Postgraduate students
Civil Engineering - Postgraduate students
Mr. Faruk Ahmic
Research Interests:
Autonomous Vehicles, Driver Behaviour, Simulation Environments, Digital Twins, Machine Learning, Connectivity, Systems Engineering, Software R&D.
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. Saeed Aligholi
Research Interests:
Rock Physics, Image processing, Geosciences, Fracture mechanics
Ms. Maryam Alkaissy
Research Interests:
Quantitative Safety Risk measurements in Construction Modelling/ Simulation/ Optimization of Safety Risk
Mr. Hamed Allahyari
Research Interests:
Green/Sustainable Concrete, Waste Management, Self-Healing Concrete, Steel-Concrete Composite Structures, Perfobond Shear Connectors, Artificial Neural Networks, Dynamics of Structures
Mr. Ahmed Almutairi
Mr. Rashed Alsharif
Research Interests:
Energy optimization, Occupant behaviour
Mr. Shringi Ankit
Research Interests:
Mixed Reality in Construction, DfMA
Mr. Hamed Ashrafi
Research Interests:
Ultra-High Strength Steel, Composite materials.
Mr. Hassam Ayaz
Mr. Ali Azarnivand
Ms. Fatima Azhar
Research Interests:
Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) Flash Floods Hydrodynamic and Morphodynamic Numerical Modelling
Miss Avanthi Badulla Liyanage
Research Interests:
Investigation of applicability of using ScCO2 in enhanced geothermal systems
Mrs. Sareh Bahrololoom
Miss Balinee Balachandran
Research Interests:
Development of building materials for sustainable construction industry
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
Miss Zhenqi Cai
Mr. Cheav Por Chea
Research Interests:
Robotic construction, Reciprocal frame structure, FRP structure, Dual lateral force-resisting system
Miss Liuxin Chen
Miss Yifan Chen
Ms. Lynze Cheung
Mr. Aakash Chhabra
Research Interests:
Multi-sensor based bushfire monitoring and prediction.
Mr. Conserdyne Christopher Luke
Mr. Yiqing Dai
Research Interests:
GFRP materials; BIPV
Mrs. Marcela Rafaela De Freitas Silva
Research Interests:
ecohydrology
Miss Tamara Lee De Losa
Research Interests:
Acid mine drainage remediation; Passive systems; Phytomining;
Mr. Senarathna Asanka Sanjeewa Kumara De Silva
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 Health Monitoring; System Identification; Machine Learning
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. 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. Simone Gelsinari
Research Interests:
Hydrological models, with expertise in hydrogeological, surface and coastal modeling. Data fusion techniques and remote sensing data.
Mr. Matthew Greenough
Mr. Ma Guodong
Research Interests:
SPH method, erosions in soils, constitutive model
Mr. Seyed Mostafa Hallaji
Research Interests:
Building Information Modelling (BIM) for Urban Water Infrastructure and Energy Sustainability.
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:
Shared mobility Transport modelling Logit regression analysis
Miss Mengqi Huang
Mr. Osama Hussain
Mr. Nhat Huynh
Research Interests:
Soil liquefaction, Anisotropy, Constitutive model, Discrete Element Method (DEM), Smoothed-particle hydrodynamics (SPH)
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
Research Interests:
Rock Mechanics; Composite Structure; Dynamic Fracturing; Rock Fragmentation; Deep Mining
Mr. Muhammadh M. Khalid
Mr. Kaushal Kabit Kishore
Research Interests:
Use of Ground Penetrating Radar for moisture estimation within pavement layers.
Mr. Lie Kong
Mr. Zhi Lau
Mr. Thanh Vinh LE
Mr. Yu Lee
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. 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. Yifeng Liu
Mrs. Janethri Liyanage
Research Interests:
Molecular level hydration and energy distribution determination of non explosive expansive cement for deep earth rock fragmentation
Miss Runyu Lu
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; nanoindentation tests; inverse analysis
Ms. Chathuri Jayamali Maha Madakalapuge
Mr. Amir Mahawish
Research Interests:
Soil Stabilization, MICP process, calcium carbonate, Bacteria, Biogeochemical
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
Mr. Jianxiong Miao
Mr. Kaveh Mirzaei
Research Interests:
Artificial Intelligence in Construction Industry Point Cloud Processing Construction Engineering and Management Building Energy Retrofit
Mr. Arash Mohammadipasikhani
Research Interests:
Supply Chain Management and Logistics, Network Design, Traffic Assignment, Pavement Materials.
Miss Mobarakeh Mohammadpour
Research Interests:
Characterization of Rock and Coal Mechanical Properties, Coupled Geomechanics, Data Science and Big Data Analysis
Mr. Aria Moradshahi
Mrs. Likhitha Mundodi
Mr. Arun Kumar Murali
Research Interests:
X ray CT imaging, Discrete Element Modelling
Mr. Chi 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
Miss Thi Mai Nguyen
Research Interests:
Remote sensing, Soil moisture, Road construction
Mr. Taeho Oh
Mr. Quoc Phan
Mr. The Danh 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:
I am working on a industrial project in collaboration with CoatesHire PTY LTD. The focus of the project is development of state of art temporary structural support systems. In addition, I have a wide research background including seismic and wind energy damping systems and fibre reinforced polymer.
Mr. Fauzan Pratomo
Research Interests:
Rock Mechanics, Rockbursts, Underground mining
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
Ms. Keya Roy
Mrs. Safoura Salehi
Mr. Manoj Samarakoon
Research Interests:
Alkali-activated materials (AAMs), Waste materials-based cement, Deep-well cementing
Mr. Robert Sargent
Miss Marianna Sebetova
Miss Harini Senadheera
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; Microwave radiometry; Soil moisture retrieval;
Miss Daiheng Shen
Mr. Baiqian Shi
Research Interests:
Stormwater quality modelling, integrated urban water management, water sensitive urban design (WSUD) and urban planning.
Miss Xixi Shi
Mr. Zhoufeng Shi
Research Interests:
structure health monitoring
Mr. Nikhil Avneet Singh
Research Interests:
Advanced signal processing, microprocessor applications, advanced analog design. artificial intelligence
Mr. Suthakaran Sivagnanasuntharam
Research Interests:
Intelligent Compaction, Asphalt Pavements,
Mr. Edward James Orazio Smith
Mr. Yuqi Song
Research Interests:
Sand Production, Discrete Element Method (DEM), Computational Fluid Dynamics, Granular Dynamics.
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
Mr. ZHAO QING TANG
Research Interests:
Nano-reinforced cementitious composites; Nanoporomechanics; Waste materials; Nano-materials
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. Amir Tophel
Research Interests:
Currently exploring different techniques to estimate the density of soil non-destructively i.e. without sampling.
Mr. HOAI TRUC TRUONG
Research Interests:
Localised failure in granular material considering anisotropy, Discrete Element Method (DEM), Smoothed-particle hydrodynamics (SPH).
Mr. Chanaka Udayakantha Senanayake
Research Interests:
Microstructural evolution of cement stabilized sand using X-ray computed tomography, Discrete element method
Mr. Michael VON'T STEEN
Ms. Chuqi Wan
Mr. Bo Wang
Mr. Huachuan Wang
Ms. Dinesha Wanigarathna Jayasekara
Mr. Hesara Weliwitiya
Miss Chunliang (Lillian) Wu
Research Interests:
Traffic Simulation, Traffic Control, Complex Networks in Transportation, GIS and Urban Planning, Big Data Mining and Traffic Emission
Mr. Gonglinan Wu
Mr. Dong Xiao
Research Interests:
Transportation Planning Public transport Built Environment
Mr. Edward Yang
Mr. Kai Yang
Mr. Xupei Yao
Mr. Mustafa Can Yasar
Research Interests:
Phase-field, Fracture and Rock Mechanics. Data-driven fracture mechanics. Rick and Morty.
Mr. Bo Zhang
Research Interests:
Foam flow with proppants in fractures. CFDEM/OpenFOAM/LIGGGHTS
Mr. Guanglei Zhang
Research Interests:
CO2 sequestration in deep coal seams, micro-scale characterisation of coal, digital rock analysis
Mr. Junyu Zhang
Mr. Yiming Zhang
Ms. Yuxi Zhang
Mr. Jun Zhao