Prof. Hussein Abbass

Artificial Intelligence - Autonomous Systems - Humans - Swarm - Trust

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Current Research Fellows

  • Dr. Aya Hussein, Research Associate, Machine Education, 2020-2023
  • Dr. Jing Liu, Research Associate, Context Aware Swarm, 2022-2023
  • Dr. Tung Nguyen, Research Associate, Context Aware Swarm, 2022-2023

Current Research Students

  • FT Ph.D. S1/2020- Daniel Baxter Explainable and Transparent Machine Cognition: Real-time Reasoning with Force Vectors for Autonomous UAV Swarm Shepherding. Principal Supervisor with Keith joiner Joint Supervisor
  • PT M.Phil. S3/2019 - Shajoti Amin. The Pedagogy of Cyber Threats using Human-Swarm Shepherding. Principal Supervisor with Heba Elfiqi, Joint, and Eleni Petraki, Co-supervisor
  • PT Ph.D. S1/2018- Kate Yaxley Shepherding. Principal Supervisor with Keith joiner Joint Supervisor and Irina Antipov and Ian Grivell co-supervisors

Alumni Research Students

Under Examination

  1. FT Ph.D. 2019-2023 Hung The Nguyen Apprenticeship Bootstrapping for Autonomous Aerial Shepherding of Ground Swarm. Principal Supervisor with Matthew Garratt Joint Supervisor and Lam Bui Co-supervisor
  2. Ph.D. 2019-2023 Xingshuai Dong Visual Guidance for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles with Deep Learning. Co-supervisor with Matthew Garratt Principal Supervisor and Sreenatha Anavatti Co-supervisor
  3. Ph.D. 2019-2023 Sahand Vahidnia Deep and Temporal Ontology Guided Clustering Methods and Representation Learning for Topic Detection and Tracking. Joint Supervisor with Alireza Abbasi Principal Supervisor
  4. Ph.D. 2018-2023 Adam Hepworth Context Awareness in Swarm Systems. Principal Supervisor with Daryl Essam Joint Supervisor and Darryn Ried co-supervisor
  5. Part-Time Ph.D. 2017-2023 Ksenia Ivanova Multi-Method Framework for Development of Systemic, Technology-Driven Capability Concepts. Joint-supervisor with Sondoss El-Sawah Principal Supervisor and Justin Fidock Co-supervisor.
  6. Ph.D. 2019-2023 Reem Sherif Computational Intelligence for Cooperative Swarm Control. Joint-supervisor with Saber Elsayed Principal Supervisor and Robert Hunjet Co-supervisor.

PhD Theses

  1. Ph.D. 2018-2022 Tung Nguyen Interpretable Knowledge Transfer in Communicative Neural-based Swarm-Guidance Agents. Principal Supervisor with Kathryn Kasmarik Co-supervisor
  2. Ph.D. 2018-2022 Jing Liu Ant Colony Optimisation for Multi-Uncrewed Ground Vehicle Mission Planning. Principal Supervisor with Sreenatha Anavatti Joint and Matthew Garratt Co-supervisor
  3. Ph.D. 2018-2022 Tanmoy Dam Developing Generative Adversarial Networks for Classification and Clustering: Overcoming Class Imbalance and Catastrophic Forgetting. Co supervisor with Sreenatha Anavatti principal Supervisor
  4. Ph.D. S1/2017-2020 Aya Hussein. Performance, Trust, and Transparency for Effective Human-Swarm Interaction. Co-supervisor with Sondoss El-Sawah, Principal Supervisor
  5. Ph.D. 2015-2019 Dr. Min Wang Learning EEG Biometrics for Person Identification and Authentication. Principal Supervisor with Jiankun Hu, Co-supervisor
  6. Ph.D. 2014-2018 Dr. Xuejie Liu Methodologies for Electroencephalographic Profiling of Achievement, Affiliation and Power Motivation Using a Computer Game. Co-supervisor Hussein Abbass with Kathryn Merrick, Principal Supervisor
  7. Part-time Ph.D. 2011-2017 Dr. Leon Young [Thesis]Engineering Strategic Thinking. Principal Supervisor: Hussein Abbass. Co-Supervisors: Axel Bender
  8. Part-time Ph.D. 2010-2017 Dr. Andrew Coutts [Thesis]Decision Making In Crisis: A Bayesian Influence Diagram Methodology for Modelling Critical and Time-Constrained Political-Strategic Decision Making. Principal Supervisor: Hussein Abbass. Co-Supervisors: Neville Curtis and Jenny Stewart
  9. Part-time Ph.D. 2012-2017 Dr. John Harvey [Thesis] Predicting human identification of swarming using chaos measures. Principal Supervisor: Hussein Abbass. Co-Supervisors: Kathryn Kasmarik
  10. Part-time Ph.D. 2011-2016 Murad Hossain [Thesis]On Capacity Estimation and Capacity-safety Relationship in an Air Transportation Network, Joint Supervisor: Sameer Alam, Joint Supervisor: Hussein Abbass
  11. Part-time Ph.D. 2008-2016 Dr. Alan White [Thesis] Tendering Campaigns for Strategic Defence Equipment. Principal Supervisor: Edward Lewis, Co-Supervisor: Hussein Abbass
  12. Ph.D. 2011-2015 Dr. Bin Zhang [Thesis] Online Knowledge-based Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimisation. Principal Supervisor: Kamran Shafi, Co Supervisor: Hussein Abbass
  13. Ph.D. 2010-2014 Dr. Shen Ren [Thesis] On Psycho-physiological Player-centric Game Experiences. Principal Supervisor: Hussein Abbass, Co Supervisor: Michael Barlow
  14. Ph.D. 2011-2014 Dr. Bing Wang [Thesis] Autonomous Hypothesis Generation for Knowledge Discovery in Continuous Domains, Joint Supervisors: Hussein Abbass and Kathryn Merrick
  15. Ph.D. 2010-2013 Dr. George Leu [Thesis] A Society of Mind agent architecture: A case study to modelling human behaviour in road traffic. Principal Supervisor: Hussein Abbass, Co Supervisor: Neville Curtis (DSTO)
  16. Ph.D. 2010-2013Â Dr. Heba Zaki Mohamed El-Fiqi [Thesis] Detection of translator stylometry using pair-wise comparative classification and network motif mining. Principal Supervisor: Hussein Abbass, Co Supervisor: Eleni Petraki
  17. Ph.D. 2009-2013 Dr. Kun Wang [Thesis] Human-Guided Evolutionary-based Linguistics Approach for Automatic Story Generation. Principal Supervisor: Hussein Abbass, Co Supervisor: Vinh Bui
  18. Ph.D. 2008-2012 Dr. Wenjing Zhao [Thesis] On Dynamic Capacity-Demand Balance in the Terminal Area Using Multi-objective Co-evolutionary Computational Red Teaming. Principal Supervisor: Hussein Abbass, Co Supervisor: Axel Bender (DSTO)
  19. Ph.D. 2008-2012 Dr. Shir Li Wang [Thesis] Adversarial Learning through Red Teaming: From Data to Behaviour. Principal Supervisor: Hussein Abbass, Co Supervisor: Chris Lokan and Kamran Shafi
  20. Ph.D. 2008-2012 Dr. Amr Ghoneim [Thesis] On Competency of Go Players: A Computational Approach. Principal Supervisor: Hussein Abbass, Co Supervisor: Daryl Essam
  21. Ph.D. 2008-2012 Dr. Van Viet Pham [Thesis] Optimisation Algorithms and Heuristics for Aircraft User-Preferred Routes and their Environmental Impact. Principal Supervisor: Hussein Abbass, Co Supervisor: Chris Lokan and Sameer Alam
  22. Ph.D. 2008-2011 Dr. Jiangjun Tang [Thesis] Large Scale Multi-Objective Optimization for Dynamic Airspace Sectorization. Principal Supervisor: Hussein Abbass, Co Supervisor: Chris Lokan and Sameer Alam
  23. Part-time Ph.D. 2005-2011 Dr. Kuang-Yuan (Steven) Chen A Methodology for Training XCS Agents to Optimise Team and Individual Performance on Path Planning Problems. Principal Supervisor: Peter Lindsay (UQ), Co Supervisor: Hussein Abbass
  24. Ph.D. 2008-2011 Dr. Hendra Gunawan Harno [Thesis] Evolutionary Method in the Design of Robust Control Systems. Principal Supervisor: Ian R. Petersen, Co Supervisor: Hussein Abbass
  25. Ph.D. 2005-2008 Dr. Kamran Shafi (Received The Stephen Fester Prize for the most outstanding PhD thesis in Information Technology, UNSW@ADFA, 2008)  [Thesis] An Online and Adaptive Signature Learning Approach for Intrusion Detection Using Learning Classifier Systems. Principal Supervisor: Hussein Abbass, Co Supervisor: Weibing Zhou
  26. Ph.D. 2005-2008 Dr. Sameer Alam [Thesis] Evolving Complexity Towards Risk: A Massive Scenario Generation Approach for Evaluating Advanced Air Traffic Management Concepts. Principal Supervisor: Hussein Abbass, Co Supervisor: Michael Barlow and Peter Lindsay (UQ)
  27. Ph.D. 2004-2008 Dr. Hai Huong (Helen) Dam (Received The Ria de Groot Prize for the most outstanding female post-graduate student, UNSW@ADFA, 2008)  [Thesis] A scalable evolutionary learning classifier system for knowledge discovery in stream data mining. Principal Supervisor: Hussein Abbass, Co Supervisor: Chris Lokan
  28. Part-time Ph.D. S1/2003-2008 Dr. Jennifer Badham [Thesis] The Role of social network properties on the impact of direct contact epidemics. Principal Supervisor: Hussein Abbass, Co Supervisor: Robert Stocker
  29. Ph.D. 2004-2007 A/Prof. Lam Thu Bui (Received The Stephen Fester Prize for the most outstanding PhD thesis in Information Technology, UNSW@ADFA, 2007) [Thesis] The Role of Communication Messages and Explicit Niching in Distributed Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimization. Principal Supervisor: Hussein Abbass, Co Supervisor: Daryl Essam, David Green (Monash) and Kalyanmoy Deb (IT Kanpur)
  30. Ph.D. 2003-2007 Dr. Ang Yang [Thesis] A Networked Multi-Agent Combat Model: Emergence Explained. Principal Supervisor: Hussein Abbass, Co Supervisor: Ruhul Sarker and Neville Curtis (DSTO)
  31. Ph.D. 2002-2006 Dr. Minh Ha Nguyen [Thesis] Cooperative coevolutionary mixture of experts : a neuro ensemble approach for automatic decomposition of classification problems. Principal Supervisor: Hussein Abbass, Co Supervisor: Bob McKay
  32. Ph.D. 2001- 2005 A/Prof. Hoai Nguyen Xuan [Thesis] A Flexible Representation for Genetic Programming: Lessons from Natural Language Processing. Principal Supervisor: Bob Mckay, Co Supervisor: Daryl Essam and Hussein Abbass
  33. Ph.D. 2001- 2005 Dr. Yin Shan [Thesis] Program Distribution Estimation with Grammar Models. Principal Supervisor: Bob Mckay, Co Supervisor: Daryl Essam and Hussein Abbass
  34. Ph.D. 2001-2004 Dr. Paula Lennon, UNE. DNA costing. Principal Supervisor: Brian Kinghorn (UNE), Co Supervisor: Gerard Davis (UNE) and Hussein Abbass

DIT Theses

  1. Part-time DIT 2008-2014 Dr. Peter Hoek[Thesis] Visual Encoding Approaches for Temporal Social Networks. Principal Supervisor: Hussein Abbass Co Supervisor: Michael Frater and Mike Sweeney (DSTO)
  2. DIT 2001-2003 A/Prof. Jason Teo [Thesis]Pareto Multiobjective Evolution of Legged Embodied Organisms. Principal Supervisor: Hussein Abbass

MSc Theses

  1. FT M.Sc. S1/2019-S2/2021 Nathan Long Multi-Vessel Sea State Estimation Using Artificial Neural Networks and Vessel Response Spectral Data. Principal Supervisor with Matthew Garratt Joint Supervisor, Sammut Karl and Daniel Sgarioto Co-supervisors
  2. M.Sc. S1/2016-S2/2017 Duy Tung Nguyen K-Liner Reinforcement Learning For Context-Aware Bots. Principal Supervisor with Kathryn Merrick, Co-supervisor 
  3. M.Sc. S1/2016--S2/2017 Hung The Nguyen Apprenticeship Bootstrapping: Multi-Skill Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. Principal Supervisor with Matthew Garratt and Lam Bui, Co-supervisors 
  4. M.Sc. 2016-2017 Zhaoyang Yang [Thesis] Deep Reinforcement Learning for Continuous Action Control. Principal Supervisor: Kathryn Kasmarick, Hussein Abbass Co-Supervisor
  5. M.Sc. 2015-2017 Marwa Hassan [Thesis] Hidden-Markov-Based Self-adaptive Differential Evolution. Principal Supervisor: Hussein Abbass Co-Supervisors: Hemant Singh
  6. M.Sc. 2013-2015 Rubai Amin [Thesis] Simulation Fidelity, Abstraction and Resolution in Real-Time Multi-objective Optimization of Air Traffic Complexity. Principal Supervisor: Hussein Abbass Co Supervisor: Jiangjun Tang
  7. MSc. 2008-2010 Murad Hossain [Thesis] Identification of Hard Instances and Backbones in 3-SAT using Network Theory and Network Guided Decomposition. Principal Supervisor: Hussein Abbass, Co Supervisor: Chris Lokan
  8. M.Sc. 2006-2008 Dr. Ayman Ghoneim [Thesis] Local-global coupling in strategy games: extracting signatures and unfolding dynamics. Principal Supervisor: Michael Barlow Co Supervisor: Hussein Abbass

CDF Honour Theses [incomplete]

  1. CDF Program EE Honor Thesis 2009 Leon Purton ADS-B Aircraft Trajectory Tracking in the Presence of Spoofing. Principal Supervisor: Hussein Abbass, Co Supervisor: Sameer Alam

Alumni Research Fellows

  1. Dr. Essam Debie, Research Fellow, Contextually-aware Swarm Guidance, 2017-2021. Works for UNSW Canberra.
  2. Dr. Heba El-Fiki, Research Fellow, Contextually-aware Swarm Guidance, 2017-2021. Works for UNSW Canberra.
  3. Dr. Mohammed Hossny, Senior Data Science Fellow, Data Science and AI Project, 2021. Works for UNSW Canberra.
  4. Ms. Josephine Plested, Research Associate, Data Science and AI Project, 2021. Works for UNSW Canberra.
  5. Dr. Min Wang, Research Associate, User-task co-adaptation for effective interactive simulation environments, 2019-2021. Works for UNSW Canberra.
  6. Dr. John Warmenhoven, Research Fellow, Data Science and AI Project, 2021. Works for Uni of Canberra.
  7. Dr. Raul Fernandez Rojas, Research Associate, Human Performance, 2018-2019. Works for Uni of Canberra.
  8. Dr. Jiangjun Tang, Research Associate, Human Performance, 1-January-2014 to 31-February-2018. Works for Australian Government.
  9. Dr. Tauseef Gulrez, Research Associate, User-task co-adaptation for effective interactive simulation environments, 30-May-2016 to 06-April-2017. Works for Australian Government.
  10. Dr. George Leu, Research Associate, Computational Red Teaming, 17-February-2014 to 16-February-2017. Works for Australian Government.
  11. Dr. Ayman Ghoneim, Research Associate, Risk Assessment for Air Traffic Management, 3-January-2013 to 1-August-2014. Works for Cairo University.
  12. Mr. William Zhao, Research Associate, Air Traffic Management, 18-February-2013 to 17-February-2014. Works for Airservices.
  13. Mr. Rubai Amin, Research Associate, Air Traffic Management, 15-June-2012 to 14-June-2013. Works for Airservices.
  14. Dr. Deborah Tucek, Senior Research Associate, Linguistics, 15-March-2011 to 15-March-2013. Works for BSTTech Consulting Pty Ltd.
  15. Dr. Murray Mount, Senior Research Associate, Neuro-science, 15-March-2011 to 15-March-2013. Freelancer.
  16. Dr. Sameer Alam, Senior Research Associate, Air Traffic Management, 5-Feruary-2007 to 2-December-2012. Works for NTU.
  17. Dr. Vinh Quang Bui, Research Associate, Computational Storytelling, 15-September-2008 to 18-February-2012. Works for CQU.
  18. Mr. Fan Qi, Software Developer, Computational Modelling, 15-February-2005 to 18-February-2012. Works for Australian Government.
  19. Dr. Kamran Shafi, Senior Research Associate, Defence Logistics 14-July-2008 to 14-January-2012. Works for Teradata.
  20. Ms. Irina Coleman, Research Associate, Psychology, 15-March-2011 to 16-September-2011.
  21. Prof. Jing Lui, Research Associate, Networks and Complexity, 13-July-2009 to 12-July-2011. Works for Xidian University.
  22. Dr. Weicai Zhong, Research Associate, Game Theory, 20-July-2009 to 17-December-2010. Works for Huawei Technologies.
  23. Mr. Ahmed Darwish, Software Developer, Computational Modelling, 16-February-2009 to 17-December-2010.
  24. Dr. Antony Iorio, Research Associate, Risk Attitude of Strategic Decision Makers, 2-March-2009 to 1-June-2010. Founder, Paradyn Systems Pty Ltd.
  25. Dr. James Whiteacre, Research Associate, Complex Systems and Defence Logistics, 27-August-2007 to 26-August-2009. Founder, Paradyn Systems Pty Ltd.
  26. Dr. Lam Bui, Research Associate, Evolutionary Risk Management, July-2007 to 15-August-2009. Works for Le Quy Don Technical University.
  27. Dr. Minh Ha Nguyen, Research Associate, Complex Systems for Air Traffic Management, 7-August-2006 to 31-December-2007. Works for Australian Government.
  28. Dr. Ang Yang, Research Associate, Defence and Security Risk Assessment, 30-June-2006 to 31-January-2007. Works for CSIRO.
  29. Mr. Paul McCarthy, Software Developer, Computational Modelling, 10-July-2006 to 12-January-2007.
  30. Dr. Yubin Yang, Research Associate, Network Mining, 25-October-2005 to 24-October-2006.
  31. Dr. Yin Shan, Research Associate, Defence Logistics, 7-February-2005 to 6-February-2006. Works for Australian Government.

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