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mmWave radar interface and signal processing system
Millimeter-wave (mmWave) radar systems are widely used in applications such as automotive sensing, robotics, and industrial automation for object detection, range estimation, and velocity measurement.In this project, students will design and implement a complete interface to a commercial mmWave radar module using either an FPGA platform or an NVIDIA Jetson embedded system. The project will include low-level hardware/software interfacing as well as basic radar signal processing to extract meaningful information from the radar data.
- Study level
- Honours
- Faculty
- Faculty of Engineering
- School
- School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics
Local positioning system field trials and demos
The Local Positioning System is a major initiative to provide a global alternative to GPS, that works when and where GPS does not, and enables the tracking of robots, assets, and any thing of interest that moves.
- Study level
- Honours
- Faculty
- Faculty of Engineering
- School
- School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics
- Research centre(s)
- Centre for Robotics
Coastal habitable water infrastructures
Urban foreshores are increasingly emerging as the first line of adaptation and defence against extreme weather events, including sea-level rise, flooding, and storm surges, while simultaneously becoming sites of urban intensification to accommodate growing populations. Under these pressures, foreshore water infrastructures can no longer afford to segregate habitation from infrastructure. This research reconceptualises foreshores as territories where water infrastructures and human and non-human habitation are intricately entangled in future urban conditions. It explores a new concept of habitable foreshore water …
- Study level
- PhD, Master of Philosophy, Honours
- Faculty
- Faculty of Engineering
- School
- School of Architecture and Built Environment
- Research centre(s)
- QUT Resilience Centre
Physics-informed diffeomorphic image registration
Medical image registration is the process of finding a spatial transformation that aligns a medical scan or image (X-ray, CT, MR, US, PET etc.) to another scan or image for comparison. Example use of image registration includes mapping one patient's brain MRI onto another's, or tracking organ motion across breathing cycles in lung CT. Accurate registration is a primary requirement of a wide range of clinical workflows, including disease progression monitoring, treatment planning, and atlas-based segmentation.Diffeomorphic registration methods constrain the …
- Study level
- PhD, Master of Philosophy, Honours
- Faculty
- Faculty of Engineering
- School
- School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics
Closing the implementation gap: understanding sustainability trade-offs in regulatory decision-making pathways
Regulatory decision-making in Australia relies on the evidence provided in environmental impact assessments (EIA) of supporting project applications. The minister must take a range of matters including the principles of ecologically sustainable development (defined in Section 3A of the EPBC Act) into account using the EIA as evidence when making decisions. Yet these decisions are increasingly constrained by complex sustainability trade‑offs (Gibson and Fonseca, 2022), where regulators must balance ecological protection, economic development, and social expectations amid growing uncertainty and …
- Study level
- PhD, Master of Philosophy
- Faculty
- Faculty of Engineering
- School
- School of Architecture and Built Environment
Smart electrochemical aptamer biosensors for continuous monitoring cell health and function
Microphysiological systems including organ-on-chip platforms and 3D tissue models are transforming how we study human biology, enabling advanced in vitro models for tissue regeneration and drug testing that are far more physiologically relevant than conventional cell culture. However, a critical gap remains in how we monitor these living systems: current approaches rely on destructive or invasive methods that require cell sacrifice or physical sampling. Even the least invasive options are endpoint-based, capturing only a single snapshot in time making continuous, …
- Study level
- PhD
- Faculty
- Faculty of Engineering
- School
- School of Mechanical, Medical and Process Engineering
- Research centre(s)
- Centre for Biomedical Technologies
Proactive micromobility safety assessment using AI-based video analytics and traffic conflict techniques
A fully funded PhD scholarship is available in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) as part of a newly awarded Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project titled 'Shaping net-zero cities with safe and efficient micromobility solutions'.This PhD project will investigate the behavioural and safety interactions between pedestrians, micromobility users (e.g. e-scooters and e-bikes), and other road users in shared urban environments. The research will combine AI-based video analytics, trajectory analysis, behavioural modelling, and …
- Study level
- PhD
- Faculty
- Faculty of Engineering
- School
- School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Machine Learning for Power Quality Analysis in Low-Voltage Distribution Networks
Two full PhD scholarships are available at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia, focusing on machine learning for power quality analysis in low-voltage distribution networks.These PhD projects are part of an Industrial Transformation Training Centre (ITTC), providing students with access to a strong interdisciplinary research environment and collaboration opportunities with leading academic researchers and industry partners.The projects will investigate how solar inverters and electric vehicle (EV) chargers affect harmonic distortion, impedance, and resonance behaviour in the 2–9 kHz range. …
- Study level
- PhD
- Faculty
- Faculty of Engineering
- School
- School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics
Where should we put our sensors? Designing smarter water quality monitoring networks
Water utilities and environmental agencies face a deceptively simple question: where should we put our sensors? In a piped stormwater network, the question matters because finding an illicit discharge quickly depends on having the right sensors at the right places. In an open creek or river, the question matters because spatial coverage, transport dynamics, and cost trade-offs all influence whether monitoring will actually answer the question being asked.Decisions about sensor placement are still often made on the basis of accessibility, …
- Study level
- PhD
- Faculty
- Faculty of Engineering
- School
- School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Smart triggered sampling: low-cost devices and intelligent retrofits for capturing the moments that matter
Many water quality issues are event-driven. The most informative signals often appear during short windows associated with storms, illicit discharges, first flush, or operational upsets. Capturing these windows is genuinely hard. Manual sampling is often too slow, especially overnight or during fast-changing events. Conventional autosamplers help, but they are large, power-hungry, and typically deployed only at major assets, leaving smaller drains, tributaries, pump stations, and pollution hotspots without coverage. Even when an event is captured, fixed-interval sampling fills bottles after …
- Study level
- PhD
- Faculty
- Faculty of Engineering
- School
- School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
See it without touching it: low-cost non-contact sensing for our waterways
Many of our most important waterbodies, including reservoirs, lakes, lagoons, wetlands, sedimentation basins, and constructed wetlands, are still monitored using sparse in-water sensors and periodic grab sampling. These methods are costly to maintain, hard to scale across many sites, and often miss spatially variable changes in water quality.Non-contact sensing offers a different approach. Cameras, spectral sensors, radar, thermal imaging, and other sensing modalities can observe water from outside it, reducing fouling, simplifying servicing, improving worker safety, and enabling broader spatial …
- Study level
- PhD
- Faculty
- Faculty of Engineering
- School
- School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Rapid pathogen detection in water: from lab prototype to field-ready public health tool
Faecal contamination is one of the most consequential water hazards because it directly affects public health. Beach closures, do-not-drink advisories, and waterway warnings all depend on detecting microbial contamination quickly and reliably. Today, monitoring still depends largely on infrequent sampling and laboratory turnaround times that arrive long after the contamination has come and gone.Direct microbial sensing has advanced through biosensors and microfluidics, but most concepts remain at low technology readiness and are rarely demonstrated as field-usable systems. Reliability in the …
- Study level
- PhD
- Faculty
- Faculty of Engineering
- School
- School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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