Dr Siva Chandrasekaran

Biography

Siva Chandrasekaran is a Senior Lecturer (Computer and Software Engineering), Academic Senate (Elected for the year 2021-2022 and 2023-2024), and Major Discipline Co-ordinator (Software Engineering) in the School of Science, Computing, and Engineering Technologies at the Swinburne University of Technology.  Siva has been awarded as a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia (FIE Aust) and he is a Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng) in the practice area of Information, Telecommunications and Electronics, Project Management, and Systems Engineering. Siva also served as an Academic Director (Curriculum & Quality) for the School of Science, Computing, and Engineering Technologies. He graduated BEng (CSE) in India and MEng, MEng Sci (Electronics) from Victoria University, and Ph.D. (Engineering Education) from Deakin University respectively. 

Siva has been bestowed as a senior member (SMIEEE) of the Institution of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and also a member of the Australian Computer Society (ACS). He is the lead of the Internet of Things (IoT) Training Academy. Siva has made significant contributions to engineering education research and published more than 100 scholarly articles in national/international peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings. Siva is an active researcher and his research is in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning/Deep Learning, and Industrial IoT. Siva conducts world-class research and fosters cross-disciplinary collaboration and his research is supported by Australian government funding agencies and commercial partners (DFAT, CSIRO, Australian Academy of Science, and the Department of Industry, Science, Energy, and Resources) around Australia. His education philosophy is founded on the Project-Oriented Design-Based Learning (PODBL) approach at Deakin University. Siva has facilitated workshops and seminar training on pedagogical approaches in the Asia Pacific educational sectors.