Thesis students

Meet the current thesis students at the School of Mathematics and Statistics, and read about their research.

Mathematics PhD

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Josh Baines

Supervisor(s): Prof. Matt Visser
Thesis Title: Dynamics of Spacetime


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Sam Bastida

Supervisor(s): Dr. Nick Brettell & AProf. Dillon Mayhew
Thesis Title: Combinatorial Problems on the Second Level of the Polynomial Hierarchy


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Marina Dorzhieva

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Rudeep Gaur

Supervisor(s): Prof. Matt Visser & Dr. Dimitrios Mitsotakis
Thesis Title: Aspects of General Relativity and Cosmology


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Jasmine Hall

Supervisor(s): Prof. Geoff Whittle
Thesis Title: Tangles and graph connectivity


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Ellen Hammatt

Supervisor(s): Prof Rod Downey and Dr Sasha Melnikov
Thesis Title: Topics in Computable Structure Theory


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Malcolm Jones

Supervisor(s): AProf Lisa Clark and Prof Astrid an Huef
Thesis Title: C*-algebras associated to oriented combinatorial data


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Timotheus Keanu

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Virginia Listanti

Supervisor(s): Prof. Stephen Marsland and Dr Nirosha Priyadarshani
Thesis Title: Syllable analysis and classification in automatic birdsong detection


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Rafael Pereira Lima

Supervisor(s): Prof Astrid an Huef and AProf Lisa Clark
Thesis Title: C*-Algebras and Groupoids


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Renrui Qi

Supervisor(s): Prof. Noam Greenberg & Dr. Dan Turetsky
Thesis Title: Studies in computability


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Linus Richter

Supervisor(s): Dr. Dan Turetsky
Thesis Title: Constructing Co-analytic Counterexamples to Marstrand's Projection Theorem


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Michal Salter-Duke

Supervisor(s): Prof. Stephen Marsland
Thesis Title: Defining and identifying overlapping communities in complex networks


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Shonaugh Wright

Supervisor(s): Prof Astrid an Huef and AProf Lisa Clark
Thesis Title: Representations of C*-algebras


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Ruofei Xie

Supervisor(s): Prof. Noam Greenberg & Dr. Dan Turetsky
Thesis Title: Computability and Randomness


Statistics and Operations Research MSc

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Beau Jarvis-Child

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Statistics and Operations Research PhD

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Broden Bishop

Supervisor(s): Dr. Nokuthaba Sibanda & Prof. Richard Arnold
Thesis Title: Statistical modelling of tumour growth for personalised screening


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Anthony Charsley

Supervisor(s): Dr Nokuthaba Sibanda and Arnaud Gruss (NIWA)
Thesis Title: Modelling the probability of capture for New Zealand's longfin and shortfin eels


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Pimwipa Charuthamrong

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Mashfiqul Chowdhury

Supervisor(s): Dr. Yuichi Hirose & Dr. Nokuthaba Sibanda
Thesis Title: High dimensional parameter estimation in joint modeling of multivariate longitudinal data


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Ying Cui

Supervisor(s): AProf. Ivy Liu , Dr. Louise McMillan & Prof. Richard Arnold
Thesis Title: Model based semi-supervised clustering generalization for ordinal data


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Harini Dissanayake

Supervisor(s): AProf Ivy Liu and Paul Bracewell (Dot Loves Data)
Thesis Title: Data Informed Decision Bias in New Zealand


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Laia Egea Cortes

Supervisor(s): AProf. Ivy Liu , Prof. Richard Arnold & Daniel Fernandez
Thesis Title: Developments in partial ordered stereotype model


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Lingyu Li

Supervisor(s): A/Prof. Ivy Liu and Prof. Richard Arnold
Thesis Title: Model-Based Clustering using Adjacent-Categories Logit Models via Finite Mixtures


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Erandi Nanayakkara Halloluwage

Supervisor(s): Dr. Nokuthaba Sibanda and Dr Budhi Surya
Thesis Title: Advances in Optimal Bayesian Experimental Design


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Thanh-Hoang Nguyen

Supervisor(s): Dr. Binh Nguyen and Prof. Paul Teesedale-Spittle
Thesis Title: De Novo Molecular Design using Deep Learning


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Dileepa Samankula

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Wawan Hafid Syaifudin

Supervisor(s): Dr. Budhi Surya
Thesis Title: TBD


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Alex Wang

Supervisor(s): AProf Stefanka Chukova and Dr Binh Nguyen
Thesis Title: Deep Learning Applications in Warranty Data Scarcity


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Dongliang Wu

Supervisor(s): Dr. Binh Nguyen & Dr. Lawrence Harris
Thesis Title: AI Methods for Low Resource Drug Discovery