GRADUATED PhD students 

Prof Tari has graduated over 17 PhD students, where 14 of them as the 1st supervisor. The main topics of the PhD students mainly cover security, peformance in distributed systems/applications. Other areas are: mobile systems, web services etc.

• Nalaka Gooneratne. [APA] Service Matching for Composite Web Services. 1st supervisor (Zahir Tari) and 2nd supervisor (A/Professor James Harland). January 2005 - May 2009.


• Bin Rong. [APA] Video Streaming in Wireless Networks. 1st supervisor (Dr Ibrahim Khalil) and 2nd supervisor (Zahir Tari). July 2004 - Feb 2009.


• Mikhail Perepletchikov. A Methodology for Designing and Implementing Service-Oriented Architectures. 1st supervisor (Dr Caspar Ryan) and 2nd supervisor (Zahir Tari). January 2005 - December 2008.


• Sathish Rajasekhar. Advanced QoS Routing Protocols for Large Networks. 1st supervisor (Dr Khalil Ibrahim) and 2nd supervisor (Zahir Tari). March 2000 - June 2008.


• Anh Phan. Enhanced SOAP Performance for Low Bandwidth Environments. 1st supervisor (Zahir Tari) and 2nd supervisor (Dr Peter Bertok). March 2005 - November 2008.


• Sakib Kazi. Routing in Sensor Networks. 1st supervisor (Zahir Tari) and 2nd supervisor (Dr Ibrahim Khalil). July 2004 - September 2008.


• Islam Elgedawy. [APA] Correctness-Aware High-Level Functional Matching Approaches For Semantic Web Services. 1st supervisor (Zahir Tari) and 2nd supervisor (A/Prof James Thom). January 2003 - December 2006.


• James Broberg. Effective task assignment strategies for distributed systems under highly variable workloads. 1st supervisor (Zahir Tari) and 2nd supervisor (Prof Panlop Zeephongsekul, School of Mathematics and Geospatial). January 2003 - November 2005.


• Peter Dimopoulos. [APA] Dynamic Load Balancing Geographically Distributed Web Servers. [Supervisors] 1st supervisor (Zahir Tari) and 2nd supervisor (A/Prof Panlop Zeephongsekul, School of Mathematics and Geospatial). January 2003 - November 2005.


• Abhinav Avora. Data Stashing Strategies for Disconnected and Partially Connected Mobile Environments. 1st supervisor (Zahir Tari) and 2nd supervisor (Dr Peter Bertok). Submitted his PhD thesis in May 2005.


• Kwong Lai. [APA] Caching Techniques for Mobile Computing in Wireless Environments. 1st supervisor (Zahir Tari) and 2nd supervisor (Dr Peter Bertok). Graduated in June 2005.


• Andrew Fry. Advanced Transaction Models for Distributed Systems. 1st supervisor (Zahir Tari) and 2nd supervisor (Hugh Williams). Graduated in Sept 2005.


• Gregory Craske. An Open Object Trading Service that Supports Service Aggregation. 1st supervisor) (Zahir Tari) and 2nd supervisor (A/Prof James Thom). Graduated in December 2004.


• Surya Nepal. Data Model and Query Languages for Multimedia Databases. 1st supervisor (Dr Rama Ramakrishna) and 2nd supervisor (Zahir Tari). Graduated in 2000.


• Iztok Savnik.Query Language for Complex Objects. 1st supervisor (Tomaz Mohoric) and 2nd supervisor (Zahir Tari). Graduated in 1998.


• David Edmond. Towards Reflective Distributed Systems. 1st supervisor (Mike Papazoglou) and 2nd supervisor (Zahir Tari). Graduated in 1998.


• Xue Li. Method Evolution in Database Systems.1st supervisor (Zahir Tari) and 2nd supervisor (Mike Papazoglou). Graduated in 1996.