STUDENTS
ADM+S Centre scholarship recipients and student members.

Nuha Abu Onq
PhD Student
RMIT University
Thesis: How Do Human and Contextual Factors Affect the Way People Formulate their Queries?

Ayesha Akbar
PhD Student
UNSW
Thesis: How AI could influence Media practices in Global South: A comparative analysis of Pakistan and Australia

Sara Allawati
PhD Student
RMIT University
Thesis: Where do queries come from? An eyetracker study of how users are influenced to search

Dante Aloni
ADM+S PhD Scholarship Recipient
Monash University
Thesis: History and Trust on the Blockchain

Lilia Anderson
PhD Student
University of Melbourne
Thesis: Global approaches to regulating competition in digital markets

Hesam Asadollahzadeh
PhD Student
University of Melbourne
Thesis: On Distributional Robustness in Vision-Language Models

John Bassett
PhD Student
The University of Sydney
Thesis: How Algorithms Change Statutes; Analysing the Transformative Effects of Automated Decision Making on Welfare Legislation.

Angela Blakston
ADM+S PhD Scholarship Recipient
RMIT University
Thesis: Towards algorithmic literacy: exploring how young Australians understand and experience news algorithms.

Maria-Gemma Brown
ADM+S PhD Scholarship Recipient
University of Queensland
Thesis: Vibes, Flows, Feelings: Investigating the algorithmic techniques of affective capitalism

Seamus Byrne
PhD Student
The University of New South Wales
Thesis: Affectation in the performance of authenticity and its impact on audience trust and engagement on social media platforms

Will Cesta
PhD Student
University of Sydney
Thesis: Regulating Robolawyers: Are autonomous legal applications infringing legal profession laws?

Breeze Chen
PhD Student
UNSW
Thesis: Modeling Sequential Ad Behaviours in Online Advertising

Brooke Coco
PhD Student
RMIT University
Thesis: Ethnography of a DAO: An Empirical Look at Decentralized Governance

Joel Cooper
PhD Student
QUT
Thesis: The Impacts of ‘The Long Tail Effect’ and Copyright Law on the Discoverability of Audio-Visual Content on Subscription Video-On-Demand Platforms

Sarah Cupler
ADM+S PhD Scholarship Recipient
University of Melbourne
Thesis: Exploring Regulatory Practices for Better AI

Tracy De Cotta
PhD Student
Swinburne University of Technlogy
Thesis: Designing for responsible urban innovation with AI technologies for local government

Sean Di Lizio
PhD Student
QUT
Thesis: Imaginary containers and imaginary coins: e-publishing using smart contracts

Ha Do
PhD Student
University of Melbourne
Thesis: Private enforcement and liability exemption for online contents under the EU legal framework: from the perspective of domain name registries

Rhea Erica D’Silva
PhD Student
Monash University
Thesis: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Technology Industry: The ‘making’ of inclusion in the everyday working of design teams

Nadia Egalita
PhD Student
RMIT University
Thesis: Food Consumption and Lifestyle: A Cross-cultural Analysis of Online Food Delivery Service in Indonesia and Australia

Rayane El Masri
ADM+S PhD Student
QUT
Thesis: Compassionate AI: A Care Ethics Approach to Value Alignment in Generative AI

Paria Eskandarpour
ADM+S PhD Student
Monash University
Thesis: Proptech Politics: Dynamics of Exclusion and Extraction in Real Estate Platforms

Mohammad Faisal
ADM+S PhD Scholarship Recipient
University of Queensland
Thesis: Virtualising Australia’s Public Employment Service through Dashboard: The Experiences of the Australian CALD jobseekers.

Patrick Fang
ADM+S Masters Scholarship Recipient
University of Queensland
Thesis: Generative AI in social service organisations

Emma Finlay
ADM+S PhD Scholarship Recipient
University of Melbourne
Thesis: Automated Decision Making; an examination into the human intervention in repositories of decision-making powers’ regulatory response to ADM

Samantha Floreani
PhD Student
Monash University
Thesis: The political economy of real estate technologies and housing injustice in Australia

Laura Gartry
PhD Student
RMIT University
Thesis: Aligning personalised news recommendations with the public interest

Klaus Groebner
PhD Student
QUT
Thesis: Investigating the Transnational Spread of Far-Right Narratives on Facebook

Chenxue Guo
PhD Student
QUT
Thesis: Traditional Chinese Culture Meets Generative AI: Rethinking Authenticity under the Approach of Human-Community-Machine Interaction

Afsaneh Hasanebrahimi
PhD Student
University of Melbourne
Thesis: Evaluation of Adversarial Attacks and Bias in Deep Neural Networks

Lauren Hayden
PhD Student
University of Queensland
Thesis: Digital advertising and cultures of alcohol consumption on social media platforms

Jiaman He
PhD Student
RMIT University
Thesis: Optimizing Information Retrieval in LLM-based conversational search engines by assessing physiological signals

Zoe Horn
PhD Student
Western Sydney University
Thesis: Machine Architectures: Formats and the Geopolitics of Automated Environments

Mohammadmahdi (Meti) Jafari
PhD Student
University of New South Wales
Thesis: Explainable Framework for Spatio-temporal Data Forecasting Using Transformer-based Large Language Models.


Madeline Kelly
Masters Student
UQ
Thesis: A Happy Medium? Exploring the use of a mindfully designed digital tool for welfare advocates

Lauren Kelly
PhD Student
RMIT University
Thesis: The augmented worker: understanding automated decision-making systems in Australia’s supermarket warehouses and distribution networks

Madhurima Khirbat
Masters Student
RMIT University
Thesis: A thorough evaluation of LLM-based Recommender Systems

Samuel Kininmonth
PhD Student
RMIT University
Thesis: The Programmatic Promise: Automated Advertising in Australia

Oliver Knight
Master’s Student
RMIT University
Thesis: Digital wallets as a vector for financial inclusion? The case of Indonesia

Berwyn Kwek
PhD Student
Monash University
Thesis: An inquiry into the uses of digital technologies for social service provision and the changing topology of governance.

Caitlin Learmonth
PhD Student
Swinburne University
Thesis: How do sexual health organisations in Australia recognise and accommodate for people in non-monogamous relationships?

Wynston Lee
PhD Student
RMIT University
Thesis: Between Orwellian nightmare and Legalist dream: The Political Economy of Data and Trust in China’s Social Credit System


Lihuan Li
PhD Student
UNSW
Thesis: Leveraging Pre-trained Models for Multi-Task Trajectory Analysis in Urban Transportation

Yuzheng Li
PhD Student
RMIT University
Thesis: Investigating the Female Gaze in Chinese Male Beauty Influencers’ Livestreaming E-commerce

Stephanie Livingstone
PhD Student
RMIT University
Thesis: Automated decision-making, social services and youth homelessness

Lesley Luo
PhD Student
Swinburne University
Thesis: Queering YouTube: Anglophone queer women-made content and Sinophone queer audience


Robert Morsillo
PhD Student
RMIT University
Thesis: Digital social innovation ecosystems: An exploration and analysis of Australian actors and capabilities

Lucinda Nelson
PhD Student
QUT
Thesis: Where misogyny hides: An examination of everyday misogyny in discourses about Depp v Heard on social media platforms.

Michelle Gay Nidoy
PhD Student
Queensland University of Technology
Thesis: For You: An analysis of TikTok recommendation system

Khoi Vo Nguyen
PhD Student
RMIT University
Thesis: LLMs may be fooled into labeling documents of a different language (to the query) as relevant

Joseph Ikechukwu Onyewuchi
PhD Student
The University of Sydney
Thesis: Use of digital media and its impact on adoption of blockchain technology: Examining transnational remittances among African immigrants in Australia

Vish Padinjar
PhD Student
QUT
Thesis: Detecting Algorithmic Radicalisation Trajectories (DART).

Theresa Pham
PhD Student
University of New South Wales
Thesis: Incels and Neoliberal Platform Capitalism


Shahriar Rahman
PhD Student
RMIT University
Thesis: Private 5G: Adoption of 5G For Enterprise Across Countries

Frederic Rauturier
ADM+S PhD Scholarship Recipient
RMIT University
Thesis: Understanding the role of automation in the production and acquisition of content in French SVOD

Mohana Rayaprolu
PhD Student
QUT
Thesis: The Intersection of Authenticity and Visibility in AI-Generated YouTube Videos

Sara Roetman
PhD Student
University of Queensland
Thesis: “Smart tech for smart bodies”: Algorithmic biosensor technologies and women’s health in the FemTech industry

William Ruan
PhD Student
The University of Sydney
Thesis: The complex system of the law of data

Ciaran Ryan
Master’s Student
Swinburne University
Thesis: Partisan Enmity: Political Hostility and Media Practices Among Australian Digital Publics

Fletcher Scott
PhD Student
RMIT University
Thesis: Source beliefs and statement-updating as a function of implicit-explicit discrepancies

Sadia Sharmin
PhD Student
QUT
Thesis: Machine learning and discrimination in foundation models

Shuoqi Sun
PhD Student
RMIT
Thesis: Understanding the Influence of Search Interfaces and User Diversity on User Search Behaviour and Query Formulation

Avantik Tamta
PhD Student
University of Melbourne
Thesis: Freedom of Thought, Surveillance and the Law

Wenqi Tan
PhD Student
University of Sydney
Thesis: Critical examinations of disability inclusion in virtual reality

Jiaru Tang
PhD Student
QUT
Thesis: Cultural production in the age of Artificial Intelligence: platformization, precarity and contingency

Claire Tao
PhD Student
RMIT
Thesis: How Disinformation Under Algorithm Recommendation Influences Young People’s Online Engagement and Digital Literacy

Meg Thomas
PhD Student
University of Queensland
Thesis: The Platformisation of Film and Television Aesthetics

Thanh Tran
PhD Student
RMIT University
Thesis: The impact of social cartoon influencers on promoting cultural values among the youth

Brett Tweedie
PhD Student
QUT
Thesis: To each according to their browsing history? An analysis and visualisation of targeted online content

Imalsha Ubayawickrema
PhD Student
RMIT University
Thesis: Evaluating Cultural Impact and Ethical Considerations in Automated Ranking Systems Using Synthetic Data

Laura Vodden
PhD Student
QUT
Thesis: Using Large Language Models to Analyse Text Content: A Study of ‘Gender Policing’ Frames in the News

Xinye Wanyan
PhD Student
RMIT University
Thesis: Evaluating and Mitigating Bias in Automated Cultural Curation within LLM-Based Recommendation Systems

Ned Watt
PhD Student
QUT
Thesis: Enhancing Explanatory Fact-Checking with Large Language Models: An Explorative Study

Sion Weatherhead
PhD Student
UNSW
Thesis: An Asimovian Exploration: Testing the Limits of Generative Agents for Practical Research.

Shir Weinbrand
PhD Student
QUT
Thesis: Search, Bias, and Beyond: Investigating the Intersection of Politics, News, and AI in Automated Decision-Making Systems

Daniel Whelan-Shamy
PhD Student
QUT
Thesis: The Emergent Properties of Latent Space: Generative Artificial Intelligence and Simulation in New Computational Culture.

Nethmi Wijesinghe
PhD Student
RMIT University
Thesis: Understanding the Determinants of Online Social Conformity in Mixed Human-AI Environments

Margaret Wilson
PhD Student
University of Melbourne
Thesis: Sub Judice Contempt in the Current Communications Environment

Gabriel Wong
ADM+S PhD Scholarship Recipient
UNSW
Thesis: AI Recommendation System and the Dissemination, Representation, and Access of Environmental Information

Wilson Wongso
ADM+S PhD Scholarship Recipient
UNSW
Thesis: Advancing Multi-Stakeholder Decision-Making through LLM-Driven Generative Agent Simulations

Yunus Yigit
PhD Student
University of Queensland
Thesis: The Use of Machine Learning Algorithms in Independent Regulatory Agencies

Du Yin
PhD Student
UNSW
Thesis: Large Language Models (LLMs) for Multi-variate Time-series (MVTS) Generation

Weinan Yuan
PhD Student
RMIT
Thesis: AI-Driven Social Credit System as Ambiguous Arenas: Examining Digital Disconnection Practices and Perceptions in China

Canaan Yung
PhD Student
University of Melbourne
Thesis: Adversarial attacks on generative AI models

