Our PhD students and their research

Listed below are PhD theses completed by past Information Systems and Operations Management students from 2014 onwards, including the name(s) of the supervisor(s) involved.

2024

Student name Title Supervisor(s)
Saima Qutab Emergence of a Crowdsourcing Ecosystem for Knowledge Curation and Creation in the Cultural and Heritage Sector
  • Michael Myers
  • Lesley Gardner
Neda Pourreza
Dynamic Server Assignment for Emergency Departments: Optimal Server Assignment During Non-Stationary Arrivals
  • Tava Olsen
  • Cameron Walker
Aida Shams Behavioral Enablers of Servers in Queueing Systems
  • Valery Pavlov
  • Tava Olsen
Sunny Kareem Adaptive Sustainable Supply Chains in a Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous (VUCA) Environment
  • Timofey Shalpegin
  • Julia Fehrer
  • Christina Stringer
John Cleveland Acuna Strategic metrics for Emergency Department performance. Dynamic target to ensure quality of care and guided actions
  • Tava Olsen
  • Valery Pavlov

2023

Student name Title Supervisor(s)
Na Luo Reducing Food Loss and Waste in Supply Chain Operations- The Impact of Government Intervention and Consumer Behaviour
  • Tava Olsen
  • David Robb
Ruhi Bajaj Towards proactive and prescriptive health: Leveraging wearable technology for health monitoring
  • Fernando Beltran
  • Rebecca Meiring

2022

Student name Title Supervisor(s)
Norah Al Subait Modelling and Monitoring Sustainable development Goals in Higher Education Institution: Proposing, Designing and Implementing a Holistic Strategic Framework
  • Tiru Arthanari
  • David Sundaram
  • Gabrielle Peko
  • Anson Li
Hadwyn Ming Xi Chen
Exploring the Soft Side of ERP Implementation— The Ren Wen Factor
  • Tiru Arthanari
  • Gabrielle Peko
  • David Sundaram
Shadi Esnaashari New Insights on Students’ Perceptions, Motivations, and Learning Strategy Use to Inform Learning Analytics - through Self-Regulated Learning and Activity Theory
  • Lesley Gardner
  • Michael Rehm 
  • Tiru Arthanari
Mahsa Boroushaki Sustainability and Supply Chain Trade-offs for Agro-based Products
  • Tava Olsen
  • Valery Pavlov
Mahmudul Hasan Fighting an Infodemic: Managing Virtual Communities during Times of Disaster
  • Michael Myers
  • Cecil Chua
Tien Nguyen Understanding Value-driven Consumption of UGC: UGC Values and UGC Perceived Helpfulness in The Online Marketplace
  • Arvind Tripathi
  • Ananth Srinivasan

2021

Student name Title Supervisor(s)
Hossein Chegini
Design and implementation of a Software System for Weed Monitoring and Clean-up
  • Fernando Beltran
  • Aniket Mehanti
Mengxiao Zhang
Design and Secure Implementation of Private Data Query Mechanisms for Data Marketplaces
  • Fernando Beltran
Khairulliza Binti Ahmad Salleh Security Determinants in the Adoption of Big Data Solutions
  • Lech Janczewski
  • Fernando Beltran
Mark Geoffrey Hoksbergen Illuminating and Bridging the Vortex between Tacit and Explicit Knowledge: Counterbalancing Asymmetric Information in High-Value Low-Frequency Transactions
  • David Sundaram
  • Gabrielle Peko
  • Johnny Chan
Shahab Bayati Understanding Socio-technical Aspects of Contributions in Online Open Source Community
  • Arvind Tripathi
  • Ami Peiris
Tianyou Hu Understanding the value of financial advice on social media 
  • Arvind Tripathi
  • Henk Berkman

2020

Student name Title Supervisor(s)
Claris Chung Sustainable Transformation of Individuals and Families
Khairulliza Ahmad Salleh Security Determinants in the Adoption of Big Data Solutions

2019

Student name Title Supervisor(s)
Yvonne Hong Blended Learning in Higher Education: Understanding First-Year Undergraduates' Experiences
Mojtaba Mahdavi Supply Chain Strategy: Further Development on how to Match Product Type with Supply Chain Design
Jose Arriola Ortiz The Political Role of Social Media in Emerging Democracies
Udayangi Muthupoltotage Understanding Informal Personal Learning Environments:  An Exploration of Technology-enhanced Self-regulated Learning in Higher Education
Andy Nguyễn Learning analytics information systems for higher education: Design, development and implementation
Cameron Taylor System architecture for information visibility in humanitarian logistics: Innovative lateral information sharing in a low trust, high risk, volatile environment for coordination 
  • Tiru Arthanari
  • David Sundaram
Shandong Mou Real-Time Labour Allocation in Retail Stores
  • David Robb
  • Valery Pavlov
  • David Sundaram

2018

Student name Title Supervisor(s)
Foad Marzoughi
Designing a Framework to Estimate Project Duration with Respect to Weather Risk and Creating a Navigational Support System in Benchmark Space: Applied in Construction Projects
Hamidreza Shahbaznezhad
Customer and Firm Interaction on Social Media Platforms
Sarah Sabbaghan The role of computer-adaptive survey (CAS) in extracting customer feedback
Valeria Sadovykh Use of online social networks in decision making: the case of healthcare decision support networks
Xiaojing Liu Robustifying Supply Chains against Corruption Risk: A New Zealand Dairy Industry Study Using System Dynamics
  • Tiru Arthanari
  • David Robb
Ali Haji Vahabzadeh Optimal Allocation of Intensive Care Unit Nurses to Patient-At-Risk-Team
  • Valery Pavlov
  • Tava Olsen

2017

Student name Title Supervisor(s)
Asfahaan Mirza Te Reo Maori Revitalization: A crowd sourced preservation, curation and learning approach using ubiquitous systems and devices
Gabrielle Peko Adaptive Enterprises: a roadmap, framework, architecture and implementation
Michelle Soakell-Ho Towards business intelligence in preoperative care: choice, care and communication
Xiaoyan Qian Modelling Contracts and Incentives in Agricultural Cooperatives with an Emphasis on Quality and Financial Decisions
  • Tava Olsen
Radhouane Ben Neji Jrad Roadmaps for Upgrading Unupgradable Legacy Processes in Inter-Organisational Middleware Systems: Concepts, Framework, Architecture, and Implementations

2016

Student name Title Supervisor(s)
Leila Etaati A Journey from Chaos to Harmony: Design and Implementation of an Adaptive Tourist Recommendation System
Quan Zhou
  • Managing the Medical Reserve for Emergency Response 
Andrea Herrera Resilient Organisations in the Cloud
Parastoo Samiei Farahani
  • Understanding Online Reviews and Reviewers
Ruilin Zhu Pattern, Practice and Potency of Information Systems Security Research: A Methodological Perspective

2015

Student name Title Supervisors(s)
Md Islam
  • Transport capacity improvement in and around ports: A perspective on the empty-container-truck trips problem
  • Tava Olsen
Koteswara Ivaturi
  • Social Engineering - Emerging attacks, awareness and impact on online user attitudes and behaviours
Xiaoyan Bai Purposeful Visualization Systems
Paul Braund Silicon Valley's Online, Social, Entrepreneurial Enterprise Startups (OSEES): A Critical Research Study
Ahmad Obidat Toward Improving the Usability of Course Management Systems for Blind Users
  • Don Sheridan
  • Ananth Srinivasan
Mali Senapathi Understanding Sustained Usage of Agile Methodologies
  • Ananth Srinivasan
  • Don Sheridan
Farhaan Mirza Agent-based Modeling for the Analysis of Technology Introduction and Competition in Telecommunication Markets: Case studies of Fiber Optic Broadband and Wireless Markets
Yu-Wei Hsu Service Provision in Online Auctions: Understanding Repurchase Behaviours

2014

Student name Title Supervisor(s)
Rizwan Ahmad A Cloud Governance Framework for Cloud Computing: An Information Security Governance Perspective to Protect Cloud Users
Shahper Vodanovich Digital Native Well-being and Development in Ubiquitous Spaces
Arzoo Atiq Consumer Provider Interactions in the Design of Technology-Enabled Services
Yangyan Shi Third Party Purchase: Effectiveness of Value-added Services by Third-Party Logistics Providers
  • Alan Stegner
Brad McKenna An Exploration of Social Movements in Virtual Worlds
Max Erik Rohde The Missing Link: Towards Connected, Flexible, Open and Productive Systems for Knowledge-Driven Organizations