Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering

Academic (Teaching and Research) Staff

Name

Field of Expertise/Responsibility

Head of School

Steven W Armfield,
BSc Flin PhD

Professors

Roger I Tanner,
BSc Brist MS Calif PhD Manc, FRS FAA FTSE FASME FIEAust

PN Russell Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Rheology

Yiu-Wing Mai,
BSc(Eng) PhD DSc HK DEng, FRS FAA FTSE FHKEng FWIF FIEAust FASME FHKIE

Professor/University Chair and Personal Chair in Mechanical Engineering
Director CAMT
Advanced Materials and Fracture Mechanics

Hugh F Durrant-Whyte,
BSc(Eng)Lond MSE PhD Penn, FTSE FIEEE FAA

Professor of Mechatronics
ARC Federation Fellow
Field Robotics

Assaad R Masri,
BE PhD

Professor
Associate Dean, Research
Combustion

Masud Behnia,
BSME (Highest Distinction) MSME PhD Purdue, FIEAust MASME MAIAA

Eduardo M Nebot,
BS Bahia Blanca MS PhD Colorado State

Director, Australian Center for Field Robotics
Field Robotics

Lin Ye,
BSc Harbin MS PhD BUAA, FTSE

Professor
Composite Materials

Liyong Tong,
BSc MEngSc Dalian PhD BUAA, FIEAust MAIAA

Professor
Associate Dean, International
FEA, Composite & Intelligent Structures

Steven W Armfield,
BSc Flin PhD

Emeritus Professors

Robert W Bilger,
BSc BE NZ DPhil Oxf, FAA FTSE FIEAust

Emeritus Professor of Mechanical Engineering - Combustion

Graeme Bird,
BSc, ME, PhD, Foreign Assoc. NAE (USA), FTSE, Fellow AIAA,FRAeS, FIE (Aust)

Molecular Gas Dynamics

Grant P. Steven,
BSc (Hons 1) Glas DPhil Oxf, FIE(Aust) FRAeS FTSE

FEA and Software Development

Associate Professors

Colin Dunstan,
BSc, MSc UNSW, PhD

Bone Biology and Biomaterials

Andrew Ruys,
BE(Hons I) PhD UNSW

Biomedical Engineering

Salah Sukkarieh,
BE PhD

Space Engineering

Hon. Professors

Arthur Brandwood,
B.Sc R'dg PhD Leeds, M.I.M.M.M. C.Eng.

Biomedical Devices

John H Kent,
BE MEngSc PhD, FIEAust

Professor of Thermo-fluids

Liangchi Zhang,
BSc MEng Zhejiang PhD Peking DEng, FTSE MASME MASPE MJSPE MJSME

Australian Professorial Fellow and Professor
Nano-Engineering

Hon. Associate Professors

Ashish Diwan,
MBBS MS DNB(Orth) PhD(UNSW)

Spinal Orthopaedics

Peter Youssef,
MBBS(Hons), PhD Flinders, FRACP

Visiting Professors

Brian Cotterell,
BSc (Eng) Lond Phd Cantab

Fracture Mechanics and Advanced Materials

Toshio Tanimoto,
M.-Eng. Dr.-Eng Doshisha

Fibre Composites

Gordon Williams,
BSc (Eng) Phd DSc Lond, FRS FCGI FREng FIMechE FIM

Fracture Mechanics and Advanced Materials

Adjunct Professor

Gregory E Chamitoff,
BS Cal Poly, MS Cal Tech, PhD MIT, MS UHCL, AssocFAIAA

NASA Astronaut, Research in Flight Dynamics and Control of Aircraft and Spacecraft

Adjunct Associate Professors

Allen Lowe,
BE ME UNSW PhD N'cle(NSW)

Power Generation

Donald O White,
BE Liv

Management

Greg Roger,
MBBS, M.Eng(Res)

Orthopaedic Engineering

Senior Lecturers

Douglass J Auld,
BSc BE MEngSc PhD

Associate Dean, Undergraduate Studies
Aerospace Engineering

Graham Brooker,
B.Sc M.Sc (Eng) Wits PhD

Millimetre Wave Radar

Peter W Gibbens,
BE, PhD N'cle(NSW), MAIAA

Flight Mechanics

Ahmad Jabbarzadeh
BE, MES, PhD

Rheology and Molecular Simulation

Michael Kirkpatrick
BE PhD MIEAust

Thermo-Fluids Engineering

Qing Li,
BE ME Hunan ME UTS PhD

Biomedical Engineering

Paul J McHugh,
BSc BE

Design

David C Rye,
BE Adel PhD

Field Robotics

Steven Scheding,
BE PhD

Field Robotics

Karkenahalli Srinivas
BE Bangalore ME PhD IISc

Deputy Head of School
Computational Fluid Dynamics

Stefan B Williams,
BASc Wat PhD

Mechatronics

Kee Choon Wong,
BE PhD, MAIAA

UAV Design

Hala Zreiqat,
Bsc(Hons) Jordan PhD UNSW

Biomaterials/Tissue Interaction

Hon. Senior Lecturer

Lynne Bilston

Biomedical

Lecturers

Xiaozhou Liao,
BSc Huaqiao MSc Dalian PhD

Transmission Electron Microscopy

Xiaofeng Wu,
BE NWPU PhD Lboro

Space Engineering

Hon. Lecturers

Phillip Boughton

Biopolymers

Adjunct Lecturers

Peter Bates,
BE, PhD

Aviation Management and Operations

Adjunct Associate Lecturers

Hon. Associates

Waltraud (Trudie) Binder

Immunohistochemistry and Cell Culture

Xijun Fan

Rheology

Ron Houghton

Aviation Technology

Zizhen Liu

Piezoelastic and Rheological Properties of Biological Soft Tissues

Chunsheng Lu

Mechanics of Thin Films

Ashish Mitra

Cardiovascular Biomedical Engineering

Gerald Pereira

Rheology

Qing Hua Qin

Biomechanics and Smart Materials

Michael V. Swain,
BSc PhD UNSW

Biomaterials

Xin-Ping Zhang

Optoelectronic Packaging and Smart Materials

Academic (Research Only) Staff

ARC Australian Research Fellows

ARC Australian Postdoctoral Fellows

Li Chang

Damage-free Processing of Silicon Wafers

Xusheng Du

Functional Nonomaterials

Alexei Makarenko

Sensor Networks

Oscar Pizarro

Underwater Imaging and Vehicles

ARC Postdoctoral Research Fellows

Wei Li

Biomechanics

Mari Velonaki

Experimental Interfaces

Senior Research Fellows

Shicheng Xue

Rheology

Research Fellows

Shiqiang Deng

Composite Materials

Ali Haydar Goktogan

Unmanned Air Systems (UAS)

Dunant Halim

Automatic Control Technology

Hong-Yuan Liu

Active Fibre Composites

Kausala Mylvaganam

Nanotechnology

Juan Nieto

Navigation systems, filtering, probabilistic modelling

Surya Singh

Robotics - Dynamics System and Control

University of Sydney Bridging Fellow

University Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Ping Tan

Intelligent Structures and Composite Materials

International Visiting Research Fellows

Yasser Shabana

Thermal Stresses in Functionally Graded Materials

Postdoctoral Fellows

Avinash Baji

Electrospinning Techniques

Tim Bailey

Field Robotics

Shao Cong Dai

Rheology

Ye Lu

Structural Health Monitoring

Quantian Luo

Smart Structures

Zhen Luo

Design Optimisation

Favio Masson

Data Fusion, Probalistic Modeling

Arman Melkumyan

Dynamics of Materials

Fuzhong Qi

Rheology

Sten Starner

Combustion

Xiannian Sun

Composite Structures

Qingxia Wang

Nanocomposites

Yanbo Wang

TEM of Nanomaterials

Nicholas Williamson

Fluid Mechanics

Shiwei Zhou

Biomaterials Design

Postdoctoral Research Associates

Zufu Lu

Tissue Engineering

Senior Research Associates

Alex Brooks

Autonomous Mobile Robots

Fabio Ramos

Statistical Learning/Artificial Intelligence

Research Associates

Duane Lee Wo (P/T)

Rheology

Szu Hui Lim

Nanomaterials

Daniel Chun-Fan Lin (P/T)

Biomedical Dental Implants

Yogambha Ramaswamy

Biomaterials

Prinicipal Research Scientist (ACFR)

Eric Nettleton

Field Robotics

Research Scientist (CRC)

Xijun Fan

Rheology

Senior Research Engineer (CRC-AS)

Ben Qi

Composite Materials

Senior Engineer (CRC-AS)

Andrew Beehag

Composite Materials

General Staff

Mechanical Engineering Building (J07)

FINANCE MANAGER

Robin Connell

ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS

Doris Bismire (Finance)

Vinita Martin (Assistant to Head of School)

Wendy Liang (Undergraduate Coordinator)

Tessie Santos (P/T)

Bronwyn Sexton
(Acting Postgraduate Coordinator)

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANTS

Susan Gonzales

Radhika Challapalli

COMPUTER SYSTEMS OFFICER

Rod Fiford

COMPUTER SUPPORT

Xuan Anh (Peter) Nguyen

TECHNICAL ASSISTANTS / ATTENDANTS

Paul Mear

John Potts

PROJECT OFFICER

RESEARCH ASSISTANT

Rose Street Building (J04)

CEO, OPERATIONS (CAS)

Olga Sawtell

PROJECT MANAGER

Tim Miller

FINANCE OFFICER

SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR

ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER

Ruth Olip (P/T)

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT

Lisa Hunter-Smith (P/T)

Natasha Tetradis

SENIOR TECHNICAL OFFICERS

Mechanical Engineering Building (J07)

Paul Briozzo

Bruce Crundwell

Greg Cumberland (Manager, AMME Workshop)

Greg Elder

Brian Scaysbrook

Trevor Shearing

Rose Street Building (J04)

Muhammad Esa Attia

Ritesh Lal

Andrew Maclean

Christopher Mifsud

Vijay Nichani

Jeremy Randle

Craig Rodgers

TECHNICAL OFFICERS

Aeronautical Engineering Building (J11)

Duncan Stenger

John Todhunter

Mechanical Engineering Building (J07)

Stanley Karkada

Robert O'Shannessy

Greg Riviere

Rose Street Building (J04)

Ross Hennessy

Florian Oppolzer