Graduate researcher achievements

Established in 1998, the Mollie Holman Doctoral Award is named after the late pioneering physiologist Emeritus Professor Mollie Holman AO, in honour of her significant contributions to science and education.

Every year, ten medals are awarded to doctoral students, normally one from each faculty. Those who have fulfilled their degree requirements and presented the best thesis of the year.

The Mollie Holman Doctoral Awards are the highest academic honours the university bestows – marking recipients as researchers of the highest order.

• 2025 winner:
  • Dr Linhao Luo
• 2024 winner:
  • Dr Leona Holloway
• 2023 winner:
  • Dr Angus Hugh Dempster, Scalable Methods for Time Series Classification
• 2022 winner:
  • Dr Kirsten Thorpe, Unclasping the White Hand: Reclaiming and Refiguring the Archives to Support Indigenous Wellbeing and Sovereignty
• 2021 winner:
  • Dr Dinithi Navodhya Sumanaweera, Minimum Message Length Inference of Protein Alignments and Statistical Models of Amino Acid Evolution
• 2020 winner:
  • Dr Sojung Bahng, Cinematic VR as a reflexive tool beyond empathy
• 2019 winner:
  • Dr Chang Wei Tan, Time Series Classification at Scale
• 2018 winner:
  • Dr Jiangning Song, Predicting functional sites in proteins using intelligent machine learning and data mining techniques
• 2017 winner:
  • Dr Ye Zhu, Efficient Identification of Arbitrary Shape and Varying Density Clusters in high-dimensional Data
• 2015 winner:
  • Dr Zahraa Abdallah, Adaptive Activity Recognition Techniques with Evolving Data Streams
• 2013 winner:
  • Dr Michael Brand, Computing with arbitrary and random numbers
• 2012 winner:
  • Dr Yanir Seroussi, Text mining and rating prediction with topical user model
• 2011 winner:
  • Dr Ben Porter, A developmental system for organic form synthesis
• 2010 winner:
  • Dr Arun Mani, Correlation inequalities for Tutte polynomials
• 2009 winner:
  • Dr Rebecca Robinson, Characterisations and algorithms for topological containment of wheel graphs
• 2008 winner:
  • Dr Ferdous Sohel, Vertex-based shape coding framework
• 2007 winner:
  • Dr Benny Nasution, Trusted transaction secure network: Agent-based distributed security control system for traffic on the Internet
• 2006 winner:
  • Dr Gillian Oliver, Information in organisations: A comparative study of information cultures
• 2005 winner:
  • Dr Xiaozhe Wang, haracteristic-based forecasting for time series data
• 2004 winner:
  • Dr Iman Poernomo, Variations on a theme of Curry and Howard: The Curry-Howard isomorphism and the proofs-as-programs paradigm adapted to imperative and structured program synthesis
• 2003 winner:
  • Dr Livia Iacovino, Ethical-legal frameworks for recordkeeping: Regulatory models, participants and their rights and obligations
• 2002 winner:
  • Dr Linda Dawson, An investigation of the use of object oriented models in requirements engineering practice
• 2001 winner:
  • Dr Tao Chen, Adaptive order statistics based filters and transform domain filters for image restoration
• 2000 winner:
  • Dr David Wood, Three-dimensional orthogonal graph drawing
• 1998 winner:
  • Dr Milosh Ivanovich, Teletraffic modelling analysis and synthesis of a generic broadband multi-service Protocol