The Vacation Research Experience Scheme (VRES) provides eligible students with the opportunity to participate in a research project. If you're interested in research and thinking of pursuing a research degree the scheme is an opportunity to see if research is right for you. Further information about the scheme is available on HiQ.
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Monte-Carlo Simulation of Ionising Radiation for Medical Applications
Ionising radiation can be used for both the diagnosis and treatment of cancer through the use of medical imaging and radiotherapy. A crucial part of the optimal use of these techniques is a detailed understanding of the transport of the radiation at multiple scales e.g. dose to tissues, organs, and ultimately the cellular level. The project will make use of established monte-carlo simulation codes to model the production and detection of ionising radiation as well as interactions and dose to tissues.
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- Faculty of Science
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- School of Chemistry and Physics
- Research centre(s)
- Centre for Biomedical Technologies
Comparative Assessment of Lepidopteran insect Pests
Project background/overviewIn our lab, we explore novel technologies to provide effective plant protection against important agricultural pests. Two lepidopteran insect pests, the Cotton Bollworm (established in Australia) and the Fall Armyworm (only recently invaded Australia), feed on over 200 plant species and are notoriously difficult to control with current technologies.Our research focuses on developing new strategies to manage these lepidopteran pests. During our investigations, we observed variations in their life cycle, strength, and response to different treatments indicating that the …
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- Faculty of Science
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- School of Biology and Environmental Science
- Research centre(s)
- Centre for Agriculture and the Bioeconomy
Praeclarus process-data quality framework
Praeclarus is an open-source software framework that aims to facilitate data pre-processing for process mining. Process mining is specialised data mining focusing on process-data. It is of high interest to industry, with the market doubling every two years (e.g., increasing from $550M in 2020 to $1,8B in 2023). This market increase has meant that big companies like Microsoft, SAP, and IBM are acquiring process mining vendors such is Minit, Signavio, and myInvenio.Recent process mining surveys show that more than 60% …
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- Faculty of Science
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- School of Information Systems
Sport AI
Videos of sport activities are widely available at large scales. AI and its sub-fields, especially computer vision and machine learning, have a great potential to analyse, understand and extract useful information from these videos.This project aims at using AI and its subfields in computer vision and machine learning to develop techniques for analysing sport videos to extract intelligence for players and coaches.
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- Faculty of Engineering
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- School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics
Physics-informed machine learning
Recent advances in computer vision have demonstrated superhuman performance on a variety of visual tasks including image classification, object detection, human pose estimation and human analysis. However, current approaches for achieving these results center around models that purely learn from large-scale datasets with highly complex neural network architectures. Despite the impressive performance, pure data-driven models usually lack robustness, interpretability, and adherence to physical constraints or commonsense reasoning.As in the real world, the visual world of computer vision is governed by …
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- Faculty of Engineering
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- School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics
Quantum Machine Learning
Quantum machine learning is the integration of quantum algorithms within machine learning programs with great potential to solve complex problems. For instance, Google’s Sycamore processor performs in 200 seconds a task that would require 10, 000 years using a classical computer.
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- Faculty of Engineering
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- School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics
Developing Smart Device to Improve CPR Outcomes
There are around 20,000 cardiac arrests in Australia each year. The chance of survival with cardiac arrest is currently very low, and is dependent on the quality of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) received during cardiac arrest. Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) sensors can non-invasively measure blood-oxygen in the brain and would be ideal for measuring the quality of CPR of a person in cardiac arrest. This project is supported by internal funding.
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- Faculty of Engineering
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- School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics
- Research centre(s)
- Centre for Biomedical Technologies
Centre for Biomedical Technologies
Soliton solutions of the KdV equation revisited in the complex plane
Weakly nonlinear waves are described by dispersive pdes, such as the famous Korteweg–De Vries (KdV) equation, which is covered in MXB325. These models have applications to a variety of phenomena in physics, including the propagation of water waves, but they are also interesting from a mathematical perspective because they can have special properties.While the KdV equation and its variants are well-studied in the literature, a new approach is to attempt to learn about wave propagation by investigating solution behaviour in …
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- Faculty of Science
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- School of Mathematical Sciences
Burgers' equation complexified
Burgers' equation is a nonlinear second-order pde (partial differential equation) that acts as a model in fluid mechanics and other systems such as traffic flow. This pde is special because we can solve it exactly using a Cole-Hopf transformation, as described in MXB325, whereas most second-order nonlinear pdes do not have exact solutions. Therefore much is known about solutions to Burgers' equation.This project involves revisiting Burgers' equation but allowing the spatial variable to be a complex number, instead of a …
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- Faculty of Science
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- School of Mathematical Sciences
BIOM07 Exploring allele-specific effect of a coding SNP in prostate cancer using CRISPR
Prostate cancer (PCa) is the most heritable of all major cancers, with 57% driven by genetic factors. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified a PCa-risk associated non-synonymous rs17632542 (Ile163Thr substitution) single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), in the crucial kallikrein-3 (KLK3) gene. Prostate-specific antigen (encoded by KLK3) is the standard biomarker for PCa. Our fine-mapping studies through the PRACTICAL PCa consortium in 82,591 PCa cases and 61,213 matched controls, reported, this coding rs17632542 SNP significantly predisposes patients to present with aggressive PCa …
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- Faculty of Health
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- School of Biomedical Sciences
- Research centre(s)
- Centre for Genomics and Personalised Health
NURS07 WOUNDED – Improving WOUND outcomEs for people with Dementia
Wound care research informing EB practice and clinical guidelines has largely excluded older adults with dementia. Healthcare professionals (HCPs) in aged care facilities are comprised mainly of nurses and carers, who have been identified as lacking EB wound care knowledge and skills. Thus, there is an urgent need for EB resources to be translated to this specific population to guide wound care practices for older adults with dementia.The issue of wound care in aged care is an urgent need as …
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- Faculty of Health
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- School of Nursing
- Research centre(s)
- Centre for Healthcare Transformation
NURS10 International interprofessional wound care Master class
IPE occurs when two or more professions learn with, from and about each other to improve collaboration and the quality of care (ANMAC, 2012). It is necessary for future health practitioners to learn with, from and about each other with the goal of improving health outcomes through more effective IPE (World Health Organisation, 2010). The preparedness of health professional graduates to engage in interprofessional practice has been identified as essential to designing and delivering health services that is person centred …
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- Faculty of Health
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- School of Nursing
- Research centre(s)
- Centre for Healthcare Transformation
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