Current research students | School of Mathematics and Statistics

Please see below for a list of our current Postgraduate Research students.

A list of former Postgraduate Research students, with links to their theses, is also available.

Name	Degree	Profile	Email @unsw.edu.au	Department	Research area	Supervisor(s)
Meiram Akhymbek	PhD student	View profile	z5180166	Pure	Principal trace function of Carey-Pincus in semifinite setting and its connections with spectral shift functions	Fedor Sukochev
Christian Bagshaw	PhD student	View profile	z5351605	Pure	Integers with Prescribed Arithmetic Structure in Residue Classes	Igor Shparlinski
Aayush Bhattacharya	PhD student		z5380638	Pure	Establish the new Schur-Weyl duality for I-quantum groups and Hecke algebras in the non-semisimple world	Shane Keating
Josef Bisits	PhD student		z5131023	Applied	Non-linear controls on ocean circulation and mixing in marginal ice zones	Jan Zika
Christopher Bladwell	PhD student	View profile	z3131429	Applied	Quantifying Global Water Cycle Change using Ocean Observations	Jan Zika
Daniel Boettger	PhD student	View profile	z3126833	Applied	Improving the representation of the ocean surface mixed layer in an operational ocean forecast model	Shane Keating
Yudhi Bunjamin	PhD student	View profile	yudhi	Pure	Block ordering of block designs	Catherine Greenhill & Diana Combe
Stuart-James Burney	PhD student		z5099006	Applied	Modelling anomalous reactions and anomalous diffusion in complex heterogeneous media	Christopher Angstmann
Zhi Yee Chng	PhD student		z5080917	Pure	On the Ramsey-type results in graph theory	Thomas Britz
Christian De Nicola Larsen	PhD student	View profile	z5117550	Pure	Mathematical Modelling of Field Theories	Arnaud Brothier
Michael Denes	PhD student	View profile	m.denes	Applied	Mathematical oceanography, in particular identifying Langrarian Coherent Structures in the ocean using multi-drifter trajectory data	Gary Froyland & Shane Keating
Bill Deng	PhD student	View profile	z3424641	Pure	RO(K)-graded cohomology, where K is the Klein 4-group, and its relationship with the Bredon motivic cohomology of the real field.	Mircea Voineagu
Benjamin Duthie	PhD student		z5137294	Statistics	Predictive Uncertainty with Incomplete Information for Deep Learning	Pavel Krivitsky
Youstina Hamdy Maurice Elzahaby	PhD student	View profile	z5145747	Applied	Predicting Marine Heatwaves using Machine Learning	Amandine Schaeffer
John Fitzgerald	PhD student	View profile	z3141288	Applied	Drawing and counting legislation - will it help? (Faculty of Law)	Thomas Britz
Saman Forouzandeh	PhD student	View profile	z5318340	Statistics	Users Classification with Network Embedding and Fuzzy Decision Tree	Pavel Krivitsky
Joshua Graham	PhD student		joshua.graham	Pure	Equivariant Motivic Cohomology and Homotopy	Mircea Voineagu & Daniel Chan
Joshua Ham	PhD student		z5298408	Pure	Equivariant Motivic/Topological Cell Structures	Mircea Voineagu
Eva-Maria Hekkelman	PhD student		z5369973	Pure	Connecting the Density of States with Noncommutative Geometry	Fedor Sukochev
Joshua Ho	PhD student	View profile	z8552568	Pure	Chromogeometry and cubics over finite fields	Daniel Chan
Ahmad Hakiim Jamaluddin	PhD student	View profile	z5323238	Statistics	Classification for non-linear high-dimensional imbalanced two-group data	Scott Sisson
Qian Jin	PhD student		z5235218	Applied	Statistical Analysis of Medical Scanner Images of the Lungs using Deep Learning Techniques	David Harvey
Xiongwen Ke	PhD student	View profile	z5041294	Applied	Bayesian inference and Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulation	Yanan Fan
Fiona Kim	PhD student	View profile	f.kim	Statistics	The role of unconscious bias in higher education	Yanan Fan
Max Kulinich	PhD student	View profile	z5189919	Statistics	Statistical Methods for Climate Model Ensembles	Yanan Fan
Tsz-Kit Jeffrey Kwan	PhD student	View profile	z3416374	Statistics	Self-exciting process, Point process, limit theory, asymptotic inference, financial data analysis, point pattern analysis	Feng Chen
Madeleine Kyng	PhD student	View profile	z3424670	Pure	Computing zeta functions of algebraic curves over finite fields, specifically to extend a method to handle plane curves with arbitrary singularities	David Harvey
Yandong Lang	PhD student		z5233717	Applied	Deriving new ways of constructing approximately neutral surfaces	Trevor McDougall
Daniel Lee	PhD student	View profile	z3414843	Applied	Modelling the transport of the Bluebottle with Lagrangian particle tracking methods. The module will be developed and used to investigate the influence of ocean currents and winds on the BB drift and determine its origin at sea.	Amandine Schaeffer
Thomas Lesgourgues	PhD student	View profile	t.lesgourgues	Pure	Extremal and probabilistic graph theory	Anita Liebenau
Hongzhi Liao	PhD student		z5380281	Applied	Geometry in Projection Methods and Fixed-Point Theory	Vera Roshchina
Michelle Lim	PhD student	View profile	z5227816	Statistics	Statistical Methods for Ecological Restoration	David Warton
Guanting Liu	PhD student	View profile	z3493036	Statistics	Stochastic Processes and Their Simulations	Libo Li
Jimeng Lu	PhD student	View profile	z5315704	Applied	The Uniform Approximation Property of Non-commutative Spaces	Fedor Sukochev
Sean Lynch	PhD student	View profile	s.b.lynch	Pure	Noncommutative number theory	Daniel Chan & Liangyi Zhao
Anson MacDonald	PhD student		z5405001	Statistics	Particle-Based Variational Inference with Graph and Time-Series Applications	Scott Sisson
Ben Maslen	PhD student	View profile	z5034729	Statistics	Development of CNN methods and consequent multivariate modelling of misclassification errors of fish in underwater videos	David Warton & Gordana Popovic
Samuel Mason	PhD student		z1058231	Applied	Spatio-Temporal Species Distribution Models	Ian Doust
Anant Mathur	PhD student	View profile	z5110079	Statistics	Computational Statistics and Data Science	Zdravko Botev
Maeve McGillycuddy	PhD student	View profile	z5234510	Statistics	Model-Based Assessment of Treatment Effect in Multivariate Abundance Data	David Warton & Gordana Popovic
Yerlan Nessipbayev	PhD student		z5380332	Pure	Compactness criteria in commutative and non-commutative symmetric spaces	Fedor Sukochev
Jeremy Nugent	PhD student	View profile	j.nugent	Pure	Higher order symmetries of Lorentzian manifolds	Jonathan Kress & Joshua Capel
Yun Pan	PhD student		z3207280	Statistics	Statistics of network valued data	Pavel Krivitsky
Prosha Rahman	PhD student	View profile	p.a.rahman	Statistics	Generalised solutions in symbolic data analysis	Boris Beranger & Scott Sisson
Gavin Robertson	PhD student	View profile	z5076276	Pure	Geometric properties of finite dimensional Banach spaces	Ian Doust
Christopher Rock	PhD student	View profile	z3415192	Applied	Discovering the Hidden Influence of Coherent Structures in Complex Geophysical Flows	Gary Froyland
Jackson Ryder	PhD student	View profile	z5290276	Pure	Noncommutative Projective Geometry	Daniel Chan
Ryan Seelig	PhD student		z5117505	Pure	Utilising Jones actions to study forest groups	Arnaud Brothier
Brock Sherlock	PhD student		z5207429	Applied	The mathematics of stochastic transport and signalling in cells	Adelle Coster
Abirami Srikumar	PhD student	View profile	z5116695	Applied	Theory and application of Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods	Frances Kuo
Alan Stoneham	PhD student	View profile	a.stoneham	Pure	Integration theory for sigma operators	Ian Doust
Dinh Duy Tran	PhD student	View profile	z5055238	Applied	Application of Bayesian statistics to inverse problems and high dimensional computation in finance	Josef Dick
Rianti Siswi Utami	PhD student	View profile	z5290421	Statistics	Joint Models of Longitudinal Data and Recurrent Events with Time-varying Covariates and a Dependent Terminal Event	Jake Olivier & Pierre Lafaye De Micheaux
Lokuliyana Waduge (Dilshan) Wijesena	PhD student		z5160361	Pure	Jones Representations of Thompson's Groups	Arnaud Brothier
Haoxuan Wu	PhD student	View profile	z3466329	Applied	Proposing a fast algorithm to solve Non-convex sparse optimisation problems and demonstrating algorithm on real world problems such as image restoration, machine learning and signal denoising	Guoyin Li
Zhuoshu Wu	PhD student	View profile	z5224078	Statistics	Stochastic processes and their applications	Libo Li & Ben Goldys
Hanwen Xuan	PhD student	View profile	z5113694	Statistics	Bayesian Extension of Black-Litterman (BL) Asset Allocation Model through Copula Representation	Feng Chen
Kai Yi	PhD student	View profile	z5174804	Statistics	Bayesian Inference and Computation, Graph Neural Network	Yanan Fan
Jiefei Yu	PhD student	View profile	z5202534	Statistics	Bayesian Inference and Computation, Graph Neural Network	Leung Chan
Ashwaq Zarban	PhD student	View profile	z5194292	Statistics	Bayesian Inference and Computation, Graph Neural Network	Donna Salopek & David Colwell
Leyang Zhao	PhD student	View profile	z5167073	Statistics	Optimization methods for stochastic processes	Spiridon Penev & Guoyin Li
Hongyin Zhao	PhD student	View profile	z5307561	Pure	Multipliers on locally compact groups	Fedor Sukochev
Anny Francis	Masters research student		z3415655	Statistics	Approximate methods in Bayesian Statistics	Robert Kohn & Scott Sisson
Zhe Han	Masters research student		z5050419	Applied	Inference for point processes and its applications in financial data modelling and analysis	Feng Chen & Tom Stindl
James Ross	Masters research student	View profile	z3375232	Pure	Design and analysis of a Markov chain for sampling regular hypergraphs	Catherine Greenhill
Honghui Wang	Masters research student		z5380423	Statistics	Research on Application of Artificial Intelligence in Wi-Fi Indoor Positioning Fingerprinting Methods	Rohitash Chandra