PhD Supervision

Potential candidates interested in internet Technologies & Web information systems, Web databases,

Web service and semantic web are welcome to apply.

Following are some non-exclusive examples:

• database and information systems,
• database support for cooperative work,
• internet/web information systems,
• Web data management, Web mining, Web search
• Web services
• Semantic Web, Social Network
• Access Control Management and security
• e-Health, Health Informatics
• Water resource management

Interested applicants are encouraged to apply Postgraduate Scholarships from the University.

Some further support/funding can be provided to the successful candidates to top-up their scholarships.

Current PhD students (Sum: 9):  

   Peng Zhang

         -- Anomaly prediction in multiple physiological time series based on fractal analysis

   Roozbeh Zarei

         -- Multiple time series anomaly detection based on principal component analysis

   Pasupathy Vimalachandran

         -- Ethics and legalities of storing patients' data in the "cloud"

   Le Sun

         -- A Service User-oriented Proactive SLA Assurance Framework for Cloud Service Transaction

   Xun Zhou

         -- Collaborative filtering-based techniques for personalized recommender system

   Fenhua Li

         -- Research and application of key technologies of link prediction in social networks

   Hui Zheng

         -- Optimized Fuzzy Association Rule and Disease Prediction

   Haixin Jiang

         -- Topic Modelling

   Boris Petukhov

         -- Business Re-engineering

PhD Graduates completion (Sum: 14):

Dr. Jitian Xiao  (2001, currently senior lecturer at ECU)
          --- Spatial Data Clustering and Scheduling for Efficient Spatial Database Processing

Dr. Jingyu Hou  (2002, currently lecturer at Deakin Univ.)
     --- Web Data Management

    Dr. Hua Wang  (2003, currently A/Professor at USQ)
          --- On Security and Access Control in e-Commerce Environments

    Dr. Benchaphon Limthanmaphon (2004, currently lecturer at King Mongkut's Institute of Technology, Thailand)
     --- Agent Support and Case-based Reasoning for Electronic Commerce

    Dr. Sagarmay Deb (2005, lecturer at  Ballarat University)
    --- Content Based Image Retrieval in Multimedia Databases

    Dr. Haolan Zhang (2008, Research fellow at RMIT, Associate Professor at Zhejiang University)
          --- Agent-based Open Connectivity for Decision Support Systems

    Dr. Guandong Xu (2008, Research fellow at VU)
         ---Web mining Techniques for Web Recommendation and Personalization

    Dr. Maggie Duong (Centrelink)

        --- Labelling and Indexing Scheme for Managing XML Documents

    Dr. Yanan Hao (2009, VU)

        --- Efficient Web Services Discovery and Composition

    Dr. Jaree Thongkam (2009)
          ---  Towards Discovering Patient Survival Patterns in Thai Hospital Information Systems

    Dr. Xin Wang (2010, Nab)

        --- Collaborative Business Process Modelling: A Scenario-based Approach

    Dr. Jiangang Ma (2010)
-- Towards Efficient Collaboration for e-Service Transaction Management: Semantics, Security and Reliability

    Dr. Xuebing Yang (2011, co-supervise with Prof.Yuan Miao)

          -- Semantic web service for intelligent and secure e-referrals exchanges

    Dr. Guangyan Huang (2011)

          -- Semantics Oriented Spatial Temporal Data Mining for Water Resource Decision Support

Yanchun Zhang, Aug., 2014