Richard Brent - Students

This page lists current and former doctoral students supervised by me. Masters and undergraduate students are not listed here.

Current Students

I am currently supervising the following Ph.D or D.Phil students.

Jörg Arndt at ANU (MSI)

Shih Bai at ANU (RSISE)

Srinivasa Subramanya Rao at ANU (MSI)

Christopher Aycock at Oxford

Yuan Jeng (Oliver) Lui at Oxford (supervision jointly with Ani Calinescu)

Former Students

In the past I supervised the following Ph.D. students. Graduation date and last known position are given.

James (Jim) Abbott
Numerical continuation methods for nonlinear equations and bifurcation problems (1978)
Systems Analyst, UK
Andreas Griewank
Analysis and modification of Newton's method at singularities (1980)
Professor, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
Daryel Akerlind
(joint supervision with Martin Ward)
Provable conditions in computational complexity theory (1984)
Founder, Prometheus Information, Canberra
Philip (Phil) Robertson
(joint supervision with John O'Callaghan)
Colour image transformation (1985)
General Manager, Research Division, Canon Information Systems Research, Sydney
Paul Mackerras
(joint supervision)
Machine interpretation of boundaries in textured images (1988)
Senior Technical Leader, IBM Linux Technology Center, Canberra.
Zhou Bing Bing (Bing)
Systolic architectures for parallel implementation of digital filters (1989)
Associate Professor, School of Information Technology, University of Sydney.
Peter Strazdins
Control structures for mesh-connected networks (1990)
Senior Lecturer in Computer Science, ANU
Peter Fletcher
(joint supervision with Phil Robertson)
Regular mapping of multi-dimensional data on parallel processors (1993)
R&D position, Canon Information Systems Research, Sydney
Kevin Moore
(joint supervision with Phil Robertson)
Interactive visualisation (1997)
General Manager Defense R\&D, Mediaware International, Canberra
Wanli Ma
(joint supervision)
T-Cham, a programming language based on transactions and chemical abstract machine (2001)
Information Sciences and Engineering, University of Canberra
Andrew Tridgell
Efficient algorithms for sorting and synchronization (1999) [ps, 168K]
Researcher at IBM Almaden Research Center (but located in Canberra).
Author of Samba.
M. Manzur Murshed
The reconfigurable mesh: programming model, self-simulation, adaptablility, optimality, and applications (1999) [ps, 448K]
Associate Professor, Monash University
Brian Murphy
Polynomial selection for the number field sieve integer factorisation algorithm (1999) [ps, 816K]
Bain and Co, Sydney
Fatima Abu Salem
Factorisation algorithms for univariate and bivariate polynomials over finite fields (2004) [ps, 528K]
Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Colin Percival
(joint supervision with Bill McColl)
Matching with mismatches and assorted applications (2006) [pdf, 436K]
Postdoctoral Researcher, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Academic "Family Tree"

A list of my supervisor(s), their supervisors etc going back a long way, is available here, thanks to the The Mathematics Genealogy Project.

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