Graduate research programs

Research degrees

Students who have a deep interest in computing and information systems, and who have a strong foundation in the computing disciplines through previous study, are invited to apply for entry to the Master of Philosophy (MPhil) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degrees.

Visit the Melbourne School of Engineering website to find out more about:

• Course information
• Entry requirements
• Scholarships: eligibility and application dates
• How to apply

Master of Philosophy (Engineering)

Doctor of Philosophy (Engineering)

Finding a supervisor

Researcher profiles

View our People page for individual staff contact information and research topic areas, or contact staff to arrange a discussion: People.

Research projects recruiting students

• Robust Datamining

  Team: Uwe Aickelin

• Advanced Process Querying

  Team: Artem Polyvyanyy, Marcello La Rosa, Raffaele Conforti

• AI language processing for disambiguation and clarification of intent

  Team: Adrian Pearce

• Automated Process Model Repair

  Team: Artem Polyvyanyy, Marcello La Rosa, Raffaele Conforti

• Classical data structures vs. learned approaches

  Team: Renata Borovica-Gajic

• Cloudbus

  Team: Rajkumar Buyya

• CloudSim: A Framework for Modeling and Simulation of Cloud Computing Infrastructures and Services

  Team: Rajkumar Buyya

• Clustering, covering, and computational geometry in the MPC model

  Team: Anthony Wirth, Junhao Gan

• Cognition-Aware Computing

  Team: Tilman Dingler

• Computational problems in glaucoma diagnosis, monitoring and understanding

  Team: Andrew Turpin, Phillip Bedggood

• Connected transport system

  Team: Majid Sarvi, majid sarvi

• Critical Media - Building Technologies for Media Literacy and Depolarisation

  Team: Tilman Dingler

• Crowd dynamics

  Team: Majid Sarvi

• Decision Support with Uncertain Data

  Team: Uwe Aickelin

• Deep symbolic learning and planning

  Team: Adrian Pearce

• Digital commemoration

  Team: Martin Gibbs

• Digital Emotion Regulation

  Team: Greg Wadley, Jorge Goncalves, Vassilis Kostakos, Wally Smith

• Digital technology and artificial intelligence for (youth) mental health

  Team: Simon D'Alfonso, Greg Wadley, Reeva Lederman

• Dynamics and Control of Infectious Diseases in Structured Populations

  Team: Nic Geard

• Effective Browsing Interfaces for Digital Libraries

  Team: George Buchanan

• Emerging technologies for enrichment in old age

  Team: Jenny Waycott

• eSports in Australia

  Team: Martin Gibbs, Robert Fordyce (Melbourne Networked Society Institute)

• Eye tracking for intelligent user interfaces

  Team: Eduardo Velloso

• Fog Computing

  Team: Rajkumar Buyya

• Geographic knowledge base

  Team: Rui Zhang

• Green Cloud: Energy-Efficient Cloud Computing

  Team: Rajkumar Buyya

• iFogSim: A Toolkit for Modeling and Simulation of Resource Management Techniques in Internet of Things, Edge and Fog Computing Environments

  Team: Rajkumar Buyya

• Improving data quality in crowdsourcing

  Team: Jorge Goncalves

• Improving Overviews for Digital Collections

  Team: George Buchanan

• Information security management

  Team: Atif Ahmad, Dr Atif Ahmad, Dr Sean Maynard, Dr Shanton Chang, Dr Moneer Alshaikh

• Miniaturised near infrared spectroscopy

  Team: Jorge Goncalves, Vassilis Kostakos, Eduardo Velloso

• Novel Interaction Techniques for Virtual and Augmented Reality

  Team: Eduardo Velloso

• Novel machine-learning approaches to create a structurally accurate virtual model of the heart cell

  Team: Vijayaraghavan Rajagopal

• QoS-Oriented Cloud Workflow Engine

  Team: Rajkumar Buyya

• Reconciling Security and Performance for Concurrent Programs

  Team: Toby Murray

• Resource allocation for attention in the context of intent (in both cooperative and adversarial settings)

  Team: Adrian Pearce

• Security Analytics

  Team: Christopher Leckie

• Situated Learning for Collaboration across Language Barriers

  Team: Greg Wadley, Trevor Cohn

• Smart Hospital

  Team: Vassilis Kostakos

• Social Computing

  Team: Jorge Goncalves, Prof Vassilis Kostakos

• Software-Defined Cloud Computing

  Team: Rajkumar Buyya

• Ubiquitous Computing & Internet of Things

  Team: Vassilis Kostakos, Vassilis Kostakos Jorge Goncalves Eduardo Velloso Greg Wadley

View full list of Computing and Information Systems research projects

Doctoral Colloquium

The CIS Doctoral Colloquium is an annual, one day research conference for research higher degree students in the School of Computing and Information Systems.

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