Professor Maurice Pagnucco

Deputy Dean (Education)
Dean's Unit, Level 6, Building K17,
Faculty of Engineering,
University of New South Wales,
NSW, 2052, AUSTRALIA

Telephone: +61 2 9385 5000
Email: morri@cse.unsw.edu.au
WWW: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~morri/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mauricepagnucco/?originalSubdomain=au

Maurice Pagnucco Competetive Research Grant Funding

Kara, S., Pagnucco, M., Raatz, A., Wang, D-W., Kozlovic, L., and Abraham, P. Disassembly Automation of End-of-Life Electric Vehicle Batteries, ARC Linkage Project (LP190100601). Amount: $459,107 (2020-2022; partners Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University of Hannover, Veolia Environmental Services (Australia) Pty Ltd, Veolia Asia.)
Del Favero, D., Pagnucco, M., Scott-Mitchell, M., Bednarz, T., Thurow, S., Yip, A., Terracini, L., and Rivers, G. Transforming Rehearsal Design Using an Interactive Spatial Aesthetic, ARC Linkage Project (LP190100563). Amount: $562,000 (2020-2022; partners Opera Australia).
Tao, D., Vucetic, B., Kotagiri, R., Nebot, E., Lin, X., Gao, Y., Bennamoun, M., Buyya, R., Baldwin, T., Williams, S., Yuan, J., and Pagnucco, M. Whopping Volta GPU Cluster, ARC Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LE200100049). Amount: $900,000.
Del Favero, D., Pagnucco, M., Wake, C., Thurow, S., Wallen, L., Wallen, L., Borgherini, M., Williams, K., and Scott-Mitchell, M. Reformulating Set Design Aesthetics Via a Dialogical Model of Interactivity, ARC Linkage Project (LP170100471). Amount: $542,916 (2018-2020; partners NIDA, Sydney Theatre Company Ltd, UTS).
Thielscher, M., Pagnucco, M., Schaub, T., Lakemeyer, G. Representation and Reasoning for Cognitive Personal Robots, ARC Discovery Project (DP150103034). Amount: $419 900 (2015-2017).
Pagnucco, M., Velonaki, M., Rye, D., Silvera-Tawil, D. Eliciting Emotions from tactile Surfaces and Kinetic Agents, Asian Office of Aerospace Research and Development (AOARD), US Air Force Research Laboratory. Amount: $303 000 (2015-2017).
Hengst, B., Pagnucco, M., Sammut, C., Thielscher, M., Marcus, N., Rajaratnam, D. Autonomous Adaptation and Trust, Asian Office of Aerospace Research and Development (AOARD), US Air Force Research Laboratory. Amount: $330 000 (2015-2017).
Pagnucco, M., Velonaki, M., Sammut, C., Watanabe, K., Lakemeyer, G. Learning Ethical Behaviours by Demonstration in Social Robots, UNSW, Gold- star Award, 2017. Amount: $40 000 (2017).
Velonaki, M. Rye, D. Dissanayake, G. Clifford, C. Liu, D. Pagnucco, M. Ramos, F. Faux, S. Facility for Experimental Human-Robot Interaction Research, ARC Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities (LE150100090). Amount: $350 000 (2015).
Jha, S., and Pagnucco, M., High Level Security Policy Specification for Software- Defined Networks. Google Faculty Research Award. Amount: $50 000 (2014).
Nakata, M., Pagnucco, M. An Early Exploration of On-line User Interfaces for Indigenous Communities, Microsoft Research Grant. Amount: $20 000 (2012).
Thielscher, M., Pagnucco, M., Levesque, H. J. Representing and reasoning about ability for robots to use the cloud, ARC Discovery Project (DP120100332). Amount: $335 000 (2012-2014).
Sardina, S., Pagnucco, M., De Giacomo, G. Optimisation of embedded virtual complex systems by re-using a library of avail- able components, ARC Discovery Project (DP120102144). Amount: $300 000 (2012-2014).
Sammut, M., Pagnucco, M., Thielscher, M. ARC Centre of Excellence for Autonomous Systems, Bridging Funding, UNSW Special Priority Funding. Amount: $250 000 (2011-2012).
Pagnucco, M., Rajaratnam, D., Sammut, C., Thielscher, M. Integrating Logical and Non-Logical Reasoning, Asian Office of Aerospace Re- search and Development (AOARD), US Air Force Research Laboratory. Amount: $80 000 (2010).
A Robotic Weeder for Organic Farming, Commercial Research Contract with Susien Robotics, 2009/10. Amount: $110 000 (2009/10).
Pagnucco, M., and Sammut, C., iPod Interface to Aldebaran Nao Humanoid Robot, Apple Computer, Apple University Consortium Round 2, 2008. Amount: $2 000 (2009).
Shaw, J., Del Favero, D., Brown, N. C., Compton, P. J., Pagnucco, M., van Schaik, F. A., Jin, C. T., Weibel, P., Kenderdine, S. I., Hart, T., Fritz, J. M.. Reformulating narrative in Virtual Heritage Using Co-evolutionary Model or Immersive Interactivity, ARC Linkage-Projects (ref: LP0669163). Amount: $72 495 (2006), $171 764 (2007), $187 137 (2008), $87 868 (2009).
Named researcher, ARC Centre of Excellence for Autonomous Systems, Leader of Decision Making program. ARC, Centres of Excellence, 2003 and 2008 (ref: CE0348228). Amount: $2M (2003), $2M (2004), $2M (2005), $2M (2006), $2M (2007), $2M (2008), $1.75M (2009), $1.5M (2010)
Pagnucco, M., Sammut, C. A., Sattar, A., and Nayak, A. C., Real-time High-level Cognitive Robotics Controllers, ARC Discovery Project (DP0343752). Amount: $240 000 (2003-2005) Relinquished due to involvement in ARC Centre of Excellence for Autonomous Systems
Nayak, A. C., Foo, N. Y., Ghose A. K., and Pagnucco. M., Intelligent Information Assimilation, ARC Discovery Project (DP0344192). Amount: $184 000 (2003-2005)
Ghose, A., Foo, N. Y., Pagnucco, M., Havens, W. S., Delgrande, J. P., and Goebel, R. G., Integrating Constraint Programming and Non-Monotonic Reasoning, International Researcher Exchange (IREX) Grant, ARC, 2000/2001. Amount: $39 000 (2000-2001)
Nayak, A. C. and Pagnucco, M., Discovering Causal Laws through Underspecified Actions, ARC Small Grant, ARC, 2001. Amount: $12 500.

Maurice Pagnucco (morri@cse.unsw.edu.au)

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