Research Students

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Afshar Faezeh
Name: Faezeh Afshar
Degree: PhD
Title: The enhancement of group decision-making processes within organizations using on-line deliberation.
Principal Supervisor: Dr A. Stranieri
Associate Supervisor: Prof J. Yearwood
Email: f.afshar[AT]ballarat.edu.au
Arunava Banerjee
Name: Arunava Banerjee
Degree: PhD
Title: Global Optimization and data mining.
Principal Supervisor: Dr M. Mammadov
Associate Supervisor: Prof J. Yearwood
Email: abanerjee[AT]students.ballarat.edu.au
Lance Burns
Name: Lance Burns
Degree: PhD
Title: Investigating the nexus between Distributed AI and the HLA.
Principal Supervisor: Dr P. Smith
Associate Supervisor: Dr D. Stratton
Email: l.burns[AT]ballarat.edu.au
Brent Ferguson
Name: Brent Ferguson
Degree: Master of Computing
Title: A study of Modularization approaches for Artificial Neural Networks.
Principal Supervisor: Prof J. Yearwood
Associate Supervisor: Dr A. Stranieri
Email: m960071[AT]students.ballarat.edu.au
Cameron Foale
Name: Cameron Foale
Degree: PhD
Title: Acoustic Simulation for First-Person Computer Games.
Principal Supervisor: Dr P. Vamplew
Associate Supervisor: Dr A. Stranieri
Email: c.foale[AT]ballarat.edu.au
Asef Nazari Ganjehlou
Name: Asef Nazari Ganjehlou
Degree: PhD
Title: Examination of some problems of global optimization.
Principal Supervisor: Dr A. Bagirov
Associate Supervisor: Dr M. Mammadov
Email: anazariganjehlou[AT]students.ballarat.edu.au
Imad Haidar
Name: Imad Haidar
Degree: Master of Computing
Title: The Historical Process Analysis of the World Crude Oil Market Focusing on the Geopolitical Trends of Middle East.
Principal Supervisor: Dr S. Kulkarni
Associate Supervisors: Dr X. Wu & Dr H. Pan
External Co-Supervisor: Dr H. Pan
Email: ihaidar[AT]students.ballarat.edu.au
Solomon Hart
Name: Solomon Hart
Degree: PhD
Title: Temporal data mining of new and emerging patterns from high speed data streams.
Principal Supervisor: Prof J. Yearwood
Associate Supervisor: Dr A. Bagirov
External Co-Supervisors: Dr R. Kotagiri (Melbourne) & Dr G. Williams (Melbourne)
Email: shart[AT]students.ballarat.edu.au
William Harvey
Name: William Harvey
Degree: PhD
Title: Improving Pilot Competencies and Skills in Gaining a Private Pilot Licence with Personal Computer Flight Simulation Software.
Principal Supervisor: Dr P. Smith
Associate Supervisors: Dr D. Stratton & Dr A. Stranieri
Email: w.harvey[AT]ballarat.edu.au
Adam Hassell
Name: Adam Hassell
Degree: PhD
Title: A Videogame Based Architectture for remote Asset Tasking.
Principal Supervisor: Dr P. Smith
Associate Supervisor: Dr D. Stratton
Email: adam.hassell[AT]gmail.com
Sandra Herbert
Name: Sandra Herbert
Degree: PhD
Title: Variation in pre-calculus students’ understanding of the concept of rate of change.
Principal Supervisor: Dr R. Pierce
Associate Supervisor: Prof K. Stacey
Email: sherbert[AT]staff.ballarat.edu.au
Md Shamsul Huda
Name: Md Shamsul Huda
Degree: PhD
Title: Hybrid training approaches to hidden Markov model based acoustic model for automatic speech recognition.
Principal Supervisor: Prof J. Yearwood
Associate Supervisor: Dr E. Hajilarov & Dr A. Bagirov
External Co-Supervisor: Prof R. Togneri
Email: 2554737[AT]fs2.ballarat.edu.au
Mofakharul Islam
Name: Mofakharul Islam
Degree: MofC
Title: Unsupervised Color Medical Image Segmentation Using Cluster Ensemble & MRF Model.
Principal Supervisor: Dr P. Vamplew
Associate Supervisor: Prof J. Yearwood
Email: moislam[AT]staff.ballarat.edu.au
Sasha Ivkovic
Name: Sasha Ivkovic
Degree: PhD
Title: Integrating human communication strategies with project management for effective outcomes.
Principal Supervisor: Prof J. Yearwood
Associate Supervisor: Dr J. Courvisanos
Email: s.ivkovic[AT]ballarat.edu.au
Liping Jin
Name: Liping Jin
Degree: PhD
Title: Algorithm Optimization in Field Reconstruction.
Principal Supervisor: Dr A. Bagirov
Associate Supervisor: Dr M. Mammadov
Email: lipingjin[AT]students.ballarat.edu.au
Alexey Kuznetsov
Name: Alexey Kuznetsov
Degree: PhD
Title: Simulation and Optimization of the Vehicle Suspensions.
Principal Supervisor: Dr M. Mammadov
Associate Supervisors: Dr E. Hajilarov
Email: alexeykuznetsov[AT]students.ballarat.edu.au
Robert Layton
Name: Robert Layton
Degree: PhD
Title: Phishing Profiling Using Cluster Ensembles.
Principal Supervisor: Assoc Prof P. Watters
Associate Supervisors: Dr R. Dazeley
Email: TBA
Desmond Lobo
Name: Desmond Lobo
Degree: PhD
Title: Implementing Elliptic curve Cryptography using Java.
Principal Supervisor: Dr S. Venkatraman
Associate Supervisor: Dr X. Wu
Email: desmondlobo[AT]students.ballarat.edu.au
Alyx MacFadyen
Name: Alyx MacFadyen
Degree: PhD
Title: An interaction framework for 3D environments using structured reasoning.
Principal Supervisor: Dr A. Stranieri
Associate Supervisor: Prof J. Yearwood
Email: a.macfadyen[AT]ballarat.edu.au
Nial Muecke
Name: Nial Muecke
Degree: PhD
Title: Integration of Online Dispute Resolution and Decision Support: As a step towards legally just outcomes in divorce proceeding.
Principal Supervisor: Dr A. Stranieri
Associate Supervisor: Dr C. Miller
Email: n.muecke[AT]ballarat.edu.au
Subhasis Mukherjee
Name: Subhasis Mukherjee
Degree: MofC
Title: Implementing & Investigating reinforcement learning for Sony AIBO.
Principal Supervisor: Prof J. Yearwood
Associate Supervisor: Dr P. Vamplew
Email: smukherjee[AT]students.ballarat.edu.au
Alia Mari Al Nuaimat
Name: Alia Mari Al Nuaimat
Degree: PhD
Title: Meta-Model for Selecting the Optimal Forecasting Method.
Principal Supervisor: Dr C. Turville
Associate Supervisors: Dr A. Bani-Mustafa & Dr A. Bagirov
Email: TBA
Bahadorreza Ofoghi
Name: Bahadorreza Ofoghi
Degree: PhD
Title: Question Answering Enhancement via Encapsulated Frame Semantics.
Principal Supervisor: Prof J. Yearwood
Associate Supervisor: Dr L. Ma
Email: bofoghi[AT]students.ballarat.edu.au
Deanna Osman
Name: Deanna Osman
Degree: PhD
Title: Opinion Detection from Weblogs for Market Research.
Principal Supervisor: Prof J. Yearwood
Associate Supervisor: Dr P. Vamplew
Email: d.osman[AT]ballarat.edu.au
Guillermo Pineda-Villavicencio
Name: Guillermo Pineda-Villavicencio
Degree: PhD
Title: Improving upper and lower bounds on the order of large graphs under degree and distance constraints.
Principal Supervisor: Prof M. Miller
Associate Supervisors: Dr J. Ryan
External Co-Supervisors: Prof H. Roses (Cuba), Prof B. McKay (ANU) & Prof E. Flandrin (France)
Email: gpinedavillavicencio[AT]students.ballarat.edu.au
Tim Pokorny
Name: Tim Pokorny
Degree: PhD
Title: Applying the lessons of the virtual battlefield to financial modelling - Investigating innovative uses of distributed simulation.
Principal Supervisor: Dr P. Smith
Associate Supervisors: Dr D. Stratton & Dr J. Wharington
Email: t.pokorny[AT]ballarat.edu.au
Anthony Quinn
Name: Anthony Quinn
Degree: PhD
Title: Exploring the AwSum data mining algorithm.
Principal Supervisor: Dr A. Stranieri
Associate Supervisor: Prof J. Yearwood
Email: anthonyquinn[AT]students.ballarat.edu.au
Mehrdad Razmjoo
Name: Mehrdad Razmjoo
Degree: MofC
Title: E-Governance securing Australia with Bio metric techniques.
Principal Supervisor: Dr A. Stranieri
Associate Supervisor: Dr S. Kulkarni
Email: m.razmjoo[AT]ballarat.edu.au
Ather Saeed
Name: Ather Saeed
Degree: PhD
Title: A Continuous Query Approach to Online Dispute Resolution.
Principal Supervisor: Dr A. Stranieri
Associate Supervisor: Dr L. Ma
Email: asaeed[AT]rmitt.edu.au
Daniel Morales Silva
Name: Daniel Morales Silva
Degree: PhD
Title: G-coupling Functions.
Principal Supervisor: Dr D. Yost
Associate Supervisor: J. Giri
External Co-Supervisor: A/Prof R. Burachik (UniSA)
Email: 2555675[AT]fs2.ballarat.edu.au
Amber Stabek
Name: Amber Stabek
Degree: Master of Mathematical Sciences
Title: Minimising Guess Ability and Maximising Memorisation in Password Generation.
Principal Supervisor: Assoc Prof P. Watters
Associate Supervisor: Ms A. Plant
Email: TBA
Nargiz Sultanova
Name: Nargiz Sultanova
Degree: MMS
Title: Abstract Convexity and Discrete Convex Analysis.
Principal Supervisor: Dr A. Bagirov
Associate Supervisor: Dr E. Hajilarov
Email: narjizsultanova[AT]students.ballarat.edu.au
Dean Webb
Name: Dean Webb
Degree: PhD
Title: Optimization based algorithms for large scale data mining problems.
Principal Supervisor: Dr A. Bagirov
Associate Supervisor: Dr M. Mammadov
Email: d.webb[AT]ballarat.edu.au
Andrew Yatsko
Name: Andrew Yatsko
Degree: PhD
Title: SFML Document Classification Using Optimization Techniques.
Principal Supervisor: Dr A. Bagirov
Associate Supervisor: Dr A. Stranieri
Email: ayatsko[AT]students.ballarat.edu.au
Armita Zarnegar
Name: Armita Zarnegar
Degree: PhD
Title: Memetic Algorithms.
Principal Supervisor: Dr P. Vamplew
Associate Supervisor: Dr A. Stranieri
Email: azarnegar[AT]students.ballarat.edu.au
Lei Zhao
Name: Lei Zhao
Degree: PhD
Title: Global Optimization Methods for Solving Non-Linear Equations.
Principal Supervisor: Dr M. Mammadov
Associate Supervisor: Dr Z. Wu & Prof J. Yearwood
Email: leizhao[AT]students.ballarat.edu.au

Submitted

Dafik
Name: Dafik
Degree: PhD
Title: Study of graphs close to the Moore bound.
Principal Supervisor: Prof M. Miller
Associate Supervisor: Dr J. Ryan & Prof B. McKay (ANU)
External Co-Supervisors: Prof M. Baca (Slovakia) & Prof E. Fladrin (France)
Email: 2456614[AT]fs2.ballarat.edu.au
Karim Mardaneh
Name: Karim Mardaneh
Degree: PhD
Title: Optimization based clustering and classification algorithms in analysis of microarray gene expression data.
Principal Supervisor: Dr A. Bagirov
Associate Supervisor: Dr M. Mammadov
Email: k.mardaneh[AT]ballarat.edu.au
Evgenii Sharikov
Name: Evgenii Sharikov
Degree: PhD
Title: Conditions for global minimum through abstract convexity.
Principal Supervisor: Dr A. Kruger
Associate Supervisors: Prof S. Morris & Dr D. Yost
Email: e.sharikov[AT]mail.ru
Jakub Teska
Name: Jakub Teska
Degree: PhD
Title: Graphs with bounded degree.
Principal Supervisor: Prof M. Miller
Associate Supervisor: Dr J. Ryan
External Co-Supervisors: Prof Z. Ryjacek (Czech Republic) & Prof E.T. Baskoro (Indonesia)
Email: 2555666[AT]fs2.ballarat.edu.au

Recent Graduates

Afshar Faezeh
Name: Faezeh Afshar
Degree: MIT
Title: Capturing consensus knowledge from multiple experts.
Principal Supervisor: Prof J. Yearwood
Associate Supervisor: Dr A. Stranieri
Email: f.afshar[AT]ballarat.edu.au
David Andrews
Name: David Andrews
Degree: PhD
Title: User acceptance and performance impact of security solutions for distributed simulation architectures.
Principal Supervisor: Dr P. Smith
Associate Supervisors: Dr D. Stratton & Dr J. Wharington
Email: d.andrews[AT]ballarat.edu.au
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Name: Glenn Auld
Degree: PhD
Title: Computer assisted language learning.
Principal Supervisors: Dr P. Smith & Prof L. Angus
Associate Supervisor: Dr P. Black
Email: wamud[AT]ozemail.com.au
Rishat Baratov
Name: Dr Rishat Baratov
Degree: PhD
Title: Conical Decompositions.
Principal Supervisor: Prof A. Rubinov
Associate Supervisor: Prof S. Morris
Email: rishat.baratov[AT]ahbk.resmi.kz
Simon Barty
Name: Simon Barty
Degree: PhD
Title: Data mining the adverse drug reactions database using statistical techniques.
Principal Supervisors: Dr A. Bagirov & Dr H. Pan
Associate Supervisor: Dr C. Turville
Email: sbarty[AT]staff.ballarat.edu.au
Zari Dzalilov
Name: Zari Dzalilov
Degree: PhD
Title: Dynamic reconfiguration of telecommunication networks.
Principal Supervisor: Prof A. Rubinov
Associate Supervisors: Dr A. Bagirov & Dr I. Ouversii
Email: z.dzalilov[AT]ballarat.edu.au
Moumita Ghosh
Name: Moumita Ghosh
Degree: PhD
Title: Development of non-linear optimization techniques for production optimization.
Principal Supervisor: Dr A. Bagirov
Associate Supervisor: Prof A. Rubinov
Email: m.ghosh[AT]ballarat.edu.au
Jason Giri
Name: Jason Giri
Degree: PhD
Title: Constructing non-linear analogues of Lagrange functions for minimisation problems of one constraint.
Principal Supervisor: Prof A. Rubinov
Associate Supervisor: Prof S. Morris
Email: j.giri[AT]ballarat.edu.au
Long Jia
Name: Long Jia
Degree: PhD
Title: Optimization in telecommunications.
Principal Supervisor: Prof A. Rubinov
Associate Supervisor: Dr A. Bagirov
Email: ljia[AT]staff.ballarat.edu.au
Shahnaz Kouhbor
Name: Shahnaz Kouhbor
Degree: PhD
Title: Optimal placement of network infrastructure in wireless networks considering the movement of mobile users.
Principal Supervisor: Dr J. Ugon
Associate Supervisors: Dr A. Kruger
Email: 2351877[AT]students.ballarat.edu.au
Darren Lierkamp
Name: Darren Lierkamp
Degree: MofC
Title: A Comparative Study of Ramp Metering Control Algorithms for Optimizing Freeway Travel Times.
Principal Supervisor: Dr H. Pan
Associate Supervisors: Dr A. Bagirov
Email: dlierkamp[AT]hotmail.com
Vivek Mishra
Name: Vivek Mishra
Degree: MIT
Title: Knowledge based system for preserving security and privacy of statisical databases.
Principal Supervisor: Dr A. Stranieri
Associate Supervisor: Prof M. Miller & Dr J. Ryan
Email: 2456615[AT]students.ballarat.edu.au
Michelle O'Brien
Name: Michelle O'Brien
Degree: PhD
Title: Consumer doctor decision-making surrounding adverse drug reactions.
Principal Supervisor: Prof J. Yearwood
Associate Supervisor: Dr J. Harvey
Email: m.obrien[AT]ballarat.edu.au
Dr Nadejda Soukhoroukova
Name: Dr Nadejda Soukhoroukova
Degree: PhD
Thesis Title: Data classification through nonsmooth optimization.
Principal supervisor: Prof A. Rubinov
Associate supervisor: Dr A. Bagirov
Garry Saunders
Name: Gary Saunders
Degree: PhD
Title: A study of drug-reaction associations in Australia drug safety data by refining co-variability techniques.
Principal Supervisor: Prof A. Rubinov
Associate Supervisor: Prof J. Yearwood
Email: g.saunders[AT]ballarat.edu.au
Kiki Ariyanti Sugeng
Name: Kiki Ariyanti Sugeng
Degree: PhD
Title: Magic and Antimagic Graph Labeling.
Principal Supervisor: Prof M. Miller
Associate Supervisor: Dr C. Turville
External Co-Supervisor: Prof M. Baca
Email: k.sugeng[AT]ballarat.edu.au
Chandima Tilakaratne
Name: Chandima Tilakaratne
Degree: PhD
Title: Stock Market Predictions based on Quantified Intermarket Influences.
Principal Supervisor: Dr M. Mammadov
Associate Supervisor: Prof S. Morris & Dr C. Hurst
Email: 2351880[AT]students.ballarat.edu.au
Julien Ugon
Name: Julien Ugon
Degree: PhD
Title: Solving discrete optimization problems by some methods of continuous optimization.
Principal Supervisor: Prof A. Rubinov
Associate Supervisor: Dr A. Bagirov
Email: 2252814[AT]students.ballarat.edu.au
Thi Minh Thu Vuong
Name: Thi Minh Thu Vuong
Degree: MMS
Title: Complemented and uncomplemented subspaces of banach spaces and banach algebras.
Principal Supervisor: Dr D. Yost
Associate Supervisor: Prof A. Rubinov
Email: t.vuong[AT]students.ballarat.edu.au
Wei Xie
Name: Wei Xie
Degree: MIT
Title: Text classification on HTML documents.
Principal Supervisor: Dr M. Mammadov
Associate Supervisor: Dr Z. Dzalilov & Prof J. Yearwood
Email: 2456598[AT]students.ballarat.edu.au
Jiapu Zhang
Name: Jiapu Zhang
Degree: PhD
Title: Derivative-free hybrid methods in global optimization and their applications.
Principal Supervisor: Dr A. Bagirov
Associate Supervisor: Prof A. Rubinov
Email: 2250281[AT]students.ballarat.edu.au

Useful Links

Induction Manual for Post Graduate Research Students
Research Handbook for Post Graduate Research Students