Funding:

I am grateful for the support provided by several agencies through several grants, including:

• From Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Mathematical & Statistical Frontiers, under CE140100049 grant number. Specifically, I am grateful for the following research support schemes.


• Finding minimum label spanning trees using cross-entropy method, (2020–2021), University of Melbourne
• Improved algorithms for environmental monitoring network design problems, (2020–2021), University of Melbourne


• From the Grains Research and Development Corporation: Consulting: Expert Technical Program Committee member in UQ’s bid for the GRDC (Grains Research and Development Corporation). Part of a team that won a bid for a two year contract between UQ and GRDC.


• From the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation: and in particular for the support for a PhD student in the dfomain of Hydrogen Energy research.