Postgraduate students supervision

You can get a good idea about what I do by browsing my research page and the projects of my present and past postgraduate students below.

There is plenty of opportunities for postgraduate funding at the University of Canterbury, just click here.

Current Postgraduate Students:

• In Kang (PhD) Wavelet mathematics in: climate change research; image analysis and monitoring continuous time systems.

• Miriam Hodge (PhD) Modelling imperfect detection in telemetry data.

• Sabariah binti Saharan (PhD) Combining the Grey model with Bayesian networks for modelling and forecasting traffic accidents.

• Lisa Henley (PhD) The quantification and visualization of happiness.

• Jacky Sung (PhD) Optimization and finance.

• Claudia Siebold (PhD) Statistical modelling of tectonic processes.

Past Postgraduate Students:

• Carla Meurk (Master, 2006) Causally appropriate graphical modelling of time series with applications to economics, ecology and environmental science.

• William Rea (PhD, 2008) The application of atheoretical regression trees to time series analysis.

• Andrew Richens (Master, 2008) Detecting change points in time series using the Bayesian approach with perfect simulation.

• Delio Brignoli (Master, 2009) DDoS detection based on traffic self-similarity.

• Xin Zhao (PhD, 2010) Extreme value modelling with application in finance and neonatal research.

• Blair Robertson (PhD, 2010) Direct search methods for nonsmooth problems using global optimization techniques.