MAINTENANCE - Key Persons
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- Senior Software Engineer
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- a Novel Approach to Time Series Complexity Via Reservoir Computing ( . ) - Conference Publishing
- Projects
- 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.
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- Conference Publishing
- Projects
- Student
Chau is a PhD student in Computer Science with a previous background in banking and finance. He has a passion for the relationship between the theory of computer science and its application in specific circumstances.
His most recent research is to use semantic knowledge (texts), to detect and reason about interactive objects with their parts in a human-readable way. This research is related to object classification, detection, segmentation and knowledge representation - using Deep Learning and Machine Learning - as sub branches in Artificial Intelligence (AI). Chau believes that there is considerable value in research applying AI to solve real-world problems while we can still control AI in our own lives.
He recently completed a Masters by Research in Computer Science from Edith Cowan University. Chau will complete his PhD with Dr. Tim French, Assoc. Professor Wei Liu, Professor Melinda Hodkiewicz and Dr. Michael Stewart at the University of Western Australia.
Chau is currently working on processing texts to connect entities formation using graphs and developing models that can learn to understand these texts. He will be focusing on research associated with Theme 1 - Support the Maintainer."
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- Engineer
- Optimal Thresholding of Predictors in Mineral Prospectivity Analysis ( . ) - Journal Article
- Projects
- Training Centre Associate Director
Aloke is an engineer-turned-applied statistician. He started his professional career in rocket science but then discovered statistics. He spent more than 20 years at CSIRO, where he carried out research in applied statistics; worked with a wide range of industries and in diverse areas such as industrial statistics, biomarker discovery, and climate extremes; and developed short courses for practicing engineers and scientists. At Curtin, he led the development of the undergraduate Data Science major and is currently Associate Director of the Centre.
Aloke is an advocate of the sensible use of statistics for answering real-world problems, so he's happy to help with anything!
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- Chief Investigator
- Data - Driven Approach for Labelling Process Plant Event Data ( . ) - Journal Article
- Managing Streamed Sensor Data for Mobile Equipment Prognostics. ( . ) - Journal Article
- Projects
- Research Fellow at the ARC ITTC Transforming Maintenance through Data Science
Dr Débora Corrêa is an enthusiast of computer science and data science; she has worked in data science on time series analysis, machine learning, computer vision, neural networks and complex networks. Débora is motivated by application-driven problems where the interplay between theory and application enriches both and results in a proper data analysis that contributes to the real world. Débora has explored solutions in bioengineering and biomedical signals, music, audio signals and diverse engineering systems. In addition, her research allows her to work and build collaborations with many researchers across different fields, including the opportunity to supervise postdoctoral, undergraduate, master and PhD students.
Débora has worked as a Research Fellow at the ARC ITTC Transforming Maintenance Through Data Science (CTMTDS) from 2019-to 2021. In this position, she developed research in data science projects to solve industry problems. She cooperated with industry peers and stakeholders to improve the way maintenance is performed using data analytics. Débora has supervised PhD students in their industry placements, guiding them for deliverables that add value to the business and taking part in talking to the industry partners. Débora has developed and is now teaching machine learning units at the professional programs promoted by CORE Skills.
In 2022, Débora commenced an appointment at the UWA Computer Science Department and has continued supervising and mentoring students of the ARC ITTC CTMTDS as a Chief Investigator.
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- Senior Lecturer
- Chief Investigator
- Projects
Dr Edward Cripps is a senior lecturer in the Centre for Applied Statistics at UWA who works in the area of complex data modelling. He is a statistician with research interests in Bayesian longitudinal analysis, spatio-temporal models and the integration of physical and probabilistic models. Australian natural resource industries and environmental bodies are experiencing an unparalleled growth in the quantity of available data. Together with the increasing availability of computer-based modelling and simulation, Data Science and its mathematical underpinnings are firmly entrenched in scientific inference and industrial decision making. Ed's research examines model/data mismatch and its impact on inference and decisions, using high quality, rather than high quantity, data to integrate our mathematical abstractions of the world with probabilistic approaches to uncertainty quantification.
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- Conference Publishing
- Projects
- Research Fellow
Hoa Bui is an applied mathematician who works on discrete nonlinear optimisation and operations research. Her primary research is to develop fast and exact algorithms backed up by rigorous mathematical theory for solving industrial-size optimisation problems.
She obtained her B.Sc. in Mathematics in 2016 and a PhD in Applied Mathematics in 2020. In 2020, she won the WIMSIG Maryam Mirzakhani Award from the Australian Mathematical Society.
She publishes research papers in Q1 journals such as European Journal of Operations Research, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, Journal of Combinatorial Theory - Series A.
Hoa is co-supervising PhD candidates Yingying Yang, Sandy Spiers and Ponpot Jartnillaphand
She is currently developing an optimisation-based platform for maintenance scheduling for her industry partners.
Jens leads the Geoscience Analytics Team in CSIRO Mineral Resources. His field of research is the application of information technology to geology.
Jens' current work focuses on data in minerals exploration, both from a data analysis and from a data logistics perspective. Over the past 18 years, Jens has been at the forefront of earth science informatics, his broad experience in geology and computer sciences allows him to bridge between the two disciplines and identify information technology solutions that could potentially be applied to geosciences questions.
Jens covers the entire chain of digital value creation from data acquisition to data analysis. Since joining CSIRO in 2014, Jens has established a data science team, investigating the application of conditional simulation, data mining, machine learning, and geostatistical techniques to minerals exploration.
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- Cleaning and Visualization of Unstructured Text in Safety Records ( . ) - Conference Publishing
- Projects
- Research Fellow
- Seq2KG: an End - to - End Neural Model for Domain Agnostic Knowledge Graph ( Not Text Graph ) Construction from Text ( . ) - Conference Publishing
Michael is passionate about natural language processing, knowledge discovery, data visualisation, and web development.
Michael Stewart received his PhD from the University of Western Australia in 2020. His research focuses on information extraction from unstructured technical text, knowledge graph construction, entity typing and lexical normalisation.
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- Partner Investigator / Alcoa
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- Chief Investigator in Theme 1
- Partner Investigator
- Projects
Ulrich Engelke research focuses specifically on:
Visual analytics and information visualisation techniques.
Immersive analytics through virtual and mixed reality interfaces.
Quantitative user experience and task performance evaluation.
Ulrich's application areas lie mainly within earth and environmental sciences.
Through his work in these areas, Ulrich hopes to make a positive impact on the future of our planet and its inhabitants.
Ulrich is the recipient of several prestigious awards, including the
Ulrich is a Chief Investigator in Theme 1 and represents CSIRO on the PhD Support Panel.
Gabriel is an engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the mining & metals industry. He is passionate about asset management, reliability engineering and technology.
Gabriel completed his studies in Acoustic Engineering and Data Science. He has worked with Komatsu in Chile, where he was responsible for conducting feasibility studies for introducing automated data-driven processes for assets health and condition assessment.
Gabriel is completing his PhD under the supervision of Dr Aloke Phatak (Curtin) at Curtin University.
Gabriel's research will provide advanced technological tools for establishing inspection intervals. Optimal inspection intervals can be deployed as maintenance policies that will:
Reduce the total cost of ownership of assets;
Reduce the exposure of personnel to hazardous environments; and
Simplify maintenance operations by reducing the workload on planners and schedulers.
Gabriel industry placement have been with BHP and Alcoa.
At BHP Nickel West Gabriel built a Dashboard in SPOTFIRE for the Maintenance Planning supervisor and team, with real time insight into the planning process. The dashboard leveraged MWO risk ranking to display different views of the planning process. A secondary benefit is the combination of the equipment criticality analysis and the original MWO risk ranking to escalate the risk of MWOs that have been on the backlog a long time to appropriately place the MWO in the current backlog.
At Alcoa Gabriel completed a project examining the frequency of pipe inspection intervals. The frequency with which pipe thickness measurements are made is a trade-off between risk of failure and the cost of making the ultrasonic thickness measurements. If the frequency can be reduced without reducing risk, significant cost-savings can be achieved. His work produced measurable cost savings and influenced the topic of his PhD.
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- Oct 17, 2022 Admin / Showcase - Partner / Operating - Committee / Strategy - Risk - and - Reporting - Board
- Partner Investigator
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- Senior Software Engineer
- Projects
John Hille is the project lead for all projects associated with Translation Theme 5.
John is a Senior Software Engineer in CSIRO's Mineral Resources business unit and has fifteen years experience in a variety of roles and business domains. He specialises in web and python development and collaboration and cloud technologies.
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- Industry Partner
- Jul 05, 2022 Admin / Showcase - Partner / Operating - Committee / Phd - Support - Panel
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- Projects
- Training Centre Manager
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- Research Development Award ( . )
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- Partner Investigator / Alcoa
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- Projects
- Training Centre Director
Professor Rohl is a leading expert in the application of supercomputing and computer simulation technologies in materials chemistry with more than 135 published papers to his name. In 2004, Professor Rohl became the Executive Director of iVEC and developed a successful partnership across five institutions to provide major advanced computing facilities for all Western Australian researchers. This culminated in the $80 million Pawsey Centre , a world-class purpose-built data centre at Technology Park that houses one of the largest supercomputers in the Southern Hemisphere. In 2015, he became the inaugural director of the Curtin Institute for Computation . In 2018, he successfully led the bid that was awarded $3.9M from the ARC for the Training Centre for Transforming Maintenance through Data Science.
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- Chief Investigator
- Projects
Prof Chris Aldrich has wide experience in the mineral processing and extractive metallurgical industries, particularly with regard to plant automation, statistical modelling, simulation and process control. He has published extensively in the chemical and metallurgical engineering literature, and is actively involved in the mineral processing industries as a consultant.
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- Reconstruction of Complex Dynamical Systems from Time Series Using Reservoir Computing ( . ) - Journal Article
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- Partner Investigator / Alcoa
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- Conference Publishing
- Student
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- Senior Research Technician