STUDENTS

ADM+S Centre scholarship recipients and student members.

Chathurika Akurugoda

Chathurika Akurugoda

Master’s Student
University of Melbourne

Thesis: Freedom of Expression and Cyber Bullying in Democracies; Legal Responses

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Marwah Alaofi

Marwah Alaofi

PhD Student
RMIT University

Thesis: User-centered Non-factoid Answer Retrieval

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Dante Aloni

Dante Aloni

ADM+S PhD Scholarship Recipient
Monash University

Thesis: History and Trust on the Blockchain

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Lisa Archbold

Lisa Archbold

PhD Student
University of Melbourne

Thesis: Children’s Developmental Privacy

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Anand Badola

PhD Student
QUT

Thesis: Rethinking the Public Sphere in India: Studying Production and Circulation of Discourses in New Media

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Angela Blakston

Angela Blakston

ADM+S PhD Scholarship Recipient
RMIT University

Thesis: Towards algorithmic literacy: exploring how young Australians understand and experience news algorithms.

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Dominique Carlon

PhD Student
QUT

Thesis: The life stories of bots in Reddit’s Platform Culture

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Will Cesta

Will Cesta

PhD Student
University of Sydney

Thesis: Regulating Robolawyers: Are autonomous legal applications infringing legal profession laws?

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Breeze Chen

Breeze Chen

PhD Student
UNSW

Thesis: Modeling Sequential Ad Behaviours in Online Advertising

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Kunal Kaveesh Chand

Kunal Kaveesh Chand

PhD Student
QUT

Thesis: Visual analytic methods for exploring the algorithmic infrastructures of social media platforms

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Brooke Coco

Brooke Coco

PhD Student
RMIT University

Thesis: Ethnography of a DAO: An Empirical Look at Decentralized Governance

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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

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Sarah Cupler

Sarah Cupler

ADM+S PhD Scholarship Recipient
University of Melbourne

Thesis: Exploring Regulatory Practices for Better AI

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Dan Dai

Dan Dai

PhD Student
QUT

Thesis: Comparative analysis of COVID-19 misinformation and hate speech on Chinese Weibo and the Australian Twittersphere

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Sean Di Lizio

Sean Di Lizio

PhD Student
QUT

Thesis: Imaginary containers and imaginary coins: e-publishing using smart contracts

Ha Do

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

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Nick Dowse

Nick Dowse

PhD Student
QUT

Thesis: Judicial artificial intelligence in the pursuit of better access to justice and improved quality in judicial decision-making

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Rhea DSilva

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

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Nadia Egalita

Nadia Egalita

PhD Student
RMIT University

Thesis: Food Consumption and Lifestyle: A Cross-cultural Analysis of Online Food Delivery Service in Indonesia and Australia 

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Paria Eskandarpour

ADM+S PhD Student
Monash University

Thesis: Proptech Politics: Dynamics of Exclusion and Extraction in Real Estate Platforms

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Sara Fahad Dawood Al Lawati

Sara Fahad Dawood Al Lawati

Master’s Student
RMIT University

Thesis: Where do queries come from? An eyetracker study of how users are influenced to search

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Mohammad Faisal

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.

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Emma Finlay

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

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Samantha Floreani

Samantha Floreani

PhD Student
Monash University

Thesis: The political economy of real estate technologies and housing injustice in Australia

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Maria Gemma-Brown

ADM+S PhD Scholarship Recipient
University of Queensland

Thesis: Vibes, Flows, Feelings: Investigating the algorithmic techniques of affective capitalism

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Phoebe Galbally

Phoebe Galbally

PhD Student
University of Melbourne

Thesis: Freedom of Speech in the Age of Social Media: A Comparative Analysis of the Regulation of Antidemocratic Social Media Expression

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Thomas Graham

Thomas Graham

PhD Student
Swinburne University

Thesis: Responsible AI in Space

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Miguel Gomez-Hernandez

Miguel Gomez-Hernandez

PhD Student
Monash University

Thesis: Future technologies for older people

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Sophie Hartley

Sophie Hartley

PhD Student
RMIT University

Thesis: Regenerative Futures: Climate Action and Data-Driven Technologies

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Afsaneh Hasanebrahimi

Afsaneh Hasanebrahimi

PhD Student
University of Melbourne

Thesis: Evaluation of Adversarial Attacks and Bias in Deep Neural Networks

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Lauren Hayden

Lauren Hayden

PhD Student
University of Queensland

Thesis: Digital advertising and cultures of alcohol consumption on social media platforms

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Meg Herrmann

Meg Herrman

PhD Student
University of Queensland

Thesis: The Platformisation of Film and Television Aesthetics

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Zoe Horn

Zoe Horn

PhD Student
Western Sydney University

Thesis: Machine Architectures: Formats and the Geopolitics of Automated Environments

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Kaixin Ji

Kaixin Ji

PhD Student
RMIT University

Thesis: Measuring and quantifying bias, fairness and engagement for information access systems

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Nadia Jude

Nadia Jude

PhD Student
QUT

Thesis: ‘Have we reached tipping point?’: Evaluating official responses to misinformation and disinformation

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Yufan Kang

PhD Student
RMIT University

Thesis: Fairness for Rideshare Systems

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Hiruni Kegalle

Hiruni Kegalle

ADM+S PhD Scholarship Recipient
RMIT University

Thesis: Enhancing fairness in Recommender Systems from the third party user perspective

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Megan Kelleher

Megan Kelleher

PhD Student
RMIT University

Thesis: Blockchain Mapping and Indigenous Knowledge Systems: Observations at the interface between distributed consensus technology and Indigenous governance

Lauren Kelly

Lauren Kelly

PhD Student
RMIT University

Thesis: The augmented worker: understanding automated decision-making systems in Australia’s supermarket warehouses and distribution networks

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Yonchanok Khaokaew

Yonchanok Khaokaew

PhD Student
UNSW

Thesis: Modelling mobile user behaviors with contextual signals for intelligent assistance

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Madhurima Khirbat

Madhurima Khirbat

Masters Student
RMIT University

Thesis: A thorough evaluation of LLM-based Recommender Systems

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Samuel Kininmonth

Samuel Kininmonth

PhD Student
RMIT University

Thesis: The Programmatic Promise: Automated Advertising in Australia

Cecily Klim

ADM+S PhD Scholarship Recipient
UNSW

Thesis: The role and future of emerging technologies in contraceptive advocacy, provision, and use.

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Oliver Knight

Oliver Knight

Master’s Student
RMIT University

Thesis: Digital wallets as a vector for financial inclusion? The case of Indonesia

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Rakesh Kumar

Rakesh Kumar

PhD Student
Western Sydney University

Thesis: Platforms, Labour, Migration: Entrepreneurial platform work among Indian migrants in Australia

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Berwyn Kwek

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.

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Trang Le

PhD Student
Monash University

Thesis: Anti-rape and sexual assaults wearables and (re)negotiation and (re)production of public-private space

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Wynston Lee

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

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Caitlin Learmonth

Caitlin Learmonth

PhD Student
Swinburne University

Thesis: How do sexual health organisations in Australia recognise and accommodate for people in non-monogamous relationships?

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Dennis Leeftink

Dennis Leeftink

PhD Student
QUT

Thesis: No Tool is a Box: Unpacking Embedded Knowledge to Chart Digital Methods, Tools, and Workflows

Lihuan LI

Lihuan Li

PhD Student
UNSW

Thesis: Leveraging Pre-trained Models for Multi-Task Trajectory Analysis in Urban Transportation

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Peibo Li

Peibo Li

PhD Student
UNSW

Thesis: Interpretable Graph-based Representation Learning.

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Xiyao Liu

Xiyao Liu

PhD Student
Monash University

Thesis: Understanding China’s Social Credit System (SCS) through media representation, official discourses, and organisational practice

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Stephanie Livingstone

Stephanie Livingstone

PhD Student
RMIT University

Thesis: Automated decision-making, social services and youth homelessness

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Miguel Loor Paredes

Miguel Loor Paredes

PhD Student
Monash University

Thesis: Reimagining automated work futures at the intersection of music and technology

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Lesley Luo

Lesley Luo

PhD Student
Swinburne University

Thesis: Queering YouTube: Anglophone queer women-made content and Sinophone queer audience

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Robert Morsillo

Robert Morsillo

PhD Student
RMIT University

Thesis: Digital social innovation ecosystems: An exploration and analysis of Australian actors and capabilities

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Lucinda Nelson

Lucinda Nelson

PhD Student
QUT

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

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Paulina Noches Pareja

Paulina Noches Pareja

PhD Student
Monash University

Thesis: Workers in transition to the supermarket of the future

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Vishnu

Vishnu Padinjaredath Suresh

PhD Student
QUT

Thesis: Detecting Algorithmic Radicalisation Trajectories (DART).

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Sachin Pathiyan Cherumanal

PhD Student
RMIT University

Thesis: Fairness-Aware Question Answering for Intelligent Assistants

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Theresa Pham

PhD Student
University of New South Wales

Thesis: Incels and Neoliberal Platform Capitalism

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Frederic Rauturier

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

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Shahriar Rahman

Shahriar Rahman

PhD Student
RMIT University

Thesis: Private 5G: Adoption of 5G For Enterprise Across Countries

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Kaspar Raats

Kaspar Raats

PhD Student
Monash University

Thesis: Unlaboratorising trust. Designing for experience of trust in intelligent vehicle technologies and services

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Kun Ran

Kun Ran

Masters Student
RMIT University

Thesis: Equitable information retrieval systems that give consistent and accurate responses across diverse user backgrounds

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Mohana Rayaprolu

Mohana Rayaprolu

PhD Student
QUT

Thesis: The Intersection of Authenticity and Visibility in AI-Generated YouTube Videos

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Megan Rose NEW

Dr Megan Rose

PhD Student
UNSW

Thesis: Hold Me: Creepy-cute hybridity in zoomorphic robot design

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Fletcher Scott

PhD Student
RMIT University

Thesis: Source beliefs and statement-updating as a function of implicit-explicit discrepancies

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Ciaran Ryan

Ciaran Ryan

Master’s Student
Swinburne University

Thesis: Partisan Enmity: Political Hostility and Media Practices Among Australian Digital Publics

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Jess Sansun

Jess Sansum

PhD Student
RMIT University

Thesis: Not for Sale: Web3 as a socio-economic strategy for Public Street Art

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Tariq Segal

PhD Student
QUT

Thesis: My Digital Friend: Design Considerations When Deploying Chatbots in Trusted Companionship Roles

Sadia Sharman

Sadia Sharmin

PhD Student
QUT

Thesis: Machine learning and discrimination in foundation models

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Ben Shaw

Ben Shaw

Masters Student
Swinburne University

Thesis: Find me something to do: Searching for social connection when times are tough

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Anna Shimshak

Anna Shimshak

PhD Student
Monash University

Thesis: Amor-us: The Aesthetic and Voice Construction of Gender in Embodied Sextech Design

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Elisa Shioji

Elisa Shioji

PhD Student
University of Melbourne

Thesis: Rules as Code: Can Privacy be Automated?

Edward Small

Edward Small

PhD Student
RMIT University

Thesis: Fairness, explainability, and transparency in automated decision making

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Rhyle Simcock

Rhyle Simcock

PhD Student
QUT

Thesis: Enhancing the Reviewability of Automated Decision-making systems Under Australia’s Judicial Review Framework: “The Answer to the Machine is in the Machine”

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Wenqi Tan

Wenqi Tan

PhD Student
University of Sydney

Thesis: Critical examinations of disability inclusion in virtual reality

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Jiaru Tang

Jiaru Tang

PhD Student
QUT

Thesis: Cultural production in the age of Artificial Intelligence: platformization, precarity and contingency

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Avantik Tamta

Avantik Tamta

PhD Student
University of Melbourne

Thesis: Freedom of Thought, Surveillance and the Law

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Ekaterina Tokareva

Ekaterina Tokareva

PhD Student
RMIT University

Thesis: The politics of internet governance in Russia

Thanh Tran

Thanh Tran

PhD Student
RMIT University

Thesis: The impact of social cartoon influencers on promoting cultural values among the youth

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Laura Vodden

Laura Vodden

PhD Student
QUT

Thesis: Augmented Insight: Leveraging Large Language Models for Analysis of Polarised Discourse on Social Issues in News Content

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Ned Watt

Ned Watt

PhD Student
QUT

Thesis: Enhancing Explanatory Fact-Checking with Large Language Models: An Explorative Study

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Daniel Whelan-Shamy

PhD Student
QUT

Thesis: The Emergent Properties of Latent Space: Generative Artificial Intelligence and Simulation in New Computational Culture.

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Margaret Wilson

Margaret Wilson

PhD Student
University of Melbourne

Thesis: Sub Judice Contempt in the Current Communications Environment

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wilson Wongso

Wilson Wongso

ADM+S PhD Scholarship Recipient
UNSW

Thesis: Advancing Multi-Stakeholder Decision-Making through LLM-Driven Generative Agent Simulations

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Yueqing Xuan

Yueqing Xuan

ADM+S PhD Scholarship Recipient
RMIT University

Thesis: Fairness-Aware and Privacy-Preserving Recommender System

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Yunus Yigit

Yunus Yigit

PhD Student
University of Queensland

Thesis: The Use of Machine Learning Algorithms in Independent Regulatory Agencies

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Du Yin

Du Yin

PhD Student
UNSW

Thesis: Large Language Models (LLMs) for Multi-variate Time-series (MVTS) Generation

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Libby Young

Libby Young

PhD Student
University of Sydney

Thesis: The power of personal data, and how we govern knowledge about us

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Yunus Yigit

Yunus Yigit

PhD Student
University of Queensland

Thesis: The Use of Machine Learning Algorithms in Independent Regulatory Agencies

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Canaan Yung

Canaan Yung

PhD Student
University of Melbourne

Thesis: Adversarial attacks on generative AI models

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Guangnan Zhu

Guangnan Zhu

PhD Student
QUT

Thesis: A novel framework for detecting and analysing coordinated inauthentic behaviour using multimodal data

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