About Us
About Us
NICTA (National ICT Australia Ltd) is Australia’s Information and Communications Technology Research Centre of Excellence. Our primary goal is to build and deliver excellence in ICT research and commercial outcomes for Australia. NICTA aspires to be one of the world’s top ten ICT research centres by 2020.
Since NICTA was founded in 2002, it has created numerous new companies, developed a substantial technology and intellectual property portfolio and continues to supply new talent to the ICT industry through a NICTA-supported PhD program. NICTA has five laboratories around the country. With over 700 people, NICTA is the largest organisation in Australia dedicated to ICT research.
Research
NICTA has six Research Groups focused on areas where we have a genuine opportunity to be ranked in the top five ICT research centres in the world.
- Computer Vision
- Control and Signal Processing
- Machine Learning
- Networks
- Optimisation
- Software Systems
Four Business Teams drive commercial outcomes in the following recognised application domains for ICT:
- Broadband and the Digital Economy
- Health
- Infrastructure, Transport and Logistics
- Security and Environment
Wealth Creation
NICTA focuses on wealth creation opportunities that draw on and exploit our areas of research excellence. This could take the form of funded industry partnerships, spin-out companies or research outcomes which have a major societal impact.
NICTA's Engineering and Technology Development (ETD) Group is strengthening this capability to ensure that we are able to deliver high impact technology to our commercial and other partners and to reduce the time and risk in taking NICTA research to market.
History
NICTA was established in 2002 by the Federal Government as part of the Backing Australia’s Ability initiative, following a competitive bid process. In addition to the Federal Government, NICTA was supported and funded by its four founding Members: the Australian Capital Territory Government, Australian National University, New South Wales Government and University of New South Wales. Shortly after (2003-2005) The University of Sydney, Victorian Government, the University of Melbourne, Queensland Government, The University of Queensland, Queensland University of Technology and Griffith University joined as Partners. In 2011, the Victorian Government and the University of Melbourne became NICTA Members.
Funding
NICTA is funded by the Australian Government through the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy and the Australian Research Council through the ICT Centre of Excellence program. In addition to federal funding NICTA is also funded and supported by the Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland and Victorian Governments, The Australian National University, Griffith University, University of Melbourne, University of New South Wales, University of Queensland, Queensland University of Technology and The University of Sydney.