Our PhD students and their research

Information about PhD theses completed by some of the past students.

2024

Student  Title Main supervisor Co-supervisor(s)
John Cleveland Acuna Strategic metrics for Emergency Department performance. Dynamic target to ensure quality of care and guided actions Tava Olsen Valery Pavlov
Sunny Kareem Adaptive Sustainable Supply Chains in a Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous (VUCA) Environment Timofey Shalpegin

 

Julia
Fehrer

Christina Stringer

Yuming Li

Sentiment and Emotion Analysis of Social Media Text: Multilingual Fine-Grained Low-Resource Personalised and Explainable AI Approaches

  • Dean's List Award
  • PHIS-NZ Information Systems Doctoral Merit Award

 

Johnny Chan

David Sundaram

Gabrielle Peko

 

Neda Pourreza Dynamic Server Assignment for Emergency Departments: Optimal Server Assignment During Non-Stationary Arrivals Tava
Olsen
Cameron Walker
Saima Qutab Emergence of a Crowdsourcing Ecosystem for Knowledge Curation and Creation in the Cultural and Heritage Sector

Michael Myers

Lesley Gardner

Aida Shams Behavioral Enablers of Servers in Queueing Systems

 

Valery Pavlov

 

Tava
Olsen

Khushbu Tilvawala

Designing Serious Games for a Sustainable World: Values-based Digital Games and Platforms for the Young

  • PHIS-NZ Information Systems Doctoral Thesis Award
David Sundaram Michael Myers

2023

Student  Title Main supervisor Co-supervisor(s)
Ruhi Bajaj Towards proactive and prescriptive health: Leveraging wearable technology for health monitoring Fernando
Beltran
Rebecca Meiring
Na Luo Reducing Food Loss and Waste in Supply Chain Operations- The Impact of Government Intervention and Consumer Behaviour

Tava Olsen

David Robb

2022

Student  Title Main supervisor Co-supervisor(s)
Norah Al Subait Modelling and Monitoring Sustainable development Goals in Higher Education Institution: Proposing, Designing and Implementing a Holistic Strategic Framework

 

Tiru Arthanari

 

 

 

David Sundaram

Gabrielle Peko

Anson Li

Mahsa Boroushaki Sustainability and Supply Chain Trade-offs for Agro-based Products Tava Olsen Valery Pavlov
Hadwyn Ming Xi Chen
Exploring the Soft Side of ERP Implementation— The Ren Wen Factor

Tiru Arthanari

 

Gabrielle Peko

David Sundaram

Shadi Esnaashari New Insights on Students’ Perceptions, Motivations, and Learning Strategy Use to Inform Learning Analytics - through Self-Regulated Learning and Activity Theory

Lesley Gardner

 

Michael Rehm 

Tiru Arthanari

Mahmudul Hasan Fighting an Infodemic: Managing Virtual Communities during Times of Disaster
 
 
Michael Myers

 

Cecil Chua

Tien Nguyen Understanding Value-driven Consumption of UGC: UGC Values and UGC Perceived Helpfulness in The Online Marketplace
 
 

Arvind Tripathi

 

Ananth Srinivasan

2021

Student Title Main supervisor Co-supervisor(s)
Shahab Bayati Understanding Socio-technical Aspects of Contributions in Online Open Source Community

Arvind Tripathi

Ami Peiris

Hossein Chegini Design and implementation of a Software System for Weed Monitoring and Clean-up Fernando Beltran Aniket Mehanti
Mark Geoffrey Hoksbergen

Illuminating and Bridging the Vortex between Tacit and Explicit Knowledge: Counterbalancing Asymmetric Information in High-Value Low-Frequency Transactions

  • Dean's List Award
  • PHIS-NZ Information Systems Doctoral Thesis Award

 

David Sundaram

 

 

Johnny Chan

Gabrielle Peko

 

Tianyou Hu Understanding the value of financial advice on social media 

Arvind Tripathi

Henk Berkman

Khairulliza Binti Ahmad Salleh Security Determinants in the Adoption of Big Data Solutions Lech Janczewski Fernando Beltran
Mengxiao Zhang Design and Secure Implementation of Private Data Query Mechanisms for Data Marketplaces Fernando Beltran  

2020

Student  Title Main supervisor Co-supervisor(s)
Claris Chung Sustainable Transformation of Individuals and Families

 

David Sundaram


Max Rhode

Khairulliza Ahmad Salleh Security Determinants in the Adoption of Big Data Solutions

Lech Janczewski

Fernando Beltran

2019

Student  Title Main supervisor Co-supervisor(s)
Yvonne Hong Blended Learning in Higher Education: Understanding First-Year Undergraduates' Experiences

Lesley Gardner

Don Sheridan

Mojtaba Mahdavi Supply Chain Strategy: Further Development on how to Match Product Type with Supply Chain Design

Tava Olsen

Valery Pavlov

Shandong Mou Real-Time Labour Allocation in Retail Stores David Robb

 

Valery Pavlov

David Sundaram

Udayangi Muthupoltotage Understanding Informal Personal Learning Environments:  An Exploration of Technology-enhanced Self-regulated Learning in Higher Education
Lesley Gardner
Valery Pavlov
Andy Nguyễn Learning analytics information systems for higher education: Design, development and implementation
Lesley Gardner
Don Sheridan
Jose Arriola Ortiz The Political Role of Social Media in Emerging Democracies

 Arvind Tripathi

Michael Myers

Cameron Taylor System architecture for information visibility in humanitarian logistics: Innovative lateral information sharing in a low trust, high risk, volatile environment for coordination 

Tiru Arthanari

David Sundaram

2018

Student  Title Main supervisor Co-supervisor(s)
Xiaojing Liu Robustifying Supply Chains against Corruption Risk: A New Zealand Dairy Industry Study Using System Dynamics Tiru Arthanari David Robb
Foad Marzoughi
Designing a Framework to Estimate Project Duration with Respect to Weather Risk and Creating a Navigational Support System in Benchmark Space: Applied in Construction Projects


Tiru Arthanari


David Sundaram
Sarah Sabbaghan The role of computer-adaptive survey (CAS) in extracting customer feedback


Lesley Gardner

Cecil Chua

Valeria Sadovykh Use of online social networks in decision making: the case of healthcare decision support networks

David Sundaram

Arvind Tripathi

Michael Myers

Hamidreza Shahbaznezhad Customer and Firm Interaction on Social Media Platforms Arvind Tripathi Ananth Srinivasan
Ali Haji Vahabzadeh Optimal Allocation of Intensive Care Unit Nurses to Patient-At-Risk-Team

Valery Pavlov

Tava Olsen

2017

Student  Title Main supervisor Co-supervisor(s)
Radhouane Ben Neji Jrad Roadmaps for Upgrading Unupgradable Legacy Processes in Inter-Organisational Middleware Systems: Concepts, Framework, Architecture, and Implementations David Sundaram  
Asfahaan Mirza Te Reo Maori Revitalization: A crowd sourced preservation, curation and learning approach using ubiquitous systems and devices

David Sundaram

Michael Myers

Manuka Henare

Gabrielle Peko Adaptive Enterprises: a roadmap, framework, architecture and implementation

David Sundaram

Michael Myers

Xiaoyan Qian Modelling Contracts and Incentives in Agricultural Cooperatives with an Emphasis on Quality and Financial Decisions Tava Olsen  
Michelle Soakell-Ho Towards business intelligence in preoperative care: choice, care and communication

Michael Myers

Douglas Campbell

Karen Day

Martin Orr

2016

Student  Title Main supervisor Co-supervisor(s)
Leila Etaati A Journey from Chaos to Harmony: Design and Implementation of an Adaptive Tourist Recommendation System

David Sundaram

 
Parastoo Samiei Farahani Understanding Online Reviews and Reviewers Arvind Tripathi  
Andrea Herrera Resilient Organisations in the Cloud

Lech Janczewski

 
Quan Zhou Managing the Medical Reserve for Emergency Response Tava Olsen
Arvind Tripathi
Ruilin Zhu Pattern, Practice and Potency of Information Systems Security Research: A Methodological Perspective

Lech Janczewski

 

2015

Student Title Main supervisor Co-supervisor(s)
Xiaoyan Bai Purposeful Visualization Systems David Sundaram  
Paul Braund Silicon Valley's Online, Social, Entrepreneurial Enterprise Startups (OSEES): A Critical Research Study Michael Myers David Sundaram
Yu-Wei Hsu Service Provision in Online Auctions: Understanding Repurchase Behaviours Lesley Gardner Ananth Srinivasan
Md Islam

Transport capacity improvement in and around ports: A perspective on the empty-container-truck trips problem

Tava Olsen

 
Koteswara Ivaturi

Social Engineering - Emerging attacks, awareness and impact on online user attitudes and behaviours


Lech Janczewski

Cecil Chua

Dusan Ku Research on Marine Terminal Logistics: Crane Double Cycling Models Tiru Arthanari Tava Olsen
Farhaan Mirza Agent-based Modeling for the Analysis of Technology Introduction and Competition in Telecommunication Markets: Case studies of Fiber Optic Broadband and Wireless Markets Fernando Beltran Lech Janczewski
Ahmad Obidat Toward Improving the Usability of Course Management Systems for Blind Users

Don Sheridan

Ananth Srinivasan

Mali Senapathi Understanding Sustained Usage of Agile Methodologies

Ananth Srinivasan

Don Sheridan

2014

Student Title Main supervisor Co-supervisor(s)
Rizwan Ahmad A Cloud Governance Framework for Cloud Computing: An Information Security Governance Perspective to Protect Cloud Users

Lech Janczewski

Jairo Gutierrez

Arzoo Atiq Consumer Provider Interactions in the Design of Technology-Enabled Services

Lesley Gardner

Anath Srinivasan

Brad McKenna An Exploration of Social Movements in Virtual Worlds

Michael Myers

Lesley Gardner

Max Erik Rohde The Missing Link: Towards Connected, Flexible, Open and Productive Systems for Knowledge-Driven Organizations

David Sundaram

 
Yangyan Shi Third Party Purchase: Effectiveness of Value-added Services by Third-Party Logistics Providers
Tiru Arthanari
Alan Stegner
Shahper Vodanovich Digital Native Well-being and Development in Ubiquitous Spaces David Sundaram Michael Myers