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The School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering has 29 academic staff, 42 research staff and 25 support staff. Current staff are listed below with information on their primary area of research or responsibility.
 
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Academic (Teaching and Research) Staff
Name Title Expertise   
Professors
Roger I Tanner,BSc Brist MS Calif PhD Manc, FRS FAA FTSE FASME FIEAust PN Russell Professor of Mechanical Engineering
 
Rheology
(Currently Vacant) Lawrence Hargrave Professor of Aeronautical Engineering
 
 
Robert W Bilger,BSc BE NZ DPhil Oxf, FAA FTSE FIEAust Personal Chair in Mechanical Engineering
 
Combustion
Yiu-Wing Mai, BSc(Eng) PhD DSc HK DEng, FAA FTSE FHKEng FWIF FIEAust FASME FHKIE Professor/University Chair
ARC Federation Fellow
Director CAMT
 
Advanced Materials
Hugh F Durrant-Whyte,BSc(Eng)Lond MSE PhD Penn, FTSE
 
Personal Chair in Mechanical Engineering
ARC Federation Fellow
 
Field Robotics
John H Kent BE MEngSc PhD, FIEAust
Professor
 
Thermo-fluids
Assaad R Masri, BE PhD Professor
 
Combustion
Eduardo M Nebot,BS Bahia Blanca MS PhD Colorado State Patrick Chair in Automation and Logistics
Director, Australian Center for Field Robotics
Field Robotics
Lin Ye,BSc Harbin MS PhD BUAA
Professor
Head of School 
Composite Materials
Liangchi Zhang,BSc MEng Zhejiang PhD Peking, MASME MASPE MJSPE MJSME
Professor
Associate Dean, Postgraduate Studies
 
Nano-Engineering
Liyong Tong,BSc MEngSc Dalian PhD BUAA, FIEAust MAIAA Professor
Associate Dean, International
 
FEA, Composite & Intelligent Structures
 
Name Field of Expertise  

Visiting Professors
 
Brian Cotterell, BSc (Eng) Lond Phd Cantab Fracture Mechanics and Advanced Materials
Nhan Phan-Thien,BE Phd, FAA FIEAust Rheology
Gordon Williams, BSc (Eng) Phd DSc Lond, FRS FCGI FREng FIMechE FIM Fracture Mechanics and Advanced Materials

Adjunct Professor
 
Brian Cox, BSc, Phd Monash Advanced Materials  
Francis Rose, BSc(Hons), Phd Sheff, FTSE Fracture Mechanics, Structural Health Monitoring

Associate Professors
 
Steven W Armfield, BSc Flin PhD Computational Fluid Dynamics

Adjunct Associate Professors
 
Simmy Grewal, BSc Coventry PhD Liv Manufacturing Management
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
Peter W Gibbens, BE, PhD N'cle(NSW), MAIAA Flight Mechanics
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
Salah Sukkarieh, BE PhD Space Engineering
Kee Choon Wong, BE PhD, MAIAA UAV Design

Adjunct Senior Lecturer
Robert Widders, BE, MEngSc UNSW Advanced Mechanical Design

Hon. Senior Lecturer
 
Lynne Bilston Biomedical

Lecturers
 
Hugh Stone, BSc BE PhD UAV Design
Stefan B Williams, BASc Wat PhD Mechatronics

Adjunct Lecturer
 
Capt Peter L Bates, BE Aviation Management and Operations  
Elizabeth Jean Nightingale, BAppSc, MBiomedE, PhD UNSW Biomechanics

Hon. Associates
 
Negin Amanat Biomedical Engineering
John D Atkinson Rheology
Ron Houghton Aviation Technology
Philip Mulhearn Maritime Operations Research
Gerald Pereira Rheology
Michael V. Swain, BSc PhD UNSW Biomaterials
Xin-Ping Zhang Optoelectronic Packaging and Smart Materials

Academic (Research Only) Staff
ARC QE II Research Fellows  
Andrew Ruys Advanced Materials, Bio-Engineering

ARC Australian Research Fellows
 
Hong-Yuan Liu Active Fibre Composites
Baolin Wang Fracture of Functional Gradient Materials
Cheng Yan Nano-materials and Photonic packaging

ARC Research Fellows
 
Jose Guivant Field Robotics
Iuliana Rotariu Information Geometry, Control Theory, Dynamical Systems
Christel-Loic Tisse Biologically-Inspired Computer Vision
Chieh-Chih (Bob) Wang Machine Perception and Machine Learning

ARC Australian Postdoctoral Fellows
 
Davy Cheong Nanotechnology
Bin Gu Smart Cut
Wenxian Lin Computational Fluid Dynamics
Zizhen Liu Properties of Biological Soft Tissues
Alexei Makarenko Sensor Networks
Oscar Pizarro Underwater Imaging and Vehicles
Zhongqing Su Smart Materials & Structures
Zhong-Zhen Yu Polymer Nanocomposites

ARC Postdoctoral Research Fellows
 
Mari Velonaki Experimental Interfaces

Sesqui Postdoctoral Research Fellows
 
Nam Mai-Duy Rheology

Research Fellows
 
Joseph Alexander Arsecularatne Machining Processors
Zuo-Rong Chen Composite Materials
Seward (Chip) Pulitzer Underwater Marine Autonomous Vehicles
Swaminathan Sureshkumar Field Robotics
Ben Upcroft Field Robotics

University Postdoctoral Research Fellow
 
Ping Tan Intelligent Structures and Composite Materials

Postdoctoral Fellow
 
Tim Bailey Field Robotics
Shao Cong Dai Rheology
Wei Li Biomechanics
Jun Ma Thermoset-based nanocomposite and high performance elastomers
Geordie McBain Computational Fluid Dynamics
Sudip Kumar Pattanayek Rheology
Fuzhong Qi Rheology
Sten Starner Combustion
Dongchang Sun Smart Structures
Irena Zarudi Advanced Materials Processing
Qingxin Zhang Nano-Composites

ARC Senior Research Associate
 
Ahmad Jabbarzadeh Khoei (ARC) Rheology
Chunsheng Lu Mechanics of Thin Films

Senior Research Associates
 
Graham Brooker Field Robotics
Shiqiang Deng Composite Materials
Shicheng Xue Rheology
Xiaobo Yu Thermoforming Analysis

ARC Research Associates
 
Marco Ellero Rheology
Quantian Luo Smart Structures
Kausala Mylvaganam Nanotechnology
Tania Vodenitcharova Constitutive Modelling
Keqin Xiao Nanotechnology

Research Associates
 
Matthew Ridley Decentralized Data Fusion

Systems Engineer
 
Philip Boddington (ACFR)

Research Scientist (CRC)
 
Xijun Fan Rheology

Senior Research Engineer (CRC-AS)
 
Meng Hou Composite Materials
Ben Qi Composite Materials

Senior Engineer (CRC-AS)
 
Andrew Beehag Composite Materials

General Staff

Mechanical Engineering Building (J07)
 

FINANCE OFFICER
 
Robin Connell

ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS
 
Wendy Liang (Finance)
Vinita Martin (Head of School)
Anne Robertson (Undergraduate)
Yvonne Witting (Postgraduate)

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANTS
 
Susan Gonzales
Tessie Santos

COMPUTER SYSTEMS OFFICER
 
Rod Fiford

COMPUTER SUPPORT
 
Xuan Anh (Peter) Nguyen

ATTENDANTS
 
John Barber
Paul Mear


Rose Street Building (J04)
 

CEO, OPERATIONS (CAS)
 
Nigel Price

FINANCE OFFICER
 
Xiao Ming (Christy) Wang

SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR
 
Bella Wong

ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER (P/T)
 
Ruth Olip


SENIOR TECHNICAL OFFICERS
 

Aeronautical Engineering Building (J11)
 
Greg Cumberland (Manager, AMME Workshop)

Mechanical Engineering Building (J07)
 
Paul Briozzo
Bruce Crundwell
Greg Elder
Bruce Oliver
Brian Scaysbrook
Trevor Shearing
Trevor Sutton

Rose Street Building (J04)
 
Ali Goktogan
Andrew Maclean
Christopher Mifsud
Jeremy Randle
Craig Rodger


TECHNICAL OFFICERS
 

Aeronautical Engineering Building (J11)
 
Stuart Brown
Greg Riviere
Duncan Stenger

Mechanical Engineering Building (J07)
 
Stanley Karkada
Robert O'Shannessy

Rose Street Building (J04)
 
Ross Hennessy
James Hudson
Craig Lobsey
Alan Trinder



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