Research Supervision and Mentorship

Research Candidates

1. Mohamed Fathallah (PhD – area: TBA) (UNSW Canberra, started: June 2025)

2. Amin Abdollahi Dehkordi (PhD – area:TBA) (UNSW Canberra, started: June 2025)

3. Ahmed Gad (PhD - area: Real-time Task Scheduling in Internet-of-Everything-Fog-Cloud Computing Environment) (UNSW Canberra, started: May 2024)

4. Setyo Tri Windras Mara  (PhD – area: Optimisation of Electric Vehicle Routing Problems with Drones) (UNSW Canberra, submitted April 2025) 

5. Dyuti Paul (M. Sc. – area: Artificial Intelligence for Energy Consumption in Electric Vehicle) (UNSW Canberra, Completed 2024) 

6. Mr Tanvir Islam (M. Sc. – Development and Application of Artificial Neural Networks for Energy Demand Forecasting in Australia) (UNSW Canberra,  Completed 2023) 

7.  Dr Reem Sherif (UNSW Canberra, PhD – Computational Intelligence for Cooperative Swarm Control) ( Completed 2023) 

8. Dr Kangjing (Jenny) Li (PhD: Landscape-based Evolutionary Algorithms for Dynamic Optimization Problems) (UNSW Canberra,  Completed 2022) 

9. Mr Paul Bigland (Honours: Differential Evolution Optimisation Toolbox & A Comparative Study of Differential Evolution Adaptations) (UNSW Canberra)

10. Dr Md Forhad Zaman (PhD: Power Generation Planning Using Evolutionary Algorithms) (UNSW Canberra, Completed 2017)

11. Dr Ismail Ali  (M. Sc.: Evolutionary Optimisation for Scheduling Problems) (UNSW Canberra, Completed June 2016) - received the outstanding thesis in an IT topic award (UNSW Canberra, 2016 ) 

12. Dr Eman Hasan Samir (PhD: Decomposition-based Evolutionary Optimisation) (UNSW Canberra, Completed 2014)

Past Research Students co-mentorship

1. Dr Karam Sallam (PhD)

2. Dr Mohamed Radwan (PhD)

Current Post-docs mentorship

1. Dr Jing Liu 

2. Setyo Tri Windras Mara

Past Post-docs mentorship

1. Dr Kangjing Li – is currently a post-doc at UNSW, Australia

2. Dr Kyle Harrison – is currently a Lecturer at the University of New Castle, Australia

3. Dr Ali Ahrari – is currently an ARC DECRA Fellow at UNSW, Australia

4. Dr Heba Elfeky– is currently a Lecturer at UNSW, Australia

5. Dr Essam Debie – is currently a Lecturer at the University of Canberra, Australia

6. Dr Md Forhad Zaman –  is currently an Advisor with IP Australia

7. Dr Hatem Saad– is currently working at the University of Canberra

8. Dr Tung Nguyen 

9. Dr Mohamed Radwan

10. Dr Ehab Elfeky

Chief of Defence Force Research students

1. Isaac Muscat: Quantity to Quality The Case for the Sheep-Lamb Method in Shepherding Swarm Control, 2024

2. James Miller: Particle Swarm Optimisation for Large-Scale Open-Pit Mining, 2021

3. David King: Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm for Static and Dynamic Path Costs, 2020

4. Viet Hoang Le: Evaluate some basic algorithms for optimisation of resource-constrained project scheduling problem, 2020

5. Simon J. Telford: Maximising the Profit of an Open-Pit Mine Scheduling Problem Using Evolutionary Algorithms, 2018