Research programme

We are currently open for HDR positions (PhD/Masters/Honours) in our group provided you bring your own scholarship or apply for UNSW PhD Scholarship. Please note UNSW PhD Scholarship is very competitive and requires a Master’s by Research thesis with a good GPA and at least a first-authored paper in a Q1 journal. More info: https://www.unsw.edu.au/research/hdr/scholarships

Potential thesis topics

• Remote sensing for landscape detection on Mars – with Dr Rohitash Chandra and Prof. Cedric John (Imperial College London)
• Detection of hazards from cyclones using remote sensing and deep learning – with Dr Rohitash Chandra and with Dr Ehsan Farahbakhsh (University of Sydney)
• Bayesian deep learning for hydrological models – with Dr Rohitash Chandra and Prof. Willem Vervoort (University of Sydney)
• Explainable deep learning with uncertainty quantification and – with Dr Rohitash Chandra and Prof. Christian Omlin (University of Agder, Norway)
• Language models for the analysis of philosophical traditions emerging from Hindu texts – with Dr Rohitash Chandra and Dr Bjarne Wernicke-Olesen (Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, Oxford University)
• Explainable artificial intelligence for environmental and climate problems – with Dr Rohitash Chandra and Prof. Giles Hooker (University of Pennsylvania, United States)
• Bayesian deep learning with incomplete information – with Dr Rohitash Chandra and Prof. Scott Sisson (UNSW)
• Bayesian deep learning for crowd simulation and robot path prediction – with Dr Rohitash Chandra and Dr William Zhi (Carnegie Mellon University, United States)
• Indoor path navigation for disabled persons in large buildings – with Dr Rohitash Chandra and Dr William Zhi (Carnegie Mellon University, United States)
• Bayesian deep learning for robot path planning – with Dr Rohitash Chandra and Prof. Bibhya Sharma (University of the South Pacific, Fiji)
• Data augmentation and deep learning – with Dr Rohitash Chandra and Dr Anurag Sharma (University of the South Pacific, Fiji)
• Deep learning for medical diagnosis – with Dr Rohitash Chandra and Dr Amit Krishan Kumar (Da Nang University, Vietnam)
• Decadal economic trends with deep learning – with Dr Rohitash Chandra and Dr Rodney Beard (FFA, Solomon Islands) and Dr John Hawkins (Sydney)
• Sentiment analysis with deep learning during natural disasters and extreme events – with Dr Rohitash Chandra
• Deep learning for protein function detection – with Dr Rohitash Chandra and Prof. Alok Sharma (RIKEN, Japan)
• Plate tectonics for mineral prospecting with machine learning – with Dr Rohitash Chandra and Prof. Dietmar Muller (University of Sydney)
• Machine learning for reef modelling and optimisation – with Dr Rohitash Chandra and Prof. Jody Webster (University of Sydney)