“The SRS project pushes you out of your intellectual comfort zone
and challenges you to learn new things and develop skills to
solve unexpected problems.”
Tobin South, The University of Adelaide
Student Research Projects
Annual cohorts of AMSI Summer Research Scholarship students are announced in October each year.
Each scholar will undertake supervised research in for their chosen project, prepare a research report, write a non-technical blog post and present their research findings at AMSIConnect.
Meet the current and recent past Scholars, and learn about their projects by clicking on the links under ‘Details’
The SRS reports, blogs and profiles are written and proofed by individual authors and supervisors. Any of the opinions or work presented in these reports and blogs belong to the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute or of its staff.
2025-26
2025/26
In 2024-25, twenty-seven AMSI Summer Research Scholarships were awarded to students from seventeen AMSI Member universities.
2025-26 Scholarships are announced 28 October 2025.
| UNIVERSITY | STUDENT | SUPERVISOR(S) | PROJECT | DETAILS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
2024/25
In 2024-25, twenty-seven AMSI Summer Research Scholarships were awarded to students from seventeen AMSI Member universities.
Scholarships are jointly funded by AMSI and Jane Street
| UNIVERSITY | STUDENT | SUPERVISOR(S) | PROJECT | DETAILS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australian National University |
Lekh Bhatia | Mat Langford |
Deformation of Curves on Surfaces: New Perspectives and Applications | View profile |
| Australian National University |
Yangda Bei |
Leonardo Maltoni |
Rouquier Complexes and Link Invariants |
View profile |
| Deakin University |
Louisa Best |
Simon James |
Phonetic Spelling Correction Using Vector Space Models and Dimensionality Reduction |
View profile |
| James Cook University |
Emma Naumann |
Roslyn Hickson Justin Sexton |
A Mathematical Exploration of the Role of Feral Pigs in the Transmission of Japanese Encephalitis Virus |
View profile |
| La Trobe University |
Aaron Alonso Garcia |
Rebecca Chisholm |
A model-based approach for estimating Group A Streptococcus transmission pathway parameters from transmission networks inferred from Whole Genome Sequence data. |
View profile |
| Macquarie University |
Emily Sykes |
Frank Valckenborgh |
Is a Picture Worth a Thousand Words? String Diagrams in Quantum Game Theory |
View profile |
| Monash University |
Annalisa Calvi |
Yann Bernard |
Corollaries of the Gauss-Bonnet Theorem for Surfaces in R^n |
View profile |
| Monash University | Toby Mew |
Andreas Ernst | Optimum Cloud Computing |
View profile |
| Queensland University of Technology |
Ben Cicchini |
Matthew Adams |
Investigating the Ecological Diversity-Stability Debate using Differential Equation Models and Statistical Sampling Techniques |
View profile |
| Queensland University of Technology |
Jack Fewtrell |
Christopher Drovandi Adam Bretherton |
Flexible Recalibration of Approximate Bayesian Models |
View profile |
| Swinburne University of Technology |
Ishwarabroto Mridha |
Sergey Suslov |
Amplitude Equations for Modelling Electromagnetically Induced Flows |
View profile |
| The University of Adelaide |
Faith Sawers |
Edward Green |
‘Including Calcium in Mathematical Models for Atherosclerosis' |
View profile |
| The University of Adelaide |
Kyan Percevault |
Lewis Mitchell Matthew Roughan |
Deep Learning in Hidden Markov Models |
View profile |
| The University of Melbourne |
Aidan Petrowski |
Jan de Gier William Mead |
Open Boundary Stochastic Duality |
View profile |
| The University of Melbourne |
Ainsley Nicoll | Jan de Gier William Mead |
Diagram Bethe ansatz |
View profile |
| The University of Melbourne |
Li Fu Zhang |
Heejung Shim |
Statistical methods to flexibly integrate single-cell and spatial isoform data for identifying cell-identity molecular signatures |
View profile |
| The University of New England |
Uli Krahn |
Jelena Schmalz |
Knots, Rational Tangles and DNA Topology |
View profile |
| The University of New South Wales |
Bernice Laitly |
Jakub Stoklosa |
Goodness-of-Fit Diagnostics for Capture–Recapture Models |
View profile |
| The University of New South Wales |
Billy Bourdaniotis |
Libo Li |
Implementing a numerical scheme for pricing of American options under model uncertainty |
View profile |
| The University of Newcastle |
Jack Humphreys |
Karen Livesey |
Analytically Predicting the Size of Magnetic Skyrmions in Bulk Materials |
View profile |
| The University of Queensland |
Gurushey Deo |
Dietmar Oelz |
Tempo-Spatial Analysis of Australian Fuel Price Dynamics |
View profile |
| The University of Queensland |
Mitchell Holt |
Paul Vrbik |
Modular Algorithms for Computation in Simple Algebraic Extension Fields |
View profile |
| The University of Sydney |
Akito Koike |
Stephan Tillmann |
Slices in Schottky space | View profile |
| The University of Sydney |
Shirley Wang |
Nalini Joshi |
Post Quantum Cryptography |
View profile |
| The University of Western Australia |
Hugo Fellows-Smith |
David Pfefferlé |
Regularity of solutions to elliptic boundary value problems near cusp domain boundaries |
View profile |
| The University of Western Australia | James Jensen |
John Bamberg |
Vertex Operator Algebras and the Monster |
View profile |
| Western Sydney University |
Luka Carroll |
James East Matthias Fresacher |
On a Class of Right Restriction Monoids Related to Diagram Monoids and Transformation Semigroups |
View profile |
2023/24
In 2023-24, twenty-six AMSI Summer Research Scholarships were awarded to students from seventeen AMSI Member universities.
2023-24 AMSI Summer Research Scholarships were jointly funded by AMSI, Jane Street and the AMSI Foundation.
| UNIVERSITY | STUDENT | SUPERVISOR(S) | PROJECT | DETAILS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The University of Adelaide | Alex Marciano | Professor Finnur Lárusson Dr David Baraglia |
Categories of directed and undirected graphs | View profile |
| The University of New England | Chih Yuan (Yuan) Chan | Dr Robert Cope | Investigation of the switching threshold in the Switching Observer Model for human perceptual estimation | View profile |
| The University of Adelaide | Chun Hei Lee | Professor Finnur Lárusson Dr David Baraglia |
Categories of directed and undirected graphs | View profile |
| RMIT University | Dillon Batdorf | Professor Irene Hudson | Time series clustering, visualisation and explainability - Applications in Climate Change and Finance | View profile |
| University of Wollongong | Elizabeth Mabbutt | Dr Matt Moores Professor Aidan Sims |
Gaussian Processes for Modelling the Navier Stokes Equations | View profile |
| Monash University | Emily Palit | Associate Professor Timothy Garoni | A Generalisation of the Ising Model on the Complete Graph | View profile |
| The University of New South Wales | Enxi Lin | Associate Professor Pinhas Grossman | Spectra of Toeplitz operators on Hardy-Hilbert Spaces | View profile |
| The University of Sydney | Hanyang Zheng | Dr Clara Grazian | Hidden Markov Models for Analyzing Stress Levels in Working Dogs: A Comparative Study of Data Collection Devices and Frequencies | View profile |
| Macquarie (University of Wollongong) | Isaac Bankier | Associate Professor Richard Garner | Freely Adding Equality to Primary Fibrations | View profile |
| The University of Melbourne | James Kelly | Associate Professor Marcy Robertson Dr Léo Diaz |
A Category Theoretic Approach to Dynamical Systems | View profile |
| The University of Sydney | Jason Liu | Professor Nalini Joshi | Post-Quantum Cryptography | View profile |
| The University of Western Australia | Jason Lu | Professor Michael Small | Using Key Cycles in Transition Networks to Identify High-Information Partitions | View profile |
| The University of Queensland | Joel Woodfield | Dr Nan Ye | Data-Efficient Reinforcement Learning | View profile |
| The University of Western Australia | Jolyon Joyce | Associate Professor John Bamberg | Foundations of Hyperbolic Geometry | View profile |
| University of Technology Sydney | Jonathan Mavroforas | Professor Anthony Dooley | Stochastic Optimal Control and Robust Filtering Under Rough Paths | View profile |
| The University of Queensland | Joseph Kwong | Dr Ramiro Lafuente | Doubly warped product Einstein metrics | View profile |
| The University of New South Wales | Kenrick Chung | Dr Mircea Voineagu | G-C.W. Complexes and their Homology | View profile |
| The University of Newcastle | Liam Barnes | Dr Hannah Schunke | Coriolis Force acting on Magnetic Active Regions on the Sun | View profile |
| Deakin University | Matthew Cochran | Dr Guillermo Pineda Villavicencio | Low-diameter Networks for Applications on High Performance Computing and Communication Networks | View profile |
| Swinburne University of Technology | Minh Thu Nguyen | Dr Louise Olsen-Kettle | Modelling Impact Resistant Materials for use in Protective Gear | View profile |
| Monash University | Nelly Tucker | Associate Professor Andrea Collevecchio Professor Kais Hamza |
Long memory random walks | View profile |
| Queensland University of Technology | Nina Hadzivukovic | Dr Pascal Buenzli Professor Matthew Simpson |
Curvature dependence of reaction-diffusion front speed with nonlinear diffusion | View profile |
| Queensland University of Technology | Rebecca Milne | Dr Pascal Buenzli Dr Vivien Challis |
Optimising bone shape with renewable mechanical memory | View profile |
| Western Sydney University | Saakshi Singh | Associate Professor Oliver Obst Mr Matthias Fresacher |
Partition Diagram Factorisations using Machine Learning Techniques | View profile |
| The University of Melbourne | Yichen Jiang | Dr Heejung Shim |
Cell type deconvolution methods for spatial isoform-resolution expression data |
View profile |
| The University of Newcastle | Zachariah Jones | Associate Professor David Pontin | Topology and Complexity of Braided Magnetic Fields of the Sun | View profile |
2022/23
In 2022-23 forty AMSI Vacation Research Scholars from 17 AMSI Member universities completed supervised research for their chosen project.
Please click on the student profile URL under Details to view each Scholars biography, project abstract, research report & blog post.
TIP: Use the search function to locate student by university or name
| UNIVERSITY | STUDENT | SUPERVISOR(S) | PROJECT | DETAILS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Curtin University | Jecinta Jaarola | Nicola Armstrong | Improving the Prediction of Patient Outcomes via Integration of Clinical Information with Genome-wide data | https://srs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/jecinta-jaarola/ |
| Deakin University | Xiaojuan He | Sergey Polyakovskiy | Advanced Optimisation Techniques to the Variable‐Sized 2‐dimensional Bin Packing Problem | https://srs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/xiaojuan-he/ |
| James Cook University | Yihong Mei | Sourav Das | Non-stationary dynamics of climate statistics and its visualization | https://srs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/yihong-mei/ |
| La Trobe University | Lauren White | Mumtaz Hussain | Metric Properties of Continued Fractions | https://srs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/lauren-white/ |
| La Trobe University | Soprom Meng | Yuri Nikolayevsky & Grant Cairns | Geometry of 1-parameter subgroups of Lie groups | https://srs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/soprom-meng/ |
| Macquarie University | Joel Denning | Hugh Entwistle & Georgy Sofronov | Prophet Inequalities | https://srs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/joel-denning/ |
| Macquarie University | Yixin Kang | Christian Thomas | Onset of turbulence in channel flow | https://srs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/yixin-kang/ |
| Monash University | Huateng Zhu | Tim Garoni | Limit theorems for the Curie- Weiss-Potts model | https://srs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/huateng-zhu/ |
| Monash University | Jack Mills | Kais Hamza | Supercritical Percolation Cluster of Independent Bond Percolation of the Hypercube | https://srs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/jack-mills/ |
| Monash University | Liam Wood-Baker | Andrea Collevecchio & Kais Hamza |
Properties of Random Walks and their applications to Mathematical Physics | https://srs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/liam-wood-baker/ |
| Monash University | Oscar Eden | Daniel Mathews & Jian He | Knots and Combinatorics | https://srs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/oscar-eden/ |
| Queensland University of Technology | Dang Tran | Chris Drovandi & Simon Denman | Deep Learning Surrogates for Accurate and Fast Bayesian Inference for Complex Mathematical Models | https://srs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/dan-tran/ |
| Queensland University of Technology | Mikaela Westlake | Adrianne Jenner | Capturing the impact of patient variability in a novel cancer treatment using Bayesian inference | https://srs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/mikaela-westlake/ |
| Swinburne University of Technology | Rakindu Wickramarathne | Sergey Suslov | Dynamical System Approach to Modelling of Electromagnetic Stirring | https://srs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/rakindu-wickramarathne/ |
| University of Adelaide | Lachlan Schilling | Finnur Larusson & Daniel Stevenson | The Category of Dessins d'Enfants | https://srs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/lachlan-schilling/ |
| University of Adelaide | Macey Lawson | Matthew Roughan | Analysis of Humpback Whale Songs using Information Theory Techniques | https://srs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/macey-lawson/ |
| University of Adelaide | Paawan Jethva | Finnur Larusson & Daniel Stevenson | The Category of Dessins d'Enfants | https://srs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/paawan-jethva/ |
| University of Adelaide | Thomas Dee | Finnur Larusson & Daniel Stevenson | The Category of Dessins d'Enfants | https://srs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/thomas-dee/ |
| University of Adelaide | Yawei Chen | Yvonne Stokes | Climate Sensitivity Modelling | https://srs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/yawei-chen/ |
| University of Melbourne | Jiani Xie | Nathan Ross | Long Run Behaviour of Infinite Pólya Urn Models | https://srs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/jiani-xie/ |
| University of Melbourne | Patrick Grave | Heejung Shim | Accurate identification of splice junctions using nanopore direct RNA sequencing |
https://srs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/patrick-grave/ |
| University of Melbourne | Runqiu Fei | Professor Guoqi Qian | Predicting Stock Price Volatility within a Month–A Functional Data Analysis Approach | https://srs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/runqiu-fei/ |
| University of Melbourne | Yixiang Wang | Johanna Knapp | Supersymmetric quantum mechanics and the Witten index | https://srs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/yixiang-wang/ |
| University of New South Wales | Xiaoyu Li | Guoyin Li | Randomization Techniques for Large-Scale Optimization | https://srs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/xiaoyu-li/ |
| University of New South Wales | Yuqi Liu | Thomas Britz | An investigation into properties of the Closeness Centrality of a graph | https://srs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/yuqi-liu/ |
| University of Newcastle | Anna Carpenter | Karen Livesey | Effective magnetic properties of composites | https://srs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/anna-carpenter/ |
| University of Newcastle | Josiah Murray | Natalie Thamwattana & Mike Meylan |
Modelling the dynamic response of a rail track with rubber inclusion | https://srs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/josiah-murray/ |
| University of Newcastle | Lucy Dowdell | Natalie Thamwattana & Mike Meylan | Modelling Chemical and Biological Clogging of Permeable Reactive Barrier when Treating Acidic Groundwater | https://srs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/lucy-dowdell/ |
| University of Newcastle | Marcus Chijoff | Stephan Tornier | Writing A GAP Package For Local Action Diagrams | https://srs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/marcus-chijoff/ |
| University of Queensland | Benjamin Kruger | Artem Pulemotov | Geometric Partial Differential Equations on Lie Supergroups | https://srs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/benjamin-kruger/ |
| University of Queensland | Timothy Ryall | Dietmar Oelz | Mathematical modelling and simulation of stress fibers in living cells | https://srs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/timothy-ryall/ |
| University of Southern Queensland | Brenton Horne | Dmitry Strunin & Nawin Raj | Investigating spontaneous symmetry breaking of spatial Kerr solitons in fractional spatial dimensions using Fourier spectral methods. | https://srs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/brenton-horne/ |
| University of Sydney | Amelie Skelton | Nathan Brownlowe | Higher-Dimensional Self-Similar Actions | https://srs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/amelie-skelton/ |
| University of Sydney | Temana Short | Uri Keich | Utilizing side information to improve peptide identification in MS/MS data | https://srs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/temana-short/ |
| University of Sydney | Tiernan Cartwright | Zhou Zhang | The Riemann-Roch Theorem and Dirac Operators | https://srs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/tiernan-cartwright/ |
| University of Sydney | Tran Khanh Hung Giang | Nam Ho-Nguyen | Design and analysis of bilevel optimisation algorithms | https://srs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/tran-khanh-hung-giang/ |
| University of Western Australia | Joshua Troy | Enrico Valdinoci & Serena Dipierro | Explorations Into Minimal Surfaces | https://srs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/joshua-troy/ |
| University of Western Australia | Michael Nefiodovas | Thomas Stemler & Max Ward | Optimal Control in Stochastic Hydrodynamic Models: Rowing Across the Indian Ocean | https://srs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/michael-nefiodovas/ |
| Western Sydney University | Gabriel Schussler | Laurence Park | Moving through word embedding space | https://srs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/gabriel-schussler/ |
| Western Sydney University | Sarah Kawaguchi | Laurence Park & Vishal Patel | Image compression using convolutional networks | https://srs.amsi.org.au/student-profile/sarah-kawaguchi/ |