Thesis students
This page lists all students currently enrolled to complete a thesis at ECS.
Nabil Adam
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Mirza Sumair Ahmed
Supervisor(s): Dr Ramesh RayuduThesis Title: Potential of Low Voltage Direct Current in New Zealand
Haesum Ali
Supervisor(s): Dr Daniel Burmester, A/Prof Ramesh RayuduThesis Title: Investigating P2P Energy Trading for Enhanced PV and EV Hosting Capacity in New Zealand's Distribution Network
Mustafa Alqudah
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Buddhima Amarathunga
Supervisor(s): Dr Jyoti SahniThesis Title:
Hayden Andersen
Supervisor(s): Dr Andrew Lensen, Dr Will Browne, Dr Yi MeiThesis Title: Evolving Human-Friendly Explanations
Zak Argabrite
Supervisor(s): Dr Jim Murphy (NZSM), Dr Mo Zareei (NZSM), Prof Dale Carnegie, and Prof Sally Jane Norman (NZSM)Thesis Title:
Nishadi Ariyasinghe
Supervisor(s): https://homepages.ecs.vuw.ac.nz/~craig/Thesis Title:
Tristan Bunn
Supervisor(s): Dr Craig Anslow, Dr Karsten LundqvistThesis Title: Visual Analytics for Learning Management Systems
Duncan Cameron
Supervisor(s): Dr Alvin Valera, Prof Winston SeahThesis Title: Empowering Rural Internet Service Providers With Self-Driving Networks
Kieran Carnegie
Supervisor(s): Dr Simon McCallum, Dr Gina Grimshaw (Psychology)Thesis Title: Depth of Field Rendering affects comfort on Head Mounted Displays through minimizing discomforting motions during locomotion
Ruiqi Chen
Supervisor(s): A/Prof Yi Mei , Prof Mengjie Zhang and Dr Fangfang ZhangThesis Title: Reinforcement learning and evolutionary computation for scheduling
Yuting Chen
Supervisor(s): Dr Craig Watterson Dr Karsten LundqvistThesis Title:
Ze Chen
Supervisor(s): Dr Yi Mei, Prof Mengjie ZhangThesis Title: Machine Learning for Genomic Fish Breeding
Anu Choudhary
Supervisor(s): A/Prof Ramesh Rayudu, Dr James Hinkley Thesis Title: Carbon Emissions from Geothermal powerplant in New Zealand
Hamish Colenso
Supervisor(s): Dr Ciaran Moore (University of Canterbury), Dr Gideon GouwsThesis Title: Fabrication of a two-dimensional far-field superlens
Paul Dagger
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Kaan Demir
Supervisor(s): Prof Bing Xue, Dr Bach NguyenThesis Title: Sparsity-based Feature Selection for Multi-label Classification
Lin Dong
Supervisor(s): Mengjie Zhang, Bing Xue, Ying BiThesis Title: Genetic programming for image analysis
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Nkiru Ede
Supervisor(s): https://people.wgtn.ac.nz/jens.dietrich https://people.wgtn.ac.nz/uli.zuelickeThesis Title: Networks of Knowledge Sharing - Complex Dynamics of Software Components
Kirita-Rose Escott
Supervisor(s): A/Prof Hui Ma, Dr Aaron ChenThesis Title: Dynamic Workflow Scheduling in Cloud Computing
Chibuike Eze
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Mathew Falloon
Supervisor(s): Dr Aaron ChenThesis Title:
Jigang Fan
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Zhengxin Fang
Supervisor(s): A/Prof Hui Ma and Dr Aaron ChenThesis Title: Resource Allocation in Container-based Clouds
Isaac Gariano
Supervisor(s): Dr Marco Servetto, Prof James NobleThesis Title: Hybridly Typed Retroactive Polymorphism
Roydon Goldsack
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Dedy Hendro
Supervisor(s): Prof. Ian Welch, Dr. Yi MeiThesis Title: Explainable AI in Cybersecurity
Jamey Hepi
Supervisor(s): Dr Yi Mei, A/Prof Ian WelchThesis Title: Native Flora Recognition and Diagnostics on a Mobile Device
Nimasha Herath
Supervisor(s): Dr Andrew Lensen, Dr Anya Leenman, Dr Mairead de RoisteThesis Title:
Chathura Hewa Algiriyage
Supervisor(s): A/Prof Karsten Lundqvist, Dr Craig WattersonThesis Title: Liminal Transitions in Software Development
Hiroshika Hinduramage
Supervisor(s): Dr Stuart Marshall, Dr Nadia Pantidi (CMIC)Thesis Title: An AR Mobile Application for Training Children with ASD with Social Skills
Fahimeh Hosseinnia Shavaki
Supervisor(s): Dr Jennifer Ferreira, Prof Alex PotaninThesis Title: New Zealand agricultural pollution data trading platform
Xiaohan Hu
Supervisor(s): Prof Winston Seah / Dr Jyoti Sahni / Prof Colin SimpsonThesis Title: Scalable and Patient-centric Medical Data Sharing
Junhao Huang
Supervisor(s): Prof Bing Xue,Prof Mengjie ZhangThesis Title: Evolutionary Design of Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
Kun Huang
Supervisor(s): Dr Fanglue Zhang, Prof Neil DodgsonThesis Title: Dynamic Panoramic Video Leanrning and Editing
Zhixing Huang
Supervisor(s): Dr Yi Mei, Prof Mengjie ZhangThesis Title: Using Linear Genetic Programming for Dynamic Job Shop Scheduling
Amer Hussain
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Faisal Ishtiaq
Supervisor(s): Prof Bastiaan Kleijn, A/Prof Paul TealThesis Title: Signal representation in probabilistic Autoencoders
Taran John
Supervisor(s): Harith Al-Sahaf, Qurrat Ul Ain, Mengjie ZhangThesis Title: Utilising Machine Learning to Extract Clinically Oriented Features for Skin Cancer Detection
Janani Kahahena
Supervisor(s): Dr Gideon Gouws,Dr Christopher HollittThesis Title:
Chibuzor Kama
Supervisor(s): Dr Karsten Lundqvist, Dr Craig WattersonThesis Title: Using Game-Based Learning to Teach Engineering Ethics to New Zealand Undergraduate Students.
Asra Khalid
Supervisor(s): Dr Karsten Lundqvist, Dr Anne Yates (Education)Thesis Title:
Muhammad Saad Khan
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Ciaran King
Supervisor(s): Bastiaan KleijnThesis Title:
Simin Kou
Supervisor(s): Fang-Lue Zhang, Neil DodgsonThesis Title: 360-degree Videos Representation and Manipulating
Anton Lee
Supervisor(s): Dr Heitor Murilo Gomes, Dr Yaqian ZhangThesis Title:
Sasha Leitman
Supervisor(s): Prof Dale Carnegie, Dr Jim Murphy (NZSM)Thesis Title: Resonant Interfaces
Xiaocheng Liao
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Bocheng Lin
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Jiabin Lin
Supervisor(s): A/Prof Bing Xue,Dr QiChenThesis Title: Evolutionary transfer learning for feature selection
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Yida Lin
Supervisor(s): Mengjie Zhang, Bing XueThesis Title: Machine Learning Application in Computer Vision
Saining Liu
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Jordan MacLachlan
Supervisor(s): Dr Yi MeiThesis Title: Evolutionary computation for emergency dispatch
Abdullah Mamun
Supervisor(s): A/Prof Ian Welch, Dr Harith Al-Sahaf Thesis Title: APT detection using Artificial Intelligence
Mayuravaani Mathuranathan
Supervisor(s): Prof. Bastiaan KleijnThesis Title:
Fraser McConnell
Supervisor(s): Daniel BurmesterThesis Title: Optimisation of Small-Satellite Electrical Power System Architecture
Carl McMillan
Supervisor(s): Prof Bing Xue, Prof Mengjie ZhangThesis Title:
Zuhaib Mirza
Supervisor(s): Prof Alan BrentThesis Title: A multi-dimensional comparative analysis of the transition to renewable energy
Sanjib Mishra
Supervisor(s): Dr. Ramesh RayuduThesis Title:
Mohamad Rimas Mohamad Anfar
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Michaella Moon
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Eduardo Mossmann
Supervisor(s): A/Prof Marcus Frean, Prof Stephen Marsland (SMS)Thesis Title: A Topic in Game Theory
Rasika Nandana
Supervisor(s): https://people.wgtn.ac.nz/Peter.AndreaeThesis Title: Testing Earthquake Early Warning Systems for NZ
Philip Oliver
Supervisor(s): Dr Michael Homer, A/Prof Jens Dietrich, Dr Craig AnslowThesis Title:
Junwei Pang
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Lisa Patterson
Supervisor(s): A/Prof Ian Welch, Dr Bryan Ng, Dr Sue ChardThesis Title: Data Privacy and Security: Investigating Safety of Internet Technologies for the Everyday User
Isabella Pimentel Pincelli
Supervisor(s): Dr. James Hinkley, Prof Alan BrentThesis Title: Integrating material cycles in low-carbon energy transition analyses for Aotearoa - New Zealand
Sunethra Pitawala
Supervisor(s): A/Prof Paul Teal, Prof Mark McGuinness (SMS)Thesis Title: Bayesian estimation of Bound Fluid Fraction from NMR relaxation
Rere Pope
Supervisor(s): Dr Marcus Frean, Dr Sydney Shep, Dr David O'SullivanThesis Title: He Tina Ki Runga, He Taamore Ki Raro
Ben Powley
Supervisor(s): Dr. Craig Anslow, A/Prof. Mairéad de Róiste (Geography),Dr. Stuart MarshallThesis Title: Exploring Immersive and Non-Immersive Techniques for Geographic Data Visualization
Agatha Rachmat
Supervisor(s): Dr Craig WattersonThesis Title: TBD
Zane Rawson
Supervisor(s): Kevin ShedlockThesis Title:
Christian Raymond
Supervisor(s): Dr. Qi Chen, Prof. Bing XueThesis Title: Learning Loss Functions via Meta-Learning
Ryan Roberts
Supervisor(s): Prof Alan Brent, Dr James HinkleyThesis Title: Understanding the Impacts of Community Energy in New Zealand
Demelza Robinson
Supervisor(s): Dr Alex Doronin, Prof Bastiaan KleijnThesis Title: Probabilistic machine learning for biomedical optical diagnostics
Amer Saeed
Supervisor(s): Dr. Aaron Chen; Dr. Hui Ma;Dr. Qiang FuThesis Title: Evolutionary Computation Approaches for IoT Workflow Scheduling
Miru Samarakoon
Supervisor(s): A/Prof Paul Teal, A/Prof Marcus FreanThesis Title: Predictive Analytics in Cardiac Surgical Intensive Care Waveforms
Manish Singh
Supervisor(s): A/Prof Alex Potanin, A/Prof Lindsay Groves Thesis Title:
Fengyang Sun
Supervisor(s): Hui Ma, Aaron ChenThesis Title: Knowledge-driven Optimization Algorithm for IoT Service Composition
Senfa Sun
Supervisor(s): Dr Jennifer Ferreira, Dr Dana Fridman (Design Innovation)Thesis Title:
Ziyi Sun
Supervisor(s): A/Prof Bing Xue, Prof Mengjie ZhangThesis Title: Evolutionary Computation for Image Analysis
Atefeh Talebian
Supervisor(s): Dr Alvin Valera, Prof Winston SeahThesis Title: Mobility induced migration in fog computing
Angus Tan
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Guojun Tang
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Gavin Tasker
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Alexander Telfar
Supervisor(s): Will BrowneThesis Title: Model-based reinforcement learning
Yuan Tian
Supervisor(s): A/Prof Yi Mei and Prof Mengjie ZhangThesis Title:
Hansi Udapola
Supervisor(s): Dr Simon McCallum, Dr Nadia PantidiThesis Title: Co-design and Mixed-method evaluation study to evaluate the role of facilitator in promoting social interactions in virtual reality environments among adolescents experiencing social isolation
Nisal Udawatta
Supervisor(s): Dr Craig Anslow, Dr Brian Robinson, Dr Stuart MarshallThesis Title: Immersive Cardiac Catheter Ablation Procedure for Electrophysiology
Maryam Var Naseri
Supervisor(s): A/Prof Ian Welch, Dr Masood MansooriThesis Title: Application of AI to Situation Awareness in the context of Honeypot
Chunyu Wang
Supervisor(s): Dr. Qi, Prof. Bing and Prof. MengThesis Title: Evolutionary Machine Learning for image classification
Qinyu Wang
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Yujia Wang
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Nicholas Webster
Supervisor(s): Dr. Marco Servetto, Dr. Michael HomerThesis Title: Performant Strict Automatic Parallelisation
Jiahong Wei
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Josh Weir
Supervisor(s): A/Prof Taehyun Rhee, Dr Andrew Chalmers (CMIC)Thesis Title: Portrait Relighting for Video Conferencing
Jesse Wood
Supervisor(s): Prof Bing Xue, Dr Bach Nguyen, Prof Mengjie Zhang, Dr Daniel KilleenThesis Title: Rapid determination of bulk composition and quality of marine biomass in Mass Spectrometry
Binke Xu
Supervisor(s): Prof Bing Xue, Prof Mengjie Zhang, Dr Ying BiThesis Title: Genetic algorithm for tree image segmentation
Meng Xu
Supervisor(s): Dr Yi Mei, Prof Mengjie ZhangThesis Title:
Felix Yan
Supervisor(s): Prof Bastiaan KleijnThesis Title: Neural Network Based Blind Source Separation
Beihong Yang
Supervisor(s): Dr Aaron ChenThesis Title:
Yifan Yang
Supervisor(s): Dr AaronChen, A/Prof Hui Ma, Prof Mengjie ZhangThesis Title: Dynamic Multi-Workflow Scheduling in Network-aware Cloud
Gonglin Yuan
Supervisor(s): Prof Mengjie Zhang, Prof Bing XueThesis Title: Evolutionary Neural Architecture Search for Image Classification
Faisal Zaman
Supervisor(s): A/Prof Taehyun Rhee, Dr Craig AnslowThesis Title: Mixed Reality Collaboration based Immersive Analytics System
Dylon Zeng
Supervisor(s): Prof Mengjie Zhang A/Prof Ivy Liu Prof Bing XueThesis Title: Image Analysis
Hengzhe Zhang
Supervisor(s): Prof Mengjie Zhang, Prof Bing Xue, Dr Qi ChenThesis Title: Genetic Programming based Evolutionary Feature Construction
Bonny Zhao
Supervisor(s): Dr Aaron Chen,A/Prof Hui MaThesis Title:
Yun Zhou
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Anjali de Silva
Supervisor(s): Dr Aaron ChenThesis Title: Evolutionary Computation for Community Detection in Social Networks