Home Education PhD Students PhD Students The following PhD scholarships have commenced. Their topics cover a variety of SmartSat CRC’s strategic and priority research areas ranging from Space IoT communications through to AI-powered autonomous operations in space. The majority of the PhD thesis topics have one or more industry partners to support the practical application of the proposed thesis topic, demonstrating SmartSat’s commitment to fostering Australia’s space industry through building strong linkages between academia and industry. Anne Bettens Autonomous navigation of satellites for space exploration University of Sydney Ahsan Waqas Distributed Beamforming for Satellite Applications University of South Australia Artur Medon Small satellite thermal management with 3D printed metal heat sinks containing phase change material thermal storage University of South Australia Benjamin Dix-Matthews Phase- and spatial-stabilisation system development University of Western Australia Brandon Victor Using Satellite Data to Locate and Phenotype Plants from Space La Trobe University Emily Ahern Compact Clock for Small Satellite Applications University of Adelaide Kathiravan Thangavel Artificial Intelligence for Distributed Satellite Systems Autonomous Operations: An Integrated Approach to Space and Control Segments Co-Evolution RMIT University Liang Zhao Satellite image-based smoke detection for bush fire detection University of South Australia Mohamed Shehata Potentials and Limitations of the IEEE 802.15.3d Standard for Terahertz Satellite Communications University of Adelaide Sai Vallapureddy A Machine Learning Based Solution for Space Situational Awareness and Space Sustainability RMIT University Skevos Karpathakis Communications engineering, phase- and spatial-stabilisation system development University of Western Australia Zachary Auhl Using Blockchain and DRBs to Orchestrate an IoT Network La Trobe University