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Current postgraduate students and their projects

Starting month is given in brackets behind student names.

Student & Research TopicSupervisory Panel
Mr Ziyad Abdulaziz Alshaikh (December 2006)
Software Architecture Development Methodologies in Aspect Oriented Thinking
PhD SoCS
Dr Clive Boughton (Principal Supervisor)
Dr Shayne Flint (Advisor)
Mr Joseph Antony (June 2003)
Linear Scaling Electronic Structure Algorithms using OpenMP on Non-Uniform Memory Access Computers
PhD SoCS
Dr Alistair Rendell (Chair of Panel)
Dr Peter Strazdins (Supervisor)
Andrey Bliznyuk * (Advisor)
Mr Warren Armstrong (January 2006)
Building Intelligent Software for Scientific Computation
PhD SoCS
Dr Alistair Rendell (Principal Supervisor)
Dr Peter Christen (Supervisor)
Dr Eric McCreath (Supervisor)
Mr Muhammad Atif (October 2006)
Scheduling in heterogeneous virtualized clusters
PhD SoCS
Dr Peter Strazdins (Principal Supervisor)
Dr Eric McCreath (Advisor)
Dr Alistair Rendell (Advisor)
Ms Normi Sham Awang Abu Bakar (September 2005)
Software design complexity of automated systems
PhD SoCS
Dr Clive Boughton (Principal Supervisor)
Dr Chris Johnson (Supervisor)
Dr Shayne Flint (Advisor)
Mr Qifeng Bai (February 2006)
Fuzzy Information Retrieval
PhD SoCS
Prof Tom Gedeon (Principal Supervisor)
Mr Darren Boulton (January 2006)
Face Recognition using the Recommendation Architecture to Simulate the Brain
PhD SoCS
Prof Tom Gedeon (Principal Supervisor)
Mr Andrew Coward (Supervisor)
Ms Zoe Brain (February 2006)
Software Complexity Management in the Advanced Automotive Technology Domain
PhD SoCS
Dr Clive Boughton (Principal Supervisor)
Dr Chris Johnson (Supervisor)
Dr Shayne Flint (Advisor)
Mr Jie Cai (January 2007)
OpenMP Implementation on Advanced Cluster System
PhD SoCS
Dr Peter Strazdins (Principal Supervisor)
Dr Alistair Rendell (Supervisor)
Dr Eric McCreath (Advisor)
Mr Ning Cai (July 2009)
Wireless Sensor Networks
PhD SoCS
Dr Weifa Liang (Principal Supervisor)
Ting Cao (September 2009)
To Be Decided
PhD SoCS
Mr Srinivas Chemboli (October 2006)
Managing High-Performance Computing Workflows
PhD SoCS
Dr Clive Boughton (Principal Supervisor)
Dr Shayne Flint (Supervisor)
Dr Ramesh Sankaranarayana (Advisor)
Mr Baichen Chen (March 2007)
Query Optimization on Wireless Sensor Network
PhD SoCS
Dr Weifa Liang (Principal Supervisor)
Prof Brendan McKay (Advisor)
Dr Jeffrey X Yu (Advisor)
Mr Jae Yong Chung (February 2007)
EEG, Attention and Presence
PhD SoCS
Dr Henry Gardner (Principal Supervisor)
Mr Arrin Daley (January 2005)
Object Placement, Migration and Caching in a Distributed Java Virtual Machine
PhD SoCS
Dr Ramesh Sankaranarayana (Principal Supervisor)
Dr Peter Strazdins (Supervisor)
Dr John Zigman (Supervisor)
Mr Denny Denny (July 2006)
Temporal Cluster Analysis with Self-Organizing Maps
PhD SoCS
Dr Peter Christen (Principal Supervisor)
Dr Markus Hegland * (Supervisor)
Dr Graham Williams (Supervisor)
Mr Ahmed El Zein (March 2007)
TBA
MPhil SoCS
Dr Alistair Rendell (Principal Supervisor)
Dr Alex Smola (Advisor)
Mr Agung Fatwanto (January 2005)
Software Architecture Composition on Translative Development Methodology
PhD SoCS
Dr Clive Boughton (Principal Supervisor)
Dr Shayne Flint (Advisor)
Mr Daniel Frampton (March 2004)
Approaches to improving the performance of modern programming languages on modern architectures
PhD SoCS
Dr Stephen Blackburn (Principal Supervisor)
Kathryn McKinley * (Supervisor)
Dr John Zigman (Advisor)
Mr Viktor Gal (January 2009)
Leveraging Operator Observation to Improve Safety
PhD SoCS
Prof Tom Gedeon (Principal Supervisor)
Mr Peter Gammie (April 2009)
Arrows for Describing Circuits
MPhil SoCS
Dr Clem Baker-Finch (Principal Supervisor)
Mr Robin Garner (March 2005)
GC for free - taking advantage of dual core and hyperthreaded processors
PhD SoCS
Dr Stephen Blackburn (Principal Supervisor)
Dr John Zigman (Supervisor)
Mr Amir Hossein Hadad (March 2007)
Using Fuzzy algorithms and Methods for Information Retrieval and Black-box system modeling
PhD SoCS
Prof Tom Gedeon (Principal Supervisor)
Mr Pete Janes (February 2007)
Methods for Improving the Reliabilty of Computational Chemistry Calculations
PhD SoCS
Dr Alistair Rendell (Principal Supervisor)
Micheal Collins * (Advisor)
Dr Steve Roberts * (Advisor)
Mr Timothy Lee Jones (February 2007)
Adversarial Information Retrieval
PhD SoCS
Dr Ramesh Sankaranarayana (Chair of Panel)
Dr David Hawking (Principal Supervisor)
Dr Nick Craswell (Advisor)
Mr Alexander Krumpholz (March 2006)
Information Retrieval for Semi-Structured Data
PhD SoCS
Prof Tom Gedeon (Principal Supervisor)
Dr David Hawking (Supervisor)
Wilkinson Ross * (Advisor)
Mr Ben Lippmeier (March 2004)
Controlling laziness and data sharing in real-time functional programs.
PhD SoCS
Dr Clem Baker-Finch (Principal Supervisor)
Dr Stephen Blackburn (Supervisor)
Dr Malcolm Newey (Supervisor)
Ms Sukanya Manna (February 2007)
Fuzzy Information Retrieval in Intelligence Led Investigation
PhD SoCS
Dr Richard Jones (Principal Supervisor)
Mr Josh Milthorpe (February 2009)
X10 for Computational Biology
PhD SoCS
Dr Alistair Rendell (Principal Supervisor)
Mr Christopher Monteith (February 2006)
Deciding code equivalence through the efficient calculation of automorphism groups of linear codes
PhD SoCS
Prof Brendan McKay (Principal Supervisor)
Dr William Edmund Duckworth (Supervisor)
Dr LG Kovacs * (Supervisor)
Mr Jaison Paul Mulerikkal (November 2007)
The HPNumSOA Project
PhD SoCS
Dr Peter Strazdins (Principal Supervisor)
Mr Luke Nguyen-Hoan (February 2008)
An Aspect Oriented approach to ecological model coupling
PhD SoCS
Dr Shayne Flint (Principal Supervisor)
Dr Ramesh Sankaranarayana (Supervisor)
Miss Bo Pang (March 2009)
Combining different types of uncertainty with fuzzy logic
PhD SoCS
Prof Tom Gedeon (Principal Supervisor)
Mr Daniel Charles Robson (September 2007)
Efficient and Accurate Simulation of Multi-core NUMA-based Cluster Systems
PhD SoCS
Dr Peter Strazdins (Principal Supervisor)
Dr Alistair Rendell (Supervisor)
Mr Thomas Rowlands (March 2006)
Looking Outside the Document: Using Extra-Document Evidence for Improved Ranking
PhD SoCS
Dr Ramesh Sankaranarayana (Principal Supervisor)
Dr David Hawking (Supervisor)
Dr Eric McCreath (Advisor)
Mr Torben Schou (February 2008)
Exploring Multimodal Interaction for Computer Games
PhD SoCS
Dr Henry Gardner (Principal Supervisor)
Paul Kirwin * (Supervisor)
Mr James Sheridan (March 2005)
Interfaces, Creativity and Attention
PhD SoCS
Dr Henry Gardner (Principal Supervisor)
Dr Alistair Riddell (Principal Supervisor)
Prof Tom Gedeon (Supervisor)
Andrew James * (Advisor)
Andrew Sorenson (November 2008)
TBA
PhD SoCS
Dr Henry Gardner (Principal Supervisor)
Mr Duncan Stevenson (November 2005)
Human Factors in Broadband Telehealth
PhD SoCS
Prof Tom Gedeon (Principal Supervisor)
Dr Henry Gardner (Supervisor)
Cecile Paris * (Supervisor)
Mr Michael Still (February 2004)
Distributed Denial of Service protections for SMTP servers
PhD SoCS
Dr Eric McCreath (Principal Supervisor)
Mr Robert Edwards (Advisor)
Dr Alistair Rendell (Advisor)
Dr Andrew Tridgell (Advisor)
Mr Ben Swift (March 2008)
Affective Algorithmic Music Generation and Brain-in-the-Loop Musicmaking
PhD SoCS
Dr Henry Gardner (Principal Supervisor)
Adi Botea (Supervisor)
Dr Alistair Riddell (Supervisor)
Mr Chin Hao Teh (January 2008)
Humanistic Factors in Software Engineering for Costing, Scheduling and Prediction
PhD SoCS
Dr Clive Boughton (Principal Supervisor)
Mr Tan Trong Dang Vo (June 2009)
EEG and Decision Making
MPhil SoCS
Dr Sumudu Mendis (Principal Supervisor)
Prof Tom Gedeon (Supervisor)
Mr Yuanzhi Wang (August 2006)
Framework and Development Methodology for Web Service Orchestration
PhD SoCS
Dr Shayne Flint (Principal Supervisor)
Dr Chris Johnson (Supervisor)
Dr Ramesh Sankaranarayana (Supervisor)
Dr Kerry Taylor * (Advisor)
Mr H'sien Jin Wong (August 2005)
Novel Strategies for Implementing OpenMP on Clusters
PhD SoCS
Dr Alistair Rendell (Principal Supervisor)
Prof Mitsuhisa Sato * (Supervisor)
Dr Peter Strazdins (Supervisor)
Mr Ian Wood (March 2009)
TBA
PhD SoCS
Dr Marcus Hutter (Principal Supervisor)
Mr Wei Yang (January 2009)
something really interesting
PhD SoCS
Mr Xi Yang (May 2009)
Improving scientific application performance for NUMA architecture by codesign operating system and openmp
MPhil SoCS
Dr Peter Strazdins (Supervisor)
Mr Dingyun Zhu (March 2008)
Fuzzy Modeling and Application in Cooperative Robot/Agent Communication
PhD SoCS
Prof Tom Gedeon (Principal Supervisor)
Dr Ken Taylor (Supervisor)

Totals: 45 PhD, 4 MSc/MPhil.

Supervisors shown with * are not staff of the Department of Computer Science.