BEST PhD / MASTERS BY RESEARCH THESIS AND PUBLICATION EXCELLENCE AWARDS
2024: Dr Christopher P Davey: Excellence in Doctoral Research for a best PhD Thesis
2024: Dr Cherie O-Sullivan: Excellence in Doctoral Research for a best PhD Thesis
2024 Dr Salvin Prasad: Excellence in Doctoral Research for a best PhD Thesis
2024 Dr Lionel Joseph: Excellence in Doctoral Research for a best PhD Thesis
2023 Dr Lakmini Jayasinghe: Excellence in Doctoral Research for a best PhD Thesis
2022 Dr Ekta Sharma: Excellence in Doctoral Research for a best PhD Thesis
2022 Dr A. A. Masrur Ahmed: Excellence in Doctoral Research for a best PhD Thesis
2021 Mohammed Moishin: Excellence in Masters Research for a best Masters Degree Thesis
2020 Dr Mohand AL-Musaylh: Excellence in Doctoral Research for a best PhD Thesis
2020 Dr Sujan Ghimire: Excellence in Doctoral Research for a best PhD Thesis
2020 Dr Mumtaz Ali: Excellence in Doctoral Research for a best PhD Thesis
2019 Dr Thong Nguyen: Excellence in Doctoral Research for a best PhD Thesis
2020 Dr Mohand AL-Musaylh: 2020 FIRST PRIZE= Student Publication Excellence Award. Download the paper
2020 Dr Mumtaz Ali: 2020 FIRST PRIZE= Student Publication Excellence Award. Download the paper
2020 Dr Ramendra Prasad: 2020 FIRST PRIZE= Student Publication Excellence Award. Download the paper
2020 Dr Sujan Ghimire: 2020 FIRST PRIZE= Student Publication Excellence Award. Download the paper
2019 Dr Mohanad AL-Musaylh: 2019 USQ Student Publication Excellence Award (SECOND PRIZE). Download the paper
2019 Dr Sujan Ghimire: 2019 USQ Student Publication Excellence Award (THIRD PRIZE). Download the paper
2019 Dr Thong Nguyen: 2019 USQ Unit-Specific Publication Excellence Award (THIRD PRIZE). Download the paper
Master of Science Best Thesis (Awarded with Distinction)
2023 Alexey Zavitaev – High Distinction
2023 Keral Sidal – High Distinction
2022 Caitlin Nicholas
2021 Christopher Davey – Distinction
2019 Sagthitharan Karalasingham – Distinction
2018 Shobna Prasad – Distinction
2018 Dilki Balalla – Distinction
2018 Bhuwan Chand – Distinction
2018 John Worral – Distinction
2018 Neelesh Sharma – Distinction
2018 Harshna Gounder – Distinction
End-User INDUSTRY INTERNSHIPS AND INDUSTRY-BASED PhD RESEARCH
2025-2028 Mohammed Nafizul Islam Chowdhury Nayan, Cogninet AI (Education) Project
2022-2025 Janifer Jui Jabin, Cogninet AI (Health) Project
2022-2025 Shuting Xu, Cogninet AI (Health) Project
2022-2024 Sanjeev Sharma Cogninet AI (Education) Project
2021-2026 David Mojarrango Jesus, Cogninet AI (Education) Project
2022-2025 Leyde Briceno Medina, CSIRO Environment Project
2020-2022 Farina Riaz, CSIRO Data61 Project
2021 Daran Karalasingham: Senetas Corporation
2021 Abul Masrur Ahmed: CS Energy
2020 Farina Riaz: CSIRO Industry Top-up Scholarship 2021-2023
2020 Ekta Sharma: Australian Defence Science and Technology Group (DSTG)
2019 Dr Mohanad AL-Musaylh: Australian Bureau of Statistics
2019 Dr Andrew Ermakov: Queensland Government
MEDIA & RESEARCH IMPACT NEWS!
2022 Dr Ekta Sharma, with Professor Ravinesh Deo, has been awarded Australian Office of National Intelligence Postdoctoral Grant worth $349,962.
Dr Ekta Sharma will undertake a 2-year project in The Internet of Space Things–Commercial Grade Radios (Power-efficient Coded-Modulation Schemes for LEO Satellite Communication). The project will be particularly favourable to delay-sensitive applications such as military communications as the protection of data privacy and security can be significantly enhanced and latency and communication overheads also improve massively. It will build a smart next-generation technology and develop a artificial intelligence-based software architecture for power-efficient error correction codes and coded modulation schemes. The artificial intelligent architecture will be a secured, communication-efficient and privacy-preserving paradigm of decentralised learning, where User Environments can collaboratively build a learning model while leaving the training data locally. The scheme was nationally competitive with < 5 projects awarded Australia-wide.
2022 Professor Ravinesh Deo, with Chris Davey has been awarded the Artificial Intelligence for Decision Making (AI4DM) Challenge Grant – $30,000.
Under Prof Deo, Chris Davey will undertake a 2-year project in Identification of significant field types and boundaries in unfamiliar network protocols: Sequential field tokenisation and type classification. The project collaborates with DSTG, Adelaide. We aim to show that the proposed modelling approach is able to extract detailed information for the byte boundaries and estimated data types describing the structure contained
within “known” network packet payloads. As well as to demonstrate the feasibility of such an approach in learning to generalise about the structure of “unknown” network protocols. The resulting structured data can be leveraged as part of a larger data processing pipeline in the higher level task of automatically identifying and characterising events occurring within a networked command and control system. Ideally, at the outcome of this project we aim to provide a transferrable methodology and set of processes that will enable our collaborators to further their own research objectives. The scheme was nationally competitive with only 2 projects awarded for Queensland recipients.
Media Coverage
Australian Cybersecurity Magazine,
2021 Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher, top 1%
Professor Ravinesh Deo has been named in the Clarivate 2021 Highly Cited Researchers List!
This is a list of elite scientists and social scientists selected for exceptional research performance, as demonstrated by production of multiple highly cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field.
Prof Deo’s papers rank in the top 1% by citations for field and publication year in the Web of Science citation index.
2023, 2022, 2021 & 2020 Stanford University’s Top 2% of World Scientists
Professor Ravinesh Deo, Dr Mumtaz Ali and Professor Zaher M Yaseen have been named in the top 2% of World Scientists by Stanford University’s impact analysis team.
Making waves: AI researchers answer the call to help develop intelligent radio system:
Professor Ravinesh Deo, from the University of Southern Queensland (USQ), has mentored five PhD students through the APR.Intern program. Following a successful project between his student, Ekta Sharma, and Defence Science & Technology Group (DST) in February, Professor Deo is now co-leading an innovative research partnership between USQ and DST to develop highly advanced artificial intelligence for a radio system that will transform the way soldiers communicate on the battlefield.
Could artificial intelligence transform the battlefield?
University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ) researchers have been called on to develop highly advanced artificial intelligence for a revolutionary radio system that will transform the way soldiers communicate on the battlefield. The University has partnered with Australian Department of Defence to build an intelligent tactical communication system that understands hostile operating environments and autonomously generates algorithms to enable secure, uninterrupted communications for defence applications.
AI researchers develop world-leading pain detection technology
More often than not, doctors and nurses have to rely on patient self-reporting when making important pain management decisions, but a new artificial intelligence approach is now aiming to change that traditional practice. Researchers from the University of Southern Queensland have developed what they claim is one of the world’s most accurate pain detection
Research Awards
2024 Stellar Award Recipient
Awarded by the Dean (Learning and Teaching Futures), Professor Ravinesh Deo has been formally acknowledged by students in the recent UniSQ Stellar Awards. This award recognises outstanding contributions by staff who have made a significant impact on students learning journeys.
2024 Outstanding School Research Performance Award
Professor Ravinesh Deo has received the School of Mathematics, Physics and Computing outstanding research performance award.
2023 Outstanding School Research Performance Award
Professor Ravinesh Deo has received the School of Mathematics, Physics and Computing outstanding research performance award.
2022 School Research Performance Award
Professor Ravinesh Deo has received the School of Mathematics, Physics and Computing research performance award.
2021 Excellence in Research
Professor Ravinesh Deo has received an Excellence in Research Award exceptional ongoing commitment to meeting the University’s research goals, excellent research career track record with very high volume of publications and citations, and extensive research funding secured for the University.
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2020 Ronel Erwee Memorial Award for Excellence in Postgraduate Research Supervision
Professor Ravinesh Deo has received an Excellence in Higher Degree Supervision award for exceptional supervision, service excellence, relationship, management, innovative mechanisms to ensure operation throughout challenging situations, including ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and ongoing commitment to meeting the University’s research goals.
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2020 Faculty of Health Engineering and Sciences (HES) Excellence in Research
Professor Ravinesh Deo was awarded the Faculty of Health Engineering and Science Excellence in Research for productive research and leadership in meeting the Faculty and University’s research goals.
Student External Grants
2019 Ekta Sharma: CHOOSEMATHS Grant by Australian Mathematical Society (AMSI) Optimise Conference, $2,200. Ekta was the ONLY Queensland Recipient. This achievement was showcased in Australian Government Report by AMSI. Click Here to Read. The news was featured in AMSI Annual Report 2019 highlighting importance of academia and industry, Australian female students and early career researchers.
2018 Elizabeth McCarthy: CHOOSEMATHS Grant by Australian Mathematical Society (AMSI) Workshop Brisbane 2018 $2,400
