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Supervision

Current Research Associates

  • Yao Liu, PostDoc Research Fellow, January 2024 -
  • Matthew Nolan, PostDoc Research Fellow, July 2023 -
  • Xiaocong Chen, PostDoc Research Fellow, June. 2023 -
  • Yun Li, PostDoc Research Fellow, May. 2023 -
  • Yuanjiang Cao, PostDoc Research Fellow, Mar. 2023 -
  • Zhe Liu, PostDoc Research Fellow, Sept. 2021
  • Zhihui Li, PostDoc Research Fellow, from July 2021 -
  • Shakila Khan Rumi, PostDoc Research Fellow, from May 2021
  • Chaoran Huang, PostDoc Research Fellow, Apr. 2019 -

Current PhD Students

  • Ziyu Zhu, PhD student, UNSW, to be started
  • Daijiao Liu, PhD student, UNSW, to be started
  • Mingsong Li, PhD student, UNSW, to be started
  • Zhixian Li, PhD student, UNSW, T2 2024
  • Chongyang Zhao, PhD student, UNSW, T1 2024
  • Taylor Qin, PhD student, UNSW, T1 2024
  • Li He, PhD student, University of Sydney, T1 2024
  • Chao Wang, PhD student, UTS, T1 2024
  • Haowei Lou, PhD student, UNSW, Aug. 2023
  • Xiaoxuan Li, PhD student, UNSW, started in June 2023
  • Rui Liu, PhD student, from Monash University, started in Feb 2023
  • Haodong Lu, PhD student, from UNSW, started in T3 2023
  • Huiyi Wang, PhD student, from UNSW, started in Feb 2023
  • Jaymari Chua, PhD student, from University of Phillippines, started in Apr. 2022
  • Shiyi Yang, PhD student, from UNSW, started in Apr. 2022
  • Saurav Jha, PhD student, from University of St Andrews, started in Feb 2022
  • Ruoyu Wang, PhD student, from University of Hong Kong, started in Feb 2022
  • Chengkai Huang, PhD student, from Harbin Engineering University, started in Nov. 2021
  • Siyu Wang, PhD student, from University of Sydney, August 2021
  • Xinshu Li, PhD student, from Fudan University, August 2021
  • Xiaoxin Ye, PhD student, from UNSW, Mar. 2021
  • Hongtao Huang, PhD student, from South China University of Technology, Mar. 2021
  • Sam Dixon, PhD student, from University of Western Australia, Feb. 2021
  • Jingcheng Li, PhD student, from UNSW,Feb. 2021

Current Research Project Students

  • Daijiao Liu, Masters student, from T1 2024
  • Andy Lau, Masters student, from T2 2023

Alumni

Univeristy of New South Wales (UNSW)

  • Guanglin Zhou, PhD student, (Primary Supervisor, awarded on 19 Oct 2024)
  • Le Pan, PhD student, (Primary Supervisor, awarded on 19 Oct 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