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.
QUT offers a diverse range of student topics for VRES. Search to find a topic that interests you.
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Endoscopy Camera Pose Estimation and 3D Organ Reconstruction
Gastro-intestinal (GI) cancers affect over 28 million patients annually, representing about 26% of the global cancer incidence and 35% of all cancer-related deaths (American Cancer Society, 2018). Besides, GI cancer is the second deadliest cancer type with reported 3.4 million GI related deaths globally in 2018.Endoscopy plays a crucial role in diagnosing and managing GI disorders by providing detailed internal anatomical visualisation. Endoscopic procedures have become a cornerstone in minimally invasive surgery, offering patients reduced trauma and quicker recovery times. …
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- Faculty of Engineering
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- School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics
Power Infrastructure Monitoring in Natural Environments using Airborne Lidar
Monitoring power assets is crucial for maintaining the safety and reliability of power infrastructure, particularly in natural environments. Traditional methods like manual inspections and ground surveys are often inefficient, time-consuming, and costly. Without automation, these approaches are susceptible to human error, offer limited coverage, and struggle to keep up with the dynamic nature of natural environments.Lidar (Light Detection and Ranging) technology provides efficient solutions through 3D point cloud data for various monitoring applications. In the power industry, monitoring power lines, …
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- Faculty of Engineering
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- School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics
Understanding "Where am I" under the canopy using advanced AI techniques
Navigating through forests where every path looks the same poses a challenge for robot localisation in these natural environments. Robot localisation, i.e. determining position and orientation, is crucial for autonomous tasks like monitoring, exploration and critical search and rescue operations in GPS-degraded areas. Lack of distinctive features and environmental changes lead to potential errors and often failures if relying on model-based techniques. To address these issues, this project aims to incorporate deep-learning based approaches that combine information from different sources, …
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- Faculty of Engineering
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- School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics
The impact of lithium-ion battery fires on light gauge steel framed buildings
This project investigates the effect of lithium-ion battery fires (e.g. e-scooters) on the fire resistance of load bearing light gauge steel-framed buildings. This desktop review will be conducted on lithium-ion battery types and materials, fire intensity, fire resistance of buildings, and building performance from fire incidents worldwide, etc. Based on the review, heat transfer models will be developed for possible building fire scenarios (two or three case studies) incorporating lithium-ion battery fire intensity (i.e. maximum temperature and fire duration). The …
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- Faculty of Engineering
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- School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Development of foam concrete for fire resistant walling elements
The need for fire safe buildings has emerged due to the increased bushfire attacks in many parts of the world. The walls are considered important as they act as barriers to fire propagation. This project will investigate the fire resistant performance of blocks made of foam concrete to construct internal and external wall panels for buildings against standard fire and bushfire resistance. The performance will be summarised based on the elevated thermal properties of foam concrete at the material level …
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- Faculty of Engineering
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- School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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- Centre for Materials Science
Bushfire building risk assessment using advanced technologies
Bushfires often have detrimental impacts on both the natural and built environments. Although current building standards are in place to reduce the influence bushfire has on new buildings, existing and older residential properties are more susceptible to bushfire ignition. Identifying and restoring the most vulnerable features in existing properties can assist in reducing the property damage caused by bushfires. Implementing new technology into these risk assessments of existing bushfire-prone properties can reduce the time required and lower costs. This study …
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- Faculty of Engineering
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- School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Discovery of Organizational Model from Process Execution Data using Biclustering
Process mining is an emerging discipline that aims at developing novel methods to discover knowledge from process execution data (stored in the format of event logs) and support evidence-based business process improvement. Specifically, process mining can be used for the task of discovering organizational models, providing insights on organizational structures and human resource (employee) performance. At the core of this task is cluster analysis, with challenges unique to process execution data.Most state-of-the-art process mining techniques address this task through first …
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- Faculty of Science
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- School of Information Systems
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- Centre for Data Science
Mapping Indigenous Australian Knowledge to Remote Sensing
Background: Remote sensing the is process of measuring an object without direct contract and is usually applied in satellite or drone images. These images can be used to produce maps, which can identify water bodies, flooding, vegetation, deforestation, urban development and many other applications. The science behind the satellites and maps produces several analogies between land, space and sea with the lens of Indigenous Australian. For example, in terms ofScience: Stars can be used as a compass or as a …
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- Faculty of Science
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- School of Computer Science
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- Centre for Data Science
CupidGTP or Love Bytes: A Turning Test in the World of GenAI Matchmaking
Background: Since the release of ChatGTP 3 there has been a significant interest in the output of General Artificial Intelligence (GenAI systems), which can be confused with the language of a real human. While the veracity of GenAI systems is due to their training data (and pseudo-randomness), people are using it for many things, such as relationships, health advice sometimes even cheating on university assignments.This project would like to test how a GenAI system will work in the area of …
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- Faculty of Science
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- School of Computer Science
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- Centre for Data Science
Software and firmware for AMD-Xilinx's Zynq System on Chip (SoC)
Field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) offer designers of electronic systems the flexibility of reprogrammability with the speed advantages of dedicated hardware. Each new generation of FPGAs become faster, more powerful and integrates new features. Of particular interest in this project is AMD's Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC. An FPGA at its core, it is also a system-on-chip (SoC), meaning that it incorporates a microprocessor and its typical interfaces, along with a wide-bandwidth radio-frequency (RF) subsystem. An RFSoC opens up exciting possibilities for …
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- Faculty of Engineering
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- School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics
Characterization of waterglass made using agricultural waste for use in geopolymer concrete
We have a current PhD research focused on an investigation into the use of sugar cane bagasse ash in geopolymer concrete. The subject of this VRES is notably out of her research scope as it has a lot to do with chemistry (rather than structural engineering). While I have discussed with the PhD student that chemistry part is outside her scope (due to time constraints), having a VRES to assist would be tremendously good for the overall project. The topic …
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- Faculty of Engineering
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- School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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- Centre for Materials Science
Centre for a Waste-Free World
Application of Artificial Intelligence in seismic vulnerability assessment of buildings
This research topic is an area of structural engineering within the general theme of "resilient built environment". While there has been related funded projects in the past, there is none currently. The project is to be done within the School of CEE.
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- Faculty of Engineering
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- School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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