PhD Student Webpages

Students in the School are conducting research on a variety of topics. Here, they are listed in alphabetical order.
As a young School, we do not have a large number of alumni yet, but we're making progress...

	Name Topic (keywords) Start Date Abhinav Agrawal Empirical Theory of Software Evolution 2004 Abhishek Agrawal Rule generation using evolution computation 2003 Antoinette Ahiable Dissecting Software, the Questions: The Why, How, When, What and possibly Who? 2003 Javed Anjum Web-based Hypermedia using Knowledge Management 2004 Saurabh Bansal Quality of service for wireless multimedia networks 2002 Stephen Batty Development of medical image database 2001 Rachid Bencheikh Remote identity authentication systems 2002 Moty Ben-Dov Improve knowledge discovery by combining text-mining and link-analysis techniques 2000 Richard Bowles An investigation into the capabilities and limitations of cellular assemblies, specifically in relation to the variable binding problem p/t Lindsey Brodie Impact Estimation 2004 George Buchanan User tools for digital libraries 2000 Michael Cheng Mobile Wireless Network 2003 Veronica Davis Perkins Imaging the past: methodologies, effects, and issues arising from digitising historic photograph collections 2002 Saeed Dedhani Hybrid technology integrating changeable text and multiple choice questions to support dynamic self-assesment and assignment handling 2003 Wantao Deng Text classification under semantic meaning 2000 Lynette Drevin Narrative and ante-narrative methods in the analysis of IS failures 2003 John Donaldson Systems failure in rapidly developing areas of information technology 1999 Cristian Donciulescu Web services security 2002 Ioannis Doumanis Development of an anthropomorphic agent system for retail electronic commerce 2002 Constadinos Dovas Video Surveillance Using an Intelligent Camera Array 2004 Agozie Eneh Pre-emptive and Corrective Security System Model for Computer Networks 2003 Ahmad Estabraghy Patterns of software project failure 2002 Michael Foster The application of a Tesla type pump as a blood pump 2000 Andrew Georgiades Critical Analysis of Security in Wireless Applications Leading to the Development and Implementation of a Wireless Security Solution 2002 Hany Ghaffar E-Commerce Infrastructure opportunities and challenges in Egypt 2004 Hina Ghalib Introducing Ignorance to Belief Networks 2004 Madjid Ghazi Microworld (MW) Simulation of Complex Systems 2004 Sara Gwynn The implications of new models of publishing on the business of academic information dissemination. 2000 Kunbin Hong Development of a detection system for identification of traffic signals 2000 Dmitri Iourinski Fuzzy Logic for Pattern Recognition and Information Fusion 2004 Jainaba Jagne Integrating cultural and social factors of the shopping metaphor, in the context of indigenous users, into eCommerce interface design 2003 Nan Jiang Neural networks in bioinformatics 2002 Mashuk Kabir A multimodal visualisation system for blind students using virtual reality 2003 Mohammad Mostafa Kamal An Intelligent Classification System: A Case Study for Landuse/Land cover Mapping Using Spaceborne Remote Sensing and GIS 2001 Ian Kenny An investigation into the creation of non-scripted, adaptive, responsive and flexible non-player characters for adventure and role playing games 2003 Tosca Lahiri How would compliance with relevant e-commerce standards influence a companies business strategy 2002 Julie Marshall Affective and Memorial Factors when using Assistive Technology 2003 Patrick Matambanadzo Finite element modelling of therapeutic intervention processes in virtual surgery 2001 Robert Maye Formal specification and a formal design methodology for implementing workflow systems p/t Manohar Menon Security advancement for IP telecommunication networks with image processing 2002 Shivani Mody Technical Writing 2003 Evangelos Moustakas Service provider responsibility for unsolicited commercial communication (Spam) 2001 Ming Nie Cultural issues in IT project management 1999 Dili Ojukwu A Blueprint for achieving a more sustainable economic development in developing economies: the B2B electronic commerce model 2004 Viviane Orengo Cross language information retrieval on digital libraries 1999 Jim Otieno An investigation of the challenges facing enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems implementation and maintenance 2004 Mary Otieno IT Projects failure in the UK Public Sector: A Look at the critical success factor 2004 Nikolaos Papamichail Security in Jini technology 2002 Theodoros Paraskevopoulos Usability of Internet Search Engines p/t John Platts Story writing p/t Yu Qian Image compression 2001 Amala Rajan Artificial Intelligence Planning using Qualitative Spatial Reasoning and Object Oriented Programming Principles using .Net languages 2004 Saif ur Rehman Virtual reality laparoscopic surgery simulations 2002 Carl Reynolds Multimedia p/t Eustathios Sainidis Methodology for formulating and reviewing manufacturing strategies for small to medium enterprises 1999 John Salisbury What constitutes an engaging interactive experience? 2002 Birinder Sandhawalia Towards Effective Adoption of Collaborative Information Technologies 2003 Anja Schanzenberger Explorations in effective supervision of large, distributed and component-based systems 2002 Nallini Selvaraj Agent Based Computer Mediated Interaction and Shared Editor Design 2003 Abu Syeed Shah Incorporation of digital image processing techniques in electronic travel aids (ETAs) 2003 Fatema Shaikh Quality of Service Issues in Wireless Tele-surgical Applications 2004 David Silcott Distributed Operating System for High Performance Servers 2004 Mukesh Srivastava PhD by Published Works 2002 Hanna Stelmasewska New usability: evaluating user experience 2003 Kok-Fong Tan Information retrieval on the web Writing up Thomas Tan Information retrieval Writing up Dhawal Thakker Network Memory Server 2004 Huong Le Thanh Investigation into an approach to automatic text summarisation 2001 Marian Tuedor Using interactive multimedia software to articulate reading skills in children age 4-8 with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and severe learning disabilities (SLD) 2002 Lin Wang Thinking about failure of information system project in the perspective of people involved. 2002 Judy Wilson Computer support for a person's cognitive map in a navigational setting p/t Vooi Voon Yap Coding of synthetic images using wavelets 2002 Keh Kok Yong Robust parsing 2001 Yan Zhang Visualisation and enhancement of diagnostic images for brain EIT 2002

This table represents those who have already received their award.

	Name Topic (keywords) Award Received Yin Leng Theng Addressing the "lost in hyperspace" problem in hypertext PhD awarded 1997  Cecile Rigny Automatic generation of executable user models for evaluating the usability of interactive systems PhD awarded 1998 Skip Basiel Applied formative evaluation in the web-based environment MPhil awarded 1999 Daiquing Li Multichip module interconnections at microwave frequencies: electomagnetic simulation and material characterisation PhD awarded 1999 Doreen Ng Complexity in systems and user perceptions BPhil awarded 2000 Serengul Smith Machine learning and adaptive hypertext PhD awarded 2000 Lichun Wang Query processing in termporal object-orientated databases PhD awarded 2000 Kostas Giannakis Sound Mosaics: A Graphical User Interface for Sound Synthesis based on Auditory-Visual Associations PhD awarded 2001 Penny Duquenoy Management of Internet ethics PhD awarded 2001 Joanne Hyde Multimodal systems PhD awarded 2001 Haiyan Xiong Machine assisted proof PhD awarded 2002 Qusay H. Mahmoud Evolution of network computing paradigms: applications of mobile agents in wired and wireless networks PhD by Published Works Awarded 2002 Casper Nielsen A robust framework for medical image segmentation through adaptable class-specific representation PhD awarded 2002 Zhengrong Tian Investigation of multilayer microwave coupled line structures and characterisation of dielectric material PhD awarded 2002 Ajeet Singvi Good governance for sustainable superior manufacturing performance: a Novel road map and model EngD awarded 2002 Peter Stevens SOS defect characterisation using parasitic bipolar gain in MOSFETs PhD awarded 2003 Julian Page Factors affecting low temperature performance of zirconia gas sensors PhD awarded 2003 Kit Fai Pun A study of an integrated approach for strategy formulation and performance measurement in manufacturing enterprises PhD awarded 2003 Blay Whitby The social implications of Artificial Intelligence PhD by Published Works awarded 2003 Nawaz Khan Developing an intelligent, smart system for Genome database to model, store and retrieve using database query image intrepretation PhD awarded 2004