Research - Supervision and Research Activities
To Prospective Research Students: Our knowledge-driven technology-mediated environments generate a vast amount of data that need to be dealt with on a daily basis. Acquiring such an understanding is a difficult problem, especially those huge datasets from real-world sources. The large and complex data present big challenges on how to discover reliable and significant patterns and (ir)regularities within them? How do we holistically make sense of these discoveries and their network models? How do we harness these data at different levels of granularity in collective decision making processes? The challenge - and the fundamental focus of this research - resides in creating a fast and effective visual analytics platform (including theoretical algorithms and development of systems) in which analysts quickly analyse huge amounts of data as well as share their insights and knowledge.Visual Analytics is one of the future approaches for the analysis of huge information. Visual Analytics combines automated analysis techniques (such as data mining, statistical analysis, compression and filtering) with interactive visualisations, analytical reasoning and other related disciplines to achieve effective understanding, reasoning and decision making. Visual analytics can also be seen as an integral approach to decision making by combining interactive visualisation, human-factors and data analysis. Visual analytics has been applied into a number of application domains, such as Health Data Analysis, Homeland Security, Foreign Animal and Zoonotic Diseases, Finance Analysis, and others.
If you are enthusiastic to research new technologies and techniques on this challenging area or related disciplines in Visual Analytics, Interactive Visualization, Immersive Analytics (VR/AR/XR), Human Computer Interaction, and related fields, please don't hesitate to contact me.
Current Supervision/Co-supervision:
Mohanad Alasiri, PHD Candidate, thesis title: Adoption of Business Intelligence Systems by Saudi Small-Medium Enterprises.
Rani Adam, PHD Candidate, thesis title: Immersive Medical Data Analysis Using a Unified Framework and Voice Interaction.
Neha Naik, PHD Student.
Md. Shahadat Hossain, PHD Student.
Mouataz Zreika, PhD student (Co-Supervision).
Abdul Jabbar, Master of ICT Research student.
Fatima Abdul Sattar, Master of ICT Research student.
Past Supervision/Co-supervision:
Jolin Qu, PHD graduate, thesis title: Improving Trust in Complex Genomic Data Analytics with Explainable Artificial Intelligence.
Son (Jason) Chu, PhD graduate, thesis title: Methods for DDoS Attack Detection with Deep Learning.
Girija Rani Karetla, PhD student, thesis title: Optimised Hybrid Deep Learning Models for Classifying High-Dimensional RNA-Sequencing Data.
Nader Hassan Khalifa, PhD graduate, thesis title: Interactive Visualisation of Complex Genomic Data With 3D Game Engine.
Chng Wei Lau, PhD graduate, thesis title: Intelligent and Immersive Big Data Analytics with AR-VR.
Yezihalem Tegegne, Master of Philosophy graduate, thesis title: Parallel Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction Using GPU Acceleration.
Rezina Akhter, Master of Research graduate, thesis title: Enabling Fairer Assessment Strategies On Learning And Teaching With Analytics.
Feridun Talat, PhD graduate (Co-Supervision).
Jesse Tran, PhD graduate, thesis title: Intelligent Visualization for Social Networking.
Mohammad Alkhalaileh, PhD graduate (Co-Supervision).
Jolin Qu, Master of Philosophy graduate, thesis title: Personalised Visualization for Medical data analysis.
Ashlee Gronowski, Psychology Honours graduate (Co-Supervision).
Jing Ng, Psychology Honours graduate (Co-Supervision).
Beth Holloway, Psychology Honours graduate (Co-Supervision).
Denise Metcalfe, Psychology Honours graduate (Co-Supervision).
Belal Saeed, Master (Honours) graduate, thesis title: Enabling Smart Home Health with Positioning and Movement Sensors.
Rosa Quan, Psychology Honours graduate.
Nikita Lomov, Psychology Honours graduate.
Ciara Fletcher, Psychology Honours graduate
Natalie Miller, Psychology Honours graduate, thesis title: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Linkable Scatter Plots (2016, 1st class Honours).
Wenbo Wang, PhD graduate (Co-Supervision, thesis title: Space Optimisation in Multi-Dimensional Data Visualisation, 2016). Wenbo is currently working at Shanghai Tech University.
Harrison Cook, Honours graduate, thesis title: Interactive Visualization with Kinect for Educational Games. (2015, 1st class Honours and University Medal)
Jesse Tran, Honours graduate, thesis title: Intelligent Visualization for Social Networking (2014, 1st class Honours).
Andrew Brunker, Honours graduate, thesis title: Visualizing Medical Activity Data (2014, 2nd class division 1 Honours).
Carissa Sanderson, Psychology Honours graduate, thesis title: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Interactive Visualizations (2014, HD thesis).
Evan Tran, Honours graduate, thesis title: Visualization in the Large with Internet Data (2013).
Jie (Christy) Liang, PhD graduate (Co-supervision, thesis title: TANGRAM TREEMAPS: An enclosure geometrical partitioning method with various shapes, 2013).
Patricio Alzamora, Honours graduate and Summer Research Studentship (thesis title: Dancing with Data: 3D Dynamic Visualization of Biomedical Data, 2012 with 1st class Honours and University Medal).
Rhys Tague, Honours graduate (Co-Supervision, thesis title: Time-Based Interactive Data Visualisation of Vital Signs for Chronic Disease Management, 2010 with 1st class Honours).
Andrew Gleeson, Research Assistant and Summer Research Studentship (2010/2011).
Amelie Martin, Visting Research Student (2009).
