Team

PhD – On-going

• Alaa Zaki Elfiqi: robotics/AI

  co-supervisor with Mo Hossny principal supervisor

• Abdullah Mohammed: robotics/AI

  co-supervisor with Mo Hossny principal supervisor

• David Majji: robotics/AI

  co-supervisor with Mo Hossny principal supervisor

• Benjamin Kereopa-Yorke: Cyber-AI

  co-supervisor with Tim Lyner principal supervisor and frank den Hartog co-supervisor

• Taylan Akay: TEVV

  joint supervisor with Roland Goecke principal supervisor and Adam Hepworth co-supervisor

• Ettilla Mohiuddin Eumi: HST

  joint supervisor with Roland principal joint and Nadine Marcus co-supervisor

• Noha Mohamed Abuaesh: Traceable NN

  joint supervisor with Heba Elfiqi principal supervisor

PhD – Completed

• Wasswa, Hassan: A Deep Learning-Based Approach for Detection and Tracking of IoT Botnet Activities

  Joint supervisor with Tim Lyner principal supervisor.

  Open thesis

• Yaxley, Kate: Effectiveness in shepherding-based human-swarm guidance

  Principal Supervisor with Keith joiner Joint Supervisor and Irina Antipov and Ian Grivell Co-supervisors

  Open thesis

• Baxter, Daniel: Ontology-Guided Neural Translation of Human-Swarm Teaming State Space

  Principal Supervisor with Keith joiner joint supervisor and Aya Hussein co-supervisor

  Open thesis

• Sherif, Reem: Computational Intelligence for Cooperative Swarm Control

  Joint supervisor with Saber Elsayed, Principal, and Robert Hunjet Co-supervisor.

  Open thesis

• Ghignone, Leo: Reinforcement Learning for Swarm Systems: Tackling limited computational resources and decentralised learning under communication constraints

  Co-supervisor with Michael Barlow Principal.

  Open thesis

• Hepworth, Adam: Context Awareness in Swarm Systems

  Principal Supervisor with Daryl Essam Joint Supervisor and Darryn Ried Co-supervisor

  Open thesis

• Dong, Xingshuai: Visual Guidance for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles with Deep Learning

  Co-supervisor with Matthew Garratt Principal, and Sreenatha Anavatti, Co-supervisor.

  Open thesis

• Vahidnia, Sahand: Deep and Temporal Ontology Guided Clustering Methods and Representation Learning for Topic Detection and Tracking

  Joint Supervisor with Principal Alireza Abbasi

  Open thesis

• Nguyen, Hung: Apprenticeship Bootstrapping for Autonomous Aerial Shepherding of Ground Swarm

  Principal Supervisor with Matthew Garratt Joint Supervisor and Lam Bui Co-supervisor

  Open thesis

• Ivanova, Ksenia: Multi-Method Framework for Development of Systemic, Technology-Driven Capability Concepts

  Joint Supervisor with Sondoss El-Sawah, Principal Supervisor, and Justin Fidock Co-supervisor

  Open thesis

• Nguyen, Tung: Interpretable Knowledge Transfer in Communicative Neural-based Swarm-Guidance Agents

  Principal Supervisor with Kathryn Kasmarik Co-supervisor

  Open thesis

• Liu, Jing: Ant Colony Optimisation for Multi-Uncrewed Ground Vehicle Mission Planning

  Principal Supervisor with Sreenatha Anavatti Joint and Matthew Garratt Co-supervisor

  Open thesis

• Dam, Tanmoy: Developing Generative Adversarial Networks for Classification and Clustering: Overcoming Class Imbalance and Catastrophic Forgetting

  Co-supervisor with reenatha Anavatti Principal Supervisor

  Open thesis

• Hussein, Aya: Performance, Trust, and Transparency for Effective Human-Swarm Interaction

  Co-supervisor with Sondoss Elsawah, Principal.

  Open thesis

• Wang, Min: Learning EEG Biometrics for Person Identification and Authentication

  Principal Supervisor with Jiankun Hu Co-supervisor.

  Open thesis

• Liu, Xuejie: Methodologies for electroencephalographic profiling of achievement, affiliation and power motivation using a computer game

  Co-supervisor with Kathryn Merrick principal supervisor

  Open thesis

• Young, Leon: Engineering Strategic Thinking

  Principal Supervisor Axel Bender co-supervisor

  Open thesis

• Nguyen, Hung: Apprenticeship Bootstrapping: Multi-Skill Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

  Principal Supervisor with Matthew Garratt and Lam Bui Co-supervisors

  Open thesis

• Nguyen, Tung: K-line Reinforcement Learning for context-aware bots

  Principal Supervisor with Kathryn Merrick Co-supervisor

  Open thesis

• Harvey, John: Predicting human identification of swarming using chaos measures

  Principal supervisor with Kathryn Merrick co-supervisor.

  Open thesis

• Coutts, Andrew: Decision Making in Crisis: A Bayesian Influence Diagram Methodology for Modelling Critical and Time-Constrained Political-Strategic Decision Making

  Principal Supervisor with Neville Curtis and Jenny Stewart co-supervisors

  Open thesis

• Hossain, Md Murad: On Capacity Estimation and Capacity-Safety Relationship in an Air Transportation Network

  Joint-supervisor with Sameer Alam principal supervisor.

  Open thesis

• White, Alan: Tendering Campaigns for Strategic Defence Equipment

  Co-supervisor with Ed Lewis principal supervisor.

  Open thesis

• Zhang, Bin: Online Knowledge-based Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimisation

  Co-supervisor with Kamran Shafi principal supervisor.

  Open thesis

• Ren, Shen: On Psycho-physiological Player-centric Game Experiences

  Principal supervisor with Michael Barlow co-supervisor

  Open thesis

• Wang, Bing: Autonomous Hypothesis Generation for Knowledge Discovery in Continuous Domains

  Joint supervisor with Kathryn Merrick principal supervisor

  Open thesis

• El-Fiqi, Heba: Detection of Translator Stylometry using Pair-wise Comparative Classification and Network Motif Mining

  Principal Supervisor with Eleni Petraki co-supervisor.

  Open thesis

• Leu, George: A “Society of Mind” agent architecture. A case study to modelling human behaviour in road traffic

  Principal supervisor with Neville Curtis co-supervisor.

  Open thesis

• Wang, Kun: Human-Guided Evolutionary-Based Linguistics Approach for Automatic Story Generation

  Principal supervisor with Vinh Bui co-supervisor.

  Open thesis

• Wang, Shir Li: Adversarial Learning through Red Teaming: From Data to Behaviour

  Principal supervisor with Chris Lokan and Kamran Shafi co-supervisors.

  Open thesis

• Zhao, Wenjing: On Dynamic Capacity-Demand Balance in the Terminal Area Using Multi-objective Co-evolutionary Computational Red Teaming

  Principal supervisor with Axel Bender and Sameer Alam co-supervisors.

  Open thesis

• Ghoneim, Amr: On Competency of Go Players: A Computational Approach

  Principal supervisor with Daryl Essam co-supervisor.

  Open thesis

• Pham, Van Viet: Optimisation Algorithms and Heuristics for Aircraft User-Preferred Routes and their Environmental Impact

  Principal supervisor with Chris Lokan and Sameer Alam co-supervisors.

  Open thesis

• Tang, Jiangjun: Large Scale Multi-Objective Optimization for Dynamic Airspace Sectorization

  Principal supervisor with Chris Lokan and Sameer Alam co-supervisors.

  Open thesis

• Harno, Hendra Gunawan: Evolutionary method in the design of robust control systems

  Co-supervisor with Ian Petersen principal supervisor.

  Open thesis

• Chen, Kuang-Yuan (Steven): Multi-agent Systems for Free-Flight Air-Traffic Control

  External co-supervisor with Peter Lindsay principal. [University of Queensland]

• Yeh, Yu-Hui (Flora): Active Learning

  External co-supervisor with Marcus Gallagher principal and Janet Wiles Co-supervisor. [University of Queensland]

• Shafi, Kamran: An online and adaptive signature-based approach for intrusion detection using learning classifier systems

  Principal supervisor with Weibing Zhou co-supervisor.

  Open thesis

• Alam, Sameer: Evolving complexity towards risk: a massive scenario generation approach for evaluating advanced air traffic management concepts

  Principal supervisor with Michael Barlow and Peter Lindsay (UQ) co-supervisor.

  Open thesis

• Dam, Hai Huong: A scalable evolutionary learning classifier system for knowledge discovery in stream data mining

  Principal supervisor with Chris Lokan co-supervisor.

  Open thesis

• Badham, Jennifer: The Role of social network properties on the impact of direct contact epidemics

  Principal supervisor with Robert Stocker co-supervisor

  Open thesis

• Bui, Lam Thu: The role of communication messages and explicit niching in distributed evolutionary multi-objective optimization

  Principal supervisor with Daryl Essam, David Green and Kalyanmoy Deb co-supervisors.

  Open thesis

• Yang, Ang: A networked multi-agent combat model: emergence explained

  Principal supervisor with Ruhul Sarker and Neville Curtis co-supervisors.

  Open thesis

• Nguyen, Minh Ha: Cooperative coevolutionary mixture of experts: a neuro ensemble approach for automatic decomposition of classification problems

  Principal supervisor with Bob McKay co-supervisor

  Open thesis

• Shan, Yin: Program distribution estimation with grammar models

  Co-supervisor with Bob Mckay principal and Daryl Essam co-supervisor

  Open thesis

• Nguyen, Xuan Hoai: Flexible representation for genetic programming: lessons from natural language processing

  Co-supervisor with Bob Mckay principal and Daryl Essam co-supervisor

  Open thesis

• Lennon, Paula: DNA costing

  Co-supervisor with Brian Kinghorn principal and Gerard Davis co-supervisor. [University of New England]

Doctoral in Information Technology – Completed

• Hoek, Peter: Visual Encoding Approaches for Temporal Social Networks

  Principal supervisor with Michael Frater and Mike Sweeney co-supervisors.

  Open thesis

• Teo, Jason T. W.: Pareto multi-objective evolution of legged embodied organisms

  Principal supervisor

  Open thesis

Master by Research – Completed

• Amin, Shajoti: Play and Protect: Exploring Game-Based Learning for Cyber Safety in Primary Education

  Principal supervisor with Heba Elfiqi, Joint, and Eleni Petraki co-supervisor.

  Open thesis

• Long, Nathan: 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

  Open thesis

• Yang, Zhaoyang: Deep Reinforcement Learning for Continuous Action Control

  Co-Supervisor with Kathryn Kasmarick principal supervisor

  Open thesis

• Hassan, Marwa: Hidden-Markov-Based Self-adaptive Differential Evolution

  Principal Supervisor: Hussein Abbass Co-Supervisors: Hemant Singh

  Open thesis

• Amin, Rubai: Simulation Fidelity, Abstraction and Resolution in Real-Time Multi-objective Optimisation of Air Traffic Complexity

  Principal supervisor with Jiangjun Tang co-supervisor.

  Open thesis

• Hossain, Md Murad: Identification of hard instances and backbones in 3-SAT using network theory and network guided decomposition

  Principal supervisor with Chris Lokan co-supervisor.

  Open thesis

• Ghoneim, Ayman Ahmed Sabry Abdel Rahman: Local-global coupling in strategy games: extracting signatures and unfolding dynamics

  Co-supervisor with Michael Barlow principal

  Open thesis

Fellows and Post-docs Supervised

• Dr Tran Nguyen: Robotics

  Research Associate

• Mr Utkarsh Sharma: AI

  Software Engineer

• Ms Zora Kerr

  Senior Software Engineer

• Mr Sam Moloney

  Senior Software Engineer

• Mr Tristan Kelly

  Software Engineer

• Dr Taylan Akay

  Senior Research Associate

• Mr Harrison Tolley

  Research Officer

• Dr Mindika Premachandra: Modelling and Metrics

  Senior Research Associate

• Dr Anu Ara

  Research Associate

• Dr Dua Ahmed: Deep Learning and Vision

  Research Associate

• Mr Sam Cartwright

  Senior Software Engineer

• Dr. Dilini Samarasinghe Widana Arachchige

  Senior Research Associate

• Dr. Aya Hussein: Machine Education

  Research Associate

• Dr. Jing Liu: Context Aware Swarm

  Research Associate

• Dr. Tung Nguyen: Context Aware Swarm

  Research Associate

• Dr. Essam Debie: Contextually-aware Swarm Guidance

  Research Fellow

• Dr. Heba El-Fiki: Contextually-aware Swarm Guidance

  Research Fellow

• Dr. Mohammed Hossny: Data Science and AI Project

  Senior Data Science Fellow

• Ms. Josephine Plested: Data Science and AI Project

  Research Associate

• Dr. Min Wang: User-task co-adaptation for effective interactive simulation environments

  Research Associate

• Dr. John Warmenhoven: Data Science and AI Project

  Research Fellow

• Dr. Raul Fernandez Rojas: Human Performance

  Research Associate

• Dr. Jiangjun Tang: Human Performance

  Research Associate

• Dr. Tauseef Gulrez: User-task co-adaptation for effective interactive simulation environments

  Research Associate

• Dr. George Leu: Computational Red Teaming

  Research Associate

• Dr. Ayman Ghoneim: Risk Assessment for Air Traffic Management

  Research Associate

• Mr. William Zhao: Air Traffic Management

  Research Associate

• Mr. Rubai Amin: Air Traffic Management

  Research Associate

• Dr. Deborah Tucek: Linguistics

  Senior Research Associate

• Dr. Murray Mount: Neuro-science

  Senior Research Associate

• Dr. Sameer Alam: Air Traffic Management

  Senior Research Associate

• Dr. Vinh Quang Bui: Computational Storytelling

  Research Associate

• Mr. Fan Qi: Computational Modelling

  Software Developer

• Dr. Kamran Shafi: Defence Logistics

  Senior Research Associate

• Ms. Irina Coleman: Psychology

  Research Associate

• Prof. Jing Lui: Networks and Complexity

  Research Associate

• Dr. Weicai Zhong: Game Theory

  Research Associate

• Mr. Ahmed Darwish: Computational Modelling

  Software Developer

• Dr. Antony Iorio: Risk Attitude of Strategic Decision Makers

  Research Associate

• Dr. James Whiteacre: Complex Systems and Defence Logistics

  Research Associate

• Dr. Lam Bui: Evolutionary Risk Management

  Research Associate

• Dr. Minh Ha Nguyen: Complex Systems for Air Traffic Management

  Research Associate

• Dr. Ang Yang: Defence and Security Risk Assessment

  Research Associate

• Mr. Paul McCarthy: Computational Modelling

  Software Developer

• Dr. Yubin Yang: Network Mining

  Research Associate

• Dr. Yin Shan: Defence Logistics

  Research Associate