I have been very fortunate to have worked with many excellent Post-doctoral Fellows, Research Assistants, and PhD, Masters by Research, Post-graduate project and Honors students over many years.

In general I am interested in supervising topics in (but not limited to):

• human-centric issues in software engineering e.g. personality, emotion, values, gender, ethnicity, language, ...

• almost anything to do with software tools i.e. if you can build an innovative tool for it, I am interested!! :-)

• domain-specific (visual) languages and tools for almost anything :-)model-driven engineering of cloud and/or big data applications

• model-driven approaches to software security engineering

• smart homes, smart city applications, focusing on the software engineering for ; usabillity of ; designing ; data integration etc

• mining software repositories, especially testing-related data, and requirements and architecture-related data

• machine learning techniques applied to software engineering problems e.g. project management, requirements engineering, software analysis, repository mining, ...

• knowledge management including KM extraction from natural language software artifact documents (requirements, security, QoS, architecture, design bug reports, social media info, etc etc)

Monash Faculty of IT enrolement eligibility and process can be found here. Applications for Monash and Data61 scholarships info.

Please have a look at my Research and Publications pages to get a feel for the work I do. 

PhD Students

• Yonghui Liu (PhD) - Analysis of hybrid Android applications

• Mingyi Zhou (PhD) - Obfuscating machine learning models on mobile devices

• Yuqing Xiao (PhD) - Engineering software for aged care / ageing users

• Wei Wang (PhD) - Adaptive User Interfaces for chronic disease management systems

• Hashini Gunatilake (PhD) - An taxonomy of human aspects impacting software engineering

• Ruchi Semby (PhD) - Feedback and assessment using emerging technologies

• Maria Graetsch (PhD) - Multi-disciplinary data analytics teams

• Vedant Chauhan (PhD) - Human-centric defect reporting and fixing

• Suyu Ma  (PhD) - Generating accessible software using deep learning approaches

• Kashumi Madampe (PhD) - Emotional reactions of software engineers to requirements changes

• Pei Liu (PhD) - Android build system and API evolution

• Omar Haggag (PhD) - eHealth app review analysis and improved design tools

• Devi Karolita (PhD) - Improving the use of personas in requirements engineering tasks

• Yanjie Zhao (PhD) - Android app analysis to improve quality

• Xiaoyu Sun (PhD) - Taming reflection in android apps

• Dulaji Hidellaarachchi (PhD) - Human-centric issues in requirements engineering

• Jiachi Chen (PhD) - Smell detection in Smart Contracts

• Jirayus Jiarpakdee (PhD) - Explainable, instance-based software defect prediction models

• Zhipeng Gao (PhD) - Question generation for Stackoverflow using machine learning 

• Md.Shamsujjoha (PhD) - eHealth app generation using automated and search-based software engineering

• Chehara Pathmabandu (PhD) - Security Enforcement in IOT-based BAS: HVAC integration Challenges and Future Directions 

• Xiaoyu Xia (PhD) - Optimised data caching for next-generation edge computing applications

• Elton Lobo (PhD) - eHealth applications for multiple chronic diseases

• Mohamed Osama Darweish (PhD) - Automotive software requirements quality improvement

• Alex Cummaudo (PhD) - Improving AI-based services APIs 

• Thanh Phu Lai (PhD) - Optimal distribution of computation and data for edge computing 

• Humphrey Obie (PhD) - Interactive visualisations using story telling metaphors

• Aya Mohamed Zaki Ismail (PhD) - Formalising automotive requirements

• Hayden Melton (PhD) - Empirical Studies of Structural Phenomena Using a Curated Corpus of Java Code

• Maheswaree Kissoon Curumsing (PhD) - Emotion-oriented requirements engineering

• Samer Zein (PhD) - Test automation of lifecycle conformance for mobile applications

• Hourieh Khalajzadeh (PhD) - Approaches to cloud data placement for social media applications

• Milica Stojmenovic (PhD) - Your Reputation Precedes You: The influence of expectations on usability and visual appeal in a web environment

• Luan Lam (PhD) - Context-aware indoor positioning systems for caring support applications

• Mostafa Farshchi (PhD) - Anomaly Detection Using Logs and Metrics Analysis for System Application Operations

• Jia Ru (PhD) - Task scheduling in cloud computing systems

• Nor Shahida Mohamad Yusop (PhD) - Improving usability defect reporting

• Check Yee Law (PhD) - Open learner models for mobile education systems

• Jian Liu (PhD) - Model-driven engineering for enterprise system emulation

• Scott Barnett (PhD) - Extracting technical domain knowledge to improve software architecture

• Gilbert Ravali (PhD) - Developing the expertise of Information Systems students in real world capstone projects

• Anthony Bayley (PhD) - Metacognition and introductory programming

• Miao Du (PhD) - Opaque response generation

• Feifei Chen (PhD) - Automated support for performance and energy evaluation for cloud application

• Amani Ibrahim (PhD) - Securing the virtual infrastructure in the laaS cloud computing model

• Tanjila Kanij (PhD) - Investigation of software tester responsibilities, personality and performance

• Iman Avazpour (PhD) - Towards user-centric concrete model transformation directional model transformation

• Andrew Cain (PhD) - Constructive alignment for introductory programming

• Mohamed Almorsy (PhD) - Adaptive, model-based cloud computing security management

• Md. Farid Jaafar (PhD) - meta-tool support for specifying and generating testing support in DSVL tools

• Emily (Xiaofan) Chen (PhD) -  Automated documentation to code traceability link recovery and visualization

• Moon Ting Su (PhD) - Chunking of architectural documentation to aide understanding

• Christian Hirsch (PhD) - The visual wiki: a new metaphor for knowledge access and management

• Massila Kalmalruddin (PhD) - Automated support for consistency management and validation of requirements

• Rachel Blagojevic (PhD) - Using data mining for digital ink recognition

• Norhayati Md. Ali (PhD) - Critic specification for domain-specific visual language tools

• Norsaremah Salah (PhD) -  Investigating the effect of students’ personality traits towards improving pair programming’s effectiveness as a pedagogical tool for CS/SE education

• Richard Li (PhD) - Integrated visual approach for business process modelling

• Karen Li (PhD) - Visual languages for event integration specification

• Hermann Stoeckle - An architecture for visual notation exchange

• Rainbow Cai (PhD) - High level support for performance engineering, and model integration and model transformation

• Santokh Singh (PhD)  - Supporting web services systems specification using aspect-oriented component engineering

• Xiaoling Dai (PhD) - Towards an efficient micro-payment system

Masters by Research (MSc, ME) Students

• Rick Zhang - Support for dynamic supply chain modelling

• Espen Moller - Process-driven Business Service Identification with Context Support

• Ruskin Dantra - Model driven abstraction of enterprise tasks and processes for user applications : using Microsoft domain specific language tools

• Rachel Patel - Exploring Better Techniques for Diagram Recognition

• Abizer Kambati - A Model Driven Care Plan Modelling System

• Akhil Mehra - Adding awareness to design tools using a plug-in, web-services based approach

• Chul Hwe Kim - Visual language and environment for statistical surveys

• Dejin Zhou - Experience of Developing Advanced Mobile Thin-Client User Interfaces

• Max Wang - Developing Efficient Mobile Agent Systems using Aspects

• Yafei Xiang - View Specification of Multi-View Visual Environments

• Qi Chen - An E-whiteboard Application to Support Early Design-Stage Sketching of UML Diagrams

• Zhong Wei - Generating Performance Test-beds for Web-based Software Architecture

• Therese Helland - A Service-Oriented Approach to Software Process Support

• Shuping Cao - Generating thin-client diagramming tools

• Michael Li - Data Mapping by Using a Business Form Copying Metaphor

• Bao Yang - An environment for developing adaptive, multi-device user interfaces

• Xing Wang - Multi-device, Component-based, Thin-client Groupware

• Kelvin Jin - Collaborative on-line travel planning system

• Guoliang Ding - Aspect-oriented component engineering

• Weijin Zhou - Adaptable User Interfaces for Diverse Human-Computer Interaction Devices

• April Nixon - An Integrated, Continuous Approach to Software Training Authoring, Delivery and Monitoring

• Rainbow Cai - Performance engineering tool for complex distributed systems

• Rakesh Patel - Aspect-oriented component engineering with UML and Java

• Nianping Zhu - DISSAG: a software development environment for distributed information systems

• David Maplesden - Tool Support for Design Patterns

• Jun Bai - Performance evaluation of distributed component-based system

• Bin Meng - Collaborative work through the world wide web

• Simon Gianoutsos - Exploring groupware capabilities for world wide web browsers

Honors, 380/780, Capstone Research etc Projects

Lots - I'll add these when I get a chance :-)