People

• Professor Mark Sanderson (Information Retrieval, Text and User Analytics)
• Associate Professor Xiuzhen (Jenny) Zhang (Information Retrieval, Text and User Analytics)
• Associate Professor Lawrence Cavedon (IR, Text and User Analytics)
• Dr Andy Song (Machine Learning, Optimization)
• Dr Flora Salim (Sensor nets, Data and User Analytics)
• Dr Zhifeng Bao (Information Retrieval, Data Management, Visualized Data Exploration and Analytics)
• Dr Jeffrey Chan (Machine Learning, Data Mining, Social Networks, Network Security)
• Dr Ke Deng (Urban computing, Data Management and Analytics, Social Networks)
• Dr Xiangmin (Emily) Zhou (Social Analytics, Multimedia Database and Streams, Query Processing and Optimisation, Cloud Data Management)
• Associate Professor Falk Scholer (User Analytics)
• Dr Shane Culpepper (Data Structures)
• Dr Yongli Ren (Spatial Data and Recommender Systems)

Postdoctoral researchers

• Dr Damiano Spina
• Dr Ruey-Cheng Chen
• Dr Jessie Nghiem

Research training (PhD)

The lab will also foster and train a new generation of researchers and research fellow experts in Big Data and Data Analytics and promote a culture of networking with other research centres, labs, and industry partners, at a national and international level.

Name: Omid Aghili
Main supervisor: Professor Mark Sanderson
Topic: A Pioneering Intrinsic and Extrinsic Evaluation Approach for the Tweet Sear and Result Summarization in the Social Media System

Name: Misfer Aldosari
Main supervisor: Professor Mark Sanderson
Topic: Collaborative Mobile Location-based Search

Name: Iman Amini
Main supervisor: Professor Mark Sanderson
Topic: IR Approach to Connect Medical Papers to Clinical Records

Name: Farhana Choudhury
Main supervisor: Professor Timos Sellis
Topic: Spatial-textual query processing

Name: Ms Lishan Cui 
Main supervisor: Associate Professor Jenny Zhang
Topic: Topic modelling of social media data

Name: Oshini Goonetilleke
Main supervisor: Professor Timos Sellis
Topic: Data Management for Twitter Analytics

Name: Husna Sarirah Husin
Main supervisor: Associate Professor James Thom
Topic: News recommender based on web usage and web content mining

Name: Mr Mingzhao Li 
Main supervisor: Dr Zhifeng Bao
Topic: Multivariate Visualized Analytics over Heterogeneous Geo-spatial data

Name: Xiaolu Lu
Main supervisor: Dr Shane Culpepper
Topic: Improving Search Effectiveness using Proximity

Name: Shafiza Mohd Shariff
Main supervisor: Associate Professor Jenny Zhang
Topic: Information Credibility on Twitter

Name: Ahmed Mourad
Main supervisor: Professor Mark Sanderson
Topic: Geo-location prediction in social media

Name: Kevin Ong
Main supervisor: Professor Mark Sanderson
Topic: Effective summaries on mobile search results

Name: Zhinoos Razavi Hesabi
Main supervisor: Professor Timos Sellis
Topic: Distributed data stream mining

Name: Amin Sadri
Main supervisor: Dr Flora Salim
Topic: Mining mobility patterns of smartphone users

Name: Mohammad Saiedur Rahaman
Main supervisor: Associate Professor Margaret Hamilton
Topic: Context- and preference-aware journey planning using crowdsourced data

Name: David Savage
Main supervisor: Associate Professor Jenny Zhang
Topic: Anomaly Detection in Dynamic Labelled Networks

Name: Ms Hui Song
Main Supervisor: Dr Flora Salim
Topic: Context-aware time-series analysis for energy load forecasting

Name: Mr Liangjun Song
Main supervisor: Dr Zhifeng Bao
Topic: Multi-dimensional & multi-granularity data exploration over social networks

Name: Xinjue Wang
Main supervisor: Dr Ke Deng
Topic: Diffusion-based prediction of emerging topic over online social networks

Name: Feng Xie
Main supervisor: Dr Andy Song
Topic: Event Detection in Time Series by Genetic Programming

Name: Jing Xie
Main supervisor: Dr Andy Song
Topic: Evolutionary Optimisation in Warehouse Logistics

Name: Evi Yulianti
Main supervisor: Professor Mark Sanderson
Topic: Answer Passage Retrieval