Our team
Meet the people behind the Innovative Planet Research Institute.
The Innovative Planet Research Institute team brings together expertise in urban environment design and management, transport and mobility solutions, new building infrastructure, and new distributed technologies for energy, water, waste and transport.
Leadership team
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Professor Allison Kealy
Director, Innovative Planet Research Institute -
Associate Professor Mehdi Seyedmahmoudian
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Associate Professor Hailing Zhou
Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering -
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Rosalie Hocking
Associate Professor in Chemistry
Associate Members
Energy Frontiers
Program leader: Associate Professor Mehdi Seyedmahmoudian
Participative citizens — Bridgette Engeler
Designing with users — Associate Professor Sonja Pedell
Understanding users — Dr Jill Bamforth
Future workforce — Dr Sean Gallagher
Understanding human mobility — Dr Jo Kuys
Interactive technologies — Dr Alison De Kruiff
Data visualisation — Professor Chris Fluke
Emerging technologies in work and play — Dr John McCormick
Gamification and mixed realities — Dr Steven Conway
Monitoring cities — Professor Virginia Kilborn
Human computer interaction — Dr Karola von Baggo
Modelling future urban spaces – Geoff Kimm
Places for people — Professor Mark Taylor
New materials and robotics — Dr Gergana Rusenova
Places for the imagination — Dr Dan Golding
Humanitarian design — Dr Gregory Quinn
Public media spaces — James Berrett
Learning from past innovation — Associate Professor Flavia Marcello
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Regenerative and net-zero futures
Engineering design advanced manufacturing – Professor Boris Eisenbart
Engineering and materials – Dr Nisa Salim
Architectural engineering – Dr Mohamed Gomaa
Nature-based social impact software engineering – Dr Stephen Glackin
Healthy and liveable environments
Housing governance: housing family and community life – Professor Wendy Stone
Understanding users: ethnography sociology philosophy – Dr Jill Bamforth
Architecture – Associate Professor John Sadar
Industrial design – Associate Professor Jo Kuys
Sustainable and resilient communities
Environmental economics and urban transitions – Dr Sorada Tapsuwan
Centre for Social Impact Swinburne – Dr Krzysztof Dembek
Mobile smart film making – Associate Professor Max Schlesser
Future thinking participative citizens – Bridgette Engeler
Environmental anthropology – Dr Aisling Bailey
Smart and innovative urban systems
Urban sustainability transitions at circular economy – Dr Olamide Shittu
Data empowered marketing – Dr Bo Pang
Digital geo spacial games data mapping – Dr Kyle Moore
Architecture, GenAI – Dr Linus Tan
Fashion manufacture – Dr Charlie Ranscombe
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Geobusiness
Program leader: Professor Rohan Bennett
GeoCommercialisation / Asia-Pacific Platform for Innovative Planet – Professor Jerome Donovan
GeoCommercialisation – Dr. Eryadi Masli
GeoCommercialisation (Energy) – Gordon Chakaodza
GeoData Infrastructures – Dr. Mark Dale
GeoData Infrastructures – Dr. Amir Andargoli
GeoCapacity Development / Asia-Pacific Platform for Innovative Planet – Dr. Cheree Topple
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Sustainable Mobility and Connected Transportation
Program leader: Associate Professor Hailing Zhou
Perception
Autonomy and embedding system - Dr Adetokunbo Arogbonlo (Xero)
Network and communication - Dr Jiong Jin
Transportation management with drone delivery - Dr Tommy Cheung
Computational intelligence - Professor Kai Qin
Sensor fusion and autonomy - Camilo Gonzalez Arango
Director: Swinburne's cyber security lab - Professor Jun Zhang
Smart Infrastructure
Road Safety – Dr Shanqing Xu
Topology optimisation – Professor Xiaodong Huang
Fluid flows simulation and analysis – Professor Justin Leontini
Material engineering – Dr Reiza Mukhlis
Electricity forecasting, AI for energy – Fusen Guo
Manufacturing
Material engineering – Dr Reiza Mukhlis
Laser and material engineering – Dr Yvonne Durandet
Manufacturing engineering – Dr Rizwan Abdul Rashid
Intelligent Robotics – Professor Mats Isaksson
IOT and advanced manufacturing – Dr Kaneez Fizza
Autonomy
Infrastructure engineering – Hendrik Wijaya
AI / CV – Associate Professor Hailing Zhou
Robotics and CV – Dr Felip Marti
Computational intelligence – Professor CP Lim
Transport safety – Stephanie Ng
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Contact the Innovative Planet Research Institute
If your organisation would like to collaborate with us to solve a complex problem, or you simply want to contact our team, get in touch by calling +61 3 9214 8180 or emailing IPRI@swinburne.edu.au.