Lina Yao

Univeristy of New South Wales (UNSW)

• Jingcheng Li, PhD student, (Primary Supervisor, submitted on Dec. 2025)
• Ruoyu Wang, PhD student, (Primary Supervisor, awarded on 27 Oct. 2025)
• Hongtao Huang, PhD student, (Primary Supervisor, awarded on 15 August 2025)
• Chengkai Huang, PhD student (Primary Supervisor, submitted on Sept. 2025 )
• Saurav Jha, PhD student, (Primary Supervisor, awarded on 14 August 2025)
• Xinshu Li, PhD student, (Primary Supervisor, awarded on 28 May 2025)
• Siyu Wang, PhD student, (Primary Supervisor, awarded on 12 May 2025)
• Sam Dixon, PhD student, from University of Western Australia, Feb. 2021 - Mar. 2025
• Guanglin Zhou, PhD student, (Primary Supervisor, awarded on 19 Oct 2024)
• Le Pan, PhD student, (Primary Supervisor, awarded on 19 Oct 2024)
• Daijiao Liu, Masters student, from T1 2024 to T3 2024
• Zesheng Ye, PhD student, (Primary Supervisor, awarded on 7 June 2024)
• Yao Liu, PhD student (Primary Supervisor, awarded on 6 June 2024)
• Jing Du, PhD student, (Primary Supervisor, awarded on 19 Feb 2024)
• Jason Emery, PhD student (Secondary Supervisor, awarded on 19 Feb 2024, with Ismet Canbulat and Chengguo Zhang)
• Xiaocong Chen, PhD student (Primary Supervisor, thesis submitted on 1 June 2023)
• Haowei Lou, Master of Philosophy (Primary Supervisor, awarded in July 2023)
• Wei Cui, Master of Philosophy (Primary Supervisor, awarded in May 2023)
• Yun Li, PhD student (Primary Supervisor, awarded on 14 June 2023)
• Simon Garrod, Masters project student
• Gangfeng Cui, Masters project student
• Haodong Lu, Honors project student
• Timothy Pelech, PhD student (Secondary Supervisor with Serkan Saydam, Simit Raval and Andrew Dempster, awarded on 16 June 2023)
• Yuanjiang Cao, PhD student (Primary Supervisor, awarded on 16 June 2023)
• Xuesong Wang, PhD student (Primary Supervisor, awarded on 16 June 2023)
• Can Li, PhD student (Primary Supervisor, awarded on 7 Nov 2022)
• May S. Altulayan, PhD student (Primary Supervisor, awarded on Sept 23), Mar 2018 - Mar 2022
• Usama Salama, PhD student (Primary Supervisor, Part-time, awarded on March 8), May 2016 - Mar 2022
• Feng Yuan, PhD student (Joint Supervisor, awarded on 16 March 2022), Mar 2018 - Mar 2022
• Zhe Liu, PhD student (Primary Supervisor, awarded on Nov 4 2021)
• Zhihui Li, PhD student, from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (Primary Supervisor, awarded on 26 July 2021)
  
• Bozhi Wang, PhD student at UNSW and Data61, from Fudan University, (Co-Supervisor, with Dr. Shiping Chen)
• Lei Bai, PhD student, from Xidian University, (Primary Supervisor, awarded on 25 March 2021)
• Dalin Zhang, PhD student, from University of Chinese Academy of Science (Primary Supervisor, Awarded in April 2020)
• Kaixuan Chen, PhD student, from Xi'an Jiaotong University (Primary Supervisor, awarded on 02 April 2020)
  
• Xiang Zhang, PhD student, from Harbin Institute of Technology, (Primary Supervisor, thesis submitted on 05 Nov 2019)
  
• Manqing Dong, PhD student, from City Univeristy of Hong Kong, (Primary Supervisor, awarded on 05 Dec 2019)
• Shuai Zhang, PhD student, from Nanjing University, (Primary Supervisor, awarded on 20 Nov 2019)
  
• Xiaodong Ning, PhD student at UNSW, from Nanyang Technological University, (Primary Supervisor, awarded on 19/06/2019)
• Qingyang Li, PhD student from Northwestern Polytechnical University University, Sep. 2019 - Mar. 2021
• Xu Wang, PhD student from Tsinghua University, Feb. 2019 -
• Huan Liu, PhD student from Xi'an Jiaotong University, Sept. 2018 -
• Lei Wang, PhD student from Nanjing University, Sept. 2018 -
• Yang Xiao, PhD student from Xidian University, Sept. 2017 -
• Xiaoqing Zhang, PhD student from Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, August 2017 -
• Yuxi Yang, CSC Visiting student from Fudan University, March 2016 - July 2016
• Xigang Yuan, PhD student from Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Sept 2016 -
• Haodong Lu, Honors student, from August 2021
• Terry Zhuo, Undergraduate student, from June 2021 - Dec 2021
• Yi Zhuang, Honors student, from Feb 2021 - Dec 2021
• Zilu Dong, Honors student, from Feb 2021 - Dec 2021
• Qiwen Zhang, Master student, from Feb 2021 - July 2021
• Scott Morris, Bachelor student, Dec. 2020 - June 2021
• Yue Wu, Honours Student, June. 2020 - May 2021
• Xiaocong Chen, "Multi-contextual Collaborative Recommendation", Honors Student, Mar. 2018 -
• Shan Wang, Bachelor, Sept. 2019 -
• Zesheng Ye, Honours Student, Mar. 2019 -
• Chang Ge, Bachelor of Software Engineering Student, Mar. 2019 -
• Guozhao Luo, Master of Computer Science, Mar. 2019 -
• Keith Lai, "Enabling Silent Communications by Deep Decoding Brain Signals", Bachelor of Software Engineering/Commerce Student, Mar. 2018 -
• William Guo, "Citywide Human Mobility Pattern Modelling and Visualisation", Bachelor of Software Engineering/Commerce Student, Mar. 2018 -
• Bohan Yu, "EEG-Based Brain Controlled Smart Phone through Deep Learning", Bachelor Student, Mar. 2018 -

Univeristy of Adelaide (UoA)

• Tran Khoi Nguyen,PhD student at UoA (Co-supervisor, Feb 2015 - Sept. 2018)
• Abdullah Masod O Alfazi, PhD student at UoA (Co-supervisor, S2 2013 - July 2017)
• Wenjie Ruan, PhD student at UoA (Co-supervisor, March 2014 - May 2017)
• Lin Tang, "Detecting Abnormal Daily Activities from Activity-aware Sensor Networks", Master Research Project, 2015 - 2016
• You Mu, "Activity Pattern Discovery via Analysing Sensor Streams in Smart Home", Master Research Project, 2015 - 2016
• Guangyang Qi, "Are You in a Good Mood or Bad Mood? Sensing Emotions via Your Smart Phone", Master Research Project, 2015 - 2016 and Research Assistant, Oct 2016 - Mar 2017.
• Stefan Goiangiuliani,"Indoor Localization via Bluetooth Beacon Propagation", Bachelor CS (Advanced) Research Project, 2015
• Zhen Zhu, "Trust based Social Recommendation", Master Research Project, 2015
• Xiaogang (Norm) Dong, "Building Linked Events from Ubiquitous Sensing Data Over Internet of Things", Honors Research Project, 2015
• Yan Zhou, "A Fall Detection and Prevention System based on Smartphones", Master Research Project, 2015
• Jack Gerrits, "Building Harry Potter's Marauders Map via Internet of Things", Bachelor CS (Advanced) Research Project, 2015. Microsoft Internship 2015
• Leon Chea, "Automatically Detect Social Actions via an Accelerometer in Smartphone", Bachelor CS (Advanced) Research Project, 2015
• Yuchieh (Henry) Yang, "Do I Use My Smartphone Wrong? Automatically Recognize Unhealthy Use of Smartphones", Bachelor CS (Advanced) Research Project, 2015
• Wan Zou, "Unified Human Activity and Sensor Locations Recognition From Wearable Inertial Sensors", Master Research Project, 2014 - 2015
• Andrew Pham, "Preventing False Fire Alarm by Making Things Talking", Bachelor CS (Advanced) Research Project, 2014. Microsoft Internship 2014
• Zhi Yang, "Human Action Recognition via Learning Body-worn Low-level Sensing Data", Master Research Project, 2014
• Qi He, "Exploring Context-aware Location Recommendation with Mining Location-based Social Networks", Master Research Project, 2014
• Bobaker Madi, "A Probabilistic Latent Model for Web Service QoS Prediction", Master Research Project, 2012 - 2013
• Yuguo Li, "Building a RESTful Localization Web Service for Web of Things", Honors Research Project, 2011 - 2012

Visiting Scholars

• Prof. Dongyun Gu, from Shanghai Jiaotong University, Feb 2017
• Dr. Jian Yu, from Auckland University of Technology, Dec 2016
• Dr. Xue Li, from Harbin Institute of Technology, August 2016 -
• Dr. Chunguang Li, from Changzhou Institute of Technology Dec 2016 -
• Dr. Wei Liang, Dec 2016 - Dec 2017