Rate My Professor Graham Farr

Farr's research focuses on discrete mathematics, encompassing algorithms and computational complexity, graph theory, combinatorics, graph algorithms, matroid theory, Tutte polynomials, cryptography, and information theory. His publications include chapters such as "Dominic Welsh: His Work and Influence" (2025), "Graph Polynomials: Some Questions on the Edge" (2025), and "The History of Tutte-Whitney Polynomials" (2022), as well as articles like "Thrackles, Superthrackles and the Hanani-Tutte Theorem" (2024) in the Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications and "Anytime Approximate Formal Feature Attribution" (2024) at the International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing. He has supervised multiple PhD students, several of whom received awards including the Mollie Holman Doctoral Medal. Farr's service includes Director of the Faculty Academic Committee (2011-2012), member of the FIT ERA Strategy Group, and involvement with the Council for Computing: the Australasian Theory Symposium. His honors comprise the Vice-Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Postgraduate Supervision (2011), Special Commendation in the Vice-Chancellor's Teaching Awards (2000), and Dean’s Award for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in the Education Category (2022, shared with R. Robinson).