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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
Understanding emergent antibiotic-resistant uropathogenic E. coli
Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are one of the most common infectious diseases, with a global annual incidence of ~400 million cases. Uropathogenic E. coli (UPEC) is the major cause of UTI and associated with increasing antibiotic resistance. This project will employ molecular and genomic methods to understand antibiotic resistant UPEC.
- Supervisor
- Professor Mark Schembri and Dr hu Nguyen
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences
A Reliable and Secure Net-Zero Power System for Australia
This project aims to develop new knowledge to enable the secure integration of variable renewable electricity generators into the electricity system and a new, coordinated power system solution to deliver operational grid security. This project aims to apply data driven methods to provide advanced mathematical models for renewable generators.
- Supervisor
- Professor Tapan Saha and Associate Professor Ruifeng Yan
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Engineering
Development of novel composites for next generation wear products
You will develop novel wear-resistant composites with improved durability for high-performance applications. Focus areas include material wear performance, high-temperature resistance and process automation.
- Supervisor
- Dr Luigi Vandi
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Engineering
Performance-based fatigue assessment of concrete bridges incorporating high-performance materials
Develop a performance‑based framework to assess fatigue damage and remaining life of concrete bridges by integrating fracture mechanics, numerical modelling and monitoring data, including UHPC and FRP systems.
- Supervisor
- Professor Rebecca Gravina and Dr Yanlin Wang
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Engineering
Shared-volume antennas
Investigate novel design techniques for antennas sharing a single volume, either in multi-port 3D configurations or as planar shared apertures. Various decoupling or controlled coupling methods will be considered for implementation as single-element or in arrays. The project aims at future communications systems.
- Supervisor
- Professor Christophe Fumeaux and Dr Sasan Ahdi Rezaeieh
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Engineering