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 |
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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 |
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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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