Graduate Student Supervision

I’ve supervised more Honors and Masters level research project than I dare remember, or have time to record. So, apologies to all those fine students who I’ve neglected to document here. Your efforts were greatly appreciated.

I’ve also successfully supervised the following PhD students:

Dr. Alvin Chan: Alvin did some excellent work on parallel implementation strategies for high performance transport protocols. He completed in 1996 and came to work with me at CSIRO. He now works at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Dr. Lei Hu: Lei looked at techniques to do performance prediction of parallel codes without having to fully implement the application. Basically the research employed performance simulation based on a platform-independent description of an algorithm. He completed in 1998, worked with me in CSIRO until 2001, and now works for Canon Research in Sydney.

Dr Anna Liu: Anna devised new architectural description and analysis techniques for dynamically evolving architectures using the PARSE framework. Anna completed in 1998, worked with me at CSIRO until 2001, and now works for Microsoft Australia.

Dr Jenny Liu: Jenny Liu has invented some very promising new methods and modeling techniques that can predict the performance of an application based on modern component technologies, without the need to build the application. Jenny now works with me at NICTA. (Completed 2004)

Dr Tariq Al-Naeem: Tariq’s research created a novel architecture design approach using AHP and optimization techniques. The work led to an ICSE 2005 paper. (Completed 2005)

These following are writing up at this very moment.

Muhammad Ali Babar: Methods for software architecture evaluation

Liming Zhu: Patterns and NFRs