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

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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Future Cities

Program leader: Professor Simone Taffe

Deputy leader: Professor Jeni Paay      

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.

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