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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 topic titles currently offered by our academics and research teams. These topics span various fields, including science, engineering, humanities, social sciences, and more, providing a wealth of options to align with your academic interests and career aspirations.
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.
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Marketing and Digital Communications (0020 - Faculty of Arts)
Academic Topic Title Dr. 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 Strategic Communications in a Digital Era Dr. Triana Hadiprawoto Technology-mediated Interaction: Omnichannel Experience, Service Interaction, and Sales Interaction Film, Food, and Fashion: Popular Culture Impactful Consumption or Business Retail Fatigue: The Impact of Retail Experience on Wellbeing Dr. 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 Methods, Digital methods, Critiques of Modes of Data Extraction
Public Policy and Management (0020 - Faculty of Arts)
Academic Topic Title Dr. 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 Dr. Quinton Temby Southeast Asian Politics and Technology Policy Cultural Evolution of Technology and Innovation Southeast Asian Geopolitics and Security US-China Technology Competition Dr. Ika Idris (not available until mid of 2026) Policy Narrative in the Digital Age Data and Information policy Digital literacy policy Digital governance in Indonesia
Business Innovation (0029 - Faculty of Business and Economics)
Academic Topic Title Dr. 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 Dr. Harriman Saragih
Services Inclusion and Transformative Service Research Business-to-Business / Industrial Marketing Management Services Marketing and Qualitative Exploratory Methods (e.g. Interviews, Observations, Netnography, Machine Learning) Dr. 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 Dr. Sarah Gultom
Food security and poverty alleviation among farmers Impact evaluation of poverty alleviation strategies Financial inclusion and literacy for poverty reduction Inequality and Inclusive Growth
Global Business (0029 - Faculty of Business and Economics)
Academic Topic Title Dr. 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
Public Health (0047 - Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences)
Academic Topic Title Dr. Henry Surendra, FRSPH 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 Dr. Gabriela Fernando Women's health and poverty in South and Southeast Asia Climate change and health among vulnerable population groups in South and Southeast Asia Gender, financial inclusion and health in South and Southeast Asia Non-communicable Diseases and participatory research methods in South and Southeast Asia Dr. 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 dr. Grace Wangge, PhD Tradition Meets Innovation: Culturally Sensitive Diabetes Prevention and Promotion for Women in LMICs Strengthening Digital Health Governance and Research Ecosystem in LMIC Improving drug development and drug safety methodology, practices and policies Adolescent mental health and climate change
Cybersecurity (0190 - Faculty of Information and Technology)
Academic Topic Title Dr. Bayu Anggorojati
User security behavior based security mechanism Incorporating breach and attack simulation in human factor of cybersecurity Dr. Muhamad 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 Dr. Rizka Purwanto Secure AI Enhanced Light Curve Analysis for Satellite Detection in Space Surveillance Federated Learning for Computationally-constrained Devices Dr. 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
Data Science (0190 - Faculty of Information and Technology)
Academic Topic Title Prof. Taufiq Asyhari
Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) and Computational Intelligence (CI): IoT, Data Analytics, Cyber Security 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 Dr. Derry Wijaya
Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI NLP for Good: Framing, Bias, Polarization, Mis/Disinformation, Climate Change Low Resource Natural Language Processing Dr. Arif Perdana
Building Bridges: Safeguarding Ethical and Legal Boundaries in the Human-AI Coexistence Era Digital Strategy and Transformation in Business Investigating the use of Technology (Blockchain, Generative AI; Predictive AI) in Industry: Challenges and Opportunities Harnessing AI for Fairness, Transparency, and Inclusive Growth in Financial Services Dr. Risqi Saputra Positioning and mapping for emergency response scenario with multimodal deep learning Advancing Remote Sensing Analysis with Deep Learning-based Computer Vision Efficient deep learning for edge computing applications Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Climate, Environment, and Earth Dr. Vanya Valindria Machine Learning for Medical Image Analysis Medical AI & Digital Health: Multi-modal Disease Diagnosis & Prognosis Multi-modal Large Language Models (LLMs) for Indonesian Healthcare context Generative AI: Multi-media (Image, Audio, and Video) Generation using Diffusion Models
Urban Design (1322 - Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture)
Academic Topic Title Dr. 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 Prof. 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
