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Current PhD Students (in reverse chronological order)

1. Md. Masum Mushfiq

   
Start Date:   

July 2024

Research Area:

TBD

Supervisors:   

Muhammad Aamir Cheema

Biography:

Mushfiq received his B.Sc. (Engg.) and M.Sc. (Engg.) degrees in computer science and engineering from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka, Bangladesh, where he served as a Lecturer from 2019. His research interests include intelligent transportation systems, modelling and simulation, and computer security. For more details, please visit his Google Scholar profile.

2. Muhammad Insan Al-Amin

   
Start Date:   

April 2024

Research Area:

Using Electric Vehicles to reduce costs and emissions

Supervisors:   

Muhammad Aamir Cheema

Biography:

Insan is a PhD student at the Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Australia. He received his Master's in Informatics from Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB) in 2019. He has worked as a Lecturer, Data Engineer, and GIS Developer for various organisations in Indonesia. His research areas include Intelligent Transportation Systems, Applied Machine Learning, Geospatial Data Analytics, and Information Extraction. For more details, please visit his webpage.

3. Xian-Long (Johnson) Lee

   
Start Date:   

2023

Research Area:

Smart Charging Strategies for EVs in Smart Grids.

Supervisors:   

Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Hao Wang, Adel N. Toosi, Peter Pudney, Ian Mcleod

Biography:

Johnson is currently a PhD student in the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University. He received a Bachelor's degree in Information Technology and a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering. In the past, he worked as a Research Assistant, focusing on energy signal interpretation, electric vehicle charge scheduling, and energy system implementation. Currently, he has received the Racefor2030 Industry PhD program opportunity and is working on a research project titled "Smart Charging Strategies for EVs in Smart Grids." For more details, please visit his LinkedIn profile.

4. Negin Akbari

   
Start Date:   

2022

Research Area:

Human-in-the-loop Scheduling and Resource Management Approaches for the Edge-to-Cloud Continuum

Supervisors:   

John Grundy, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Adel N. Toosi

Biography:

Negin is a PhD student at the HumaniSE Lab, Monash University. She has an undergraduate honours degree in Information Technology Engineering and a Master’s in Computer Networks from Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. With over 10 years of experience as a Network Engineer, she is skilled in implementing and configuring network devices. Her PhD research focuses on improving IoT edge devices to meet human-centric requirements in multi-disciplinary IoT projects.

5. Abdurrahman Beg

   
Start Date:   

2022

Research Area:

Using Electric Vehicles to reduce GHG emissions

Supervisors:   

Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Adel N. Toosi, Hao Wang

Biography:

Abdurrahman Beg is currently a Ph.D. student in the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University. He received the Bachelor of Computer Science from Universiti Tenaga Nasional with the Vice-Chancellor's Award in 2013 and the Master of Computer Networks from the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals in 2020. His research interests include Intelligent Transportation Systems, Software-Defined Networking, Internet-of-Things, and Machine Learning. For more details, visit his LinkedIn profile.

6. Jinchun (Goldi) Du

   
Start Date:   

2022

Research Area:

Indoor data management

Supervisors:   

Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Markus Wagner, Adel Toosi, Bojie Shen

Biography:

Goldi is currently a PhD Student in the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University. She holds a Bachelor of Computer Science and Masters of Cybersecurity from Monash University. Her research is on indoor data management especially on pathfinding. For more details, please visit her webpage.

7. Ahmed Fahmin

   
Start Date:   

2022

Research Area:

Eco-friendly routing

Supervisors:   

Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Mohammed Eunus Ali, Bojie Shen

Biography:

Ahmed Fahmin is currently a Ph.D. Student at Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Australia. He received his Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) in 2017 and Master of Information Technology with Distinction from The University of Melbourne in 2019. He did an internship with BackupAssist (Cortex I.T. Labs) as a Research Intern. Before starting his Ph.D., He worked as a lecturer at North South University, Bangladesh. His research areas include Eco-Friendly Navigation, Applied Machine Learning, and Spatial databases.

8. Faiza Babakano

   
Start Date:   

2022

Research Area:

Path planning for robots on uneven terrains

Supervisors:   

Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Isma F. Siddiqui, Bojie Shen

Biography:

Faiza Babakano is currently a PhD candidate at Monash University, Australia, Faculty of Information Technology. She obtained her BSc. Computer Science (with Honours) from American University of Nigeria (2009) and MTech Computer Science (With Honors) from Federal University of Technology, Minna in 2015. Her research interest includes Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Spatial Databases, Internet of Things and GIS. She has worked extensively in the aforementioned areas and published papers in both local and international peer reviewed journals. She can be contacted on the following email address: faiza.babakano@monash.edu.

9. Faisal Alam

   
Start Date:   

2022

Research Area:

Vehicular edge computing

Supervisors:   

Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Chetan Arora, Mohammad Goudarzi

Biography:

Faisal Alam did his masters in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and Bachelors from Aligarh Muslim University. Thereafter, he worked as a software engineer in Oracle India and later as a software Engineer in Amazon India.




Graduated PhD/Masters Students (in reverse chronological order)

1. Ryan Hechenberger

   
PhD Duration:   

2019-2024

Research Area:

Indoor Pathfinding

Supervisors:   

Daniel Harabor, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Peter Stuckey, Pierre Le Bodic

Publications:   

ICAPS 2020, SoCS 2022, SoCS 2022, SoCS 2021

2. Mohammad Sadegh Aslanpour

   
PhD Duration:   

2020-2024

Research Area:

Serverless Edge Computing

Supervisors:   

Adel Toosi, Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Mohan Baruwal Chhetri

Publications:   

UCC 2020, ICSOC 2021 (Best Paper Award Nominee), ACSW 2021, CCGrid 2022, FGCS 2024, IEEE TSC 2024,

Job post-completion:

DevOps Engineer at Sky Ledge

3. Bojie Shen

   
Webpage:   

https://bojie-shen.com/

PhD Duration:   

2019-2023

Research Area:

Pathfinding

Supervisors:   

Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Daniel Harabor, Peter Stuckey

Publications:   

ICAPS 2023, AIJ 2022, ICAPS 2022, ICAPS 2021, IJCAI 2020
(Received 2025 CORE Award for the Australasian Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation)

Job post-completion:

Research Fellow at Monash University

4. Lingxiao Li

   
PhD Duration:   

2018-2022

Research Area:

Alternative shortest paths

Supervisors:   

Muhammad Aamir Cheema, David Taniar

Publications:   

ADC 2018, PVLDB 2020, IEEE TKDE 2021, ICAPS 2021, ICDE 2022 (extended abstract)

5. Xinyu Li

   
PhD Duration:   

2017-2021

Research Area:

Spatial Databases

Supervisors:   

David Taniar, Muhammad Aamir Cheema

Job post-completion:

Research Fellow at Monash University

6. Nasser Allheeib

   
Webpage:   

https://www.linkedin.com/in/nasser-allheeib-29017313a/

PhD Duration:   

2017-2021

Research Area:

Spatial Databases

Supervisors:   

David Taniar, Muhammad Aamir Cheema

7. Yathindu Rangana Hettiarachchige

   
Webpage:   

https://au.linkedin.com/in/yathinduhettiarachchige

PhD Duration:   

2014-2019

Research Area:

Pattern recognition

Supervisors:   

Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Asad Khan, Jan Carlo Barca, Bala Srinivasan,

8. Chaluka Salgado

   
Webpage:   

https://www.linkedin.com/in/chaluka-salgado-90073631

PhD Duration:   

2015-2019

Research Area:

Urban Computing

Supervisors:   

Muhammad Aamir Cheema, David Taniar

Publications:   

WWWJ 2017, SIGSPATIAL 2018, ISA 2018, SSTD 2019, WWWJ (under review)

Job post-completion:

Monash University

9. Tenindra Abeywickrama

   
Webpage:   

http://users.monash.edu.au/~tenindra/

PhD Duration:   

2015-2019

Research Area:

Spatial queries on road networks

Supervisors:   

Muhammad Aamir Cheema, David Taniar

Publications:   

PVLDB 2016, DASFAA 2017, IEEE TKDE 2019, ICAPS 2020 (The Best Paper Award), SoCS 2018 (extended abstract), ICDE 2020 (extended abstract)

Job post-completion:

Research Fellow at Grab-National University of Singapore AI Lab

10. Anasthasia Agnes Haryanto

   
Webpage:   

https://www.linkedin.com/in/anasthasia-agnes-haryanto-685659ba

PhD Duration:   

2015-2018

Research Area:

Spatiak keyword queries

Supervisors:   

David Taniar, Muhammad Aamir Cheema,

Publications:   

WWWJ

Job post-completion:

Monash University

11. Ammar Sohail

   
Webpage:   

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ammar_Sohail

PhD Duration:   

2015-2018

Research Area:

Geo-social networks

Supervisors:   

Muhammad Aamir Cheema, David Taniar, Iqbal Gondal

Publications:   

ADC 2016, IWSC 2017, The Computer Journal 2017, ADC 2018, ADC 2020

Job post-completion:

Research Fellow at Internet Commerce Security Laboratory (ICSL), Federation University, Australia

12. Zhou Shao

   
Webpage:   

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Zhou_Shao

PhD Duration:   

2015-2018

Research Area:

Indoor data management

Supervisors:   

David Taniar, Muhammad Aamir Cheema

Publications:   

PVLDB 2017, ADC 2016 (demo), The Computer Journal, ADC 2017, FGCS 2017, IEEE TKDE 2020

Job post-completion:

Monash University

13. Arif Hidayat

   
Webpage:   

http://users.monash.edu.au/~arifhida/

PhD Duration:   

2014-2018

Research Area:

Influence detection in location based data sets

Supervisors:   

Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Bala Srinivasan, Campbell Wilson

Publications:   

VLDBJ. 2020, WWWJ 2020, SSTD 2015, TKDE 2017, UrbanGIS 2017 @ ACM SIGSPATIAL

Job post-completion:

Monash University

14. Shenlu Wang

   
Webpage:   

http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~swan398/home.php

PhD Duration:   

2013-2017

Research Area:

Spatial databases

Supervisors:   

Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Xuemin Lin, Ying Zhang

Publications:   

The Computer Journal 2014, GeoRich@SIGMOD 2015 (invited paper), ICDE 2016, DASFAA 2018

Job post-completion:

Google Australia

15. Shiyu Yang

   
Webpage:   

http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~yangs

PhD Duration:   

August 2012 - Dec 2015

Research Area:

Reverse k nearest neighbors

Supervisors:   

Muhammad Aamir Cheema, Xuemin Lin (joint)

Publications:   

ICDE 2014, PVLDB 2015, The Computer Journal 2015, VLDBJ 2016

Job post-completion:

A/Prof at East China Normal University

16. Wei Song

   
Webpage:   

http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=AAMAABcU__sB_KrDC23iyEp2RP0ZQNqiEPEvYYQ&trk=hp-identity-name

Masters Duration:   

2013-2016

Research Area:

Spatial Databases

Supervisors:   

Wei Wang, Muhammad Aamir Cheema (joint)

Publications:   

DASFAA 2016 (Best Student Paper Award), Data Science and Engineering 2017

Job post-completion:

PKMG Australia