Supervision

It has been a privilege to supervise talented early-career academics over the years. The following is a list of students I have supervised in some capacity. Links to relevant work or research of theirs is included where possible.

Graduate Student Supervision 

Completed PhD supervisions

• James Marshall (2021). Towards Wonderful Design: Elements, Principles, Methods & Applications. PhD thesis. Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. Leon Sterling & Sonja Pedell (supervisors).

• Steven Murdoch (2021). A New Approach for the Communication and Production of Three-Dimensional Computer Assisted Character Animation. PhD thesis. Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. Leon Sterling (supervisor)

• Felip Marti Carrillo (2020). Designing Socially Assistive Robots for Paediatric Rehabilitation (In Situ Design for Ongoing Clinical Deployment). PhD thesis. Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. Leon Sterling (supervisor)

• Regina Erlenheim (2019). Designing Proactive Public Services. PhD thesis. Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia. Kuldar Taveter (primary supervisor), Leon Sterling (co-supervisor)

• Baby Gobin (2014). AOM – An Agile Methodology for Developing Ontology Modules. PhD thesis. University of Mauritius, Mauritius.

• Bin Lu (2012), Supporting agent-oriented models within the software life cycle. PhD thesis. The University of Melbourne, Australia. Prof. Leon Sterling (primary supervisor), Dr. Tim Miller and Prof. Kuldar Taveter (co-supervisors).

• YuXiu Luo, (2012), Quality requirements: An agent-oriented modelling approach. PhD thesis.

• Saeed Araban (2012), A Reusability Assessment Framework for Software Components. PhD thesis, University of Melbourne, Australia. 

• Wai Shiang Cheah, (2010), Pattern based approach for agent-oriented software development. PhD thesis. The University of Melbourne, Australia.

• Giannakis Antoniou (2010), Technologies Avoiding Privacy Incidents in Hostile Environments. PhD thesis. The University of Melbourne, Australia. Udaya Parampalli (primary supervisor), Prof Leon Sterling and Prof. Lynn Batten (co-supervisors).

• Kendall Lister (2008), Toward semantic interoperability for software systems. PhD thesis, The University of Melbourne, Australia. Prof. Leon Sterling (primary supervisor), Dr Catherine Legg (co-supervisor).

• Thomas Juan (2008), ROADMAP methodology for Agent-Oriented Software Engineering, PhD thesis, The University of Melbourne, Australia.

• Donato Perugini (2007), Agents for Logistics: A Provisional Agreement Approach, PhD thesis, The University of Melbourne, Australia. Leon Sterling, Adrian Pearce, Dale Lambert (supervisors).

• Ayodele Oluyomi (2006), Patterns and Protocols for Agent-Oriented Software Development, PhD thesis, The University of Melbourne, Australia. Leon Sterling & Shanika Karunasekera (supervisors)

• Muthukuruppan Annamalai (2006), Modelling knowledge for scientific collaboration on the semantic web, PhD thesis, The University of Melbourne, Australia.

• Steven Versteeg (2004), A computational study of the crayfish escape circuit, PhD thesis, University of Melbourne, Australia.  

• Clinton Heinze (2003), Modelling Intention Recognition for Intelligent Agent Systems, PhD thesis, The University of Melbourne, Australia.

• Anthony Senyard (2003), Toward the Software Engineering of Neural Networks, PhD thesis, The University of Melbourne, Australia.

• Hongen Lu (2001), Building multi-agent systems for information gathering from the World Wide Web, PhD thesis, The University of Melbourne, Australia.

• Xiaoying Gao (1999), Knowledge-based Information Extraction from the World Wide Web, PhD thesis, The University of Melbourne, Australia.

• Seng Wai Loke (1998), LogicWeb: Integrating the Web with Logic Programming, PhD thesis.

• Cindy Marling (1996), Integrating case-based and rule-based reasoning in knowledge-based systems development, PhD thesis, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA. Leon Sterling (supervisor).

• Pu Chen (1995), ATT: Execution models for logic programs, PhD thesis, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA. Leon Sterling (supervisor).

• Ashish Jain (1995), Program Maps between Logic Programs, PhD thesis.

• Kathy Kovacic (1995), Using Common Sense Knowledge for Computer Menu Planning, PhD thesis. Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA. Leon Sterling (supervisor).

• Yossi Nygate (1994), ASPEN: Structuring design of complex knowledge-based systems, PhD thesis, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA. Leon Sterling (supervisor).

• Venkatesh Srinivasan (1994), On designing an AI-based generic scheduling framework, PhD thesis, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA. Leon Sterling (advisor).

• David Schwartz (1993), Cooperating heterogeneous systems: a blackboard-based meta approach, PhD thesis, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA.

• Ümit Yalçinalp (1991), Meta-Programming for Knowledge-Based Systems in Prolog, PhD thesis, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA.

• Arun Lakhotia (1990), A workbench for developing logic programs by stepwise enhancement, PhD thesis, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA. Leon Sterling (advisor).

• Randall Beer (1989), An experiment in computational neuroethology, PhD thesis, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA.

• Arvind Bansal (1988), Incorporating Parallelism in Logic Programs via Program Transformation, PhD thesis, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA. 

• Arie Ben David (1988), Qualitative reasoning about empirically modelled processes, PhD thesis, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA. 

Completed Masters supervisions

• Nicole Ronald (2007). Agent-based approaches to pedestrian modelling. Masters thesis, The University of Melbourne, Australia. Prof. Leon Sterling (primary supervisor), Michael Kirley (co-supervisor).

• Andrew Peel (2006), On designing a mobile robot for robocup, Master of Engineering Science thesis, The University of Melbourne, Australia.

• Maia Hristozova (2003), EXPLODE: Extreme programming for Lightweight Ontology Development, The University of Melbourne, Australia.

• Steve Goschnick (2002), Shadowboard: an Agent Architecture for enacting a sophisticated Digital Self, Master of Engineering Science thesis, The University of Melbourne, Australia.

• Brendan Hills (1998), Kermadec Model for Agent Development, MSc thesis. 

• Stewart Baillie (1997), A Cognitive Model for Agents Searching for Information on the WWW, MSc thesis.

• Leo Shulman (1991), IAHC: Intelligent Air Hockey Controller, MSc thesis.

• Martin Marshall (1990), PLINK: A Prolog Program Checker, MSc thesis.

• James Vezina (1990), ICE: Interruptable Control Expert System, MSc thesis.

• Nan Yang (1988), An Expert System on Menu Planning, MSc thesis.

• Marucha Lalee (1986), An Explanation Shell for Expert Systems Based on Meta-Interpreters, MSc, 1986 

• Ümit Yalçinalp (1986), DIJEST: DIagnosing Jaundice Expert System, MSc thesis.

• Rona Lustig (1984), Hibrid: A Hierarchical Bridge playing program, MSc thesis.

• Yossi Nygate (1984), An expert squeezer for bridge, MSc thesis.
  

M.S. Project Students

• Dinh Que, 1998

• Todd Turnidge, 1994

• Scott Carpenter, 1993 

• Ted Friedman, 1993

• Peter Johnson, 1990

• Mansoor Khan, 1990

• Kirsten McLeod, 2019

• Siyu Bian, 2020
  
  

Honours Students

• Arash Arian, 2006

• Zhe Liu, 2006

• Leslie Gondor, 2004

• Mohammed Jassim, 2004

• Gillian Tee, 2004

• Adrian Pellas-Rice, 2002 

• Dominic Hou, 2001

• Andrea Tan, 2000

• James Osborn, 1998

• Alex Wyatt, 1997

• Chris Grinton, 1996

• Hoon Kim, 1996

• Terence Wong, 1996

• Sitt Sen Chok, 1992