Current research students

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)
Muhammad Afifurrahman	PhD student	View profile	m.afifurrahman	Pure	Multiplicative structure of rational functions and their values over global fields	Alina Ostafe and Igor Shparlinski
Mehreen Afzaal	PhD student		a.afzaal	Statistics	Regression- A Symbolic Data Analysis using Meta-Analysis - A modified approach	Boris Beranger and Jake Olivier
Kabir Agrawal	PhD student		z5163206	Applied	Ocean current forecast verification with high-resolution satellite altimetry	Shane Keating and Moninya Roughan
Mst. Bithi Akter	PhD student		mst_bithi.akter	Statistics	Universal Copula Modeling	Gery Geenens and Sprio Penev
Aayush Bhattacharya	PhD student		a.bhattacharya	Pure	Establish the new Schur-Weyl duality for I-quantum groups and Hecke algebras in the non-semisimple world	Jie Du
Zelong Bi	PhD student		zelong.bi	Statistics	Statistical dependence between random vectors of arbitrary dimensions	Gery Geenens and Pierre Lafaye de Micheaux
Josef Bisits	PhD student		z5131023	Applied	Non-linear controls on ocean circulation and mixing in marginal ice zones	Jan Zika
Stuart-James Burney	PhD student		z5099006	Applied	Modelling anomalous reactions and anomalous diffusion in complex heterogeneous media	Chris Angstmann
Daniel Chee	PhD student		z5209546	Statistics	Enhancing interest rate and credit risk modelling using optimal transport theory	Libo Li and Ben Goldys
Isabela Conde	PhD student		z5459068	Applied	Drivers and impacts of variability in the tropical sea surface temperature distribution	Jan Zika
Joshua Connor	PhD student		z5252926	Applied	Develop and validate fast, accurate mathematical methods for calculating the surface and interior wake "fingerprint" of submerged moving vessels	Shane Keating and Scott Sisson
Chandler Corrigan	PhD student		z5206374	Pure	The Analytic Theory of $L$-functions	Liangyi Zhao
Daniel Czapski	PhD student		z5117950	Pure	Free probability; generalisation of Poisson random processes to non-commutative probability spaces	Dmitriy Zanin and Fedor Sukochev
Christian De Nicola Larsen	PhD student	View profile	z5117550	Pure	Mathematical Modelling of Field Theories	Arnaud Brothier
Patrick Donovan	MSC(Research)		patrick.donovan	Pure	Ancient Ricci Flow on four-manifolds with symmetries	Tim Buttsworth and Michael Cowling
Reg Dowse	MSC(Research)		r.dowse	Applied	Tilting of mesoscale ocean eddies in the Tasman Sea	Shane Keating and Moninya Roughan
Daniel Dunmore	PhD student		d.dunmore	Pure	Module Categories over Soergel Bimodules	Anna Romanov and Arnaud Brothier
Thomas Dunmore	PhD student		t.dunmore	Pure	Classification of fusion categories; module categories; quadratic categories; Brauer-Picard groupoids	Pinhas Grossman and Anna Romanov
Benjamin Duthie	PhD student		d.duthie	Statistics	Predictive Uncertainty with Incomplete Information for Deep Learning	Scott Sisson
David Farrell	PhD student		david.farrell	Pure	Harmonic Analysis and Operator Theory	Dimitriy Zanin and Denis Potapov
Tasman Fell	MSC(Research)		t.fell	Pure	Singular Soergel bimodules and the light leaves basis	Anna Romanov and Jie Du
Saman Forouzandeh	PhD student	View profile	z5318340	Statistics	Users Classification with Network Embedding and Fuzzy Decision Tree	Pavel Krivitsky and Wenjie Zhang
Shenghan Gao	PhD student		z5373171	Statistics	Theory and Applications of distributionally robust statistical inference	Spiridon Penev and Leung Lung Chan
Joshua Graham	PhD student		joshua.graham	Pure	Equivariant motivic cohomology and homotopy - extending C2-equivariant motivic cohomology to any finite group G.	Mircea Voineagu and DanielChan
William Hadden	PhD student		z5458618	Pure	A Machine Learning Approach to Geometric Equations	Tim Buttsworth and Quoc Le Gia
Joshua Ham	PhD student		z5298408	Pure	Equivariant Motivic/Topological Cell Structures	Mircea Voineagu and Jie Du
Peter Hanna	PhD student		z3254418	Statistics	Novel feature selection algorithms and their efficient implementation in linear and generalised linear models	Zdravko Botev
Michael Harm	PhD student		z5439694	Pure	The Ternary Goldbach problem with restricted primes	Igor Shparlinski and Bryce Kerr
Eva-Maria Hekkelman	PhD student		z5369973	Pure	Connecting the Density of States with Noncommutative Geometry	Fedor Sukochev
Boris Zhou Huang	PhD Student		z5062113	Pure	Non-Markovian Mathematic Models on Natural Phenomenon	Christopher Angstmann
Yingkun (Queenie) Huang	PhD student	View profile	z5173467	Applied	Robust Semi-Algebraic Optimisation: Theory, Methods, and Applications	Jeya Jeyakumar and Guoyin Li
Amuchechukwu Ibenegbu	PhD student		z5516899	Statistics	Spatio-Temporal Disease Mapping of Prevalence of High Blood Pressure in Nigeria Using INLA	Rohitash Chandra and Pierre Lafaye de Micheaux
Siddharth Iyer	PhD student		z5370011	Pure	Heilbronn sets and exponential sums	Igor Shparlinski
Ahmad Hakiim Bin Jamaluddin	PhD student	View profile	z5323238	Statistics	Advances in symbolic data analysis	Scott Sisson and Boris Beranger
Qian Jin	PhD student		z5235218	Statistics	Statistical Analysis of Medical Scanner Images of the Lungs using Deep Learning Techniques	Pierre Lafaye de Micheaux and Clara Grazian (USyd)
Arpit Kapoor	PhD student		z5370003	Statistics	Bayesian Deep Learning for Spatio-Temporal modelling with applications in Earth and Environment Sciences	Rohitash Chandra and Sahani Pathiraja
Kevin Kuhl Oliveira	PhD student		k.kuhi_oliveira	Applied	Machine Learning and Operator-Theoretic Methods for Nonlinear Dynamical Systems	Gary Froyland
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
Samudra Lamahewage	PhD student		z5394603	Statistics	Uncertainty Quantification in Natural Resources	Sahani Pathiraja
Jason Lambe	PhD student		z5205711	Statistics	Particle filtering techniques for point processes with incomplete data	Thomas Stindl and Feng Chen
Yat Long Lee	PhD student		z5321396	Applied	Operator-theoretic and differential geometric approaches to machine learning; Differential and spectral geometry with applications to fluid mixing	Gary Froyland
Hongzhi Liao	PhD student	View profile	z5380281	Applied	Geometry in Projection Methods and Fixed-Point Theory	Vera Roshchina
Jimeng Lu	PhD student	View profile	z5315704	Applied	The Uniform Approximation Property of Non-commutative Spaces	Fedor Sukochev
Yiyi Ma	PhD student		z5392067	Statistics	Data Science and Environment	Scott Sisson and Lucy Marshall
Anson MacDonald	PhD student		z5405001	Statistics	Particle-Based Variational Inference with Graph and Time-Series Applications	Sahani Pathiraja and 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 and Gordana Popovic
Samuel Mason	PhD student		z1058231	Statistics	Spatio-Temporal Species Distribution Models	David Warton
Dominic Matan	PhD student	View profile	z5308717	Pure	Non-commutative Sarkisov program	Daniel Chan
Anant Mathur	PhD student	View profile	z5110079	Statistics	Computational Statistics and Data Science	Zdravko Botev and Sarat Moka
Gabriel Nakhl	PhD student		z5146197	Applied	This topic explores the unique characteristics of fractional order differential equations with nonlocal boundary conditions. It involves investigating the existence and uniqueness of solutions and developing methods for solving such equations.	Chris Goodrich and Thomas Britz
Yerlan Nessipbayev	PhD student		z5380332	Pure	Weak compactness criteria in non commutative symmetric spaces	Dmitriy Zanin and Fedor Sukochev
Jeremy Nugent	PhD student		z3372465	Pure	Classification of Semi-Degenerate superintegrable systems.	Jonathan Kress
Greta Paget	PhD student		z5163100	Applied	Atmospheric and oceanographic dynamics of extreme weather events in a future world with net zero carbon emissions. Understanding these future events will inform mitigation and adaptation options for policymakers.	Jan Zika and Sarah Kirkpatrick
Yun Pan	PhD student		z3207280	Statistics	Statistics of network valued data	Pavel Krivitsky and Feng Chen
Nicholas Peters	PhD student		z5548838	Applied	Operator based techniques for the analysis of dynamical systems	Gary Froyland
Guoxing Ren	PhD student		z5611125	Statistics	LLM for media and religion	Rohitash Chandra and Eka Shinjikashvili
Farwa Saleem	PhD student		z5548878	Pure	Developing modern statistical methods for ecology, will help to address the challenge of measuring treatment effects in multivariate ecological data where individual species may respond differently to treatments	Daniel Chan
Ryan Seelig	PhD student	View profile	z5117505	Pure	Utilising Jones actions to study forest groups	Arnaud Brothier and Pinhas Grossman
Brock Sherlock	PhD student		z5207429	Applied	The mathematics of stochastic transport and signalling in cells	Adelle Coster and Michael Watson
Agus Leonardi Soenjaya	PhD student		z5391137	Applied	Theoretical and numerical analysis of Landau-Lifshitz-type equations	Thanh Tran
Abirami Srikumar	PhD student	View profile	z5116695	Applied	Theory and application of Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods	Frances Kuo, Ian Sloan and Alexander Gilbert
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 and Maarit Laaksonen
Hopein Christofen Tang	PhD student		z5459056	Pure	Improved Lee distance bound and optimal linear codes over Z4	Thomas Britz and Catherine Greenhill
Aneurin Taylor	PhD student		z5415919	Pure	Purple Ramsey: on the largest number m=m(n,s,t) such that there is a red/blue/purple-colouring of the n-clique with m purple edges without containing a red-purple s-clique nor a blue-purple t-clique.	Anita Liebenau
Noah Vinod	PhD student		z5255691	Applied	Efficient Numerical Methods for the Landau-Lifshitz Equation	Thanh Tran
Qi (Wenky) Wang	MSC(Research)		qi.wang21	Applied	Algebraic techniques for polynomial optimization	Mareike Dressler
Lokuliyana Waduge (Dilshan) Wijesena	PhD student		z5160361	Pure	Jones Representations of Thompson's Groups	Arnaud Brothier and Daniel Chan
Coralie Williams	PhD student		z5394590	Statistics	Developing new statistical methods for meta-analysis for ecological and environmental applications and beyond	David Warton and Shinichi Nakagawa
Haoxuan (Peter) 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	Guoyin Li
Hanwen Xuan	PhD student	View profile	z5113694	Statistics	Bayesian Extension of Black-Litterman (BL) Asset Allocation Model through Copula Representation	Feng Chen and Clara Grazian
Leyao Zha	PhD student		l.zha@unsw.edu.au	Pure	Steenrod algebra in equivariant motivic homotopy	Mircea Voineagu and Jie Du
Shuo Zhang	PhD student		shou.zhang5	Statistics	Credit risk modeling and evaluation, point processes, machine learning and its application in credit risk modeling	Feng Chen and Jinxia Zhu
Victor Zhang	PhD student		z5258941	Pure	Diagrammatic Lusztig-Vogan categories	Anna Romanov and Pinhas Grossman
Yu Zhang	MSC(Research)		yu.zhang46	Applied	Nonlinear ordinary differential equations and problems from fluid flow	Chris Tisdell
Jiarui Zhao	PhD student		z5365201	Statistics	Pricing compound options in modified stochastic models	Leung Lung Chan, Spirondon Penev and Josef Dick

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