating fire weather indices via semantic reasoning over wireless sensor network data streams. International Journal of Web and Semantic Technology, 5 (4), 1-20. doi: 10.5121/ijwest.2014.5401
Kothmayr, Thomas, Schmitt, Corinna, Hu, Wen, Bruenig, Michael and Carle, Georg (2013). DTLS based security and two-way authentication for the Internet of Things. Ad Hoc Networks, 11 (8), 2710-2723. doi: 10.1016/j.adhoc.2013.05.003
Jurdak, Raja, Klues, Kevin, Kusy, Brano, Richter, Christian, Langendoen, Koen and Bruenig, Michael (2011). Opal: a multi-radio platform for high throughput wireless sensor networks. IEEE Embedded Systems Letters, 3 (4) 6086565, 121-124. doi: 10.1109/LES.2011.2177065
Clothier, Reece, Walker, Rodney, Baumeister, Richard, Bruenig, Michael, Roberts, Jonathan, Duggan, Andrew and Wilson, Michael (2011). The smart skies project. IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine, 26 (6) 5936181, 14-23. doi: 10.1109/MAES.2011.5936181
Dunbabin, Matt, Udy, James, Grinham, Alistair and Bruenig, Michael (2009). Continous monitoring of reservoir water quality: The Wivenhoe Project. Water, 36 (6), 74-77.
Bruenig, Michael (2009). Robotic helicopter navigates infrastructure for a closer inspection. Materials Performance, 48 (1), 14-16.
Diebel, JR, Thrun, S and Brunig, M (2006). A Bayesian method for probable surface reconstruction and decimation. Acm Transactions On Graphics, 25 (1), 39-59. doi: 10.1145/1122501.1122504
Brunig, M and Niehsen, W (2001). Fast full-search block matching. Ieee Transactions On Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 11 (2), 241-247. doi: 10.1109/76.905989
Niehsen, T and Brunig, M (1999). Covariance analysis of motion-compensated frame differences. Ieee Transactions On Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 9 (4), 536-539. doi: 10.1109/76.767119
Brünig, Michael and Niehsen, Wolfgang (1998). Ein Algorithmus zur schnellen Bewegungsschätzung in Bildfolgen. ITG-Fachbericht (146), 53-58.

Conference Papers

Tam, Benjamin, Kottege, Navinda, Hudson, Nicolas and Brunig, Michael (2022). Adaptive Sequential Composition for Robot Behaviours. 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Kyoto, Japan, 23-27 October 2022. Piscataway, NJ United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/iros47612.2022.9982012
Kusy, Branislav, Abbott, David, Richter, Christian, Huynh, Cong, Afanasyev, Mikhail, Hu, Wen, Bruenig, Michael, Ostry, Diethelm and Jurdak, Raja (2014). Radio diversity for reliable communication in sensor networks. New York, NY United States: ACM Special Interest Group. doi: 10.1145/2530291
Gao, Lianli, Bruenig, Michael and Hunter, Jane (2013). Semantic-based detection of segment outliers and unusual events for wireless sensor networks. ICIQ 2013: 18th International Conference on Information Quality, Little Rock, AR, USA, 7-9 November, 2013. Cambridge, MA, USA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Ko, Jeonggil, Klues, Kevin, Richter, Christian, Hofer, Wanja, Kusy, Branislav, Bruenig, Michael, Schmid, Thomas, Wang, Qiang, Dutta, Prabal and Terzis, Andreas (2012). Low power or high performance? A tradeoff whose time has come (and nearly gone). doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-28169-3_7
Kothmayr, Thomas, Schmitt, Corinna, Hu, Wen, Bruenig, Michael and Carle, Georg (2012). A DTLS based end-to-end security architecture for the Internet of Things with two-way authentication. 37th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), Clearwater, FL, United States, 22-25 October 2012. Piscataway, NJ, United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/LCNW.2012.6424088
Bader, Sebastian, Oelmann, Bengt and Bruenig, Michael (2012). Challenges for RF two-way time-of-flight ranging in Wireless Sensor Networks. 37th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), Clearwater, FL, United States, 22-25 October 2012. Piscataway, NJ, United States: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/LCNW.2012.6424081
Kothmayr, Thomas, Hu, Wen, Schmitt, Corinna, Bruenig, Michael and Carle, Georg (2011). Poster: Securing the internet of things with DTLS. New York, NY, USA: ACM. doi: 10.1145/2070942.2070982
Kusy, Branislav, Richter, Christian, Hu, Wen, Afanasyev, Mikhail, Jurdak, Raja, Brunig, Michael, Abbott, David, Huynh, Cong and Ostry, Diethelm (2011). Radio diversity for reliable communication in WSNs. 10th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, Chicago, IL United States, 12-14 April 2011. Piscataway, NJ, United States: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1145/2530291
Ryde, Julian and Bruenig, Michael (2010). Lattice Occupied Voxel Lists for Representation of Spatial Occupancy. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Taipei Taiwan, Oct 18-22, 2010. NEW YORK: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/IROS.2010.5650324
Ryde, Julian and Bruenig, Michael (2009). Non-cubic occupied voxel lists for robot maps. 2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2009, St. Louis, MO, October 11, 2009-October 15, 2009. NEW YORK: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/IROS.2009.5354292
Wark, Tim, Hu, Wen, Corke, Peter, Hodge, Jonathan, Keto, Aila, Mackey, Ben, Foley, Glenn, Sikka, Pavan and Bruenig, Michael (2008). Springbrook: Challenges in Developing a Long-Term, Rainforest Wireless Sensor Network. International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing, Sydney Australia, Dec 15-18, 2008. NEW YORK: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/ISSNIP.2008.4762055
Lee, A, Chen, TL, Brunig, M and Schmidt, H (2003). Visualizing Realistic 3D Urban Environments. Visualization and Data Analysis 2003, Santa Clara, CA, January 21, 2003-January 22, 2003. BELLINGHAM: SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING. doi: 10.1117/12.477533
Brunig, M, Lee, A, Chen, TL and Schmidt, H (2003). Vehicle navigation using 3D visualization. 2003 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, IV 2003, Columbus Oh, June 9, 2003-June 11, 2003. NEW YORK: IEEE. doi: 10.1109/IVS.2003.1212957
Brunig, M and Wien, M (2000). Scalable wavelet video coding using long-term memory motion-compensated prediction. Conference on Image and Video Communications and Processing 2000, San Jose Ca, Jan 25-28, 2000. BELLINGHAM: SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING.
Wien, M and Brunig, M (2000). Optimized bit allocation for scalable wavelet video coding. Conference on Image and Video Communications and Processing 2000, San Jose Ca, Jan 25-28, 2000. BELLINGHAM: SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING. doi: 10.1117/12.382948
Brunig, M and Menser, B (2000). Fast full search block matching using subblocks and successive approximation of the error measure. Conference on Image and Video Communications and Processing 2000, San Jose Ca, Jan 25-28, 2000. BELLINGHAM: SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING.
Menser, B and Brunig, M (2000). Face detection and tracking for video coding applications. 34th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove Ca, Oct 29-Nov 01, 2000. NEW YORK: IEEE.
Niehsen, Wolfgang and Brünig, Michael (1999). Paraunitary filter banks for hierarchical wavelet video coding.
Brünig, Michael and Niehsen, Wolfgang (1999). Iterative backward motion estimation for hierarchical wavelet video coding.
Menser, Bernd and Bruenig, Michael (1999). Locating human faces in color images with complex background. IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ISPACS), Phuket, Thailand, 8-10 December 1999. IEEE.
Menser Bernd and Bruenig Michael (1999). Segmentation of human faces in color images using connected operators. IEEE.
Brünig, Michael and Niehsen, Wolfgang (1998). AR-modeling and low bit rate encoding of motion-compensated frame differences. doi: 10.1117/12.298371
Bruenig, M. and Niehsen, W. (1998). A fast full search block matching algorithm using subblocks. 9th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Island of Rhodes, Greece, 8-11 September 1998. Typorama Editions.
Brunig, M and Niehsen, W (1998). Fast full search block matching based on combined SAD and MSE measures. Meeting on Visual Communications and Image Processing, San Jose Ca, Jan 25-27, 1999. BELLINGHAM: SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING.
Niehsen, W and Brunig, M (1998). Least-asymmetric signal extension for two-band paraunitary FIR filter banks. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Chicago Il, Oct 04-07, 1998. LOS ALAMITOS: IEEE COMPUTER SOC.
Niehsen, W. and Brünig, M. (1997). Adaptive pel-recursive displacement estimation.
Niehsen, Wolfgang and Brünig, Michael (1997). Adaptive Pel-Recursive Displacement Estimation.
Brunig, M and Niehsen, W (1997). AR-modeling and low bit rate encoding of motion-compensated frame differences. Visual Communications and Image Processing 1998 Conference, San Jose Ca, Jan 28-30, 1998. BELLINGHAM: SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING.