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Scholarship-funded research projects
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Data quality assessment and improvement methodologies for low-voltage power networks
Study how power flow simulation data sets for low-voltage power networks can be judged in terms of quality and sufficiency for different operational and planning use cases, and develop methodologies for improvement.
- Supervisor
- Professor Frederik Geth and Associate Professor Archie Chapman
- Location
- Springfield
- Research areas
- Engineering
High-performance electrodes for protonic ceramic fuel cells
Protonic ceramic fuel cells (PCFCs) are an electrochemical device for electricity generation from hydrogen with high efficiency at low temperature. But its widespread usage is hurdled by a lack of suitable electrodes. Develop high performance electrodes for PCFCs with high activity and high stability.
- Supervisor
- Professor John Zhu
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Chemical sciences, Engineering
ARC QuTech: Superfluid spintronics in bespoke optical potentials
Develop new approaches to atomtronic circuitry using the spinor Bose-Einstein condensate apparatus in the UQ BEC Laboratory. You will complete an internship placement with Infleqtion.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Tyler Neely and Professor Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Physical sciences
Augmented reality for community-led housing: designing interactive DIY training tools for sustainable tiny home construction
Investigate how interactive technologies can enable low socioeconomic status communities to participate in sustainable housing construction. Develop an AR-based DIY training tool that provides accessible guidance for designing and assembling tiny homes for non-expert users.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Dhaval Vyas and Dr Mehrnoosh Mirzaei
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Built environment and design, Information and computing sciences
Building responsible AI: Co-designing knowledge transfer solutions using generative AI
Bridge the gap between the principles of responsible AI and their measurable practice, by developing AI knowledge tools to empower end-user community groups. The potential benefit is to produce responsible AI solutions to help disability groups connect, communicate, share and learn.
- Supervisor
- Dr Peter Worthy, Dr Sarah Bentley and Dr Cara Stitzlein
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Information and computing sciences
Data-driven, agent-based modelling of multimodal micromobility systems
This PhD project will develop data-driven, agent-based models to capture multimodal micromobility dynamics, user behaviour and safety interactions, enabling network-level analysis under different policy and infrastructure scenarios.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Mehmet Yildirimoglu and Professor Zuduo Zheng
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Built environment and design, Engineering, Information and computing sciences, Mathematical sciences
Optimal design and allocation of micromobility infrastructure in urban networks
This PhD project will develop optimisation and simulation tools to determine how urban road space should be allocated for micromobility, balancing safety, efficiency and policy goals in multimodal transport networks.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Mehmet Yildirimoglu and Professor Zuduo Zheng
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Built environment and design, Engineering, Information and computing sciences, Mathematical sciences
Stress test of autonomous driving systems using AI and augmented virtual reality
You will focus on using cutting-edge AI based method to generate highly realistic vehicular trajectories and ultimately traffic dynamics with high criticality by learning from error-prone human-driving.
- Supervisor
- Professor Zuduo Zheng and Associate Professor Rocky Chen
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Engineering, Information and computing sciences, Mathematical sciences
Simon Anders Axelsen PhD Scholarship at IMB
This philanthropic scholarship will be awarded within three areas of research focus: • Cancers including rhabdomyosarcoma; • Alzheimers and dementia • Research that will assist those suffering with pain, allowing them to end their lives pain free.
- Supervisor
- TBA
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences, Biomedical and clinical sciences, Chemical sciences, Health sciences, Information and computing sciences
Compressed indexes for scalable genomic pattern matching and retrieval
Develop novel compressed indexes and querying algorithms for efficiently processing genomic sequence data at massive scales.
- Supervisor
- Dr Joel Mackenzie
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Information and computing sciences