Student Supervision

I am always interested in supervising passionate students over various topics relating to my expertise. If you are interested in undertaking PhD research, or other research levels, please email me describing your interests and send me your transcript and cv. Some possible research ideas are outlined at Monash Supervisory Connect. But I am always open to new ideas and love to brainstorm with potential candidates

Funding is available to support outstanding candidates.

(left, 2026: double graduation ceremony with Dr Li and Dr Bou Nasser)

PhD Supervison

Current PhD Candidates (4 / 2 as main supervisor):

Amal Al Shardy, 2022-2026, Multipersective Immersive Storytelling for Socio-technical Concepts. Supervisors: Sarah Goodwin, Kari Dahlgren, Lyn Bartram (Simon Fraser University), Andres Santos Torres (Vicomtech))
Linjia He, 2023-2027 - AR for Improving Cycling Experiences Supervisors: Don Samitha Elvitigala, Benjamin Tag, Sarah Goodwin, Barrett Ens
Jihao Li, 2024-2027 - RF for EV - Supervisors: Hao Wang, Sarah Goodwin, Mark Wallace.
Merry Hoang 2024-2028 - Innovating Energy Network Diagrams - Zema Scholarship Recipient, Supervisors: Sarah Goodwin, Roger Dargaville.

Thesis in examination: (1):

Harriet Mason, 2022-2026, Visualising Uncertainty for Energy Forecasting - Zema Scholarship Recipient: Supervisors: Dianne Cook, Sarah Goodwin, Susan Vanderplas (UNL).

Completed PhD Supervision (6 / 3 as main supervisor):

Dr Jessica Bou Nassar, 2022-2026 - People Centred Urban Data Governance - Monash Data Futures Institute Scholarship Recipient. Supervisors: Sarah Goodwin, Darren Sharp (MDFI) Misita Anwar (Swinburne), Lyn Bartram (SFU). (Now Research Fellow, Swinburne University)
Dr Madhuka de Silva, 2022-2026 - Visualisation of Dance and Body Movement for the Visually Impaired. Supervisors: Matthew Butler, Sarah Goodwin (Now Research Fellow, RMIT University)
Dr Mengxing Li, 2021-2025 - Human Values in Mixed Reality. Supervisors: Sarah Goodwin, Tim Dwyer, Joanne Evan, Tag Alsheri. (now Research Assistant, Monash University)
Dr Cynthia A Huang, 2021-2025, Unified Principles And Tools For Complex Datasets And Data-Driven Workflows, Supervisors: Rob Hyndman, Sarah Goodwin, Simon Angus. (Now Research Fellow, Monash University
Dr Yidan Zhang, 2020-2024 - Supporting Spatio-temporal Data Sensemaking using Embodiment in Immersive Environments. Supervisors: Sarah Goodwin, Barrett Ens, Kadek Satriadi. (Now Research Fellow, Monash University)
Dr Yalong Yang, 2015-2019 - Visualising Geographically Embedded Origin-Destination Flows: in 2D and Immersive Environments. Supervisors: Kim Marriott, Tim Dwyer, Sarah Goodwin, Bernie Jenny. (Now Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech )

Other PhD Supervision:

Madhuka de Silva, 2022-2023 (as Primary Supervisor, later switched to Associate)
Songhai Fan, 2021-2023- Narrative Visualisation (as Primary Supervisor. Songhai has now submitted his phd thesis.)
Anh (Kody) Nguyen, 2020-2021 - Immersive Visualisation for Urban Superdiversity (Associate Supervisor)

Examiner:

PhD Review for 2 international PhD candidates: France, UK

Research Fellow / Assistant Supervision

(4 RF / 7 RA):

Dr Yidan Zhang, RF, Future Control Rooms, GridGuru, 2024+
Merry Hoang, RA, GeoXAI Project, 2025
Dr Bruno Mendivez, RF, GeoXAI Project, 2025
Jayden Zhang, RA, Water Quality Project, 2025
Nancy van Nieuwenhove, RA, PRF project, 2022-2023
Joshua Langmead, RA, Eye Tracking Visual Analysis, 2021-2023
Mengxing Li, RA, Urban Wombling Analysis, 2021-2022
Dr Misita Anwar, RF, Monash Data Futures IDR Project - Net Zero Precincts: Citizen data commons and technological sovereignty, Feb 2020-Oct 2020
Umair Afzal, RA, Operator Cognitive Load in Energy Control Rooms Project, 2019-2021
Ryan Whitelock-Jones, RA, Operator Cognitive Load in Energy Control Rooms Project / Eye Tracking Visual Analysis, 2020
Dr Florence Wang, RF, MEMSI Seed grant - Immersive Spatial Visualisation of Smart Grids, 2018-2019

Masters/ Honours Thesis Supervision

Current Masters Thesis (3):

Thanh Nghi Le, Unravelling the Australian Map (2026 S2, 2027 S1), (Primary Supervisor)
Mutia Salsabila, Visualising multi-dimensional water quality on maps (2026 S1-S2) (Primary Supervisor)
Yujie Shao, Morphing maps for water visualising (2026 S1-S2) (Primary Supervisor)

Completed Masters / Honours Thesis (15 / 10 as main):

Qiaoyu Deng, (2024 S2- 2025 S1), Immersive Storytelling for Communicating Water Quality in Agricultural Catchments (Primary Supervisor)
Joshua Langmead, (2023, S2), Accessible GPS visualisation for soccer analysis (Primary Supervisor)
Jayden Zhang (2023 S1-S2), Interactive Wombling for Multivariate Urban Data Analysis (Primary Supervisor)
Navajeet Dash (2021 S1 - 2021 S2), Exploring Sonification & Haptics with Temporal Data in Immersive Environments (Associate Supervisor)
Shaylin Chetty (PT 2020 S2 - 2021 S2), Visualising the Effect of COVID-19 on Electricity Consumption in Victoria, Australia. Published at e-Energy Conference 2021. (Primary Supervisor).
Merry Hoang (2020 S2-2021 S1), Exploring the Benefits of Geography on Power Network Diagrams (Primary Supervisor). Published at VIS Conference 2023.
Huy Nguyen (2021 S1), Determining Energy Network Topology through Smart Meter Locations. (Primary Supervisor)
Yashvir Grewal (PT 2019 S2-2021 S1), Variance Seeking Meta-Exploration for Meta Reinforcement Learning. Published Student Abstract at AAAI Conference 2021 and Paper at NeurIPS 2021 DeepRL Workshop. (Primary Supervisor)
Jarrod Wesley (2020 S1-2020 S2), Improving Interpretability of Machine Learning Models for Heating Usage (Primary Supervisor)
Xin (Skye) Zhang (2019 S2-2020 S1), Leveraging AR Mobile Game Mechanics to Engage Energy Consumers (Associate Supervisor)
Hycinth Sequeria (2019 S1-2019 S2), Relationship between Electrification and Socio-economic Development of Indonesia: Unlocking PODES Dataset (Associate Supervisor)
Qiuhong Wu (2019 S1-2019 S2), Impact of Visualisation to Encourage Energy Saving Behaviour (Associate Supervisor)
Yidan Zhang (2019 S1-2019 S2), The Effectiveness of Mobile Applications on Increasing Occupants’ Energy Awareness in University Buildings. Published at e-Energy Conference 2020 (Associate Supervisor)
Amal Al Shardy (2019 S1-2019 S2), Integrated Data Visualisation for Effective Decision-Making for Remote Area Electrification. Published at e-Energy Conference 2021 (Primary Supervisor)
Hala Almukhalfi (2019 S1-2019 S2) Visualising the Monash Microgrid Using a Large Tiled Wall Display. Published at iiWAS2021 Conference 2021 (Nov/Dec 21) (Primary Supervisor)

Other Student Project and Team Supervision Completed (6):

Jaylen Navurunnage, 2024 S2 (FIT2082, Computer Science Project), Communicating Water Quality in VR
Nathen Culshaw, 2024 S2 (FIT2082, Computer Science Project), Urban Transport satisfaction visualisation for researchers
James Li, 2024 S2 (FIT2082, Computer Science Project), Cycling satisfaction visualisation for researchers
Jay Pitson, Benjamin Woang, Aidan Miles (FIT4701 Final Year Software Engineering Project, S1-S2 2023), Mapping Australia's Renewable Energy Transition (Associate Supervisor)
Palaash Srivastava (FIT3144 - Advanced Computer Science Project, S1-S2 2021), Understanding the mobility behaviours of electric vehicles and their interactions in smart energy cities (Primary Supervisor)
Yashvir Grewal (FIT4008 - Reading Unit, S2 2020), Visualising Temporal Uncertainty: A Taxonomy and Call for Systematic Evaluation. Published at IEEE PacificVis Conference 2021. (Associate Supervisor)

Student Internship Supervision

Current (0)
Completed (29)
- Renee McMillian (Winter internship, 2026)
- Greg (Winter internship, 2026)
- Sari (Winter internship, 2026)
- Rohan (Winter internship, 2026)
- Yu Yuan Yio (Winter internship, 2025, Gazealytics)
- Shreya Nagaraju (Summer Internship 2024/25, 12 weeks, Immersive Water Quality)
- Jaylen Navurunnage (Summer Internship 2024/25, 12 weeks, Immersive Water Quality)
- Nethara Athukorala (Summer Internship 2024/25, 12 weeks, Control Room of the Future)
- Simran (Summer Internship 2024/25, 12 weeks, Control Room of the Future)
- Yidan (Emma) Qiao (Summer Internship 2024/25, 12 weeks, Control Room of the Future)
- Yu Yuan Yio (Summer Internship 2024/25, 12 weeks, Control Room of the Future)
- Ziying (Zoey) Liang (Summer Internship 2024/25, 12 weeks, Control Room of the Future)

Adarsh More (Summer Internship 2022/23, 12 weeks)
Sreekala Raghuram (Summer Internship 2022/23, 12 weeks)
Abdul Hyder Ali (Summer Internship 2022/23, 12 weeks)
Javeriya Nadaf (Summer Internship 2022/23, 12 weeks)
Joshua Loong (Summer Internship 2022/23, 12 weeks)
Joshua Langmead (Winter Internship, 2021, 4 weeks, continued as RA, Gazealytics)
Ishwari Bhade (Winter Internship, 2021, 4 weeks, Gazealytics)
Anthonyseimonlage 'Dilini' Seimon (Winter Internship, 2021, 4 weeks)
Khin Kyaw (Winter Internship, 2021, 4 weeks)
Mohit Gupta (Winter Internship, 2021, 4 weeks, continued as RA)
Danielle Stephenson (Summer Internship 2020-2021, 12 weeks)
Sai Munukutla (Summer Internship 2021, 4 weeks)
Joshua Mills (Summer Internship 2020-2021, 12 weeks)
Yaohan Li (Summer Internship 2019-2020, 12 weeks)
Ryan Whitelock-Jones (Summer Internship, 2019-2020, 12 weeks, continued as RA)
Umair Afzal (Monash College Professional Pathway 12 week Internship, 2019, continued as a RA)
Saikiranrao Bichinepally (Monash College Professional Pathway 12 week Internship, 2019)

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