Research projects
The following list represents a selection of projects belonging to our researchers.
— indicates projects currently recruiting research students. Visit Study for PhD program and application information.
Scale effects in geotechnical physical modelling in sand
Team: Shiaohuey Chow
Geotechnical behaviour of ultra-soft soils: experimental and numerical modelling
Team: Shiaohuey Chow, Assoc Prof Mahdi Disfani
Smart offshore site investigation using free-fall penetrometers
Team: Shiaohuey Chow, Negin Yousefpour, Mark Cassidy
How does habitat-network structure drive ecology in riverine landscapes?
Team: Angus Webb
Improving the use of existing evidence in decision making for environmental management
Team: Angus Webb
Innovative composite systems with enhanced resilience to extreme loads
Team: Tuan Ngo, Prof Tuan Ngo, Dr Abdallah Ghazlan, Dr Tuan Nguyen
Robust multiobjective optimisation for environmental system management
Team: Wenyan Wu
Developing AI enabled vision for plastic waste identification and autonomous robotic sorting
Team: Shanaka Kristombu Baduge, Eric Schoof, Priyan Mendis
Smart AI enabled technologies for civil infrastructure
Team: Shanaka Kristombu Baduge, Priyan Mendis
Automatic generalisation of BIM for land administration
Team: Davood Shojaei, Behnam Atazadeh
Developing a chemical recycling process to upcycle residue plastics
Team: Shanaka Kristombu Baduge
Development of a 3D Digital Cadastral Database (3D-DCDB)
Team: Davood Shojaei, Behnam Atazadeh
Infrastructure assessment using Mixed Reality powered by Artificial Intelligence
Team: Davood Shojaei
Smart AI enabled robotic technologies for plastic waste sorting
Team: Shanaka Kristombu Baduge, Eric Schoof, Priyan Mendis
Recycling construction demolition waste to manufacture sustainable construction materials
Team: Tuan Ngo, Prof Tuan Ngo, Prof Nelson Lam, Dr Rackel San Nicolas, Dr Tuan Nguyen
Effect of partial drainage on plate anchor capacity in sand
Team: Shiaohuey Chow
Incorporating climate change projections in Australia’s flood guidance
Team: Conrad Wasko
Modelling biocementation of recycled sand and demolition wastes for pavements
Team: Guillermo Narsilio
Underwater acoustics: prediction of underwater noise caused by ocean interface processes and anthropogenic activities
Team: Alexander Babanin
A spatial network approach to maintaining river basin ecosystem values and managing hydrological threats
Team: Angus Webb, Avril Horne
Deep learning of boundary representation from point clouds
Team: Kourosh Khoshelham
Developing a novel foundation to secure floating renewable energy turbines
Team: Yinghui Tian
Early detection of internal erosion in dams/levees: bridging between micro and macro scale behaviour
Team: Negin Yousefpour, Dr Mahdi Miri Disfani
High-definition maps of road environments
Team: Kourosh Khoshelham
Simulation-based engineering research of hydraulic fractures in naturally fractured rocks
Team: Stephan Matthai
Simulation-based engineering research of proppant transport in hydraulic fractures
Team: Stephan Matthai
Soil-structure interaction framework for plate anchors in sand under cyclic loading
Team: Shiaohuey Chow
Sustained and cyclic load behaviour of an integrated anchor and chain system
Team: Yinghui Tian
Vehicle positioning using lidar
Team: Kourosh Khoshelham
Visual positioning in indoor environments
Team: Kourosh Khoshelham
Computational turbulent fluid flow
Team: Daniel Chung, Nicholas Hutchins
Ensuring Sustainable Battery Minerals Industry in Australia through Life Cycle Assessment
Team: Wen Li, Assoc Prof Jo Staines, Dr Shahjadi Farjana
Bridge scour monitoring and forecast: implementation of an AI early warning system
Team: Negin Yousefpour
Evaluation of residual strength of rock based on acoustic emission data
Team: Negin Yousefpour, Dr Samintha Perera
When will catchments recover from drought?
Team: Murray Peel
Development of autonomous robotic platforms for indoor and outdoor mapping
Team: Martin Tomko, Kourosh Khoshelham
Connected transport system
Team: Majid Sarvi
Crowd dynamics
Team: Majid Sarvi
Time Dependent Subsurface Mechanical Behaviour Due to CO2 Injection
Team: Hossein Agheshlui, Stephan Matthai
Heterogeneities induced into a porous medium by reactive flow as investigated on the pore-scale
Team: Irina Sin, Stephan Matthai (University of Melbourne), Allan Leal/ (ETH Zurich)
Ensemble flood inundation forecasting using emulators of hydraulic models
Team: Q J Wang, Dr Wenyan Wu, Assoc Prof Rory Nathan
Ensemble flood, short-term and seasonal river flow forecasting
Team: Q J Wang, Dr Tony Zhao, Dr Wenyan Wu, Assoc Prof Rory Nathan
Security, risks and infrastructure protection
Team: Nelson Lam, Priyan Mendis, Helen Goldsworthy, Lihai Zhang, Tuan Ngo, Cuong Kien Nguyen, Jack Yao, Elisa Lumantarna, Raymond Lumantarna