Honours and Masters project

The last two decades have witnessed a sharp rise in the amount of data available to business, government and science. Data visualisations play a crucial role in exploring and understanding this data. They provide an initial grasp of the data and allow the assessment of findings of data analytics techniques. This reliance on visualisations creates a severe accessibility issue for blind people (by whom we mean people who cannot use graphics even when magnified).

As cities face unprecedented growth, the need for tools that can integrate diverse knowledge sources ranging from geospatial data to the nuanced intuition of urban planners is critical. This research will explore how Bayesian Networks can be adapted to serve as configurable, transparent models that empower decision-makers to weigh alternatives involving complex factors such as development yield, urban zoning, locality to services and infrastructure capacity.

Communication networks show interaction between people over time, and are key to the identification of criminal networks and criminal activity. This project will investigate how future events might be able to be predicted, based on dynamic graphs representing prior interpersonal communications. The project will consider (a) how Graph Neural Networks can best be used for this machine learning task; (b) how visualisation techniques can best depict both known-past and predicted-future events.

Project Description

Teamwork is a big part of university life, but not all teams work smoothly. Students often face issues such as uneven contributions, unclear communication, or members falling behind. Teaching staff receive a large amount of peer feedback. But the information is often dispersed across multiple reports and can be time-consuming to interpret—particularly in large cohorts. A system that could automatically identify which teams are struggling, and why, would allow educators to offer timely, targeted support.

Organisations continuously face cyberattacks that unfold over multiple stages, often generating vast volumes of intrusion alerts. While modern intrusion detection systems can flag suspicious activities, they typically produce fragmented and low-level alerts that make it difficult for security analysts to understand the overall attack progression and attacker strategies. Manual analysis of these alerts is time-consuming and does not scale to fast-evolving network environments.

This project examines how films produced in Asian markets perform in terms of commercial success and critical recognition using real-world industry data. Students will compile a dataset of films from regions such as Hong Kong, China, South Korea, and Southeast Asia, drawing on publicly available sources to analyse indicators such as production budget, box office revenue, streaming platform release, and awards. Using quantitative data analysis methods, the project aims to identify patterns and factors associated with successful film outcomes.

Multiple master thesis/honour projects on MLLM/ human understanding are available.

Benefits: we aim for publication at top conferences and journals. You will have chance for full PhD scholarship. For those working hard, paid RA opportunities will also be provided.

requirement: WAM>80 and high self-motivation 

Inclusive learning environments are essential for ensuring that all students can fully participate and succeed. Neurodivergent learners—including those with ADHD, autism, dyslexia, and other cognitive differences—often navigate university settings that were not designed with their learning profiles in mind. Challenges related to feedback interpretation, cognitive load, communication, and assessment design can create barriers that impact learning, confidence, and wellbeing.

Autoregressive moving average (ARMA) models remain a competitive tool for forecasting low signal-to-noise ratio time series, due to their flexibility, low complexity and physical plausibility. They predict the next observation in a time series as a linear combination of a number of previous observations as well as a number of hidden (latent) random innovations. The AutoARIMA package remains a staple benchmarking tool against which forecasting techniques must be compared.

This project seeks to explore and trial new map morphing representations for seeing river water quality data sets more effectively over time and space. 

We are particularly focusing on the Melbourne and the region of Victoria, but expect the visualisation to be applicable to any geographical region.