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Research Staff
  1. Brendan Owen (Senior Research Assistant)
  2. Slaven Marusic (Research Fellow)
  3. Wei Hua Wang (Research Fellow)
  4. Aparna KG (Research Assistant)
Current Students
  1. M. Brennan PhD, Heart Rate Variability: Nonlinear Dynamics and Interpretation (to be submitted in May 2004, leave of absence).
  2. B. Owen PhD, Image Processing using Neural Networks with Applications to Automatic Sorting of Fish Species, to be submitted in Dec. 2004 (leave of absence).
  3. A. Shilton PhD, Support Vector Machines, to be submitted in July 2004.
  4. Ben Rubinstin M.Eng.Sc., Machine Learning with applications to Bioinformatics (Jointly Rao Kotagiri, Computer Science and Software Engg Dept.).
  5. Jayavardhana Rama, M.Eng.Sc., Signal Processing for Bioinformatics (to be converting to Ph.D in 2004).
  6. B. Sundaram M.Eng.Sc, Support Vector Machines (to be converting to Ph.D in 2005)
Graduated Students

10 PhD students and 13 MEngSc. (Research) Students have successfully completed their theses.  Four of these students are employed as academics; three of them as Associate Professors in Monash University, Hong Kong Polytech University, Nanyang Technological University, two work as R&D Managers and the rest are in research related information technology industries.   Currently, five Ph.Ds and two M.Eng Sc students are doing their postgraduate work under my supervision.  The details are given below.  Three research fellows (Slaven Marusic, Weihua Wang and Brendan Owen) are employed in my projects and there are three post doctoral fellows’ vacancies.

Ph.D
  1. Gang Feng, Robustness Issues of Adaptive Control, Ph.D - August, 1991
  2. Man Zhihong, Robust Variable Structure Control for Rigid Robotic Manipulators, Ph.D - August, 1993.
  3. V. Chandrasekaran, Gated Neural Networks for Three Dimensional Object Recognition Systems, Ph.D - June, 1995. (Co Supervisor: T. Caelli)
  4. Kate Smith, Solving Combinatorial Optimisation Problems Using Neural Networks, Ph.D - March, 1996.
  5. L.H. Andrew, Image Coding Using Vector Quantisation with Neural Networks, Ph.D - July 1996.
  6. Suthikshn Kumar,  Reconfigurable Neurocomputers: Rapid Protyping and Design Synthesis of Artificial Neural Networks for Field Programmable Gate Arrays, Ph.D - November, 1996.
  7. Dushy Tissainayagam, Dynamic Channel Assignment using Neural Networks, Ph.D, 2000 (Second Supervisor: D. Everitt).
  8. C. Manzie, Intelligent Control of Automotive Engines, Ph.D, June 2001. (Second Supervisor: H.Watson)
  9. Weihua Wang, Optimal Flow Control in Packet Switched Networks, Aug. 2003.
  10. Laurence Park, Spectral Methods for Information Retrieval, July 2003 (second supervisor R. Kothagiri).
M.Eng. Sc
  1. Vincent Pang, Neural Networks for Pattern Classification Problems in Control and Image Processing, M.Eng. Sc. - November, 1990.
  2. R. Oxbrow, Filter Structures for Edge Detection in Images, M. App.Sc. - Nov. 1991.
  3. Uthai Chaiswankit, Sampling Rate and Stability of Hybrid Adaptive Control, M. Eng. Sc - November, 1992. (Co-supervised with Dr. C. Zhang)
  4. Sharad Thacore, Pattern Classification, Image Restoration, and Image Coding using Neural Networks, July 1993.
  5. Philip Malin, The Identification and Control of Nonlinear Systems using Neural Networks, M.Eng. Sc., May 1993.
  6. P.T.H. Chan, Dynamic Channel Assignment for Cellular Mobile Communication Systems using Neural Networks, M. Eng. Sc., September, 1992. (co-supervised with Assoc. Prof. D. Everitt)
  7. David Au, Optical Character Recognition using Neural Networks, M.Eng.Sc (Cog. Sc.), September 1993.
  8. Wing Hong Hui, Interleaving Techniques for High Speed Data Transmission, M.Eng.Sc., October 1993.
  9. Stan Skafidas, Neural Networks for Image Processing Applications, M. Eng. Sc, January, 1995.
  10. Stephen Terrill, Neural Networks Applications to Cellular Mobile Communication systems, M.Eng. Sc. (co-supervised with Assoc. Prof. D. Everitt)
  11. Trefor Morgan, Neural Networks in Three Medical Applications, M.Eng. Sc., November, 1995.

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