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Revolutionise Australian Strata Management with Large Language Models
Develop Australia’s first strata management system powered by large language models.
- Supervisor
- Professor Hongzhi Yin and Dr Tong Chen
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Information and computing sciences
Forecasting extreme animal population events: Modelling house mouse plagues in the Australian grainbelt
Improve near-term forecasting, understanding or management of house mouse outbreaks harming agricultural communities using multi-modal climate, earth observation and monitoring data (ecology, statistics, data science, mathematics).
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Andries B. Potgieter
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences, Earth sciences, Environmental sciences, Information and computing sciences, Mathematical sciences
Understanding nonequilibrium steady states
Improve understanding of systems important to advanced materials and decarbonisation using new methods for the efficient calculation of nonequilibrium steady state properties.
- Supervisor
- Dr Stephen Sanderson and Professor Debra Bernhardt
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Chemical sciences, Mathematical sciences, Physical sciences
Agentic recommender systems with large language models
Investigate the use of language models as intelligent agents for modern recommendations in various online platforms. The outcome will include contributions to the application of recommender systems that can be widely applied.
- Supervisor
- Dr Ruihong Qiu
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Information and computing sciences
Coupling green hydrogen production with biomass waste valorisation
Explore a new way to make hydrogen production greener and more efficient, by pairing it with the conversion of biomass waste into valuable chemicals, using specially designed catalysts.
- Supervisor
- Dr Haijiao Lu and Professor Lianzhou Wang
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Chemical sciences, Engineering
Engineering next-generation nanocatalysts for solar-driven production of methanol
Design and synthesise advanced nanostructured catalysts that harness sunlight to convert CO2 and CO into green methanol under mild, energy-efficient conditions.
- Supervisor
- Dr Haijiao Lu and Professor Lianzhou Wang
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Chemical sciences, Engineering
Unravelling the photothermal effect in solar methanol synthesis
Combine hands-on catalyst experiments with computational modelling to understand how light and heat work together in solar catalysis and use these insights to guide better catalyst design.
- Supervisor
- Dr Haijiao Lu and Professor Lianzhou Wang
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Chemical sciences, Engineering
Data-driven optimisation for next-generation digital manufacturing systems
Advance the field of digital manufacturing through the development of next-generation data analytics techniques. The research, part of ARC ITRH, aims to enable real-time monitoring, process optimisation, and predictive decision-making across complex manufacturing workflows.
- Supervisor
- Professor Helen Huang and Dr Yadan Luo
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Information and computing sciences
Responsive representation learning for dynamic video-sharing platforms
Develop novel representation learning algorithms to predict and leverage changes in video-sharing platforms, enabling responsive recommendation, interaction modelling, and insight extraction for evolving content and user behaviour.
- Supervisor
- Professor Helen Huang and Dr Yadan Luo
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Information and computing sciences
A universal aphasia battery for assessing language disorders in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who speak traditional languages and creoles
Develop aphasia assessments for several Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander traditional languages and creoles, by working in collaboration with Indigenous Australians.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Stephen Wilson and Professor David Copland
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biomedical and clinical sciences, Health sciences, Indigenous studies, Language, communication and culture, Psychology