Honours and Minor Thesis projects

Description:

Acute patient length of stay is the leading contributor to hospital costs in Australia. The Victorian Auditor General has reported that ≈145,000 extra bed-days could be made available if all hospitals managed length of stay more efficiently. Such optimisation of length of stay could translate into $125 million in annual savings for Victorian taxpayers.

Become part of the Monash Immersive Analytics Lab, and explore exciting new ways to visualise, interact, and analyse all types of data with VR and AR! We are looking for enthusiastic students to work on immersive visualisation using latest technology, such as head-mounted displays with integrated eye-trackers (Microsoft HoloLens and others), gesture recognition devices, and large wall displays.

This project is an exciting opportunity to work on a multidisciplinary project exploring new and immersive visual communication of complex ecosystems. You will work independently on your honours/minor thesis as part of a wider research project collaboration between human-centred computing experts and water engineer experts in engineering and chemistry. 

This project is an exciting opportunity to work on a multidisciplinary project exploring new communication of complex ecosystems. You will work independently on the specific thesis as part of a wider research project involving collaboration between human-centred computing experts and water engineering experts in engineering and chemistry.

Thanks to the widespread deployment of smart meters, high volumes of residential load data have been collected and made available to both consumers and utility companies. Smart meter data open up tremendous opportunities, and various analytical techniques have been developed to analyse smart meter data using machine learning. This project will provide a new angle toward energy data analytics and aims to discover the consumption patterns, lifestyle, and behavioural changes of consumers.

Autonomous electric vehicle (EV) fleets are emerging as an effective way to solve environmental problems and reduce commute costs in smart cities. Due to the complex spatiotemporal behaviors of passengers and their trips, the unmanaged electric charging demand from EV fleets will significantly impact the existing transportation and electric power infrastructure. Reliable charging networks and charging strategies for EV fleets are the prerequisites to the successful adoption of autonomous EV fleets.

We aim to take the first step to

The world’s energy markets are transforming, and more renewable energy is integrated into the electric energy market. The intermittent renewable supply leads to unexpected demand-supply mismatches and results in highly fluctuating energy prices. Energy arbitrage aims to strategically operate energy devices to leverage the temporal price spread to smooth out the price differences in the market, which also generates some revenue.

This project focuses on modeling heart rate data captured via FitBit Sense devices worn by team members in collaborative situations such as supervision meetings, group teaching, or nursing simulation scenarios. The primary goal is to identify stressful situations or similar events by analysing heart rate variations.

This project focuses on the automated classification of teachers' activities and co-teaching behaviors using positioning data captured via sensors and microphone data. The main task involves developing and applying machine learning techniques to analyse multimodal datasets, combining positioning and speech data to identify and categorize various teaching activities. By leveraging large language models (LLMs), Generative AI (GenAI), and Natural Language Processing (NLP), the project aims to extract features that enhance the accuracy and effectiveness of these classification tasks.

I am seeking students doing Honours or a minor thesis in a Masters interested in working on designing Learning Analytics innovations to study classroom proxemics by analysing and visualising indoor positioning data (along with other sources of data such as audio, physiological activity and characteristics of the students).