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Microbial nitrogen enhancement promote mined land sustainable rehabilitation
Develop impact-driven technology in the mining industry, to boost the biological N supply for nurturing native plants during the critical phases of mined land rehabilitation.
- Supervisor
- Dr Fang You and Professor Longbin Huang
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Environmental sciences
On Transferability of Machine Learning Models
Improve safety, transferability, and robustness in deep learning models. This project will be part the Data Science Research Group at the University of Queensland located in Brisbane.
- Supervisor
- Dr Mahsa Baktashmotlagh
- Location
- UQ St Lucia Campus
- Research areas
- Information and computing sciences
Wellbeing and productivity in metricised employee performance systems
Explore the impact that digitised HR technologies, in particular metricised performance measurement and metric systems, are having on the workforce.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Martin Edwards
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Psychology
Privacy-Preservation with Large Language Models (LLMs)
The advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) has revolutionized natural language processing, allowing users to prompt queries and receive tailored responses across various domains, from generating text and code to performing tasks. You will contribute by proposing strategies that can mitigate these privacy and security concerns.
- Supervisor
- Dr Priyanka Singh and Professor Xue Li
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Engineering, Information and computing sciences, Mathematical sciences
Business and democracy: Power, profit and participation
Explain how business influences democracy.
- Supervisor
- Professor Daniel Nyberg
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Commerce, management, tourism and services, Human society, Philosophy and religious studies
Burden and Outcomes of Diabetes Hospitalisations
Investigate the national burden and outcomes of diabetes-related hospitalisations using patient-level linked population-wide data for the first time in Australia.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Isuru Ranasinghe
- Location
- The Prince Charles Hospital Campus
- Research areas
- Biomedical and clinical sciences
Understanding Human Intention and Performance
Develop algorithms to automatically analyse human sports quality and performance. It will also generate analysis reports to help human to improve their daily exercise efficiency and health conditions.
- Supervisor
- Dr Xin Yu
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Engineering, Information and computing sciences
Novel workflow for pan-genome-driven gene exploration, functional annotation and metabolic reconstruction
Develop new bioinformatic approaches to better leverage information within the pan-genome to improve the consistency and accuracy of gene-calling and functional annotation across a genre of organisms and then faithfully capture this information in metabolic reconstructions.
- Supervisor
- Dr Tim McCubbin
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Engineering, Information and computing sciences, Mathematical sciences
The Relational Account and multiple-element displays
Test Associate Professor Becker's relational account of attention and eye movements in multi-element displays.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Stefanie Becker
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Biological sciences, Biomedical and clinical sciences, Psychology
Control System Design for Hybrid Renewable Power Plants
Develop innovative solutions for hybrid renewable power plants to provide system strength and inertia support, and assist more large-scale renewable energy integration.
- Supervisor
- Dr Feifei Bai and Associate Professor Ruifeng Yan
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Engineering