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 Brynn Hibbert AM, BSc PhD London, CChem, FRSC, FRACI, 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
Chancellor, Mr David Gonski AC, BCom LLB UNSW, FCPA, FAICD
ADMISSION TO AWARDS
Scientia Professor Sven Rogge, BSc KIT, PhD Stanford, FAPS, FAIP, FRSN, Dean of the Faculty of Science requests the Chancellor, on behalf of the University Council, to admit candidates to awards
HONORARY DEGREE
Scientia Professor Sven Rogge, BSc KIT, PhD Stanford, FAPS, FAIP, FRSN, Dean of the Faculty of Science presents the award recipient
MASTER OF CEREMONIES
Darren Isenberg
OCCASIONAL ADDRESS
Emeritus Professor David StClair Black AO, MSc Syd, PhD Cantab, AO, FAA, FRSN, FRACI, AMusA, Emeritus Professor UNSW
CONCLUDING REMARKS
Scientia Professor Sven Rogge, BSc KIT, PhD Stanford, FAPS, FAIP, FRSN, Dean of the Faculty of Science
Following the Concluding Remarks, the Assembly will stand while the Academic Procession retires.
FACULTY OF SCIENCE
BACHELOR OF ADVANCED SCIENCE (HONOURS) BAdvSci(Hons)
Honours Class 1
Chemistry
Yasmin Hanyz Binte Khazid
Ecology
Jessica Shin Kay Cheung
Dushmantha Gamage
Geology
Christina Song
Molecular and Cell Biology
Christopher Hong Yi Jin
Physics
Paul James Langlands
Honours Class 1 and The University Medal
Ecology
Monique Elizabeth Lush
BACHELOR OF AVIATION BAv
Aviation (Flying)
Shivani Mia Lakha
Hirtik Hirtesh Singh
Zachary Charles Smith
Michael Patrick Youd
Distinction
Kieran Tak Yan Mui
Management
Musfirah Haziqah Binti Mustaffa
Xiangzhi Deng
Inayat Gill
Da-Jan Huang
Wilton Geoffrey Neilsen Martin
Jooyoung Oh
Matteo Claude Serret
Sze Long Shea
Hoang Thai Tran
Fan Zhang
Distinction
Jason George Charbel Kadri
BACHELOR OF BIOTECHNOLOGY (HONOURS) BBiotech(Hons)
Honours Class 1
Shuyue Zhang
BACHELOR OF DATA SCIENCE AND DECISIONS BDataSci
Zhuo Gu
Hei Yuet Lee
Xingyi Li
Jaemin Rim
Timothy Sean Wilson
Shun Wei Yeoh
Distinction
Ayu Salma Ghaisani
Fang Qi Lu
Kathy Nguyen
BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING (HONOURS) BE(Hons)
Materials Science and Engineering (Materials Engineering)
Honours Class 2 Division 2
Candy Leung
BACHELOR OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT BEnvMgmt
Kam Yiu Samantha Olivia Chan
Yantong Feng
Samuel Douglas Firth
Riley Patrick Robert Mansfield
Lily Marie Tambrchi
Yimao Zhang
BACHELOR OF ARTS
BACHELOR OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT BA BEnvMgmt
Distinction
Grace Jaehyun Park
BACHELOR OF LIFE SCIENCES BLS
Karen Elizabeth Alex
Ebony Isabella Baggs
Li Fang Chen
Shivalika Tiwari
BACHELOR OF MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY (HONOURS) BMedChem(Hons)
Honours Class 2 Division 1
Rhys Cameron McAlister
Andrea Tacchi
Honours Class 1
Raymond Ruiqian Liang
Danielle Anne Ruiz
Eden Helena Spargo
BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE BPsychSc
Claudia Paris Mary Delahunty
Arya Abhay Deshpande
Anqi Guo
Joanna Huynh
Mira Jayaprakash
Aisha Leah Lambrechtsen
Yinong Ma
Aastha Sanket Parekh
Athena Tia
Lifei Yin
Wenxuan Zhao
Distinction
Xueer Deng
Wan Camelia Husswan
Paris Mousamas
Nicole Liane Ross
BACHELOR OF PSYCHOLOGY (HONOURS) BPsych(Hons)
Honours Class 1
Hana Rose McMahon
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE BSc
Ishan Chinmay Abhyankar
Kaihao Chen
Zirong Chen
Sharon Erlich
Hamish Benjamin John Fairlie
Rebekah Mary Grinter
Ximing Gu
Shamima Islam
Kunzhi Jiang
Tianjian Jiang
Doraemons Jitjaroen
Jiayi Lan
Kenny Khuong Ha Le
Henry Joseph Conway Lee
Hei Tung Lo
Adam Lucas Su-Jian Wen McCabe
Miah Hope Panovrakos
Dante John Petrin
Bruno Prats De Oliveira
Hao Qiang
Willam Thomas Sinclair
Stewart Sichu Wang
Yinsong Zhang
Distinction
Carla Victoria Brown
Emily Hualin Fan
Hin Cheng Hao
Ayush Dipak Ingale
Naomi Grace Johnson
Yiu On Li
Kathy Yuting Liu
Corwin David Ollis
Paige Gabrielle Pfeiffer
Vicenzo Prajitno
Lauren Joanne Salim
Hailin Wu
Lilyan Linan Zhu
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (HONOURS) BSc(Hons)
Aviation
Honours Class 1
Natalie Rose Jabuka
Chemistry
Honours Class 1
Krisha Manel Mandac Transona
Ecology
Honours Class 1
Adam Roberton Baldock
Patrick James Giumelli
Microbiology
Honours Class 1
Shruthi Annamalai
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (HONOURS)
BACHELOR OF AVIATION BSc(Hons) BAv
Aviation Management
Honours Class 2 Division 1
Man Kin Leo John Chow
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
BACHELOR OF ARTS BSc BA
Veronica May Dimatulac
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS BSc BFA
Distinction
Lauren Ruth Pocknall
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
Distinction
BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS BSc BFA
Distinction
Heidi Merri Chan
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
BACHELOR OF SOCIAL RESEARCH AND POLICY BSc BSRP
Karissa Shu-Li Heckenberg
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
BACHELOR OF SOCIAL RESEARCH AND POLICY BSc BSRP
Distinction
Clare Katherine Callinan
Yui Okuda
BACHELOR OF ADVANCED SCIENCE (HONOURS)
Honours Class 1
Ecology
BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING (HONOURS) BAdvSci(Hons) BE(Hons)
Honours Class 2 Division 1
Renewable Energy Engineering
Olivia Grace Bowen
GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN DATA SCIENCE GDDS
Bradley Langtry
GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN PSYCHOLOGY GDPsych
Yang Du
Emily Katherine Holly Goodyear
Stacey Clair Green
Ashleigh Victoria Johnston
Dayeon Jung
Nicholas David Kenny
Yan Lin
Peita Pacey
Anne-Marie Naomi Siswoyo
Neha Vishwakarma
Dominique Andrea Whitham-Taudien
Victoria Jane Whitty
Zoe Wilde
GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN DATA SCIENCE AND DECISIONS GDDataSci
Sapna Yadav
GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS GDipMath&Stats
Robert William Dandie
BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING (HONOURS)
MASTER OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING BE(Hons) MBiomedE
Materials Science and Engineering (Materials Engineering)
William Tasman Abbey
Ralf Joshua Ginting
Sherry Handoyo
Shivaashna Ronshal Kumar
MASTER OF AVIATION MANAGEMENT MAvMgmt
Madol Machut Lad Dut
Hamish Makhema
Kobi Thomas Stan Schooley
MASTER OF DATA SCIENCE MDS
Chadi Abi-Fadel
Paige Anderson
Santosh Ban
Rupesh Ramesh Gandhi
Koshin Jama
Pamela Moodley
Excellence
Carlo Nico Romero Arceo
Christian Jose Bermudez Rivas
Udayavarman Francis Chelvaratnam
Keith Zi-Rong Chuang
Thomas Andrew Crawford
Mathew James Fraser
Tahmine Ghorbaniandehkordi
Xuan Hung Nguyen
Janany Nishatharan
Milan Pareek
Rishantha Varuna Rajakaruna
Karunya Sankar Kumar
Jerom Vanderstappen
Peng Yuan
Yuan Yuan
MASTER OF DATA SCIENCE AND DECISIONS MDataSci
Jinyuan Chen
Yixiang Liu
Cheng Nie
Yeshwanth Rayavarapu
Cheng Zhang
MASTER OF FINANCIAL MATHEMATICS MFinMath
Ruizhi Du
Xiyu Luo
Amelia Maddocks
MASTER OF MARINE SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT MMarScMgt
Shizhen Lyu
Excellence
Norton Lindsay Grey
Olivier Patrick Pastore
MASTER OF MATHEMATICS MMath
Yaroslav Akimov
MASTER OF MATERIALS TECHNOLOGY MMatTech
Singgih Gunarso
Aditya Amit Kamat
Excellence
Aishwarya Jeyakanapathy
Nithin Kumaar Murugesan
MASTER OF STATISTICS MStats
Ying Dong
Yuxin Hou
Yihan Jin
Tian Liang
Jiaqi Shen
MASTER OF ENGINEERING (RESEARCH) ME(Res)
Materials Science and Engineering
Yang Wu
MASTER OF PHILOSOPHY MPhil
Biological Science
Man Lim Ho
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY PhD
Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
Dr Annalise Marie Psaila
Thesis: Using immune cells to combat obesity: adipose tissue eosinophils as mediators of metabolic homeostasis
Dr Juli Wang
Thesis: Characterization of Mechanisms for Epigenetic and Transcriptomic Regulation within human brain cells
Biological Science
Dr Samantha Marie Burke
Thesis: Insights into the state of coral reefs and coral health research
Dr Brianna Marie Coulter
Thesis: Optimising translocation strategies for the greater bilby (Macrotis lagotis)
Dr Matthew Davis
Thesis: Influence of artificial waterpoints on vertebrate activity, particularly feral goats (Capra hircus), on Fowlers Gap in arid New South Wales
Dr Harrison Jeffrey Francis Eyck
Thesis: Molecular and behavioural ecology of nematodes during a biological invasion
Dr Lachlan James Hart
Thesis: Palaeobiology and taxonomy of Australian temnospondyl amphibians
Dr Charlotte Page
Thesis: Life and Death on Coral Reefs; An investigation into health and disease of primary reef-building taxa at remote, and subtropical reefs of Norfolk Island, South Pacific
Dr Benjamin John Stepkovitch
Thesis: Ecosystem effects of western quoll (Dasyurus geoffroii) reintroduction on preyspecies inside a fenced reserve
Biotechnology
Dr Jyoti Prakash Gurung
Thesis: Separation, Flow Characterisation, and Optogenetic Control of Motile Bacteria
Dr Feifei Su
Thesis: The role of NEGR1 in regulating peripheral proteins of synaptic vesicles
Chemistry
Dr Shegufta Nasrin Farazi
Thesis: Peptide guiding motifs for folding polymers into protein-mimetic structures
Dr Xiaoming Fu
Thesis: Design and Synthesis of Novel Biologically Active Isoflavones
Dr Sylvia Ganda
Thesis: Self-assembled Biodegradable 2D Platelet Particles and Their Journey Inside the Cells
Dr Xiaojing Huang
Thesis: Advanced Mass Spectrometry Methods for Studying Proteins Related to Post-Translational Modification-Inspired Drug Design
Dr Rebecca Yong Lai
Thesis: (Trans)formations of Charged Polymersomes
Dr Shiyang Liu
Thesis: Unlocking Iron-Nitrogen-Carbon Catalysts for Oxygen Reduction Reaction in Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells
Dr Oscar Hamilton Lloyd Williams
Thesis: The Analysis of Metallo-Supramolecular Chemistry by Ion Mobility-Mass Spectrometry
Dr Hoang Yen Vo
Thesis: Effects of Physicochemical Properties on the Biological Activity of Single-Chain Nanoparticles in Drug Delivery
Environmental Management
Dr Chantelle Alexandra Thelora Doyle
Thesis: Plant Conservation; a future on the move.
Materials Science and Engineering
Dr Jianhao Du
Thesis: Piezoelectric and triboelectric nanogenerators based on polymer composites
Dr Jiajun Fan
Thesis: Synthesis and design of high-performance silver nanowires for transparent electronics
Dr Chien-Yu Huang
Thesis: Synthesis and Properties of Nanorods and Microrods Self-Assembled from Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals
Dr Chao Liu
Thesis: Interface Engineering of Functional Layers in Moisture Electric Generators
Dr Jie Min
Thesis: Investigating the correlation between thermal properties in Cu2Se and the performance of Cu2Se as an electrocatalyst by using computational methods
Dr Allen David Russell
Thesis: Wear behaviour of pumps used in the transport of mineral slurries
Dr Negin Sarmadi
Thesis: Mapping the Correlation between Microstructural Phases and Magnetic Characteristics of Alloyed High Carbon Steels
Dr Fei Wang
Thesis: Investigation into the Li and Na cycling behavior of rGO-based materials
Dr Zi Wang
Thesis: Multiphysics modelling and analysis of the structures and properties of powder beds formed by selective laser sintering
Dr Haotian Wen
Thesis: Fundamental Study of Photoluminescence-Shape Relationship of Fluorescent Nanodiamonds using Machine Learning Assisted Correlative Transmission Electron Microscopy and Photoluminescence Microscopy Method
Mathematics and Statistics
Dr Bill Deng
Thesis: The RO C2 times C2 graded cohomology of the point and the Bredon motivic cohomology of the real field
Dr Prosha Azmaine Rahman
Thesis: Statistical Analysis on Complexly Structured Data
Microbiology and Immunology
Dr Isidora Simovic
Thesis: To eat or not to eat: the role of autophagy in Helicobacter pylori-related gastric carcinogenesis
Physics
Dr Mushita Masud Munia
Thesis: Multi-scale and Multi-physics Modeling of Phosphorus Donor Qubits in Silicon
Psychology
Dr Chang Chen
Thesis: Temporal and spatial contextual modulation of walking direction in biological motion
Dr Yi-Jing Hsieh
Thesis: The role of colour in facial age estimation
Dr Yuchen Xie
Thesis: Navigating the complexities of aged care services for older Australians and their families
MASTER OF PSYCHOLOGY (CLINICAL) MPsychol(Clin) PhD
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
Psychology (Clinical)
Dr Natalie Anne Mastrogiovanni
Thesis: An investigation of mental health self-stigma, help-seeking and associated
mechanisms in Arabic-speaking refugees.
HONORARY DEGREE
Scientia Professor Sven Rogge, Dean of the Faculty of Science presents to the Chancellor for the admission to the degree of
DOCTOR OF SCIENCE Hon.DSc
honoris causa
Emeritus Professor David StClair Black AO