Our people

School Leadership Group

Name	Title
Professor Jonathan Paxman	Head of School
Professor Ramesh Narayanaswamy	Deputy Head of School
Ms Chelsea Little	School Business Manager
Dr Kristoffer McKee	Director, Learning and Teaching
Ms Kerri Bland	Deputy Director, Learning and Teaching
Associate Professor Ranjan Sarukkalige	Director, Graduate Research
Dr Nima Nadim	Deputy Director, Graduate Research
Associate Professor Wensu Chen	Director, Centre for Infrastructural Monitoring and Protection (CIMP)
Professor Michele John	Director, Sustainable Engineering Group (SEG)
Dr Hilde van der Vyver	Chair, Diversity Inclusion and Belonging Committee

Discipline Leads

Name	Title
Professor Prabir Sarker	Civil Engineering
Associate Professor Pawel Podsiadlo	Mechanical Engineering
Dr Lei Cui	Mechatronic Engineering
Associate Professor Wensu Chen	Director, Centre for Infrastructural Monitoring and Protection (CIMP)
Professor Michele John	Director, Sustainable Engineering Group (SEG)

Course Coordinators

Name	Title
Ms Kerri Bland	Civil and Construction Engineering Major (BEng) (Honours)
Professor Andrew Whyte	Master of Engineering Management
Professor Prabir Sarker	Civil Engineering Major (M ProEng)
Associate Professor Ian Davies	Mechanical Engineering Major (BEng) (Honours)
Dr Chris Ford	Mechanical Engineering Major (BEng) (Honours)
Dr Kristoffer McKee	Mechanical Engineering Major (M ProEng)
Associate Professor Pawel Podsiadlo	Industrial and Systems Engineering Major (BEng) (Honours)
Dr Lei Cui	Mechatronic Engineering Major (BEng) (Honours)

Directors of Research Centres and Groups

Name	Title
Professor Hong Hao	Founding Director, Centre for Infrastructural Monitoring and Protection (CIMP)
Associate Professor Wensu Chen	Director, Centre for Infrastructural Monitoring and Protection (CIMP)
Professor Michele John	Director, Sustainable Engineering Group (SEG)

Academic Staff – Civil Engineering

Name	Title
Dr Hayder Hasan Abdullah	Associate Lecturer \| Geotechnical Engineering
Dr Mizan Ahmed	Lecturer \| Structural Engineering
Associate Professor Faisal Anwar	Associate Professor \| Water Engineering
Ms Kerri Bland	Lecturer \| Structural Engineering
Associate Professor Amin Chegenizadeh	Associate Professor \| Geotechnical Engineering
Associate Professor Wensu Chen	Director, Centre for Infrastructural Monitoring and Protection (CIMP)
Dr Navdeep Dhami	Senior Research Fellow
Dr Anant Dubey	Postdoctoral Research Associate
Professor Hong Hao	John Curtin Distinguished Professor \| Structural Engineering
Dr Anwar Hosan	Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dr Fauzi Hardjanto	Lecturer \| Structural Engineering
Dr Zhijie Huang	Research Fellow \| Structural Engineering
Dr Andrew Lacey	Lecturer \| Structural Engineering
Professor Jun Li	Professor \| Structural Engineering
Professor Peter Love	John Curtin Distinguished Professor \| Construction Management
Dr Subhra Majhi	Research Associate \| Structural Engineering
Professor Abhijit Mukherjee	John Curtin Distinguished Professor \| Structural Engineering
Dr Navid Nikraz	Senior Lecturer \| Construction Management
Dr Zhen Peng	Research Fellow \| Structural Engineering
Professor Prabir Sarker	Professor \| Structural Engineering
Associate Professor Ranjan Sarukkalige	Associate Professor \| Water Engineering
Professor Mohamed Shahin	Professor \| Geotechnical Engineering
Professor Faiz Shaikh	Professor \| Structural Engineering
Dr Stephen Urquhart	Lecturer \| Construction Management
Dr Johan Vandamme	Lecturer \| Water Engineering
Professor Andrew Whyte	Professor \| Construction Management
Dr Cheng Xu	Research Fellow \| Structural Engineering
Associate Professor Xihong Zhang	Associate Professor \| Structural Engineering
Dr Haoran Zuo	Research Fellow \| Structural Engineering
Dr Arun K Vappaladadiyam	Lecturer
Dr Chen Wang	Lecturer \| Civil and Environmental Engineering

Academic Staff – Mechanical Engineering

Name	Title
Professor Tilak Chandratilleke	Professor \| Heat Transfer, Curved channel Flows, Electronic Cooling
Dr Julien Cisonni	Lecturer \| Fluid Mechanics
Associate Professor Ian Davies	Associate Professor \| Composite Materials, Solid Mechanics
Ms Sonya Derry	Lecturer \| Engineering Education/Ethics, Acoustics, Sustainability
Dr Jonathan Dong	Senior Lecturer \| Materials and Finite Element Analysis
Associate Professor Roger Dong	Associate Professor \| Polymers and Composite Materials
Dr Chris Ford	Senior Lecturer \| Applied Thermodynamics and Mechanical Components
Associate Professor Chunsheng Lu	Associate Professor \| Solid Mechanics
Dr Ilyas Mazhar	Lecturer \| Reliability and Lifecycle Assessment
Dr Kristoffer McKee	Senior Lecturer \| Vibration Condition Monitoring
Dr Nima Nadim	Senior Lecturer \| Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer
Professor Ramesh Narayanaswamy	Professor \| Heat Transfer
Associate Professor Pawel Podsiadlo	Associate Professor \| Tribology
Dr Alokesh Pramanik	Senior Lecturer \| Manufacturing
Associate Professor Zakaria Quadir	Associate Professor \| Materials Characterization & Advance Manufacturing
Dr Hilde van der Vyver	Lecturer \| Mechanics of Machines
Mr Phil Wharrie	Lecturer \| Professional Engineering Practice
Dr Marcin Wolski	Lecturer \| Tribology
Dr Azma Putra Azis	Lecturer

Academic Staff – Mechatronic Engineering

Name	Title
Dr Nasrin Afsarimanesh	Lecturer \| Sensors, Smart Sensing Systems and Biomedical Engineering
Dr Lei Cui	Senior Lecturer \| Robotic Manipulation and Mechanism and Robot Design
Professor Khac Duc Do	Professor \| Systems and Control
Dr Masood Khan	Lecturer \| Artificial Intelligence, Machine Vision, Robotics
Dr Fabrizio Padula	Senior Research Fellow \| Automatic Control
Professor Jonathan Paxman	Professor \| Control Systems; Robotics; Space systems Engineering
Professor Tele Tan AM	John Curtin Distinguished Professor \| Machine Learning; Assistive and Rehabilitation
Dr Tomasz Woloszynski	Lecturer \| Artificial Intelligence, Control and Tribology
Mr Tristan Davies	Associate Lecturer
Mr Aman Tanday	Associate Lecturer

Academic Staff – Sustainable Engineering Group

Name	Title
Associate Professor Wahidul Biswas	Associate Professor
Professor Michele John	Professor
Associate Professor Liam Wagner	Associate Professor
Dr Anulipt Chandan	Lecturer

Emeritus Professors

Name	Title
Professor Ian Howard	Emeritus Professor \| Mechanical Engineering
Professor Tony Lucey	John Curtin Distinguished Emeritus Professor \| Mechanical Engineering
Professor Hamid Nikraz	Emeritus Professor \| Civil Engineering
Professor Vijaya Rangan	Emeritus Professor \| Civil Engineering
Professor Gwidon Stachowiak	Emeritus Professor \| Mechanical Engineering

Professional Staff : Administrative

Name	Title
Ms Cheryl Cheng	Administrative Officer
Ms Andrea Foston	Administrative Officer
Mrs Raja Sundra Rajoo	Administrative Officer

Professional Staff : Teaching Support

Name	Title
Ms Cheryl Ip	Planning Coordinator, Learning & Teaching
Ms Sam Marcus	Support Officer, Learning & Teaching
Ms Irene Soon	Support Officer, Learning & Teaching