Postgraduate Theses: Recent submissions
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Machine Learning and Metaheuristics within the Built Environment: From Design to Maintenance
Published 2026Despite significant technological development throughout academia and comparable sectors of the economy, our built environment is increasingly burdened by a lack of automation, data silos, disjointed workflows, slow ...Open AccessThesis -
Neural Networks for Accurate, Scalable and General Core Loss Modeling in Magnetic Components
Published 2026Accurate prediction of magnetic core losses under modern power-electronics excitations is critical for high-efficiency, high-frequency converter design, yet existing approaches often face a trade-off between accuracy, ...Open AccessThesis -
Engineering Plasma-Polymerised Nanoparticles for Breast Cancer Therapy
Published 2025Breast cancer remains one of the most prevalent cancers worldwide and a leading cause of cancer-related mortality among women. Polymeric nanoparticles (NPs) have strong potential to improve therapeutic efficacy by overcoming ...EmbargoedThesis -
Multistage Robust and Distributed Optimal Planning and Coordination of Power and Transportation Networks for Large-Scale EV Integration
Published 2026This thesis investigates the long-term planning and operational coordination challenges associated with large-scale electric vehicle (EV) integration in coupled power and transportation networks. As transportation ...USyd AccessThesis -
Spiking Synchrony as a Learning Signal for Spiking Neural Networks
Published 2026Spiking neural networks promise high energy efficiency, yet training deep SNNs with timing-based local rules remains unstable and hard to scale. This thesis proposes SSDP, a population-level learning rule that strengthens ...Open AccessThesis