Bui and Lanfear group photo in 2024
Left to right: Nhan, Hashara, Thomas, Minh, Rob, Van, Jeremias, Piyumal, Tim, Huaiyan, Yanghe (missing: Caitlin and Polly)
Associate members
Nhan Ly-Trong, Research Fellow, working with Prof. Rob Lanfear
Past members
Ng Jun Kiat, Honours Student, 2024-2025
Zora Zhuang, Honours student, 2023-2024 , QuartetNet - Novel Phylogenetic Quartet Tree Reconstruction Using Neural Networks (Honours thesis)
Rosalita Rosenberg, Honours student (co-supervisor A/Prof Nhung Nghiem, JCSMR), 2025 , Using Machine Learning Methods to Estimate Maternal Mortality Ratios (Honours thesis)
Yanghe Dong, Master student, 2024-2025
Ke Yan, Master student, 2023
Yu Zhang, Master student (co-supervisor Dr. Yu Lin), 2018-2019
Jinghang Feng, Master student, co-supervised with Dr. Yu Lin and Prof. Benjamin Schwessinger, 2022-2023
Jana Trifinopoulos, Master student, co-supervised with Prof. Arndt von Haeseler, 2015-2016
Tung-Lam Nguyen, Master, PhD student and Postdoc (co-supervised with Prof. Arndt von Haeseler), 2009-2016 , An Efficient Algorithm for Phylogeny Reconstruction by Maximum Likelihood (Diploma thesis), Computational methods for fast and accurate phylogenetic inference (PhD thesis)
Olga Chernomor, PhD student and Postdoc, co-supervised with Prof. Arndt von Haeseler, 2011-2017 , Phylogenomics - theory, algorithms and applications (PhD thesis)
Diep Thi Hoang, PhD student, co-supervised with Prof. Arndt von Haeseler and Prof. Le Sy Vinh, 2013-2017 , Fast methods for phylogenetic bootstrap with large data sets (PhD thesis, in Vietnamese)
Suha Naser, PhD student, co-supervised with Prof. Rob Lanfear, 2018-2021
Ivan Jeremias, PhD student, co-supervised with Prof. Rob Lanfear, 2022-
Caitlin Cherryh, PhD student, co-supervised with Rob Lanfear, 2018-2024
Chen Yang, Research Assisstant, 2022
Nhan Ly-Trong, Research Fellow, working with Prof. Rob Lanfear, 2020-2024 (PhD student) and 2024-2026 (postdoc)
Seyed Ali Tabatabaee, Research Visitor, 2025
James Barbetti, Software developer, 2020-2023
Bede Denham, Undergrad student, 2022 , Unravelling The History of The Milky Way with Phylogenetic Methods (research report)
Zaran Zahid, Undergrad student, 2021 , Towards Parallelising IQ-TREE - Profiling the IQ-TREE Algorithm and Devising Ways to Parallelise the Algorithm (research report)
Qiu Yue Wang, Undergrad student (co-supervisor Dr. Yu Lin), 2018-2019