The following list represents a selection of projects belonging to our researchers.
— indicates projects currently recruiting research students. Visit our Study website for PhD program and application information.
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
Team: Katja Holtta-Otto
Shoestring IoT Monitoring and Quality Control
Team: Kevin Otto
Supply Chain Quality Control on the Cloud Using Machine Learning
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
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
Team: Saman Halgamuge, Damith Senanayake Wei Wang
Resolving ocean convection: new knowledge for a changing Antarctica
Team: Cat Vreugdenhil, Bishakhdatta Gayen
Resilient supply chains development through digital transformation
Team: Guilherme Tortorella
Interpretable AI
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)