Faculty of Science
ORDER OF PROCEEDINGS
ACADEMIC PROCESSION
The Academic Procession proceeds to the dais, the Assembly standing. The University Mace is carried by Emeritus Professor William Sherwin, BSc(Hons) PhD Melb, CertHEd UNSW, FRSN
NATIONAL ANTHEM
Advance Australia Fair
Australians all let us rejoice,
For we are one and free;
We’ve golden soil and wealth for toil;
Our home is girt by sea;
Our land abounds in nature’s gifts
Of beauty rich and rare;
In history’s page, let every stage
Advance Australia Fair.
In joyful strains then let us sing,
Advance Australia Fair.
WELCOME
The Pro-Chancellor Emeritus Professor Maria Skyllas-Kazacaos AM, BSc(Hons) PhD UNSW, FTSE, FRACI, FIEAust
ADMISSION TO AWARDS
Scientia Professor Sven Rogge, BSc MIT, PhD Stanford, Dean of the Faculty of Science requests the Pro-Chancellor, on behalf of the University Council, to admit candidates to awards
OCCASIONAL ADDRESS
Dr Emma Mitchell, BSc Macq., PhD UNSW, Senior Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO
CONCLUDING REMARKS
Scientia Professor Sven Rogge, BSc KIT, PhD Stanford, Dean of the Faculty of Science
Following the Concluding Remarks, the Assembly will stand while the Academic Procession retires.
FACULTY OF ENGINEERING
The candidates will be presented by Scientia Professor Sven Rogge, Dean of the Faculty of Science
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE BSc|
Sushant Chamlagai Adhikari
Doctor of Philosophy PhD
Thi Xuan Hung Do
Thesis: Satellite-based Quantum Communications with Hybrid Protocols
FACULTY OF SCIENCE
The candidates will be presented by Scientia Professor Sven Rogge, Dean of the Faculty of Science
BACHELOR OF ADVANCED SCIENCE (HONOURS) BAdvSci(Hons)
Honours Class 1
Applied Mathematics
Greta Lillian Paget
Biotechnology
Sakthirupini D/O Ramamurthy
Andrew John Spiteri
Paolo Raphael Arbis Valdez
Geography
Yukie Nip
Statistics
Wenxin Bian
BACHELOR OF ADVANCED SCIENCE (HONOURS)
Honours Class 1
Bioinformatics
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE BAdvSci(Hons) BSc
Nishat Zaman
BACHELOR OF AVIATION BAv
Aviation (Flying)
Distinction
Patrick Joseph Grady
Management
Jack Borres Coulson
Zheqing Cui
Pascal Daners
Gurukanthi Dhinakaran
Wang Kit Iong
Sophia Liang
Manvir Singh
Chi Hin Tang
Jiaxin Wang
Distinction
Cheuk Ying Natalie Ho
Hei Yu Ip
Hin Lok Marwood Liu
Stephanie Tran
BACHELOR OF DATA SCIENCE AND DECISIONS BDataSci
Fiona Liang
Tiarne Rebecca Hailey Lo
George Maksour
Jingyu Qiu
Curtis Scopulovic
Yvanne Shalauddin
Kirsten Belle Tai
Distinction
Yuchen Li
Weiqi Zhang
BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING (HONOURS) BE(Hons)
Materials Science and Engineering (Materials Engineering)
Martin Li
Bin Yu
Honours Class 2 Division 2
Zijian Feng
Honours Class 1
Hao Luo
Honours Class 1 and The University Medal
Keenan Luke Stuart Burrough
BACHELOR OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT BEnvMgmt
Distinction
Amy Jane Holland
BACHELOR OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
BACHELOR OF ARTS BEnvMgmt BA
Daniel Yongkwang Chu
BACHELOR OF LIFE SCIENCES
Sung-Hwi Park
Ella Francesca Reynolds
BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE BPsychSc
Aleksa Jovana Death
Simone Sarina Simmons
Angie Wu
Angus Yeung
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE AND BUSINESS BSc&Bus
Yunjie Chen
Bianca Magdalena Zepina
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE BSc
Vina Calista
Nathan James Carey
Evert Chan
Jun Yi Fang
Jaslin Feng
Mina Kimura
So Hee Lee
Shourong Lin
Pinxue Lyu
Chi Yi Ng
Miguel Andre Cazar Panaga
Christopher Peter Radcliff
Lara Barbara Rauh
Shi Ying Rong
Devina Safira
James William Searle
Daniel Jason Tedjasendjaja
Marshall Simon Unie
Andre Widjaja
Janice Wijaya
Betty Bik-Wa Yang
Distinction
Mikaele Atuvalu Kilama
Joanne Marina Moffat
Nahar Alef Pleshet
Noah Sada
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (HONOURS) BSc(Hons)
Ecology
Honours Class 1
Bettina Lorraine Ignacio
Willem Thomas Magney
Jessica Maree Waaleboer
Geology
Honours Class 2 Division 1
Kevin Ian Peng
Materials Science
Honours Class 1
Max Arkley-Smith
Molecular and Cell Biology
Honours Class 1
Alexander Richard Kelly
Palaeoscience
Honours Class 1
Andrew James Guess
Chloe Ottaviano
Physics
Honours Class 2 Division 1
Adam Stewart
Pure Mathematics
Honours Class 1 and The University Medal
Tasman Russell Malcolm Fell
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
BACHELOR OF ARTS BSc BA
Courteney Lee Paton
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
Distinction
BACHELOR OF ARTS BSc BA
Distinction
Juliet Manolias
Juniper Clare Riordan
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
Distinction
BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS BSc BFA
Jamil Lahoud
Mane Manaseryan
BACHELOR OF ADVANCED SCIENCE (HONOURS)
Honours Class 2 Division 2
Materials Science
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE BAdvSci(Hons) BSc
Distinction
Kevin Lawrence Leonard Johansson
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (ADVANCED)
Honours Class 2 Division 1
Physics
BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING BSc(Adv) BE
Civil Engineering
Honours Class 1
Rudy Jie Xu
BACHELOR OF ADVANCED SCIENCE (HONOURS)
Honours Class 1
Chemistry
BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING (HONOURS) BAdvSci(Hons) BE(Hons)
Aerospace Engineering
Honours Class 2 Division 2
Panayioti Peter Kapodistrias
BACHELOR OF ADVANCED SCIENCE (HONOURS)
Honours Class 1
Psychology
BACHELOR OF ARTS BAdvSci(Hons) BA
Distinction
Vivian Mai
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (ADVANCED MATHEMATICS) (HONOURS) BSc(AdvMath)(Hons)
Honours Class 2 Division 1
Quantitative Risk
Jiasheng Huang
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
Distinction
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (ADVANCED MATHEMATICS) (HONOURS)
BSc BSc(AdvMath)(Hons)
Honours Class 1 and The University Medal
Applied Mathematics
Ethan John Mitchell
Honours Class 2 Division 1
Pure Mathematics
Gal Aharon
Honours Class 1
Statistics
Rui Tong
GRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN DATA SCIENCE GCDS
Joel Quijano Herrera
GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN AVIATION MANAGEMENT GradDipAvMgmt
Cameron John Bilson
Kalesi Samanunu Cagi
Benjamin Joseph Hillier
GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN DATA SCIENCE GDDS
James Michael Griffin
Kapil Suresh Chandra Kamble
Poonam Kurlekar
Jiyang Wang
GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN PSYCHOLOGY GDPsych
Maree Therese Collins
Phaedra Camille Fuller
Chad James Henney
Ting Yi Li
Ruth Mirabelle Roffaell
Sophie Marie Tate
Janine Evelyn Walsh
GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN FLYING
BACHELOR OF AVIATION GradDip(Flying) BAv
Management
Nicholas Patrick Brunton
BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING (HONOURS)
Honours Class 2 Division 2
MASTER OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING BE(Hons) MBiomedE
Materials Science and Engineering (Process Metallurgy)
Adrian Isaac Yuk-Sun Tsang
MASTER OF AVIATION MANAGEMENT MAvMgmt
Yasmin Luisa Agnew
Arthur Chun Hay Lam
Lap In Jeff Man
Soukaina Salameh
Anshuman Jai Singh
Leenus Varghese
Excellence
Christopher Rudy Corcoran
MASTER OF DATA SCIENCE MDS
Timothy David Edward Butcher
Rahul Kumar
Tran Anh Vu Le
Excellence
David John Coleman Anderson
Paul John Cronin
Tomas Klein
Christopher Patrick Strods
MASTER OF FINANCIAL MATHEMATICS MFinMath
Huanfeng Su
MASTER OF MARINE SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT MMarScMgt
Natalia Tisha Sengupta
MASTER OF MATHEMATICS MMath
Excellence
Peter Hehir
Tony Wang
MASTER OF MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY MMatTech
Qi Lei
Wuyue Song
Jin Wei
Jiaxin Wu
Xinrui Zeng
Liting Zhang
Excellence
Zijia Ling
MASTER OF PSYCHOLOGY (CLINICAL) MPsychol(Clin)
Matthew John Collings
MASTER OF PSYCHOLOGY (FORENSIC) MPsychol(For)
Jacqueline Maree Connell
MASTER OF STATISTICS MStats
Youhan Sami Cheery
Ping Lu
Chenxiao Qu
Yufei Yan
MASTER OF PHILOSOPHY MPhil
Chemistry
Meng Yuan Zhang
MASTER OF INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH MIndustRes
Eloise Jane O'Brien
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY PhD
Aviation
Raaj Kishore Biswas
Thesis: How do drivers avoid crashes: The role of driving headway
Xinyun Hu
Thesis: Detecting fatigue in car drivers and aircraft pilots by using eye-motion metrics
Biological Science
Berin Dylan Ewing Mackenzie
Thesis: Mechanisms of fire-driven recruitment in species with physiological seed dormancy and the importance of fire seasonality
Clara Pang
Thesis: Reassessing the role of competition in the evolution and expression of adaptive strategies in plants
Hayden Thomas Schilling
Thesis: Ecology of tailor, Pomatomus saltatrix, in eastern Australia
Katarina Clio Stuart
Thesis: A genetic perspective on rapid adaptation in the globally invasive European starling (Sturnus vulgaris)
Chemistry
Jyoti Seethal Campbell
Thesis: A detailed investigation into CF3CHO photolysis
Karin Ching
Thesis: Graphene-based Membranes for Water Filtration and Separation
Sharmin Hoque
Thesis: Electrochemical biosensor for multiplex detection of microRNA related to leukemia
Nidhi Joshi
Thesis: siRNA loaded Polymeric Nanoparticles for Targeted Therapy in Ovarian Cancer
Zachariah David Levey
Thesis: A Spectroscopic Investigation of the Phenalenyl Radical and its Formation
Peter Brian O'Mara
Thesis: Electro catalytic cascade reactions by nanoconfinement of intermediates: the case of electrochemical CO2 reduction
Marwa Nadia Rahimi
Thesis: Investigating cyclic peptide inhibitors of heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90): from
design and synthesis to cellular drug delivery
Anna-Maree Jessica Syme
Thesis: Computational Molecular Spectroscopy Towards New Physics
Climate Science
Hooman Ayat
Thesis: Quantifying various thunderstorm characteristics during high impact events using radar and satellite observations
Deepashree Dutta
Thesis: The role of clouds and large-scale atmospheric circulation in Arctic amplification in a warmer world
Mengyuan Mu
Thesis: Effects of groundwater on land-atmosphere interactions during droughts and
heatwaves in Australia
Materials Science and Engineering
Arnab Chakraborty
Thesis: On the Design of Microstructures in Low Carbon Microalloyed Steels
Kochurani Kandamkulathy Johnson
Thesis: Nanoceria for ROS- Mediated Cancer Therapy: A Receptor-Targeted Theranostic Approach
Scarlet Kong
Thesis: Exploring the electro-mechanical response of textured ceramics for underwater acoustics applications
Reza Shahmiri
Thesis: Characterisation and Modification of the Optical Properties of Zirconia-Based Ceramics for Aesthetic Dental Restorations
Mathematics
Robert Newton Nguyen
Thesis: New Statistical Tools for Understanding Australian Sport
Dominic Michael Vella
Thesis: Spectral asymptotics associated with Dirac-type operators
Microbiology
Jessica Alison Taylor
Thesis: The microbial ecology of marine sponges: taxonomic and functional diversity, environmental stress and stability
Shan Zhang
Thesis: Evolutionary adaptation and metabolic interactions of sponge-associated symbionts
Molecular Genetics
Megan Elizabeth Hardie
Thesis: The sequence specific interaction of ionising radiation, cisplatin and T4 endonuclease VII with DNA.
Gavin Jamie Sutton
Thesis: On the importance of cellular composition in human brain transcriptomics
Physics
Zhiyu Chen
Thesis: Chasing Neutrinos in the Sky: From Early Universe Decay to the Formation of Cosmic Large-Scale Structure
Tobias Felkl
Thesis: Perspectives in Flavour Physics: Neutrino Masses and Experimental Anomalies
Lara Veronica Gillan
Thesis: The role of carrier and spin dynamics in novel organic optoelectronic devices
Giulia Santucci
Thesis: Understanding massive galaxy evolution using integral field spectroscopic observations
Psychology
Anneli Birgitta Hjalmarsson Cassel
Thesis: Treating social cognitive deficits after acquired brain injury
Yvonne Chan
Thesis: Associative change to cues conditioned in compound
Javad Jamshidi
Thesis: An investigation into phenotypic, genetic, and neural correlates of wellbeing
Dana May Leidl
Thesis: When does consolidation of second-order conditioned fear require protein synthesis in the basolateral amygdala
Garston Jiaxin Liang
Thesis: Hey Siri, should I keep this title How algorithms support (my) decision-making under uncertainty
Arthur Charles Claude Montalto
Thesis: Relationship between neural correlates of cognitive function, wellbeing and resilience to trauma: an fMRI twin project
Jennifer Frances Sloane
Thesis: The effects of interruptions on decision-making with applications in medicine
Francesca Silkie Wong
Thesis: How do the perirhinal cortex and basolateral amygdala complex integrate different types of associations? A study of sensory preconditioning in rats.
MASTER OF PSYCHOLOGY (CLINICAL)
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY MPsychol(Clin) PhD
Psychology (Clinical)
Kirsten Nicole Abbott
Thesis: The effects of high-fat, high-sugar, and high-fat high-sugar diets on hippocampal-dependent spatial and contextual memory
Amy Elspeth Joubert
Thesis: Developing and evaluating an internet-delivered intervention for repetitive negative thinking
UNSW CANBERRA AT ADFA
The candidates will be presented by Scientia Professor Sven Rogge, Dean of the Faculty of Science
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY PhD
Physics
Muhammed Ajmal Pallithadathil Nazer
Thesis: Transient spectral hole-burning and slow-light in chromium (III) systems
Lubina Thattamveedu Kasim
Thesis: Properties of nanocrystalline mixed alkaline earth fluoro halides for optical data storage