A campus wide multi-disciplinary program for PhD students using data science in their work.
About the program
The MCDS Doctoral Academy aims to bring together a campus wide multi-disciplinary cohort of PhD students (MCDS Doctoral Academy Fellows) to share their research, domain challenges and thoughts around the use, implementation and application of data science in their fields.
The Academy will support the Fellows through peer-learning opportunities, masterclasses, workshops, discussions, opportunities for presentations and more. Such a mixed environment will expose students to different disciplinary perspectives and stimulate the development of new approaches to the ways in which data science is incorporated in research.
The program is ideal for students who:
- Enjoy engaging in cross-disciplinary research skills development and desire to build practical skills
- Seek to explore ways that data science methodologies can be used and advanced within their research
- Appreciate building a community of young researchers who consider data science matters in their field at the University of Melbourne
2021 Doctoral Academy Fellows
- Kamal Akbari
Research: Spatial Causal Inference Analysis
Supervisor/s: Dr Martin Tomko and Prof Stephan Winter
School of Infrastructure Engineering
Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology - Prakut Chaubal
Research: Non Gaussianity and secondary Cosmic Microwave Background anisotropies in the South Pole Telescope data
Supervisor/s: Dr Christian L. Reichardt
School of Physics
Faculty of Science - Jean Linis Dinco
Research: Analysis of an ongoing conflict through the lens of media frames
Supervisor/s: Prof Robert Hassan and Dr Philip Pond
School of Culture and Communication
Faculty of Arts - Elliot Gould
Research: Reproducibility and transparency of model-based research in applied ecology and conservation decision-making
Supervisor/s: Dr Libby Rumpff, Prof Fiona Fidler, and Dr Hannah Fraser
School of BioSciences
Faculty of Science - Kaitlyn Hammond
Research: Natural disturbance-based models for silviculture in the Victorian Central Highlands
Supervisor/s: Prof Patrick Baker and A/Prof Craig Nitschke
School Ecosystem and Forest Sciences
Faculty of Science - Vivek Katial
Research: Instance Space Analysis of Quantum Optimisation Algorithms
Supervisor/s: Prof Kate Smith-Miles and Dr Charles Hill
School of Mathematics and Statistics
Faculty of Science - Shima Khanehzar
Research: A data driven model of agenda setting in Australian politics
Supervisor/s: Prof Andrew Turpin and Dr Gosia Mikolajczak
School:
Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology - Sombol Mokhles
Research: An Evidence-based Approach to Climate Change Experimentation in International City Networks
Supervisor/s: Dr Kathryn Davidson and Prof Michele Acuto
School of Architecture, Building and Planning
Melbourne School of Design - Elle Pattenden
Research: An examination of the motivations underlying, and consequences of, social network dynamics for the resolution of environmental collective action problems, using "gamified" experiments and simulations (agent-based models)
Supervisor/s: Prof Yoshihisa Kashima and A/Prof Andrew Perfors
Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences
Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences - James Paynter
Research: Time Domain Gravitational Lensing
Supervisor/s: Prof Rachel Webster
School of Physics
Faculty of Science - Ifrah Saeed
Research: Model-based and Hybrid Multiagent Reinforcement Learning in Internet of Things
Supervisor/s: Prof Tansu Alpcan and Dr Sarah M. Erfani
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology - Ann Ann Diana Tay
Research: Exploring embodied values in Singaporean paintings through technical examination and data analysis
Supervisor/s: Dr Nicole Tse and Prof Robyn Sloggett
Grimwade Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation
Faculty of Arts - Zhoufeng Ye
Research: Understanding breast cancer risk via an automated measure based on mammographic textural features: Cirrus
Supervisor/s: Prof John Hopper, Dr Shuai Li, Dr Gillian Dite, and Dr Tuong Linh Nguyen
Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
Faculty of Medicine, Dental and Health Sciences