Available supervisors
Dr Soufiane Boufous
Areas of research:Ìýroad safety
Tel:Ìý+61 2 9385 6227
Email:Ìýsoufiane@unsw.edu.au
Recent topics include, for example:
- Reporting of aviation crashes in Australian newspapers
Suggested topics include:
- Airline safety in the age of social media
- The analysis of digital flight data to monitor the performance of flying students
- Factors that contribute to pilot shortage in Australia
- Data integration and aviation safety
Dr Carlo Caponecchia
Areas of research:Ìýhuman factors and safety
Tel:Ìý+61 2 9385 7184
Email:Ìýcarloc@unsw.edu.au
Recent topics include, for example:
- Investigating eye tracking technology as a tool to improve the visual scanning techniques of novice pilots
Suggested topics include:
- Improving the accessibility of air travel for people with disability
- Use and evaluation of international standards on safety management systems
- Validation of selection tests for trainee pilots
- Methods for providing feedback on trainee pilot visual scanning
- Reliability and usability of methods for understanding complex systems and incidents (e.g., FRAM)
- Safety management, practices and responsibilities for transnational operations
- Aviation health and wellbeing: physical and mental health of crew and passengers
- Improving Injury data classification and management
Professor Brett Molesworth
Areas of research:Ìýhuman factors and aviation safety; pilot risk management; aviation (mis)communication; noise effects; pilot training and performance; cabin safety and passenger behaviour; human performance; remotely piloted aircraft
Tel:Ìý+61 2 9385 6757
Email:Ìýb.molesworth@unsw.edu.au
Recent topics include, for example:
- Using EEG spectral components to assess the fatiguing effect of aircraft noise
- Effect of tone of feedback on the performance of student pilots
- Investigating predictors of risk in the general population and the pilot population
- Pilot psychology: health and wellbeing
Suggested topics include:
- Road safety: reducing young drivers’ speed behaviour
- Aviation Safety: Reducing pilots’ miscommunication
- Aviation Safety: Effect of visual and auditory feedback on student pilots’ learning outcome
- Aviation Safety: Improving passengers’ recall of information presented in the pre-flight safety briefing
- Road safety: training young novice drivers where to look to improve speed management
- Aviation Safety: Understanding communication errors between pilots and air traffic control
- Aviation Safety: Improving pilots risk management through cognitive integration training
Associate Professor Richard CL Wu
Areas of research:Ìýairline management/performance
Tel:Ìý+61 2 9385 4191
Email:Ìýc.l.wu@unsw.edu.au
Recent topics include, for example:
- The impact of personalised mobile marketing on passenger shopping behaviours in the airport terminal
- Assessing the effect of textual and visual information presentation on the usability of airline web interface with eye-tracker and EEG
- The impact of personalised mobile marketing on passenger shopping behaviours in the airport terminal
- Understanding and predicting consumer behaviour based on an analysis of clickstream and frequent flyer data
- Effects of enterprise bargaining and agreement clauses on operating cost of airline ground crew scheduling
Suggested topics include:
- Data models on passenger movement patterns in an airport terminal
- Visual attention of passengers in airport retail shops
- Air passenger retail purchase modelling and airport terminal space design
- Reinforcement learning models in airline scheduling
Dr Graham Doig
Areas of research:Ìýaircraft and road vehicle aerodynamics, aerodynamic flow control, UAV/drone configurations, drone operations and applications, supersonic aerodynamics, biomimicry fluid dynamics, shock waves and shock reflections, and education research into student participation in project-based learning.Ìý
Email:Ìýgraham.doig@unsw.edu.au
Recent topics include, for example:
- Design and optimisation of solar-powered UAVs
- Aerodynamic flow control for drones and aircraft
- Shock wave reflections and interactions with flames and solid surfaces
- Design and real-world operations of large cargo drones
- Use of drones for novel environmental and wildlife monitoring applications (in coordination with BEES supervisors)
- Aerodynamics of road vehicles in cornering conditions
- Use of AI/machine learning in real-world testing of sub-scale aircraft and full-scale road vehicles
- Barriers to student participation in co-curricular science and engineering projects
Dr Dominique Estival
Areas of research:Ìýlanguage and aviation communication
Tel:Ìý+61 401 618 947
Email:Ìýd.estival@unsw.edu.au
Recent topics include, for example:
- Native and non-native English speakers and aviation communication
Suggested topics include:
- Language as a human factor in aviation
- Analysis of Pilot-ATC recordings
- Integration of communication in pilot training