Current students.
Completed students.
To support some of my work, I've received the following funding.
2024-2026: Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) Critical Research Infrastructure. R Sullivan, D Abramson, M Barnett, L Caffery, F Calamante, T Close, M Dras, P Fernandez Penas, G Galloway, M Janda, A McIver, CC Shieh, P Sowman, H Soyer. AIS-SHIELDS: Securing health intelligence efforts and linking data silos. ($2.9m)
2024: Dept of Defence. R Kallen, M Richardson, G Patil, C Macpherson, M Dras, J Kruger. Predicting cognitive workload and task performance errors using computational and machine learning models of eye gaze. ($174,000)
2023-2025: Digital Health Cooperative Research Centre (DHCRC). Prof M Dras, Dr X Zhang, Prof J Yang, Prof D Richards. Detecting Medically-Related Fraud, Abuse, Waste and Errors in Motor Vehicle Insurance Claims. ($520,000)
2022-2024: Centre for Advanced Defence Research in Robotics and Autonomous Systems (CADR RAS). Prof M Richardon, A/Prof R Kallen, A/Prof M Dras. Developing Robust Coordination and Communication Models for Multi-agent Human-Machine Teams. ($500,000)
2022-2025: National Intelligence and Security Discovery Research Grants (NISDRG). Prof D Kaafar (lead CI), Prof S Berkovsky, Dr I Wood, A/Prof M Dras, Prof N Selvadurai. Fighting Global Phone Scams with Conversational AI. ($600,000)
2021-2022: Oracle. A/Prof M Dras, Prof A McIver. Differential Privacy for Natural Language Processing. ($122,927)
2021-2022: Defence Innovation Network, AI for Decision Making. Dr M Ryan, A/Prof Mark Dras. AI for natural language negotiation dialogue. ($20,000)
2021: Digital Health CRC. A/Prof Dras, D Price, D Tomlin. Determining factors that influence substance abuse in patients with significant comorbidities. ($10,000)
2020-2021: Digital Health CRC. A/Prof M Dras, Prof D Richards, Prof J Yang, Dr X Zhang, Dr B Arunasalam, Dr O Mohamad Nezami. Data science process for rule generation/ Using data science to detect claims leakage project description. ($68,029)
2018-2019: CSIRO's Data61. A/Prof M Dras, O Mohamad Nezami. Explorations in Controlled Image Captioning. ($11,729)
2019-2022: Digital Health CRC. A/Prof M Dras, Prof A McIver, Dr A Marashi, Dr F Girosi, D Price. Foundational data science for US Medicaid research ($373,500)
2019: APR.Intern. A/Prof M Dras, M., O Mohamad Nezami, M Ovens. Real-time object detection and pattern recognition in images and video using computer vision and machine learning. ($20,500)
2019-2023: Department of Defence HPRNet. Prof Michael Richardson, A/Prof Rachel Kallen, A/Prof Mark Dras, Prof Erik Reichle, Dr Patrick Nalepka. Developing Responsive and Adaptive Artificial-Agents for Team Training . ($480,000)
2019: MQ RISS - Macquarie University. Dr Mauricio Marrone, Prof Amanda Barnier, A/Prof Mark Dras, Prof Michael Gillings, Prof Lesley Hughes, Prof Martina Linnenluecke, Prof Kathryn Millard, Prof David Rooney, Prof Tom Smith. Bridging the cross-disciplinary gap: Development of a consilience tool. ($95,000)
2018-2019: Defence Innovation Network (DIN). Dr Len Hamey, Prof Salim Bouzerdoum, Prof Christian Ritz, A/Prof Son Lam Phung, Dr Le Chung Tran, Prof Andre van Schaik, Dr Yi Guo, A/Prof Mark Dras, Prof Mehmet Orgun. Classification of sonar snapshot images for autonomous underwater vehicle on-board processing. ($45,866)
2017-2019: Collaborative Research Project - CSIRO. Prof Annabelle McIver, Prof Dali Kaafar, A/Prof Mark Dras. Mathematical Foundations for Privacy-Preserving Techniques and Obuscation in Text Analytics. ($97,619)
2017-2021: Collaborative Research Project - CSIRO. A/Prof Mark Dras, Dr Diego Molla, Dr Stephen Wan, Dr Sarvnaz Karimi, Dr Cecile Paris. Insights from Text and Social Computing. ($74,000)
2013: MQ Safety Net Grant - Macquarie University. A/Prof M Dras. The Intersection of Second Language Acquisition and Native Language Identification ($25,000)
2013: MQSIS Research Infrastructure Block Grant - Macquarie University. A/Prof M Dras, Prof M Johnson, Prof B Mans, Dr D Molla, Dr M Honnibal. A GPU-based Cluster for Computing ($76,885)
2010-2012: ARC Discovery Grant - Australian Research Council (DP1095443). Dr M Dras, Dr MM Turpin, Dr O Rambow, Prof R Dale. Natural Language Generation for Aboriginal Languages ($425,000)
2010: MQSIS Research Infrastructure Block Grant - Macquarie University. Dr M Dras, Prof R Dale, Prof M Johnson, Dr D Molla, Prof B Mans, Prof M Orgun, Dr A Nayak, Dr S Zwarts. A High Performance Cluster for Computing ($60,000)
2009-2010: Microsoft Research Asia Research Grant. Dr S Zwarts, Dr M Dras, Prof R Dale. Statistical Machine Translation with Morphological Preprocessing for Asian Languages ($US30,000)
2007-2010: ARC Linkage Research Grant - Australian Research Council (LP0776267). Dr PA Watters, Mr BK Watson, Dr AC Ng, Dr M Dras, Dr S Cassidy, Mr S McCombie, Mr BJ Reardon, Prof JP Pieprzyk. Defence Against Phishing Attacks ($231,000)
2005-2008: ARC Linkage Research Grant - Australian Research Council (LP0561985). A/Prof MA Orgun, Dr M Dras, Dr WJ Graco, Dr WQ Lin. Classification and Prediction Modelling for Financial Distress, Tax Debt and Insolvency for ATO Clients ($72,000)
2005-2007: ARC Discovery Research Grant - Australian Research Council (DP0558852), Dr D Richards; Dr M Kavakli; Dr M. Dras, Risk Management using Agent-Based Virtual Environments ($363,000).
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