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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
Geomechanical-numerical modelling of basin-scale CO2 storage
Develop innovative geomechanical models that will provide rapid assessments of the potential for reservoir deformation, including induced seismicity, during geological storage of CO2.
- Supervisor
- Dr Mojtaba Rajabi
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Earth sciences, Engineering
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
Development of new cost-effective cast irons for metallurgy processing
Develop new cost-effective cast irons to achieve the same or better grinding results.
- Supervisor
- Professor Mingxing Zhang and Professor Yonogjun Peng
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Engineering
Towards better understanding the properties of pollutants that can cross the blood brain barrier using assays and/or animal studies
Understand which environmental pollutants are likely to cross the blood-brain barrier through the use of assays such as PAMPA-BBB and the analysis of brain samples from animal studies and/or post-mortem human samples.
- Supervisor
- Dr Xianyu Wang and Dr Ian Zammit
- Location
- UQ Dutton Park
- Research areas
- Biological sciences, Chemical sciences, Environmental sciences, Health sciences
Assessing exposure to bushfire smoke and associated health risks
Determine the chemical compositions of bushfire smoke, how these emitted chemicals penetrate into nearby homes, and the association between acute bushfire smoke exposure and adverse health effects.
- Supervisor
- Dr Xianyu Wang and Dr Dwan Vilcins
- Location
- Dutton Park
- Research areas
- Environmental sciences, Health sciences
Investigation of Railway Studs and Squats
Develop a generalised validated mathematical model for rail studs, and in particular to examine how this mechanism differs from that for rail squats.
- Supervisor
- Professor Paul Meehan and Dr Aditya Khanna
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Engineering, Mathematical sciences, Physical sciences
Machine learning for the generation and distribution of synthetic electronic medical records (EMRs) representative of the Australian population
Develop a novel software and data platform, comprising nationally representative synthetic EMR data, to enable safe and ethical Australian innovation in clinical artificial intelligence.
- Supervisor
- Associate Professor Sebastiano Barbieri, Dr Steffen Bollmann and Dr Teerapong Leelanupab
- Location
- St Lucia
- Research areas
- Health sciences, Information and computing sciences