Thesis students
Meet the current thesis students at the School of Mathematics and Statistics, and read about their research.
Mathematics MSc
Matthew Askes
Supervisor(s): Prof. Rod DowneyThesis Title: Graph Games with Hostile Partners
Josh Baines
Supervisor(s): Prof. Matt VisserThesis Title: Dynamics of Spacetime
Jordan Barrett
Supervisor(s): Dr Dan TuretskyThesis Title: Reverse Mathematics of Rings
Amber Bohanna
Supervisor(s): Prof. Geoff WhittleThesis Title: 3-way submodularity in connectivity functions
Malcolm Jones
Supervisor(s): AProf Lisa Clark and Prof Astrid an HuefThesis Title: Groupoids associated to self-similar groups
Aden Jowsey
Supervisor(s): Prof. Matt VisserThesis Title: Maximum Power and Isotropic Layered Fluid Spheres
Phoebe McDougall
Supervisor(s): AProf Lisa Clark Thesis Title: Ideals of Steinberg algebras of strongly effective groupoids
Brandon Ngan
Supervisor(s): AProf Dillon MayhewThesis Title: Second-order Logic for Matroids
Long Qian
Supervisor(s): Prof. Rod DowneyThesis Title: Generic Case Complexity for Analytical Problems
Joseph Wilson
Supervisor(s): Prof. Matt VisserThesis Title: Explicit Baker-Campbell-Hausdorff for the Lorentz Group
Mathematics PhD
Jasmine Hall
Supervisor(s): Prof. Geoff WhittleThesis Title: Tangles and graph connectivity
Virginia Listanti
Supervisor(s): Prof. Stephen Marsland and Dr Nirosha PriyadarshaniThesis Title: Syllable analysis and classification in automatic birdsong detection
Rafael Pereira Lima
Supervisor(s): Prof Astrid an Huef and AProf Lisa ClarkThesis Title: C*-Algebras and Groupoids
Linus Richter
Supervisor(s): Dr. Martino Lupini and Prof. Noam GreenbergThesis Title: Topics in Computability and Set Theory
Michal Salter-Duke
Supervisor(s): Prof. Stephen Marsland Thesis Title: Defining and identifying overlapping communities in complex networks
Al Simpson
Supervisor(s): Prof. Matt Visser and Dr Dimitrios MitsotakisThesis Title: Black Hole Variants In General Relativity
Shonaugh Wright
Supervisor(s): Prof Astrid an Huef and AProf Lisa ClarkThesis Title: Representations of C*-algebras
Ruofei Xie
Supervisor(s): Prof. Noam Greenberg & Dr. Dan TuretskyThesis Title: Computability and Randomness
Statistics and Operations Research MSc
Flynn Owen
Supervisor(s): Prof. Richard ArnoldThesis Title: Hierarchical Likelihood Methods of Clustering Matrix Data
Kang Wang
Supervisor(s): Dr Binh NguyenThesis Title: Deep Learning Models for Generation of Novel Compounds
Dylon Zeng
Supervisor(s): Dr Binh NguyenThesis Title: Phenotypic Profiling and Analysis of Drugs Using Deep Learning
Statistics and Operations Research PhD
Harini Dissanayake
Supervisor(s): AProf Ivy Liu and Paul Bracewell (Dot Loves Data)Thesis Title: Data Informed Decision Bias in New Zealand
Julius Juodakis
Supervisor(s): Prof. Stephen Marsland and Dr Nirosha PriyadarshaniThesis Title: Improving acoustic surveys through SECR and denoising
Kyuhan Kim
Supervisor(s): Dr. Nokuthaba Sibanda and A/Prof. Richard ArnoldThesis Title: An individual-based approach to length-frequency analysis in fisheries stock assessment
Lingyu Li
Supervisor(s): A/Prof. Ivy Liu and A/Prof. Richard ArnoldThesis Title: Goodness of fit of ordinal data clustering models
Khandoker Akib Mohammad
Supervisor(s): Dr. Yuichi Hirose, Dr. Budhi Surya and Dr. Yuan YaoThesis Title: Profile likelihood estimation applied to the semi-parametric models for survival data
Lindsay Morris
Supervisor(s): Dr. Nokuthaba SibandaThesis Title: Spatio-temporal modelling for environmental monitoring
Erandi Nanayakkara Halloluwage
Supervisor(s): Dr. Nokuthaba Sibanda and Dr Budhi SuryaThesis Title: Advances in Optimal Bayesian Experimental Design
Thanh-Hoang Nguyen
Supervisor(s): Dr. Binh Nguyen and Prof. Paul Teesedale-SpittleThesis Title: De Novo Molecular Design using Deep Learning
Kien Tran
Supervisor(s): A/Prof Richard Arnold and A/Prof Ivy LiuThesis Title: Clustering of mixed type data
Alex Wang
Supervisor(s): AProf Stefanka Chukova and Dr Binh NguyenThesis Title: Deep Learning Applications in Warranty Data Scarcity