CONNECTED SENSORS - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Fellow With the School of Mechanical
Bill is the CEO & Co-Founder of Vlepis Solutions. A confident and successful business professional with over thirty plus years of experience in the ICT industry covering leadership, innovation and successful outcomes.
Bill is a solutions-oriented thinker and strong strategist with proven experience leveraging innovative thinking and technology to solve real-world problems at scale in organisations and related industries.
With proven pedigree delivering successful outcomes across technology infrastructure, software, cyber, communications, mobile & IoT solutions, Bill is well placed to assist and support the disruptive change accelerating in medical technology and telehealth markets around the world.
Job Titles:
- MedTech Theme Leader / NSW Smart Sensing Network / View Bio
Catherine Oates Smith is the MedTech Theme Leader at the NSW Smart Sensing Network (NSSN).
Joining the NSSN in October 2022, Catherine is responsible for engagement with university, government and industry stakeholders in MedTech. She also leads the NSSN Aged Care Grand Challenge.
In previous roles, Catherine was the Executive Director of a cancer charity and has co-founded gene therapy and microbiome start-up charities.
She has extensive experience in senior management roles in the legal and not-for-profit sectors, was formerly a television journalist in the UK, and has a long track record in PR, branding and strategy.
Her industry experience includes finance, banking, property, women's and children's health (in public hospital settings), and most recently microbiome health in digital platform consumer contexts.
Catherine holds degrees in Arts and Law and has practised Law in Australia and the UK and has 20 years of experience in director roles.
She is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Hub Director and Head
- Professor
Scientia Professor Chun Wang is the Hub Director and Head, School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at UNSW and an elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Science and Engineering (FTSE). Prior to joining UNSW 2016 he held the appointments as the Head of Advanced Composites Technologies at the Defence Science and Technology Organisation between 1995 and 2009, and the Director of the Sir Lawrence Wackett Aerospace Research Centre at RMIT University between 2009 and 2016.
His research interests include mechanics of multifunctional composites, and light alloys. Many of his research findings have been translated to practical applications, including as multiaxial fatigue design model in a world-leading software (Wang-Brown model in MSC Fatigue), standard for designing composite repairs, and time-reversal imaging algorithm adopted in commercial products for structural health monitoring. He is currently leading a team to develop wearable sensors for monitoring vital physiological markers for tracking human health.
Job Titles:
- Chief Investigator
- Professor With the School of Materials Science
Dewei Chu is a Professor with the School of Materials Science and Engineering at UNSW.
Dewei has expertise is in the area of design, fabrication and printing of metal oxides and suflides based nanoionic materials for nanoelectronics (including sensors, memories and transistors), as well as energy storage and conversion materials (including supercapacitor electrodes, solid-state electrolytes, and electro-catalysts).
He completed a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan in 2010 and was receipt of an ARC Future Fellow between 2014-2018. Dewei was promoted to Professor at UNSW in 2021.
Job Titles:
- Founder
- Principal
- MedTech Leader and Strategist
Dr Mark Flynn is a highly experienced MedTech leader and strategist, particularly in identifying and solving the wicked challenges in healthcare. He has been responsible for the launch of over 20 medical devices for many millions of people globally. He is a clinical strategist who is adept at R&D and new product introduction into global markets. During his career he has worked and lived in Australia, Europe, USA, China and Latin America. For his product innovation he is the inventor of 17 international patent families, author of over 100 publications, and raised over $59M in non-dilutional project funding.
Mark will be working together with FASTLab at the University fo Newcastle and his company Global Edge MedTech Consulting to enable partner organisations to deliver sensor-based technology matched to patient outcomes. His work is focused on matching technology capability to the wicked challenges of the health system and facilitating clinician led change and translation through co-production and implementation science. While the translation of healthcare innovation is hard, he has aligned the North Star of organisations, clinical units and universities to address the needs of the clinicians and consumers over the capabilities of technology to deliver improved long-term health outcomes to patients. He focuses in particular on early-stage companies and research teams who wish to build the clinical and regulatory evidence for their innovation. He has led R&D projects globally, including in emerging markets such as Latin America, Middle East and China. Post-market clinical and medical surveillance across multiple medical device classes within globally complex organisations. I have significant experience with regulatory approvals (FDA, EU, TGA), QMS systems, ISO13485, ISO14155, change management, and reimbursement requirements in key markets such as USA, Europe, and emerging markets. In terms of innovation leadership, he holds a PhD in Medicine combined with an MBA for Georgetown University.
Job Titles:
- Engineer
- Chief Investigator
Dr Matthew Andrew Brodie is a Neuroscientist and Engineer with expertise developing wearable technology and smart textiles for gait-related motor impairment. He is recognised by 13 prizes, 2 research medals, 11 grants, 2 fellowships and established and lead the new neurorehabilitation theme at UNSW.
Matthew is excited about collaborating with and engaging patients, students, researchers, industry partners and key stakeholders who share a common vision "to transform healthcare through technological innovation".
Job Titles:
- Senior Research Associate
- Chief Investigator
Dr Raymond Neff is Senior Research Associate in the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at UNSW. His current roles include supervising and conducting research into sustainable flame resistant materials, firefighting chemicals and gas sensing nanotechnology, in addition to coordinating projects between UNSW and Flame Security International. Dr. Neff received his PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1995. After two years as a NRC Postdoctoral Associate at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (Gaithersburg, MD, USA), he joined BASF Corporation (Wyandotte, MI, USA) in 1997 as a Senior Research Scientist, where he conducted basic research and product development for polyurethanes. He joined UNSW in February 2020.
Job Titles:
- Senior Lecturer
- Chief Investigator
- Chief Investigator / Macquarie University
Dr Shuying Wu is a Senior Lecturer with the School of Engineering, Macquarie University. Her research interests encompass multifunctional polymer nanocomposites, flexible and stretchable sensors and conductors, energy harvester, and carbon-based nanomaterials. One of her recent research focuses is the flexible and stretchable polymer nanocomposites for the application of wearable physical sensors (electromechanical and temperature sensors). These sensors can be worn directly on body or integrated in clothing and have shown significant promise in detecting changes in body temperature, pulse, respiration rate, and skin deformation associated with different body movements. Through the Hub, Dr Wu will investigate the potential applications of these sensors in gait monitoring, early diagnosis of diseases such as congestive heart failure, prevention and/or management of chronic conditions such as lymphedema.
Job Titles:
- Director of the Sydney Pain Management Centre
- Medical Director, SPMC
Dr Vahid Mohabbati is director of the Sydney Pain Management Centre and Sydney Pain research centre. He is a fellow of The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (FRACGP), The Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP), The Australian Chapter of Palliative Medicine (FAChPM) and The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists and the Faculty of Pain Medicine (FFPMANZCA).
Job Titles:
- Lecturer
- Chief Investigator
- Chief Investigator / the University of Newcastle
Dr. Rewa Wright is a Lecturer in Creative Technology, Future Arts & Science Laboratory (FASTlab), at the University of Newcastle, NSW. Dr Wright is an interaction designer and artist with a specific interest in technologies of computer vision, gestural interfaces, sustainable development, biomimicry and design thinking for social good. Her practice-based research in design takes a rigorous, investigative approach to emerging technologies, with a focus on new areas of exploration and emerging technology. Her PhD dissertation (UNSW) blended augmented reality, haptic and gestural interfaces, new materialism, and agential realism to offer a new method and techniques for performance in mixed and extended reality. Rewa's practice-based design research has been selected for inclusion in noted exhibitions, such as Ars Electronica Gardens (2020 and 2021), the SIGGRAPH Asia Art Gallery (2019), and the International Symposium in Electronic Art (2014-present).
Job Titles:
- Chairman of the National Council
- Hub Business Manager
Elly is the Research Hub Business Manager for the Hub. She plays a critical leadership role and is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the Hub.
Elly has extensive knowledge and experience managing competitive grant portfolios working in university and hospital settings. She began her career in research management at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, US. Her focus has been on proposal development from international and Commonwealth grant agencies. Before joining UNSW, Elly was the International Research Grants Manager at the University of Technology Sydney in the Research Office.
Elly currently serves as the Chair of the National Council of University Research Administrators (NCURA) International Region's Advisory Board and Executive Committee. In 2022, she was a recipient of the Catherine Taylor-Core Minority Travel Award from NCURA.
Professor Erik Meijering leads the Computer Vision Group in the School of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at UNSW. He is also the Technology Lead for the Image Analytics Pillar of Tyree IHealthE. He has 20+ years of experience in developing advanced computational methods and tools for quantitative analysis of biomedical imaging data. These methods are increasingly based on artificial intelligence approaches involving machine and deep learning. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the world's largest professional association for the advancement of technology, for his pioneering contributions to biological image analysis.
Before moving to UNSW in 2019, he studied and worked at various engineering institutes and university medical centres across Europe, including Delft University of Technology (MSc), Utrecht University (PhD), and Erasmus University Medical Centre (A/Professor) in the Netherlands, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (Postdoc). He is a multidisciplinary scientist-engineer with a passion to translate computer science theories and mathematical concepts into powerful algorithms for the advancement of medicine and biology. He has published 150+ peer-reviewed journal and conference papers and supervised about 30 HDR students and Postdocs. Over the years his group has developed advanced solutions for image restoration, super-resolution, registration, object detection, segmentation, quantification, classification, and tracking, and has produced various image analysis software tools used by thousands worldwide.
In addition to his academic work, he was/is active internationally as a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) Technical Committee on Bio Imaging and Signal Processing (BISP), the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) Technical Committee on Biomedical Imaging and Image Processing (BIIP), and the cross-Society IEEE Life Sciences Technical Community (LSTC). He was/is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, the International Journal on Biomedical Imaging, and the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, has co-edited various journal special issues, including for the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, has co-organized three international benchmarking competitions (Particle Tracking Challenge 2012, Cell Tracking Challenge since 2013, BigNeuron Project since 2015), has co-organized various conferences in the field, most notably the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) and the International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (MICCAI), and served/serves on a great variety of other conference, advisory, and review boards.
Job Titles:
- Chief Investigator
- Director of the ARC Training Centre
Professor Guan Yeoh is the Director of the ARC Training Centre in Fire Retardant Materials and Safety Technologies, based in the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at UNSW. He is also a Principal Research Scientist at Australia Nuclear Science Technology Organisation (ANSTO).
As the Director of the Fire Research Centre, he leads the research and development in flame retardants, multi-scale fire modelling, fire suppression systems and reduced and full-scale fire testings for compliance to fire safety regulatory standards. At ANSTO, I am the thermal-hydrualic specialist that liaises with ARPANSA to ensure the safe operation of OPAL reactor and the Operating Limits and Conditions (OLCs) are met for licensing requirement for operation.
Job Titles:
- Head of School, Chemical Engineering
- Professor
Professor Guangzhao Mao received her BSc degree in chemistry from Nanjing University, China and her PhD degree in chemical engineering from University of Minnesota, USA. She holds the position of Professor and Head of School, School of Chemical Engineering, UNSW Sydney, Australia. Professor Mao was a professor at Wayne State University, USA and served as the Chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at Wayne State University from 2015 to 2020. Professor Mao's research is in nanotechnology including applying electrochemistry to make chemical sensors and engineering nanoparticles for targeted drug delivery. Professor Mao has received a Faculty CAREER award from the U.S. National Science Foundation, a Fulbright Senior Fellowship from the U.S. Department of State, and an ELATE Fellowship from the International Center for Executive Leadership in Academics. Professor Mao was a visiting professorship at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Germany. Professor Mao is a member of the Australian Centre for NanoMedicine.
Job Titles:
- General Manager
- General Manager / Roobuck Pty Ltd
Job Titles:
- VP Research and Development
Prof Foroughi has specialised in innovative research work in smart materials with a focus on artificial muscles, soft robotics and wearable technology for emerging advanced applications, including medical devices and health monitoring. He has made pioneering contributions to the field of smart materials science and he is recognised internationally as an emerging leader in the smart materials field. Prof Foroughi is widely acknowledged as the inventor of Torsional Carbon Nanotube Artificial Muscles (published as a highlight paper in Science 2011). Prof Foroughi‘s growing national and international reputation is demonstrated by his various awards and invited presentations, Emerging Research Fellow, Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute (IHMRI), Lead Diagnostics and therapeutics program at IHMRI, Guest Editor. His accomplishments include an ARC DECRA Fellowship award, a proven record of 175 refereed publications in top ranked journals including five papers in the prestigious journal Science. Prof Foroughi has been instrumental in securing over $7 million competitive research grants, from ARC, Universities, and local industries. In addition, Prof Foroughi has developed significant expertise in the supervision of higher research degree students and has completed 15 PhD students as primary or co-supervisor. Prof Foroughi established a multi-disciplinary research team to develop smart materials for biomedical devices including smart drug delivery system for cancer therapy, wearable sensors for health monitoring and artificial muscles for ventricular assist devices applications.
Jin Zhang's research focuses on the preparation, characterisation and functionalisation of fibres and composites. Jin has extensive experience in endowing polymers (at ultrafine fibre, film and bulk forms) with functionalities (i.e. mechanical, sensing and energy harvesting) by introducing nanofillers. Jin also has broad expertise in the design, characterisation and processing of fibre, yarn, compound yarn and textiles. Jin has published in relevant fields to this Hub including polymer nanocomposite sensors and flexible piezoelectric, triboelectric and hybrid piezo-triboelectric nanogenerators and self-powered sensors. The flexible, stretchable energy harvesters developed can power sensors for real-time monitoring of the vital biophysical signals of end users and have many applications including compression garments, smart socks, and patient gowns, etc., where the devices need to undergo large deformation during normal wear. The hybrid nanogenerators developed exploit the synergy between piezoelectric and triboelectric mechanisms to improve energy harvesting efficiencies and address the energy and power needs of portable and wearable electronic devices.
Job Titles:
- NHMRC Leadership Fellow
- Theme Leader, Physical and Chemical Sensors
Scientia Professor Justin Gooding is an NHMRC Leadership Fellow and a co-founder of the Australian Centre for NanoMedicine. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering and the International Society of Electrochemistry. He is the inaugural editor-in-chief of the journal ACS Sensors.
He graduated with a B.Sc. (Hons) from Melbourne University before spending two years working for ICI Research. He then returned to University obtaining a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford and received post-doctoral training at the Institute of Biotechnology in Cambridge University. He returned to Australia in 1997 as a Vice-Chancellor's Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) before commencing a lectureship at Flinders University in 1998 and then UNSW in 1999. He was promoted to full professor in 2006 and in 2011 he was promoted to Scientia Professor, the highest award for research performance given by UNSW.
He has published over 440 research papers including Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Immunology, Nature Communications and Science Advances. He has also authored 14 patents and one textbook. His papers have been cited more than 22000 times and his H-index (Scopus) is 74. He has won numerous awards including Eureka Prizes in Scientific Research and Mentoring of Young Researchers, the Faraday Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Elsevier Biosensors and Bioelectronics Award and the Katsumi Niki Prize in Bioelectrochemistry and the Heyrovsky Prize for Molecular Electrochemistry, both from the International Society of Electrochemistry. He has been part of the commercialization teams for a glucose biosensor that is sold worldwide and an Australian based 3D bioprinting company. He leads a research team of over 30 researchers interested in surface modification and nanotechnology for biosensors, biomaterials, electron transfer and medical applications. In 2021, he was awarded the Applied Research Award from the Royal Australian Chemical Institute, the Australia Museum ANSTO Eureka Prize for Innovative Use of Technology, and the 2021 Vice Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Promoting Industry Engagement in Higher Degree Research (UNSW).
Job Titles:
- Hub Deputy Director, Industry Engagement
- Hub Deputy Director, Professor
- Senior Principal Research Scientist at NeuRA
Kim Delbaere is a Senior Principal Research Scientist at NeuRA and Director of Innovation & Translation at the Falls, Balance & Injury Research Centre, supported by the Australian NHMRC, and Professor at University of New South Wales, Sydney. She graduated in 2001 as a master in Rehabilitation Sciences and Physiotherapy at the Ghent University (Belgium) and completed her PhD in 2005 on falls in older people. In 2006, she moved to Australia to work at NeuRA on fear of falling in older people.
Her research has contributed to the understanding of physical, psychological and cognitive factors causing falls. Her multidisciplinary approach incorporates elements from physiotherapy, psychology, brain imaging and software engineering towards preventing falls and promoting healthy ageing. Kim has been successful at developing novel methods of applying technology to healthy ageing for over 10 years, in both healthy older people and a range of chronic diseases. Her contributions to medical research have been recognised through two prestigious NHMRC excellence awards and numerous successful NHMRC applications, including a current NHMRC Investigator grant.
Our Hub Deputy Director, Professor Kim Delbaere, was a recent guest on The Aged Care Enrichment Podcast. Check out the discussion Episode 35, Falls Prevention and Acceptable Interventions, with Profes...
Job Titles:
- Co - Founder of the Women Researchers' Network at RMIT University
- Deputy Director, Research
- Deputy Director, Research / RMIT University
- Professor
Professor Madhu Bhaskaran co-leads the Functional Materials and Microsystems Research Group (fmm.rmit.edu.au) at RMIT University. Madhu also serves as an Editor for Sensors and Actuators: A Physical and is on the Editorial Advisory Board for Small and Advanced Intelligent Systems.
Her research interests include functional oxide thin films, wearable technologies and conformal devices. In 2017 she was recognised with the Eureka Prize for Outstanding Early Career Researcher. In 2018, she won the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering's Batterham Medal and the APEC Science Prize for Innovation, Research and Education.
She strives to translate her fundamental research results to impactful applications through collaborations with industry. She has eight patents for breakthroughs in the creation of stretchable oxide devices, novel materials properties, innovative coatings for smart windows, and next-generation sensing devices.
A staunch advocate for diversity and inclusion, Madhu is a co-founder of the Women Researchers' Network at RMIT University and has contributed her expertise on the Expert Working Group for the Women in STEM Decadal Plan. She serves on the Advisory Board for STEM Sisters and is co-chair of Women in STEMM Australia.
Professor Minichiello is the International Director of FASTLAB (Future Arts Science and technology Lab. This involves applying learnings in commercial settings to research and commercialisation processes. Developing exciting co-creative environments to take problems and speculative ideas into a Beta to Alpha development process and onto commercialisation opportunities for real-world impact.
Currently developing a stroke and fragility App into an immersive sensory tool for user/patient engagement. To achieve success for new products and systems Professor Minichiello also focused on bio hacking experiments taking ideas through to commercialisation and developing public reception; i.e. a social licence and cultural acceptance of new things. His professional experience is in the Design and Visual Communication Industry. He leads a strong team to help develop, test and commercialise new ways of using sensors to argument humans' sensory apparatus.
Dr Stevens is interested in developing technology for monitoring and predicting falls. He is interested in research and development alongside industry partners, in order to generate a commercially viable solution that has great impact.
Job Titles:
- Head of the Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering
- Theme Leader, Data and Applications
Scientia Professor Lovell is the Head of the Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, UNSW working in the areas of bionics, telehealth, biosignal processing and physiological modelling.
Much of his work has been in the design of appropriate technologies to restore sensory loss and to manage chronic disease and frailty. He has commercialised a range of telehealth technologies for managing chronic disease and falls in the older population.
Prof Lovell has been awarded over $82 million in R&D funding. Over his career he has mentored 70 PhD students and delivered more than a hundred keynote presentations. He is a Fellow of seven learned academies and has been ranked as one of the top ten most published biomedical engineers in the world. For 2017 and 2018 he was the President of the world's largest biomedical engineering society - the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society.
His most recent appointment as Director of Tyree IHealthE enables him to combine his extensive research and Industry knowledge to deliver on the Institute's vision, creating a transformational engine of discovery, innovation and healthcare translation. Tyree IHealthE will leverage UNSW's expertise across the Faculties of Medicine and Engineering as well as specialised centres including the Ageing Futures Institute. Supported by a vibrant innovation ecosystem, UNSW researchers will work closely with industry and the healthcare sector. These collaborations will serve to take our biomedical engineering capabilities to a new frontier, and swiftly bring effective new models for disease diagnosis, prevention and treatment into mainstream practice.
Job Titles:
- Founder and Director of FASTLab
- Founder and Director of FASTLab / the University of Newcastle
Professor Paul Egglestone is Founder and Director of FASTLab (Future Arts, Science and Technology laboratory) and & Lead CI - Professor of Creative industries in the College of Human and Social Futures at The University of Newcastle NSW. His work bringing together makers, communities and technology spans almost two decades and is recognised nationally and internationally. He set up FASTLab in 2018 as a translational research hub to deliver transformational research with global impact connecting businesses, NGO's and government to demonstrate how we can create value through creativity and innovation balancing sustainable economic growth with social and environmental developments. Within the lab, his research focuses on human centred interactions. It harnesses human imagination, empathy, cooperation, co-design, design thinking, visualization, playfulness and creativity to enable a better understanding of the underlying systems of creativity, and motivations of humans. This iterative approach is designed to take speculative ideas into a Beta to Alpha development process and onto commercialisation opportunities
Professor Egglestone is a founding member of the Global Alliance for Media Innovation and formerly founder of the Media Innovation Studio at the University of Central Lancashire working extensively with large media organisations like the BBC, Haymarket. The Guardian, The Independent, ITV and Google.
Job Titles:
- Co - CEO and Co - Founder
Prashant Sonar is a former ARC Future Fellow and Professor in the School of Chemistry and Physics and International Engagement Lead at the Centre for Material Science at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia. He holds an adjunct position with Griffith University, Australia and Visiting Professor appointment at the School of Material Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, in 2017. He is a Fellow of the Royal Chemical Society (FRSC) and Foreign Fellow of Maharashtra Academy of Sciences (FFMAS).
He performed his doctoral work under the supervision of Professor Klaus Müllen at Max- Planck Institute of Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany and was awarded his PhD in 2004 from Johannes-Gutenberg University in Mainz. Dr Sonar moved to the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland, to do his Postdoctoral Research with Professor Schlüter from 2004 to 2006. From August 2006 till 2014, he worked as a Research Scientist at the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), Agency of Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore. Dr Sonar received a prestigious Future Fellowship (2013) from the Australian Research Council and was appointed as Associate Professor in July 2014 at QUT, Brisbane, Australia and promoted to Full Professor in 2021. At QUT, he established Organic and Printed Electronic Research group. Currently, he is serving as an Associate Editor of the journal Flexible and Printed Electronics, Material Research Express (Institute of Physics, London), Frontier in Chemistry and Energies (MDPI, Switzerland). He is a recipient of the Award for Excellence-Impact and Translation (2020), Centre for Materials Science, QUT, Australia, Thiemann Exchange Program Award to visit Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (2017), Israel and Foreign Collaborator Award from Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas, MEXT, (2016) Japan. Currently, he is serving as an Associate Editor of the journal Flexible and Printed Electronics, Material Research Express (Institute of Physics, London), and Frontier in Chemistry and Energies (MDPI, Switzerland).
Prof Sonar is interested in the design and synthesis of novel π-functional conjugated conducting and semiconducting materials (small molecules, oligomers, dendrimers, and polymers) for organic, flexible, stretchable and printed electronics. Such high-performance materials can be used for a wide range of applications which includes chemical and bio-sensors (optical, conducting, electrochemical), organic transistors, organic displays, organic solar cells, organic photodetectors, memory devices, energy storage materials (battery/supercapacitors) including supramoleculecular electronic and wearable electronic applications.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor
- Chief Investigator
- Chief Investigator / University of Wollongong
Associate Professor Raad has over 23 years' experience in Industrial research and Academia. He has jointly received multiple ARC grants in the areas of sensor networks, SDN, Future Grids and Health sensors. He is currently serving as the Head of School of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering, at the University of Wollongong.
Ravi Bakaraju - Chairman, Managing Director
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor
- Chairman
- Managing Director
- Fellow of the American Academy of Optometry
Ravi has been a recipient of numerous international awards for his research accomplishments; which include the notable American Optometric Foundation's William Ezell Fellowship in 2009; runner-up for 3M Eureka Prize for Emerging Leader in Science in 2014; and the prestigious Irvin M. and Beatrice Borish outstanding young scientist award from the American Academy of Optometry in 2015. He was awarded a distinguished certificate of recognition for outstanding achievements by the L.V. Prasad Eye Institute Alumnus in 2016.
Ravi is a fellow of the American Academy of Optometry (AAO), a member of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), a member of Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), a member of British Contact lens Association (BCLA) and a member of International Society for Contact Lens Research.
Job Titles:
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Professor Sharath Sriram jointly leads the Functional Materials and Microsystems Research Group at RMIT University (fmm.rmit.edu.au). Sharath was Scientific Coordinator and Founding Deputy Director of RMIT University's Micro Nano Research Facility, a $60 million multi-user, inter-disciplinary research facility. He is currently Chair of Policy for Science & Technology Australia, and an active contributor to science policy with a focus on innovation, long-term strategy, and diversity and inclusion.
Sharath transforms discoveries into technology, by harnessing functionality in materials at the nano- and micro-scales. His expertise spans brain-inspired electronics, precision biosensors, and optical sensing technologies. A former Australian Research Council Fellow, his research excellence recognition includes the 2012 NMI Prize for Measurement Excellence from the National Measurement Institute, Australia; a 2012 Victoria Fellowship; the 2016 Australian Museum 3M Eureka Prize for Emerging Leader in Science; and being named among Australia's Most Innovative Engineers 2016 by Engineers Australia.
Sharath's passion is to create connections with end-users to deliver commercial technologies, in partnership with industry. He collaborates with several Australian healthcare and medical technology providers to develop sensors and electronics that support point-of-care and wireless healthcare monitoring.
Dr Shuhua Peng is an ARC DECRA Fellow with the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering UNSW. His current research interests are to understand and design soft and stretchable materials that possess unique micro/nanostructures and explore their extraordinary functions in technologies such as wearable sensors, energy harvesting and storage, soft robotics, and controlled surface functionalization and wettability. In order to achieve these research goals, he is advancing fundamental knowledge on interfaces between functional polymer nanocomposites, colloidal and interface science, and bioinspired design. Through the Hub, Dr Peng will investigate the potential applications of these wearable sensors in for biosignal monitoring.
Job Titles:
- Chief Investigator
- Professor
Sri Parameswaran is a Professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at UNSW and served as the Program Director for Computer Engineering. Sri received his B.Eng Degree from Monash University and his PhD from The University of Queensland. His research interests are in System Level Synthesis, Low power systems, High Level Systems and Network on Chips. He has served on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Computer Aided Design, ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, the EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems and the Design Automation of Embedded Systems. Sri has also served on the Program Committees of Design Automation Conference (DAC), Design and Test in Europe (DATE), the International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD), the International Conference on Hardware/Software Code-sign and System Synthesis (CODES-ISSS), and the International Conference on Compilers, Architectures and Synthesis for Embedded Systems (CASES).
Job Titles:
- Senior Research Associate
Tariq Khan is a Senior Research Associate in the School of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) at UNSW Sydney. Before moving to UNSW in 2021, he studied and worked at various universities, including Macquarie University (PhD), COMSATS University Islamabad Pakistan (Assistant Professor) and Deakin University (Research Fellow).
His research work is in the broad field of computer vision and machine learning. This includes image segmentation, image classification, medical image analysis, resource-constrained neural networks, and deep neural networks.
Tariq's current research is focused on developing new computer vision and machine learning (especially deep learning) methods for the automated quantitative analysis of biomedical imaging data and other industrial applications. He has published 70+ peer-reviewed journal and conference papers and co-supervised four HDR students.
Dr Thanh Nho Do is currently a Scientia Lecturer at the Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, UNSW, Sydney, Australia. He is also the founder of UNSW Medical Robotics Lab. In 2015, he was awarded his PhD degree in Surgical Robotics from the School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering (MAE), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He was a Postdoctoral Scholar at California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI), University of California Santa Barbara, USA. He also worked as a Research Fellow and group leader at the Robotic Research Centre, School of MAE, NTU, Singapore. His research interests include the development of advanced flexible surgical systems for gastrointestinal cancer and cardiovascular disease treatment, soft robotics, soft textile muscles and sensors, wearable haptic devices, soft assistive device for heart failure, artificial organs, nonlinear control, and other mechatronic systems in medicine.
Job Titles:
- Chief Investigator
- Chief Investigator / Monash University
- Professor in the Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering
Wenlong Cheng is a full professor in the department of Chemical & Biological Engineering at Monash University, Australia. He is currently a fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry, a NHMRC Investigator Leadership fellow and was also an Ambassador Tech Fellow in Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication.
He earned his PhD from Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2005 and his BS from Jilin University, China in 1999. He was Alexander von Humboldt Fellow in the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics and a Research Associate in the Department of Biological and Environmental Engineering of Cornell University. He founded Monash NanoBionics lab at the Monash University in 2010. His research interest lies at the Nano-Bio Interface, particularly self-assembly of 2D plasmonic nanomaterials, DNA nanotechnology, electronic skins and stretchable energy devices. He is currently the Scientific Editor for Nanoscale Horizon (Royal Society of Chemistry) and the Editorial Board members for a few journals including Nanoscale, Nanoscale Advances, iScience, Chemosensors, Advanced Sensors & Energy Materials, and Austin Journal of Biomedical Engineering.