Machine Learning PhD Opportunities

 
Doing your PhD in the NICTA Machine Learning Group affords a number of benefits:

  • NICTA scholarship top-up
  • NICTA support for academic travel
  • access to world-class machine learning researchers

 Please feel free to contact any of the researchers below for more information on PhD opportunities with them, please include:

  • your CV listing any degrees, awards, prior publications, and work experience
  • your academic transcripts for all previous coursework
  • your area(s) of interest for a PhD
  • a list of three references who may be contacted

 

Supervisor Name
Where to Apply
PhD Supervision Areas

William Billingsley


U. of Queensland
  • Human-AI interaction
  • Technology enhanced education
  • Integrating disparate analysis
  • Visual language and end-user programming

Edwin Bonilla

 ANU

  • Non-parametric Bayesian methods
  • Gaussian processes
  • Efficient inference in Large-scale probabilistic models
  • Bayesian methods for active learning of user preferences and recommender systems
  • Applications of probabilistic models in computer vision, document analysis and dynamical systems

Wray Buntine

 ANU

  • Graphical models
  • Bayesian inference
  • Topic modeling
  • Document analysis

Tiberio Caetano

 ANU

  • Graphical models
  • Structured prediction
  • Social networks

Lawrence Cavedon

 U. of Melbourne

  • Text mining for biomedical and clinical applications

Fang Chen

 UNSW

 U. of Sydney

  • Human-computer interfaces
  • Cognitive load management

Eric Choi

 UNSW

 U. of Sydney

  • Multimodal input processing and fusion
  • Cognitive user modeling
  • Adaptive decision support
  • Speech paralinguistic processing

Stephen Gould

 ANU

  • Machine learning for computer vision

Marcus Hutter

 ANU

  • Reinforcement learning
  • Algorithmic information theory
  • Bayesian statistics
  • Model selection

Chris Leckie

 U. of Melbourne

  • Clustering
  • Graph mining
  • Scalable data mining
  • Applications in network intrusion detection
  • Wireless sensor networks and bioinformatics

Mark Reid

 ANU

  •  Learning theory

Scott Sanner

 ANU

  • Structured probabilistic inference/graphical models
  • Sequential decison-making
  • Social media recommendation
  • Statistical relational learning

Hanna Suominen

 ANU

 U. of Canberra

  • Machine learning
  • Mathematical modeling and human language technologies related to health and wellness

William Uther

 UNSW

  • Sequence prediction
  • Sequential decision making
  • Traffic modelling

Christfried Webers

 ANU

  • Differential geometry
  • Numerical linear algebra
  • Optimisation on Manifolds

Bob Williamson

 ANU

  • Learning theory