Theses from 2026
Towards trustworthy intrusion detection systems: Strategies for reliable and generalizable machine learning, Mohammad Al-Fawa’reh
Real-time driver safety system based on detecting drowsiness and diagnosing fatigue, Muhammad Syafi bin Muhammad ’Azmin, Sheik Mohammed Sulthan, and Adel Al-Jumaily
Indigenous stewardship and co-management in action: A case study on blue carbon from a mangrove ecosystem on the Great Barrier Reef, Micheli D.P. Costa, I. Noyan Yilmaz, Pawel Waryszak, Rory Crofts, Melissa Wartman, Pere Masqué, Brian Singleton, Gavin Singleton, Ashlyn Skeene, Lucy Friend, and Peter I. Macreadie
Lack of increase in mercury contamination in coastal Western Australia since European settlement, Martin Dahl, Larissa Schneider, Harald Biester, Richard Bindler, Antonio Martinez Cortizas, Paul S. Lavery, Miguel A. Mateo, and Oscar Serrano
Animal taxa threatened by adverse fire regimes in Western Australia: A synthesis and outlook, Tim S. Doherty, Mark G. Allen, Karlene Bain, Stephen J. Beatty, Allan H. Burbidge, Renee A. Catullo, Sarah Comer, Ben Corey, Saul J. Cowen, Robert A. Davis, Martin A. Dziminski, J. Anthony Friend, Bruce Greatwich, Mark S. Harvey, Hannah Killian, Michael W. Klunzinger, Damian C. Lettoof, Nicola J. Mitchell, Melinda Moir, Harry A. Moore, David L. Morgan, Ian J. Radford, Michael G. Rix, Tom Vigilante, Adrian F. Wayne, and Corey Whisson
Limited site-specific blue carbon recovery following tropical seagrass restoration in Thailand, Ratchanee Kaewsrikhaw, Milica Stankovic, Pere Masqué, Mathew A. Vanderklift, Tipamat Upanoi, and Anchana Prathep
From pixels to prognosis: A multi-modal attention-based framework for visceral adipose tissue estimation, Arooba Maqsood, Afsah Saleem, Marc Sim, David Suter, Simone Radavelli-Bagatini, Jonathan M. Hodgson, Richard L. Prince, Kun Zhu, William D. Leslie, John T. Schousboe, Joshua R. Lewis, and Syed Zulqarnain Gilani
Digital literacy and the challenge for NIST compliance in developing economies, Premankit Sannd, David M. Cook, Menaka L. Godakanda, Efrancia Mobegi, and Derani Dissanayake
Novel computational frameworks for empathy modeling and evaluation in artificial agents, Sharjeel Tahir
Drone endurance in hydrogen fuel cell hybrid technologies: Power architectures and design strategies, Yaw Chong Tak, Tarek Abedin, Johnny Koh Siaw Paw, Jagadeesh Pasupuleti, Tan Jian Ding, Tiong Sieh Kiong, K. Kadirgama, F. Benedict, and Mohammad Nur-E-Alam
Mitigating malware prevalence in networks with arbitrary topologies: A Flip-It cyber game approach integrated with epidemic modeling, Mousa Tayseer Jafar, Lu Xing Yang, Gang Li, Robin Doss, Kon Mouzakis, Rajesh Vasa, Helge Janicke, Ahmed Ibrahim, Ahmed Mohsin, Iqbal H. Sarker, Kristen Moore, Seyit Camtepe, and Diksha Goel
Satellite observations reveal ecosystem resistance and resilience to short-term water stress driven by dominant vegetation along a rainfall gradient in Australia, Huanhuan Wang, Qiaoyun Xie, Sally E. Thompson, Caitlin E. Moore, David L. Miller, Erik J. Veneklaas, Richard P. Silberstein, Xing Li, Jingfeng Xiao, Belinda E. Medlyn, and William K. Smith
Design of artificial interference signal waveforms for covert communication aided by multiple friendly nodes, Xuyang Zhao, Wei Guo, Yongchao Wang, and Shihao Yan
Submissions from 2025
From waste to worth: Advances in energy recovery technologies for solid waste management, Tarek Abedin, Jagadeesh Pasupuleti, Johnny Koh Siaw Paw, Yaw Chong Tak, Md Rakibul Islam, Mohammad Khairul Basher, and Mohammad Nur-E-Alam
Proton exchange membrane fuel cells in electric vehicles: Innovations, challenges, and pathways to sustainability, Tarek Abedin, Jagadeesh Pasupuleti, Johnny Koh Siaw Paw, Yaw Chong Tak, Monowar Mahmud, Md Pauzi Abdullah, and Mohammad Nur-E-Alam
Advancing comfort and efficiency: Radiant heating and cooling systems for sustainable architecture, Tarek Abedin, Md Mahfuzur Rahman, Zihad Hasan Joy, Khaled Alnamasi, Irfan Anjum Badruddin, Muhammad Nasir Bashir, and Mohammad Nur-E-Alam
Nitrogen processes within tropical mangroves in Australia, M. F. Adame, N. Iram, J. N. Gamboa-Cutz, and P. Masque
Digital transformation in recreational fisheries monitoring: A framework for data integration, analysis, and management applications, Ebenezer Afrifa-Yamoah
Pathways to chronic disease detection and prediction: Mapping the potential of machine learning to the pathophysiological processes while navigating ethical challenges, Ebenezer Afrifa-Yamoah, Eric Adua, Emmanuel Peprah-Yamoah, Enoch O. Anto, Victor Opoku-Yamoah, Emmanuel Acheampong, Michael J. Macartney, and Rashid Hashmi
Bayesian spatio-temporal modeling of African CO2 emissions (1990–2020): A hierarchical approach to identify determinants, regional trends, and local dynamics, Ebenezer Afrifa-Yamoah and Prince Mensah Osei
Protocol for an integrative meta-analysis of the application of machine learning algorithms in the prediction of chronic disease risks and outcomes, Ebenezer Afrifa-Yamoah, Emmanuel Peprah-Yamoah, Enoch Odame Anto, Victor Opoku-Yamoah, and Eric Adua
Robust trend estimation from temporally irregular recreational fisheries surveys: A panel modeling framework for sparse time series, Ebenezer Afrifa-Yamoah, S. M. Taylor, and Ute A. Mueller
An investigation on cyber espionage ecosystem, Mohiuddin Ahmed and Matthew Gaber
The role of fungal proteases in bioactive peptide production and analytical approaches for tracking their activity, Tanvir Ahmed, Angéla Juhász, Utpal Bose, Netsane Shiferaw Terefe, and Michelle L. Colgrave
On and off the manifold: Generation and detection of adversarial attacks in IIoT networks, Mohammad Al-Fawa'reh, Jumana Abu-khalaf, Naeem Janjua, and Patryk Szewczyk
Detection of on-manifold adversarial attacks via latent space transformation, Mohmmad Al-Fawa'reh, Jumana Abu-khalaf, Naeem Janjua, and Patryk Szewczyk
Enhancing cybersecurity through autonomous knowledge graph construction by integrating heterogeneous data sources, Hatoon Alharbi, Ali Hur, Hasan Alkahtani, and Hafiz Farooq Ahmad
Extending the psychometric properties of the Arabic RCMAS in Jordanian children aged 7–16: Considering gender and age invariances, Mohammad A. AL Jabery, Ebenezer Afrifa-Yamoah, Sara Farid Khalaf, and Diana H. Arabiat
Hybrid upper limb rehabilitation system to stimulate neural plasticity through augmented illusion training, Adel Al-Jumaily, Yee Mon Aung, Sheik Mohammed Sulthan, Kenneth Siok Kiam Yeo, Khairuddin Ghafar Abd Gapar, and Ahmad Elaklouk
Real-world continuous smartwatch-based user authentication, N. Al-Naffakh, N. Clarke, F. Li, and P. Haskell-Dowland
Handling socio-institutional traps–inertia towards Australia’s resilient international development aid programs in the Solomon Islands, Mark Opoku Amankwa, Kwadwo Adusei-Asante, and Alina Novak
Baseline trace element concentrations in marine sediment from the West African coast, Ava Amideina, Anna Maria Orani, Sabine Azemard, Beat Gasser, Pere Masqué, Peter Swarzenski, Vanessa Hatje, and Emilia Vassileva
Game-based learning contributions to clinical leadership in times of resource scarcity, Scott James Andrews, Olivia Gallagher, Alecka Miles, Carol Crevacore, Jessica Watson, Sean Cashman, Wyatt de Souza, Martin Masek, Julie Boston, Lisa Holmes, and Brennen Mills
A multidisciplinary review of machine learning for driver distraction prediction: Unveiling challenges, Achala Aponso, Craig Speelman, and Mike Johnstone
Evaluation of the wound healing and anti-microbial activity of hydroethanolic extracts of young and old leaves of Vernonia amygdalina Delile, Du-Bois Asante, Christian Kweku Adokoh, Elvis Ofori Ameyaw, Desmond Omane Acheampong, Ebenezer Afrifa-Yamoah, Precious Barnes, Gideon Agyeah, Ruben Phillips, and Julie Sartori
Exclusion of bird pollinators impacts mating system and reduces offspring fitness in a pollination-generalist tree, Louis M. Ashton, Dylan Korczynskyj, Ryan D. Phillips, Stanislaw Wawrzyczek, Eddie J. Van Etten, and Siegfried L. Krauss
The nexus of VSLA participation and financial inclusion among rural women entrepreneurs in Ghana, Akanganngang Joseph Asitik, Victor Fannam Nunfam, Michael Kodom, and Ebenezer Afrifa-Yamoah
Insights into prey handling and feeding strategies by ghost crabs on sea turtle eggs and hatchlings, Casper Avenant
Observations on predation of the flatback turtle Natator depressus by the saltwater crocodile Crocodylus porosus at a major rookery in northern Australia, Casper Avenant and James Gee
Kojic acid suppresses browning incidence, maintains quality and sensory attributes of harvested loquat fruit by upregulating enzymatic and non-enzymatic antioxidants, Saqib Ayyub, Ahmad Sattar Khan, Raheel Anwar, Abdul Rehman, Hafiz Muhammad Shoaib Shah, and Sajid Ali
A call to action: The second Lancet Commission on adolescent health and wellbeing, Sarah Baird, Shakira Choonara, Peter S. Azzopardi, Prerna Banati, Judith Bessant, Olivia Biermann, Anthony Capon, Mariam Claeson, Pamela Y. Collins, Nicole De Wet-Billings, Surabhi Dogra, Yanhui Dong, Kate L. Francis, Luwam T. Gebrekristos, Allison K. Groves, Simon I. Hay, David Imbago-Jácome, Aaron P. Jenkins, Caroline W. Kabiru, Elissa C. Kennedy, Luo Li, Chunling Lu, Jun Ma, Terry McGovern, Augustina Mensa-Kwao, and Sanyu A. Mojola
A comprehensive review of cyber security and current practices in global mining critical infrastructure, Abu Barkat Ullah, Wanli Ma, Mohiuddin Ahmed, Bazlur Rashid, Munir Ahmad Saeed, Omer Arshad, and Utkarsh Raghav
The role of fringing mangroves in supporting macroinvertebrate fauna in an arid, macrotidal region of Australia, Leah Beltran
Sleep environment is associated with sleep control in fly-in, fly-out mining shift workers, Philipp Beranek, Mitchell Turner, Johnny Lo, Michael Grandner, Ian C. Dunican, and Travis Cruickshank
How soil fungal communities respond to invasive plant species treatments in soil from Banksia woodland, south-western Australia, Aaron J. Brace, Katinka X. Ruthrof, Joseph B. Fontaine, Ben P. Miller, and Anna J.M. Hopkins
Bridging the gender gap in Ghanaian local governance: Key enablers and pathways, Martin Brantuo, Victor Fannam Nunfam, Joseph Akanganngang Asitik, and Ebenezer Afrifa-Yamoah
Assessing the accuracy of DFT functionals and ab initio methods for the description of multireference verdazyl radical crystalline interactions, James R. Brookes, Peter D. Watson, Duncan A. Wild, Stephen A. Moggach, and Dino Spagnoli
Digest: A mosaic of genomic ancestries paints Iberian broom hare genomes, Sean James Buckley
Carbon capture by expanding temperate mangrove forests, R. Bulmer, M. M. Palacios, P. Masqué, C. J. Lundquist, L. Schwendenmann, S. M. Trevathan-Tackett, P. Waryszak, H. Kettles, and P. I. Macreadie
A holistic marine biosecurity risk framework that is inclusive of social, cultural, economic and ecological values, Marnie L. Campbell and Chad L. Hewitt
Varying vulnerabilities: Seagrass species under threat from prolonged ocean warming, Marnie L. Campbell and Chi T.U. Le
A survey on unauthorized UAV threats to smart farming, Peng Chen, Shihao Yan, Helge Janicke, Arash Mahboubi, Hang Thanh Bui, Hamed Aboutorab, Michael Bewong, and Rafiqul Islam
Neural topic model with distance awareness, Shangyu Chen, He Zhao, Viet Huynh, Dinh Phung, and Jianfei Cai
Securing probabilistic wireless transmissions against a power-constrained eavesdropper, Zhilin Chen, Shihao Yan, Lintao Li, Lei Yang, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, and Robert Schober
Cruciferous vegetables improve glycaemic control compared to root/squash vegetables in a randomized, controlled, crossover trial: The VEgetableS for vaScular hEaLth (VESSEL) study, Emma L. Connolly, Alex H. Liu, Richard J. Woodman, Armaghan Shafaei, Lisa G. Wood, Richard Mithen, Anthony P. James, Carl J. Schultz, Seng Khee Gan, Catherine P. Bondonno, Joshua R. Lewis, Jonathan M. Hodgson, and Lauren C. Blekkenhorst
Learning from the past, adapting to the future: Experimental approaches in conservation translocations, Saul J. Cowen, Sean James Buckley, Andrew Crawford, Leonie Monks, Katherine Moseby, and Natasha M. Robinson
The challenge of designing meaningful performance measures for evaluating the success of conservation translocations, S. J. Cowen, J. D. Richards, C. Sims, A. H. Burbidge, J. A. Friend, K. Ottewell, and L. A. Gibson
Modelling the impacts of recreational catch-and-release variability on fish stock dynamics, Brett Crisafulli
Accounting for post-release mortality in data-limited, length-based assessments for four demersal fish species with varying life histories, Brett Crisafulli, Sybrand Alexander Hesp, Ebenezer Afrifa-Yamoah, Ute A. Mueller, Karina L. Ryan, David V. Fairclough, Norman G. Hall, and Johnny Lo
Natural hydrogen soil gas emissions near Harvey, Perth Basin: A comparative study of survey methods, Krista Davies, Peter W. Haines, Charmaine Thomas, and Leon Normore
Where have you been? Backtracking microplastic to its source using the biomolecular composition of the ecocorona, Amanda L. Dawson, Utpal Bose, Sophia Escobar-Correas, Kuok Yap, David J. Craik, and Cassandra L. Pegg
Ecological specialisation of reef fishes peaks in global biodiversity hotspots, Zoé Delecambre, Renato A. Morais, Alexandre C. Siqueira, Emma Paul Costesec, Caroline E. Dubé, Sergio R. Floeter, Alan M. Friedlander, Fabien Leprieur, Yves Letourneur, Lucas T. Nunes, Jordan M. Casey, and Valeriano Parravicini
Implementing gross national happiness in Bhutan as a development model and governance tool – Perspectives of policy influencers, Tashi Dorji, Angus Morrison-Saunders, and David Blake
Carbon burial in sediments below seaweed farms matches that of Blue Carbon habitats, Carlos M. Duarte, Antonio Delgado-Huertas, Elisa Marti, Beat Gasser, Isidro San Martin, Alexandra Cousteau, Fritz Neumeyer, Megan Reilly-Cayten, Joshua Boyce, Tomohiro Kuwae, Masakazu Hori, Toshihiro Miyajima, Nichole N. Price, Suzanne Arnold, Aurora M. Ricart, Simon Davis, Noumie Surugau, Al Jeria Abdul, Jiaping Wu, Xi Xiao, Ik Kyo Chung, Chang Geun Choi, Calvyn F.A. Sondak, Hatim Albasri, Dorte Krause-Jensen, and Pere Masque
Joint estimation of paternity, sibships and pollen dispersal in a snapdragon hybrid zone, Thomas James Ellis, David Luke Field, and Nicholas H. Barton
Sources of underwater noise, Christine Erbe, Alec J. Duncan, Alexander Gavrilov, Montserrat Landero, Robert D. McCauley, Iain Parnum, Evgeny Sidenko, Chandra Salgado-Kent, and Evgeny Sidenko
Behavioral responses to underwater noise, Christine Erbe, Capri Jolliffe, Renee Schoeman, Valeria Senigaglia, Cristina Tollefsen, Rebecca Wellard, Ann Bowles, Dorian Houser, Shyam Madhusudhana, Sarah A. Marley, Angela Recalde Salas, Chandra Salgado-Kent, and Leah Trigg
Transmit rate enhancement for STAR-RIS-assisted uplink NOMA, Youhong Feng, Longzhu Xu, Qiang Li, Shihao Yan, Hong Wang, and Derrick Wing Kwan Ng
Secure performance of STAR-RIS assisted NOMA system with channel correlation and imperfect SIC, Youhong Feng, Xiaowen Zhu, Nan Yang, Shihao Yan, and Hong Wang
An exploration of digital accessibility in local government: Barriers and opportunities for more inclusive communities, Keith Fitzpatrick
Toward privacy-preserving data sharing - An Australian healthcare perspective, Kimley Foster, Nectarios Costadopoulos, Arash Mahboubi, Sabih Ur Rehman, and Md Zahidul Islam
Global patterns and drivers of seagrass biomass, net primary production and meadow structure, Nicole R. Foster, Enric Gomis, Diana I. Montemayor, Simone Strydom, Miguel Angel Mateo, Eduard Serrano, Aurora M. Ricart, Martin Dahl, Ines Mazarrasa, Paulina Cisternas, Harry Whiteley, Elliott J. Bates, Viena Puigcorbé, Uxue Moreda, Mar Truc, Karina Inostroza, Rafael Huertas, Roisin McCallum, Anna Lafratta, Chanelle L. Webster, Caitlyn M. O'Dea, Nicole E. Said, Carlos M. Duarte, Paul S. Lavery, and Oscar Serrano
PTSR: A unified Patch Tokenization, Selection and Representation framework for efficient micro-expression recognition, Liangyu Fu, Junbo Wang, Qiangguo Jin, Yining Zhu, Hongsong Wang, Yuke Li, Xuecheng Wu, and Kun Hu
Defeating evasive malware with Peekaboo: Extracting authentic malware behavior with dynamic binary instrumentation, Matthew Gaber, Mohiuddin Ahmed, and Helge Janicke
Zero day malware detection with Alpha: Fast DBI with transformer models for real world application, Matthew Gaber, Mohiuddin Ahmed, and Helge Janicke
Zero day ransomware detection with Pulse: Function classification with Transformer models and assembly language, Matthew Gaber, Mohiuddin Ahmed, and Helge Janicke
ECU-MALNETT, Matthew G. Gaber, Mohiuddin Ahmed, and Michael N. Johnstone
A practical mobile measurement approach for urban climate data collection: Proposing a method to investigate the cooling effect of urban green areas in Joondalup, Western Australia, Saman Galalizadeh, Angus Morrison-Saunders, Richard Silberstein, David Blake, and Pierre Horwitz
Sequential spatial-temporal network for interpretable automatic ultrasonic assessment of fetal head during labor, Jie Gan, Zhuonan Liang, Jianan Fan, Lisa McGuire, Caterina Watson, Jacqueline Spurway, Jillian Clarke, and Weidong Cai
Incorporating ecosystem service assessments into development planning − Impact from a dredging project in South Australia on seagrass, Sam Gaylard, Rachel Colella, Matt Nelson, Paul Lavery, and Michelle Waycott
U-net segmentation and ensemble learning for automated diabetic retinopathy stage identification, Rajib Ghose, Leisa Armstrong, and T. M.Shahriar Sazzad
Camaenidae in Bhutan, with the description of a new species (Gastropoda, Eupulmonata: Helicoidea), Edmund Gittenberger, Choki Gyeltshen, Kezang Tobgay, and Sherub
Six genera of Ariophantidae from Bhutan (Gastropoda, Eupulmonata, Helicarionoidea), Edmund Gittenberger, Sherub, Choki Gyeltshen, Nima Dorji, and Kezang Tobgay
Smart contract honeytoken system using blockchain for Internet of Things device security, Menaka L. Godakanda and David M. Cook
Global estimates of seagrass blue carbon stocks in biomass and net primary production, Enric Gomis, Simone Strydom, Nicole R. Foster, Diana Montemayor, Miguel A. Mateo, Eduard Serrano, Karina Inostroza, Roisin McCallum, Anna Lafratta, Chanelle L. Webster, Caitlyn L. O’Dea, Nicole E. Said, Natasha Dunham, Rachele Bernasconi, Axel Werner, Federico Vitelli, Viena Puigcorbé, Alexandra D’Cruz, Cristian Salinas, Kathryn M. McMahon, Glenn A. Hyndes, Paul S. Lavery, Albert Pessarodona, Carlose M. Duarte, and Oscar Serrano
Toward embodied navigation through vision and language, Muraleekrishna Gopinathan
Detection of Vkorc1 single nucleotide polymorphisms indicates the presence of anticoagulant rodenticide resistance in Australia's introduced rats, Alicia F. Gorbould, Quinton F. Burnham, Michael T. Lohr, and Annette Koenders
ECU-PMU-FDI/TSA, Taylah Griffiths, Mohiuddin Ahmed, and Chadni Islam
Software-based testbed for security evaluation of PMU and PDC communications, Taylah Griffiths, Mohiuddin Ahmed, and Chadni Islam
Peatlands of Oceania: Ecology and opportunities, Samantha Grover, Joslin L. Moore, Budiman Minasny, Christopher Auricht, Patrick Moss, Hugh Robertson, Darren Kidd, Gerard Natera, Felix Beer, Pierre Horwitz, Shane Grundy, and Matiu Prebble
Shallow coastal bays as sediment carbon and nutrient reservoirs in the Baltic sea, Betty Gubri, Joakim P. Hansen, Sofia A. Wikström, Martin Snickars, Martin Dahl, Martin Gullström, Emil Rydin, Pere Masqué, Andrius Garbaras, Mats Björk, and Christoffer Boström
Restricted social engagement is associated with depressive symptoms in older Chinese adults: A nationwide cross-sectional study, Zheng Guo, Yulu Zheng, Yahong Zhu, Huacheng Wang, Jian Geng, Hengrui Liu, Piyong Ma, Lois Balmer, and Xingang Li
A swirling offering: Climate change impacts on incense and other useful alpine plants of Bhutan, Nidup Gyeltshen, Choki Gyeltshen, Sangay Dema, Suresh K. Ghimire, Natalie Konig, and Robbie Hart
Species delineation, phylogeography and conservation of temperate perches (Actinopterygii: Percichthyidae) from an endemism and climate change hotspot, Michael P. Hammer, David L. Morgan, Stephen J. Beatty, Mark G. Allen, Peter J. Unmack, Sean J. Buckley, Luciano B. Beheregaray, Jon Murphy, and Mark Adams
Predator exposure and gene flow as tools to preserve antipredator traits in havened populations: Behavioural observations of quenda, Natasha D. Harrison, Nicola J. Mitchell, Harriet Mills, Anna J.M. Hopkins, and Ben L. Phillips
A pollutant’s tale: An interactive talk on the chemistry of the earth’s climate and its response to pollutants, Timothy G. Harrison, Michael T. Davies-Coleman, Alison C. Rivett, M. Anwar H. Khan, Joyce D. Sewry, Magdalena Wajrak, Nicholas M. Barker, Jonny Furze, Sophie D. Franklin, Linda Sellou, Naomi K.R. Shallcross, and Dudley E. Shallcross
Postharvest jasmonic acid and methyl jasmonate dip treatments alleviate chilling injury and maintain quality of cold-stored ‘Black Amber’ and ‘Tegan Blue’ Japanese plums (Prunus salicina Lindell), Mahmood Ul Hasan, Zora Singh, Lochlan Buckham, Eben Afrifa-Yamoah, Peter D. Petracek, and Steven McArtney
Preharvest application of abscisic acid promotes fruit ripening, colour development and modulates phenylpropanoid pathway in early maturing ‘Yoho’ persimmon, Mahmood Ul Hasan, Zora Singh, Hafiz Muhammad Shoaib Shah, Eben Afrifa-Yamoah, and Andrew Woodward