Associate ProfessorSantu Rana

Head, AI and Robotics

Deakin Applied Artificial Intelligence Initiative/Applied Artificial Intelligence Initiative (Geelong)

  • Head, AI and Robotics
    Deakin Applied Artificial Intelligence Initiative/Applied Artificial Intelligence Initiative (Geelong)
  • +61 3 522 71253 (Work)
  • Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus, 75 Pigdons Road, Waurn Ponds, Victoria 3216

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Empathetic Reinforcement Learning Agents
    Manisha Senadeera - Applied Artificial Intelligence Initiative
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Efficient Co-Design Approaches for Robotic Agents
    Kishan Reddy Nagiredla - Applied Artificial Intelligence Initiative
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Towards Adapting Reinforcement Learning Agents
    Ajsal Shereef Palattuparambil - Applied Artificial Intelligence Initiative
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Representation-Level Understanding and Control of Large Language Models.
    Omer Ahmed Mohamed Mahmoud - Applied Artificial Intelligence Initiative
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Domain Generalisation and Continual Learning
    Vishnuprasadh Kumaravelu - Applied Artificial Intelligence Initiative
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Physics-Informed Machine Learning for Spacecraft Protection against Orbital Debris Impacts
    Thanh Tu Do - Applied Artificial Intelligence Initiative
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Searching for Adversarial Dark Matter: ByPassing LLMs Via ADVP
    Ali Khalil - Applied Artificial Intelligence Initiative
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Steering Affect in Large Language Model Agents
    Vignesh Senthilnathan - Applied Artificial Intelligence Initiative
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Leveraging Large Language Models for Sample-Efficient Imitation Learning
    Suyog Khanal - Applied Artificial Intelligence Initiative
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Exploiting side information in Bayesian nonparametric models and their applications
    Cheng Li - School of Information Technology - 2015
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Addressing Practical Challenges of Bayesian Optimization
    Thanh Dai Nguyen - School of Information Technology - 2019
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Efficient Hyperparameter Tuning using Bayesian Optimization
    Tinu Theckel Joy - School of Information Technology - 2019
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Machine learning to fight addiction using social media
    Haripriya Harikumar - School of Information Technology - 2018
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Harnessing Auxiliary Knowledge Towards Efficient Bayesian Optimisation
    Anil Ramachandran - Applied Artificial Intelligence Initiative - 2020
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Scalable Bayesian Optimization with Sparse Gaussian Process Models
    Ang Yang - Applied Artificial Intelligence Initiative - 2020
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Multi-objective Bayesian Optimisation and Its Applications
    Majid Abdolshah - Applied Artificial Intelligence Initiative - 2020
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    A Distributional Approach towards Efficient and Versatile Bayesian Optimisation
    Julian Maxwell Andrew Berk - Applied Artificial Intelligence Initiative - 2020
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Tackling Practical Challenges in Neural Network Model Deployment
    Deepthi Praveenlal Kuttichira - Applied Artificial Intelligence Initiative - 2021
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Bayesian Optimization for Discrete, Missing and Cost-sensitive Inputs
    Huu Phuc Luong - Applied Artificial Intelligence Initiative - 2021
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Accelerating Bayesian Optimisation with Advanced Kernel Learning Methods
    Arun Kumar Anjanapura Venkatesh - Applied Artificial Intelligence Initiative - 2022
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    On Practical Reinforcement Learning: Provable Robustness, Scalability, and Statistical Efficiency
    Tang Thanh Nguyen - Applied Artificial Intelligence Initiative - 2021
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Learning Dependency Structures Through Time Using Neural Networks
    Duc Nguyen - Applied Artificial Intelligence Initiative - 2024
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Robust and Efficient Reinforcement Learning for Physics Tasks
    Buddhika Semage - Applied Artificial Intelligence Initiative - 2023
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    On Targeted Manifold Manipulation for Deep Neural Networks
    Banibrata Ghosh - Applied Artificial Intelligence Initiative - 2025
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Human Feedback for Skill Discovery in Reinforcement Learning
    Maxence Pierre Henri Hussonnois - Applied Artificial Intelligence Initiative - 2026