Prof Kate SMITH-MILES

Associate Dean (Industry & Enterprise) / Professor

School of Mathematics and Statistics

  • Room: Melbourne Connect
  • Building: Melbourne Connect
  • Campus: Parkville

Research Interests

  • Combinatorial optimisation
  • Continuous optimisation
  • Dimensional reduction
  • Generation of hard test instances
  • Machine Learning
  • Mathematical modelling
  • Multi-objective optimisation
  • Numerical linear algebra
  • Operations Research
  • Parameter estimation
  • Performance evaluation

Research Groups

Publications, Grants and Awards

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Current Postgraduate Supervision

Name Thesis title
Nicolau ANDRES THIO
Nadhir HASSEN
Vivek KATIAL "To be confirmed"
Farhana Ahmed SIMI
Lennart VAN HIRTUM
Yi ZHEN

Past Postgraduate Supervision

Name Thesis title
Hossein ALIPOUR "Instance Space Analysis for the Maximum Flow Problem"
Simon BOWLY "Stress testing mixed integer programming solvers through new test instance generation methods"
Estefania YAP "Instance Space Analysis of Multi-Objective Black-Box Optimisation Problems"

Current MSc Students

Name Project title
Kelvin LIU

Past Honours & MSc Students

Name Project title
Kelvin LIU "Using Instance Space Analysis to Study the Bin Packing Problem"
Fenella MCANDREW "Adiabatic quantum computing to solve the MAXCUT graph problem"
Anthony RASULO "An Instance Space Analysis of Episodic Reinforcement Learning Tasks on Discrete Action Spaces"

Responsibilities

  • Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research Capability)