PhD supervision topic titles

Explore our research areas and diverse supervision opportunities available for prospective PhD candidates at Monash University, Indonesia. Our faculty members are actively seeking exceptional students to contribute to groundbreaking discoveries across a wide range of disciplines. On this page, you'll find a list of PhD supervision topics currently covered by our academics and research teams.

We encourage you to explore these topics thoroughly and reach out to potential supervisors to discuss your research interests and potential collaborations. Embark on a transformative academic experience that will challenge you, foster your growth, and empower you to make a lasting impact in your chosen field.

Faculty of Arts

Academic	Topic title
Associate Professor Dyah Pitaloka	New media, social change & justice Social, cultural & policy dynamics of digital technology (including: digital technology & wellbeing; socio cultural impact of Information, Communications & Technology) Disability, communications, and media Digital transformation and everyday life
Assistant Professor Sabina Puspita	The organization of pro-equality movements within and outside the state Gender politics in Northeast and Southeast Asia Sexual and gender-based violence in higher education Democratic institutions, government accountability, and political order
Assistant Professor Quinton Temby	Southeast Asian politics and technology policy Cultural evolution of technology and innovation Southeast Asian geopolitics and security US-China technology competition
Associate Professor Ika Idris	Policy narrative in the digital age Data and Information policy Digital literacy policy Digital governance in Indonesia
Assistant Professor Arran Ridley	Data ecologies of care: Data practices for care and community Visualization and climate change: Methods, outputs, toolkits, practice, etc Critical data questions, methods, and approaches for Indonesia, and SouthEast Asia Visual ,ethods, digital methods, critiques of modes of data extraction
Assistant Professor Aichiro Suryo Prabowo	Fiscal implications of weather-related disasters Climate finance: Perspectives from developing countries Budgetary politics in Indonesia and Malaysia Climate change as a policy agenda
Assistant Professor Perdana Putri Roswaldy	Energy transition policies and roadmap in Indonesia Sustainability in spatial planning Rural planning & sustainable future

Faculty of Business and Economics

Academic	Topic title
Associate Professor Yessy Arnold Perangin Angin	Indonesia’s capital market: Market efficiency, corporate governance, performance and ESG disclosure The role of foreign investors on emerging capital markets ESG embeddedness and firms' performance Trading rules and market efficiency
Associate Professor Ivan Butar	Workplace leadership, employee performance and wellbeing, and organizational performance Venture/Start-up: (a) Co/Founder's Behavior, (b) Playbook, (c) Business Models, and (d) Funding Options Scale development and validation Multilevel modeling in business/management research
Assistant Professor Harriman Saragih	Services marketing / service research B2B marketing / industrial marketing Qualitative exploratory methods (e.g. interviews, observations, netnography, machine learning)
Assistant Professor Sarah Gultom	Food security and poverty alleviation among farmers Urban and rural development Poverty, inequality, and social policy
Assistant Professor Triana Hadiprawoto	Navigating stages of customer journey in omnichannel retailing Experience exposed! Understanding customer experience through technology-mediated service interaction Film, food, and fashion: Popular culture impactful consumption Creativity and responsible marketing
Assistant Professor Joseph Natanael Marshan	Examining lifetime labour market outcomes Gendered labour market consequences of trade openness Business innovation, technology and changes in labour market Spatial aspect of labour market

Faculty of Information Technology

Academic	Topic title
Professor Taufiq Asyhari	Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) and Computational Intelligence (CI): IoT, data analytics, cybersecurity AI for environmental computing: Net-zero, renewable energy, biodiversity, disaster mitigation Human-centred AI: AI for digital health, intelligent transportation, digital twinning, digital manufacturing Foundation of machine learning: Information theory, ethical and explainable AI, big data
Associate Professor Risqi Saputra	Earth embeddings and geospatial intelligence: Applying AI to remote sensing applications Vision-Language(-Action) models for autonomous navigation, positioning, and mapping Model compression and edge intelligence Federated learning and distributed agents
Associate Professor Derry Wijaya	Multilingual/Multicultural Natural Language Processing Mechanistic interpretability for AI safety/trustworthiness Knowledge graph/neurosymbolic AI for good: Health/climate/policy
Assistant Professor Erza Aminanto	Enabling privacy-preserving Artificial Intelligence in smart city context Detecting cyber attacks using AI-based intrusion detection system Combating fatigue alert in security operation center Metrics for assessing security and privacy awareness
Assistant Professor Muhammad Johan Alibasa	Investigating the impact of cognitive load on user interactions with security systems Designing human-centered authentication systems that balance security and usability Automating secure software engineering with AI-powered code analysis Improving federated learning efficiency with adaptive privacy and security mechanisms
Assistant Professor Bayu Anggorojati	User security behavior based security mechanism: Improving user awareness and inclusivity Incorporating breach and attack simulation in human factor of cybersecurity IoT and Blockchain security in energy and environment sectors
Assistant Professor Vanya Valindria	Medical image analysis: Counterfactual, generative models, self-supervised learning Medical AI & digital health: Multi-modal disease diagnosis & prognosis Visual Language Models for Indonesian healthcare context Machine learning in computer vision

Faculty of Medicine, Nursing, and Health Sciences

Academic	Topic title
Associate Professor Grace Wangge	Clinical guidelines adaptation, implementation and governance in Asia Pacific Strengthening Digital Health Governance in resource constraint setting Real World Evidence in Drug Safety, especially among vulnerable population (women, children and elderly) Neglected tropical disease and (colonial) heritage of public health in Indonesia
Associate Professor Henry Surendra	Advanced analysis of infectious diseases surveillance data Climate changes and emerging risk of vector-borne diseases Modelling the epidemiology and treatment outcomes of TB Multi-disease serological surveillance and risk mapping
Associate Professor Claudia Stoicescu	Community-based participatory methods, respondent-driven sampling with stigmatized and criminalized populations Syndemics in global health; intersections between HIV, substance use, gender based violence, and mental health Social and policy determinants of health and drug use in stigmatized and criminalized populations (e.g. people who use drugs, LGBT) Harm reduction and drug policy evaluation
Assistant Professor Gabriela Fernando	Women's health and poverty in South and Southeast Asia using participatory methods Climate change and health among vulnerable population groups in South and Southeast Asia using participatory methods Gender, financial inclusion and health in South and Southeast Asia using participatory methods Non-communicable diseases and participatory research methods in South and Southeast Asia

Faculty of Art, Design, Architecture

Academic	Topic title
Professor Stephen Cairns	Agropolitan and minapolitan development in Monsoon Asia Design in time: incrementality, materiality and ad-hoc technologies Harnessing AI for emergent design practices Strategic design and planning for territorial scales
Assistant Professor Alyas Widita	Interaction between urban design/land use and transportation Impact evaluation of transportation infrastructure investment and large-scale urban projects Transportation Network Companies (TNCs) and ride-hailing across Indonesian cities Built environment analytics for cities and regions in emerging economies