Professor Bernard Mans

Director of the Centre for Advanced Computing: Algorithms and Cryptography (ACAC)
Department of Computing
Faculty of Science and Engineering
Macquarie University
Sydney, NSW 2109
AUSTRALIA

Email: firstname.lastname@mq.edu.au
Office: Room 353, 4 Research Park Drive, Becton Dickson (BD) Building
Phone: + 61 2 9850 9574

NEWS!

13/11/2020: Our PLOS ONE paper on Vaccination strategies with indirect transmission links (sadly highly relevant to Covid-19) is out!
Md. Shahzamal, B. Mans, F. De Hoog, D. Pain and R. Jurdak, "Vaccination strategies on dynamic networks with indirect transmission links and limited contact information", PLOS ONE, 15(11), November 2020, 24 pages, e0241612.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0241612
Other information available with the Media release
and with Macquarie University's magazine: The Lighthouse

Research

Publications
Competitive External Research Grants.
Editorial Board Member of the Journals:
- Theory of Computing Systems (TOCS), Springer, since 2002.
- Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science (DMTCS), section "Distributed Computing and Networking", since 2006.
HITACHI-INRIA Chair 2003 at INRIA in the Projet HiPERCOM, Inria-Rocquencourt, France
Director and Foundation Member with Prof Igor Shparlinski of the Algorithms and Complexity research group in 1997, which is now the Centre for Advanced Computing: Algorithms and Cryptography (ACAC) at Macquarie University

University

Interim Executive Dean (Aug 2019 - July 2020) Faculty of Science and Engineering, Macquarie University.
Deputy Dean (May 2016 - August 2019) Faculty of Science and Engineering.
Associate Dean (Research), Faculty of Science, Macquarie University (Jan 2014 - May 2016).
Head of Department, Dept of Computing (2008-2013).
Member, University Senate, Faculty of Science representative (2009, 2010).
Member, MQ-SIBT, Academic Board (2008-2013).
Member, University International Scholarship Committee (2009-2012).
Member, Equal Opportunity Committee - Non-English Speaking Background, Staff representative, (1999-2009).
Acting Head of Department (13 Dec 2004 to 22 July 2005).
University Research Policy & Management Committee, Research Projects Panel, Co-opted member (2002, 2006, 2008).
Acting Chair, Research Committee, Division of ICS (1st September 2005 to 31st January 2006).
Director of Research, Dept of Computing (2002-2008).
Member, Research Committee, Division of ICS (2002-08).

Current Projects (see Publications)

Dynamic Networks and Dynamic Graphs
Information Propagation Speed in Mobile and Wireless Networks
Functional Graphs for Polynomials in Finite Fields