PhD STUDENTS AND RESEARCH ASSOCIATES

Frans Coenen

Department of Computer Science

The University of Liverpool

Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia, First Woman PhD

Dr Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia (1646-1684), first woman to obtain a PhD (University of Padua, 1678).

1. Current PhD Students and RAs

Current PhD Students and Research Assistants/Associates (RAs).

No.	Name	Research Domain	Start Data	1^st Supervisor (% Split)	2^nd Supervisor (% Split)	Advisor	Notes
1.	Ashraf Ahmed El Sayed (A.El-Sayed@liverpool.ac.uk)	Mining MRI Scan Images	November 2007	Frans Coenen (60%)	Martha García-Fiñana (40%), Division of Health Statistics	Michele Zito	Thesis
2.	Santhana Chaimontree (S.Chaimontree@liverpool.ac.uk)	Agent Communication and Argumentation for MADM	1 October 2008	Frans Coenen (70%)	Katie Atkinson (30%)	Terry Payne
3.	Stephanie Chu Hui Li (S.Chua@liverpool.ac.uk)	Rule Induction and Revision for Text Mining	1 October 2008	Frans Coenen (70%)	Grant Malcolm (30%)	Dave Jackson
4.	Ayesh Alshukri (A.Alshukri@liverpool.ac.uk)	Data mining to establish Web Site Boundaries	1 October 2008	Frans Coenen (70%)	Michele Zito (30%)	Terry Payne (was Rob Sanderson up until June 2009)
5.	Mohd Hanafi bin Ahmad Hijazi (M.Ahmad-Hijazi@liverpool.ac.uk)	Retina image mining (classification) in Ophthalmology	3 November 2008	Frans Coenen (80%)	Yalin Zheng (20%), Unit of Ophthalmology, School of Clinical Sciences, yzheng@liverpool.ac.uk	Bernard (Diz) Diaz (up to December 2010), Boris Knonev (from January 2011 onwards)
6.	Puteri Nor Ellyza Nohuddin (puteri@liverpool.ac.uk)	Social Network Mining in The Dynamic Context: A Study Focussing on The UK Cattle Movement DB.	1 December 2008	Frans Coenen (80%)	Rob Christley (20%), Institute for Biocomplexity, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, Robc@liverpool.ac.uk	Trevor Bench-Capon	Katie Atkinason standing in for Trevor Bench-Capon during Summer 2010
7.	Matias Garcia Constantino	Spatial-temporal data mining in questionnaire analysis	5 October 2009	Frans Coenen (80%)	Alan Radford (10%), Veterinary Clinical Science, Small Animal Teaching Hospital, A.D.Radford@liverpool.ac.uk, P-J Noble (10%), Veterinary Clinical Science, Small Animal Teaching Hospital, Rtnorle@liverpool.ac.uk.	Grant Malcolm
8.	Yungang Zhang	Medical Image Mining	?	Dr. Wenjin Lu (60%), XJTLU (wenjin.lu@xjtlu.edu.cn)	Dr. Bailing Zhang (20% supervision), XJTLU; Frans Coenen (20%)	NA	Registered at XJTLU.
9.	Emmanuel Agiriga	Multi-Agent based Simulation (MABS)	1 March 2011	Frans Coenen (60%)	Darek Kowlaski (20%), Jane Hurst (20%), Mammalian Behaviour & Evolution Group University of Liverpool, Leahurst Campus	Paul Dunne, Katie Atkinson, Wiebe van der Hoek
10.	Abdulraman Albarak	3-D Image Classification: A Study Using “Eye Ball” Data	1 July 2011	Frans Coenen (70%)	Yalin Zheng (30%), Unit of Ophthalmology, School of Clinical Sciences, yzheng@liverpool.ac.uk	Floriana Grasso, Boris Konev, Dave Jackson
11.	Kwankamon Dittakan	Obtaining Census Data by applying Image Classification Techniques to Satellite Imagery	1 October 2011	Frans Coenen (70%)	Rob Christley (30%), Dept. Epidemiology and Population Health	Leszek Gasieniec, Rahul Savani, Davide Gossi
12.	Subheya Salhi	Machine learning techniques dor the identification of correlations between 3D surfaces	1 October 2011	Frans Coenen (60%),	Clare Dixon (40%)	Trevor Bench-Capon, Boris Konev, Muhammad Khan
13.	Wen Yu	Effective Candidate Sub-Graph Generation for Frequent Subgraph Mining	1 November 2011	Frans Coenen (60%)	Michele Zitto (40%)	Paul Dunne, Russel Martin, Davide Grossi
14.	Chao Yan	Video Processing and Vision	1 November 2011	Dr. Bailing Zhang (80%), XJTLU (Bailing.Zhang@xjtlu.edu.cn)	Frans Coenen (20%)	NA	Registered at XJTLU.
15.	Akedej Udomchaiporn	Volumetric Data Classification: A Study Directed at MRI Scan Imagery	1 February 2012	Frans Coenen (60%)	Yalin Zheng (40%), Unit of Ophthalmology, School of Clinical Sciences, yzheng@liverpool.ac.uk	TBA

Current Research Assistants/Associates (RAs).

No.	Name	Research Domain	Start Data	Notes
1.	Maya Wardeh (RA)	Racewood KTP project	1 June 2010	"knowledge base advisor": Boris Konev.
2.	Muhammad Khan (RA)	INMA Framework 7 project	1 March 2011	Co-supervisor: Clare Dixon.

Liverpool PhD student Ashraf El Sayed (left), external examiner Mark Fisher (center) and internal examiner Boris Konev (right) after Ashraf's successful defence of his thesis (14 December 2011)

Liverpool PhD student Puteri Nohuddin receiving the best student paper prize at AI'2011 (Peterhouse College, Cambridge, 14 December 2011)

Liverpool PhD Chuntao (Geof) Jiang on the day of his graduation (14 December 2011)

Liverpool PhD students (L to R) Emmanuel Agiriga, Puteri Nohuddin, Matias Garcia Constantino and Ayesh Alshukri at AI2011 (Peterhouse College, Cambridge, 14 December 2011).

Liverpool PhD students (L to R) Matias Garcia Constantino, Puteri Nohuddin, Emmanuel Agiriga and Ayesh Alshukri at AI2011 (Peterhouse College, Cambridge, 14 December 2011).

Liverpool PhD student Ayesh Alshukri presenting his work at MLDM'11 in New York (September 2011)

Liverpool PhD student Mat Garcia presenting his work at MLDM'11 in New York (September 2011)

Mohammed Khan on the day of his graduation (15 December 2010)

Ali Albashiri, Maya Wardeh at Grafuation

Mohammed Khan on the day of his graduation (15 December 2010).

Liverpool PhD student Ali Albashiri (left) and Maya Wardeh (right), with there4 supervisor (center), at their graduation, 22 July 2010.

Liverpool PhD student Ali Albashiri shortly after successfully defending his thesis (center), external examiner Miltos Petridis (Left), internal examiner Michele Zito (right), 29 March 2010.

Liverpool PhD student Ali Albashiri receiving the Libyan Student Association prize for outstanding achievement (London, 13 January 2010) (Photo from http://www.libyansu.org.uk/10/news09/amana/2010/takreem13012010.htm, sampled 27 January 2010).

Liverpool PhD students Maya Wardeh (centre) and her PhD Supervisors, Frans Coenen (left) and Trevor Bench-Capon (right), immediately after successfully defending her thesis (29 January 2010).

Liverpool PhD students Maya Wardeh (left) and her External Examiner, Dr Tony Bagnal (University of East Anglia), immediately after successfully defending her thesis (29 January 2010).

Liverpool PhD student Ashraf El Sayed receiving the best application paper prize at AI'2009 (Cambridge)

Liverpool PhD students at UKKDD'09 (Salford), from left to right: Chuntao (Geof) Jiang, Ashraf Ahmed, Kamal Ali Albashiri, Muhammad Khan, Frans Coenen, Hanafi Hijazi, Vassiliki Somaraki, Ayesh Alshukri, Santhana Chainmontree, Stephanie Li and Puteri Nohuddin.

Liverpool PhD student Ali Albashiri receiving the "best student paper" award at AI 2008 (Cambridge).

Liverpool PhD students at AI 2008 (Cambridge), from left to right: Chuntao (Geof) Jiang, Santhana Chianmontree, Maya Wardeh, Frans Coenen, Ayesh Alshukri and Ali Albashiri (Photo: Ayesh Alshukri).

2. Past PhD Students and RAs

Past Post Graduate Research and PhD Students, Research Officers (ROs) and Research Assistants/Associates (RAs).

Chuntao (Geof) Jiang (PhD), Weighted Frequent Subgraph Mining, April 2007 to December 2011 (Graduate 14 December 2011). Second Supervisor: Paul Leng (April 2007 to June 2008), Michele Zitto (June 2008 to December 2011). Thesis (2MB).
Vassiliki Somaraki (Research Student), Trend Mining in Large Longitudinal Medical Databases: A study Focusing on Diabetic Retinopathy Data, October 2008 to December 2010.
Muhammad Sulaiman Khan (PhD), Fuzzy Association Rule Mining, January 2007 to October 2010 (Graduated 15 December 2010), Registered at Liverpool Hope University, Co-supervised with Dr Maybin Muyeba (Liverpool Hope) up to December 2008, Dr David Reid (Liverpool Hope) January 2009 to December 2010.
Yogesh Patel (RA); Engaged on Deeside KTP project (1 August 2008 - 31 July 2010). "knowledge base advisor": Katie Atkinson.
Maya Wardeh (PhD), Data Mining Supported Argumentation, September 2006 to April 2010 (Graduated 22 July 2010), Thesis (9MB),
Kamal Ali Albashiri (PhD), Multi-Agent Data Mining (MADM), September 2006 to May 2010 (Graduated 22 July 2010), Thesis (2MB).
Reshma Patel (RA); Engaged on Transglobal KTP project (1 June 2007 31 July 2009). "Knowledge base advisor" was Russel Martin.
Will Costello (MPhil); A remote access protocol for Microscopy (commenced January 2003, part time, graduated December 2008).
Yanbo (Justin) Wang (Ph.D.); Document pre-processing for Text Mining without language specific meta-knowledge, (September 2003 - April 2008). Graduated in June 2008.
Neena Madan Devasar (PG Res. Stud.); Incremental Association Rule Mining (I-ARM), (September 2006 - May 2007).
Shady Shidfar (PG Res. Stud.); Image Mining (November 2005 - January 2007).
Joy Alatta (PG Res. Stud.); WWW Mining (September 2004 - January 2005).
Riming Zhang (Visiting Scholar); Distributed Association Rule Mining (January 2004 - January 2005).
Shakil Ahamed (Ph.D.); Association Rule Mining using Secondary Storage (Graduate December 2005).
Christian Setzkorn (Ph.D.); GA's for Data Mining, Graduated June 2005.
Graham Goulbourne (Ph.D.), KDD for FM project, co-supervised with Mr. P. Leng of the Department of Computer Science. Graduated in June 2002.
P. Pan (RA), Z. Michaelides (RA) and J. Ho (RO), all working on the DOMAIN project (based in the Management School). (Domain EPSRC project).
Azimi Agmed (Ph.D. based in Department of Architecture and Building Engineering), co-supervised with Dr. A. Browne, Suspended September 2001.
Weidong Zhang (RA); engaged on the "Stoves" project (1999-June 2001)
Phil Rolands (RA); engaged on the PETER (TCS) pallet tracking project (2000-2001).
Andrew Street (RA); engaged on the PRIMA (TCS) business support project (August 2001 to December 2002).
Lu Zhang (RA); engaged on the "Stoves" project (June 2001 to January 2003).

Also many MSc student project supervisions.

Justin Wang and Frans Coenen shortly after Justin successfully defended his thesis, 10 April 2008 (Photo: Ji Ruan).

University of Liverpool UKKDD'08 (Bristol) delegates, from left to right: Ashraf Ahmed, Kamal Ali Albashiri, Frans Coenen and Maya Wardeh, 15 April 2008 (Photo: Chuntao (Geof) Jiang).

Liverpool PhD students at AI 2007 (Cambridge), from left to right: Maya Wardeh, Frans Coenen, Ashraf Ahmed, Kamal Ali Albashiri, and Chuntao (Geof) Jiang

Liverpool PhD student Shakil Ahmed at ES2001, Cambridge.

3. Admin. Links

Transfer form.
Information for PhD Supervisors
Information for PhD Students (and MPhil Students planning to transfer to PhD).