PhD STUDENTS AND RESEARCH ASSOCIATES Frans Coenen Department of Computer Science The University of Liverpool

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

2. Hall of Fame

Nawal Almutairi receives the best technical paper prize at the BCS SGAI Artificial Intelligence conference (Thursday 13 December 2018).
Mohammed Al-Zayedi crosses the stage to receive his degree from the vice-chancellor (degree ceremony Monday 3 December 2018).			Reunion at PRICAI 2018, L to R: Supervisor Frans Coenen, Liverpool PhD Student Hang Dong and ex Liverpool PhD student (graduated 22 July 2016) Kwankamon Dittakan.
Mohammed Al-Zeyadi after successfully defending his theis together with his supervisor Frans Coenen (25 July 2018)			Abdullah Alsheri (middle) on graduation day with supervisors Danushka Bollegala (left) and Frans Coenen (right), Friday 20 July 2018.
Abdullah Alsheri afer successfully defending his thesis, L to R: External Examiner Frederik Stahl, Abdullah Alsheri and Internal Examiner Floriana Grasso.			Abdullah Alsheri and PhD Supervisor Frans Coenen on graduation day, Friday 20 July 2018.
Poster Day (21 March 2018). PhD students Hajar Alhijailan and Nawal Almutairi.		Poster Day (21 March 2018). PhD student Ahmad Shahzad.		Poster Day (21 March 2018). Left: PhD students Hajar Alhijailan and Nawal Almutairi. Right: PhD student Ahmad Shahzad.
Muhammad Tufail on the day of his graduation (Friday 21 July 2017), L to R: Dr Muhammad Tufail, Prof. Frans Coenen (PhD Supervisor)			Muhammad Tufail after successifilly defending his thesis on extracting patterns from video data to support Multi Agent Based Simulation (MABS), Tuessay 4 April 2017, L to R: Muhammad Tufail, exteranl examiner Beatrix de la Iglesia aqnd internal examiner Darek Kowlalsi.

Liverpool PhD student Mohammed Al-Zeyadi presenting his work at the IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Smart Computing, Jeju Island, South Korea (15 February 2017).		Liverpool PhD student Abdullah Alshehri receiving the best student paper prize at the British Computer Society's annual AI conference, AI'16 (13 December 2016).		Graduation 7 December 2016: (L to R): Dr Emmanuel Agiriga, Prof. Frans Coenen (PhD Supervisor), Dr Fatima Abdullahi and DR Akadej Udomchaiporn.

Liverpool PhD student Abdullah Alshehri presenting his work on "Keyboard Usage Authentication Using Time Seres Analysis" at the 18th DaWaK International Conference on Big Data Analytics and Knowledge Discovery in Porto, Portugal (16 September 2016).			Fatima Abdullahi passes her viva, Friday 16 September 2016, (L to R): external examiner Apostolos Antonacopoulos (from University of Salford), Fatima, Frans Coenen (PhD Supervisor).
Informal workshop on "The Optimization of Density-Based Clustering Using Evolutionary Computation", 30 August 2016 (L to R): Liverpool PhD students Mohammed Al-Zeyadi and Muhammad Tufail, Frans Coenen, Kevin Yuen (visitting academic from XJTLU), Chun Guan (visiting PhD student from XJTLU) and Liverpool PhD students Emmanuel Agiriga, Abdullah Alshehri and Fatima Abdullahi.				Reunion at 14th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artficial Intelligence (PRICAI'16), Phuket, Thailand, 23 August 2016 (L to R): former Liverpool PhD student Akadej Udomchaiporn, Frans Coenen and former Liverpool PhD student Kwankamon Dittakan.

Liverpool PhD student Kwankamon Dittakan (and supervisor Frans Coenen) on the day of her graduation ceremony, 22 July 2016.		Last day at the University of Liverpool for PhD student Akadej Udomchaiporn (supervisor Frans Coenen on right), 20 May 2016.		Liverpool Computer Science PhD student Abdullah Alshehri presenting his work on Keystroke Dynamics at the Saudi Student Conference (SSC'16) in Birmingham (12 February 2016).
Liverpool Computer Science PhD student Akadej Udomchaiporn on successfully completing his PhD Viva (15 April 2016). Left to right: Internal Examiner Michele Zito, Akadej Udomchaiporn and External Examiner Tim Ritchings.			Liverpool Computer Science PhD student Kwankamon Dittakan after successfully defending her thesis on Population Estimation Mining from Satellite Imagery (20 Novemeber 2015). Left to right: Internal Examiner Rahul Savani, Kwankamon Dittakan, upervisor Frans Coenen and External Examiner Dan Neagu.

Liverpool Computer Science PhD student Esraa Alshdaifat after the successful conclusion of her viva (22 October 2015). Left to right: Internal Examiner Clare Dixon, Esra'a Alshdaifat, Supervisor Frans Coenen and External Examiner Nirmali Wiratunga.	Liverpool Computer Scienece PhD student Wen Yu after successfully defending her thesis on "Vertex Unique Labelled Subgraph Mining" (11 August 2015). Left to Right: External Examiner Weiru Liu, WenYu and Internal Examiner Russell Martin.	Liverpool PhD student Abdulraman Albarak (and supervisor Frans Coenen) on the day of his graduation ceremony, 21 July 2015.

Liverpool PhD student Fatima Abullahi at the Machine Learning and Data Mining (MLDM) conference in St Petersburg, Russia (23 July 2014). (The building in the background is the Winter Palace.)	Liverpool PhD student Zaher Saleh after successfully defending his thesis on "Machine Learning and Sentiment Analysis Approaches for the Analysis of Parliamentary Debates" (30 July 2014). Left to Right: PhD Supervisor Davide Grossi, Zaher Saleh, Internal Examiner Katie Atkinson, External Examiner Chris Reed.	Liverpool PhD student Sbubhieh Salhi after successfully defending his thesis on "Identification of Correlations Between 3D Surfaces Using Data Mining Techniques: A Case Stufy of Predicting Springback in Shhet Metal Forming" (26 September 2014). Left to Right: Internal Examiner Boris Konev, Sbubhieh Salhi and External Examiner Padrig Cunningham.

Liverpool PhD student Mat Garcia on the day of his graduation (11 December 2013)	Liverpool PhD student Wen (Wendy) Yu (left) and Kwankamon (Kwan) Dittakan (right) at The DEXA 2013 conference in Prague (27 August 2013)	Liverpool PhD student Mat Garcia celebrating after his viva, left to right: (i) Supervisor Frans Coenen, (ii) internal examiner Dave Jackson, (iii) Mat himself and (iv) external examiner Daniel Neagu (22 August 2013)

Liverpool PhD student Mat Garcia, internal examiner Dave Jackson (left) and external examiner Daniel Neagu (right), after the successful defence of his thesis (22 August 2013)	Liverpool PhD student Ayesh (Ash) Alshukri and supervisor Frans Coenen on the day of his graduation (19 July 2013)	Liverpool PhD student Ayesh (Ash) Alshukri, and supervisors Michele Zito (left) and Frans Coenen (right) on the day of his graduation (19 July 2013)

Liverpool PhD students (from L toR) Subheya Salhi and Kwankamon (Kwan) Dittakan Mat Constantino presenting their work at AI-2012 (12-13 December 2012)	Liverpool PhD student Stephanie Chua and supervisor Frans Coenen on graduation day (12 December 2012)

From Left to Right: PhD supervisor Michele Zito, Internal Examiner Trevor Bench-Capon, Liverpool PhD Stephanie Ayesh (Ash) Alshukri and external examiner Nirmali Wiratunga, after the successful defence of Ayesh's thesis (16 November 2012)	Liverpool PhD Stephanie Chua, external examiner Jixin Ma (left) and internal examiner Dave Jackson (right), after the successful defence of her thesis (11 September 2012)	Dr Muhammed Khan (left) and Liverpool PhD Mat Garcia (right) presenting papers at the 8th International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining (16-20 July 2012) in Berlin (Photo: Muhammed Khan)

Liverpool PhD Santhana Chaimontree (centre), external examiner Prof. Miltos Petridis (left) and internal examiner Trevor Bench-Capon (right), after a successful defence of her thesis (26 July 2012)	Liverpool PhD Hanafi Hijazi (centre), external examiner Prof. Tim Ritchings (left) and internal examiner Boris Konev (right), after successful defence of his thesis (11 July 2012)

Liverpool PhD Hanafi Hijazi (centre), and supervisors Frans Coenen (left) and Yalin Zheng (right), after a successful defence of his thesis (11 July 2012)	Liverpool PhD Puteri Nohuddin (centre), external examiner Prof. Sunil Vadera (left) and internal examiner Prof. Trevor Bench-Capon (right) after her successful defence of her thesis (21 June 2012)

Liverpool PhD student Ashraf El Sayed (left), external examiner Dr 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)

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).

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 El Sayed, 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 El Sayed, Kamal Ali Albashiri, and Chuntao (Geof) Jiang	Liverpool PhD student Shakil Ahmed on graduation day (5 July 2005) with PhD Supervisors Frans Coenen (left) and Paul Leng (right).

Liverpool PhD student Grahame Goulbourne receiving a recognition award at ES1999, Cambridge.	Liverpool PhD student Shakil Ahmed at ES2001, Cambridge.

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1. Yizhang Xia (PhD), October 2014 - April 2019. Joint supervision with XJTLU, first supervisor Bailing Zhang.
2. Abdullah Saad Alajmi (RO), Data Scheme learning using laboratory instrument data, October 2017 to October 2018, Co PI Vallentina Tamma.
3. Mohammed Ghazi Abdulsada Al-Zeyadi (PhD), Efficient and Effective Methodologies for Exploring and Prediction Movement Patterns in Large Networks. November 2014 - April 2018 (graduate June 2018), second supervisor Russell Martin followed by Danushka Bollegala.
4. Chun Guan (PhD), Evolutionary and Swarm Algorithm Optimized Density- Based Clustering and Classification for Data Analytics, October 2014 - June 2018, Joint supervision with XJTLU, first supervisor Kevin Yuen.
5. Abdelmageed Algamdi (PhD), Cloud Trust Protocol October 2014 - April 2018 (graduate June 2018), first supervisor Alexi Lisitsa.
6. Iman Sedeeq (PhD), HTML Steganography Algorithms and Detection Methods March 2015 to April 2018 (graduate June 2018). first supervisor Alexi Lisitsa. Thesis.
7. Rongqiang Qian (PhD), Detection and Recognition of Traffic Scene Objects with Deep Learning October 2013 - March 2018, Joint supervision with XJTLU, first supervisors Bailing Zhang and Dr Yong Jue.
8. Abdullah Ahmed Alshehri (PhD), Keyboard Usage Recognition: A Study in Pattern Mining and Prediction in the Context of Impersonation November 2014 - October 2017 (Graduated December 2017). Second supervisor Danushka Bollegala. Thesis.
9. Luke Riley (RA), CSols KTP Project (1 September 2014 - 31 August 2017). Co-PI Katie Atkinson.
10. Joshua Akrofi (RA), Riverview Law KTP project (18 January 2016 - 31 July 2017). Co-PIs Katie Atkinson, Danushka Bollegala.
11. Muhammad Tufail (PhD), The Extraction and Usage of Patterns From Video Data to Support Multi Agent Based Simulation, September 2014 - June 2017 (Graduated July 2017). Second supervisor: Tingting Mu up to September 2016 (40%), Keith Dures post September 2016. Thesis.
12. Richard Williams (PhD), Multirobot Collaborative Visual Navigation with Micro Aerial Vehicles, November 2016 (Graduated Juy 2017). First supervisor Boris Konev. Thesis.
13. Akanimo (Sam) Okure (RA), Bluprint KTP project (1 July 2016 to 31 May 2017), Co-PI Boris Konev.
14. Yang Li (RO), Sentiment analysis in Twitter data (1 January 2014 - 32 March 2017), Co-PI Prudence Wong.
15. Matias Garcia Constantino (RA), Riverview Law KTP project (1 March 2015 to 20 February 2017). Co-PIs Katie Atkinson, Danushka Bollegala.
16. Fatima Abdullahi (PhD), Banded Pattern Mining For N-Dimensional Zero-One Data, October 2012 - November 2016 (Graduated December 2016). Second supervisor: Russell Martin (Computer Science). Thesis.
17. Akedej Udomchaiporn (PhD), Volumetric Data Classification: A Study Directed at MRI Scan Imagery, February 2012 - November 2016 (Graduated December 2016). Second supervisor: Vanessa Sluming (School of Health Sciences, Directorate of Medical Imaging & Radiotherapy), Thesis.
18. Emmanuel Agiriga (PhD), A Multi-Agent Based Simulation Framework for Mammalian Behaviour, March 2011 - November 2016 (Graduated December 2016). Second supervisors: Darek Kowlaski (Computer Science) and Jane Hurst (Institute of Integrative Biology). Thesis.
19. Samir Ahmed Essa Al-Abied (Research Student), INMA Follow on project, November 2014 to February 2016, co-supervised with Clare Dixon (40%).
20. Kwankamon Dittakan (PhD), Population Estimation Mining From Satellite Imagery, October 2011 - February 2016 (Graduated July 2016). Second supervisor: Rob Christley (Dept. Epidemiology and Population Health). Thesis.
21. Chao Yan (PhD), Vision-based Driver Behaviour Analysis, November 2011 - September 2015 (Graduated December 2016). Joint supervision with XJTLU, first supervisor Dr. Bailing Zhang Thesis.
22. Esra'a Shdaifat, Hierarchical Ensemble Classification: Towards the Classification of Data Collections that Feature Large Numbers of Class Labels, February 2013< to September 2015 (Graduated December 2015). Second supervisor: Keith Dures (40%). Thesis.
23. Anton Minnion (RA), Your Sales Team Cloud KTP project (1 July 2014 - 30 June 2015), Co-PI Boros Konev.
24. Wen Yu (PhD), "Vertex Unique Labelled Subgraph Mining", November 2011 to September 2015 (Graduated December 2015). Second supervisor: Michele Zitto. Thesis.
25. Abdulraman Albarak (PhD), 3-D Image Classification: A Study Using “Eye Ball” Data, July 2012 to December 2014 (Graduated July 2015). Second supervisor: Yalin Zheng. Thesis.
26. Sultan Alotaibi (PG Res. Stud.), Ontology Alignment for Linked Open Data, October 2012 to December 2013, co-supervised with Terry Payne.
27. Subhieh Salhi (PhD), Machine learning techniques for the identification of correlations between 3D surfaces, October 2011 to September 2014 (Graduated December 2014). Second Supervisor: Clare Dixon. Thesis.
28. Zaher Salah (PhD), Machine Learning and Sentiment Analysis Approaches for the Analysis of Parliamentary Debates, October 2011 to September 2014 (Graduated December 2014). First Supervisor: Davide Grossi, Thesis.
29. Muhammad Khan (RA), INMA Framework 7 project (1 March 2011 - 28 February 20014), Co-PI Clare Dixon.
30. Kirsty Williams (RA), Your Sales Team Cloud KTP project (1 July 2013 - 30 June 2014), Co-PI Boros Konev.
31. Matias Garcia Constantino (PhD), Spatial-temporal data mining in questionnaire analysis, October 2009 to August 2013 (Graduated December 2013). Second supervisors: Alan Radford and P-J Noble (Veterinary Clinical Science, Small Animal Teaching Hospital) Thesis.
32. Yungang Zhang (PhD), at XJTLU, Medical Image Mining. Graduated December 2013. First Supervisor Wenjin Lu. Second Supervisor: Bailing Zhang.
33. Ayesh Alshukri (PhD), Data mining to establish Web Site Boundaries October 2008 to November 2012 (Graduated1 9 July 2013). Second Supervisor: Michele Zito.
34. Santhana Chaimontree (PhD), Agent Communication and Argumentation for MADM, October 2008 to September 2012 Graduated 12 December 2012). Second Supervisor: Katie Atkinson. Thesis.
35. Stephanie Chu Hui Li (PhD), Rule Induction and Revision for Text Mining. October 2008 to September 2012 (Graduated 12 December 2012). Second Supervisor: Grant Malcolm.
36. Mohd Hanafi bin Ahmad Hijazi(PhD), Retina image mining (classification) in Ophthalmology. November 2008 to July 2012 (Graduated 12 December 2012). Second Supervisor: Yalin Zheng (Unit of Ophthalmology, School of Clinical Sciences). Thesis.
37. Puteri Nor Ellyza Nohuddin (PhD), Social Network Mining in The Dynamic Context: A Study Focussing on The UK Cattle Movement DB. December 2008 to May 2012 (Graduated 12 December 2012). Second Supervisor: Rob Christley (Institute for Biocomplexity, Faculty of Veterinary Sciences). Thesis. Winner of The 2011 British Computer Society Specialist Group on AI (BCS-SGAI) Prize for Best Student Paper (AI'11).
38. Ashraf Ahmed El Sayed (PhD), Mining MRI Scan Images, November 2007 to July 2012 (Graduated 19 July 2012). Second Supervisor: Martha García-Fiñana (Division of Health Statistics). Thesis. Winner of the 2009 British Computer Society Specialist Group on AI (BCS-SGAI) Best Application Paper Prize (AI'09).
39. Maya Wardeh (RA), Racewood KTP project (1 June 2010 - 31 May 2012). Co-PI Boris Konev.
40. 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).
41. Vassiliki Somaraki (Research Student), Trend Mining in Large Longitudinal Medical Databases: A study Focusing on Diabetic Retinopathy Data, October 2008 to December 2010.
42. 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.
43. Yogesh Patel (RA); Engaged on Deeside KTP project (1 August 2008 - 31 July 2010). "knowledge base advisor": Katie Atkinson.
44. Maya Wardeh (PhD), Data Mining Supported Argumentation, September 2006 to April 2010 (Graduated 22 July 2010), Thesis (9MB),
45. Kamal Ali Albashiri (PhD), Multi-Agent Data Mining (MADM), September 2006 to May 2010 (Graduated 22 July 2010), Thesis (2MB). 2010 Libyan Student Association prize for outstanding achievement and winner of the 2009 British Computer Society Specialist Group on AI (BCS-SGAI) Best Application Paper Prize (AI'09). K. A. Albashiri, "EMADS: An Extendible Multi-Agent Data Miner". Winner of The 2008 British Computer Society Specialist Group on AI (BCS-SGAI) Prize for Best Student Paper (AI'08).
46. Reshma Patel (RA); Engaged on Transglobal KTP project (1 June 2007 31 July 2009). "Knowledge base advisor" was Russel Martin.
47. Will Costello (MPhil); A remote access protocol for Microscopy (commenced January 2003, part time, graduated December 2008).
48. Yanbo (Justin) Wang (Ph.D.); Document pre-processing for Text Mining without language specific meta-knowledge, (September 2003 - April 2008). Graduated in June 2008.
49. Neena Madan Devasar (PG Res. Stud.); Incremental Association Rule Mining (I-ARM) (September 2006 - May 2007).
50. Shady Shidfar (PG Res. Stud.); Image Mining (November 2005 - January 2007).
51. Joy Alatta (PG Res. Stud.); WWW Mining (September 2004 - January 2005).
52. Riming Zhang (Visiting Scholar); Distributed Association Rule Mining (January 2004 - January 2005).
53. Shakil Ahamed (Ph.D.); Association Rule Mining using Secondary Storage (Graduate December 2005).
54. Christian Setzkorn (Ph.D.); GA's for Data Mining, Graduated June 2005.
55. Graham Goulbourne (Ph.D.), KDD for FM project, co-supervised with Mr. P. Leng of the Department of Computer Science. Graduated in June 2002.
56. P. Pan (RA), , DOMAIN EPSRC project (based in the Management School), September 1999 –September 2002.
57. Zenon Michaelides (RA), DOMAIN EPSRC project (based in the Management School), September 1999 –September 2002.
58. J. Ho (RO), DOMAIN EPSRC project (based in the Management School), September 1999 –September 2002.
59. Azimi Agmed (RO based in Department of Architecture and Building Engineering), co-supervised with Dr. A. Browne, January 2001 to September 2001.
60. Weidong Zhang (RA); engaged on the "Stoves" project (June 1999-June 2001)
61. Phil Rolands (RA); engaged on the PETER (TCS) pallet tracking project (September 2000- June 2001).
62. Andrew Street (RA); engaged on the PRIMA (TCS) business support project (August 2001 to December 2002).
63. Lu Zhang (RA); engaged on the "Stoves" project (June 2001 to January 2003).

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