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| Project Code | UQ Supervisor | IITD Supervisor | Research Themes | Title | Student Type (i/q) | Keywords | Discipline | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UQIDAR 00101 | A/Professor Yongping Wei , School of Earth and Environmental Sciences | Professor Dhanya C. T., Department of Civil Engineering | RE, TT | Impact of Changing Flood Characteristics on River Morphology | i/q | river morphology, sediment transport, extreme events, climate change | geomorphology, water resources engineering, agricultural engineering, hydrometeorology | Position Filled - Sudeep Banad |
| UQIDAR 00102 | Associate Professor Adrian Athique, School of Communication and Arts | Professor Vigneswara Ilavarasan, Department of Management Studies | TS, TT | Platform Economies in India | i/q | digital media ; platform economy; digital transactions; commerce | media and communications, media and cultural studies, business and commerce, sociology, management studies | Student Required |
| UQIDAR 00104 | Professor Darren Martin, Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN) | Professor Mangala Joshi, Department of Textile Technology | TT | Polymer Nanocomposites for Advanced Gas Barrier Applications | i/q | nanotechnology, nanocomposite, gas barrier, advanced manufacturing | materials science, chemistry, chemical engineering, composites | Position Filled - Siddhant Varshney |
| UQIDAR 00108 | Professor Andrew Whittaker, Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN) | Professor Sudip Kumar Pattanayek, Department of Chemical Engineering | RE, TT, TS | New Approached to Detection of Pollutants through Hierarchically-structured Molecularly Imprinted Polymers | i/q note: i-students must have own scholarship to apply (CSIR, UCG-NET, etc) | chemical sensors, detecting pollutants, molecularly imprinted polymers, polymer chemistry | chemistry, materials synthesis, polymer chemistry, environmental chemistry. | Student Required |
| UQIDAR 00109 | Professor Tapan Saha, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering | Professor Nilanjan Senroy, Department of Electrical Engineering | RE, TT | Flexibility Assessment and Strengthening of existing conventional power grids for large-scale renewable energy integration ? Theoretical/ Modelling based research. | i | renewable energy, grid integration, power system strength, frequency response | electrical engineering, power systems, knowledge in pss/e or pscad, optimisation tools | Position Filled - Akshay Bhyri |
| UQIDAR 00111 | Dr Matthew Bambling, Centre for Digital Health | Professor Singh, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences | TT, TS | Student Classroom Behavioural Issues in India and a Digital health Behaviour Management Intervention for Teachers | i | adolescent, behaviour, classroom, teachers | psychology, education, social sciences, youth | Position Filled - Madhumita Ramakrishna |
| UQIDAR 00112 | Dr Sangeeta Prakash, School of Agriculture and Food Sciences | Associate Professor Jatindra Sahu, Department of Rural Development and Technology | HA, TT, TS | Controlling the crystallisation in clarified butter (ghee) and its functionalisation for health benefits | q | clarified butter, dairy technology, crystallisation | food science | Student Required |
| UQIDAR 00113 | Dr Sangeeta Prakash, Agriculture and Food Sciences | Professor Jatindra Kumar, Rural development and Technology | TT, TS | Designing functionalised sweetmeat through 3D food printing | i | 3 dimensional printing, dairy, extrusion, desiccated milk solids | food engineering, chemical engineering, food science & technology, physical chemistry, | Position Filled - Mohammad Bareen |
| UQIDAR 00115 | Professor Robert Henry, QAAFI | Professor K.K. Pant, Department of Chemical Engineering | TT | Catalytic Conversion of Sugarcane Bagasse into Aromatics and High-Value Platform Chemicals | i/q | catalysis, lignin conversion, biotechnology, biofuel | catalysis, biomass conversion, lignin conversion | Position Filled - Vallari Chourasia |
| UQIDAR 00116 | Dr David Lange, School of Civil Engineering | Professor Vasant Matsagar, Department of Civil Engineering | RE | Life-Cycle Risk Assessment of RC Structures under Earthquake and Fire | i/q | structural engineering, fire response, earthquake response, risk assessment | civil engineering, structural engineering | Position Filled - Akshay Baheti |
| UQIDAR 00118 | Professor Aleksander Rakic, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering | Professor Amartya Sengupta, Department of Physics | FW, TT, TS | Quality Assessment of Exportable Commodity Goods of Australia and Indian Subcontinent Using Non-contact, Non-invasive THz Imaging Technique | i* | terahertz, imaging, biophysics, photonics | physics, electrical engineering, food sciences | Student Required |
| UQIDAR 00119 | Professor Aleksandar D. Rakić, School of IT and Electrical Engineering | Professor Amartya Sengupta, Department of Physics | FW, TT, TS | Terahertz Spectroscopy and Imaging in Quantitative Assessment of Plant Hydration Towards Implementing Optimized Irrigation Management in Australia and India | i | terahertz, interferometry, spectroscopy, photonics | optics, electrical engineering, physics, biology | Position Filled - Mayuri Kashyap |
| UQIDAR 00121 | Professor Linda Lua, UQ Protein Expression Facility | Professor Anurag Rathore, Biopharmaceutical Technology | HA | Transitioning to integrated continuous downstream bioprocess for vaccine manufacturing | i | bioprocess, therapeutic agents, vaccine, industry focused projects | chemical engineering | Position Filled - Manya Mittal |
| UQIDAR 00124 | Professor George Zhao, School of Chemical Engineering | Professor Upadhyayula Sreedevi, Department of Chemical Engineering | RE, TT, TS | Rational Design of highly efficient solar light driven photocatalysts for CO2 conversion to fuels | i/q | solar energy, carbon dioxide, photocatalysis, clean fuel, catalyst | chemical engineering, chemistry, chemical technology, catalysis | Position Filled - Aloka Sahu |
| UQIDAR 00131 | Associate Professor Luke Knibbs, School of Public Health | Associate Professor Sagnik Dey, Centre for Atmospheric Sciences | HA, RE | Health benefits of air pollution mitigation: A comparative assessment of policies for high (India) and low (Australia) exposure regions | i | air pollution, epidemiology, health benefits, exposure modeling | atmospheric science, environmental science, public health, biostatistics | Position Filled - Neha Singh |
| UQIDAR 00132 | Dr Vigya Sharma, School of Chemical Engineering | Professor Upasna Sharma, School of Public Policy | RE, TT, TS | Examining the social acceptance of Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) projects in India | i | renewable energy expansion, acquisition and conflict, social impacts, energy access | human geography, development studies, engineering, policy studies | Position Filled - Simran Agarwal |
| UQIDAR 00134 | Professor Hal Gurgenci, School of Mechanical and Mining Engineering | Associate Professor Dibakar Rakshit, Centre for Energy Studies | TS | Assessment and Comparison of Performance of Thermal and Electrical Battery for Renewable Energy Applications | i | energy generation, energy conversion, high temperature energy storage, electricity spillage | renewable energy, heat transfer, computational fluid dynamics | Position Filled - Alok Kumar Ray |
| UQIDAR 00137 | Professor Aleksandar D. Rakić, School of IT and Electrical Engineering | Professor Amartya Sengupta, Department of Physics | FW, TT, TS | Identification of Transgenic Plant Species Using Non-invasive THz Spectroscopy for Advancing Natural and Organic Farming Practices | i | terahertz, plant phenotypes, imaging, agriculture | botany, biochemistry, electrical engineering, physics | Position Filled - Urbi Kundu |
| UQIDAR 00138 | Professor Tom Baldock, School of Civil Engineering | Professor A D Rao, Department of Atmospheric Sciences | RE, TT | Development of probabilistic forecasting system for storm surges and associated coastal inundation. | i/q | storm surges, tropical cyclones, coastal inundation, numerical model | numerical methods, probabilistic approach, tropical cyclones, storm surges. | Position Filled |
| UQIDAR 00140 | Associate Professor Zuduo Zheng, School of Civil Engineering | Professor K. Ramachandra Rao, Department of Civil Engineering | TT, TS | Developing Effective Traffic Congestion Management Strategies for Road Transport Systems with Traditional, Connected and Automated Vehicles | i/q | driverless vehicles, connected vehicles, traffic congestion | transport engineering, control engineering, mathematics and statistics, computer science | Position Filled - Janci Rani P |
| UQIDAR 00142 | Professor David Reutens , Centre for Advanced Imaging | Dr Varsha Singh, Department of Psychology, Humanities and Social Sciences | HA, RE, TT, TS | Understanding Brain-Behavior link: Using Structural (frontal asymmetry) and Neurochemical (neurotransmitters) Basis of Cognitive and Affective Processing to Improve Prediction of Health-related Outcomes in Epilepsy patients from low socio-economic. | i | frontal lobe functions/ executive functions, epilepsy, cognitive affective processes, endocrine system | neuropsychology (focus: clinical), clinical psychology, neuroscience (focus: cognitive/behavioural), rehabilitation (focus: neuropsychological) | Position Filled - Indupriya Vanchipurackal |
| UQIDAR 00144 | Professor Carlo Prato, School of Civil Engineering | Professor K Ramachandra Rao, Department of Civil Engineering | TT, TS | Motorized Two-wheeler safety - a comparative risk study of the occupants in Indian and Australian context | i/q | motorized two -wheelers, injury risk, connected vehicles | transportation engineering, statistics, econometrics | Student Required |
| UQIDAR 00145 | Dr Antonio Andrés Bellofatto, School of Economics | Dr Sourabh Paul, Department of Humanities & Social Sciences | TT, TS | Talent Allocation in the Indian Economy: Measurement and Policy Implications | i/q note: i-students must have own scholarship to apply (CSIR, UCG-NET, etc) | misallocation, labor markets, indian economy, policy design | economics, statistics, mathematics, engineering | Position Filled - Kopal Mathur |
| UQIDAR 00152 | Professor Tapan Saha, School of IT and Electrical Engineering | Professor Sukumar Mishra, Department of Department of Electrical Engineering | RE, TT | IoT based EV infrastructure: Data Driven Approach for analysis and optimization of Distribution system Operation (DSO) under uncertainties | i | distribution system, electric vehicle, uncertainties | electrical engineering, power systems, knowledge in control system, optimisation knowledge | Position Filled- Arnab Bhattacharjee And Venkata Suryakiran Bhamidipati |
| UQIDAR 00153 | Dr Rahul Sharma, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering | Dr Subashish Datta, Department of Electrical Engineering | RE, TT | Analysis and Design of robust control system for grid connected inverters in weak grids involving multi-inverter interactions | i | robust control, grid connected inverters, lcl filters, distributed control | electrical engineering, mathematical control theory, power electronics, power engineering | Student Required |
| UQIDAR 00155 | Associate Professor Begoña Domínguez , School of Economics Dr Antonio Andrés Bellofatto , School of Economics |
Dr Sourabh Paul, Department of Humanities & Social Sciences | TT, TS | Technology Regulation in the Macroeconomy: Robots and Artificial Intelligence | i/q | technology regulation, macroeconomy, taxation, robots, ai | economics, finance, statistics, mathematics, engineering | Student Required |
| UQIDAR 00156 | Dr Sisira Edirippulige, Centre for Online Health/Centre for Health Services Research | Professor Vigneswara Llavarasan, Department of Management Studies | TT,TS | Exploring the potential of Health Tech Start-ups in India: A Critical Success Factors Framework | i | health, information and communication technology, business, start-ups | health, information technology, business, information systems | Position Filled - Imon Chakraborty |
| UQIDAR 00157 | Professor Markus Barth, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering | Professor Anrup Singh, Department of Biomedical Engineering | HA, TT | Advancing Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging using Machine Learning | i/q note: i-students must have own scholarship to apply (CSIR, UCG-NET, etc) | mri, medical imaging, cardiac magnetic resonance, image analysis | biomedical engineering, computer science, physics and related, electrical engineering | Student Required |
| UQIDAR 00158 | Associate Professor Marguerite La Caze, School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry | Associate Professor Divya Dwiwedi, Department of Humanities & Social Sciences | TS | Ontologies of Force: Violence, Non-Violence and Resistance (Studies of Indian and Australian historical contexts through philosophy, film, literature.) | i/q | philosophy, literature, politics, violence | continental philosophy, philosophy and literature, post-colonialism, political philosophy | Position Filled - Gopika Gurudas |
| UQIDAR 00159 | Professor George Zhao, School of Chemical Engineering | Prof. K.K. Pant, Department of Chemical Engineering | TT | Non-oxidative catalytic conversion of methane into aromatics over metal impregnated hierarchical zeolite | i | heterogeneous catalysis, methane dehydroaromatization, hierarchical zeolite, intracrystalline mesopores | catalysis, chemical engineering, reaction engineering, zeolite synthesis | Position Filled - Deepti Mishra |
| UQIDAR 00161 | Honorary Professor Raja Jurdak, School of IT and Electrical Engineering | Professor Swades De, Department of Electrical Engineering | RE, TT | Learning-based optimization strategies for sustainable IoT communications | i | edge computing, sustainable iot communications, learning techniques, sparse signal processing | electrical communication engineering, computer engineering/technology, applied mathematics, signal prrocessing | Position Filled - Sushmita Ghosh |
| UQIDAR 00164 | Professor Suresh Bhatia, School of Chemical Engineering | Professor Shantanu Roy, Department of Chemical Engineering | TT | Understanding the mechanism of particle fragmentation, attrition, and agglomeration during coal and/or biomass gasification | i | gasification, fluidized bed, mathematical modeling in chemical engineering, coal, agglomeration, clean coal technologies, co2 abatement | chemical engineering, cfd, mechanical engineering, physics | Position Filled - Shubham Goel |
| UQIDAR 00165 | Professor Matt Trau, Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN) | Associate Professor Sandeep Jha, Department of Biomedical Engineering | TT | Microfluidic chips for biomedical application | i | micro-total-analysis system; lab-on-a-chip; biosensors; . point-of-care devices | electronics and instrumentation, biochemistry, cell biology, biotechnology, nanotechnology, microfabrication | Student Required |
| UQIDAR 00166 | Professor David Reutens, Centre for Advanced Imaging | Professor Rahul Garg, Department of Computer Science & Engineering | HA, TT | Information flow in the normal and epileptic brain | i/q | neuroimaging, epilepsy, data science, machine learning | biomedical engineering, applied mathematics, computer science/electronics, neuroscience/neuroimaging, cognitive science/physiology | Position Filled - Puneet Dheer |
| UQIDAR 00167 | Professor Chengzhong Yu, Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN) | Professor Ashok Ganguli, Department of Chemistry | HA | Synthesis and applications of non-viral gene vectors | i note: i-students must have own scholarship to apply (CSIR, UCG-NET, etc) | nanotechnology; gene delivery; functional materials, asymmetry nanoparticle | nanotechnology, biomedical gene delivery | Position Filled - Manoj Kumar Sharma |
| UQIDAR 00168 | Associate Professor Abdullah Mamun, Institute for Social Science Research | Associate Professor Kamlesh Singh, Department of Humanities & Social Sciences | FW, TS | Early Life Social, Economic and Family Predictors of the Trajectory of Malnutrition and Cognitive Development from Childhood to Adulthood | i/q | early life, longitudinal study, malnutrition, cognitive development | statistics, economics, population studies or psychology | Position Filled - Nimisha Bahl |
| UQIDAR 00170 | Professor Craig Williams, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences | Professor Nidhi Jain, Department of Chemistry | TT | Developing new oxidants for catalytic dehydrogenation and C-H insertion | i note: i-students must have own scholarship to apply (CSIR, UCG-NET, etc) | organic synthesis, catalysis, oxidation, c-h insertion | organic chemistry, synthetic organic chemistry, organic synthesis, catalysis | Position Filled - Simran Bhardwaj |
| UQIDAR 00171 | Professor Debra Bernhardt, Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN) | Associate Professor M. Ali Haider, Department of Chemical Engineering | TT | Rational Design of Materials for Energy Applications using Computational Methods | i/q | material design, computational screening, nanotechnology, dft, md | chemistry, chemical engineering, physics, material science and engineering, nanotechnology | Position Filled - Jayendran Iyer |
| UQIDAR 00174 | Professor Gordon Southam, , School of Earth and Environmental Sciences | Assistant Professor Lucinda Doyle, Department of Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology | TT | Investigation of the interface between electrochemically-active microorganisms and metals | i/q | microbiology, materials, metals, electrochemistry | microbiology, biotechnology, materials science, geochemistry | Position Filled - Nitesh Kanojia |
| UQIDAR 00176 | Dr Mark Blaskovich, Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB) | Professor Nidhi Jain, Department of Chemistry | HA | New Approaches to Discover Antibiotics for Gram-Negative Bacteria | i/q note: i-students must have own scholarship to apply (CSIR, UCG-NET, etc) | antibiotic, organic synthesis, antimicrobial resistance, medicinal chemistry | organic synthetic chemistry | Student Required |
| UQIDAR 00177 | Dr Paul Shaw, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences | Assistant Professor Sunil Kumar, Department of Physics | TT | Unravelling the charge generation pathways in organic and hybrid solar cells | i* | solar cells, organic electronics, spectroscopy, carrier dynamics | physics, physical chemistry | Position Filled - Satakshi Gupta |
| UQIDAR 00178 | Dr Sally Babidge, School of Social Science | Associate Professor Vibha Arora, Department of Humanities & Social Sciences | RE, TS | Understanding human-water dynamics for sustainable water futures | i/q note: i-students must have own scholarship to apply (CSIR, UCG-NET, etc) | hydro-social, water sustainability, political ecology, development studies | social anthropology, development studies, political science, human geography, political science, social work, or environmental studies | Student Required |
| UQIDAR 00181 | Dr Mark Blaskovich, Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB) | Professor Kamal K Pant, Department of Chemical Engineering | RE, TT | Development of Biobased Silver Nano-Particles for Application as Wastewater Disinfectant | i/q note: i-students must have own scholarship to apply (CSIR, UCG-NET, etc) | silver, nanoparticles, antimicrobial, water disinfectant | inorganic chemistry, chemical engineering, microbiology | Position Filled - Sadaf Khan |
| UQIDAR 00182 | Dr Mark Blaskovich, Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB) | Professor Kamal K Pant, Department of Chemical Engineering | RE, TT | Green synthesis and Physico-Chemical characterisation of CNTs-based hybrid aerogels for Wastewater Treatment | i/q note: i-students must have own scholarship to apply (CSIR, UCG-NET, etc) | silver, nanoparticles, antimicrobial, water disinfectant | inorganic chemistry, chemical engineering, microbiology | Position Filled - Marut Jain |
| UQIDAR 00184 | Dr Aparna Hebbani, School of Communication and Arts | Professor Vigneswara Ilavarasan, Department of Management Studies | TS | Gendered talk: Analysis of dyadic communication within transport platform space in India | i/q | communication, gender, language, gender relations | communication, sociology, management, political economy | Position Filled - Abza Bharadwaj |
| UQIDAR 00185 | Associate Professor Nicholas Osborne, School of Public Health | Professor Sagnik Dey, Department of Atmospheric Sciences | RE, HA, TS | Pollen and its contribution to respiratory outcomes in subtropical regions | i/q | air pollution epidemiology health benefits exposure modeling | environmental science, biological science, public health epidemiology | Student Required |
| UQIDAR 00186 | Professor Yusuke Yamauchi, Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN) | Professor Ashok Ganguli, Department of Chemistry | TT | Functional Biomass-derived Electrocatalysts for Hydrogen Production via Electrocatalytic Water Splitting | i/q | porous materials, nanomaterials synthesis and characterisation, energy conversion, catalysis | inorganic chemistry, materials science/engineering, chemical engineering, environmental science/engineering | Position Filled - Kartik Jain |
| UQIDAR 00187 | Professor Yusuke Yamauchi, Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN) | Professor Ashok Ganguli, Department of Chemistry | TT | Structural and Compositional Controlled Carbon-based Electrocatalysts for Efficient Oxygen Reduction Reaction | i/q | porous carbons, two-dimensional materials, fuel cells, electrocatalysis | materials science and engineering, inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, electrochemistry, chemical engineering, nanotechnology | Position Filled |
| UQIDAR 00189 | Dr Mehdi Serati, School of Civil Engineering | Associate Professor Dipti Ranjan Sahoo, Department of Civil Engineering | RE, TT | Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Fire-Induced Concrete Spalling Under Biaxial Stresses | i/q | coupled thermo-mechanical model, fire-induced concrete spalling, biaxial compression, fire protection and safety in tunnels | civil engineering, concrete testing, fires safety engineering, coupled thermo-mechanical numerical modelling | Position Filled - Souvik Saha |
| UQIDAR 00190 | Dr Peter Jacobson, School of Mathematics and Physics | Assistant Professor Sujit Manna, Department of Physics | TT | Interface Engineering Topology Driven Quantum Materials Heterostructures | i | quantum materials, spintronics, topology and optoelectronic device | physics, materials, nanoscience | Student Required |
| UQIDAR 00191 | Professor Suresh Bhatia, School of Chemical Engineering | Associate Professor Gaurav Goel, Department of Chemical Engineering | RE, TT | A multi-scale simulation approach for high-throughput screening of polymer blend nanocomposite formulations | i | polymer composites, multi-scale simulations, structure-property relationships, films and coatings | chemical engineering, molecular modelling | Student Required |
| UQIDAR 00192 | Associate Professor Jay Weerawardena, School of Business | Professor Vigneswara Ilavarasan, Department of Management Studies | TS | How can we build sustainable digital social enterprises in India? | i | social enterprises, digital technologies, innovation, competitive advantage, social and economic value creation | management, marketing, strategic management, entrepreneurship | Position Filled - Anubhav Tewatia |
| UQIDAR 00193 | Associate Professor Pradip Thomas, School of Communication and Arts | Associate Professor Arjun Ghosh, Department of Humanities & Social Sciences | TT, TS | Communication and Social Movements: Continuities and Discontinuities | i/q | social movements, social media, theatre, new media | sociology, english literature, political science, communication and media studies, journalism | Position Filled - Tiyana Jovanovic |
| UQIDAR 00194 | Professor Suresh Bhatia, School of Chemical Engineering | Associate Professor Gaurav Goel, Department of Chemical Engineering | HA, TT | Multiscale Modelling of the Kinetics of Transdermal Drug Delivery | q | transdermal drug delivery, multiscale modelling, molecular dynamics simulations, drug transport through skin | chemical engineering, physics or computational chemistry | Student Required |
| UQIDAR 00195 | Associate Professor Pradip Thomas, School of Communication and Arts | Assistant Professor Agam Gupta, Department of Management Studies | TS, TT | Regulating the Platform Economy in India and Australia | i/q | platforms, regulation, political economy, policy | management studies, sociology, media and communication studies, policy studies | Student Required |
| UQIDAR 00196 | Dr Chamith Wijenayake, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering | Associate Professor Smruti Sarangi, Department of Computer Science & Engineering | TS, TT | Systolic and semi-systolic architectures for intelligent sensor data processing on FPGAs | i/q | artificial intelligence, sensor fusion, fpgas, deep neural networks | a student with an electronics or computer engineering background | Student Required |
| UQIDAR 00197 | Associate Professor Dan Kim, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering | Associate Professor Smruti Sarangi, Department of Computer Science & Engineering | TS, TT | Context-aware Security for the Internet of Things | i/q | iot security, models of security, context awareness | bachelors or masters in electronics or computer engineering | Student Required |
| UQIDAR 00198 | Professor David Reutens, School of Centre for Advanced Imaging | Professor Rahul Garg, Department of Computer Science & Engineering | HA, TT | Accurate localization of functional brain areas in Epilepsy patients and healthy individuals using naturalistic functional MRI paradigms | i/q | machine learning, data science, image processing, neuroimaging, epilepsy | student should be good at programming and have interest in neurosciences or neuroimaging. the students preferably be bachelor/master/mphil in a relevant field of science, engineering, biology, or medicine | Position Filled |
| UQIDAR 00199 | Professor Alexander Scheuermann, School of Civil Engineering | Professor Ramanathan Ayothiraman, Department of Civil Engineering | TT, TS | Developing a New Foundation System for Lightly-Loaded Buildings in Expansive Soils | i | expansive soil, underreamed pile, swelling and shrinkage, buildings | b.e./b.tech./b.sc. (civil engineering), m.e./m.tech./m.sc.(geotechnical engineering) | Student Required |
| UQIDAR 00200 | Dr Chamith Wijenayake, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering | Assistant Professor Seshan Srirangarajan, Department of Electrical Engineering | TT | Beamforming and localization using extremely large antenna arrays | i/q | signal processing, array processing, optimization | electrical and communication engineering computer engineering signal processing | Student Required |
| UQIDAR 00201 | Associate Professor Glen Corder, Sustainable Minerals Institute (SMI) | Professor Kamal Pant, Department of Chemical Engineering | TT | Development of Sustainable Technology for Metal Recovery from Electronic Waste and Scale-up of the Developed Process | i | electronic waste, metal recovery, leaching, economic analysis | chemical engineering, chemistry, electrochemistry, metal recovery | Position Filled - Shally Gupta |
| UQIDAR 00202 | Professor Salit Kark, School of Biological Sciences | Dr Kavya Dashora, Department of Rural Development and Technology | RE, TS | Can honey help save large threatened mammals? | i/q | conservation, cross-boundary, honeybees, community-oriented conservation, large mammals | the students will need a background in ecology, conservation and biodiversity. they should have some knowledge in statistics and spatial analysis, and preferably have used r and gis | Position Filled - Vasundhara Hemant Krishnani |
| UQIDAR 00204 | Dr Chamith Wijenayake, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering | Assistant Professor Seshan Srirangarajan, Department of Electrical Engineering | TT | Applications of Numerically Robust Differential Operators in Signal Processing | i/q | sampling, reconstruction, signal processing algorithms | electrical and computer engineering electrical engineering | Student Required |
| UQIDAR 00205 | Dr Chamith Wijenayake, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering | Associate Professor Smruti Sarangi, Department of Computer Science & Engineering | TT, RE | Computationally efficient hardware architectures for multidimensional light field signal processing | i/q | light fields, fpga, digital systems, signal processing | electrical/electronic engineering computer engineering electrical and computer engineering | Student Required |
| UQIDAR 00206 | Associate Professor Ebinazar B. Namdas, School of Mathematics and Physics | Associate Professor Samaresh Das, Department of Applied Research in Electronics | TT | Organic Inorganic hybrid photodetectors | i | photodetectors, infrared, uv | physics and engineering (ee or ece) | Position Filled - Prabal Dweep Khanikar |
| UQIDAR 00207 | Associate Professor Anders Eriksson, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering | Associate Professor Chetan Arora, Department of Computer Science & Engineering | TT | Parametric Deep Neural Networks for Computer Vision Problems | i/q | computer vision | an ideal student for this project will have an undergraduate or masters degree in computer science, or electrical engineering. the student would have done courses in computer vision and machine learning at undergraduate/masters level. he/she would ha | Position Filled - Nikhil Jangamreddy |
| UQIDAR 00208 | Associate Professor Jessica Mar, Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN) | Professor Anurag Rathore, Department of Chemical Engineering | TT | From Target Discovery to Therapeutic Antibodies | i/q | functional genomics, therapeutic antibodies, bioinformatics, biotechnology | microbiology, molecular biology, cell biology protein chemistry computational and mathematical skills | Position Filled |
| UQIDAR 00210 | Associate Professor Luke Knibbs, School of Public Health | Associate Professor Sagnik Dey, Department of Atmospheric Sciences | HA, RE, TS | Balancing the health and climate benefits of 'greening' cities in India and Australia | i/q | environmental health, atmospheric science, epidemiology, urban planning | this project suits students from a range of backgrounds, including (but not limited to) public/environmental health, environmental engineering, atmospheric science, remote sensing, environmental science, ecology, or biostatistics. the main requiremen | Student Required |
| UQIDAR 00212 | Dr Alan Pegna, School of Psychology | Dr Varsha Singh, Department of Humanities & Social Sciences | RE, TS | Cross-country sex-differences in psychoneuroendocrinology: Examining stress, and reward-related decision making in trust-uncertainty in emotion disorder | i/q note: i-students must have own scholarship to apply (CSIR, UCG-NET, etc) | cognitive sex differences, cognitive-affect processing, emotion disorder (anxiety & depression), endocrine system(hormone-behavior/hpa-hpg axis) | clinical psychology/clinical neuropsychology psychiatry/rehabilitation (focus: neuropsychology) cognitive & affective neuroscience | Student Required |
| UQIDAR 00213 | Dr Christopher Leonardi, School of Mechanical and Mining Engineering | Assistant Professor Bahni Ray, Department of Mechanical Engineering | HA, TT | Quantifying the mechanical properties of myocardium in cases of heart failure by preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) | i/q | cardiovascular disease, computational fluid dynamics, solid mechanics, numerical simulation | this project is open to students with a background in mechanical engineering, biomedical engineering, mathematics or applied physics. interest and demonstrated competence in fluid mechanics, computational fluid mechanics and software engineering woul | Position Filled - Jijo Derick Abraham |
| UQIDAR 00214 | Associate Professor Kai-Hsiang Chuang, Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) | Professor Rahul Garg, Department of Computer Science & Engineering | TT | Develop ultrafast technique for high-resolution imaging of brain function | i/q | imaging, brain, machine learning | physics, engineering, computer science | Student Required |
| UQIDAR 00215 | Dr Dhaval Vyas, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering | Dr Aaditeshwar Seth, Department of Computer Science & Engineering | FW, TS | Role of Storytelling Platforms for achieving better health outcomes in under-resourced communities in India and Australia | i*/q note: i-students must have own scholarship to apply (CSIR, UCG-NET, etc) | storytelling, ict, under-resourced communities | a student with a strong hci and design background. | Student Required |
| UQIDAR 00216 | Dr Mingyuan Lu, School of Mechanical and Mining Engineering | Associate Professor Jayati Sarkar, Department of Chemical Engineering | HA, TT | Surface modification of biodegradable scaffolds for bone tissue engineering application | i/q | self-organization, self-assembly, nanoparticle, memembrane, biomaterial scaffold, tissue engineering, selective laser sintering | materials science/mechanical engineering/biomedical engineering/chemistry (a multidisciplinary project, the student needs to learn other things) | Position Filled - Swarnima Agarwal |
| UQIDAR 00217 | Dr Erkan Kayacan, School of Mechanical and Mining Engineering | Associate Professor Mashuq un Nabi, Department of Electrical Engineering | TT | Advanced Optimal Robust Control Methodology for Spacecraft Systems | i | numerical optimal control, pseudospectral method, robust control, adaptive control, spacecraft | bachelors : control, electrical or mechanical engg. masters : control theory or engineering | Position Filled - Puneet Panchal |
| UQIDAR 00218 | Dr Christopher Leonardi, School of Mechanical and Mining Engineering | Assistant Professor Bahni Ray, Department of Mechanical Engineering | RE, TT | Modelling and fabrication of optimal fiber-based filter for effective air-borne fine-particle capture | i/q | air filter, computational fluid dynamics, ultra fine particle | 1.the student must be btech and mtech in either mechanical, chemical engineering, mathematics or applied physics. 2. he/she should have knowledge of numerical coding (not just using ansys) of fluid flow problems | Position Filled - Utsav Bhardwaj |
| UQIDAR 00219 | Professor Aleksander Rakic, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering | Professor Amartya Sengupta, Department of Physics | TT, TS | I. Application of non-contact THz spectroscopic imaging towards preservation of heritage structures in India | i/q | heritage science, optoelectronics, archaeology, spectroscopy | applied mechanics, mechanical engineering, physics, electrical engineering, civil engineering, applied mathematics | Student Required |
| UQIDAR 00220 | Professor Aleksander Rakic, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering | Professor Amartya Sengupta, Department of Physics | TT, TS | Non-destructive THz Imaging to Study the Viability of Green Materials for Construction | i/q | terahertz, green construction, materials, sustainability | applied mechanics, mechanical engineering, physics, electrical engineering, civil engineering, applied mathematics | Student Required |
| UQIDAR 00221 | Professor Tapan Saha, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering | Professor B.K Panigrahi, Department of Electrical Engineering | RE, TT | Multi time scale wind speed forecasting | i | optimisation, big data analytics, machine learning tools, forecasting. | mathematical modelling, classification, forecasting, optimisation, programming | Student Required |
| UQIDAR 00222 | Dr Amirali Popat, School of Pharmacy | Assistant Professor Ritu Kulshreshtha, Department of Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology | HA, TT | Nanomedicine and Gene Therapy to Treat Glioblastoma | i | glioblastoma, nanomedicine, mrna, delivery | biotechnology, biomedical engineering, bioengineering, pharmaceutical sciences | Student Required |
| UQIDAR 00223 | Dr Mehdi Serati, School of Civil Engineering | Assistant Professor Prashanth Vangla, Department of Civil Engineering | TT | Coupled Digital Image Correlation and Particle Tracking (DIC/PT) Approach for Crack Growth Monitoring | i/q | digital image correlation, particle tracking, image processing, brittle failure | civil engineering, mechanical engineering, material testing, fracture mechanics, matlab/python/java programming | Student Required |
| UQIDAR 00224 | Professor Salit Kark, School of Biological Sciences | Dr Ajay Saini, Department of Rural Development and Technology | FW, RE, TS | Reducing human-wildlife conflict in natural, agricultural and urban landscapes across boundaries | i/q | human-wildlife conflict, cross boundary conservation, natural, agricultural and urban landscapes, large mammal conservation | ecology, conservation, biodiversity., statistics, spatial analysis, gis and remote sensing | Student Required |
| UQIDAR 00225 | Professor James De Voss, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences | Professor Sunil Khare, Department of Chemistry | TT | Biochemical and molecular characterization of Cytochrome P450 (CYPs) from extremophilic sources and their biotechnological applications | i | extremophiles, cytochrome p450, biochemical characterization, non-aqueous biocatalysis | microbiology, biochemistry, molecular biology, life sciences | Student Required |
| UQIDAR 00226 | Dr Peter Moyle, School of Pharmacy | Professor Kamal Pant, Department of Chemical Engineering | HA, TT | Novel topical formulations for the treatment of diseases and infections of the skin | i/q | antimicrobial, nanomedicine, formulation, topical | biochemistry, microbiology, analytical chemistry, formulation science | Student Required |
| UQIDAR 00227 | Associate Professor Jack Clegg, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences | Professor Sreedevi Upadhyayula, Department of Chemical Engineering | FW, RE, TT, TS | Rational Design of Carboxylate Supramolecular Complexes for Pyrolysis Bio-oil Valorization | i/q note: i-students must have own scholarship to apply (CSIR, UCG-NET, etc) | bio-oil, supramolecular complexes, valorization, catalysis | applied chemistry, nanotechnology, material science, chemical engineering | Student Required |
| UQIDAR 00228 | Dr Nghia Nguyen-Trong, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering | Assistant Professor Kirti Dhwaj, Department of Applied Research in Electronics | TT | Full Duplex Antenna Systems | i/q | antenna, full-duplex, circular polarization, broadband | electrical engineering, electronic engineering, physics, rf engineering | Student Required |
| UQIDAR 00229 | Professor David Williams, School of Civil Engineering | Associate Professor Bappaditya Manna, Department of Civil Engineering | RE | Predictive modelling of settling and consolidation, and desiccation and re-wetting of mine tailings | i/q | consolidation, desiccation, settling, tailings | civil engineering, geotechnical engineering, mining engineering, earth sciences | Student Required |
| UQIDAR 00230 | Professor David Williams, School of Civil Engineering | Associate Professor Bappaditya Manna, Department of Civil Engineering | RE, TT | Utilization of Mining Wastes as Backfill Material for Mechanically Stabilized Earth (MSE) Walls | i/q | geotechnical engineering, mechanically stabilized earth (mse) walls, mining wastes, hydro-mechanical properties | geotechnical engineering, geoenvironmental engineering, structural engineering, civil engineering | Student Required |
| UQIDAR 00231 | Associate Professor Karen McNamara, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences | Associate Professor Vibha Arora, Department of Humanities & Social Sciences | RE, TS | Gender, Disasters and Building Community Resilience | i/q note: i-students must have own scholarship to apply (CSIR, UCG-NET, etc) | gender, disaster, recovery, resilience | human geography, anthropology, development studies, environmental management | Student Required |
| UQIDAR 00232 | Professor George Zhao, School of Chemical Engineering | Assistant Professor Vipin Kumar, Department of Energy Studies | TT | Quest for Polymer-electrolytes to Enable Interfacial Stability in Room-temperature Sodium-Sulfur Battery | i/q | novel batteries, sodium metal anode, polymer electrolytes, sulfur cathode | chemical engineering, materials engineering, chemical sciences, condensed matter physics | Student Required |
| UQIDAR 00233 | Dr Peter Jacobson, School of Mathematics and Physics | Assistant Professor Pintu Das, Department of Physics | TT | 2D quantum materials studied by scanning probe methods | i | topological materials, scanning probe microscopy, molecular beam epitaxy, electronic and magnetic properties | physics, electrical engineering, physical chemistry, materials science | Student Required |
| UQIDAR 00234 | Associate Professor Shih-Chun Lo, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences | Professor Nidhi Jain, Department of Chemistry | TT, TS | New approaches to the development of highly effiicnet organic chromophores | i | metal catalysed reactions, organic materials, solution processable, augmented realities | synthetic organic chemistry, material purification and characterisation, material chemistry, basic physical chemistry and/or inorganic chemistry | Student Required |
