Our team
Meet the people behind the Manufacturing Futures Research Institute.
The Manufacturing Futures Research Institute team brings together expertise in manufacturing, nanomaterials, nanofabrication, Industry 4.0 and cutting-edge industrial design.
Research associates
Industry 4.0
Program leader: Professor Dimitrios Georgakopoulos
Industrial IoT
Associate Professor Prem Prakash Jayaraman
Associate Professor Philip Branch
Cyber-physical machines, processes, humans and products (cyber twins)
Manufacturing solution development and optimisation (DevelOpt)
Professor Dimitrios Georgakopoulos
Find out more about the Industry 4.0 research program
Digital design
Program leader: Associate Professor Boris Eisenbart
Design-driven product and manufacturing innovation
Professor Anita Kocsis (stream leader)
Associate Professor Boris Eisenbart
Mixed-reality design and manufacturing
Dr Ambarish Kulkarni (stream leader)
Associate Professor Boris Eisenbart
Design for sustainability
Professor Gavin Melles (stream leader)
Find out more about the digital design research program
Intelligent robotics
Program leader: Dr Mats Isaksson
Field robotics
Associate Professor Jinchuan Zheng (theme leader)
Dr Daniel Prohasky — construction robotics
Artificial intelligence and autonomy
Dr Chris McCarthy (theme leader)
Associate Professor Bao Quoc Vo — autonomous systems
Dr Jiong Jin — multi-agent systems and cloud robotics
Human-robot interaction
Professor Zhenwei Cao (theme leader)
Shanti Krishnan
Assistive robotics
Associate Professor Sonja Pedell (theme leader)
Professor XiaoQi Chen — bionic robot devices
Dr Michelle Dunn — bio-sensing
Dr Rifai Chai — brain machine interfaces
Dr John McCormick — biomechanics modelling and control
Find out more about the intelligent robotics research program
Next generation materials
Program leader: Professor Baohua Jia
Composites
Nano materials and device
Professor Baohua Jia (stream leader)
Smart materials and structure
Jay Sanjayan (stream leader)
Dr Hongjian Du
Energy harvesting and storage materials
Associate Professor Chenghau Sun (stream leader)
Find out more about the next generation materials research program
Resilient processes
Program leader: Professor XiaoQi Chen
Materials processing and inspection technology
Associate Professor Suresh Palanisamy (stream leader)
Associate Professor Pat Rajeev
Wealth from waste
Professor M Akbar Rhamdhani (stream leader)
Associate Professor Igor Sbarski
Carbon reduction in manufacturing
Professor Geoffrey Brooks (stream leader)
Associate Professor Jamal Naser
Associate Professor Justin Leontini
Dr Terence Grant
Associate Professor Maria Zhang
Find out more about the resilient processes research program
Contact the Manufacturing Futures 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 5177 or emailing mfi@swinburne.edu.au.