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".

Priyanka Bharadwaj.

Priyanka’s thesis title is "Automatic Real-Time Recognition of Objects in Photos and Videos on Edge Devices".

Florian Burger.

Florian’s thesis title is "Visual Dimensions Underlying Object Recognition".

Matt Cabanag.

Matt's thesis title is "Trust in Human Autonomy Teaming".

Siyao Cheng.

Siyao’s thesis title is "A comparison of different music notations: initial interpretations, learning outcomes and chunkings".

Jessica Chin.

Jessica's thesis title is "The effects of language experience and task variation on speech-in-speech recognition".

Anita Connell.

Anita’s thesis title is "Music Instrument Learning Throughout Ageing and Cognitive Impairment"

Pablo Alejandro de Abreu Urbizagastegui.

Pablo’s thesis title is "Cortical Microcircuit Models of Predictive Processing for Neuromorphic Processors."

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.

Daniel Frazer.

Daniel's thesis title is "Effects of Cognitive Load and Stress in Virtual and Augmented Reality Environments"

Wing Hong Fu.

Wing's thesis title is "Effects of Cognitive Load and Stress in Virtual and Augmented Reality".

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".

Daniel Hochstrasser.

Daniel's thesis title is "Is Visual Speech? An investigation of timing and form on the N1 and P2".

Dalia Israel.

Dalia’s thesis title is "Detecting Deepfakes by Decoding the Subconscious."

Andrew Jolley.

Andrew’s thesis title is "Neuromorphic Sensors for Space Situational Awareness"

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"

Philip Chennakudy Jose.

Philip's thesis title is "Hardware implementation of unsupervised feature extraction algorithms".

Chantelle Khamchuang.

Chantelle’s thesis is titled Developing and evaluating a training package for early childhood educators and health workers to collaborate with parents to support Aboriginal children’s communication development.

Mahdiyeh Khanbagi.

Mahdiyeh's thesis title is "The Neural Basis of Object Categorization in the Infant Brain".

Yanping Li.

Yanping is an HDR student in our Speech and Language program. Her Thesis title is "Effects of High versus Low variability training on Second Language Acquisition of Mandarin Tones".

Sally Longmore.

Sally's thesis is titled "Something in the Air".

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 Maurice

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".

Almudena Ramírez Haro.

Shavika Rastogi.

Shavika's thesis title is "Odor identification and odor source localization using event based gas sensing."

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".

Nicole Traynor.

Nicole's thesis title is "The role of properties of infant-directed speech on early word learning".

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".

Sarah Wright

Sarah's thesis title is "The effects of code-switching on executive functioning in early and late bilinguals".

Jenny Yu

Jenny's thesis is titled "Prosody and Prediction in English and German".