People

The RMIT Data Analytics Lab is led by Professor Mark Sanderson.

Postdoctoral researchers

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

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RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Luwaytini' by Mark Cleaver, Palawa.

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Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business.