Prof Peter TAYLOR
ACEMS Director / Professor / Redmond Barry Professor
School of Mathematics and Statistics
- Room: 145
- Building: Peter Hall Building
- Campus: Parkville
Research Interests
- Complex Networks
- Markov decision processes
- Matrix-analytic methods
- Mechanism design
- Optimisation and control
- Parameter estimation
- Queueing theory
- Stochastic modelling of biological/environmental systems, epidemics, telecommunications systems and emergency management systems
Research Groups
Publications, Grants and Awards
You can find all publications, grants and awards on their Find an Expert page.
Current Postgraduate Supervision
| Name | Thesis title |
|---|---|
| Hritika GUPTA | |
| Weerasekara KARUNARATHNE |
Past Postgraduate Supervision
| Name | Thesis title |
|---|---|
| Punya ALAHAKOON | "A Bayesian hierarchical modelling framework for estimating parameters of stochastic epidemic models" |
| Peter BRAUNSTEINS | "Extinction in branching processes with countably many types" |
| Jonathan BUDD | "Modelling and Simulation of Credit Card Behaviour" |
| Timothy HYNDMAN | "The Coupling Time for the Ising Heath-Bath Dynamics & Efficient Optimization for Statistical Inference" |
| Guo JUN | "Two problems in stochastic service systems" |
| Paul KEELER | "Stochastic routing models in sensor networks" |
| Ashwani KUMAR | "Intelligent management of elective surgery patient flow." |
| Alana MOORE | "Managing bilological populations in the interface of uncertainty" |
| Allan MOTYER | "Quasi-birth-and-death processes with an infinite phase space" |
| Ellen MUIR | "Hypergeometric Distributions and Efficient Dynamic Market Clearing" |
| Behrooz NIKNAMI | "Stochastic Matching Models" |
| Ana NOVAK | "Queuing problems in active probing: an application to a single hop network" |
| Maya RAMAKRISHNAN | "Distributed approaches to capacity reallocation in networks" |
| Nicholas READ | "Bush Escalation Probabilities in the Victorian Landscape" |
| Yacov SALOMON | "Re-examining fundamental concepts and assumptions in conservation and management using mathematical theories of probability" |
| Kate SAUNDERS | "An investigation of Australian rainfall using extreme value theory" |
| Nikki SONENBERG | "Networks of interacting stochastic fluid models" |
| Jiesen WANG | "Strategic Decision Making in Service Systems" |
| Jason WHYTE | "Global a priori identifiability of biomolecular interaction models in flow-cell optical biosensor experiments" |
| Chenchen XING | "Pricing and estimation in service systems" |
| James ZHAO | "Hidden Markov models with multiple observation processes" |
Past Honours & MSc Students
| Name | Project title |
|---|---|
| Giles ADAMS | "Selfish Networks: Variational Inequalities and the Traffic Equilibrium Problem" |
| Peter BRAUNSTEINS | "Valuing Capacity in Queueing Systems" |
| Jonathan BUDD | |
| Daphne DO | "Formulating and Modelling Robust Decision-Making Problems Under Severe Uncertainty" |
| Yani GENG | "Collaborative Filtering Recommender Systems" |
| John GILBERTSON | "Queues with a Dynamic Schedule" |
| Yajing GUO | "Bidding strategies for generation suppliers in the electricity market" |
| Hritika GUPTA | "Correlated Epidemics Driven by the Same Contact Process" |
| Clare KITCHING | "Return Probabilities for Stochastic Fluid Flows" |
| Ashwani KUMAR | "Bringing Quality to the Healthcare Delivery Process" |
| Jennifer KUSUMA | "Decomposition Approach to Serial Inventory Systems under Uncertainties" |
| Bing LIU | "Mechanism Design in the Presence of Allocative Externalities" |
| Robert MARSHALL | "M/G/1 Priority Queues" |
| Harry MCARTHUR | "Overcoming the Curses of Dimensionality in Markov Decision Processes" |
| Somya MEHRA | "Superinfection and the hypnozoite reservoir for P. vivax" |
| Ellen MUIR | "Mechanism Design and the [N,M] Trade Problem" |
| Vincent PANG | "Final Size Distributions of the Stochastic SIR Model" |
| Marcus RUTTKAY | |
| Auron SEIKEN | "The Branch-and-Cut Methodology for Mixed Integer Programming" |
| Nikki SONENBERG | "Building Stochastic Models of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks" |
| Ria SZEREDI | "A timely solution to the nurse rostering problem: An Operations Research approach" |
| Edward WEINSTOCK | "The Bitcoin P2P Network Topology: a Review of Inference Methods and Machine Learning Approach" |
| Jinghan XIA | "Optimisation of Clinical Trial Recruitment Using Markov Decision Processes" |
| Chenchen XING | "A Simulated Study of a Posted Pricing Problem" |
| James ZHAO | "Hidden Markov Models" |
Responsibilities
- ACEMS Director
- CEBRA Board
- School Grant Coordinator