This page lists all students currently enrolled to complete a thesis at ECS.

Shabbir Abbasi

Supervisor(s): A/Prof Ian Welch, Dr Harith Al-Sahaf
Thesis Title: Automated behaviour based ransomware detection and classification

Mahdi Abdollahi

Supervisor(s): A/Prof Xiaoying Sharon Gao, Dr Yi Mei
Thesis Title: Improving Medical Document Classification via Feature Engineering

Taiwo Akindele

Supervisor(s): A/Prof Hui Ma, Dr Yi Mei
Thesis Title: Evolutionary Computation approach to energy-efficient microservice resource allocation in the cloud

Baligh Al-Helali

Supervisor(s): Prof Bing Xue, Prof Mengjie Zhang and Dr Qi Chen
Thesis Title: Genetic programming for symbolic regression on incomplete data

Mohammed Al-Shaboti

Supervisor(s): A/Prof Ian Welch, Dr Aaron Chen
Thesis Title: Fine-grained Access Control for Smart Spaces using User Inputs

Peter Alexander

Supervisor(s): A/Prof Paul Teal
Thesis Title: Applications of a Bayesian Approach to Solving Inverse Problems

Ramya Anasseriyil Viswambaran

Supervisor(s): Dr Aaron Chen, A/Prof Bing Xue, and Dr Mohammad Nekooei
Thesis Title: Evolutionary Computation for designing and training of Deep Recurrent Neural Network

Mazhar Ansari Ardeh

Supervisor(s): Dr Yi Mei, Prof Mengjie Zhang
Thesis Title: Genetic Programming Transfer Learning for Solving Uncertain Capacitated Arc Routing

Zak Argabrite

Supervisor(s): Dr Jim Murphy (NZSM), Dr Mo Zareei (NZSM), Prof Dale Carnegie, and Prof Sally Jane Norman (NZSM)
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Morgan Atkins

Supervisor(s): Dr Craig Watterson, Dr Karsten Lundqvist
Thesis Title: Automated Formative Assessment: Closing the Feedback Loop in Introductory Programming Courses

Ying Bi

Supervisor(s): Prof Mengjie Zhang, A/Prof Bing Xue
Thesis Title: Evolutionary Deep learning Using Genetic Programming for Image Classification

Daniel Braithwaite

Supervisor(s): Prof Bastiaan Kleijn, A/Prof Marcus Frean
Thesis Title: Improving Variational Methods for Representation Learning and Generative Modelling

Tristan Bunn

Supervisor(s): Dr Craig Anslow, Dr Karsten Lundqvist
Thesis Title: Visual Analytics for Learning Management Systems

Duncan Cameron

Supervisor(s): Dr Alvin Valera, Prof Winston Seah
Thesis Title: ElasticWISP: Energy-Proportional WISP Backhaul Networks

Kieran Carnegie

Supervisor(s): Dr Simon McCallum, Dr Gina Grimshaw (Psychology)
Thesis Title:

Sam Carswell

Supervisor(s): Prof Dale Carnegie, Dr Jim Murphy (NZSM)
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Rongsen Chen

Supervisor(s): A/Prof Taehyun Rhee, Dr Fanglue Zhang
Thesis Title:

Xiu Cheng

Supervisor(s): Prof Will Browne, Prof Mengjie Zhang
Thesis Title:

Anu Choudhary

Supervisor(s): A/Prof Ramesh Rayudu, Dr James Hinkley
Thesis Title: Low Temperature Geothermal Resources for Power Generation

Hamish Colenso

Supervisor(s): Dr Ciaran Moore (University of Canterbury), Dr Gideon Gouws
Thesis Title: Fabrication of a two-dimensional far-field superlens

Davis Cooper

Supervisor(s): Prof Stephen Marsland (SMS), A/Prof Marcus Frean
Thesis Title: Optimal Transport for Generative Modelling

Joao Costa

Supervisor(s): Dr Yi Mei, Prof Mengjie Zhang
Thesis Title: Hyper Heuristics for the Large-Scale Vehicle Routing Problem

Binh Dang

Supervisor(s): Dr Qiang Fu, A/Prof Peter Andreae and Prof Peter Smith (SMS)
Thesis Title: Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access for Mobile Edge Computing

Rohit Duggal

Supervisor(s): A/Prof Ramesh Rayudu, Dr James Hinkley
Thesis Title: Low-temperature geothermal energy extraction from hydrocarbon fields

Paul Dunham

Supervisor(s): A/Prof Dugal McKinnon (NZSM), Dr Mo Zareei (NZSM), Prof Dale Carnegie
Thesis Title: The Sound of Obsolescence in the Age of Digital Re-production

Kirita Escott

Supervisor(s): A/Prof Hui Ma, Dr Aaron Chen
Thesis Title: Dynamic Workflow Scheduling in Cloud Computing

Qinglan Fan

Supervisor(s): Prof Mengjie Zhang, A/Prof Bing Xue
Thesis Title:

Simon Finnie

Supervisor(s): A/Prof Taehyun Rhee, Dr Fanglue Zhang
Thesis Title: Dynamic Scene Reconstruction Using a Hybrid RGB-D Sensor System

Isaac Oscar Gariano

Supervisor(s): Dr Marco Servetto, Prof James Noble
Thesis Title: Hybridly Typed Retroactive Polymorphism

Erin Greenwood-Thessman

Supervisor(s): Dr Michael Homer and Prof James Noble
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Dylan Guja

Supervisor(s):
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Mona Hakami

Supervisor(s): Prof Bastiaan Kleijn, Prof Dale Carnegie
Thesis Title: Speech Quality Estimation

Junaid Haseeb

Supervisor(s): A/Prof Ian Welch, Dr Masood Mansoori
Thesis Title: Deception Techniques for IoT

Chathura Hewa Algiriyage

Supervisor(s): Dr Karsten Lundqvist, Dr Craig Watterson
Thesis Title: Teaching Java Programming for Software Engineering and Computer Science Students: An Intelligent Tutoring Approach

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

Weng Khuan Hoh

Supervisor(s): Prof Neil Dodgson, Dr Fanglue Zhang
Thesis Title: Effect of Encoded Theories of Visual Perception in Computational Aesthetic Assessment

Junhao Huang

Supervisor(s): A/Prof Bing Xue,Prof Mengjie Zhang
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Zhixing Huang

Supervisor(s): Dr Yi Mei, Prof Mengjie Zhang
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Faisal Ishtiaq

Supervisor(s): Prof Bastiaan Kleijn, A/Prof Paul Teal
Thesis Title: Signal representation in probabilistic Autoencoders

Harrison Jones

Supervisor(s): Dr Chris Hollitt, A/Prof Will Browne
Thesis Title: High Speed Ball Tracking and Catching in an Outdoor Environment

Chibuzor Kama

Supervisor(s): Dr Karsten Lundqvist, Dr Craig Watterson
Thesis Title: Using Game-Based Learning to Teaching Engineering Ethics to New Zealand Undergraduate Students.

Asra Khalid

Supervisor(s): Dr Karsten Lundqvist, Dr Anne Yates (Education)
Thesis Title:

Roomana Khalid

Supervisor(s): Prof Alan Brent
Thesis Title: Multi-criteria optimization of multi-micro-grids considering whole-life cost and power loss objectives

Hashim Khamis

Supervisor(s): A/Prof Ramesh Rayudu, Dr Daniel Burmester
Thesis Title: Power Transfer on Decentralized PV-Battery based Mini-Grid System

Sazid Khan

Supervisor(s): A/Prof Hui Ma and Dr Aaron Chen
Thesis Title:

Sasha Leitman

Supervisor(s): Prof Dale Carnegie, Dr Jim Murphy (NZSM)
Thesis Title: Resonant Interfaces

Bradley Leuw

Supervisor(s):
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Yiheng Li

Supervisor(s): Fanglue Zhang
Thesis Title: Edit Propagation with Spatial-Temporal Consistency for Panorama Video

Jiabin Lin

Supervisor(s): A/Prof Bing Xue,Dr QiChen
Thesis Title: Evolutionary transfer learning for feature selection

Yi Liu

Supervisor(s): A/Prof Will Browne, A/Prof Bing Xue
Thesis Title:

Trevor Londt

Supervisor(s): A/Prof Xiaoying Sharon Gao, A/Prof Peter Andreae
Thesis Title: Synthesis of character-level ConvNets using Evolutionary Deep Learning.

Kurt Ma

Supervisor(s): A/Prof John Lewis, Dr David Balduzzi, A/Prof Marcus Frean, and Prof Bastiaan Kleijn
Thesis Title: Deep articulated Hand Tracking with RGB camera

Kosisochukwu Madukwe

Supervisor(s): A/Prof Xiaoying Gao, A/Prof Bing Xue
Thesis Title: Detection and Classification of Online Textual Hate Speech

Chaitra Mahendra

Supervisor(s): Dr Craig Anslow, Prof James Noble
Thesis Title: Improve Secure Programming by developing new tools and APIs

Andrew McGhie

Supervisor(s): Prof Mengjie Zhang, A/Prof Bing Xue
Thesis Title: Machine Learning for Aquaculture data

Chelsea Miller

Supervisor(s): A/Prof Pawel Dmochowski, Prof Peter Smith (SMS)
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Soheil Mohseni

Supervisor(s): Prof Alan Brent, Dr Daniel Burmester, and A/Prof Will Browne
Thesis Title: Development of a method to optimally size micro-grids based on meta-heuristic optimisation algorithms

Amr Morssy

Supervisor(s): A/Prof Paul Teal, A/Prof Marcus Frean
Thesis Title:

Rasika Nandana

Supervisor(s):
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Trung Nguyen

Supervisor(s): A/Prof Will Browne, Prof Mengjie Zhang
Thesis Title: Pattern reusability in Learning Classifier Systems with Code Fragments

Damien O'Neill

Supervisor(s): A/Prof Bing Xue, Prof Mengjie Zhang
Thesis Title:

Muru Raj Odiathevar

Supervisor(s): Prof Winston Seah, A/Prof Marcus Frean
Thesis Title: Anomaly Detection in Dynamic and Distributed Scenarios

Lisa Patterson

Supervisor(s): A/Prof Ian Welch, Dr Bryan Ng, Dr Sue Chard
Thesis Title: Data Privacy and Security: Investigating Safety of Internet Technologies for the Everyday User

Wenbin Pei

Supervisor(s): A/Prof Bing Xue, Prof Mengjie Zhang
Thesis Title: Genetic Programming for Classification with High-dimensional Unbalanced Data

Lohit Petikam

Supervisor(s): A/Prof Taehyun Rhee, Prof Ken Anjyo (CMIC)
Thesis Title:

Sunethra Pitawala

Supervisor(s): A/Prof Paul Teal, Prof Mark McGuinness (SMS)
Thesis Title: Bayesian estimation of Bound Fluid Fraction from NMR relaxation

Ben Powley

Supervisor(s): Dr Craig Anslow, Dr Mairead de Roiste (Geography)
Thesis Title: Exploring Immersive and Non-Immersive Techniques for Geographic Data Visualization

Ryan Roberts

Supervisor(s): Prof Alan Brent, Dr James Hinkley
Thesis Title:

Mike Ruigrok

Supervisor(s): Dr Maren Wellenreuther (Plant & Food Research), Prof Mengjie Zhang, A/Prof Bing Xue, Dr Linley Jesson (Plant & Food Research), Dr Yi Mei
Thesis Title:

Soheila Sadeghiram

Supervisor(s): A/Prof Hui Ma, Dr Aaron Chen
Thesis Title: Distributed Data-Intensive Web Service Composition

Miru Samarakoon

Supervisor(s): A/Prof Paul Teal, A/Prof Marcus Frean
Thesis Title: Predictive Analytics in Cardiac Surgical Intensive Care Waveforms

Roshni Satheesh Babu

Supervisor(s): Dr Ciaran Moore (University of Canterbury), Dr Gideon Gouws
Thesis Title: Development of bimetallic Surface Plasmon Resonance Sensors

Harisu Abdullahi Shehu

Supervisor(s): Prof Will Browne, A/Prof Hedwig Eisenbarth (Psychology)
Thesis Title: Emotion Detection and its Effect in Decision-making

Tao Shi

Supervisor(s): A/Prof Hui Ma, Dr Aaron Chen
Thesis Title: Location-aware and Cost-effective Application Placement in Multi-cloud Environment

Abubakar Siddique

Supervisor(s): A/Prof Will Browne, Dr Gina Grimshaw (Psychology)
Thesis Title:

Anwarul Sifat

Supervisor(s): Dr. Fiona Stevens McFadden, Dr. Ramesh Rayudu, Dr. Arvid Hunze
Thesis Title: Magnetic Sensor Application to Critical Fault Detection & Classification in Electricity Distribution Network

Ikram Singh

Supervisor(s): A/Prof Pawel Dmochowski, Prof Peter Smith (SMS)
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Manish Singh

Supervisor(s): A/Prof Alex Potanin, A/Prof Lindsay Groves
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Christian Suppan

Supervisor(s): A/Prof Taehyun Rhee, Dr Andrew Chalmers (CMIC), Dr Alexander Doronin
Thesis Title: TBD

Atefeh Talebian

Supervisor(s): Dr Alvin Valera, Prof Winston Seah
Thesis Title: Mobility induced migration in fog computing

Maryam Var Naseri

Supervisor(s): A/Prof Ian Welch, Dr Masood Mansoori
Thesis Title: Application of AI to Situation Awareness in the context of Honeypot

Pravin Vaz

Supervisor(s): Dr Karsten Lundqvist, Dr Louise Starkey (Education)
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Nicolas Vergnaud

Supervisor(s): A/Prof Taehyun Rhee
Thesis Title: Adding mobility and depth perception to the basics of Virtual Teleportation

Nathan Villicana-Shaw

Supervisor(s): Prof Dale Carnegie, Dr Jim Murphy (NZSM), Dr Mo Zareei (NZSM)
Thesis Title: Middleware for Composing Music for Mechatronic Ensembles

Bin Wang

Supervisor(s): A/Prof Bing Xue, Prof Mengjie Zhang
Thesis Title: Evolving Deep Learning (Using Evolutionary Algorithms to Search for Deep Neural Networks) for Image Classification

Ganlong Wang

Supervisor(s): Prof Bastiaan Kleijn, A/Prof Marcus Frean
Thesis Title: Preprocessing Sound to Maximize the Auditory Information Throughput

Peng Wang

Supervisor(s): A/Prof Bing Xue, Prof Mengjie Zhang
Thesis Title: Evolutionary Multimodal Optimization for Feature Selection in Classification

Shaolin Wang

Supervisor(s): Dr Yi Mei, Prof Mengjie Zhang
Thesis Title: GPHH for Uncertain Capacitated Arc Routing Problem

Josh Weir

Supervisor(s): A/Prof Taehyun Rhee, Dr Andrew Chalmers (CMIC)
Thesis Title: Portrait Relighting for Video Conferencing

Meng Xu

Supervisor(s): Dr Yi Mei, Prof Mengjie Zhang
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Yulia Yagunova

Supervisor(s): A/Prof Paul Teal, Adjunct Prof Mark Poletti (Callaghan)
Thesis Title: Sonic Simulation in Virtual Reality Contexts

Longfei Yan

Supervisor(s): Prof Bastiaan Kleijn
Thesis Title: Neural Network Based Blind Source Separation

Guang Yang

Supervisor(s): Dr Robin Dykstra, A/Prof Paul Teal
Thesis Title: Magnetic Resonance Imaging with An Inhomogeneous Single-sided Sensor

Yifan Yang

Supervisor(s):
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Juan Pablo Yepez Placencia

Supervisor(s): Prof Dale Carnegie, Dr Jim Murphy (NZSM)
Thesis Title: Integrated Approaches for Mechatronic Design and Construction

Gonglin Yuan

Supervisor(s): Prof Mengjie Zhang, A/Prof Bing Xue
Thesis Title: Evolutionary Computation for Neural Network Construction

Faisal Zaman

Supervisor(s): A/Prof Taehyun Rhee, Dr Craig Anslow
Thesis Title: Mixed Reality Collaboration based Immersive Analytics System

Fangfang Zhang

Supervisor(s): Dr Yi Mei, Prof Mengjie Zhang
Thesis Title: Genetic Programming Hyper-heuristics for Dynamic Flexible Job Shop Scheduling