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Current students.

• Paria Jamshid Lou (PhD; associate supervisor)
• Farhad Amouzgar (PhD; supervisor)
• Tim Chard (PhD; supervisor)
• Shakila Tonni (PhD; supervisor)
• Pedro Faustini (PhD; supervisor)
• David Warren (PhD; supervisor)
• Nouna Khandan (PhD; supervisor)
• David Fraile Navarro (PhD; associate supervisor)
• Aung Kyaw Htet (MRes; supervisor)

Completed students.

• Luke Cayanan (MRes; supervisor)
• Yitao Liu (PhD; supervisor)
• Chakaveh Saedi (PhD; supervisor)
• Na Liu (MRes; supervisor)
• Georgie Kennedy (PhD; adjunct supervisor)
• Tim Chard (MRes; supervisor)
• Farhad Amouzgar (MRes; supervisor)
• Omid Mohamad Nezami (PhD; supervisor): now at Oracle
• Nick Reynolds (MRes; supervisor)
• Yasaman Motazedi (PhD; supervisor): now at Flamingo (AI start-up)
• Dat Quoc Nguyen (PhD; associate supervisor): now at University of Melbourne
• Azin Ramezani (MRes; supervisor): now at Commonwealth Bank
• Shervin Malmasi (PhD; supervisor): now at Harvard Medical School
• Teresa Lynn (PhD; supervisor): now at Dublin City University
• Sze-Meng (Jojo) Wong (PhD; supervisor): now at Monash University
  • thesis: Native Language Identification Incorporating Syntactic Knowledge
• Mary Gardiner (PhD; supervisor): now at the Ada Initiative
  • thesis: Natural Language Processing Methods for Attitudinal Near-Synonymy
• Pawel Mazur (PhD; associate supervisor)
• Stephen Wan (PhD; associate supervisor): now at CSIRO
• Elena Akhmatova (PhD; supervisor): now at ThreatMetrix
• Simon Zwarts (PhD; supervisor): now at Google Sydney
• Jean-Philippe Prost (PhD; associate supervisor): now at Université Montpellier 2
• Nirisha Shrestha (PhD; associate supervisor): now at Korala Associates Limited
• Stephen Gilmour (PhD; supervisor): now at Panania Anglican Church
• Andy Mutton (BSc(hons), class I and Avaya Prize for best performance in honours): now at Google Sydney
• Helena Koncek (BSc(hons), class II(1)): now at TCS Financial Solutions
• Brendan Reville (BSc(hons), class I and Lucent Prize for best performance in honours): now at Microsoft Xbox

To support some of my work, I've received the following funding.

1. 2022-2024: Centre for Advanced Defence Research in Robotics and Autonomous Systems (CADR RAS). Prof M Richardon, A/Prof R Kallen, A/Prof M Dras. Developing Robust Coordination and Communication Models for Multi-agent Human-Machine Teams. ($500,000)

2. 2022-2025: National Intelligence and Security Discovery Research Grants (NISDRG). Prof D Kaafar (lead CI), Prof S Berkovsky, Dr I Wood, A/Prof M Dras, Prof N Selvadurai. Fighting Global Phone Scams with Conversational AI. ($600,000)

3. 2021-2022: Oracle. A/Prof M Dras, Prof A McIver. Differential Privacy for Natural Language Processing. ($122,927)

4. 2021-2022: Defence Innovation Network, AI for Decision Making. Dr M Ryan, A/Prof Mark Dras. AI for natural language negotiation dialogue. ($20,000)

5. 2021: Digital Health CRC. A/Prof Dras, D Price, D Tomlin. Determining factors that influence substance abuse in patients with significant comorbidities. ($10,000)

6. 2020-2021: Digital Health CRC. A/Prof M Dras, Prof D Richards, Prof J Yang, Dr X Zhang, Dr B Arunasalam, Dr O Mohamad Nezami. Data science process for rule generation/ Using data science to detect claims leakage project description. ($68,029)

7. 2018-2019: CSIRO's Data61. A/Prof M Dras, O Mohamad Nezami. Explorations in Controlled Image Captioning. ($11,729)

8. 2019-2022: Digital Health CRC. A/Prof M Dras, Prof A McIver, Dr A Marashi, Dr F Girosi, D Price. Foundational data science for US Medicaid research ($373,500)

9. 2019: APR.Intern. A/Prof M Dras, M., O Mohamad Nezami, M Ovens. Real-time object detection and pattern recognition in images and video using computer vision and machine learning. ($20,500)

10. 2019-2023: Department of Defence HPRNet. Prof Michael Richardson, A/Prof Rachel Kallen, A/Prof Mark Dras, Prof Erik Reichle, Dr Patrick Nalepka. Developing Responsive and Adaptive Artificial-Agents for Team Training . ($480,000)

11. 2019: MQ RISS - Macquarie University. Dr Mauricio Marrone, Prof Amanda Barnier, A/Prof Mark Dras, Prof Michael Gillings, Prof Lesley Hughes, Prof Martina Linnenluecke, Prof Kathryn Millard, Prof David Rooney, Prof Tom Smith. Bridging the cross-disciplinary gap: Development of a consilience tool. ($95,000)

12. 2018-2019: Defence Innovation Network (DIN). Dr Len Hamey, Prof Salim Bouzerdoum, Prof Christian Ritz, A/Prof Son Lam Phung, Dr Le Chung Tran, Prof Andre van Schaik, Dr Yi Guo, A/Prof Mark Dras, Prof Mehmet Orgun. Classification of sonar snapshot images for autonomous underwater vehicle on-board processing. ($45,866)

13. 2017-2019: Collaborative Research Project - CSIRO. Prof Annabelle McIver, Prof Dali Kaafar, A/Prof Mark Dras. Mathematical Foundations for Privacy-Preserving Techniques and Obuscation in Text Analytics. ($97,619)

14. 2017-2021: Collaborative Research Project - CSIRO. A/Prof Mark Dras, Dr Diego Molla, Dr Stephen Wan, Dr Sarvnaz Karimi, Dr Cecile Paris. Insights from Text and Social Computing. ($74,000)

15. 2013: MQ Safety Net Grant - Macquarie University. A/Prof M Dras. The Intersection of Second Language Acquisition and Native Language Identification ($25,000)

16. 2013: MQSIS Research Infrastructure Block Grant - Macquarie University. A/Prof M Dras, Prof M Johnson, Prof B Mans, Dr D Molla, Dr M Honnibal. A GPU-based Cluster for Computing ($76,885)

17. 2010-2012: ARC Discovery Grant - Australian Research Council (DP1095443). Dr M Dras, Dr MM Turpin, Dr O Rambow, Prof R Dale. Natural Language Generation for Aboriginal Languages ($425,000)

18. 2010: MQSIS Research Infrastructure Block Grant - Macquarie University. Dr M Dras, Prof R Dale, Prof M Johnson, Dr D Molla, Prof B Mans, Prof M Orgun, Dr A Nayak, Dr S Zwarts. A High Performance Cluster for Computing ($60,000)

19. 2009-2010: Microsoft Research Asia Research Grant. Dr S Zwarts, Dr M Dras, Prof R Dale. Statistical Machine Translation with Morphological Preprocessing for Asian Languages ($US30,000)

20. 2007-2010: ARC Linkage Research Grant - Australian Research Council (LP0776267). Dr PA Watters, Mr BK Watson, Dr AC Ng, Dr M Dras, Dr S Cassidy, Mr S McCombie, Mr BJ Reardon, Prof JP Pieprzyk. Defence Against Phishing Attacks ($231,000)

21. 2005-2008: ARC Linkage Research Grant - Australian Research Council (LP0561985). A/Prof MA Orgun, Dr M Dras, Dr WJ Graco, Dr WQ Lin. Classification and Prediction Modelling for Financial Distress, Tax Debt and Insolvency for ATO Clients ($72,000)

22. 2005-2007: ARC Discovery Research Grant - Australian Research Council (DP0558852), Dr D Richards; Dr M Kavakli; Dr M. Dras, Risk Management using Agent-Based Virtual Environments ($363,000).

Last updated 15 March 2022