Information for Prospective Students
I am currently looking for several PhD, Research Masters and Honours students who are interested in doing software engineering research in the following areas:
- component-based software engineering (in the areas of embedded systems robotics, etc. )
- software architectures and architecture evaluation
- requirements engineering (especially for quality requirements)
- multi-objective optimisation in software engineering
- formal methods in system design
- software product line development, software cost modelling,
- software and systems engineering for safety and mission-critical systems
If you want to know more about any of these topics, please take a look at my research and publications pages.
If you have a research idea that you're excited about in any of the areas mentioned above, please contact me, to discuss a possible future cooperation (the required information I need from you are outlined below). If you currently dont have a research topic, I have a collection of research ideas and we can discuss them and decide whether there is one you are excited about. However, it does help if you know what you like and don't like. Candidates would be expected to have a background in computer science and software engineering, and would be expected to include practical validation in their research.
What are the benefits for you? Basically, the benefits can be summarised as follows:
- You will work on real-world research problems. (There will always be opportunities to cooperate with major software and systems engineering companies like Boeing, Daimler Chrysler, or Siemens)
- You will be trained in all skills that are required to successfully finish you research project. My goal is to help you develop the skills, connections, and opportunities required, that ensure a successful postgraduate career.
- You will create research outputs at the highest standards. In today’s world, it is not only enough to be good, students must be great and competitive compared to other graduate students.
- You will get optimal and continuous supervision. My goal is to give you strong support on your research from a technical side. However, I also try to help my students to develop their personal skills. If you like to know more about my supervision style, I can provide contact details of recently graduated students as reference.
- You
study in a friendly and cooperative environment.
What would be expected from you? From any future student I expect the following characteristics:
- high problem solving skills (I am looking for excellent research students)
- stamina (Sometimes you will be challenged by hard research questions and problems. In these cases, it is required to work hard and try to solve the problem)
- ability to work and research independently as well as in a team
- enthusiasm and diligence
- talented and highly motivated
- time management skills
- integrity and ethics
Am I suitable to become a research student? If you have never looked at research papers, who knows? However, if you read research literature and you enjoy the work described, that is a good sign. Somebody formulated the following analogy It's like cooking: if you love eating great food, you may be a great cook, but if you don't like great food, why be a chef?
How to contact me? The best way to contact me is to write an email (lgrunske [at]swin.edu.au) with the subject **research project - your name**. It would be nice if you could attach your research proposal (if you have one), your resume/ curriculum vitae, your latest academic transcripts, a short letter that explains why you are interested to work with me (you can be honest in this letter). Please send all the documents in pdf format.