Didar Zowghi's Research Students

 

Principal Supervisor

 

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

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

Abdul Babar - Area of Research: Managing the Evolution of Strategic IT requirements, Full-Time, PhD thesis, Commenced August 2007, co-supervised with Professor Eng Chew.

Dewi Mairiza – Area of Research: Managing conflicts in Non-functional requirements, Full-Time, PhD thesis, Commenced February 2008.

Sharifah Syed Mohamad – Thesis Title: “Reliability Growth Model of Open Source Software using Defect Analysis”, Full-Time, PhD thesis, Commenced July 2007, co-supervised with Dr. Tom McBride.

Philip Bailey – Area of Research: IT Service Management, Part-Time, MSc Thesis, commenced 2008, co-supervised with Dr. Tom McBride.

 

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

 

Steve Boyd - Thesis Title: "Design and Evaluation of a Method to Reduce the Lexical Ambiguity of Requirement Specifications",  Completed in September 2009, Managing Director of Softability Pty Ltd.

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.

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.

 

PhD co-supervisor

 

Tom McBride - Thesis Title: "Task Monitoring, Control 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, UTS

Malika Saeed - 2005, Faculty of Engineering, UTS

Ruthrun Selvarajan - 2005, Faculty of Engineering, UTS

 

Last updated: 23rd July 2009 by didar@it.uts.edu.au