computer science
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Department of Computer Science Postgraduate Students
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PhD students
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| Name | Thesis | Rm | Supervisor |
| Reece Arnott | Is it practical for the everyday man to build and use his own 3D fax/photocopy machine? | 230 | Geoff Wyvill, Holger Regenbrecht (InfoSci) |
| Maryam Bagher Oskouei | Simulating gene regulatory networks | 256 | Brendan McCane, Peter Dearden (Biochem) |
| Halizah Basiron | Analysis of Errors in Learners' Written Dialogue Responses (submitted) | 257 | Ali Knott, Anthony Robins |
| Hamza Bennani | Surface matching applied to medical imaging | 230 | Brendan McCane, Geoff Wyvill |
| Bhaskar Jinnenahalli Ashoka | Mobility Management in Next Generation Networks | 128 | Zhiyi Huang, David Eyers |
| Matt Crane | Diversification and relevance feedback in information retrieval | 109 | Andrew Trotman, Richard O'Keefe |
| Sheetal Jadhav | Resource allocation and Call admission control for next generation networks | 128 | Zhiyi Huang, Haibo Zhang |
| Adeel Javed | Mobile ad hoc networks | 128 | Zhiyi Huang, Jeremiah Deng (InfoSci) |
| Xiangfei Jia | Information retrieval on multi-core systems | 108 | Richard O'Keefe, Andrew Trotman |
| Nabeel Khan | Vision for the Blind | 230 | Brendan McCane, Geoff Wyvill |
| Umair Khan | Content based image retrieval | 230 | Brendan McCane, Andrew Trotman |
| Kai-Cheung Leung | Evaluating the programmability and the performance of VOPP | 128 | Zhiyi Huang, Richard O'Keefe |
| Jason Mair | Energy Saving in Large Scale Systems | 128 | Zhiyi Huang, Haibo Zhang |
| Paul McCarthy | Analysis of fMRI/EEG Data using Graph Theory Techniques | 256 | Lubica Benuskova, Liz Franz (Psyc) |
| Jennifer McDonald | Natural language dialogue systems used in teaching | N/A | Alistair Knott, Sarah Stein (HEDC) |
| Jothi Nathella Vijayakumar | Wireless sensor network for Train localization | 128 | Zhiyi Huang, Adnan Al-Anbuky (AUT) |
| Claudia Ott | Investigation and improvement of CS1 learning outcomes | 128 | Anthony Robins, Kerry Shephard (HEDC) |
| Gonzalo Sanchez Nido | Molecular genetics of long-term synaptic plasticity | 256 | Lubica Benuskova, Joanna Williams (Anatomy) |
| Nicholas Sherlock | CL: A concurrent programming language for next-gen platforms | 108 | Andrew Trotman, Richard O'Keefe |
| Azam Shirrafi | Theoretical investigation of synaptic plasticity | 256 | Lubica Benuskova, Jorg Frauendiener (Maths and Stats) |
| Manish Singh | Parallel Algorithms | 128 | Zhiyi Huang, Michael Albert |
| Andrew Webb | Language and sensory motor cognition | 256 | Ali Knott, Anthony Robins |
| Nurazlin Zainal Azmi | User Interface Design In Creating Augmented Reality Application For Physically Impaired People | 230 | Geoff Wyvill, Janet Rountree |
MSc students
| Name | Thesis | Rm | Supervisor |
| Aysha Al Hinai | Exploiting Social Contact for Efficient Delay Tolerant Network Routing | 128 | Haibo Zhang |
| Brian Curry | WikiGraphing: Graphing the MediaWiki corpus in near-linear time | 108 | Andrew Trotman |
| Jie Fu | Robust Feature Matching | 230 | Brendan McCane, Lubica Benuskova |
| Mira Guise | Spiking Network Models of Memory and Representation | 257 | Ali Knott, Lubica Benuskova |
| Thomas Harper | Solving differential equations using neural networks | 257 | Michael Albert, Anthony Robins |
| Jeremy Lee-Hand | Modelling the effect of actions | 257 | Ali Knott |
| Marvin Martinez | Semantic representation in distributed systems | 257 | Ali Knott |
| Thomas Verbeek | Mathematics for texture generation | 230 | Geoff Wyvill |
| Vaughn Wood | Improving Query Term Expansion with Machine Learning (submitted) | 108 | Andrew Trotman |
Recently completed
| Name | Thesis | Completed | Research Outputs |
| Lech Szymanski | PhD: Learning and Internal Representation in a Neural Network | 2/3/12 | |
| Byung-Hyun Yu | PhD: Distributed shared memory protocols | 06/12/2011 | |
| David Alexander | MSc: Click Logs as a Source of Data for Evaluating the Quality of Hypertext | 02/11/2011 | |
| Matthew Crane | MSc: The Cold-Start Problem in Collaborative Filtering | 13/09/2011 | |
| Rob Visser | PhD: Physics-Based Simulation of Canine Gait | 30/08/2011 | |
| Andrew Cahill | MSc: Lifelong Learning in Reinforcement Environments | 27/05/2011 | |
| Syed Faisal Hasan | PhD: Congestion control for multimedia applications | 2010 | |
| Ignas Kukenys | PhD: Face detection with Support Vector Machines | 2010 | |
| Michael Liddle | PhD: Neural network models of vision and visual attention | 2010 | |
| Andres Navarro Newball | PhD: A model for a dog facial animation system | 2010 | |
| Hayden Walles | PhD: A perceptual basis for noun phrase syntax | 2010 | |
| Natascha Chrobok | MSc: A change in protocol - Alternatives to brute force spam-filtering | 2010 | |
| David Keeler | MSc: Ranking by examples - Using probability density estimation to determine relevance | 2010 | |
| Hao Yang | MSc: Mapping land stability | 2010 | |
| Philip McLeod | PhD: Pitch Detection Tools for Music Analysis | 2009 | |
| Gregory Caza | MSc: The role of social-pragmatic cues in word learning: a neural network model (Cog Sci) | 2009 | |
| Swen Huebner | MSc: Beliefs, Disbeliefs and Emotions | 2009 | |
| Jochen Moellmer | MSc: Numeric and stochastic simulation of fluids | 2009 | |
| Robin Sheat | MSc: How representation influences evolution of genetic algorithms | 2009 |
