Current Research Associates
- Dr Yuanjiang Cao, PostDoc Research Fellow
- Dr Yang Zhang, PostDoc Research Fellow
- Dr Jing Du, PostDoc Research Fellow
- Dr Fanzhen Liu, PostDoc Research Fellow
Current PhD Students
- Haochen Yuan (PhD). (Started in Apr 2024, from Harbin Institute of Technology)
- Dunlei Rong (PhD). (Started in Apr 2024, from Harbin Institute of Technology)
- Ghazal Lalooha (PhD). (Started in Apr 2024)
- Noorain Korai (PhD). (Started in Jan 2024)
- Fahmida Islam (MRes + PhD). (Started in Jan 2024)
- Saqr Thabet (PhD). (Started in Nov 2023)
- Xuelei Qi (PhD). (Started in May 2023)
- Elaf Abdulrahman Alhazmi (PhD). (Started in May 2023)
HDR Research Rising Star Award, School of Computing, Macquarie University, 2024
- Lashmi Kondoth (MRes + PhD). (Started in July 2022)
- Zhaoyang Zhang (Cotutelle PhD). (Started December 2021, from Wuhan University)
- Behnaz Soltani (PhD). (Started in Oct 2021)
Digital Finance CRC PhD Top-Up Scholarship, 2024-2025
HDR Research Rising Star Award, School of Computing, Macquarie University, 2023
- Venus Haghighi (PhD). (Started in Oct 2021)
Digital Finance CRC PhD Top-Up Scholarship, 2024-2025
HDR Research Rising Star Award, School of Computing, Macquarie University, 2024
Google Travel Grant, Google, 2024
- Haojie Zhuang (PhD, University of Adelaide). (Started in Oct 2021)
Previous Team Members
- Dr Yao Liu, ARC PostDoc Research Fellow, 2024, first job as an Assistant Professor at Northeastern University, China
- Munazza Zaib
(MRes+PhD). (Awarded in April 2024, first job as a PostDoc Research Fellow at Monash University)
Thesis Title: Towards Context-based Conversational Question Answering
Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) 2024
Executive Dean's Commendation for Academic Excellence in Year 2 Master of Research, 2021
- Yang Zhang
(Cotutelle PhD, from Wuhan University). (Awarded in December 2023)
Thesis Title: Towards Citation Function Classification: A Natural Language Processing Perspective
Vice-Chancellor's Commendation Award, 2024 - David Waterworth
(PhD). (Awarded in July 2023)
Thesis Title: Enabling Scalable Building Analytics Through Metadata Inference Methods
CSIRO PhD Topup Scholarship, 2020
- Ahoud Abdulrahmn Alhazmi,
(PhD). (Awarded in February 2023, first job as an academic at at Umm AI-Qura University)
Thesis Title: Defending against Adversarial Attacks on Deep Learning Models in Natural Lanugage Processing
- Dr Taotao Cai (PostDoc Research Fellow, 2020-2022, first job as a Lecturer at University of Southern Queensland)
- Kai Wang
(Cotutelle PhD). (Awarded in Dec 2022, from Dalian University of Technology, first job as a PostDoc at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Thesis Title: Knowledge Graph Representation Learning based on Low-Dimensional Embedding Space
HDR Research Rising Star Award, School of Computing, Macquarie University, 2022
- Subhash Sagar
(PhD). (Awarded in Dec 2022, first job as a postdoc at Deakin University)
Thesis Title: Trust Computational Heuristics for Social Internet of Things - Sarah Ali Siddiqui,
(PhD). (Awarded in Nov 2022, first job as a CSIRO Data61 PostDoc Fellow)
Thesis Title: Securing the Internet of Vehicles: A Trust Management Approach
Student/N2Women Travel Grant for MobiCom 2019
Best Student Paper Award PDCAT 2019
CSIRO Data61 PhD Topup Scholarship, 2020
- Dr Shoujin Wang (ARC PostDoc Research Fellow, 2019-2021, first job as a Lecturer at University of Sydney Technology)
Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) 2024
Club Melbourne Fellowship 2022 - Dr Shan Emma Xue (PostDoc Research Fellow, 2019-2022, first job as a Lecturer at University of Wollongong)
Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) 2022 - Abdulwahab Aljubairy,
(PhD). (Awarded in July 2022, first job as an academic at Umm AI-Qura University)
Thesis Title: Managing the Social Structure of the Internet of Things
- Zawar Hussain,
(PhD). (Awarded in Jan 2022, first job as a PostDoc at UNSW)
Thesis Title: Ubiquitous Human Activity Recognition for Healthcare Applications: A Study
- Dr Shuang Wang (PostDoc Research Fellow, 2020-2021, first job as an Assistant Professor at Southeast University, China)
- Salma Abdalla Hamad,
(PhD). (Awarded in Oct 2021, first job at TCS)
Thesis Title: Realizing a Security Framework for the Internet of Things
- Dai Hoang Tran,
(PhD). (Awarded in Jun 2021, first job at Oracle)
Thesis Title: Towards a New Generation of Deep Learning based Recommender Systems
Entrepreneurial Enrichment Program for PhD (EEPP) Award, 2018
CSIRO Data61 PhD Topup Scholarship, 2018
Best Paper Runner Up Award, WISE 2021
- Adnan Mahmood,
(PhD). (Awarded in Apr 2021, first job as a PostDoc at Macquarie University)
Thesis Title: Trust on Wheels---Towards Trust Management in the Internet of Vehicles
Macquarie University COVID Recovery Fellowship Award 2021
Best Student Paper Award PDCAT 2019
IEEE CS TCPP & TCCC Travel Grant for PerCom 2019 - Dr Tarique Anwar (PostDoc Research Fellow, 2019-2020, first job as a Lecturer at York University, UK)
- Khuyen Nguyen,
(PhD). (Awarded in Dec 2020, first job at ATO)
Thesis Title: From Theory to Practice: Towards Scalable and Smart Energy Monitoring based on the Intenet of Things
Entrepreneurial Enrichment Program for PhD (EEPP) Award, 2018
Best Paper Award IEEE SmartIoT 2020
- Tony Chen,
(PhD, University of Queensland). (Awarded in Oct 2019, Lecturer at UQ)
Thesis Title: Window Prediction of Situations based on Multivariant Multi-Time Series Data
ARC Early Career Industry Fellow 2024
Best Student Paper Award ADMA 2019
ICDM Student Travel Award, 2018
- Tran Khoi Nguyen,
(PhD, University of Adelaide). (Awarded in Oct 2018, undergraduate from International University, Vietnam National University, HCM City. First job as a PostDoc at University of Adelaide)
Thesis Title: A Reference Architecture and A Software Platform for Engineering Internet of Things Search Engines - Zhigang Lu, (PhD, University of Adelaide). (Awarded in 2020, first job as a Lecturer at James Cook University)
- Xiu Fang,
(PhD, Macquarie University). (Awarded in June 2018, undergraduate from Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Academic at Donghua University, Shanghai, China)
Thesis Title: Generating Actionable Knowledge from Big Data: Knowledge Extraction and Truth Discovery
ACM SIGMOD 2015 Travel Grant
- Abdullah Alfazi,
(PhD, University of Adelaide). (Awarded in 2018, first job as an Assistant Professor at Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University)
Thesis Title: Cloud Service Discovery and Analysis: A Unified Framework
- Wenjie Ruan
(PhD, University of Adelaide). (2017, undergraduate from Central South University, first job as a Research Fellow at Oxford University, UK.)
Thesis Title: Device-free Human Localization and Activity Recognition for Supporting the Independent Living of the Elderly
ARC DECRA 2019
ACM SIGIR 2016 Travel Grant
Research Internship at IoT Centre of Tsinghua University in 2015
Highly Commended Research Poster Award, ADC PhD School 2014
Dean's Commendation for Doctoral Thesis Excellence, 2017
- Wei Zhang
(PhD, University of Adelaide). (Awarded in June 2017, undergraduate from Wuhan University, first job as a Lecturer at the University of Adelaide)
Thesis Title: Managing Data from Knowledge Bases: Querying and Extraction
ARC Early Career Industry Fellow 2023
Research Internship at IBM Research Australia in 2016
ACM SIGIR 2016 Travel Grant
C9-Go8 HDR Forum Scholarship, 2015
CSIRO OCE Postgraduate Scholarship
ACM SIGIR 2014 Travel Grant
PhD work published as a monograph by Springer
- Dr Xianzhi Wang (ARC Research Associate 2014-2016, first job as a Lecturer at UTS).
ARC DECRA 2018
- Ali Shemshadi
(PhD). (Awarded in Sep 2016)
Thesis Title: Correlation Management and Search for the Internet of Things
Dean's Commendation for Doctoral Thesis Excellence, 2016
DR Stranks Fellowship, 2015
Highly Commended Research Poster Award, ADC PhD School 2014 - Ling Chen, (PhD). (UQ, awarded in Feb 2017, first job as an Assistant Professor at National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan)
- Yihong Zhang
(PhD). (Awarded in Oct 2016, first job as a Post-Doc at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Thesis Title: Source Profiling for Smart City Sensing - Scott Bourne
(PhD). (Awarded in Jan 2016, co-supervised with Claudia Szabo)
Thesis Title: Formal Verification of Transactional and Configurable Service-Oriented Processes
Dean's Commendation for Doctoral Thesis Excellence, 2016
Poster Presentation Award, 2012 CS Poster Day
- Yongrui Qin
(PhD). (Awarded in Nov 2015, undergraduate from Fudan University, first job as a Lecturer at University of Huddersfield, UK.)
Thesis Title: Managing Data Dynamics, Streams, and Sharing in the Internet of Things
Dean's Commendation for Doctoral Thesis Excellence, 2015
Research Internship at DERI in 2013
- Lina Yao (PhD). (Awarded in April 2014, undergraduate from Shandong University, ARC DECRA, first job as a Lecturer at University of New South Wales)
Thesis Title: Multidimensional Analysis of Heterogeneous Relationships in Internet of Things
ARC DECRA 2016
Women's Research Excellence Award, 2015
Dean's Commendation for Doctoral Thesis Excellence, 2014
ACM SIGIR 2014 Travel Grant
Google Fellowship Nomination, Google, 2013
Google PhD Travel Award, Google, 2012
Highly Commended Research Poster Award, ARC EII PhD Summer School 2010 - Lina Yao (PhD). (Awarded in April 2014, undergraduate from Shandong University, ARC DECRA, first job as a Lecturer at University of New South Wales)
- Muhammad Aufeef Chauhan, (PhD). (April to October 2014, visiting PhD student from IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
- Kewen Liao
(PhD), Co-supervised with Hong Shen. (Awarded in April 2014)
Thesis Title: Approximation Algorithms for Resource Allocation Optimization - Hoi Sim Wong, PhD (awarded in March 2013, first job as a senior researcher at ASTRI, Hong Kong)
- Talal Noor, PhD (awarded in November 2013, first job as an Assistant Professor at Taibah University, Yanbu, Saudi Arabia).
Thesis Title: Credibility-based Trust Management and Discovery of Cloud Services
Dean's Commendation for Doctoral Thesis Excellence, 2013 PhD work published as a monograph by Springer
- Sujith Samuel Mathew, PhD (awarded in September 2013, first job as an Assistant Professor at Zayed University, UAE).
Thesis Title: Classifying and Clustering the Web of Things
- Yanbo Wu, PhD (awarded in April 2012, undergraduate from Tsinghua University, China. First job as a lecturer at Beijing Jiaotong University)
Thesis Title: Enabling Traceability in Large-Scale RFID Networks
IBM Internship at Almaden Research Center in 2010
Google PhD Top-Up Scholarship, Google, 2011
World Champion of TopCoder Competition, 2010 - Yidong Li, PhD (awarded on 19/04/2011)
- Shihong Xu, PhD (awarded on 02/12/2009)
- Dr Mike Ma (ARC Research Associate 2011-2014, academic in Federation University Australia).
- Dr Jian Yu, (ARC Research Associate 2008-2010, from Peking University, first job as a lecturer at Auckland University of Technology)
- Dr Damith Ranasinghe, (ARC Research Associate 2008-2010)
- Rengamati Sankarkumar, Master by Research (First job at DSTO)
Thesis Title: Managing Uncertainty in RFID based Tracking Applications
- Abdulwahab Aljubairy, Master student 2016
Ingenuity 2016 the Best Research Project in Computer Science - Yuhao Lin, Master student 2016
- Rohit Kumar, Master student 2016
Ingenuity 2016 the Third Best Research Project in Computer Science - Jiatai Liu, Master student 2016
- Cheng Ma, Master student 2015-2016
- You Mu, Master student 2015-2016
- Lin Tang, Master student 2015-2016
- Guangyang Qi, Master student 2015-2016
- Norm Dong, B. CS (Honours) student 2015
- Stefan Goiangiuliani, B.CS (Advanced) 2015
- Lei Zhang, Master student 2015
- Yan Zhou, Master student 2015
- Zhen Zhu, Master student 2015
- Leon Chea, B. CS (Advanced) student 2015
- Henry Yang, B. CS (Advanced) student 2015
- Jack Gerrits, B. CS (Advanced) student 2015
Microsoft Internship 2015 - Andrew Pham, B.CS (Advanced) student 2014.
Microsoft Internship 2014 - Wan Zou, Master student 2014-15
- Zheng Jing, Master student 2014-15
- Xiaorong Liang, Master student 2014-15
- Zhi Yang, Master student 2014.
- Qi He, Master student 2014.
- Ali Alzubaidi, Master student 2014.
- Arnaud De Backer, Master student (intern from University of Namur, Belgium), 2013.
- Xuan Wang, Master student 2013.
- Bobaker Madi, Master student 2013.
- Jeriel Law, Honours student 2012.
First Honours in Computer Science (ranked 2nd) - Abdullah Alfazi, Master student 2012.
- Jen Chuah, Honours 2011.
First Honours in Computer Science (ranked 2nd) - Yuguo Li, Honours 2011.
- Qingrui Ye, Master student 2012.
- Bo Zhao, Master of Computer Science 2010.
- Lina Yao, Master of Computer Science 2010.
Winner of AGRS Scholarship - Joshua K. Swee, 2010.
Winner of AUC Honours Scholarship 2009-2010 [AUC Link]; Winner of Adelaide Summer Scholarship 2009-2010.
Winner of Google Prize for 2010 Honours Computer Science (ranked 1st)
Continued as a postgraduate student at Imperial College London, UK - Kewen Liao, Honours 2009
Winner of AGRS Scholarship - Yvonne Teo, Honours 2009.
- Xin Tang, Honours 2009.
- Hoi Sim Wong, Honours 2008
Winner of Google Prize for 2008 Honours Computer Science (ranked 1st) - Dao Xiang, Master of Computer Science 2008 (Firt job as Software Developer at e-Channel Online)
- Wei Jiang, Master of Computer Science 2008
- Imran Siddique, Master of Computer Science 2008
- Xingxing Song, Master of Software Engineering 2008 (First job as Software Engineer of Citect, Sydney, Australia)
- Sam Karl
Pohlenz, Honors 2007 (First job as Software Engineer of GoodDogDesign, San Francisco, USA).
Winner of AUC Honours Scholarship [Interview in AUC's Wheels for the Mind Spring 2007: PDF]
Visitors
- Presentation to Gordon Bell (Microsoft, USA) on 20/04/2011
- A/Prof Yueli Li (Jan 2020-Jan 2021), from Agricultural University of Hebei, China
- A/Prof Yan Yan (Jul 2019-Jul 2020), from Lanzhou University of Technology, China
- Dr Zhizhong Liu (Dec 2017-Dec 2018), Henan Polytechnic University, China
- Dr Qiaomin Lin (Dec 2017-Dec 2018), Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
- A/Prof. Li Li (Oct 2017-Feb 2018), Xi'an Polytechnic University, China
- Zhejun Tang (Oct 2017-Oct 2018), Ningxia University, China
- Dr Yanjun Shu (Dec 2016-Dec 2017), Harbin Institute of Technology, China
- Dr Hanchuan Xu (Mar 2016-Mar 2017), Harbin Institute of Technology, China
- Ruilin Liu (Oct 2016-Oct 2017), Harbin Institute of Technology, China
- Xianxiu Si (Mar 2016-Mar 2017), China Academy of Telecom Research, China
- A/Prof. Xiujuan Xu (Feb 2016-Feb 2017), Dalian University of Technology, China
- Dr Yuxin Zhang (Aug 2015-Jul 2016), Agricultural University of Hebei, China
- A/Prof. Zhi Chen (Jul 2015-Dec 2015), Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
- Dr Flora Salim (Jan 2015), RMIT, Australia
- Asst. Prof. Marcin Sydow (Sept 2014), Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
- A/Prof. Brahim Medjahed (Aug 2014), University of Michigan, USA
- A/Prof. Xiaoqiang Qiao (Jan 2013-Jan 2014), Chinese Academy of Sciences, China (CSC)
- Prof. Arkady Zaslavsky (Sep 2013), CSIRO ICT Centre
- Dr Florian Daniel (Sep 2013), University of Trento, Italy
- A/Prof. Helen Ashman (Jan 2013-Jun 2013), University of South Australia, Australia
- Prof. Yun Yang (Jan 2013), Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
- A/Prof. Xue Li (June 2012, Jan-Feb 2013), Queensland University, Australia
- A/Prof. Yong Xu (April 2012-April 2013), South China University of Technology, China (CSC)
- A/Prof. Dong Xie (October 2011-October 2012), Hunan University of Humanities, Science and Technology, China (CSC)
- Dr Helen Paik and Dr John Shepherd (July-August 2010), The University of New South Wales, Australia
- A/Prof. Yacine Atif (July 2010), UAE University, UAE.
- A/Prof. AnHai Doan (March 2010), University of Winscosin, USA.
- Prof. Boualem Benatallah (April 2009), The University of New South Wales, Australia.
- Dr Helen Paik and Dr John Shepherd (January 2009), The University of New South Wales, Australia
- Prof. John Mo (Feburary 2009), RMIT, Australia.
- Prof. Amit Sheth (July 2008), Wright State University, USA.
- Prof. Anne Ngu (August 2008), Texas State University, USA.
