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How inequality in the workplace shapes workers’ motivation, engagement, and well-being
Examine how and why inequality in the workplace such as executive pay (eg CEO-worker pay ratio) impacts group/organizational functioning and the social contract at work and in society.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Niklas Steffens
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Psychology
Surface Engineering for Superconducting Quantum Devices
Identify new strategies to reduce decoherence in quantum computer components using an interdisciplinary approach based on quantum physics, materials science, and engineering.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Arkady Fedorov
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Physical sciences
Developing novel information decoding and tracking methods to study brain and cognition
Develop new computational methods for decoding and tracking information in the brain. These methods, which have applications to multiple neuroimaging data, deepens our insights about the brain.
- Supervisor
- Dr Hamid Karimi-Rouzbahani
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Engineering, Information and computing sciences, Psychology
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