Didar Zowghi's Research Students


PhD Principal Supervisor

Norazlin Yusop - Tentative Thesis Title: "The Role of Issue Resolution in the Incremental Refinement of System Scope in Web System Development", Full-Time, commenced March 2004, co-supervised with Professor David Lowe.

Steve Boyd - Tentative Thesis Title: "A Constrained Natural Language and its supporting toolset for expressing requirements unambiguously", Part-Time, commenced March 2004, co-supervised with Dr. Vincenzo Gervasi from Pisa University, Italy.

Zafar Mehboob - Area of Research: Change Impact Analysis in Web Systems, Full-Time, Commenced Jnauary 2007, co-supervised with Professor David Lowe.

Ruhaya Ab Aziz - Area of Research: Requirements Interdependencies, Full-Time, Commenced February 2007.

Abdul Babar - Area of Research: Managing the Evolution of Strategic IT requirements, Full-Time, Commenced August 2007.


Alumni

Post-Doctoral

Daniela Damian - Research Project: "A study of automated support for distributed software requirements negotiations", July 2001 to July 2002. Now Associate Professor in University of Victoria, Canada.

PhD Principal Supervisor

Nur Nurmuliani - Thesis Title: "Investigating Requirements Volatility During Software Development Projects: An Empirical Study", graduated in September 2007. Now Business Analyst, QBE Insurance Australia.

Samiaji Sarosa - Thesis Title: "The Information Technology Adoption Process within Indonesian Small and Medium Enterprises", graduated in September 2007. Now Lecturer & Head of Computer Clusters, Faculty of Economics, Atma Jaya Yogyakarta University, Indonesia.

Chad Coulin - Thesis Title: "A Situational Approach and Intelligent Tool for Collaborative Requirements Elicitation", graduated in September 2007. Now ICT manager at BDO Kendalls in Brisbane, Australia. This award was obtained under a cotutelle agreement with l-Universite Paul Sabatier - Toulouse III (France) as a partner institution.

PhD co-supervisor

Tom McBride - Thesis Title: "Task Monitoring, Conrol and Coordination in software development", Co-supervised with Professor Brian Henderson-Sellers, Graduated May 2006. Now Senior lecturer at University of Technology, Sydney.

Mahmood Niazi - Thesis Title: "A framework for assisting the design of effective implementation strategies for software process improvement", Co-supervised with Associate Professor David Wilson. Graduated May 2005. Now lecturer at Keele University, UK.

Frank Moisiadis - Thesis Title: "A Framework for prioritizing software requirements", Co-supervised with Professor Ray Offen, Graduated in September 2004 at Macquarie University. Now lecturer at Macquarie University, Sydney.


MSc

J. L. Chau, (UWS, 1994) Thesis Title: "An Expert System for Effective and consistent evaluation of students results"

R. Moody, (UWS, 1994) Thesis Title: "Knowledge Engineering and Requirements Engineering"

D. Pavlov, (UTS, 2000) Thesis Title: "The role of project management in requirements engineering"

Honours

Norrie Bennie, (UWS, 1993)

Kim Chalker, (UWS, 1993)

Mark Wildie, (Macquarie University, 1998)

Cecily Lenton, (Macquarie University, 2001)

Capstone Projects

Alia Farroukh - 2005, Faculty of Engineering - Topic: To define and use expressiveness to empirically derive the verbs of BOYDA for a particular domain

Malika Saeed - 2005, Faculty of Engineering - Topic: To define an unambiguous, disciplined and repeatable process for the coupling of BOYDA with an existing system modelling language

Ruthrun Selvarajan - 2005, Faculty of Engineering - Topic: To develop a software tool that implements the BOYDA language and BOYDA modelling rules


Last updated: 28-9-07 by didar@it.uts.edu.au