Supervisors
Academic Supervisors
Potential Academic Supervisors from each ATN University are listed on
this page.
Curtin University
Prof. Lou Caccetta - combinatorial mathematics, network design and analysis,
combinatorial optimization, industrial modeling.
Prof. Kok Lay Teo - control theory, computational methods, financial
portfolio optimization, operations research,signal processing.
Prof. Yong Hong Wu - computational mathematics,finite and boundary element
methods, physical modeling in fluid mechanics,heat transfer and granular
mechanics.
Assoc.Prof. Volker Rehbock - computational optimal control, global
optimization.
Assoc.Prof. Nikolai Dokuchaev - finance mathematics, stochastic analysis,
partial differential equations, stochastic control, signal processing.
Dr. Hai Huyen Dam - digital signal processing, wireless communications,
digital filter design and optimization.
Dr. Ritu Gupta - queueing systems, discrete time modeling in
telecommunications, combinatorics, design of experiments.
Dr. Ryan Loxton - computational optimal control, global optimization.
Dr. Lorenzo Ntogramatzidis - optimal control with constraints,
geometric/structural approach to systems and control theory,
multidimensional systems and signal processing.
Dr. Nihal Yatawara - statistical process control, entropy based methods in
statistics, mixture models in time series, non-linear time series.
Dr. Guanglu Zhou - non-linear optimization theory and applications.
Dr. Nirmala Achuthan - combinatorial optimization, vehicle routing problems,
project scheduling, operations research, graph theory, applied statistics,
quality systems.
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University of South Australia
Dr. Amie Albrecht- operations research applications, energy efficient
transport, railway operations.
Assoc.Prof. John Boland - renewable energy, electricity grid operations,
electricity markets, water resource management, adaption to climate change.
Dr. Jinhai Cai - image processing,computer vision, bioinformatics, plant
analysis, artificial intelligence, signal processing.
Dr Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo - cryptographic protocols, cyber security,
formal methods
Assoc.Prof. Vladimir Ejov - Markov decision processes, stochastic algorithms
in global optimization, stochastic analysis in sport.
Dr. Bronwyn Hajek - fluid dynamics, heat and mass transfer, physical
chemistry and biological modeling.
Prof. Stan Miklavcic - mathematical and physical modeling, partial
differential equations mathematical methods.
Dr. Julia Piantadosi - mathematical modeling of water management systems,
stochastic rainfall modeling, stochastic modeling of multi-reservoir
systems, environmental and climate change.
Dr. Peter Pudney - modeling, design and control of low emission vehicles,
electrical load management and renewable energy systems.
Assoc.Prof. Anatoli Torokhti - signal processing, numerical methods,
optimization.
Assoc.Prof. John van der Hoek - financial mathematics.
Dr. Lesley Ward - complex analysis, harmonic analysis, internet search
algorithms, industrial mathematics.
Prof. Lee White
- Physical modeling in colloid science and chemical
engineering processes, heat and mass transfer, low Reynolds number fluid
mechanics.
Prof. Vladimir Gaitsgory - control, optimization games theory.
Associate Supervisors
Dr. Jorge Aarao - partial differential equations, singular perturbations.
Prof. David Lee - operations research, mathematical modeling, optimal
networks
Mr. Kevin White - operations research, scheduling.
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University of Technology Sydney
Prof. Matt Wand - statistical methods for analysis of large and complex data
sets, bioinformatics, genome-wide association studies, statistical methods
for flow cytometry, generalized linear models, generalized additive models
and kernel machines.
Prof. Deborah Street - statistics, design and analysis of experiments,
discrete choice experiments, questionnaires design.
Prof. Alex Novikov - probability theory and stochastic processes,
quantitative modelling and mathematical methods in finance and energy and
emissions markets.
Prof. Eckhard Platen - quantitative modeling and mathematical methods in
finance.
Prof. Erik Schlogl - quantitative modeling and mathematical methods in
finance.
Assoc.Prof. Tim Langtry - numerical analysis and computational mathematics,
computational photonics, mathematical modeling of biological and
environmental systems.
Dr.Yakov Zinder - discrete optimization, scheduling theory, operations
research, production planning and scheduling, supply chain management,
personnel planning and scheduling, transportation.
Dr. Chris Poulton - mathematical methods in physics, theoretical
electromagnetism and nanophotonics, optomechanical systems and nonlinear
effects in nanophotonics, propagation of waves in metamaterials.
Dr. Adel Rahmani
- mathematical methods in physics, theoretical
electromagnetism and nanophotonics.
Dr. Stephen Woodcock - stochastic models for environmental and biological
engineering, modeling of microbial community assembly and dynamics, biofilm
formation, with applications to water quality and wastewater management.
Science & Engineering Supervisors
Prof. Jianguo Zhu
- application oriented multi-domain multi-objective system
optimization, numerical analysis of multi-physical fields, e.g.
electromagnetic, thermal, mechanical problems, numerical modeling of soft
magnetic materials.
Prof. Nong Zhang - simulation and optimisation of hybrid electric powertrains and energy management systems.
Assoc.Prof. David Dorrell
- analysis and control of electric power systems,
optimum design of electromagnetic devices, numerical modeling of soft
magnetic materials.
Assoc.Prof. Peter Watterson - optimum design of electromagnetic devices.
Dr. Youguang Guo - numerical analysis of multi-physical fields, e.g.
electromagnetic, thermal, mechanical problems, numerical modeling of soft
magnetic materials.
Dr. Li Li - analysis and control of electric power systems
Prof. Dikai Liu - coordination of multi-robot systems, computational
intelligence and optimization, human-robot interaction, robotics and mechatronics.
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RMIT University
Dr Babak Abbasi - computational statistics, neural networks, statistical
quality control, statistical reliability, randomised optimisation
algorithms.
Dr Malihe Abdollahian - statistical quality control and its applications in:
manufacturing industry, air pollution control, software quality, univariate
and multivariate processes, health industry and the banking system.
Dr Anthony Bedford - sports ratings models including AFL, soccer and tennis, queueing theory, modeling new telecommunications systems simulation,
simulation in queueing and sport.
Assoc.Prof. Serdar Boztas - information technology, information security,
error correcting coding telecommunications and computers, code division
multiple access (CDMA) system design and analysis, mathematical methods to
communications, coding, and information security.
Dr Graham Clarke - algebra, educational technology.
Assoc.Prof. Clifford Da Costa - statistics and operations research, surveys,
sampling, program evaluation, biostatistics, meta-analysis, statistical
methods in meta-analysis and hierarchical linear modeling, clinical trials
in Chinese medicine and complementary medicine.
Dr Stephen Davis - theoretical epidemiology, mathematical models of
infectious disease, the dynamics, persistence and distribution of multi-host
pathogens, tick-borne diseases, plague, rabies, vector-borne disease,
complex networks, percolation in complex networks, complex systems,
population modeling of agricultural pests.
Dr Yan Ding - finite element method and its applications, fracture mechanics
in small crack initiation, propagation and failure, composite materials and
applications.
Prof. Andrew Eberhard
- nonsmooth analysis extending classical calculus to
the domain of non-differential functions, application in control theory,
optimization, PDE theory and economic modeling.
Dr John Gear
- computational fluid dynamics, thermal storage properties of
clothing embedded with phase change material.
Prof. John Hearne - natural resource modeling, operations research.
Dr Robin Hill - control and optimisation.
Prof. Kathryn Horadam - information security, especially authentication and
identification issues, application of finite group cohomology, especially
2-cocycles, to designs, relative difference sets and to construction of
error-correction codes and pseudorandom and low-correlation sequences for
improved digital communications, shift action on cocycles, higher
dimensional proper Hadamard matrices.
Dr Kristine Lally - algebraic coding theory, quasicyclic codes, links
between quasicyclic codes and convolutional codes.
Dr Yanqun Liu - semi-infinite programming and applications, linear and
integer programming, global optimization, computational optimal control.
Dr Yousong Luo - partial differential equations, nonsmooth analysis,
optimization and control.
Dr Eddie Ly - solution of transonic small disturbance (TSD) equation and
Euler equations, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) finite element modeling
using commercial finite element (FEM) packages.
Dr Lynne McArthur - environmental modeling, economic value of sea grasses to
the fishing industry, the diffuse fraction of solar radiation, the effects
of sheep grazing on native flora in and rangelands, environmental and
natural resource modeling, mathematical and statistical modeling techniques.
Dr Melih Ozlen
- combinatorial optimization, multi-criteria optimization,
mathematical modeling, scheduling.
Dr Asha Rao - applying algebraic techniques to communications, coding and
information theory, discovery of new error-correcting codes, management and
standardisation issues and information security policy, monitoring of
standards and policy.
Dr Sergei Schreider - application of mathematical programming (LP, DP and
non-linear optimisation techniques) in economic modeling, hydrological
modeling and integrated assessment, environmental modeling and water
resources management, statistical analysis and forecasting of
quasi-stochastic time series.
Assoc.Prof. John Shepherd - analysis of nonlinear problems arising in
science and engineering, application of analytical techniques, notably
perturbation methods to such problems.
Dr Andrew Stacey - fuzzy logic, genetic algorithms and wavelets.
Dr Yan Wang - capture-recapture studies in wildlife biology and
epidemiology, mixture modules, survival analysis, statistical analysis in
epidemiology and other areas.
Prof. Panlop Zeephongsekul - stochastic modeling of queueing phenomena e.g.
internet traffic, software reliability analysis, classification involving
boosting techniques, game theory and applications.
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Queensland University of Technology
Prof. Vo Anh –stochastic modeling of spatio-temporal nonlinear diffusion
processes with multi-fractal characteristics, statistical estimation and
approximation of anomalous diffusion, diffusion and transport of saltwater
in coastal aquifers, applied probability, stochastic modeling, time series
analysis, environmental modeling, financial modeling.
Dr. Harry Bartlett – security of encryption algorithms and discrete
mathematics.
Prof. Peter Bartlett – statistics, combinatorics, machine learning,
statistical learning theory, and adaptive control, bridging computer science
and statistics.
Prof. Kevin Burrage – systems biology, computational biology,
computational mathematics, how a living cell functions from gene regulation
through to cascading reactions in the cell, biology and stochastic modelling
and multiscale simulation techniques, new and innovative algorithms for
solving complex problems using computational techniques.
Dr. Troy Farrell – applied mathematical modeling, electrochemically active
porous media, perturbation methods, and liquid/binary gas interfaces,
thermal modeling of large-scale biomass stockpiles, optimisation of
dye-sensitized solar cells, the optimisation of lithium metal phosphate
batteries.
Dr. Glenn Fulford – tear film dynamics, infectious disease modeling, heat and
moisture transport in bagasse stockpiles.
Prof. Erhan Kozan – Health: designing robust reactive scheduling systems
for emergency medical services, emergency health, Services: demand and
service delivery models, statistical and mathematical modelling to improve
health care outcomes in hospitals, Railways: dynamic train scheduling,
techniques for capacity determination in railways, reducing transport costs
through the automation of schedule generation in sugar industry, Seaports:
integrated systems to optimise container transfers at multimodal terminals.
Prof. Helen MacGillivray – quantitative diversity, teaching and
assessment of statistical thinking within and across disciplines,
developing, selecting and fitting generalised distributional families, with
particular applications in finance, statistical education, mathematical
education, tertiary teaching and learning.
Assoc.Prof. Dann Mallet –investigating biological cell interactions
using mathematical techniques, infectious diseases such as Chlamydia and
HIV, biological cells and the immune system, tumour growth, tertiary
education assessment strategies, including online assessment and criterion
referenced assessment in mathematics, designing collaborative learning
activities, multiple representations in teaching undergraduate mathematics.
Dr. Scott McCue – effect of surface tension on melting small particles,
bubble contraction in Hele-Shaw cells, waveless free surface flows, granular
flows in continuum mechanics, fluid mechanics, stefan problems, free–surface
flows, asymptotic analysis, granular materials.
Dr. James McGree – Bayesian adaptive design for dose-finding studies, design
of screening experiments, modeling pharmacokinetics in horses.
Prof. Kerrie Mengersen - Bayesian learning, statistical modeling in
industry, environment and health, and statistical methods for biosecurity,
theory and methods of statistical modeling and analysis, Bayesian
statistics, computational methods for statistics, statistics in environment,
health, genetics, imaging, and statistical consulting.
Dr. Timothy Moroney – modeling saltwater intrusion in Queensland coastal
aquifers, and high accuracy finite volume methods in two and three
dimensions, numerical linear algebra, finite volume methods, and scientific
computation.
Prof. Graeme Pettet – mathematical and computational modeling of
laboratory grown skin, mathematical and computational modeling of callus
formation during bone fracture repair, and chemotactically driven travelling
waves, cell migration, cancer growth and wound healing, bone repair, tissue
engineered constructs, chemotactic and haptotactic travelling waves, hybrid
continuum/CA computational models.
Prof. Tony Pettitt – neurology and motor unit number estimation,
statistical inference for transmission of pathogens and diseases, and
Bayesian statistical computation.
Dr. Matthew Simpson – modeling the movement of adhesive cells and cell
proliferation.
Dr. Douglas Stebila – combinatorics, optimization, cryptography, elliptic
curve cryptography, key exchange, protocols, quantum cryptography, secure
sockets layer, secure sockets layer (SSL), security and web security.
Dr. Helen Thompson – modeling in health, industry, environment and finance,
optimal design of experiments.
Prof. Ian Turner [Head of Discipline] – applicable mathematics and
advanced computation, modeling the drying of wood, saltwater intrusion in
Queensland coastal aquifers, development of iterative methods for solving
large, nonlinear systems, numerical solution of fractional partial
differential equations, multiscale modeling in porous media, numerical
solution of partial differential equations, numerical linear algebra,
computational modeling in porous media, finite volume methods, and Krylov
subspace methods.
Dr. Qianqian Yang – mathematical biology, mathematical finance, numerical
methods for solving fractional-order PDEs.
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