Team Members

The Team:

We are part of the Human & Machines Group.

Affiliates:

  • Visiting Scientist: Diego Molla-Aliod (Macquarie University)

Current PhD Students:

  • Hanna Pethani (University of Sydney, Supervisors: Sarvnaz Karimi, Xiang Dai, University Supervisors: Adam Dunn, Heiko Spallek, Mike Conway)
  • Kateryna Kasianenko (Queensland University of Technology, Supervisors: Stephen Wan, Shima Khanehzar)
  • Mong Yuan Sim (University of Adelaide, Supervisors: Xiang Dai, Byron Fang, University Supervisor: Wei (Emma) Zhang)
  • Yidong Gan (University of Sydney, Supervisors: Maciek Rybinski, University Supervisors: Jonathan K. Kummerfeld, Ben Hachey)
  • Tomas Turek (RMIT, Supervisors: Sarvnaz Karimi, Vincent Nguyen, University Supervisor: Xiuzhen Jenny Zhang)
  • Chao Wang (UTS, Supervisors: Lina Yao, Sarvnaz Karimi, Huicheng Yang, University Supervisor: Yi Yang)
  • Yike Wu (UTS, Supervisors: Stephen Wan, Necva Bolucu, Dadong Wang, University Supervisor: Jian Zhang)

Summer Vacation Scholars and Interns

Collaborators:

  • NLP at CSIRO:
    • AeHRC
      •  Health Data Semantics team
        • Anthony Nguyen
        • Bevan Koopman
        • Hamed Hassanzadeh
        • Alejandro Metke Jimenez
      • Justin Boyle
  • CSIRO
    • Health & Biosecurity’s Risk Evaluation and Preparedness Program
      • Dr Paul De Barro
  • A/Professor Lexing Xie (ANU) and Boon Ping Lim (Data61, Machine Learning program)
  • Professor Raina MacIntyre (UNSW)
  • Dr. Diego Molla-Aliod (Macquarie University)
  • A/Professor Mark Dras (Macquarie University)
  • Professor Kyo Kageura (University of Tokyo)
  • Hercules Dalianis (Visitor, University of Stockholm)
  • On statistics:
    • Professor William Woodall (Virgina Tech)
    • Dr Sotiris Bersimis (Piraeus University, Greece)
    • Professor Subha Chakraborti (Alabama University)
    • Dr James Wilson (San Francisco University)
    • Professor Kwok Tsui (Hong Kong City University)
    • Dr Kia Faraz (University of Applied Sciences Upper, Austria).

Previous Staff and Visitors:

  • Byron Fang (CERC Fellow), now at Oracle
  • Mark Dras (Visiting Scientist, Macquarie University)
  • Gabriela Ferraro (research scientist)
  • Ross Sparks
  • Ian Wood (Macquarie University Post-doctoral Fellow, co-funded/co-supervised by Stephen Wan.  Macquarie University Supervisor: Prof. Mark Johnson)
  • Aditya Joshi (Post-doctoral Fellow Knowledge Discovery and Management group, CSIRO’s Data61) now at UNSW
  • Chang Xu (Post-doctoral Fellow Knowledge Discovery and Management group, CSIRO’s Data61)
  • James McHugh (Software Engineer)
  • Neil Bacon (Software Engineer)
  • Shaukat Abidi (STEM SEIF Industry Post-doctoral Fellow with LeaseInfo)
  • David Ratcliffe, 2018 now at Australia Defence
  • Mac Kim, 2018, now at Lorica Health
  • Gaya Jayasinghe, 2017 now at Go1
  • Kyo Kageura (Visiting Scientist, University of Tokyo) 2016
  • Payam Aghaei Pour

Post-graduate Research Student Alumni

  • Yufei Wang (Macquarie University, Supervisor: Stephen Wan, University Supervisors: Mark Johnson, Mark Dras)
  • Wenyi Tay (RMIT, Supervisor: Sarvnaz Karimi, Stephen Wan, University Supervisors: Jenny Zhang)
  • Vincent Nguyen (ANU, Supervisor: Sarvnaz Karimi; University supervisor: A/Prof Zhenchang Xing)
  • Rhys Biddle (UTS, Supervisor: Maciek Rybinski, Cecile Paris)
  • Paria Jamshid (Macquarie University, Supervisor: Sarvnaz Karimi, University Supervisor: Mark Johnson)
  • Sonit Singh (Macquarie University, Supervisor: Sarvnaz Karimi, University Supervisor: Len Hamey, Kevin Ho-Shon)
  • Tim Chard (Macquarie University, Supervisor: Stephen Wan, University Supervisors: Mark Dras)
  • Quyu Kong (Australian National University, Supervisor: Stephen Wan, University Supervisors:  Marian-Andrei Riziou (now at UTS))
  • Omid Nezami (Macquarie University, Supervisor: Stephen Wan, University Supervisors: Mark Dras, Len Hamey)
  • Xiang Dai (Sydney University, Supervisor: Sarvnaz Karimi, Cecile Paris; University supervisor: Dr Ben Hachey)
  • Robertus Nugroho (Macquarie University — University supervisor: Prof Jian Yang) 

Student Intern Alumni:

  • 2023 – 2024
    • Harrison Bailey
    • Ritvik Dinesh
    • Nathan Inkiriwang
    • Hashem Hijazi
    • Khaing Myat Noe Naing
  • 2022 – 2023
    • Anqi Wu
    • Mong Yuan Sim
    • Skyler Zou
  • 2021 – 2022
    • Cai Yang
    • Praju Ghatpande
    • Liam Watts
  • 2020 – 2021
    • Aleney Khoo
    • Jeffrey Yang
  • 2019 – 2020
    • Jerry Xu
  •  2018 – 2019
    • Damon Cai
    • Adith Iyer
  • 2017 – 2018
    • Wenyi Tay
  • 2016 – 2017
    • Vincent Nguyen
    • Xiang Dai
  • 2015 – 2016
    • Yufei Wang
  • 2014 – 2015
    • Han Zhao, CSIRO summer student
  • 2013 – 2013
    • Allan Jun Yin, Internship
  • 2012 – 2013
    • John Lingad, CSIRO summer student and honours degree, University of Sydney
  • 2013 and earlier:
    • Oldooz Dianat
    • Florent Buron
    • Louis Tiao
    • Andrew Gall
    • Hassan Asghar
    • James McHugh
    • Quentin Dejean
    • Zac Turnbull