Postgraduate Students

I welcome enquiries from people interested in postgraduate studies under my supervision. My areas of expertise are in time series analysis, graphical modelling, data mining and econometrics.

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

  • Sabariah binti Saharan (PhD) Genetic algorithms for clustering binary data sets.

  • Maryam Ishaq (PhD) Multivariate Time Series

  • Rory Ellis (Master) Edge deletion in graphical models for time series.

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.

  • In Kang (PhD, 2012) Wavelet mathematics in: climate change research; image analysis and monitoring continuous time systems.

  • Miriam Hodge (PhD, 2013) Bias correction and change measurement in spatio-temporal data.

  • Andrea Pierini (PhD, 2014) Multivariate statistical analysis for portfolio selction.

  • Lisa Henley (PhD, 2015) The quantification and visualisation of human flourishing.

  • Darshana Wikramarachchi (PhD, 2015) Multinomial classification with oblique boundaries.

"I don't know anything, but I do know that everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough."

(Richard Feynman)