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Distinguished Professor Michael Sheng Head of School	Contact details: michael.sheng@mq.edu.au + 61 2 9850 9505 4 Research Park Drive, Office 233
Associate Professor Gaurav Gupta Director of Education	Contact details: gaurav.gupta@mq.edu.au +61 2 9850 6341 4 Research Park Drive, Office 265
Associate Professor Ansgar Fehnker Deputy Director of Education	Contact details: ansgar.fehnker@mq.edu.au +61 2 9850 9513 4 Research Park Drive, Office 268
Professor Longbing Cao Acting Director of Research	Contact details: longbing.cao@mq.edu.au +61 2 9850 9583 3 Innovation Road, Office 327
Professor Mark Dras Director of Research Training	Contact details: mark.dras@mq.edu.au +61 2 9850 9580 4 Research Park Drive, Office 208
Dr Yipeng Zhou Director of Higher Degree by Research	Contact details: yipeng.zhou@mq.edu.au + 61 2 9850 6348 4 Research Park Drive, Office 371
Dr Young Lee Master of Research Advisor	Contact details: young.lee@mq.edu.au + 61 2 9850 9516 4 Research Park Drive, Office 209
Associate Professor James Zheng Director of International Engagement	Contact details: james.zheng@mq.edu.au + 61 2 9850 6330 4 Research Park Drive, Office 354
Professor Dali Kaafar Executive Director Macquarie University Cyber Security Hub	Contact details: dali.kaafar@mq.edu.au + 61 2 9850 9534 4 Research Park Drive, Office 211
Mr Mark Rego School Operations Manager	Contact details: mark.rego@mq.edu.au +61 2 9850 8244 4 Research Park Drive, Room 234

Staff	Details
Dr Hijab Alavi Lecturer	hijab.alavi@mq.edu.au +61 9850 9709 4 Research Park Drive, Office 313 Areas of Expertise Information System Database System Business Analytics Business Process Project Management
Dr Hassan Asghar Senior Lecturer in Computer Science	hassan.asghar@mq.edu.au +61 2 9850 9521 4 Research Park Drive, Office 210 Areas of Expertise Data privacy Authentication Cryptography Information security
Dr Nardine Basta Lecturer	nardine.basta@mq.edu.au +61 2 9850 9574 4 Research Park Drive, Office 313 Areas of Expertise Artificial Intelligence Cybersecurity Network Security Natural Language Processing Computing Education
Professor Amin Beheshti Professor in Data Science Director of Centre for Applied Artificial Intelligence	amin.beheshti@mq.edu.au +61 2 9850 6344 4 Research Park Drive, Office 351 Areas of Expertise Data Science Big-Data/Data/Process Analytics Service/Social/Cognitive Computing Applied Artificial Intelligence Business Process Automation / Augmentation / Improvement
Dr Peter Busch Senior Lecturer	peter.busch@mq.edu.au +61 2 9850 9520 4 Research Park Drive, Office 284 Areas of Expertise Business Processes Information Systems - Knowledge Management Organisational Learning Knowledge Flows Social Network Analysis
Professor Longbing Cao Distinguished Chair in Artificial Intelligence Director of Centre for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Research	longbing.cao@mq.edu.au +61 2 9850 9583 3 Innovation Road, Office 327 Areas of Expertise Applied Statistics and Modelling Behaviour, Business and Social Informatics Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Enterprise Innovation and Applications Shallow to Deep Analytics Learning
Chris Chen Graduate Teaching Associate	chris.chen1@mq.edu.au Areas of Expertise Secure and reliable systems Algorithms & Complexity Software engineering & industry best practices Microservices & software architecture
Dr Shan Chen Lecturer	shan.chen@mq.edu.au +61 2 9850 9105 4 Research Park Drive, Office 356 Areas of Expertise Privacy-by-Design Privacy Engineering Constructive Alignment
Dr Xiao Cheng Lecturer	xiao.cheng@mq.edu.au +61 2 9850 9572 4 Research Park Drive Areas of Expertise Program Analysis and Verification Abstract Interpretation Value-flow analysis AI for Software Engineering
Professor Mark Dras Director of Research Training	mark.dras@mq.edu.au +61 2 9850 9580 4 Research Park Drive, Office 208 Areas of Expertise Computational Linguistics Data Science Natural Language Processing Machine Learning
Dr Cameron Edmond Senior Lecturer in Game Development	cameron.edmond@mq.edu.au +61 2 9850 9576 4 Research Park Drive, Office 365 Areas of Expertise Game Design and Development Interactive Narrative Design Creative Coding Artificial Intelligence - Generative Literature
Dr Xuhui Fan Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence	xuhui.fan@mq.edu.au +61 2 9850 8045 4 Research Park Drive, Office 320 Areas of Expertise Deep probabilistic models Generative Artificial Intelligence Gaussian Processes
Associate Professor Ansgar Fehnker Deputy Director of Education	ansgar.fehnker@mq.edu.au +61 2 9850 9513 4 Research Park Drive, Office 268 Areas of Expertise Real-time verification Static analysis Programming education
Dr Yimeng Feng Lecturer in IoT & Networking	yimeng.feng@mq.edu.au +61 2 9850 9156 4 Research Park Drive, Office 217 Areas of Expertise Internet of Things Intelligent Transportation Systems Service Computing Wireless Sensor Network Technology
Dr Natasha Fernandes Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security	natasha.fernandes@mq.edu.au +61 2 9850 8913 4 Research Park Drive, Office 283 Areas of Expertise Data Privacy Differential Privacy Privacy-preserving Natural Language Processing Privacy-preserving Machine Learning Information Flow for Privacy and Security
Professor Tao Gu	tao.gu@mq.edu.au +61 2 9850 9707 4 Research Park Drive, Office 267 Areas of Expertise Ubiquitous computing Internet of Things Mobile computing Wireless sensor network
Associate Professor Gaurav Gupta Director of Education	gaurav.gupta@mq.edu.au +61 2 9850 6341 4 Research Park Drive, Office 205 Areas of Expertise Programming Software Development Data Structures and Algorithms Data Security Graph Theory
Professor Richard Han Professor in Computing Networks and Distributed Systems Director of Centre in Advanced Drone Systems Research	richard.han@mq.edu.au +61 2 9850 6343 4 Research Park Drive, Office 265 Areas of Expertise Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing Drone Systems Operating Systems Wireless Sensor Networks
Associate Professor Michael Hitchens	michael.hitchens@mq.edu.au + 61 2 9850 9538 4 Research Park Drive Areas of Expertise Computer Security Player/Avatar Interaction Videogames Roleplaying Games
Dr Ningning Hou Lecturer in IoT & Networking	ningning.hou@mq.edu.au + 61 2 9850 1461 4 Research Park Drive, Office 313 Areas of Expertise Low-Power Wide-Area Networks (LPWANs) Internet of Things Wireless networking and sensing Wireless security
Dr Muhammad Ikram Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security	muhammad.ikram@mq.edu.au + 61 2 9850 8439 4 Research Park Drive, Office 214 Areas of Expertise Cybersecurity and privacy Censorship-measurement Vulnerability-analysis Applied machine learning
Professor Mark Johnson Professor in Language Science	mark.johnson@mq.edu.au + 61 2 9850 9525 4 Research Park Drive, Office 355 Areas of Expertise Computational Linguistics Data Science Machine Learning Statistical Models
Damian Jurd Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security	damian.jurd@mq.edu.au +61 2 9850 9571 4 Research Park Drive, Office 266 Areas of Expertise Network Virtualisation and Automation Programming Languages and Type Systems Electronic Design Automation Computer Architecture and Platform Security
Professor Dali Kaafar Executive Director Macquarie Cyber Security Hub	dali.kaafar@mq.edu.au + 61 2 9850 9534 4 Research Park Drive, Office 211 Areas of Expertise Privacy-preserving technologies Web security and malware detection Human identification Next-generation authentication systems Networks measurement and modelling
Dr Endrowednes Kuantama Lecturer in IoT & Networking	endrowednes.kuantama@mq.edu.au +61 2 9850 4140 4 Research Park Drive, Office 313 Areas of Expertise Internet of Things Drone System and Applications VTOL / Drone Control Systems Embedded Systems Aerial Manipulation
Dr Young Lee Senior Lecturer in Computing Master of Research Advisor	young.lee@mq.edu.au + 61 2 9850 9516 4 Research Park Drive, Office 209 Areas of Expertise Distributed Systems Cloud and Edge Computing Data-Intensive Computing
Dr Yan Li Lecturer in IoT & Networking	y.li@mq.edu.au +61 2 9850 9577 4 Research Park Drive, Office 353 Areas of Expertise Internet of Things Mobile Computing Wireless Sensor Network Localisation & Tracking Machine Learning
Associate Professor Guanfeng Liu Associate Professor in Computer Science	guanfeng.liu@mq.edu.au + 61 2 9850 9542 4 Research Park Drive, Office 366 Areas of Expertise Machine Learning Graph Mining Trust Management and Security
Frances Louise Lecturer	frances.louise@mq.edu.au +61 2 9850 9590 4 Research Park Drive, Office 375 Areas of Expertise Information Systems Database Systems Programming Learning and Teaching Technologies

Staff	Staff details
Dr Adnan Mahmood Senior Lecturer in IoT and Networking Graduate Diploma of Research Advisor Graduate Certificate of Research Advisor	adnan.mahmood@mq.edu.au +61 2 9850 9079 4 Research Park Drive, Office 286 Areas of Expertise Internet of Things Trust Management Software Defined Networking Cloud, Fog and Edge Computing Next Generation Wireless Networks
Dr Mitchell McEwan Senior Lecturer in Computer Games	mitchell.mcewan@mq.edu.au +61 2 9850 9519 4 Research Park Drive, Office 367 Areas of Expertise Game Design and Production Virtual Reality and Natural User Interfaces Player and User Experience Human-Computer Interaction Serious Games
Professor Annabelle McIver	annabelle.mciver@mq.edu.au + 61 2 9850 9579 4 Research Park Drive, Office 262 Areas of Expertise Quantitative Logics Quantitative Information Flow for Security Formal Verification and Modelling of Probabilistic Systems
Dr Diego Molla Aliod Senior Lecturer	diego.molla-aliod@mq.edu.au + 61 2 9850 9531 4 Research Park Drive, Office 358 Areas of Expertise Natural Language Processing Computational Linguistics Machine Learning
Dr Usman Naseem Lecturer	usman.naseem@mq.edu.au +61 2 9850 4543 4 Research Park Drive, Office 320 Areas of Expertise Natural Language Processing (NLP) Multimodal Analysis Machine Learning Social Computing Health InformaticsAssociate Professor Abhaya Nayak
Dr Yuankai Qi Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence	yuankai.qi@mq.edu.au + 61 2 9850 1186 4 Research Park Drive, Office 323 Areas of Expertise Vision-Language Navigation Crowd Counting Video Captioning Visual Voice Cloning
Charanya Ramakrishnan Senior Lecturer	charanya.ramakrishnan@mq.edu.au + 61 2 9850 6347 4 Research Park Drive, Office 364 Areas of Expertise Higher Education Retention Computing Education AI in Education SoTL ResearchProfessor Deborah Richards Director of Industry & External Relations
Dr Matthew Roberts Senior Lecturer	matthew.roberts@mq.edu.au + 61 2 9850 9564 4 Research Park Drive, Office 263 Areas of Expertise Programming Languages Type Systems Formal Methods Software Correctness Drone Software
Associate Professor Malcolm Ryan	malcolm.ryan@mq.edu.au + 61 2 9850 9512 4 Research Park Drive, Office 368 Areas of Expertise Game Design & Development User Experience (UX) Research Virtual Reality Serious Games Artificial Intelligence
Dr Rajan Shankaran Senior Lecturer	rajan.shankaran@mq.edu.au + 61 2 9850 9537 4 Research Park Drive, Office 285 Areas of Expertise Cyber Security Mobile Networking and Vehicular Networks Medical Body Area Networks Network on Chip
Distinguished Professor Michael Sheng Head of School	michael.sheng@mq.edu.au + 61 2 9850 9505 4 Research Park Drive, Office 233 Areas of Expertise Big Data Analytics Web Science Service-oriented Computing Pervasive Computing Internet of Things
Dr Stephen Smith Senior Lecturer in Information Systems School WH&S Representative	stephen.smith@mq.edu.au + 61 2 9850 1099 4 Research Park Drive, Office 362 Areas of Expertise Information Systems Green IS IS Security Emergency Management eGovernment
Dr Kate Stefanov Lecturer	kate.stefanov@mq.edu.au +61 2 9850 9524 4 Research Park Drive, Office 375 Areas of Expertise Compiler Systems and Programming Languages Compression Algorithms Software Systems and Software Engineering Real Time Systems Backup Systems
Carl Svensson Lecturer	carl.svensson@mq.edu.au + 61 2 9850 9571 4 Research Park Drive, Office 261 Areas of Expertise Software and Systems Engineering Pedagogy and Learning / Teaching Approaches Algorithms, Data Structures and Programming Robotics and Embedded Software Information Systems and Computer Networks
Professor Yan Wang	yan.wang@mq.edu.au + 61 2 9850 9539 4 Research Park Drive, Office 354 Areas of Expertise Data Analytics Recommendation Systems Trust Management Social Computing Graph Mining
Kayson Whitehouse Graduate Teaching Associate	kayson.whitehouse@mq.edu.au Room 154, GF, 14 Sir Christopher Ondaatje Avenue Areas of Expertise Game Design and Development Inclusivity and Diversity in Video Games Player and User Experience Queer gaming studies Gender Identity and Construction
Professor Jia Wu Director of Research (on OSP sabbatical for S1 2026)	jia.wu@mq.edu.au + 61 2 9850 9540 4 Research Park Drive, Office 204 Areas of Expertise Graph Mining and learning Graph Networks Data Mining and Machine Learning Knowledge Graphs Big Data Analytics
Dr Yanqiu (Autumn) Wu Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence	yanqiu.wu@mq.edu.au +61 2 9850 9538 4 Research Park Drive, Office 311 Areas of Expertise Markov Decision Processes Deep Reinforcement Learning Quantum Machine Learning
Dr Qiongkai Xu Lecturer in Natural Language Processing (NLP)	qiongkai.xu@mq.edu.au +61 2 9850 9529 4 Research Park Drive, Office 311 Areas of Expertise Natural Language Processing Machine Learning Security and Privacy Evaluation Theorem
Dr Shan (Emma) Xue Senior Lecturer in Computing	emma.xue@mq.edu.au +61 2 9850 6331 4 Research Park Drive, Office 363 Areas of Expertise Artificial Intelligence Data Mining Web Search
Dr Xiaohan Yu Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence	xiaohan.yu@mq.edu.au + 61 2 9850 9971 4 Research Park Drive, Office 323 Areas of Expertise Artificial Intelligence Computer Vision Smart Farming Ultra-Fine-Grained Visual Categorization
Associate Professor Xuyun Zhang Associate Professor in Cyber Security	xuyun.zhang@mq.edu.au + 61 2 9850 8229 4 Research Park Drive, Office 287 Areas of Expertise Adversarial Machine Learning Privacy-preserving Technology and Cyber security Anomaly Detection and Data Mining Big Data Technology and Scalable Machine Learning Cloud / Edge / IoTs computing
Dr Yu Zhang Lecturer in IoT & Networking	y.zhang@mq.edu.au +61 2 9850 9104 4 Research Park Drive, Office 313 Areas of Expertise IoT Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing Embedded and Edge AI Drone Systems IoT Data Analytics
Associate Professor James Zheng Associate Professor in Software Engineering Director of International Engagement	james.zheng@mq.edu.au + 61 2 9850 6330 4 Research Park Drive, Office 354 Areas of Expertise Testing and Verifying Cyber-Physical Systems Security Analysis of Internet of Things Distributed Learning
Dr Yipeng Zhou Senior Lecturer in Computer Science Director of Higher Degree Research	yipeng.zhou@mq.edu.au + 61 2 9850 6348 4 Research Park Drive, Office 371 Areas of Expertise Federated / Distributed Learning Privacy Preservation Networking

Mark Rego, School Operations Manager
mark.rego@mq.edu.au | +61 2 9850 8244
4 Research Park Drive, Room 234

Erin Cheng, Administration Officer
erin.cheng@mq.edu.au | +61 2 9850 4227
4 Research Park Drive, Room 232

Feiya Dai, Administration Assistant
feiya.dai@mq.edu.au | +61 2 9850 8877
4 Research Park Drive, Room 230

Pamela Pan, Administration Assistant
pamela.pan@mq.edu.au | +61 2 9850 9514
4 Research Park Drive, Room 230

Nenad Petkovski, Technology Specialist
nenad.petkovski@mq.edu.au | +61 2 9850 4545
4 Research Park Drive, Room 230

Dr Tim Chard, Research Associate
tim.chard@mq.edu.au
4 Research Park Drive, Level 2

Dr Pengfei Ding, Research Associate
pengfei.ding@mq.edu.au
4 Research Park Drive, Level 3

Dr Pedro Faustini, Postdoctoral Research Associate
pedro.faustini@mq.edu.au
4 Research Park Drive, Level 2

Dr Venus Haghighi, Research Associate
venus.haghighi@mq.edu.au
4 Research Park Drive, Level 3

Dr Chengkai Huang, Research Associate
chengkai.huang@mq.edu.au
4 Research Park Drive, Level 3

Dr Praveen Muthusamy, Postdoctoral Research Associate
praveen.muthusamy@mq.edu.au
4 Research Park Drive, Level 3

Dr Siyu Wang, Research Associate
siyu.wang@mq.edu.au

Dr Zhangkai Wu, Postdoctoral Fellow in Machine Learning
zhangkai.wu@mq.edu.au
4 Research Park Drive, Level 3

Dr Muhammad Sajjad Akbar, Honorary Research Fellow
E: muhammadsajjad.akbar@mq.edu.au

Associate Professor Waleed Al Shehri, Visiting Associate Professor
E: waleed.alshehri@mq.edu.au

Dr Mostafa Al-Emran, Honorary Senior Lecturer
E: mostafa.al-emran@mq.edu.au

Dr Asma Alkabani, Honorary Senior Lecturer
E: AsmaM.Alkalbani@mq.edu.au

Dr Mohammad Allah Bakhsh, Honorary Associate Professor
E: mohammad.allahbakhsh@mq.edu.au

Dr Mark Graham Anderson, Adjunct Fellow
E: mark.anderson@mq.edu.au

Dr Iman Ardekani, Honorary Senior Lecturer
E: iman.ardekani@mq.edu.au

Dr John Baird, Adjunct Fellow
E: john.baird@mq.edu.au

Professor Boualem Benatallah, Honorary Professor
E: boualem.benatallah@mq.edu.au

Dr Taotao Cai, Honorary Lecturer
E: taotao.cai@mq.edu.au

Professor Fabio Casati, Honorary Professor
E: fabio.casati@mq.edu.au

Associate Professor Steve Cassidy, Honorary Associate Professor
E: steve.cassidy@mq.edu.au

Mr Henry Cheang, Adjunct Fellow
E: henry.cheang@mq.edu.au

Professor Pin Chen, Honorary Professor
E: pin.chen@mq.edu.au

Professor Shiping Chen, Honorary Professor
E: shiping.chen@mq.edu.au

Dr Mohammad Dabbagh, Honorary Senior Lecturer
E: mohammad.dabbagh@mq.edu.au

Professor Robert Dale, Honorary Professor
E: robert.dale@mq.edu.au

Dr Jing Du, Honorary Postdoctoral Fellow
E: jing.du@mq.edu.au

Professor Schahram Dustdar, Honorary Professor
E: schahram.dustdar@mq.edu.au

Dr Muhammad Ejaz Ahmed, Honorary Senior Lecturer
E: ejaz.ahmed@mq.edu.au

Dr Helia Farhood, Honorary Research Fellow
E: helia.farhood@mq.edu.au

Ms Sanam Ghattan, Adjunct Fellow
E: sanam.ghattan@mq.edu.au

Dr Samira Ghodratnama, Honorary Research Fellow
E: samira.ghodratnama@mq.edu.au

Associate Professor Brij Bhooshan Gupta, Honorary Associate Professor
E: brij.gupta@mq.edu.au

Dr Habiba Habiba, Adjunct Fellow
E: habiba.habiba@mq.edu.au

Dr Abbas Habibalahi, Visiting Fellow
E: abbas.habibalahi@mq.edu.au

Professor Hakim Hacid, Honorary Professor
E: hakim.hacid@mq.edu.au

Dr Salma Abdalla Hamad, Honorary Research Fellow
E: salma.hamad@mq.edu.au

Associate Professor Len Hamey, Honorary Associate Professor
E: len.hamey@mq.edu.au

Dr Xuanli He, Honorary Research Fellow
E: xuanli.he@mq.edu.au

Professor John Byron Hext, Emeritus Professor
E: john.hext@mq.edu.au

Dr Mehdi Hosseinzadeh, Visiting Fellow
E: mehdi.hosseinzadeh@mq.edu.au

Dr Hongsheng Hu, Honorary Lecturer
E: hongsheng.hu@mq.edu.au

Dr Zawar Hussain, Honorary Research Fellow
E: zawar.hussain@mq.edu.au

Professor Michael Johnson, Emeritus Professor
E: michael.johnson@mq.edu.au

Associate Professor Alireza Jolfaei, Honorary Associate Professor
E: alireza.jolfaei@mq.edu.au

Associate Professor Reihaneh Kardehi Moghaddam, Honorary Associate Professor
E: reihaneh-kardehi.moghaddam@mq.edu.au

Professor Vipin Kumar, Honorary Professor
E: vipin.kumar1@mq.edu.au

Associate Professor Daminda Kumara, Visiting Associate Professor
E: daminda.kumara@mq.edu.au

Professor James Kwok, Honorary Professor
E: james.kwok@mq.edu.au

Dr Xin Li, Visiting Fellow
E: xin.li@mq.edu.au

Dr Xinshu Li, Honorary Lecturer
E: xinshu.li@mq.ed.au

Associate Professor Zhenhua Li, Honorary Associate Professor
E: zhenhua.li@mq.edu.au

Professor Huan Liu, Honorary Professor
E: huan.liu@mq.edu.au

Dr Yao Liu, Honorary Lecturer
E: y.liu@mq.edu.au

Dr Congbo Ma, Honorary Postdoctoral Fellow
E: congbo.ma@mq.edu.au

Dr Leszek Andrzej Maciaszek, Honorary Research Fellow
E: leszek.maciaszek@mq.edu.au

Dr Shervin Malmasi, Honorary Research Fellow
E: shervin.malmasi@mq.edu.au

Professor Bernard Mans, Emeritus Professor
E: bernard.mans@mq.edu.au

Professor Wathiq Mansoor, Honorary Professor
E: wathiq.mansoor@mq.edu.au

Dr Scott McCallum, Honorary Senior Lecturer
E: scott.mccallum@mq.edu.au

Mr Keiran Miller, Adjunct Fellow
E: keiran.miller@mq.edu.au

Dr Sam Mokhtari, Adjunct Fellow
E: sam.mokhtari@mq.edu.au

Professor Charles Morgan, Honorary Professor
E: carroll.morgan@mq.edu.au

Professor Hamid Reza Motahari Nezhad, Honorary Professor
E: hamidreza.motaharinezhad@mq.edu.au

Dr SeyedMohsen Mousavi, Adjunct Fellow
E: seyedmohsen.mousavi@mq.edu.au

Associate Professor Mohammadbagher Naghibi Sistani, Honorary Associate Professor
E: mohammadbagher.naghibisistani@mq.edu.au

Associate Professor Abhaya Nayak, Honorary Associate Professor
E: abhaya.nayak@mq.edu.au

Professor Surya Nepal, Honorary Professor
E: surya.nepal@mq.edu.au

Dr Muhammad Abdul Hakim Newton, Honorary Senior Lecturer
E: mahakim.newton@mq.edu.au

Dr Yat Sze Ng, Honorary Lecturer
E: evelyn.ng@mq.edu.au

Dr Thi Vanh Khuyen Nguyen, Honorary Research Fellow
E: queen.nguyen@mq.edu.au

Professor Wei Ni, Honorary Professor

Associate Professor Minghua Nuo, Visiting Associate Professor
E: minghua.nuo@mq.edu.au

Professor Tracey O'Brien, Honorary Professor
E: tracey.o'brien@mq.edu.au

Professor Raymond John Offen, Emeritus Professor
E: ray.offen@mq.edu.au

Professor Mehmet Orgun, Honorary Professor
E: mehmet.orgun@mq.edu.au

Dr Shantanu Pal, Honorary Lecturer
E: shantanu.pal@mq.edu.au

Dr Shuchao Pang, Honorary Research Fellow
shuchao.pang@mq.edu.au

Professor Cecile Paris, Honorary Professor
E: cecile.paris@mq.edu.au

Associate Professor Thinagaran Perumal, Honorary Associate Professor
E: thinagaran.perumal@mq.edu.au

Professor Josef Pieprzyk, Honorary Professor
E: josef.pieprzyk@mq.edu.au

Professor John Power, Honorary Professor
E: john.power@mq.edu.au

Professor Lianyong Qi, Honorary Professor
E: lianyong.qi@mq.edu.au

Dr Xuelei Qi, Honorary Research Fellow
E: xuelei.qi@mq.edu.au

Dr Keyvan Rahimi Zadeh, Honorary Lecturer
E: keyvan.rahimizadeh@mq.edu.au

Prof Deborah Richards, Honorary Professor
E: deborah.richards@mq.edu.au

Dr Vala Ali Rohani, Honorary Lecturer
E: vala.rohani@mq.edu.au

Dr Hamid Alinejad Rokny, Honorary Senior Lecturer
E: hamid.alinejad@mq.edu.au

Dr Rasool Roozegar, Adjunct Fellow
E: rasool.roozegar@mq.edu.au

Associate Professor Kashif Saleem, Honorary Associate Professor
E: kashif.saleem@mq.edu.au

Dr Vedant Sansare, Honorary Associate Lecturer
E: vedant.sansare@mq.edu.au

Dr Francesco Schiliro, Honorary Lecturer
E: frank.schiliro@mq.edu.au

Dr Simon See, Honorary Professor
E: simon.see@mq.edu.au

Dr Nasrin Shabani, Adjunct Fellow
E: nasrin.shabani@mq.edu.au

Dr Zahra Shahabi Kargar, Adjunct Fellow
E: zahra.shahabikargar@mq.edu.au

Dr Usman Shahbaz, Adjunct Fellow
E: usman.shahbaz@mq.edu.au

Dr Anthony Shaw, Adjunct Fellow
E: anthony.shaw@mq.edu.au

Dr Amy Shi-Nash, Adjunct Fellow
E: amy.shi-nash@mq.edu.au

Dr Suresh Chandara Sood, Adjunct Fellow
E: SureshChandara.Sood@mq.edu.au

Dr Zhu Sun, Honorary Lecturer
E: z.sun@mq.edu.au

Associate Professor Siamak Talatahari, Honorary Associate Professor
E: siamak.talatahari@mq.edu.au

Professor Jingjing Tang, Honorary Professor
E: jingjing.tang@mq.edu.au

Dr Chuxuan Tong, Honorary Postdoctoral Fellow
E: chuxuan.tong@mq.edu.au

Dr Dai Hoang Tran, Honorary Research Fellow
E: dai.tran@mq.edu.au

Professor Vijayaraghavan Varadharajan, Honorary Professor
E: vijay.varadharajan@mq.edu.au

Dr Dinusha Vatsalan, Honorary Senior Lecturer
E: dinusha.vatsalan@mq.edu.au

Professor Huaxiong Wang, Honorary Professor
E: huaxiong.wang@mq.edu.au

Dr Kai Wang, Honorary Postdoctoral Fellow
E: kai.wang9@mq.edu.au

Dr Shoujin Wang, Honorary Lecturer
E: shoujin.wang@mq.edu.au

Dr Shuang Wang, Honorary Lecturer
E: shuang.wang@mq.edu.au

Associate Professor Xin Wang, Honorary Associate Professor
E: jarryxin.wang@mq.edu.au

Dr Zhe Wang, Visiting Fellow
E: zhe.wang@mq.edu.au

Dr Samuel White, Honorary Associate Lecturer
E: samuel.white@mq.edu.au

Ms Elizabeth Whitelock, Adjunct Fellow
E: elizabeth.whitelock@mq.edu.au

Professor Xindong Wu, Honorary Professor
E: xindong.wu@mq.edu.au

Dr Minhui Xue, Honorary Lecturer
E: minhui.xue@mq.edu.au

Professor Jian Yang, Honorary Professor
E: jian.yang@mq.edu.au

Professor Lina Yao, Honorary Professor
E: lina.yao@mq.edu.au

Dr Mahmood Yousefiazar, Honorary Research Fellow
E: mahmood.yousefiazar@mq.edu.au

Dr Xin Yuan, Honorary Senior Research Fellow
E: xin.yuan@mq.edu.au

Dr Mehrdad Zakershahrak, Honorary Research Fellow
E: mehrdad.zakershahrak@mq.edu.au

Professor Shengli Zhang, Honorary Professor
E: shengli.zhang@mq.edu.au

Dr Wei Zhang, Honorary Lecturer
E: w.zhang@mq.edu.au

Dr Wei Zhang, Adjunct Fellow
E: wei.zhang@mq.edu,au

Dr Yang Zhang, Honorary Lecturer
E: yang.zhang@mq.edu.au

Yelaman Abdullin - Principal Supervisor, Dr Diego Molla-Aliod
E: yelaman.abdullin@hdr.mq.edu.au
Conversational Search for Solving Combinatorial Optimization Problems

Imran Afridi - Principal Supervisor, Associate Professor James Zheng
E: imran.afridi@hdr.mq.edu.au
Streamlining Data Labeling for Smart Farming Applications

Saleh Afzoon - Principal Supervisor, Professor Amin Beheshti
E: saleh.afzoon@hdr.mq.edu.au
Knowledge-based Multimodal Transformer for Mental Disorder Detection

Mohammad Hossein Ahmadi - Principal Supervisor, Professor Amin Beheshti
E: mohammadhossein.ahmadi@hdr.mq.edu.au
Semantic Segmentation of Brain Tumors in MRI Images

Elaf Alhazmi - Principal Supervisor, Distinguished Professor Michael Sheng
E: elaf.alhazmi@hdr.mq.edu.au
Memory Management: Ownership Concept in Programming Languages

Abid Ali - Principal Supervisor, Dr Diego Molla-Aliod
E: abid.ali@hdr.mq.edu.au
Multi-Modal Neural Summarization

Aliakbar Attari - Principal Supervisor, Dr Yuankai Qi
E: aliakbar.attari@hdr.mq.edu.au
AI-powered noninvasive detection of pain in newborns

Yvonne Bachiller - Principal Supervisor, Dr Peter Busch
E: yvonne-custodio.bachiller@hdr.mq.edu.au
AI and ML Enabled BPM: Business Intelligence Solution

Maria Catalina Barcaru - Principal Supervisor, Dr Ningning Hou
E: mariacatalina.barcaru@students.mq.edu.au
Social Healthcare Robots

Shashie Dilhara Batan Arachichige - Principal Supervisor, Professor Dali Kaafar
E: shashiedilhara.batanarachchige@hdr.mq.edu.au
Biometric Authentication on mobile devices: A Novel Approach on Behavioral Biometrics and continuous authentication using a Deep Learning Approach

Tseesuren Batsuuri - Principal Supervisor, Dr Emma Xue
E: tseesuren.batsuuri@hdr.mq.edu.au
Multimodal Learning Based Collaborative Filtering for Robust, Explainable, Dynamic Recommendation

Gytis Budrevicius - Principal Supervisor, Dr Yan Li
E: gytis.budrevicius@hdr.mq.edu.au
AI-Enabled Integrated Sensing and Communication Systems for Swarm Robotics

Luigi Domenico Cecchini Soares - Principal Supervisor, Dr Natasha Fernandes
E: luigidomenico.cecchinisoares@hdr.mq.edu.au
QIF-Aware Compiler

Filippo Cenacchi - Principal Supervisor, Professor Longbing Cao
E: filippo.cenacchi@hdr.mq.edu.au
Omniverse Health Digital Twins: Advanced 3D Human Organ and Disease Visualization for Enhanced Diagnostic, Prognostic and Therapeutic Interactions

Jin Chai - Principal Supervisor, Prof Jian Yang
E: jin.chai@hdr.mq.edu.au
Generative Modelling of User Preference Dynamics for Sequential Recommendation

Yu Ho Enoch Chan- Principal Supervisor, Dr Yuankai Qi
E: yuhoenoch.chan@hdr.mq.edu.au
Autonomous Multi-Agent AutoML Pipelines for Real-Time Data Ecosystems

Chris Chen - Principal Supervisor, Professor Annabelle McIver
E: chris.chen1@mq.edu.au
Mathematical Foundations of Information Flow

Xinyuan Chen - Principal Supervisor, Professor Tao Gu
E :xinyuan.chen1@hdr.mq.edu.au
On Device Machine Learning Technology for Mobile Sensing Applications on Smartphones and Wearables

Xiaoxiao Chi - Principal Supervisor, Associate Professor Xuyun Zhang
E: xiaoxiao.chi@hdr.mq.edu.au
Privacy-aware service prediction and recommendation in big data

Lokuge Thisal Danuka De Silva - Principal Supervisor, Professor Annabelle McIver
E: lokugethisaldanuka.desilva@hdr.mq.edu.au
Validating the Integrity of Polygon CDK Validium Zero-Knowledge Proofs

Guangwei Dong - Principal Supervisor, Professor Jia Wu
E: guangwei.dong1@hdr.mq.edu.au
Exploring the Robust and Efficient Graph Deep Learning Framework for Brain Graph Data Analysis

Eu Jin Foo - Principal Supervisor, Professor Amin Beheshti
E: eujin.foo@hdr.mq.edu.au
Neurosymbolic Explainable Transaction Understanding System (NEXUS)

Shang Gao - Principal Supervisor, Professor Tao Gu
E: shang.gao1@hdr.mq.edu.au
AIoT For Resilient and Sustainable Smart Cities

Yifei Han - Principal Supervisor, Dr Emma Xue
E: yifei.han1@hdr.mq.edu.au
Advancing Dynamic Graph Modeling with Temporal-Social Interaction Learning

Aung Kyaw Htet - Principal Supervisor, Professor Mark Dras
E: aungkyaw.htet@hdr.mq.edu.au
Uplifting LLM performance for Low-Resource Languages

Fahmida Islam - Principal Supervisor, Dr Adnan Mahmood
E: fahmida.islam1@hdr.mq.edu.au
Equity vs. Equality in Federated Learning: Complementing Strategies towards Trustworthy Client Selection in IoV Networks

Benjamin Jesse - Principal Supervisor, Dr Adnan Mahmood
E: benjamin.jesse@hdr.mq.edu.au
Potential for Information-Theoretic Secure Cryptography Using Sparce Hypercubes

Gautam Siddharth Kashyap - Principal Supervisor, Dr Usman Naseem
E: gautam.kashyap@hdr.mq.edu.au
Foundation Models for Multimodal Content Analysis in the Internet

Nouna Khandan - Principal Supervisor, Professor Mark Dras
E: nouna.khandan@hdr.mq.edu.au
Stroke Detection and Classification with Deep Learning

Heegyeong Kim - Principal Supervisor, Professor Richard Han
E: heegyeong.kim@hdr.mq.edu.au
Scalable Drone Swarm Coordination

Lashmi Kondoth - Principal Supervisor, Dr Rajan Shankaran
E: lashmi.kondoth@hdr.mq.edu.au
Optimising Resource Allocation and Scheduling in Wireless Network on Chip for Internet of Things and Edge Computing

Ghazal Lahooha - Principal Supervisor, Distinguished Professor Michael Sheng
E: ghazal.lahooha@hdr.mq.edu.au
Using IoT in Health Care and Intelligently Optimizing Effective Communication Between Members of This Collection

Jack Lau - Principal Supervisor, Dr Adnan Mahmood
E: jack.lau@hdr.mq.edu.au
Towards an LLM-driven Pricing Agent for the B2B Software-as-a-Service Industry

Peizhen Li - Principal Supervisor, Professor Longbing Cao
E: peizhen.li1@hdr.mq.edu.au
Community behavior and interaction learning

Weijun Li - Principal Supervisor, Professor Mark Dras
E: weijun.li1@hdr.mq.edu.au
Data Reconstruction Attack and Privacy-Preserving Defense

Hongyang Liu - Principal Supervisor, Professor Yan Wang
E: hongyang.liu2@hdr.mq.edu.au
Constructing Simulated Environment for Recommender System

Jiangtao Liu - Principal Supervisor, Professor Jia Wu
E: jiangtao.liu@hdr.mq.edu.au
Research on Social Event Detection Based on GNN in Open Set

Na Liu - Principal Supervisor, Professor Richard Han
E: na.liu8@hdr.mq.edu.au

Zhuozhu Liu - Principal Supervisor, Professor Jia Wu
E: zhuozhu.liu@hdr.mq.edu.au
Research on the Evaluation of Think Tanks Based on Neural Networks

Shichen Luo - Principal Supervisor, Professor Jia Wu
E: shichen.luo@hdr.mq.edu.au
Structure-Aware Critical Region-Focused Graph Neural Network for Brain Graph Analysis

Siwei Luo - Principal Supervisor, Associate Professor James Zheng
E: siwei.luo@hdr.mq.edu.au
Metamorphic Testing for Autonomous Driving Systems

Hongyi Lyu - Principal Supervisor, Associate Professor Xuyun Zhang
E: hongyi.lu@hdr.mq.edu.au
Fine-Grained and Efficient Self-Unlearning with Layered Iteration

Qihua Lyu - Principal Supervisor, Professor Jia Wu
E: qihua.lyu@hdr.mq.edu.au
Enhanced Multi-Agent Disaster Rescue Operations through Reinforcement Learning: A Graph-Based Approach

Suxue Ma - Principal Supervisor, Professor Jia Wu
E: suxue.ma@hdr.mq.edu.au

Seyed Mohammadali Majidi Anvari - Principal Supervisor, Professor Amin Beheshti
E: seyedmohammadali.majidianvari@hdr.mq.edu.au
Utilizing Generative AI for Enhanced Forecasting of Tourist Arrivals and Hotel Occupancy

Utsav Maskey - Principal Supervisor, Dr Usman Naseem
E: utsav.maskey@students.mq.edu.au
Adaptive Safety Mechanisms for Retrieval Augmented Generation and Agentic AI

Christopher McCutcheon - Principal Supervisor, Associate Professor Michael Hitchens
E: christopher.mccutcheon@hdr.mq.edu.au
Work, Play & Leisure: Modes of Engagement with eSports

Jie Meng - Principal Supervisor, Associate Professor Guanfeng Liu
E: jie.meng1@hdr.mq.edu.au
Research on Hypothesis Generation Systems for Data-Driven Scientific Discovery

Hadi Mohammadzadeh Abachi - Principal Supervisor, Professor Amin Beheshti
E: hadi.mohammadzadehabachi@hdr.mq.edu.au
Community Detection of Customers and Product Recommendation Based On Risk-Taking Level In Financial Organizations

Mohammed Moinuddin Sameer - Principal Supervisor, Dr Adnan Mahmood
E: mohammedmoinuddinsameer.mohammedmoinuddinsameer@hdr.mq.edu.au
Multimodal Reasoning for Scenario-Aware Decision-Making in the Internet of Vehicles

Sahar Moradizeyveh - Principal Supervisor, Professor Amin Beheshti
E: sahar.moradizeyveh@hdr.mq.edu.au
Linking Storytelling Systems and Recommender Systems to Improve Accuracy for Warm and Cold Start Users

Vahid Moraveji - Principal Supervisor, Professor Mark Dras
E: vahid.moraveji-hashemi@students.mq.edu.au
The use of multiple digital coaches and the potential benefits of more than one coach

Erfan Moshiri - Principal Supervisor, Professor Amin Beheshti
E: erfan.moshiri@hdr.mq.edu.au
Advancing Dynamic Graph Analytics: Scalable Predictive Representation Learning with Graph Neural Networks

Salman Mousaeirad - Principal Supervisor, Professor Amin Beheshti
E: salman.mousaeirad@hdr.mq.edu.au
Demand Forecasting based on Mathematical Models and Big Data Analytics in Banking Industry

Arghya Mukherjee - Principal Supervisor, Dr Hassan Asghar
E: arghya.mukherjee@hdr.mq.edu.au
Secure Data Sharing and Processing in Quantum Setting

Noorain Mukhtiar - Principal Supervisor, Distinguished Professor Michael Sheng
E: noorain.mukhtiar@hdr.mq.edu.au
Towards AI-based Cyber Resilience in Intelligent Transportation Systems

Afrozah Nadeem - Principal Supervisor, Dr Usman Naseem
E: afrozah.nadeem@students.mq.edu.au
Aligning Large Language Models with Human Preferences

Mohammadjavad Nazirzadeh - Principal Supervisor, Professor Longbing Cao
E: mj.nazirzadeh@students.mq.edu.au
Enhancing Real-Time VR Content Creation Through Generative AI

Haoran Ning - Principal Supervisor, Associate Professor Guanfeng Liu
E: haoran.ning@hdr.mq.edu.au
Implementation of SQL and JIT Compilation in Modern Database Engines With MLIR

Sunday Ogundoyin - Principal Supervisor, Dr Muhammad Ikram
E: sunday.ogundoyin@hdr.mq.edu.au
Web Tracking and User Privacy in Developing Regions: Investigating the Implications and Enhancing User Control

Muhammad Ali Paracha - Principal Supervisor, Dr Muhammad Ikram
E: muhammadali.paracha@hdr.mq.edu.au
AI Sentinels: Proactive Cyber Defense Through Intelligent Threat Prediction and Neutralisation

Manoj Madushanka Perera - Principal Supervisor, Dr Adnan Mahmood
E: manojmadushanka.perera@hdr.mq.edu.au
Conversational Question Answering with LLMs: Enhancing Context-Awareness and Response Accuracy through Contrastive Learning and Personalization

Minh Thuy Truc Pham - Principal Supervisor, Dr Hassan Asghar
E: minhthuytruc.pham@students.mq.edu.au
Bridging Quantum Computing and Privacy: Practical Quantum Differential Privacy for Emerging Hardware

Thamolwan Poopradubsil - Principal Supervisor, Dr Emma Xue
E: thamolwan.poopradubsil@hdr.mq.edu.au
Tracking Climate Misinformation and Public Stance Evolution Across Social Media and News for Policy Impact

Kevin Purnell - Principal Supervisor, Dr Rolf Schwitter
E: kevin.purnell@hdr.mq.edu.au
Error-free Logic Programs from Conversational User-Interfaces

Weixian Qian - Principal Supervisor, Associate Professor James Zheng
E: weixian.qian@students.mq.edu.au
Towards Trustworthy Neuro-Symbolic Robotics with LLM Guidance: Multimodal Grounding, Planning, and Lifelong Adaptation

Zitai Qiu - Principal Supervisor, Professor Jia Wu
E: zitai.qiu@hdr.mq.edu.au
Social Event Detection from Social Media

Juan Ren - Principal Supervisor, Dr Usman Naseem
E: ada.ren@hdr.mq.edu.au
Safety in multi-modal Models

Kaixuan Ren - Principal Supervisor, Dr Usman Naseem
E: kaixuan.ren@hdr.mq.edu.au
Detecting, Verifying, and Countering Vaccine Hesitancy with AI

Masoud Safilian - Principal Supervisor, Professor Amin Beheshti
E: masoud.safilian@hdr.mq.edu.au
A New Knowledge Sharing and Weak Supervised Framework for NLP Classification Tasks

Sebastian Schroder - Principal Supervisor, Associate Professor James Zheng
E: sebastian.schroder1@hdr.mq.edu.au
Autonomous Drone flight developments through Improved Symbolic Mapping and Neuro-symbolic path planning

Piyumi Seneviratne - Principal Supervisor, Professor Dali Kaafar
E: thammitagepiyumiwathsala.seneviratne@hdr.mq.edu.au
Fairness, Privacy and Security Concerns in Targeted Online Advertising

Zeeshan Zulkifl Shah - Principal Supervisor, Professor Dali Kaafar
E: zeeshanzulkifl.shah@hdr.mq.edu.au
AI driven Intrusion Detection in 5G RAN

Alireza Shammasi - Principal Supervisor, Professor Amin Beheshti
E: alireza.shammasi@hdr.mq.edu.au
Enhancing Data Imputation and Curation with Retrieval-Augmented Generation Models

Anthony Shaw - Principal Supervisor, Professor Amin Beheshti
E: anthony.shaw4@hdr.mq.edu.au
Integration of Statically Typed, Compiled Languages to Dynamic Language Runtimes

Afrouz Sheikholeslami - Principal Supervisor, Professor Amin Beheshti
E: afrouz.sheikholeslami@hdr.mq.edu.au
Knowledge Graph Refinement using Reinforcement Learning with AI Feedback

Khaled Mohammad Khaled Shyiab - Principal Supervisor, Dr Yan Li
E: khaledmohammadkhaled.shyiab@hdr.mq.edu.au
Advanced Self-Learning Intrusion Detection System (IDS) for real-time security in Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) environments, with a focus on detecting zero-day attacks

Behnaz Soltani - Principal Supervisor, Distinguished Professor Michael Sheng
E: behnaz.soltani@hdr.mq.edu.au
Dynamic Resource Management in Distributed Stream Processing Systems

Maryam Tahermazandarani - Principal Supervisor, Dr Adnan Mahmood
E: maryam.tahermazandarani@hdr.mq.edu.au
Integrations of Longitudinal Health Data and machine learning techniques for Early Lung Detection and Personalized Cancer Treatment Optimization

Hafiz Muhammad Tahir- Principal Supervisor, Professor Deborah Richards
E: hafizmuhammad.tahir@hdr.mq.edu.au
Exploring Psychoinformatics for Human Action Prediction Before Happening of an Event

Yongping Tang - Principal Supervisor, Professor Jian Yang
E: yongping.tang@hdr.mq.edu.au
Design of a framework for automatic generation of data products

Saqr Thabet - Principal Supervisor, Dr Yipeng Zhou
E: saqr.thabet@hdr.mq.edu.au
Deep Learning for Wireless Video Transmission

Yuzhe Tian - Principal Supervisor, Associate Professor James Zheng
E: yuzhe.tian@hdr.mq.edu.au
Hardware-Oriented Deep Learning Acceleration

Hadiqa Aman Ullah - Principal Supervisor, Distinguished Professor Michael Sheng
E: hadiqaaman.ullah@hdr.mq.edu.au
Leveraging deep learning for real-time anomaly detection in smart homes using human activity recognition from multimodal data

Nan Wang - Principal Supervisor, Professor Yan Wang
E: nan.wang12@hdr.mq.edu.au
Trustworthy Service Evaluation and Selection System

Shuang Wang - Principal Supervisor, Associate Professor Guanfeng Liu
E: shuang.wang10@hdr.mq.edu.au
Data-Intensive Schedule Optimization in Database

Matthew Warner-Smith - Principal Supervisor, Professor Amin Beheshti
E: matthew.warnersmith@hdr.mq.edu.au
Clinical Implementation of Artificial Intelligence to Enhance Breast Cancer Screening

David Warren - Principal Supervisor, Professor Mark Dras
E: david.warren@hdr.mq.edu.au
Information Sharing in Genetic Reinforcement Learning Hybrids

Kayson Whitehouse - Principal Supervisor, Associate Professor Michael Hitchens
E: kayson.whitehouse@mq.edu.au
Welcoming Trans and Gender Diverse Players

Kasun Eranda Wijethilake - Principal Supervisor, Dr Adnan Mahmood
E: kasuneranda.wijethilake@hdr.mq.edu.au
Towards Intelligent Federated IoV Networks – Heterogeneity, Dynamicity, and Performance Trade-offs

Zhongyuan Xie- Principal Supervisor, Dr Xuhui Fan
E: zhongyuan.xie@hdr.mq.edu.au
Generative AI and Its Application

Tong Xin - Principal Supervisor, Professor Longbing Cao
E: tong.xin@students.mq.edu.au
Unified ESG for Financial Forecasting and Risk Management

Jianxuan Xu - Principal Supervisor, Dr Adnan Mahmood
E: jianxuan.xu@hdr.mq.edu.au
Towards a Resilient AIoV Network -- A Contrastive Learning-based Trust Management Approach

Rongwei Xu - Principal Supervisor, Associate Professor Guanfeng Liu
E: rongwei.xu@hdr.mq.edu.au
Trust-Prediction Oriented Social Network Analytics

Zhengjia Xu - Principal Supervisor, Professor Jia Wu
E: zhengjia.xu@hdr.mq.edu.au
Overcoming Heterophily Issue and Improving Efficiency in Graph Analysis Tasks

Shuo Yan - Principal Supervisor, Dr Ningning Hou
E: shuo.yan2@hdr.mq.edu.au
Enhancing Lung Nodule Detection in Chest X-rays through Advanced Deep Learning Techniques

Andy Yang - Principal Supervisor, Associate Professor Xuyun Zhang
E: andy.yang@hdr.mq.edu.au
Advancing Multimodal Fusion: Innovative Architectures, Model Optimisations, and Practical AI Applications

Run Yang - Principal Supervisor, Professor Yan Wang
E: run.yang@hdr.mq.edu.au
Deep-learning-based Shale Gas Production Prediction

Runze Yang - Principal Supervisor, Professor Longbing Cao
E: runze.yang@hdr.mq.edu.au
Deep Multivariate Time Series Forecasting

Xuankai Yang - Principal Supervisor, Professor Yan Wang
E: xuankai.yang@hdr.mq.edu.au
Maritime travel route recommendation

Jiaohong Yao - Principal Supervisor, Professor Richard Han
E: jiaohong.yao@hdr.mq.edu.au
Robust Autonomous Landing Models for Drones

Yongmin Yoo - Principal Supervisor, Professor Longbing Cao
E: yongmin.yoo@hdr.mq.edu.au
Deep patent text understanding

Yongsheng Yu - Principal Supervisor, Professor Jia Wu
E: yongsheng.yu@hdr.mq.edu.au
Breaking News Detection with Heterogeneous Graph Attention Network

Huanhuan Yuan - Principal Supervisor, Associate Professor Guanfeng Liu
E: huanhuan.yuan@hdr.mq.edu.au
Model Interpretable Recommendation Based on Neuro-Symbolic Reasoning

Melika Zare - Principal Supervisor, Professor Amin Beheshti
E: melika.zare@hdr.mq.edu.au
Cross-Modal Contrastive Transformer with Temporal Graph Refinement for Alzheimer’s Disease Segmentation

Han Zhang - Principal Supervisor, Professor Yan Wang
E: han.zhang13@hdr.mq.edu.au
Modeling node pairs relationship in Heterogeneous Information Networks

Hengyu Zhang - Principal Supervisor, Associate Professor Xuyun Zhang
E: hengyu.zhang3@hdr.mq.edu.au
Research on Data Fusion and Privacy-Preserving Methods for Intelligent Services

Xu Zhang - Principal Supervisor, Professor Longbing Cao
E: xu.zhang12@hdr.mq.edu.au
Deep Multimodal Variational Learning

Yihao Zhang - Principal Supervisor, Dr Yuankai Qi
E: yihao.zhang3@hdr.mq.edu.au
VESTA: Vision-Language-Action Model with Embodied Safety, Tactile reasoning, and Adaptation

Yitong Zhang - Principal Supervisor, Associate Professor Guanfeng Liu
E: yitong.zhang3@hdr.mq.edu.au
Advancing Bayesian Statistical Inference for Enhanced Predictive Modeling in Financial Time Series

Deji Zhao - Principal Supervisor, Professor Jia Wu
E: deji.zhao@hdr.mq.edu.au
Enhancing Mathematical Reasoning Ability in Large Language Models via Computation Logic Graphs

Lingfeng Zhong - Principal Supervisor, Professor Jia Wu
E: lingfeng.zhong@hdr.mq.edu.au
Automatic Knowledge Graph Construction Over Massive Heterogenous Text

Zihan Zhu - Principal Supervisor, Dr Qiongkai Xu
E: zihan.zhu1@hdr.mq.edu.au
Towards Robust and Uncertainty-Aware Agentic Systems

Faisal Khamis Mohamed Al Zadjali - Associate Professor Guanfeng Liu
E: faisalkhamismohamed.alzadjali@students.mq.edu.au
Optimizing IoT Sensor Placement for Multi-Sensor Fusion in Urban Traffic Digital Twins

Kiana Bagheri Lotfabad - Principal Supervisor, Associate Professor Guanfeng Liu
E: kiana.bagherilotfabad@hdr.mq.edu.au
Optimizing Clinical Insights Through Artificial Intelligence

Marjan BaghGolshani - Principal Supervisor, Professor Amin Beheshti
E: marjan.baghgolshani@hdr.mq.edu.au
Enhancing Compound Protein Interaction Prediction with Multimodal Deep Learning Using a Contrastive Attention Based Framework

Chaoyu Bi - Principal Supervisor, Dr Yimeng Feng
E: chaoyu.bi@hdr.mq.edu.au
Development of an AI-powered scientific workflow management platform designed for container-based cloud environments

Xinyu Chen - Principal Supervisor, Dr Usman Naseem
E: xinyu.chen4@students.mq.edu.au
Mitigating Hallucination in Large Language Models via Hybrid Retrieval- Augmented Generation, Supervised Fine-Tuning, and Reinforcement Optimization

Xubin Chen - Principal Supervisor, Dr Yipeng Zhou
E: xubin.chen@hdr.mq.edu.au
Multimodal medical data privacy protection and knowledge extraction framework with federated learning

Yinxuan Chen - Principal Supervisor, Dr Adnan Mahmood
E: yinxuan.chen@students.mq.edu.au
LLMs Meet the Internet of Things

Dexuan Ding - Principal Supervisor, Dr Yuankai Qi
E: dexuan.ding@hdr.mq.edu.au
Advancing Analysis Algorithms for Dementia

Ziyan Guan - Principal Supervisor, Dr Qiongkai Xu
E: ziyan.guan@hdr.mq.edu.au
Reducing Hallucination in Large Language Model

Laura Hardy - Principal Supervisor, Professor Amin Beheshti
E: laura.hardy@students.mq.edu.au
Towards Prediction-Guided Generative Design of RNA

Muhammad Hassan - Principal Supervisor, Associate Professor Xuyun Zhang
E: muhammad.hassan4@students.mq.edu.au
Diffusion Based Anomaly Detection in Software Defined Networks

Md Azizul Hoque - Principal Supervisor, Dr Usman Naseem
E: mdazizul.hoque@students.mq.edu.au
Understanding and Mitigation Misalignment in LLMs

Jignesh Kakkad - Principal Supervisor, Professor Deborah Richards
E: jignesh.kakkad@hdr.mq.edu.au
AI That Understands: Enhancing Human Performance with Real-Time Psychological Monitoring

Debashish Kumar - Principal Supervisor, Associate Professor James Zheng
E: debashish.kumar@students.mq.edu.au
Neuro-Symbolic AI for Semantic Understanding in Autonomous Systems

Kunchhan Lama - Principal Supervisor, Dr Diego Molla-Aliod
E: kunchhan.lama@students.mq.edu.au
Kumora: The Design and User-Centered Evaluation of a Psychologically-Grounded AI for Women's Menstrual Emotional Well-being

Shaotian Li - Principal Supervisor, Dr Xiaohan Yu
E: shaotian.li1@students.mq.edu.au
Longitudinal Prediction for Knee Osteoarthritis Radiology Assessment with Advanced Deep Learning Model

Hanfeng Liao - Principal Supervisor, Dr Yuankai Qi
E: hanfeng.liao@hdr.mq.edu.au
Advancing Multimodal Robot System: Integrating Generalization and Task-Specific Adaptability

Sayedali Mohseni - Principal Supervisor, Professor Amin Beheshti
E: sayedali.mohseni@students.mq.edu.au
Toward Biologically Constrained Deep Learning Models for Robust Sound Localization in Synthetic Environments

Parimehr Morassa Far - Principal Supervisor, Professor Amin Beheshti
E: parimehr.morassafar@hdr.mq.edu.au
Peer-Grading with LLMs Support: Towards Educational Purpose

Nguyen Mai Anh Ngo - Principal Supervisor, Dr Qiongkai Xu
E: nguyenmaianh.ngo@students.mq.edu.au
Personalised Privacy-Preserving Text Generation using Preference Optimisation

Hoang Cuong Nguyen - Principal Supervisor, Dr Usman Naseem
E: hoangcuong.nguyen@students.mq.edu.au
A retrieval-augmented defense solution for safety alignment of Large Language Models

Haochen Pei - Principal Supervisor, Dr Ningning Hou
E: haochen.pei@students.mq.edu.au
Multi-Modal Biometric Analysis for Sleep Apnea Detection Using Machine Learning on Sensor and WiFi-Derived Data

Akramah Rashid - Principal Supervisor, Associate Professor Xuyun Zhang
E: akramah.rashid@hdr.mq.edu.au
AI Driven Bottleneck Detection and Remediation in Cloud Native Applications

Kritesh Rauniyar - Principal Supervisor, Dr Usman Naseem
E: kritesh.rauniyar@students.mq.edu.au
Enhancing Commonsense Reasoning in Large Language Models Through Alignment with Human Intuition

Aditi Saha Ria - Principal Supervisor, Associate Professor Guanfeng Liu
E: aditi.ria@students.mq.edu.au
Customer Churn Prediction with Learning Methods

Sayanthan Sarvananthan - Principal Supervisor, Dr Emma Xue
E: sayanthan.sarvananthan@hdr.mq.edu.au
Social Event Detection Based on Graph Learning Approaches

Amir Hossein Shahriari - Principal Supervisor, Associate Professor Guanfeng Liu
E: amirhossein.shahriari@students.mq.edu.au
A Synergy of Quantum-Inspired Pathfinding Algorithms, Reinforcement Learning, and Graph Neural Networks

Ali Shahsavandi - Principal Supervisor, Professor Amin Beheshti
E: ali.shahsavandi@hdr.mq.edu.au
Personalized Educational Pathways through Causal Inference

Lanye Shao- Principal Supervisor, Dr Diego Molla-Aliod
E: lanye.shao@students.mq.edu.au
Emotion Attribution Bias in Large Language Models: Detection and Debiasing Strategies

Ayesha Siddiqui - Principal Supervisor, Dr Adnan Mahmood
E: ayesha.siddiqui@students.mq.edu.au
Enhancing Communication and Interoperability in IoT Networks through Large Language Models (LLM)

Permvir Singh - Principal Supervisor, Dr Rajan Shankaran
E: permvir.singh@students.mq.edu.au
Secure Drone Swarm Communications using AI/ML-Driven Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces

Parinya Sodsai - Principal Supervisor, Dr Autumn Wu
E: parinya.sodsai@hdr.mq.edu.au
Beyond SAFE: Enhancing Deepfake Image Detection with Adaptive Augmentations and Threshold Calibration

Sundas - Principal Supervisor, Dr Adnan Mahmood
E: sundas.sundas@hdr.mq.edu.au
Design of Control Algorithms and Optimization Strategies for Virtual Vehicles and Driving Simulators

Sabrina Tabassum - Principal Supervisor, Dr Hassan Asghar
E: sabrina.tabassum1@students.mq.edu.au
Confidentiality-Preserving, Verifiable On-Prem Execution of External Software in Security-Critical System (No Air-Gaps)

Kamyar Taeb - Principal Supervisor, Professor Amin Beheshti
E: kamyar.taeb@hdr.mq.edu.au
Towards Utilizing Large Language Models to Personalize Educational Pathways

Ziyuan Tao - Principal Supervisor, Dr Adnan Mahmood
E: ziyuan.tao@students.mq.edu.au
On-Device Federated Learning with Differential Privacy and Secure Aggregation

Graeme Thomas - Principal Supervisor, Professor Amin Beheshti
E: graeme.thomas1@hdr.mq.edu.au
Resisting Adversarial Attacks with Quantum Machine Learning

Mingxiu Wang - Principal Supervisor, Dr Xiao Cheng
E: mingxiu.wang@students.mq.edu.au
Scaling Cross-language Software Analysis and Verification

Wei Wang - Principal Supervisor, Dr Mitchell McEwan
E: wei.wang52@students.mq.edu.au
Enhancing Real-Time Emotional Feedback Loops in XR: Capturing and Utilizing Facial Expressions for Mental Health Interventions

Yang Wang - Principal Supervisor, Dr Young Lee
E: yang.wang28@students.mq.edu.au
Distributed Profiling and Runtime Analysis for Low-Latency and High-Frequency Trading Systems

Jaculin Chellian Shiny Wise Ponsly - Principal Supervisor, Dr Usman Naseem
E: jaculinchellianshiny.wiseponsly@hdr.mq.edu.au
Investigating the Ethical Implications and Mitigation Strategies of Large Language Models

Yiran Xue - Principal Supervisor, Dr Emma Xue
E: yiran.xue@students.mq.edu.au
GNN-based misinformation detection methods for social network

Yiwei Yan - Principal Supervisor, Associate Professor Guanfeng Liu
E: yiwei.yan@hdr.mq.edu.au
Data-Driven Health Data Analysis

Xiaomeng Yao - Principal Supervisor, Dr Young Lee
E: xiaomeng.yao@hdr.mq.edu.au
A carbon-efficient auto-scaling and scheduling strategy for microservices deployed on cloud

Sanaz Yasipourtehrani - Principal Supervisor, Professor Amin Beheshti
E: sanaz.yasipourtehrani@hdr.mq.edu.au
Vision Tasks using Transformer Networks

Yueruiting Zhou - Principal Supervisor, Professor Longbing Cao
E: yueruiting.zhou@students.mq.edu.au
ESG-integrated Deep Portfolio Formulisation

Director	Stream
Dr Diego Molla-Aliod E: diego.molla-aliod@mq.edu.au	Artificial Intelligence Bachelor of Information Technology with a Major in Artificial Intelligence Master of Information Technology in Artificial Intelligence Master of Information Technology with a Major in Applied Artificial Intelligence
Charanya Ramakrishnan E: charanya.ramakrishnan@mq.edu.au	Bachelor of IT Bachelor of Information Technology
Damian Jurd E: damian.jurd@mq.edu.au	Cyber Bachelor of Cyber Security Bachelor of Information Technology with a Major in Cyber Security Master of Information Technology in Cyber Security Master of Information Technology with a Major in Cyber Security
Dr Yu Zhang E: y.zhang@mq.edu.au	Data Science Bachelor of IT with a Major in Data Science Master of Data Science
Dr Mitchell McEwan E: mitchell.mcewan@mq.edu.au	Games Bachelor of Games Design and Development
Dr Peter Busch E: peter.busch@mq.edu.au	Information Systems Bachelor of Information Technology with a Major in Information Systems and Business Analysis Master of Information Systems Management Master of Information Technology with a Major in Information Systems
Dr Rajan Shankaran E: rajan.shankaran@mq.edu.au	Networking / IoT Bachelor of Information Technology with a Major in Networking Master of Information Technology in Networking Master of Information Technology IoT
Dr Shan Chen E: shan.chen@mq.edu.au	Non-cognate MIT Master of Information Technology
Associate Professor Ansgar Fehnker E: ansgar.fehnker@mq.edu.au	Software Bachelor of Engineering Software Engineering Bachelor of Information Technology with a Major in Software Tech, Web & Mobile App Development