Completed Students
- Ph.D. S2/2010-2014 Shen Ren
- Title: On Psycho-physiological Player-centric Game Experiences
- Principal Supervisor: Hussein Abbass
- Co Supervisor: Michael Barlow
- Ph.D. S2/2011-2014 Bing Wang
- Title: Autonomous Hypothesis Generation for Knowledge Discovery in Continuous Domains
- Joint Supervisors: Hussein Abbass and Kathryn Merrick
- Part-time DIT S2/2008-2014 Dr. Peter Hoek
- Title: Visualisation and Encoding of Social Networking/Interactions in Stories
- Principal Supervisor: Hussein Abbass
- Co Supervisor: Michael Frater and Mike Sweeney (DSTO)
- Ph.D. 2010-2013 Dr. George Leu
- Title: A “Society of Mind” agent architecture: A case study to modelling human behaviour in road traffic
- Principal Supervisor: Hussein Abbass
- Co Supervisor: Neville Curtis (DSTO)
- Ph.D. 2010-2013Dr. Heba Zaki Mohamed El-Fiqi
- Title: Detection of translator stylometry using pair-wise comparative classification and network motif mining
- Principal Supervisor: Hussein Abbass
- Co Supervisor: Eleni Petraki
- Ph.D. 2009-2013 Dr. Kun Wang
- Title: Human-Guided Evolutionary-based Linguistics Approach for Automatic Story Generation
- Principal Supervisor: Hussein Abbass
- Co Supervisor: Vinh Bui
- Ph.D. 2008-2012 Dr. Wenjing Zhao
- Title: On Dynamic Capacity-Demand Balance in the Terminal Area Using Multi-objective Co-evolutionary Computational Red Teaming
- Principal Supervisor: Hussein Abbass
- Co Supervisor: Axel Bender (DSTO)
- Ph.D. 2008-2012 Dr. Shir Li Wang
- Title: Adversarial Learning through Red Teaming: From Data to Behaviour
- Principal Supervisor: Hussein Abbass
- Co Supervisor: Chris Lokan and Kamran Shafi
- Ph.D. 2008-2012 Dr. Amr Ghoneim
- Title: On Competency of Go Players: A Computational Approach
- Principal Supervisor: Hussein Abbass
- Co Supervisor: Daryl Essam
- Ph.D. 2008-2012 Dr. Van Viet Pham
- Title: Optimisation Algorithms and Heuristics for Aircraft User-Preferred Routes and their Environmental Impact
- Principal Supervisor: Hussein Abbass
- Co Supervisor: Chris Lokan and Sameer Alam
- Ph.D. 2008-2011 Dr. Jiangjun Tang
- Title: Dynamic Sectorization of Air Traffic using Multi-objective Clustering
- Principal Supervisor: Hussein Abbass
- Co Supervisor: Chris Lokan and Sameer Alam
- Part-time Ph.D. 2005-2011 Dr. Kuang-Yuan (Steven) Chen
- Title: A Methodology for Training XCS Agents to Optimise Team and Individual Performance on Path Planning Problems
- Principal Supervisor: Peter Lindsay (UQ)
- Co Supervisor: Hussein Abbass
- Ph.D. 2008-2011 Dr. Hendra Gunawan Harno [Thesis]
- Title: Evolutionary Method in the Design of Robust Control Systems
- Principal Supervisor: Ian R. Petersen
- Co Supervisor: Hussein Abbass
- MSc. 2008-2010 Murad Hossain [Thesis]
- Title: Identification of Hard Instances and Backbones in 3-SAT using Network Theory and Network Guided Decomposition
- Principal Supervisor: Hussein Abbass
- Co Supervisor: Chris Lokan
- CDF Program EE Honor Thesis 2009 Leon Purton
- Title: ADS-B Aircraft Trajectory Tracking in the Presence of Spoofing
- Principal Supervisor: Hussein Abbass
- Co Supervisor: Sameer Alam
- Ph.D. 2005-2008 Dr. Kamran Shafi (Received The Stephen Fester Prize for the most outstanding PhD thesis in Information Technology, UNSW@ADFA, University of New South Wales, 2008) [Thesis]
- Title: An Online and Adaptive Signature Learning Approach for Intrusion Detection Using Learning Classifier Systems
- Principal Supervisor: Hussein Abbass
- Co Supervisor: Weibing Zhou
- Ph.D. 2005-2008 Dr. Sameer Alam (Awarded the Victorian Fresh Scientist Prize for 2008) [Thesis]
- Title: Evolving Complexity Towards Risk: A Massive Scenario Generation Approach for Evaluating Advanced Air Traffic Management Concepts
- Principal Supervisor: Hussein Abbass
- Co Supervisor: Michael Barlow and Peter Lindsay (UQ)
- Ph.D. 2004-2008 Dr. Helen Dam (Received The Ria de Groot Prize for the most outstanding female post-graduate student, UNSW@ADFA, University of New South Wales for 2008) [Thesis]
- Title: A scalable evolutionary learning classifier system for knowledge discovery in stream data mining
- Principal Supervisor: Hussein Abbass
- Co Supervisor: Chris Lokan
- M.Sc. 2006-2008 Dr. Ayman Ghoneim [Thesis]
- Title: Local-global coupling in strategy games: extracting signatures and unfolding dynamics
- Principal Supervisor: Michael Barlow
- Co Supervisor: Hussein Abbass
- Part-time Ph.D. S1/2003-2008 Dr. Jennifer Badham [Thesis]
- Title: The Role of social network properties on the impact of direct contact epidemics
- Principal Supervisor: Hussein Abbass
- Co Supervisor: Robert Stocker
- Ph.D. 2004-2007 A/Prof. Lam Thu Bui (Received The Stephen Fester Prize for the most outstanding PhD thesis in Information Technology, UNSW@ADFA, University of New South Wales for 2007) [Thesis]
- Title: The Role of Communication Messages and Explicit Niching in Distributed Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimization
- Principal Supervisor: Hussein Abbass
- Co Supervisor: Daryl Essam, David Green (Monash) and Kalyanmoy Deb (IT Kanpur)
- Ph.D. 2003-2007 Dr. Ang Yang [Thesis]
- Title: A Networked Multi-Agent Combat Model: Emergence Explained
- Principal Supervisor: Hussein Abbass
- Co Supervisor: Ruhul Sarker and Neville Curtis (DSTO)
- Ph.D. 2002-2006 Dr. Minh Ha Nguyen [Thesis]
- Title: Cooperative coevolutionary mixture of experts : a neuro ensemble approach for automatic decomposition of classification problems
- Principal Supervisor: Hussein Abbass
- Co Supervisor: Bob McKay
- Ph.D. 2001- 2005 A/Prof. Hoai Nguyen Xuan [Thesis]
- Title: A Flexible Representation for Genetic Programming: Lessons from Natural Language Processing
- Principal Supervisor: Bob Mckay
- Co Supervisor: Daryl Essam and Hussein Abbass
- Ph.D. 2001- 2005 Dr. Yin Shan [Thesis]
- Title: Program Distribution Estimation with Grammar Models
- Principal Supervisor: Bob Mckay
- Co Supervisor: Daryl Essam and Hussein Abbass
- Ph.D. 2001-2004 Dr. Paula Lennon, UNE.
- Title: DNA costing
- Principal Supervisor: Brian Kinghorn (UNE)
- Co Supervisor: Gerard Davis (UNE) and Hussein Abbass
- DIT 2001-2003 A/Prof. Jasen Teo [Thesis]
- Title: Pareto Multiobjective Evolution of Legged Embodied Organisms
- Principal Supervisor: Hussein Abbass