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Enhancing the quality of teaching in Universities: Measuring the impact of professional development and recognition schemes (such as HEA Fellowship) on University Educators and Students

Enhancing the quality of teaching in Universities: Measuring the impact of professional development and recognition schemes (such as HEA Fellowship) on University Educators and Students

Study level
PhD, Master of Philosophy
Faculty
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice
School
School of Teacher Education and Leadership

Fine-grained software vulnerability detection using deep learning techniques

Software vulnerability is a major threat to the security of software systems. Thus, the successful prediction of security vulnerability is one of the most effective attack mitigation solutions. Existing approaches for software vulnerability detection (SVD) can be classified into static and dynamic methods. Powered by AI capabilities, especially with the advancement of machine learning techniques, current software has been produced with more sophisticated methodologies and components. This has made the automatic vulnerability proneness prediction even more challenging. Recent research efforts …

Study level
PhD, Master of Philosophy
Faculty
Faculty of Science
School
School of Computer Science

Mapping the world: understanding the environment through spatio-temporal implicit representations

Accurately mapping large-scale infrastructure assets (power poles, bridges, buildings, whole suburbs and cities) is still exceptionally challenging for robots.The problem becomes even harder when we ask robots to map structures with intricate geometry or when the appearance or the structure of the environment changes over time, for example due to corrosion or construction activity.The problem difficulty is increased even more when sensor data from a range of different sensors (e.g. lidars and cameras, but also more specialised hardware such as …

Study level
PhD
Faculty
Faculty of Engineering
School
School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics
Research centre(s)
Centre for Robotics

Re-localisation in natural environments

Re-localisation in robotics involves the process of determining a robot's current pose, consisting of its position and orientation. This can either be within a previously mapped and known environment (i.e. prior map) or relative to another robot in a multi-agent setup. Re-localisation is essential for enabling robots to perform tasks such as autonomous monitoring and exploration seamlessly, even when they encounter temporary challenges in precisely tracking their location in GPS-degraded environments. For instance, consider the 'wake-up' problem, where a robot …

Study level
PhD
School
School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics

Robot learning for navigation, interaction, and complex tasks

How can robots best learn to navigate in challenging environments and execute complex tasks, such as tidying up an apartment or assist humans in their everyday domestic chores?Often, hand-written architectures are based on complicated state machines that become intractable to design and maintain with growing task complexity. I am interested in developing learning-based approaches that are effective and efficient and scale better to complicated tasks.Especially learning based on semantic information (such as extracted by the research in semantic SLAM above), …

Study level
PhD
Faculty
Faculty of Engineering
School
School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics

Identifying Indigenous contributions to knowledge

The Australian Census collects data every ten years to reflect who we are as a nation. But the data collected by the Census only tells part of our story.Indigenous people lived in Australia for thousands of years before the arrival of European settlers, accumulating a wealth of knowledge about Australia's land, climate, flora and fauna. Researchers have only begun tapping this knowledge as the basis for modern scientific research.This project will combine machine learning and text-analytics tools to develop a …

Study level
PhD, Master of Philosophy, Honours
Faculty
Faculty of Science
School
School of Mathematical Sciences
Research centre(s)
Centre for Data Science

Productive reproducible workflows for deep learning-enabled large-scale industry systems

Deep learning is a mainstream to increase the capability of industry systems, particularly for those with massive data input and output. It is seen that many tools are now claimed to be freely available and could facilitate such process of development and deployment significantly with scalability and quality.However, limited attention has been on developing reproducible and productive workflows to identify the tools and their values towards large-scale industry systems. In this project, we will explore how to design such a …

Study level
PhD, Master of Philosophy
Faculty
Faculty of Science
School
School of Computer Science

Automatic Generation of Software Vulnerability Datasets for Machine Learning

In recent years, machine learning has enjoyed profound success in a range of interesting applications such as natural language processing, computer vision and speech recognition. It has been possible mainly due to, in addition to better computing resources, the availability of large amounts of training datasets to these applications. However, in software security research, the lack of large datasets is an open problem that makes it challenging for machine learning to reason about security vulnerabilities found in real-world software. The …

Study level
PhD, Master of Philosophy
Faculty
Faculty of Science
School
School of Computer Science

Systematic evaluation towards the analysis of open-source supply chain on ML4SE tasks

Applying machine learning algorithms to source code related SE task is rapidly developing and attracts the attention from both researchers and industry engineers. While there are many program languages available, applying such techniques, i.e., the representation learning models, for different languages may achieve different performance. Particularly, they all have their own strict syntax, which determines the abstract syntax tree. Thus, a lot of different open-source supply chain are available, for example the parsing tools are used to build AST from …

Study level
PhD, Master of Philosophy
Faculty
Faculty of Science
School
School of Computer Science

Assessing the quality of cluster analysis

Machine learning cluster methods are common classification methods, but methods for assessing performance are limited as are methods for explaining how they work.  Exploring methods for both assessing and explaining performance are the subject of this research with application to real-world contexts with the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

Study level
PhD, Master of Philosophy, Honours
Faculty
Faculty of Science
School
School of Mathematical Sciences
Research centre(s)
Centre for Data Science

Driver engagement and risk in automated driving: Advanced data analytics leveraging driver monitoring systems

The project aims to the explore concept of empathic machines in the context of driver monitoring systems (DMS) and automated driving. The successful candidate will contribute to advancing the understanding of driver engagement, situation awareness, and risk through leveraging advancements in data science techniques on vehicle sensor, DMS, and other related datasets.To apply for this position, please submit the following documents:a cover letter outlining your research interests, relevant qualifications, and motivation to join the Empathic Machines projecta detailed curriculum vitae …

Study level
PhD
Faculty
Faculty of Engineering
School
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research centre(s)
Centre for Data Science
Centre for Future Mobility/CARRSQ

A new physics informed machine learning framework for structural optimisation design of the biomedical devices

The machine learning based computer modelling and simulation for engineering and science is a new era. The optimisation analysis is widely used in the design of structures.

Study level
PhD, Master of Philosophy, Honours
Faculty
Faculty of Engineering
School
School of Mechanical, Medical and Process Engineering
Research centre(s)
Centre for Biomedical Technologies
Centre for Biomedical Technologies

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