The UQ great hall proposal uses a structured, layered landscape concept to shape the graduation procession and daily student occupation. Vegetation creates calm, shaded moments, surrounding the circular hall, whose hidden elevation turns the approach into a journey of discovery toward the center and heart of the building.

Supervisor(s): Matthew D'Souza

This project develops a low-cost, solar-powered air pollution monitoring station that uses Wi-Fi HaLow for long-range, low-power data transmission. The system measures the air quality in real time and stores results in a cloud database.

The project is a response to the sensitive urban fabric of the formal entrance to UQ, where form and experience is guided by respect towards the iconic horizon line, the 'hill town' tradition, and the value and purpose of the existing architectural surroundings. By rejecting the precedent notion of an ' object in a landscape', the project is instead a study of stereotomics to form an urban void.

Master of Architecture thesis project investigating the psychosocial influences shaping architects’ agency in taking climate action, focusing on the emotional and social factors that enable or constrain climate-responsive practice.

Supervisor(s): Nathan Nunes, Julia Drugova, Thilina Halloluwa, Mashhuda Glencross, Jason Weigel

Data Visualisation tool in the Augmented Reality space that allows grade 8-10 students under the Australian curriculum to improve data literacy and analysis.

Supervisor(s): Doctor Arnab Battacharjee; Professor Tapan Saha

HVAC chillers consume 17.5-24.5% of commercial building energy, making them critical optimization targets. This thesis presents a deep reinforcement learning optimization framework for multi-chiller energy management applied to the University of Queensland's Advanced Engineering Building chiller bank, achieving 28% power reductions compared to existing rule-based control methods.

The proposed Logan Health Hub recognises the significance of art and nature in healing. It draws on the relationship between Country, community and creativity by integrating the surrounding natural context of the Logan area with local community activities. Through design, the clinic creates a familiar and grounding space for patients to utilise, and for the wider Logan community to gather in.

This Logan Health Hub project recognises the role of art and nature in healing. The clinic draws on the relationship between country, community and creativity by integrating the surrounding natural context and integrating local community activities into its design. Through research and design, the project creates a familiar and grounding space for patients and the wider Logan community.

SEQ is growing rapidly—3.3 million people today, rising to 6 million by 2046—while facing intensifying heat, floods, and ecological decline. These pressures demand climate-resilient, nature-led planning. Biophilic Urbanism treats nature as infrastructure, cooling places, reducing risk, improving health, and shifting SEQ toward a resilient, inclusive future.

Breezeway Housing fosters social cohesion through medium-density living at Kangaroo Point. Three buildings frame a central courtyard, linking gardens, parklands, and communal facilities. Adaptive reuse, co-working spaces, and learning programs create a flexible, inclusive environment where residents connect, engage, and grow together, redefining sustainable, people-centred housing in Brisbane.

Supervisor(s): Ryan Ko, David Gaul, Omar Jarkas

Cyber crime is on the rise, with scams alone causing a global loss of twice the GDP of the United Arab Emirates in 2024. Within this project, we employ novel automated approaches to identify, collect, analyse and present evidence against cyber crime. In doing this, we develop a first-of-its-kind framework that assists law enforcement with attributing cryptocurrency crime.

This design proposal for a new UQ Graduation hall is heavily focused on cultural identity. The architecture of the building allows for exploration and exhibition of the cultures that travel to, and belong at UQ.

Supervisor(s): Ben Schenk, Julia Drugova, Thilina Halloluwa, Mashhuda Glencross, Jason Weigel

CyberBattles is an interactive attack/defence capture the flag platform facilitating learning through hands-on experience. Targeted at educators, students, and cyber-enthusiasts alike, CyberBattles provides a unique CTF experience for all skill levels. With team vs. team functionality and post-match reviewing, CyberBattles stands alone in the landscape of gamified cybersecurity platforms.

Supervisor(s): Kirsten Winter, Robert Colvin

This project developed a dedicated, web-based graphical user interface for a decompiler project that addressed the critical need to visualise the intermediate representation. The decompiler transforms binary code in multiple passes, raising the level of abstraction in each. The user interface supports the developer of the decompiler to scrutinise the workings of the implemented transformations.

Supervisor(s): Jihui (Aimee) Zhang

Speech enhancement for drone audition is highly challenging due to the strong rotor noise. This project develops a deep learning–based multi-channel speech enhancement framework that effectively suppresses strong drone rotor noise in extremely low signal-to-noise ratio conditions.

Supervisor(s): Dr Nell Baghaei

An interactive mobile application designed to enhance chemistry education through augmented reality (AR). Using Unity and Vuforia, the app allows students to scan printed visuals to explore 3D molecular structures and chemical reactions.

Supervisor(s): Dr Alina Bialkowski

This thesis evaluates how various XAI explanation types influence novice learning in dermatological image classification by combining a large-scale web-based experiment with participant surveys. It shows that while explanations shape confidence and preferences, they do not significantly improve short-term accuracy, offering guidance for designing more effective instructional XAI systems.

Supervisor(s): Dr. Ryan Ko, Omar Jarkas

This research evaluates the security resilience of the Keylime remote attestation framework against adversarial attacks in cloud environments. Through controlled experiments simulating database poisoning and MITM attacks, the study reveals that while Keylime's cryptographic mechanisms prevent unauthorised trust, vulnerabilities exist in database state management.

The project defined in two words.Bhanuteja in Javanese means sunlight, which is filtered through the leaves of the trees acts as it metaphorical word. While its philosophical value embodied through the word 'Ma' the space between elements, the time between the beginning and the end. Its the gap, the space and the pause but its not simply an absence but an active presence that shape experience.

Supervisor(s): Professor Aleksandar D. Rakic, Dr. Xiao Guo

Gout is the most common inflammatory arthritis in the world. Currently, gout patients have no way to monitor their disease regularly and non-invasively. Uric acid and creatinine are key biomarkers which reflect the state of the disease. This project aimed to develop a portable prototype device to detect uric acid and creatinine in the urine of gout patients as a proof-of-concept.

Supervisor(s): Dr Alina Bialkowski

Modern AI models consume a vast amount of resources, yet many valuable applications run in resource-constrained environments. Compression techniques help address this, but it’s poorly understood how they impact a model’s decision-making process. This project measures how compression (via knowledge distillation) shifts what image models pay attention to, using a novel evaluation approach.

Supervisor(s): Julia Drugova

Fiducial Frontiers merges the tactile and social nature of board games with the automated rule enforcement of computer games, leaving players free to strategise without having to also keep score. Using fiducial markers tracked by a camera, the game detects 3D positions of cubes which the players use to form polygons and capture area on the board while working around obstacles and player attacks.

Supervisor(s): Ryan Ko, Taejun Choi, Daniel van Niekerk

This study evaluated Detack’s EPAS (Passwords: Analytics, Compliance, Enforcement) software within the UQ Cyber Research Centre, focusing on its effectiveness in enterprise-level password security assessment. The EPAS platform was deployed on the UQ Cyber ASOC system and benchmarked against several widely used password attack and auditing tools. Performance was assessed across multiple criteria, i

Supervisor(s): Matthew D'Souza

Over 20 billion IoT devices are expected by 2025, many of them unpatched and exposed to network attacks. This project implements a hardware firewall directly in FPGA fabric to filter TCP and UDP packets, offloading packet inspection from the processor.

Community housing proposal designed with care around a central azalea garden for senior women. This project aims to promote community engagement between residents, and provide a safe and comfortable living experience for all.

Supervisor(s): Paul Vrbik

Many seemingly unrelated problems can be modelled as problems of inference. However, in the absence of a generic algorithm to solve inference problems, each problem still requires its own solution. We present a Haskell library that implements a generic inference algorithm, allowing any inference problem to be solved using a single algorithm.

My poster summarises my honours thesis conducted for PLAN4009, on the topic of informal housing in SEQ. There has not yet been any research on informality conducted in this region, and only four other studies in Australia (all in Sydney). My aim for this thesis was therefore to gain insight into this underdiscussed field and provide recommendations for future policy.

“I Wanted To Have A Little Break...” is a narrative that the space tells. As people move through it, some pause beneath the tree, letting the gentle breeze and calm air settle around them. Others slip through quickly, shaving a few seconds off their journey as they rush home to unwind. The space absorbs all these small narratives, one that holds brief, passing moments, much like a graduation.

“I Wanted To Have A Little Break...” is a narrative that the space tells. As people move through it, some pause beneath the tree, letting the gentle breeze and calm air settle around them. Others slip through quickly, shaving a few seconds off their journey as they rush home to unwind. The space absorbs all these small narratives, one that holds brief, passing moments, much like a graduation.

Supervisor(s): Lorna Macdonald

Kangaringo is an interactive language-learning game designed for primary school children aged 10-12 to learn the Yuggera names for animals. The project aims to foster respect, curiosity, and inclusion for Indigenous culture and language in a fun and playful way.

Kangaroo Point Library is a proposal for social housing on Main Street. The project aims to set a precedent by creating a safe pedestrian environment, ‘third spaces’ for the community, adaptively reusing the existing buildings on site, and recycling materials where adaptive reuse is not possible. This should become the first response for new development to ensure a more resilient future.

Kangaroo Point Library is a proposal for social housing on Main Street. The project aims to set a precedent by creating a safe pedestrian environment, ‘third spaces’ for the community, adaptively reusing the existing buildings on site, and recycling materials where adaptive reuse is not possible. This should become the first response for new development to ensure a more resilient future.

Supervisor(s): Helena Tirtaputra, Julia Drugova, Thilina Halloluwa, Mashhuda Glencross, Jason Weigel

Kenduri is an interactive event layout and seating management system designed for medium to large events such as weddings, conferences, and award ceremonies. Unlike traditional spreadsheets and static floor plans that often cause miscommunication and inflexibility, Kenduri streamlines coordination through drag-and-drop floor plan design, guest list management with CSV import/export, and an optimis

Kindling is a professional toolkit that empowers Australian businesses to engage meaningfully with reconciliation initiatives. Developed as a multi-touchpoint intervention, Kindling guides leaders and their teams through structured processes of education, reflection, and action, facilitating inclusive and informed decision-making, with the potential to shape a more equal and equitable Australia.

A heritage-led reimagining of Kurilpa Hall and the 97-year-old Kurilpa Library, this project transforms both buildings into adaptable civic spaces shaped by human-scale occupation. Guided by tabula plena, the design preserves embedded character while blurring inside and out—inviting learning, gathering, and everyday community life.

This project reimagines an ex-industrial site on the Kurilpa peninsula a resilient and sustainable urban community. Our regeneration plan integrates strategies across all pillars of sustainability with coordinated land use and mobility planning. This provides for necessary housing growth while respecting local expectations, maximising environmental and social benefit.

This scheme approaches the site as a scare resource and proposes no changes to its western half to preserve a community asset and strengthen Laidley’s last ecological hub. The proposal is a multistorey equestrian centre on the cleared eastern half that uses layers to maximize its program and reduce its footprint, thus allowing for the regrowth and regeneration of the native landscape.

Supervisor(s): Ethan Jones, Julia Drugova, Thilina Halloluwa, Mashhuda Glencross, Jason Weigel

Our project integrated multiple different AI tools to allow humans to easily interact with drones. You can use a text to speech feature to tell the drone what you want it to do, another algorithm will transfer these human instructions into actions for the drone to execute. You can also activate an object detection model to help you find the humans in this search and rescue setting.

Supervisor(s): Dr Yadan Luo, Prof Helen Huang

Deploy reinforcement-learned full-body control on a Unitree Go2 to unify locomotion and manipulation. PPO policies are adapted with Unitree SDK2 on Jetson Orin, a VR/WebRTC interface enables parallel control, and sim-to-real performance is evaluated across tasks.

Supervisor(s): Ethan Jones, Julia Drugova, Thilina Halloluwa, Mashhuda Glencross, Jason Weigel

Network planning aide utilising smart meter data to identify the correct low-voltage phase of customers. Data driven techniques provide visualisation of the combined electrical network topology. Intuitive user interface allows for result analysis and interpretation.

Supervisor(s): Dr Shakes Chandra

This thesis explores Farey fractals, geometric patterns generated from Farey sequences of rational numbers. It investigates their formation, visual characteristics, and mathematical properties through computational simulation and fractal analysis, revealing how simple number-theoretic rules produce complex self-similar structures.

Supervisor(s): Pauline Pounds

The uni’s bins are overflowing: the students must build fully-autonomous garbage truck robots to empty (miniature) municipal wheelie bin contents, both regular garbage and recycling, into the appropriate delivery points. This fourth year project combines all the skills of mechatronics engineering to solve a tough challenge!

A unique approach to the ARCH3200 Graduation Hall design brief. Instead of proposing a new building, Isabella designed an adaptive reuse of the existing UQ Art Museum (formerly Mayne Hall). In the spirit of “Minimal Intervention”, the Forgan Smith forecourt site was preserved, the neighbouring Mod West building is to be disassembled, with the sum of its parts to be used to construct the new hall.

Money Map is an interactive tool designed to boost financial confidence in young Australians aged 15-25. It makes learning about money engaging and accessible by providing personalised lessons, quizzes, and tools to help users master core budgeting, saving, and debt-management skills, laying the foundation for lifelong financial wellbeing.

Supervisor(s): Rahul Sharma

Electric Hydrofoil surfboards are quickly gaining popularity in the $15b water-sports market. This project was in collaboration with Flite, an industry leader in the eFoil space. It involved the design of a custom Electronic Speed Controller (ESC) to create the ultimate electric motor research & development platform to push the limits of eFoiling.

Supervisor(s): Zijian Wang

Wheat management strategies play a critical role in determining yield. Traditional management decisions often rely on labour-intensive expert inspections, which are expensive, subjective and difficult to scale. In this project, we explore vision-language models (VLMs) and agentic AI to enable scalable, data-driven management support.

Supervisor(s): Janet Wiles, Agnieszka Nowak

The goal of this project is to turn homegrown mushrooms into pets. Just like animals, mushrooms generate imperceptible electrical signals akin to neural activity. We aim to sonify these signals to improve homegrowers' understanding of mushrooms and incentivise interaction, which will help bring mushrooms closer to being a household pet.

This project investigates how Brisbane City Council’s Green Factor Tool can be strategically applied to enhance the ecological performance of high-density social housing. Using the Curwen Terrace development as a case study, the research models green façades, roofs, and rain gardens to evaluate their environmental impact and feasibility

Supervisor(s): Matthew D'Souza

This project presents a low-power IoT-based outdoor climate monitoring station using Wi-Fi HaLow (IEEE 802.11ah) for long-range, energy-efficient data transmission. Each solar-powered node measures temperature, humidity, air quality, dust, and wind, transmitting data via MQTT to a cloud-hosted InfluxDB + Grafana dashboard for real-time visualisation.

Supervisor(s): Yanzhuo Yang, Julia Drugova, Thilina Halloluwa, Mashhuda Glencross, Jason Weigel

Rava is a one-of-a-kind telepresence device, which transports remote users into the room with immersive stereoscopic vision, crisp spatial audio and seamless device control from an intuitive web application.

This project proves that the Toowong Pool was eligible for listing on the Queensland Heritage Register via the completion of a Cultural Heritage Significance Assessment (CHSA), and should never have been demolished. As a way of preserving the Pool's memory, it has been digitally modelled (based on archive research and interviews) so its legacy can continue in the digital realm.

Supervisor(s): Jen Jen Chung, Brendan Tidd

Humans are inherently able to safely navigate in dynamic, populated environments in ways that robots are not. Designing a way to map these traits from a person onto the robot would create pathways for collecting training data for automating robots in dynamic environments.

Supervisor(s): Matthew D'Souza

Global Positioning System (GPS) signals can be obstructed, interfered with, or deliberately denied, leaving small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) without a reliable global reference. Visual localisation provides a camera-based alternative, but performance degrades under illumination, seasonal, and viewpoint changes. This project targets realtime, onboard, absolute localisation from a single image.

Supervisor(s): Professor Ryan Ko, Professor John Swinson, Dr Elinor Tsen

With the new mandatory ransomware payment disclosure regime imposed on selected Australian businesses, it is becoming increasingly important for organisations and directors to know what to do when faced with ransomware. In my research, I investigate how the new obligations affect organisations and directors and provide insights to improve their ransomware responses.

Supervisor(s): Dr Jarrod Knibbe

SeaSaw is a two-player balance-board game where participants stand on separate boards while sharing a single handle to steer a virtual surfboard. Each movement affects both players, turning physical instability into a playful negotiation of trust, teamwork, and coordination.

This project weaves urban farming into a residential setting, transforming underused spaces to support productivity, community engagement, and cultural connection. Inspired by West End’s winemaking heritage, garden structures, compost systems, and horticultural elements create a sustainable, social, and adaptable living environment.

Supervisor(s): Dan Kim

This project visualises the effect of training data augmentation on deepfake detection algorithms using explainable AI (XAI) techniques.

Supervisor(s): Matthew D'Souza, Nathaniel Deering, Brendon Duncan

SENSE is an end-to-end cellular IoT sensing platform designed for field deployments. It includes custom hardware, embedded firmware, and a web-based control system. SENSE Core devices collect environmental data, respond to remote commands, upload data, and store data locally.

Supervisor(s): Matthew D'Souza

Storage lockers are widely used for secure storage in workplaces, universities, and parcel delivery systems, but current monitoring methods are costly and ineffective at detecting unauthorised access or environmental risks. This project develops a wireless, low-power locker monitoring system using sensors for temperature,humidity,CO2,and light to detect access events and track climatic conditions.

Supervisor(s): Karl Bertling, Jari Torniainen

This project developed a terahertz (THz) imaging system using a quantum cascade laser (QCL) with laser-feedback interferometry (LFI) and motion-controlled target scanning for high-resolution, phase-resolved imaging, supported by advanced image processing and 3D reconstruction techniques.

This clinic blends Indian courtyard typologies with Aboriginal cultural principles to support healing through connection. The open courtyard brings light, air, and calm, creating a welcoming, culturally safe space. Layered nature, privacy, and soft thresholds foster dignity, belonging, and holistic care for the Logan community.

This clinic blends Indian courtyard typologies with Aboriginal cultural principles to support healing through connection. The open courtyard brings light, air, and calm, creating a welcoming, culturally safe space. Layered nature, privacy, and soft thresholds foster dignity, belonging, and holistic care for the Logan community.

This research shows how Brisbane’s medium-density infill development increases stormwater runoff and reduces infiltration, with climate change worsening these effects. Using SUWMBA modelling, it finds that strategies like permeable pavements and added greenery help but weaken under future climates, highlighting the need for more water-sensitive planning.

A visionary landscape–architecture project that reimagines Chandigarh’s Leisure Valley as a civic–ecological spine. By weaving water infrastructure, public life, and habitat systems, the Urban Ecological Interpretation Center transforms an underused valley into a living framework of memory, culture, and ecological resilience.

This project proposes a new Great Hall at UQ that creates a spatial narrative of movement, memory, and material expression. A series of pavilions form a multi use precinct that celebrates community and provides an active space at the forefront of the uni. Through form, and exposure of structure, the main hall building celebrates the grandeur and richness of timber and the native bunya tree.

Designed around security, individuality, and community, The Greenslane supports older women from isolated or fragmented backgrounds. A linear terrace-inspired layout creates safe private dwellings and internal streets, leading to a shared garden and a meal kit distribution workshop that promotes connection, resilience, and collective wellbeing.

My Great Hall design for UQ is anchored in the capstone theme of materiality. The use of sandstone, originally sourced from the Helidon region of Queensland, serves as both a symbolic and architectural reflection of the identities of the university and the city of Brisbane. Therefore, The Helidon’s Golden Hall offers future UQ students a space to celebrate and reflect their place in UQ's history.

Supervisor(s): Gianluca Demartini

This project investigates how to improve the fairness of Machine Learning classification tasks by generating synthetic tabular data via LLM Gradient Descent Optimisation. This project answers two research questions: does this optimisation prompting technique improve fairness in ML classification, and how do these findings compare to ML classification using traditional tabular data.

Supervisor(s): Pauline Pounds

The SMART Sleeper project combines a comprehensive array of sensors to determine local parameters of rails, sleeper and ballast and environment at discrete points along a rail line with the ability to upload data to the Cloud continuously throughout the day, so that rail operators can respond in real time to dangerous conditions, thus preventing train derailments.

Supervisor(s): Pauline Pounds

When the 3G shutdown killed her beloved Nokia 2730c, Prof Pounds was very sad. She resolved to create a new phone to rival the greatest phone ever made, brought into the 4G world...

The proposed new UQ Graduation Hall is a journey of thresholds that mark students’ transformation to graduands to graduates. By establishing a symbolic axial link to Forgan Smith, the design creates layered transitions with a new public procession route, and sequences of compression and release that heighten anticipation, memory, and solemnity that leave a life-long impression on graduates.

Supervisor(s): Lorna Macdonald

Trash Match turns recycling into a fun, drag-and-drop game that rewards learning through play.

Supervisor(s): Konstanty Bialkowski

Ultra-low powered RFID sensors combine both sensing and communications enabling real-time monitoring of temperature, humidity and/or motion. This project demonstrates a wireless system enabling continuous wireless monitoring without the need for batteries.

The Great Court’s arches are used to celebrate UQ’s stories and achievements, similarly to the ritual of graduation; however, they also hold a special presence in student’s memories of their time at UQ. This project gathers students under one voluminous, extruded arch that recalls and commemorates those once-in-a-lifetime memories, whilst taking special consideration to enable daily use besides gr

The Great Court’s arches are used to celebrate UQ’s stories and achievements, similarly to the ritual of graduation; however, they also hold a special presence in student’s memories of their time at UQ. This project gathers students under one voluminous, extruded arch that recalls and commemorates those once-in-a-lifetime memories, whilst taking special consideration to enable daily use besides gr

The UQ Graduation Hall is emphatically contemporary and of its time, yet designed to conjure the traditional expression and majestic character of historic University Halls.

The aim of this research is to understand how the built form and time of day shape the perceptions of safety of the women working in the precincts' perceptions of safety whilst commuting at night. The research indicates that usage of the precinct by women is greater reliant on activation of the built form than time of day.