Projects

The following list represents a selection of projects belonging to our researchers.

Recruiting — indicates projects currently recruiting research students. Visit our Study website for PhD program and application information.

• Collaboration in Complex Tasks for Human-Robot Teams

  Team: Wafa Johal

• Socially Aware Robot Navigation in Human Environments

  Team: Wafa Johal

• Industry-sponsored PhD position in microfluidics for drug screening applications

  Team: Vijayaraghavan Rajagopal

• Optimal design of an uncrewed vehicle under model uncertainty Recruiting

  Team: Chris Manzie

• Creativity Mechanisms in Engineering Design & Education

  Team: Katja Holtta-Otto

• Dislocation-twin boundary interaction in magnesium alloys

  Team: Christian Brandl

• Natural Language processing or Facial Recognition in understanding human-human interactions in engineering design Recruiting

  Team: Katja Holtta-Otto

• Shoestring IoT Monitoring and Quality Control Recruiting

  Team: Kevin Otto

• Supply Chain Quality Control on the Cloud Using Machine Learning Recruiting

  Team: Kevin Otto

• Bio-inspiration for reducing man-made noise pollution

  Team: Richard Sandberg

• Applying machine-learning approaches to develop novel turbulence models

  Team: Richard Sandberg, Andrew Ooi

• Biopolymers 4.0: Machine-learning-accelerated multiscale computational biopolymer design and experimental development of an archetypical intraocular device

  Team: Ellie Hajizadeh

• User centred design of technology push products

  Team: Katja Holtta-Otto

• Machine learning for more sustainable energy and transport technologies

  Team: Richard Sandberg

• New design approaches for environmentally sustainable engineering design

  Team: Katja Holtta-Otto

• Biofabrication and matrix mechanobiology of cartilage tissue models

  Team: Kathryn Stok

• Data and image analysis of arthritis progression

  Team: Kathryn Stok, Catherine Davey

• Time-lapsed imaging of arthritis progression

  Team: Kathryn Stok, Catherine Davey

• Multi-scale cardiac mechanobiology and systems biology Recruiting

  Team: Vijayaraghavan Rajagopal

• Design of alloys for binder jet 3D printing

  Team: Tesfaye Molla

• Creating clean fuels from waste

  Team: Mohsen Talei

• Materials informatics: an intelligent multiscale materials simulation tool for accelerated formulation and in-service life prediction of specialised coatings for defence platforms

  Team: Ellie Hajizadeh

• Smart AI enabled robotic technologies for plastic waste sorting

  Team: Shanaka Kristombu Baduge, Eric Schoof, Priyan Mendis

• Computational mechanics of nanostructured materials

  Team: Christian Brandl

• From the atom to a turbine: Computational materials engineering of novel high-temperature materials

  Team: Christian Brandl

• Automated Machine Learning and Neural Architecture Search applied to engineering problem solving Recruiting

  Team: Saman Halgamuge, Damith Senanayake Wei Wang

• Resolving ocean convection: new knowledge for a changing Antarctica Recruiting

  Team: Cat Vreugdenhil, Bishakhdatta Gayen

• Resilient supply chains development through digital transformation

  Team: Guilherme Tortorella

• Interpretable AI Recruiting

  Team: Saman Halgamuge

• Methods to improve maritime energy efficiency

  Team: Chris Manzie

• A versatile framework for simulating the structure and dynamics of cytoskeletal networks

  Team: Ellie Hajizadeh

• Programmable mechanical metamaterials for soft robotics

  Team: Ellie Hajizadeh

• Materials informatics: an intelligent multiphysics multiscale computational tool for autonomous in-service life management of fibre-reinforced polymer composite aircraft structures

  Team: Ellie Hajizadeh

• Soft matter informatics: intelligent computational material simulation tool for polymer-colloid assemblies

  Team: Ellie Hajizadeh

• Combustion chemistry of hydrogen-natural gas mixtures

  Team: Yi Yang

• Decarbonising the transport sector with renewable hydrogen

  Team: Yi Yang

• Decarbonising transport with ammonia fuels

  Team: Yi Yang

• Using renewable hydrogen in gas turbines

  Team: Yi Yang

• Computational fluid dynamics simulations of a stratified gravity current

  Team: Andrew Ooi

• Energy transfer effects of stratification and rotation on mixing efficiency Recruiting

  Team: Joseph Klewicki, Jimmy Philip

• Lab-on-a-chip, organ-on-a-chip and disease-on-a-chip technologies

  Team: David Collins, Vini Gautam

• Materials for a safe hydrogen economy Recruiting

  Team: Christian Brandl

• The effect of non-homogeneous roughness on full-scale drag predictions

  Team: Nicholas Hutchins, Jason Monty, Kevin Kevin

• The transitional and turbulent structure of rotating disk boundary layers Recruiting

  Team: Joseph Klewicki

• Turbulent plumes with particles in a stratified environment

  Team: Jimmy Philip

• Multiscale computational nanofluidics

  Team: Ellie Hajizadeh

• Soft matter informatics: inverse design engine for block co-polymers

  Team: Ellie Hajizadeh

• Ensuring Sustainable Battery Minerals Industry in Australia through Life Cycle Assessment

  Team: Wen Li, Assoc Prof Jo Staines, Dr Shahjadi Farjana

• Numerical prediction of bubble sound emissions

  Team: Andrew Ooi

• Operational Excellence in the fourth industrial revolution era

  Team: Guilherme Tortorella

• Active matter: a multiscale simulation method for advanced swimmers

  Team: Ellie Hajizadeh

• Mechanical response of subchondral bone to fatigue loading

  Team: Fatemeh Malekipour, Peter Lee

• Numerical simulation and physical modelling of turbulent fluid flow: aircraft drag reduction, rough-wall heat transfer, ship biofouling and sea waves Recruiting

  Team: Daniel Chung, Nicholas Hutchins

• Robotic additive manufacturing of 3D fibre-reinforced composite structures

  Team: Ying Tan, Gijo Sebastian

• The cost of roughness: predicting the drag penalty of fouled ship hulls

  Team: Nicholas Hutchins, Jason Monty, Bagus Nugroho

• Melting of Antarctic ice shelves into polar ocean

  Team: Bishakhdatta Gayen, Jimmy Philip, Jason Monty

• Acoustic engineering: microfabrication of acoustic waveguides for non-contact microscale assembly Recruiting

  Team: David Collins

• An ICME framework for designing sintered materials

  Team: Tesfaye Molla

• Novel mechanisms for continuous micro/nanoparticle manipulation

  Team: David Collins

• Turbulent transport in rotating and stratified flows

  Team: Joseph Klewicki, Jimmy Philip

• AI solving the mysteries in the microbial world Recruiting

  Team: Saman Halgamuge

• Enabling efficient, affordable and robust use of renewable hydrogen in transport and power generation

  Team: Michael Brear, Yi Yang, Robert Gordon, Mohsen Talei, Joshua Lacey, Zhewen Lu

• Optimization landscapes and evolutionary designs

  Team: Saman Halgamuge, Michael Kirley (Computing and Information Systems), Guillermo Narsilio (Infrastructure Engineering)