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

• Accurate and efficient data integration

  Team: Ben Rubinstein, Shen Wang

• Advanced Process Querying

  Team: Artem Polyvyanyy, Marcello La Rosa, Raffaele Conforti

• Adversarial Machine Learning

  Team: Ben Rubinstein, Christopher Leckie, Tansu Alpcan, Sarah Erfani, Yi Han

• 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

• Computational problems in glaucoma diagnosis, monitoring and understanding

  Team: Andrew Turpin, Phillip Bedggood

• Decision Support with Uncertain Data

  Team: Uwe Aickelin

• Differential Privacy in Statistical Machine Learning

  Team: Ben Rubinstein

• Digital commemoration

  Team: Martin Gibbs

• Dynamics and Control of Infectious Diseases in Structured Populations

  Team: Nic Geard

• Effective software vulnerability detection for web services

  Team: Peter Stuckey, Harald Sondergaard, Peter Schachte

• 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

• Information Security Management

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

• Instance models for covering and clustering problems

  Team: Anthony Wirth

• Learning from the good and the bad: Diagnosis and prediction of Business Process Deviances

  Team: Marcello La Rosa, Artem Polyvyanyy

• Miniaturised near infrared spectroscopy

  Team: Jorge Goncalves, Vassilis Kostakos, Eduardo Velloso

• QoS-Oriented Cloud Workflow Engine

  Team: Rajkumar Buyya

• Reconciling Security and Performance for Concurrent Programs

  Team: Toby Murray

• Sketches in search and retrieval structures

  Team: Anthony Wirth, Justin Zobel

• Social Computing

  Team: Jorge Goncalves

• 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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