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 Christina Stringer |
| Yuming Li | Sentiment and Emotion Analysis of Social Media Text: Multilingual Fine-Grained Low-Resource Personalised and Explainable AI Approaches
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Johnny Chan | David Sundaram Gabrielle Peko
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| 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 |
| Khushbu Tilvawala | Designing Serious Games for a Sustainable World: Values-based Digital Games and Platforms for the Young
|
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
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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
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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
|
David Sundaram |
Johnny Chan Gabrielle Peko
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
|
David Sundaram |
| Sarah Sabbaghan | The role of computer-adaptive survey (CAS) in extracting customer feedback |
|
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 |
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| Parastoo Samiei Farahani | Understanding Online Reviews and Reviewers | Arvind Tripathi | |
| Andrea Herrera | Resilient Organisations in the Cloud | Lech Janczewski |
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| 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 |
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| Koteswara Ivaturi | Social Engineering - Emerging attacks, awareness and impact on online user attitudes and behaviours |
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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 |
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| 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 |