Dr Liping Zhao - postgraduate opportunities

I have a broad research interest concerning both theory and practice of software development. My theoretical work focuses on the discovery and development of fundamental patterns, symmetries and models in software systems and programming languages, whereas my practical work applies these fundamentals to the analysis and design of a range of software systems, including public transport scheduling systems, e-business systems and financial service systems. I currently have five PhD students working on different aspects of software development.

I am looking for highly motivated, committed and bright students to join my PhD students team. I can supervise a wide range of PhD projects related to software development and here is a sample of possible topics:

• Investigating how symmetry principles can be used to support programming language development;
• Investigating how symmetry principles can be used to support middleware development;
• Investigating how symmetry principles can be used to support software development;
• Investigating how symmetry principles can be used to improve Rex.NET;
• Developing patterns and models for business process modelling;
• Developing a generative software development framework based on patterns and reusable models;
• Developing effective methods for transforming software development problems into solutions.