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Scholarship-funded research projects
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Value-added sustainable manufacturing of composite bipolar plates for redox flow batteries
Develop composite bipolar plates for redox flow batteries, a critical component in renewable energy storage systems.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Bin Luo
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Engineering
Learning-based control strategies for personalised and socially aware automated vehicles
Develop learning-based control methods for automated vehicles that tailor driving behaviour to passengers while remaining safe and considerate in mixed human-AV traffic.
- Supervisor
- Dr Weiming Zhao
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Engineering
Lifestyle, decision-making, and behaviour: econometric analysis and experiments using wearable and online chess data
Study how sleep, exercise, diet and environment affect cognitive performance and behaviour using wearable and online chess data, applied econometrics, behavioural economics and experiments.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor David Smerdon
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Economics
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
mRNA cancer vaccines
Involve design and testing of personalised mRNA cancer vaccines that can provoke robust and durable immune responses.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Seth Cheetham
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biomedical and clinical sciences
New scalable organic synthesis methods based on electrolysis
Work on a project dealing with the development of novel synthetic electrochemical methods and their transfer to scalable flow systems.
- Supervisor
- Dr David Cantillo
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Chemical sciences
Archaeology and cultural heritage management in risk assessment
Investigate the role of archaeology and cultural heritage management in risk assessment and remedy processes within the mining industry. Undertake in-depth research with one or more of the Training Centre’s partner organisations or other organisations.
- Supervisor
- Dr John Burton and Professor Bronwyn Fredericks
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- History, heritage and archaeology, Human society, Indigenous studies
Cultural heritage's presence in resource sector decision-making
Explore how archaeological and cultural heritage knowledge influences capital investment decisions in the resources sector. Undertake in-depth research with one or more of the Training Centre’s partner organisations or other organisations.
- Supervisor
- Professor Deanna Kemp and Professor Bronwyn Fredericks
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- History, heritage and archaeology, Human society, Indigenous studies