Summer internship program

Tran Khoi Nguyen Nguyen, a Bachelor of Information Technology student, completed his internship this year with Charanya Ramakrishnan and Dr Amanda Head, to design an AI teaching tool for the Macquarie University Law School to support both staff and students with revision, reflection and marking.

The project was so successful that Tran has been offered a job with the Law School to maintain the system as it is rolled out to 1000 students across the year.

View the LawWrite tool online.

Anna Seibel, a Bachelor of Biodiversity and Conservation, completed a summer internship in 2023 with Ajay Narendra studying the biomechanics of jumping spiders.

Her internship not only gave her a taste of research life and laboratory experience, it also led to an interview with Australian Geographic and a journal publication. Download the full article.

Anna has since gone on to complete a Master of Research in Natural Sciences with a thesis entitled 'Home Among the Gum Trees: Visual Navigation in an Arboreal Jumping Spider'.

• Advanced Robotics in Precision Manufacturing
• DustDecoder: Uncovering the Hidden Ingredients of Galaxies
• Next Generation Piezoelectric Fibre Positioner
• Robust and Reproducible Dust Extinction Modelling with DustRover
• Sculpting Light: Testing Next Generation Zernike Wavefront Sensors for Astronomy
• Space Debris Forensics – Reading the Colours of a Satellite Breakup
• Validation of Large-Scale Galaxy Mock Catalogues (SHARK / WAVES)

• Adaptive Nugget Banks for RAG Evaluation
• AI-Powered Feedback Assistant
• AI-Powered Smart Glasses for Assistive Navigation Using mmWave Radar
• Carbon Accounting Using Smartphone Sensing
• Continuous Formative Feedback in introductory Programming Units
• EasyDraw: Deployment and Socratic AI Integration
• iViva Security Assessment and Architecture Redesign
• Privacy Threats from Mental Health Inference in Wearable Data
• Robust Semantic Watermarking for Large Language Models under Transformation
• Semantic Resilient Watermarks in Diffusion Models
• Student Privacy and Cognitive Engagement in AI-Enhanced Learning
• What 5,000 Student Programs Reveal About Learning to Code

• Beating the capacity crunch – integrated photonics for space-division multiplexed fibre optic communication
• Computational Investigation of Waste-Derived Materials for Energy-Storing Infrastructure
• Development of a Microfluidic Chip for Standardised Saliva Sample Preparation
• Enabling a Healthier Future with Materials Innovations
• Simulation Support for a Lunar Rover

• DusRover: Cosmic Dust Detectives Using Quasars and Gamma-Ray Bursts
• Exploring daily assault hospitalisations and weather in Greater Sydney using distributed lag non-linear models
• Hidden Gems: Searching for Planetary Rings in Exoplanet Space Data
• Hunting for Hidden Companions: Unlocking the Origin of Long Secondary Periods using Gaia DR4
• LiDAR for water sensing and space applications
• Optimal Stopping Problems with a Random Horizon
• Side Information and Machine Learning for Hypothesis Testing
• Symmetric groups in positive characteristic
• Towards Statistically Rigorous Proteomics

• Can Plant Viruses Influence Honey Bee Behaviour?
• Data-Driven Insights for STEM Outreach and Community Engagement
• Developing and benchmarking a de novo peptide identification pipeline for proteomics
• Eco-explore outreach toolkit
• Enabling a Better Future with STEM
• Mangrove Health Monitoring of Hawkesbury River using Remote Sensing Methods
• Nutrition in a changing climate: resources and requirements of native stingless bees
• Polarised light emitting materials for optoelectronic applications
• Prospecting for fast-growing lichens to restore dryland soils
• Seagrass Classification using Computer Vision on a USV
• Silk nest construction in weaver ants
• Time-travelling plants: Using herbarium specimens to quantify plant trait responses and herbivory pressure due to drought in Sydney plant species
• Towards Earth Abundant Metal Complexes as Light emitting Materials
• Using High-Resolution Thermal Mapping to Identify Urban Greening Opportunities for Heat Mitigation in Sydney
• Visual navigation in ants

• Designing a Dual-Mode Optical and Radio Satellite Tracking System for the Orbweaver Telescope with Lee Spitler
• Monte Carlo Simulations of Astronomical Adaptive Optics for 8-meter Telescopes with Dani Guzman
• Precision and Discovery: Optimizing LSST Data for Low Surface Brightness Astronomy with Dr Amir Ebadati Bazkiaei
• What’s That Satellite Doing? Using Light to Decode Spacecraft Behaviour with Lee Spitler

• AI-enhanced Smart Robot with Yuankai Qi
• ASSIST: AI-Student Simulator for Student Test with Qiongkai Xu
• Build AI that Makes Clean Energy – From Dirty Water with Jincheol Kim
• Capturing the Human Signature: A Multimodal Data Collection Project for Humanoid Audio-Vocal and Motor Analysis with Longbing Cao
• Context-aware and Realistic Humanoid Facial Expression Generation with Peizhen Li
• Detection and Mitigation of Prompt Injection Attacks in Large Language Models with Professor Amin Beheshti
• Friend Recommendation on Social Media with Shan Chen
• Human Research Ethics in Computing Education with Charanya Ramakrishnan
• Internet of Things (IoT) Meets the Large Language Models (LLMs) with Dr. Adnan Mahmood
• LawWrite AI with Charanya Ramakrishnan
• Long-Range Technology Enabled Space-Air-Ground Integrated Networks for the Internet of Things with Ningning Hou
• Non-Intrusive Transportation Mode Detection for Sustainability Mobile App with Young Choon Lee
• Open Programing Challenges: Too Challenging for AI? With Ansgar Fehnker
• Privacy in Wearable Devices with Shan Chen
• Re-evaluating critical ICT Skills for employability in the age of Large Language Models with Gaurav Gupta
• ReWise - PreReq Revision Tool with Charanya Ramakrishnan
• SecurityPulse: Automating Security Issue Reports for AI Models with Qiongkai Xu

• Accelerating the Renewable Energy Transition Through Rapid Control Prototyping with Leonardo Callegaro
• Design of a Wireless Technology Platform with Sara Deilami
• Design of an Underwater Efficient Wireless Charging Solution for Submarine Electric Vessels with Dr Foad Taghizadeh
• Heat transfer analysis and optimisation in rocket engines with Fatemeh Salehi
• Nanomaterial-Based Catalysts for Efficient Water Splitting and Hydrogen Production with Noushin Nasiri
• Shine Light, See Power – Smarter Solar with Images with Jincheol Kim

• Bayesian Optimal Stopping Problems with Georgy Sofronov
• Beating the capacity crunch – integrated photonics for space-division multiplexed fibre optic communication with Simon Gross
• Decisions Under Uncertainty: Exploring the Secretary Problem with Georgy Sofronov
• Exploring the gas chemical abundances of star forming blue compact dwarf galaxies with Angel Rafael Lopez Sanchez
• Foundations of Reverse Differentiation with JS Lemay
• Functional analysis with a quantum twist with Frank Valckenborgh
• Illuminating the Cosmic Web: Searching for Hydrogen Signatures with Tayyaba Zafar
• Measurement Error and Confounding in Machine Learning: Statistical Methods for Noisy Real-World Data with Hassan Doosti
• Modelling Flow Over an Aeroplane Wing with Christian Thomas
• Moore-Penrose Inverses in Electrical Circuits with JS Lemay
• Neural net methods for differential equations and Green's functions with Justin Tzou
• Offline Change-Point Problems with Georgy Sofronov
• Photonics for the detection of exo-planets with Simon Gross
• Statistical Inference Meets Machine Learning with Jack Freestone
• Testing Infrared Fibre Technologies for Next-Generation Astronomy with Tayyaba Zafar
• The Curve Shortening Flow Project with Paul Bryan
• Visualising Sports Injury Data: Developing an R Package for Better Insights with Thomas Fung
• Weyl asymptotic with Adam Sikora
• What can ancient auroral records tell us about the Sun? with Benjamin Pope

• Biomechanics of targeted jumps in Jumping spiders with Ajay Narendra
• Cucurbiturils as drug delivery vehicles for the drug phentermine with Nial Wheate
• Depleting abundant proteins using metal ion salts for omics analysis with Dr Edward Moh
• Enabling a Better Future with STEM with Joanne Jamie
• Immune priming in Drosophila melanogaster with Fleur Ponton
• Investigating the influence of learning in weaver ant hanging chain formation with Chris Reid
• Investigating the role of drug efflux pumps in growth-dependent antibiotic tolerance with Ian Paulsen
• Is urbanisation and climate change impacting Powerful Owl diets? With Dr Alexandra Carthey
• Light Emitting Chiral Materials for Potential Optoelectronic Applications with Associate Professor Koushik Venkatesan
• Palaeoecological assemblages of the Great Barrier Reef with Matthew Kosnik
• What makes bacteria stick? Linking bacterial cell surface sugars to gut colonisation with Ian Paulsen
• When did our ancestors arrive in Indonesia enroute to Australia? Dating an early arrival site in Flores, Indonesia with Kira Westaway