I have supervised five PhD students to completion (joint primary supervisor - 3, secondary supervisor - 2), and currently supervise three more students as primary / joint primary supervisor or co-supervisor at UNSW. These PhD students are from Australia, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Peru. In addition, I mentored one PhD student enrolled in University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Completed supervisions and published work
1. Nasir Riaz (Joint primary supervisor)
- Optimizing Oxford Nanopore Technology for RNA virus sequencing
- A new workflow to differentiate within-host variants of dengue virus
2. Arun Abeysingham (Joint primary supervisor)
- Characterization of transmitted founder variants of Hepatitis C virus
- Determinants of persistence of immunity against SARS-nCoV-2 virus after natural infection
3. Braulio Valencia (Joint primary supervisor)
- Influence of host genetics on infection related acute sickness response
- Influence of prior Zika virus exposure on the severity of subsequent dengue virus infections
4. Anurag Adhikari (Secondary supervisor)
- A novel assay to measure antibody dependent cellular phagocytosis in hepatitis C infection
- Longitudinal characterisation of antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 infection
- Characterization of antibody dependent cellular phagocytosis in people with Hepatitis C virus infection
5. Chaturani Sigera (mentor, enrolled at University of Colombo, Sri Lanka)
- Cheaper and effective diagnostic tests for dengue infection: The Colombo Dengue Study
- Chronic fatigue in dengue infection
- Rational use of ultrasonography to diagnose dengue-related plasma leakage in resource limited settings
- Direct costs of managing dengue fever in Sri Lanka
- Incidence of plasma leakage in dengue
- Using machine learning to predict severe outcomes in dengue infection
6. Hossain Sazzad (Secondary supervisor)
Ongoing supervisions and published work
1. Ahsanul Kabir (Joint primary supervisor)
2. Samaneh Moallemi (Primary supervisor)
3. Sachith Maduranga (Primary supervisor)