Research Supervision and Mentorship
Future Students
Scholarships of $35,000 (AUD) are available for PhD students who achieved H1/High Distinction in their UG program and/or have completed a Master by Research. If you are interested, contact me at s.elsayed@unsw.edu.au. The candidate has to meet all the UNSW requirements. More information can be found at https://research.unsw.edu.au/graduate-research-scholarships.
Research Candidates
Setyo Tri Windras Mara (PhD – area: Optimisation of Electric Vehicle Routing Problems with Drones)
Dyuti Paul (M. Sc. – area: Artificial Intelligence for Energy Consumption in Electric Vehicle)
Mr Tanvir Islam (M. Sc. – Development and Application of Artificial Neural Networks for Energy Demand Forecasting in Australia) ( Completed 2023)
Dr Reem Sherif (PhD – Computational Intelligence for Cooperative Swarm Control) ( Completed 2023)
Dr Kangjing (Jenny) Li (PhD: Landscape-based Evolutionary Algorithms for Dynamic Optimization Problems) ( Completed 2022)
Mr Paul Bigland (Honours: Differential Evolution Optimisation Toolbox & A Comparative Study of Differential Evolution Adaptations)
Dr Md Forhad Zaman (PhD: Power Generation Planning Using Evolutionary Algorithms) (Completed 2017)
Dr Ismail Ali (M. Sc.: Evolutionary Optimisation for Scheduling Problems) (Completed June 2016) - received the outstanding thesis in an IT topic award (UNSW Canberra, 2016 )
Dr Eman Hasan Samir (PhD: Decomposition-based Evolutionary Optimisation) (Completed 2014)
Past Research Students co-mentorship
Dr Karam Sallam (PhD)
Dr Mohamed Radwan (PhD)
Current Post-docs mentorship
Dr Ehab Elfeky
Dr Mohamed Radwan
Dr Kangjing Li
Dr Jing Liu
Past Post-docs mentorship
Dr Kyle Harrison – is currently a Lecturer at the University of New Castle, Australia
Dr Ali Ahrari – is currently an ARC DECRA Fellow at UNSW, Australia
Dr Heba Elfeky– is currently a Lecturer at UNSW, Australia
Dr Essam Debie – is currently a post-doc at UNSW, Australia
Dr Md Forhad Zaman – is currently an Advisor with IP Australia
Dr Hatem Saad– is currently working at the University of Canberra
Dr Tung Nguyen
Chief of Defence Force Research students
1. James Miller: Particle Swarm Optimisation for Large-Scale Open-Pit Mining, 2021
2. David King: Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm for Static and Dynamic Path Costs, 2020
3. Viet Hoang Le: Evaluate some basic algorithms for optimisation of resource-constrained project scheduling problem, 2020
4. Simon J. Telford: Maximising the Profit of an Open-Pit Mine Scheduling Problem Using Evolutionary Algorithms, 2018