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Effective delivery of MgO for improving its antimicrobial potential
Investigate formulations and delivery strategies of magnesium oxide (MgO) to enhance antimicrobial activity and modulate gut microbiome in animals.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Amirali Popat
- Location
- UQ Dutton Park
- Research areas
- Agricultural, veterinary and food sciences, Biological sciences, Chemical sciences, Health sciences
Understanding Impact-Fatigue Damage in Steel Grinding Media
To understand the impact-fatigue phenomenon, we will investigate: Observable damage mechanisms & alloy performance trends; Critical stress for onset of fatigue; Velocity factors which differ between laboratory and industrial conditions.
- Supervisor
- Dr Jeff Gates and Dr Hamid Pourasiabi
- Location
- UQ St Lucia campus
- Research areas
- Engineering
Synthesis of organic solar cell materials
Involve the synthesis of new organic semiconducting materials for organic thin film solar cells.
- Supervisor
- Dr Paul Shaw and Professor Paul Burn
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Chemical sciences
Microbial nitrogen enhancement promote mined land sustainable rehabilitation
Develop impact-driven technology in the mining industry, to boost the biological N supply for nurturing native plants during the critical phases of mined land rehabilitation.
- Supervisor
- Dr Fang You and Professor Longbin Huang
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Environmental sciences
On Transferability of Machine Learning Models
Improve safety, transferability, and robustness in deep learning models. This project will be part the Data Science Research Group at the University of Queensland located in Brisbane.
- Supervisor
- Dr Mahsa Baktashmotlagh
- Location
- UQ St Lucia Campus
- Research areas
- Information and computing sciences
Privacy-Preservation with Large Language Models (LLMs)
The advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) has revolutionized natural language processing, allowing users to prompt queries and receive tailored responses across various domains, from generating text and code to performing tasks. You will contribute by proposing strategies that can mitigate these privacy and security concerns.
- Supervisor
- Dr Priyanka Singh and Professor Xue Li
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Engineering, Information and computing sciences, Mathematical sciences
Business and democracy: Power, profit and participation
Explain how business influences democracy.
- Supervisor
- Professor Daniel Nyberg
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Commerce, management, tourism and services, Human society, Philosophy and religious studies
Burden and Outcomes of Diabetes Hospitalisations
Investigate the national burden and outcomes of diabetes-related hospitalisations using patient-level linked population-wide data for the first time in Australia.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Isuru Ranasinghe
- Location
- The Prince Charles Hospital Campus
- Research areas
- Biomedical and clinical sciences
Understanding Human Intention and Performance
Develop algorithms to automatically analyse human sports quality and performance. It will also generate analysis reports to help human to improve their daily exercise efficiency and health conditions.
- Supervisor
- Dr Xin Yu
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Engineering, Information and computing sciences
Novel workflow for pan-genome-driven gene exploration, functional annotation and metabolic reconstruction
Develop new bioinformatic approaches to better leverage information within the pan-genome to improve the consistency and accuracy of gene-calling and functional annotation across a genre of organisms and then faithfully capture this information in metabolic reconstructions.
- Supervisor
- Dr Tim McCubbin
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Engineering, Information and computing sciences, Mathematical sciences