Postgraduate students
Civil Engineering - Postgraduate students
Mr. Mohammed Al-Ameri
Research Interests:
Water and Stormwater Treatment, Soil Pollution
Ms. Sarah Al-Baiaty
Research Interests:
Gas sealing integrity of soil-cement-bentonite slurry cut-off wall
Mr. Md Alam
Research Interests:
Fabric evolution of granular soils subjected to triaxial loading using X-ray computed tomography.
Mr. Saeed Aligholi
Research Interests:
Rock Physics, Image processing, Geosciences, Fracture mechanics
Mr. Nazar Aljabar
Research Interests:
CFRP strengthening, Composite materials, Steel structures, Fracture mechanics
Ms. Maryam Alkaissy
Research Interests:
Quantitative Safety Risk measurements in Construction Modelling/ Simulation/ Optimization of Safety Risk
Mr. Hamed Allahyari
Research Interests:
Sustainable Concrete, Smart Materials, Artificial Neural Networks, Dynamics of Structures
Mr. Ahmed Almutairi
Mr. Mohsen Amraei
Research Interests:
Mohsen Amraei's Research Interests are in, Structural Engineering and High & Ultra-High Strength Steels.
Mr. Seyed Amin Assadzadeh Birjandi
Mr. Hassam Ayaz
Mr. Ali Azarnivand
Ms. Fatima Azhar
Research Interests:
Hydrodynamic and morphodynamic numerical modelling, river structures, flash floods
Mr. Rukshan Azoor
Research Interests:
Rukshan Azoor's Interests are in, Mining Engineering and Civil Engineering
Miss Avanthi Badulla Liyanage
Research Interests:
Investigation of applicability of using ScCO2 in enhanced geothermal systems
Mrs. Sareh Bahrololoom
Miss Balinee Balachandran
Ms. Natalie Barron
Research Interests:
Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD), Green Technology, Green Infrastructure, Hybrid Biofilters (Stormwater and Greywater Treatment), Urban Hydrology, Integrated Urban Water Management, Sustainable Urban Water Management for Developing Countries
Mr. Felipe Basquiroto de Souza
Research Interests:
Nano-reinforced cementitious composites; Interface characterization; Cement chemistry; Nano-materials and nano-mechanics
Mr. Milad Bazli
Research Interests:
FRP composites, Materials durability, Rehabilitation, Reliability
Miss Prudence Blake
Mr. Mark Burdett
Miss Zhenqi Cai
Miss Yifan Chen
Ms. Lynze Cheung
Mr. Li Chik
Research Interests:
Predicting water main failures using statistical methods
Mr. Conserdyne Christopher Luke
Research Interests:
Transit Ridership Impacts of Real Time Passenger Information
Mr. Yiqing Dai
Research Interests:
GFRP materials; BIPV
Mrs. Marcela Rafaela De Freitas Silva
Research Interests:
ecohydrology
Mr. Jianghua Deng
Research Interests:
Concrete structure; Crack identification; Structural health monitoring; Digital image processing; Deep learning
Mr. Matthew Diemer
Mr. Chenting Ding
Mr. Mohsen Ebrahimzadeh Hassanabadi
Research Interests:
Dynamics of Structures; Structural Control and Health Monitoring; Structural System Identification; Machine Learning
Mr. Mark Edmunds
Miss Jihane Elyahyioui
Ms. Nora Estgfaeller
Mr. Mohammadamin Farmani
Research Interests:
Fire and Post-Fire Behaviour of Steel Structures, Numerical Methods, Seismic Control Systems, Shape Memory Alloys
Mr. Kent Feng
Research Interests:
Water Sensitive Urban Design, Electro-chemical Oxidation, Photo-catalysis Disinfection Using Titanium Dioxide, Stormwater Harvesting, Bio-retention system, Urban Drainage
Mr. Shashika Madhusanka Gajanayake
Research Interests:
Methane gas extraction, Natural gas hydrates, CO2 sequestration
Ms. Penelope Galbraith
Research Interests:
Biofilters and WSUD, water decontamination, plant sciences, microbiology, molecular biology, interdisciplinary environmental sciences, microbial source tracking, public health
Mr. Dilanth Gardiya Punchihewage
Mr. Simone Gelsinari
Research Interests:
Hydrological models, with expertise in hydrogeological, surface and coastal modeling. Data fusion techniques and remote sensing data.
Mr. Frank (Ziyuan) Gu
Research Interests:
dynamic congestion pricing
Mr. Seyed Mostafa Hallaji
Mr. Homayoun Hamedmoghadam Rafati
Mr. Sobhan Hatami
Research Interests:
-Experimental & Modeling Study of Transport phenomena in porous media -CO2 Sequestration
Mr. Marcelo Henriques Da Silva
Mr. Songbo Hu
Research Interests:
Building Information Modeling (BIM) For Pre-Fabrication/ Modular Construction
Mr. Kai Huang
Research Interests:
Transport modelling
Miss Mengqi Huang
Mr. Nhat Huynh
Research Interests:
Soil liquefaction, Anisotropy, Constitutive model, Discrete Element Method (DEM), Smoothed-particle hydrodynamics (SPH)
Miss Filomena Innella
Ms. Shahi Islam
Ms. Taru Jain
Research Interests:
Travel Behaviour, Urban Planning, Shared Mobility, Environmental impacts of transport
Ms. Punthila Jayarathne
Miss Chathurika Jayasundara Mudiyanselage
Research Interests:
Unsaturated soil mechanics Constitutive modeling
Ms. Wenhua Jiang
Research Interests:
short-term rail passenger demand prediction
Mr. Minghe Ju
Ms. Juri Jung
Research Interests:
My research focused on pathogen removal from alternative water sources (greywater and stormwater) using passive filtration system from lab-scale to field scale.
Mr. Muhammadh M. Khalid
Mr. Kaushal Kabit Kishore
Mr. Lie Kong
Mr. Zhi Lau
Mr. Yu Lee
Mr. Xiang Lei
Mr. Jiashen Li
Mr. Jing Li
Research Interests:
Underground coal mining; Rock dynamics.
Ms. Jingrong Li
Research Interests:
Nonlinear guided wave based debonding detection for FRP-reinforced steel structures
Mr. Timothy Jia-Young Lim
Mr. Adam Lin
Mr. Junlin Lin
Research Interests:
Nano-reinforced cementitious composites
Mr. Solomon Tung Kit Lin
Mr. Jingwei Liu
Research Interests:
Highway and Pavement Engineering, Automated Maintenance, Building Information Modeling, Functional Pavement, Construction Material
Mr. Kai Liu
Research Interests:
Dynamic fracturing behaviours of geomaterials under multi-axial loadings Digital rock physics: micro X-ray computed tomography High-speed Digital Image Correlation
Mr. Yanming Liu
Mr. Yifeng Liu
Mr. Xuan Lu
Research Interests:
Sustainable materials for construction, testing and evaluation of road pavement materials, developing new testing methods for asphalt materials, road pavement design and management, modelling of road pavement performance
Mr. Zhaoyang Ma
Research Interests:
Molecular dynamics simulation; enhanced geothermal engineering; waterless fracturing
Ms. Chathuri Jayamali Maha Madakalapuge
Mr. Amir Mahawish
Research Interests:
Soil Stabilization, MICP process, calcium carbonate, Bacteria, Biogeochemical
Mr. Asheque Mahbub
Mr. Alberto Manarte Lopes Peixoto Neto
Ms. Udeshini Ishani Manatunga
Research Interests:
Adoption of non explosive expansive cements for rock fragmentation in deep geological rock formations.
Mr. Tushar Kanti Mandal
Research Interests:
Research interest: computational mechanics, phase field method of fracture, finite element method, numerical methods, continuum mechanics
Mr. Shahnaz Mansouri Jajaei
Miss Valentina Marchionni
Research Interests:
Water and wastewater asset management, Eco-hydrology
Mr. Andrea Massetti
Ms. Laura McCarthy
Mr. Mayer Melhem
Research Interests:
Australian Bridge Engineering, Structural Reliability Methods, Network Risk Management
Miss Mia Meng
Mr. Arash Mohammadipasikhani
Mr. Aria Moradshahi
Mrs. Likhitha Mundodi
Mr. Arun Kumar Murali
Research Interests:
X ray CT imaging, Discrete Element Modelling
Miss Kay Ng
Research Interests:
Investigating the use of biofilters for urban agriculture, The use of stormwater for irrigation of urban agriculture, Heavy metal uptake by vegetables cultivated in biofilters, Pathogen internalization in vegetables irrigated with stormwater
Mr. Jun Ngan
Mr. Duy Nguyen
Mr. Ha Anh Nguyen
Research Interests:
Transport Safety; Public Transport Planning and Management; Travel Behaviour.
Mr. Ky Tri Nguyen
Research Interests:
Shared mobility, Big Data
Mr. Thang Nguyen
Mr. Thi Phuong Chi Nguyen
Mr. Quoc Phan
Mr. Sameera Pitawala
Research Interests:
New pavement design approach for Foam Bitumen Stabilised pavement materials, Unsaturated soil mechanics, Hydro-geology.
Mr. Esmaeil Pournamazian Najafabadi
Research Interests:
Steel Structures, FRP materials, Seismic and wind control devices
Mr. Fauzan Pratomo
Mr. Jayaram Pudashine
Mr. Chengyu Qiu
Research Interests:
FRP (fiber reinforced polymer) composites for structural application, FRP-steel/concrete hybrid structure, Adhesive bonded connection, Finite element modelling, Steel structures
Mr. James Reynolds
Research Interests:
Transportation and traffic engineering, public transport, road safety, public policy.
Mr. Erfan Rezaei
Research Interests:
Gas Hydrate, Gas Separation Processes
Mr. Seyedali Rezaeikeneti
Ms. Keya Roy
Miss Sabah Sabaghy
Research Interests:
Downscaling passive microwave based soil moisture products via active and passive microwave and optical/thermal observations., Harmonising multi-sensor soil moisture retrievals., Soil moisture retrieval using both active and passive microwave observations.
Mr. Manoj Samarakoon
Research Interests:
Geopolymer cement, Waste materials based cement, Deep-well cementing
Mr. Robert Sargent
Miss Marianna Sebetova
Mr. Rahman Shafi
Mr. K. Mudiyanselage Adheesha Shashibhanu Bandara
Research Interests:
Investigation of the proppant embedment mechanism in reservoir rocks
Mr. Xiaoji Shen
Research Interests:
Microwave remote sensing; soil moisture retrieval
Mr. Baiqian Shi
Research Interests:
Stormwater quality modelling, integrated urban water management, water sensitive urban design (WSUD) and urban planning.
Mr. Mahbubul Siddiqee
Research Interests:
Environmental Microbiology, Metagenomics, VBNC State of Bacteria, Epigenetics, Bioinformatics, Bioremediation
Mr. Edward James Orazio Smith
Mr. Yuqi Song
Research Interests:
Sand Production, Discrete Element Method (DEM)
Ms. Tingwen Sun
Mrs. Atousa Tajaddini
Mrs. Afifa Tamanna
Research Interests:
Cutter oil for reducing viscosity of bitumen in sprayed seal, Modification of bitumen property, Nanotechnology
Ms. Maozhu Tang
Miss Piyumi Thilakarathna
Mr. Yongding Tian
Research Interests:
My research interests include vibration-based structural health monitoring, vision-based displacement/cable forces measurement, human-induced impact forces estimation with computer vision techniques, development of structural rapid testing method (i.e mass-changing strategy, moving mass technique) and corresponding algorithms .
Mr. Mayu Tincopa Heredia
Research Interests:
Liquefaction, Modelling numerical finite element, Data interpretation including geophysics, Thermal-Hydro-Mechanical behavior in geosynthetic clay liner, Insitu test by CPTu, Management and monitoring of geotechnical site investigation
Mr. Hieu Tran
Research Interests:
Geomechanics, THM Models, Unsaturated soil mechanics, Constitutive modelling
Mr. Minh Tran
Mr. Trung-Hieu Tran
Mr. Chanaka Udayakantha Senanayake
Research Interests:
Microstructural evolution of cement stabilized sand using X-ray computed tomography, Discrete element method
Mr. Radhika Vidanage De Silva
Research Interests:
non-explosive rock fragmentation, In-situ leaching of minerals,
Ms. Chuqi Wan
Mr. Bo Wang
Mr. Huachuan Wang
Mr. Wei Wang
Ms. Yingnan Wang
Research Interests:
Geomechanics, SPH, Constitutive Modelling
Ms. Dinesha Wanigarathna Jayasekara
Mr. Hesara Weliwitiya
Miss Chunliang (Lillian) Wu
Research Interests:
Traffic Simulation, Complex Networks in Transportation, GIS and Urban Planning, Big Data Mining and Traffic Emission
Mr. Gonglinan Wu
Mr. Dong Xiao
Mr. Lei Xie
Mr. Haozhe Xing
Mr. Edward Yang
Mr. Xupei Yao
Mr. Ye Yuan
Mr. Guanglei Zhang
Research Interests:
CO2 sequestration in deep coal seams, micro-scale characterisation of coal, digital rock analysis
Mr. Junyu Zhang
Ms. Lu Zhang
Ms. Qianhui Zhang
Mr. Xiaogang Zhang
Research Interests:
Enhanced Coalbed Methane recovery (ECBM), CO2 sequestration in deep coal seam
Ms. Yuxi Zhang
Mr. Jun Zhao
Mr. Liujun Zhu
Research Interests:
• High spatial resolution soil moisture retrieval from microwave remote sensing; • Calibration and validation of airborne radar system; • Machine learning and its application in remote sensing including image classification, change detection and soil moisture retrieval.