Forty-eight UNSW PhD graduates have been awarded the Dean’s Award for Outstanding PhD Theses

03 Jun 2021
Dean’s Award for Outstanding PhD Theses

The Dean’s Award for Outstanding PhD Theses recognises high quality PhD theses produced at UNSW.

To receive this award, candidates must produce a thesis that requires only minimal corrections, received outstanding and/or excellent levels of achievement for all examination criteria, and in the opinion of both examiners is in the top 10% of PhD theses they have examined. 

These graduates submitted their theses and were examined in Terms 2 and 3 of 2020, and Summer Term of 2021. The awards are listed below by Faculty.

“UNSW’s PhD candidates are a vital part of our research efforts and these awards recognise the outstanding theses examined in the last year,” said Professor Jonathan Morris, Pro Vice-Chancellor Research Training & Entrepreneurship and Dean of Graduate Research at UNSW Sydney. “Given the challenges faced in 2020, these graduates are commended for their wonderful achievements.”

 

Faculty of Arts, Design & Architecture

Joanna Burzynska

Tuning Sensory Terroir: Mapping correspondences between sound and wine in a crossmodal art practice

Elham Naeej

The Female Body in Contemporary Iranian Romance Novels: Repression and Resistance

Clare Nicholson

Speculative Obstetric Models: material remakings of historical anatomical models and contemporary epigenetic agency 

Qian Zhang

Key Influencing Factors of Corporate Social Responsibility Implementation in the Chinese Construction Industry

 

UNSW Business School

Emma McDaid

Algorithms at Work: Accounting Control and Labour Resistance in Platform Organisations

 

Faculty of Engineering

Mohammed Ayyoob Ahamed Hamza

Securing IoT Networks using Formal Behavioral Modeling and Dynamic Flow Management

Shantanu Chakraborty

Dynamic Traffic Assignment Models for System Optimal Future Mobility Analysis

Daniel Chen

Elucidating the Mechanics Behind Light- and Elevated Temperature-Induced Degradation in Silicon Solar Cells

Junyan Chen

Multifunctional Carbon Fibre Composite Battery

Hasindu Malshan Gamaarachchi

Computer Architecture-Aware Optimisation of DNA Analysis Systems

Nicholas Gurieff

Multiphysics Flow Battery Modelling and Optimisation

Ross Cho Chun Leon

One- and Two-Qubit Operations in Multielectron Silicon MOS Quantum Dots

Mo Li

Development and Application of Absolute Sustainability Assessment Methodology Informed by Planetary Boundaries

Qi Lin

Developing Wearable Applications with Innovative Sensing Modalities for Human Activity Recognition and Key Generation

Huasheng Lin

Reliable Estimation of Horizontal Stress Magnitudes from Borehole Breakout Data

Mateusz Tomasz Madzik

Two-qubit gates with ion-implanted phosphorus donors in silicon

You Peng

Path Analysis in Massive Networks

Hassaan Saadat

Design and Optimization of Approximate Multipliers and Dividers for Integer and Floating-Point Arithmetic

Ankita Singh

Computer vision and textural analysis for characterization of X-ray images of rocks

Chenhao Sun

The Theory of Wetting based on Topology and Integral Geometry

Kai Wang

Cohesive Structure Based Network Analysis: From Motif Level to Subgraph Level

Guoqing Wang

Unbiased Representation Learning Networks for Single Rainy Image Restoration

Sihao Xu

Photo-intiated Polymerization Induced Self-Assembly: A tool for simplified polymeric nanoparticle synthesis

Tao Yang

Enzyme Mimics for Nitric Oxide Delivery

 

Faculty of Medicine & Health

Dillon Adam

The Molecular Epidemiology, Evolution and Phylogeography of Viral Pathogens of Public Health Significance

Jonathan Berengut

Bio-Nano Robo-Mofos: Design and Synthesis of DNA Origami Nanostructures and Assembly of Nanobot Superstructures

Nicolette Birbara

Virtual learning resources for anatomy education: The learner, learning and instructional design

Mohamed Hammoud

Emerging practices and the potential to change HIV epidemiological trends: Pre-exposure prophylaxis as biomedical HIV prevention among gay and bisexual men who participate in chemsex

Pankaj Jain

Assessment of Left Ventricular Contractility and Loading Conditions Under Continuous-flow Left Ventricular Assist Device Support

David Anh Tu Nguyen

The neural control of breathing in health and respiratory impairment

Tony Pang

The Role of Circulating Pancreatic Stellate Cells and Circulating Tumour Cells in Pancreatic Cancer

Alexander Underwood

Characterising broad neutralising antibody responses in natural HCV infection

 

Faculty of Science

Cameron Allen

Advancing science to support national implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): evaluating progress, assessing interlinkages and modelling future transformations

Alyssa Gilbert

Understanding the effects of ionic liquids as solvents on reactions involving carbocation intermediates

Joshua Hamm

Investigation of the Physiology and Ecology of Antarctic Nanohaloarchaeota

Marc Teng Yen Hon

Deep Learning in Asteroseismology

Sidra Jilani

The Topology and Electronic Stability of Solvent-Rich Metallic Glasses

Cesar Menendez Muniz

First-principles study of the functionality of cobalt-based multiferroic oxides

Rose O'Dea

Variation in ecology and evolutionary biology: from phenotypes to meta-analyses

Constance Yunzhi Peng

The role of dopamine in aversive learning

Karin Schaffarczyk McHale

Understanding how variation of the reagents affects ionic liquid solvent effects for substitution processes

Thomas Scheckter

Martingale Convergence Techniques in Noncommutative Integration

Weichang Wu

High-frequency phased array ultrasonic transducer

Zheng Xu

Genomic epidemiological studies of epidemic Bordetella pertussis

Yangyang Zhang

An Investigation of Domain Structures and Switching Behaviours in Ferroelectric Thin Films via In-situ Transmission Electron Microscopy Techniques

 

UNSW Canberra

Ismail Mohamed Ismail Ali

A Differential Evolution Algorithm for Generic Combinatorial Optimization Problems

Ahmad Jobran Al-Mahasneh

Evolving Neural Networks for Modeling and Control of Dynamic Systems

Yanan Liu

On several feedback control strategies in quantum systems

 

 

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