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 Current PhD projects

ITEE Research Higher Degree students undertaking a PhD program and their research groups:
 

Biomedical Engineering

Mohammad Shafiul Haque Akhand:  Impedance cardiography: development of a transthoracic electrical impedance model to investigate the relationship of sleep apnoea and cardiac failure in adults
Shaminda De Silva:  Snore recognition for the diagnosis of sleep apnea
Hang Ding:
  Analysing the dynamic patterns and the onset of the ventricular fibrillation and ventricular tacjycardia by using recurrence plot
Yaniv Gal:  Computer aided diagnosis of breast cancer in MRI
Andrew Hill:  Computer vision methods for improved detection and characterisation of cancer in breast MRI
Valer Jurcak:
  Image analysis methods for the morphometric analysis of the thoracolumbar muscle from MRI

Asela Samantha Karunajeewa:  Analysis of snore sound pitch and total airway response in obstructive sleep apnea detection
Yu Li:  High field transceive array systems for parallel MRI
Simon Long:  Techniques and algorithms in video and image processing
Matthew Petoe:  Maximal evoked auditory brainstem responses using patient-specific stimuli
David Raffelt: 
Analysing of white matter degradation in Alzheimer's disease by Diffusion Weighted Magentic Resonance Imaging
Suren Rathnayake:
  Breath by breath analysis of snore sounds for the diagnosis of apnoca
Noor Azah Samsudin:  
Image analysis for pathology diagnostics
Mangalam Sankupellay:  Objective analysis of electrical impedance tomography (EIT) images of the chest

Vinayak Swarnkar:
  Instrumentation/signal processing for the detection of sleep disorders
Stuart Timms: Methods for improved auditory brainstem response detection
Sirilawan Tohnak:  Post-mortem identification using tooth parameters
 

Cognitive Systems Engineering

David Liu:  Continuous patient monitoring in anaesthesia using head-mounted displays
Izhak Nadler:  Evaluating and designing training simulators to support better transfer to clinical context

 

Complex and Intelligent Systems

Ardiaty Arief:  The application of fuzzy logic controller (FLC) for frequency control ancillary services (FCAS) in competitive electricity market
Naveen Kumar:  Learning and probabilistic modeling in metaheuristic optimization algorithms
Daniel Low:  Fusing visual and intertial sensors
Michelle McPartland:
  Evolutionary techniques in complex environments
Will Maddern: 
Explaining and exploiting the properties of continuous attractor networks for robot navigation

Chris Nolan:  Computational models of emotional learning
Paul Stockwell:  Searching the concept space using navigational strategies
Jakkarin Suksawatchon:  Multiple duplicated gene rearrangement algorithm for arbitrary target
Martyn Symons:
  Machine learning as an adjunct for clinical decision making

Ilya Tyapin:  A new parallel robot with breakthrough performance for manufacturing of aerospace components
Ureerat Wattanachon:  An unsupervised learning algorithm for robust clustering and estimating the feasible number of clusters
Alexandra Wee:  Alarms - recommendations to improve alarm usefulness
Yu-Hui Flora Yeh:
  Model selection in machine learning using computational statistics
 

Data and Knowledge Engineering

Md Nazir Ahmad Sharif:  Problems in ontology servers
Thien Wan Au:  Intelligent web-based eLearning: using adaptive hypermedia and intelligent tutoring systems
Belinda Carter:
  Workflow monitoring to support human resource management
Zaiben Chen:  Location-aware query processing in mobile peer-to-peer network
Kelvin Cheng:  Content based search engine optimization
James Cole:  What is information?
Yi Helen Ding:  Discover enterprise knowledge using text mining automatic classification technologies
Mohammed Gollapalli:  A methodology for embedding compliance controls in business processes

Imran Khan:  Managing business process variants
Naiem Khodabandehloo Yeganeh:  Approaching the limits in data quality management
Brian Lam:  An ontology framework for crisis management systems
Joe Yeh-Chiao Lin:  Accommodative workflow and visualization
Manmeet Kaur Mahinderjit Singh:  Data security - designing efficient algorithms of RFID data security and privacy control
Shamsheer Syed Muhammad:  Fuzzy spatial database management system for modelling event locations in situational awareness
Andrew Noske:  Application of haptic systems in visualisation and manipulation of cell structures
Carol Pedersen:  Accent classification from speech samples by use of machine learning
Hoang Duy Pham:  Multi-agent system supporting decision-making process
Alexander Pongpech:  Adaptive e-learning consideration
Simon Raboczi:  Erotetic analysis of the SPARQL query language
Desmond Schmidt:  Development of a graphical user interface for editing manuscripts
Syed Norris Hikmi Syed Abdullah:  Modeling the impact of e-CRM processes in higher education institutions

Miao Wang: 
Logic framework for e-contract management
Kexin Xie:  Data provenance analysis
Xin Yan:  Hierarchical data mining metrics
Joe Xun Zhou: 
Generation assets valuation and risk analysis based on data mining techniques
Jia Zhu:  Identity uncertainty
 

e-research

 

Abdul-monem Alabri:  Semantic-based, spatiotemporal querying and visualisation services for understanding and modelling ecosystems
 

 

Microwave and Optical Communications

Aslina Abu Bakar:  Theoretical and experimental investigations into breast cancer detection using an ultra wideband radar technique
Faisal Aldhubaib
The role of polarisation in the context of UWB radar target identification
Ahmad Ashrif A Bakar: 
Self-mixing sensor for biomedical applications based on vertical-cavity surface emitting lasers
Karl Bertling:
 Microwave characterisation and parameters extraction of silicon-on-sapphire (SOS) MOSFET's for device and circuit modelling
Ashkan Boldaji:
  Design of modern antenna systems for mobile computers
Wei Cher Chen:
  Detection of breast cancer using Ultra Wide Band (UWB) microwave technology

Hiroshi Domyo:
  Phenomena, physics and suppression of floating body effects in silicon-on-sapphire MOSFETs
Mandar Laxmikant Gujrathi:
  Adaptive suppression of crosstalk in digital subscriber lines (DSL)
Chad Hargrave:  Measurement of positional changes in underground mining equipment using a radar sensor
Konglit Hunchangsith:
  Resources management for multi-users MIMO system

Wee Chang Khor:
  Microwave imaging for medical application
Russell Kliese:
 Imaging of microvascular blood flow using self-mixing technique

Yah Leng Lim:
  An imaging system based on self-mixing effect in vertical cavity surface emitting lasers
Xia Liu:
  Channel estimation for MIMO system

Robby McKilliam:  Frequency estimation and the nearest lattice point problem
Ranveer Matharu: 
Self-mixing sensors for biomedical applications based on vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers
Ismail Mohamed:  Next generation digital subscriber lines (DSL)

Bruce Piper:  Wideband and conformal antennas for wireless applications
Ahmad Rashidy Razali:
 Adaptive high precision dual-band planar GPS antenna for mobile phone application
Norhudah Seman:
  Investigation in design of the wideband generation and detection system of microwave imaging applications

Bradley Smith:
  Application of luminescent diamond nanocrystals to intracellular optical imaging

Feng-Chuan Frank Tsai:
  Analysis and design of free-space optical interconnects for optically augmented computing
Feng Wang:  Investgations into coding techniques for MIMO systems

Serguei Zagriatski:
  Radial line slot array antenna for wireless local area network applications
Hui Yao Zhang:
  Telephone (VoIP) over mobile adhoc networks

 

Power and Energy Systems

Mohsin Ali:  Efficient grid based algorithms for power system data analysis
Justin Bray:  Braking system of the ultracommuter
Robert Chang:  Optimum location of FACTS devices with advnaced control scheme for improving the security of complex power grid
Guo Chen:   Planning and stability analysis for competitive electricity market
Jessie Xia Chen:  Data mining in spatio-temporal databases
Matthew Greaves:
  Permanent magnet ironless motors for use in automotive propulsion
Steven Kong:  A comprehensive study of grid integration of wind generation: analysis and control
Jennie Miao Lu:  Probabilistic transmission expansion planning in competitive electricity market
John Zhe Lu:  Electricity market planning and management
Jason Ke Meng:  Intelligent fault diagnosis approach to HV transmission line
Yateendra Mishra:  Advances in power system small signal stability analysis considering load modeling and emerging generation resources
Matthew Murray:  A new parallel robot with breakthrough performance for manufacturing of aerospace components - kinematic and dynamic synthesis, design optimization
Jordan Pierce:  A parallel multilevel coupled inductor drive topology for low inductance motors
Yu Su:  Power system stability and control considering various renewable generation sources in power system
Kin Onn Wong:  Optimisation of power system generation investment
Kelvin Jing Haur Yew:  Predicting the insulation condition of aged transformer by time/frequency domain dielectric measurements
Donna Xia Yin:  Artificial intelligence and data mining techniques in electricity market forecasting
Yan Zhou:  Development of small scale stand-alone wind and solar power supply system 

Carla Ziser:  Investigation of demand diversity in electricity market simulation

 

Security and Surveillance

Amelia Wong Azman: High resolution real-time imaging algorithm
Yasir Mohd Mustafah: 
Video processor design for smart camera
Chandramali Pathigoda:  Markov field theory applied to sensor network analysis and design
Vikas Reddy: 
Reconfigurable computer architectures for high resolution wide-area imaging
Andres Sanin:  Human tracking system for crowded areas with multiple cameras

Andrew Smith:
  Visual tracking for sports applications
Yong Kang Wong:  Advanced surveillance with 4D alarms and robust face recognition
Yan Yang:  Image database structure and image search for intelligent closed circuit TV

 

Systems and Software Engineering

Shane Arnott:  The impact of advanced technologies in support of decision making in complex environments
Simon Benson:  Application of virtual reality to electron resonance spectroscopy
Daniel Bradley:  Software development visualisation
Leighton Brough:  Tracing is generic
Kuang Yuan ChenAn approach for the architecture of a "multi-agent system' environment
Simon Connelly:  Use of agent based modelling to investigate shared situation awareness: how it is defined, established and measured
Brijesh DongolFormal reasoning about progress in concurrent programs
Katie Duczmal:  Developing controls for secure logic based systems
Zheng Fu:  Automatically verifying refinements using model checking and abstraction
Niusha Hakimipour:   Empirical evaluation of tools and techniques for verifying real-time systems
Liqi Han:
  Computational modelling for studying signalling mechanisms behind autoregulation of nodulation
Miriam Hochwald:  iMGame: using serious games to communicate scientific information to a lay audience

Abu Zafer Javed:  Verification and validation in model driven architecture
Ashok Kanagarajah:  Characteristics, strategies and trend for health sector supply chain in Australia
Alisdair MacDiarmid:  Adaptive requirements elicitation in distributed complex systems
Mohd Naz'ri Mahrin:  Empirical evaluations of process based inspections in SPI context
Erica Mealy:  Artefact derivation for evolutionary architectures
Hoai Duc Nguyen:  Automated testing of component-based systems
Ven Yu Sien:  A minimal approach to object-oriented analysis and design
Morgan Smith:  Learning agents to model air traffic control systems
Richard Thomas:  Strategies for migrating to object technology
Philip Valencia:  Can practical distributed robotic solutions be automatically generated for real world applications
 

Ubiquitous Computing

 

Ahmad Hanif Ahmad Baharin:  Reviving the sense of community by enforcing interactive collaboration in public spaces

Majid Al-Otaibi:  Application of wireless sensors in healthcare
Ammar Al-Tameemi:  DSP processor design for reconfigurable system-on-chip

Adel Ali Alyousef:  Implementing cryptographic algorithms in FPGAs
Syed Irfanullah Azeezullah:  Multiprocessing architecture for FPGA's
Konstanty Bialkowski:  Investigations into multiple-element smart antenna systems for wireless communications
Marie Boden:  Student-centred, computer-assisted learning in collaborative classrooms
Brett Campbell:  Smart ways of supporting interaction with distributed devices
Timothy Cederman-Haysom:  Using participatory design to support multimodal interactions in information environments
Ian Clough:  Architectural mapping for coarse-grained heterogeneous reconfigurable system-on-chip
Peter Crosthwaite:  Unified hardware/software design entry mechanisms for reconfigurable system on chip

Andrew Dekker:  An in situ development and evaluation of tools and methods to support the collaborative design of interactive technologies
Johnson Fong:  Autonomic management of context information in pervasive computing
Brian Green:  It's a matter of trust - ICT interactions in professional communities
Jonathon Guerin:  Channel allocation and routing in multi-radio wireless mesh networks
Liqun Hou:  Portable calibration and adjustment device for power plant spring safety valve based on ARM and DSP

Peizhao Hu:  Autonomic, reconfigurable context-aware systems
Richard Kim:  Co-evolution in information systems engagement: an interpretive case study and analysis
Andy Sheng-Han Lee:  Design methodology for communication architecture targeting reconfigurable system-on-chip
Dirk Lessner:  A new approach to secure system architectures for electronic medical records
Andrew Loch:  Responsive media spaces for affective computing environments
Cheng Bin Lu:  Integration of analog and digital processing circuitry for ultrasonic measurement system
Wensheng Luo:  Self-configuring networked environmental sensors
Lorna Macdonald:  Location dependent games - a framework for design
Shivanajay Marwaha:  Context Aware Protocol for Wireless Mesh Networks

Romiza Md Nor:  Bandwidth enhancement of microstrip reflect array antennas using new phasing elements and metamaterials
Ann Morrison:  Optimising engagement in physical interactive environments: a framework for design
Ehsan Norouznezhad:  Embedded computer vision on FPGAs
Onn Puade:
  Implementation of 3D visualisation to support CSCW information system
Yann Riche:  Communication appliances for the elderly population
Markus Rittenbruch:  Contextually enriched asynchronous awareness in groupware
Satwant Sandhu:  Intrusion detection system implementation with reconfigurable system-on-chip
John Ko Shield:  Application specific synthesis for memory systems in reconfigurable computers

Matthew Simpson:  A framework for human interaction in collaborative virtual design
Yi Tang:  Hardware support for operating systems on reconfigurable system on chip
Balavelan Thanigaivelan:  A self-validating symbolic circuit analysis technique for obtaining layout inclusive performance models
Venkatesh Vasudevan:  Development and implementation of fault mitigation techniques and FPGA controller architectures for safety critical applications

Gang Wang:   e-Aware system - an implementation of a smart metering system
Stephen Whitty:  The sociology of projects
Jason Huan-Yu Wu:  Multi-processor architecture for reconfigurable system on chip
Jason Shih Sheng Yang:  How can computer interfaces support virtual collaboration in clothing industry
 

 

Submitted PhD Theses

Saeid ASADI:  Handling geographic information in location-based web search
Gang CAO:  Variable structure control based FACTS controller design
Jared DONOVAN:  Framing movements for gesture interface design
Jurgen FRIPP:  Automatic segmentation and analysis of magnetic resonance images of the knee bones and cartilages
Bob HARDIAN:
  Balance of control between users and context-aware pervasive systems
David HYLAND-WOOD:
  Metadata foundations for the life cycle management of software systems
Natalie JEREMIJENKO:  Structures of participation and information exchange around tangible computational interfaces: an empirical study of sociotechnical interaction, information distribution and the micro political structure of small groups of people in informal learning contexts
Hoyoung JEUNG:  Towards predictable moving objects
Colin KEMP:  Theoretical foundations for practical 'totally-functional programming'
Simon Ki Chung LEUNG:  Reconfigurable platform for wireless base-band processing with functionally partitioned modules and time-multiplexed interconnections
Xilin LI:  Evaluating ecologically-inspired displays for complex systems: hydropower system case study
Tika Ram LIMBU:  Investigation of cost benefit analysis of generators in a deregulated electricity market
Suzanne LITTLE:  A semantic framework for the management, analysis and assimilation of mixed-media scientific data
Steven LIVINGSTONE:  Changing musical emotion through score and performance with a computational rule system
Albert Wei-Chih LU:  Design and optimization microcavity organic light emitting diodes
Ian MacCOLL:  Specification-based testing of interactive systems
Stephen NUSKE:  Visual localisation in dynamic non-uniform lighting
David ROHDE:  The development and application of statistical and machine learning techniques in probabilistic astronomical catalogue-matching problems
Ruth SCHULZ:  Spatial language for mobile robots: the formation and generative grounding of toponyms
Jie SHAO:  Effective and efficient similarity search in large video databases

Sunil Kumar SHUKLA:  Multi-grained reconfigurable architecture for multi-media applications
Mark STRUDWICK:  Brain mapping of acupuncture effects using functional magnetic resonance imaging
Luke WILDMAN:  Views in Z

Current as at 20/11/08