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Braden Thorne

PhD Student

Braden is a PhD student in Theme 2. He describes himself as a proud mathematician with experience in complex systems and machine learning. He is also skilled in data analysis, communication and tutoring.

Braden completed his degree in applied mathematics with first class honours at the University of Western Australia. His thesis looked at ways of applying reservoir computing (a mix of machine learning and dynamical systems) techniques to time-series diagnosis, with an application to cavitation detection from pump vibration data.

Braden is continuing this research under the supervision of Prof. Michael Small, Dr Thomas Jungling, Dr Debora Correa and Dr Ayham Zaitouny from the University of Western Australia. His focus remains on time series analysis with machine learning, with a particular focus on reservoir computing and other dynamical system modelling techniques.

Braden is currently on placement with Roy Hill Estimating remaining length for sizer teeth. The benefits of improved understanding and control of sizer teeth wear are two-fold, 1 - Reduced risk of asset failure (teeth dropping below acceptable length) and 2 Reduced cost through maximisation of resource allocation and the prevention of replacing sizer teeth before they have been worn through. PHD Research – Reservoir Time-Series Analysis: Foundations and Application

Reservoir computing, a supervised learning methodology, has been heavily researched over the last two decades. It has shown impressive performance across numerous tasks (prediction, classification) and various signals (deterministic, stochastic).

However, when we do not have labels or an external measurement to aim for; our task is inherently unsupervised.

Despite its popularity, reservoir computing has seen little exploration into how it may be utilised for unsupervised tasks. Braden plans to consider the typical reservoir computing regime but disregard the computation or training step. This will present a complex, high-dimensional structure that has captured all the signal's information fed into the reservoir. Braden will consider several methods for reading this structure and explore how it reacts to different inputs.

With these methods developed, Braden will then transition into application-based tasks. Of particular interest to him is concept drift detection, where the task setup is well suited for our proposed form of analysis.

Braden expects that developing such an unsupervised approach could lead to powerful, generalised methods for time series analysis.

Expected outcomes include

  • A powerful, generalised time-series analysis technique that is sensitive to any change in underlying input.
  • Improvements to concept drift detection algorithms will support early predictive maintenance and/or fault detection that leads to asset failures.

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  • Friday 7 February 2025
    Welcome to 2025! CTMTDS is pleased to share news and highlights from the past few months IN THE SPOTLIGHT # Congratulations to Dr. Braden Thorne who has graduated! Braden passed his thesis with minor revisions by examiners. Sandy Spiers who has had his thesis passed with minor revisions by examiners, and has received a...
  • Saturday 13 April 2024
    Welcome to the first newsletter for 2024 where we'll cover all of the exciting activities so far in 2024! IN THE SPOTLIGHT # Congratulations to Ziyu Zhao, whose thesis was 'passed subject to minor revision'. Well done Ziyu! Congratulations also to Braden Thorne and Sandy Spiers who both submitted their theses in May...
  • Wednesday 16 August 2023
    This month's newsletter focuses on the Research Theme 2 travels to Tokyo and the activities of the Centre at the Data & AI for Business Conference and Exhibition. IN THE SPOTLIGHT # Congratulations to Hoa Bui on her success in receiving the GSOP 2023 Grant Development Funding, which includes funding to attend...
  • Monday 31 July 2023
    July was a quiet month for events as researchers travel to present their research and we introduce new industry partners to our Centre. TEAM NEWS # We welcome Peter Rose, Peter is the Alcoa Partner Representative for Centre joining our Strategic Risk and Reporting Board (SRRB). Johan Breytenbach has joined the SRRB representing Roy...
  • Friday 30 June 2023
    This newsletter focuses on the activities of the Centre during May and June; a busy time for preparing and participating in the 26th World Mining Congress in Brisbane TEAM NEWS # BHP MECoE and CTMDS researchers from Perth that travelled to the World Mining Congress took the opportunity to catch up in...
  • Thursday 11 May 2023
    Welcome to the first newsletter for 2023! We ended 2022 with two events that showcased research across our themes to industry partners. The new year began with the arrival of two new post-doctoral researchers to the Centre. In May, they teamed up with a couple of PhD students to form a...
  • Wednesday 5 October 2022
    This month's newsletter focuses on Research Theme 3 - Support the decision maker. IN THE SPOTLIGHT # Congratulations to Sandy Spiers on winning first prize for his 3 minute presentation delivered at inaugural Information Resilience PhD School held at the Global Change Institute at the UQ St Lucia Campus. September was a big...
  • Wednesday 10 August 2022
    This month's newsletter focuses on the activities of Translation Theme 5. IN THE SPOTLIGHT # Congratulations to Eden Li and Mark Griffin for winning two awards for their conference paper at the World Building Congress 2022, organised by CIB, the International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction ! Their...
  • Tuesday 31 May 2022
    This month's newsletter focuses on Research Theme 2 - Support the Engineer. IN THE SPOTLIGHT # Congratulations to Braden Thorne on his paper "Reservoir time series analysis: Using the response of complex dynamical systems as a universal indicator of change", which was selected as an Editor's Pick in the journal Chaos: An...
  • Tuesday 11 January 2022
    Welcome to an update on CTMTDS activities Aug - Dec 2021. Team Updates # Changes to the members of the Centre in the second six months of 2021: One new PhD student, Chau Nguyen, joined the Centre in October. Chau will complete his PhD at UWA within Theme 1 supervised by Tim French...
  • Wednesday 18 August 2021
    Welcome to an update on CTMTDS activities Jan - Jun 2021. Team Updates # Changes to the members of the Centre in the first six months of 2021 include welcoming: Two new PhD students: Sandy Spiers joined the Centre in February. Sandy will complete his PhD at Curtin University within Theme 3, supervised by...