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Enhancing Efficiency of Foundational Models
Explore techniques such as model sparsity, knowledge distillation, and task-specific adaptation to reduce computational overhead without sacrificing performance.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Mahsa Baktashmotlagh
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Information and computing sciences
First Nations perspectives: Curse and cure of deadly venoms
Engage with First Nations communities to discover and exchange Traditional Knowledge and management of envenomation.
- Supervisor
- Dr Jared Miles
- Location
- Dutton Park
- Research areas
- Biological sciences, Biomedical and clinical sciences, Environmental sciences, Health sciences, Indigenous studies, Language, communication and culture
Major hidden source of land-based nutrients affecting Australian estuaries
Investigate organic and particulate nutrients as a hidden driver of water quality decline, aiming to improve predictive models and inform catchment management.
- Supervisor
- Dr Leslie Huang
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Chemical sciences, Environmental sciences
Nanotechnologies for Tuberculosis detection and diagnostics
This project will develop nanotechnologies to capture and sequester Tuberculosis (TB) from clinical samples to identify and characterise TB, making it quicker to diagnose drug-resistant TB.
- Supervisor
- Professor Mark Blaskovich and Dr Sanjaya KC
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences, Biomedical and clinical sciences, Chemical sciences, Health 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
Unsteady turbulence dynamics in pulsatile pipe flow
Experiments will reveal how non-sinusoidal pulsation (accelerate–decelerate–hold) reshapes turbulence at high Reynolds numbers in the lab.
- Supervisor
- Dr Navid Freidoonimehr
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Engineering
Using causal epidemiological approaches to understanding the causes and consequences of endometrial cancer
Investigate causes of subtypes of endometrial cancer (EC) that have increased over time and will assess survival experience of women after a diagnosis of EC using causal epidemiology frameworks.
- Supervisor
- Professor Susan Jordan
- Location
- Herston
- Research areas
- Health 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
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
From chaos to cure: decoding recovery and repair after spinal cord injury
Decode the inflammatory pathways that drive repair and recovery after spinal cord injury, integrating multi-omics, wet lab, and computational approaches to validate key mechanisms and targets.
- Supervisor
- Professor Marc Ruitenberg, Professor Jana Vukovic and Dr Laura Grice
- Location
- Dutton Park
- Research areas
- Biomedical and clinical sciences