Research projects

Please note that this Research Projects directory has been identified for future retirement and may not be up to date.

For the latest information on the various projects that are underway in our College, please refer to the local information shared on the School of Engineering, School of Computing, and School of Cybernetics sites.

99 project

Project namesort ascending Area Theme
X-ray imaging of free-falling particles
USASEC: Improved high-temperature receivers for dish concentrators
Underwater image segmentation
TRNSYS performance simulations of small scale absorption chiller systems in Australia
Transient thermal transport phenomena in reacting particles
Thermal transport by design for fast and efficient solar thermochemical fuel production
The cocktail party problem: Advancing binaural localisation techniques Audio & Acoustic Signal Processing
The Big Sleep ACT
Supercritical-water gasification of biomass
Spectral PL for fundamental properties of silicon and other PV materials (PhD project)
Spatial Sound Control for Testing Multi-channel Audio Devices Audio & Acoustic Signal Processing
Solar thermochemical CO2 capture via calcium-oxide looping
Solar thermochemical CO2 capture via calcium-oxide looping
Solar thermal gasification of coal
Solar production of ammonia
Solar Hydrogen
Solar fuels by water splitting
Solar Cooling Using Ejectors
Software Engineering in R Programming
Semantic segmentation in forested environments: 1 student
Robust AI Planning for Hybrid Systems
Resilient energy systems
Ranking Wikidata items based on a keyword query
Radiative transfer in multi-component media
Radiative spectroscopy characterisation of participating media
Radiative characterisation of small heterogeneous particles
Radiative characterisation of fibrous materials
Privately owned public space: Noise cancellation over multiple regions Audio & Acoustic Signal Processing
Prevention of Human fall events in hospital settings: 1 student
Plasmonic hot-electron technologies for nanoscale energy conversion
Planar microphone array for spatial audio recording Audio & Acoustic Signal Processing
Physical Layer Security in Wireless Communications
Photogrammetric characterisation of concentrator surfaces
Pharmacological systems modelling, identification and control for anaesthesia applications
Optoelectronic properties of novel 2-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides
Optimizing the Multicore Processor for Search and Analytics
Optical design of high-flux solar simulators
Novel passivated polysilicon contacts using printable dopants (PhD project)
Novel passivated polysilicon contacts for high-efficiency solar cells (PhD project)
Novel characterisation techniques for next generation solar cells
Novel applications of sub-band-gap absorption and emission in silicon solar cells (PhD project)
Next Generation Industrial Bifacial Silicon Solar Cells
New approaches to impurity gettering in silicon solar cells by deposited films (PhD project)
Nature-Based Solutions for Flood Mitigation
My Project
Multi-spectral image analysis and segmentation
Multi-scale engineering of durable absorber coatings for solar thermal power
Multi-modal analysis of human behaviour: 2 student
Modeling & Measurement of Head Related Transfer Function
Model predictive control of in point focus solar thermal systems
Micro-/Nano-Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS/NEMS) based novel biomedical devices
Metallised encapsulant for silicon PV modules: A path to reduced LCOE for PV
Medical image segmentation
Measurement of high-flux irradiation
Luminescence studies of thin films in silicon photovoltaics (PhD project)
Low-cost carbon based electrode for solar cells
Kinetic and rheological studies of CO2 semi-clathrate hydrates for cold storage air-conditioning systems
In-bed human pose analysis (multimodal data visible, thermal and pressure): 3 students
Improving search engine efficiency with emerging memory and storage
Hydrogenation of defects in high efficiency n-type silicon solar cells (PhD project)
Humanitarian Engineering Education
Humanitarian Engineering
Human-Unmanned Aerial Vehicle interactions: Making drones talk and listen Audio & Acoustic Signal Processing
Household Water Treatment in Timor-Leste
High-temperature solar thermal energy storage via manganese-oxide based redox cycling
High-temperature sodium-based energy collection and storage
High-tech Biodiversity Rescue Audio & Acoustic Signal Processing
High-density hydrogen storage by novel nanomaterials (PhD Project)
Hand gesture recognition from virtual hand data
Formally Verified Vote Counting: The case of Fractional Transfer Values
Flood intelligence systems for rural communities
Extension of entanglement analysis to obtain topological descriptors
Exploring Checkpointing for Java on Persistent Memory
Entangled Quantum Photon Sources based on Optical nonlinearities in 2D crystals
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Dynamic hand gesture recognition for medical application: 1 student
Driving increased efficiency and reliability in silicon photovoltaics - from ingots to modules
Cutting-edge laser processing techniques for bifacial silicon solar cells (PhD project)
CONSORT: Consumer Energy Systems Providing Cost-Effective Grid Support
Community-focused Flood Mitigation and Warning Systems
Clathrate hydrate cold storage for solar air conditioning
Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of 2-dimensional organic-inorganic perovskite semiconductors
Characterisation of concentrator surfaces using deflectometry
Characterisation and Modelling of silicon-perovskite tandem solar cell
Camera-based heart rate estimation: 1 student
Building Australia's Electric Vehicle Fast Charging Infrastructure
Bladed receivers with active airflow control
Atomically thin opto-electronic devices (LED, solar cells) and/or mechanical devices based on novel two dimensional nano-materials
ASTRI: Improving performance of high-temperature receivers
ASTRI: Heliostat capital cost reduction
Ammonia-based energy storage
AI Planning for Cyber Red-Teaming
Advanced multicrystalline silicon for high efficiency solar cells (PhD project)
Advanced audio noise characterization and filtration for accelerated Automated Speech Recognition Audio & Acoustic Signal Processing
Adaptive Spot Welding Control
Active sound control and noise reduction over space Audio & Acoustic Signal Processing
Active noise control over space using Spherical Harmonic Domain/Wave Domain Signal Processing (SONY) Audio & Acoustic Signal Processing
3D scanning/depth technology for indoor applications (Use case – Logistic): 2 student
3D fitting optimisation

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