Research Students
Patrick Adam
Patrick’s thesis title is "Childhood Socio-emotional Development: Conceptualisation, Competency and Outcomes for Development and Psychopathology".
Mina Aghaei
Mina's thesis title is "Person-Centred Assistive Technology for People with Dementia".
Florian Burger
Florian’s thesis title is "Visual Dimensions Underlying Object Recognition".
Matt Cabanag
Matt's thesis title is "Trust in Human Autonomy Teaming".
Jessica Chin
Jessica's thesis title is "The effects of language experience and task variation on speech-in-speech recognition".
Vishal Deshwal
Vishal’s thesis title is "Periodic Activation Functions in DNNs."
Sami El Arja
Sami’s thesis title is "Motion Estimation for Neuromorphic Remote Sensing"
Celine Frangieh
Celine is a research student with the MARCS Institute.
Lekshmy Hema Nair
Lekshmy's thesis title is "Network Analysis of Musical Improvisation in Australia".
Milena Adriana Hernández Gallego
Milena's thesis title is "Little Multilingual Minds - Spanish".
Dalia Israel
Dalia’s thesis title is "Detecting Deepfakes by Decoding the Subconscious."
Kate Jones
Kate's thesis title is "Contributing to the evidence base of the OZI-SF (Short Form) for multilingual children in South Western Sydney in the context of MECSH"
Mahdiyeh Khanbagi
Mahdiyeh's thesis title is "The Neural Basis of Object Categorization in the Infant Brain".
Luiza Lucuța
Luiza’s thesis title is "Neural Bases of Prediction in Music and Speech".
Shivaram Mani
Shivaram's thesis title is "Spiking Neurons As Changepoint Detectors"
Olivia Rose Maurice
Olivia is a PhD Candidate in cognitive neuroscience at the MARCS Institute. She is interested in neuropsychological assessment and risk reduction interventions for dementia focused on culturally and linguistically diverse populations.
Adithya Krishna Murthy
Adithya’s thesis title is "Brain-Inspired Neuromorphic Compute Architectures for Edge Computing"
Siri Padmanabhan Poti
Siri’s thesis title is "Explainability and Trust in Multi-Agent Human-Autonomous Teams".
Belman Jahir Rodriguez
Belman is a research assistant focused on "Programming, machine learning, and audio processing, with applications in sound source localization, identification, and classification of acoustic signals in UAVs".
Napat Sahapat
Napat's thesis title is "Predator Prey Drone Navigation with Reinforcement Learning"
Nusrat Jahan Samiya
Nusrat's thesis title is "Unlocking Person Identity Codes in the Brain."
Nazanin Sheykh Andalibi
Nazanin’s thesis title is "Investigating Brain Dynamics underlying emotions in decision making".
Alireza Shirani
Alireza's thesis title is "Optimized User Interface and Experience for Enhanced Clinical Data Surveillance".
Valentin Siderskiy
Valentin’s thesis title is "Modeling Vestibular-Autonomic Interactions Effect On Spatial Disorientation in Pilots".
Ha Chi Tran
Ha Chi's thesis title is "A quantitative study of heritage language input and output in an early childhood education setting in Australia".
Cameron Undy
Cameron’s thesis title is "Algorithmic Transformations of the Regular Pulse, African and Clave Rhythm Family - Impact Testing and Analysis for Creative Application and Listener Preference."
Poorani Vijayakumar
Poorani’s thesis title is "Bilinguals' Speech Perception: Investigating Language Rhythm".
Zack Wilcox
Zack's thesis title is "Space Based Neuromorphic Vision Sensors for Space Situational Awareness and Atmospheric Observations".