I have supervised five PhD students to completion (joint primary supervisor - 3, secondary supervisor - 2), and currently supervise three more students as primary / joint primary supervisor or co-supervisor at UNSW. These PhD students are from Australia, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Peru. In addition, I mentor one PhD student enrolled in University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Completed supervisions and published work

1. Nasir Riaz (Joint primary supervisor)

• Optimizing Oxford Nanopore Technology for RNA virus sequencing
• A new workflow to differentiate within-host variants of dengue virus

2. Arun Abeysingham (Joint primary supervisor)

• Characterization of transmitted founder variants of Hepatitis C virus
• Determinants of persistence of immunity against SARS-nCoV-2 virus after natural infection

Ongoing supervisions and published work

1. Ahnsul Kabir (Joint primary supervisor)

2. Braulio Valencia (Joint primary supervisor)

• Influence of host genetics on infection related acute sickness response 

3. Anurag Adhikari (co-supervisor)

• A novel assay to measure antibody dependent cellular phagocytosis in hepatitis C infection

4. Hossain Sazzad (co-supervisor)

5. Chaturani Sigera (mentor, enrolled at University of Colombo, Sri Lanka)

• Cheaper and effective diagnostic tests for dengue infection: The Colombo Dengue Study
• Chronic fatigue in dengue infection
• Rational use of ultrasonography to diagnose dengue-related plasma leakage in resource limited settings
• Direct costs of managing dengue fever in Sri Lanka
• Incidence of plasma leakage in dengue