SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE

Mengjie Zhang's Recent Research Students

Current Research Students

  • Muhammad Ghifary. Face Recognition using Evolutionary Techniques and Probability Approaches. PhD Thesis. 2013. Victoria Doctoral Scholarship. (with Prof Bastiaan Kleijn)

  • Saeed Mirghasemi. Image Processing using Ant Colony Optimisation. PhD Thesis. 2013. Victoria Doctoral Scholarship. (with Dr Ramesh Rayudu)

  • Rasheswori Rajkumari. Genetic Programming for Web Services. PhD Thesis. 2013. Victoria Doctoral Scholarship. (with Hui Ma)

  • Samuel Hindmarsh. Brain Computer Interface. ME Thesis. 2013. Victoria Master (by Research) Scholarship. (with Stuart Marshall)

  • Harith Al-Sahaf. Genetic Programming for Image Analysis. Victoria Doctoral Scholarship (Partial).

  • Rachel Hunt. Genetic Programming for Scheduling. PhD Thesis. Victoria Doctoral Scholarship. 2012. (with Dr Mark Johnston)(In Progress)

  • Soha Ahmad. Bioinformatics. PhD Thesis. Victoria Doctoral Scholarship. 2012. (In Progress)

  • Syahaneim Marzukhi, Learning Classifier Systems. PhD Thesis. 2010. (with Dr Will Browne) (In Progress)

  • Wenlong Fu. Genetic Programming for Edge Detection. PhD Thesis, 2010. (with Dr mark Johnston)

  • Bing Xue. Particle Swarm Optimisation. PhD Thesis. 2010. Victoria Doctoral Scholarship. (In Progress)

  • Juan Rada-Vilela. Swarm Intelligence. PhD Thesis. 2010. Victoria PhD Scholarship. (In Progress)

  • Su Nguyen. Evolutionary Computation. PhD Thesis. 2010. Victoria Doctoral Scholarship. (In Progress)

  • Muhammad Iqbal. Learning Classifier Systems. PhD Thesis. 2010. Victoria PhD Scholarship. (With Will Browne) (In Progress)

Past Research Students (and their Theses)

  • Mahdi Setayesh. Particle Swarm Optimisation for Edge detection in Noisy Images . PhD Thesis, 2012. Victoria PhD Scholarship.

  • Urvesh Bhowan. Genetic Programming for Classification with Unbalanced Data. PhD Thesis. 2008. BuildIT PhD Scholarship.

  • Rohitash Chandra. Evolutionary Computer Vision, PhD Thesis. 2012. Victoria PhD Scholarship.

  • Carlton Downey. Linear Genetic Programming for Multi-class Classification. MSc Thesis. 2011. Victoria Masters Scholarship.

  • Fahmi Abdulhamid. Genetic Programming for Evolving Computer Programs with Loop Structures for Classifiation Tasks. BE (Honours) Research Project. 2011. (PDF Version)

  • Harith Al-Sahaf. The Use of Genetic Programming for Domain Independent Automatic Feature Extraction, Feature Selection and Classification in Images. Master of Computer Science research project, 2011.

  • Will Smart. Fragment Analysis in Genetic Programming. PhD Thesis. VC's Strategic PhD Scholarship. 2011.

  • Alan David Kenzit. Simplification of programs in qGenetic Programming. MSc Thesis, 2011.

  • Roman Klapaukh. An Investigation of Primitive Set Selection and Evaluation for Image Generation Using Genetic Programming . BSc(Hons) research project. 2010. PDF version

  • Kourosh Neshatian. Feature Manipulation with Genetic Programming . PhD Thesis. Victoria PhD Scholarship. 2010. PDF version

  • Daniel Atkins. Evolutionary Art and Image Generation. Summer Research Scholarship. Nov 2009 -- Feb 2010.

  • Jan Larres. Genetic Programming for Evolving Loops and Recursive Structures for Classification. Summer Research Scholarship. Nov 2009 -- Feb 2010.

  • Lee Macri. PSO for Image Recognition. Summer Research Scholarship. Nov 2009 -- Feb 2010.

  • Thomas Liddle. Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimisation for Object detection. Summer Research Scholarship. Nov 2009 -- Feb 2010. (with Mark Johnston)

  • Rachel Hunt. Genetic Programming with Class Imbalance Problems. Summer Research Assistant. Nov 2009 -- Feb 2010. (with Mark Johnston)

  • Chris Bruniges. Evolutionary Computing for Car Racing. Summer Research Assistant. Nov 2009 -- Feb 2010. (with Will Browne)

  • Ben Haughey. Learning Classifier Systems. Summer Research Assistant. Nov 2009 -- Feb 2010. (with Will Browne)

  • Jason Xie. An Analysis of Tournament Selection in Genetic Programming. PhD Thesis. 2009. PDF Version

  • Carlton Downey. New Operators in Linear Genetic Programming for Multiclass Classification . BSc(Hon) Project. 2009. PDF Version

  • Jason Xie. Investigation of Tournament Selection in Genetic Programming. Research Assistant. Oct 2008 -- Dec 2009.

  • Ammar Mohemmed. Particle Swarm Optimisation for (Image) Classification. Research Assistant/Fellow. Oct 2007 -- Feb 2009.

  • Roman Klapaukh. Evolutionary Art , Research Assistant. July -- October 2009.

  • Phillip Wong. Removing Redundancu and Reducing Fitness Evaluation Costs in Genetic Programming. Masters Thesis, 2008. PDF Version

  • Hamish Evans. Particle Swarm Optimisation for Image Classification. BIT(Honours) Research Project. 2008. PDF Version

  • Phillip Boyle. Gaussian Processes for Regression and Optimisation. PhD thesis, May 2007. PDF Version. (With Marcus Frean)

  • Barret Chin. Neural Networks and Genetic Programming for Fast Object Detection. BSc(Honours) Research Project. 2007. PDF Version

  • Grant Patterson. Fitness Functions in Genetic Programming for Classification with Unbalanced Data. Research assistant. Jan -- Jun 2007.

  • Phillip Wong. Simplification of Programs in Genetic Programming. Research Assistant, August 2006 -- Feb 2007.

  • Christopher Fogelberg. Linear Genetic Programming. Research Assistant, Oct 2005 -- June 2006.

  • Xiaoli Ma. Genetic Programming for Regression and Classification Tasks. Masters Thesis, 2007.

  • Xin Li. Weed Identification and Recognition in Wheat Field. Masters Thesis, 2007.

  • Daniel McGaughran. Genetic Programming: Evolving Simulated Human-Generated Programs with Loops and Control Structures in . BSc (Honours) Research Project, 2005. PDF Version

  • Phillip Wong. Simplification of Genetic Programs during Evolution. BSc (Honours) Research Project, 2005. PDF Version

  • Christopher Fogelberg. Linear Genetic Programming for Multi-class Classification Problems. BSc (Honours) Research Project, 2005. PDF Version

  • Minh Duc Cao. Classication of Scientic Papers Using Machine Learning, BSc (Honours) Research Project, 2005. PDF Version

  • Weijun (Norman) Lou. Improving Crossover in Genetic Programming for Image Recognition, BSc (Honours) Research Project, 2004-2005. PDF Version

  • Will Smart. Genetic Programming for Object Recognition, Masters Thesis, 2005. PDF Version

  • Jason Xie. Speech Analyser in an ICAI System for TESOL. Masters Thesis, 2004. PDF Version , PS Version

  • Yun Zhang. Genetic Programming for Multiclass Object Classification, BSc (Honours) Research Project, 2004. PDF Version, PS Version

  • Malcolm Lett. Improving Training Performance of Genetic Programming for Object Detection, BSc (Honours) Research Project, 2004. PDF Version , PS Version

  • Bunna NY. Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms for Object Classification and Detection, BSc (Honours) Research Project, 2003. PDF Version , PS Version

  • William Smart. Genetic Programming for Multiclass Object classification. BSc (Honours) Research Project, 2003. PDF Version , PS Version

  • Urvesh Bhowan. Fitness function with program size in genetic programming for multiclass object classification. BSc (Honours) Research Project, 2003. PDF Version , PS Version

  • Mark Pritchard, Genetic Programming for Object Detection, BSc (Honours) Research Project, 2002. PDF Version , PS Version

  • Roy Chow. Multiple Class Object Detection Using Pixel Statistics in Neural Networks, BSc (Honours) Research Project, 2002. PDF Version , PS Version