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School Leadership

Name	Title
John Curtin Distinguished Professor Igor Bray	Head of School (Interim)
John Curtin Distinguished Professor Tele Tan	Deputy Head of School
Mr Colin Watson	School Business Manager
Ms Sarah Jackson	Manager Partnerships and Projects
Dr Tiffany Jones	Director of Learning and Teaching
Associate Professor Cesar Ortega-Sanchez	Director Curriculum & Student Affairs
Dr Honglei Xu	Director of Research
Associate Professor Sajib Mistry	Director Graduate Research
Dr Shuang Li	Director Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging
Professor Ahmed Abu-Siada	Director Global Initiatives
John Curtin Distinguished Professor Ling Li	Global Initiatives Lead, China
Dr Brendan McGann	Discipline Lead Physics & Astronomy
Dr Scott Lindstrom	Discipline Lead Mathematics
Professor Benchawan Wiwatanapataphee	Discipline Lead Statistics & Industrial Optimisation
Professor Alireza Jolfaei	Discipline Lead Computer Science & Software Engineering
Associate Professor Ray Bennett	Discipline Lead Actuarial Science & Sustainable Development
Dr Ehsan Pashajavid	Discipline Lead Electrical & Electronic Engineering
John Curtin Distinguished Professor Tele Tan	Discipline Lead AI & Data Science

Professional Staff: School Operations

Name	Title
Mr Colin Watson	School Business Manager
Mrs Khyati Ananthram	Research & Finance Lead
Miss Soon Ann Teh	School Operations Coordinator
Mrs Tasneem Dawood	Administrative Officer
Mr Rick Woodley	Administrative Officer
Mr Marcus Tey	Administrative Officer

Professional Staff: Projects and Partnerships

Name	Title
Ms Sarah Jackson	Manager Partnerships and Projects
Mr Arlen Brower	ICT Industry Projects & Placements Lead
Ms Justine Barker	Project Coordinator
Ms Kristin Yu	Projects, Events & Communications Officer

Academic Staff: AI & Data Science

Name	Title
John Curtin Distinguished Professor Tele Tan	Discipline Lead, AI & Data Science
Dr Asif Sardar	Associate Lecturer
Dr Devindri Perera	Senior Lecturer
Dr Fangyi Zhang	Lecturer
Associate Professor Himanshu Agrawal	Associate Professor
Professor Honglei Xu	Professor
Dr Hui Xie	Lecturer
John Curtin Distinguished Professor Ling Li	John Curtin Distinguished Professor
Dr Mahbuba Afrin	Senior Lecturer
Dr Qian Li	Lecturer
Dr Qilin Li	Senior Lecturer
Dr Ritu Gupta	Associate Professor
Dr Senjian An	Senior Lecturer
Dr Siyi Hu	Lecturer
Associate Professor Sonny Pham	Associate Professor
Dr Suman Rakshit	Senior Lecturer
Associate Professor Susannah Soon	Associate Professor
Dr Yanda Shao	Associate Lecturer
Dr Chayan Mondal	Associate Lecturer
Dr Ying Li	Associate Lecturer
Dr Sam Wiwatanapataphee	Associate Lecturer

Academic Staff: Computer Science & Software Engineering

Name	Title
Professor Alireza Jolfaei	Professor, Discipline Lead, Computer Science and Software Engineering
Professor Aneesh Krishna	Professor, Computer Science and Software Engineering
Associate Professor Reza Ryan	Associate Professor
Associate Professor Mihai Lazarescu	Associate Professor
Dr Valerie Maxville	Associate Professor
Associate Professor Sie Teng Soh	Associate Professor
Dr David Cooper	Senior Lecturer
Dr Hannes Herrmann	Senior Lecturer
Dr Redowan Mahmud	Senior Lecturer
Dr Sajib Mistry	Senior Lecturer
Dr David McMeekin	Senior Lecturer
Dr Nickson Karie	Senior Lecturer
Dr Antoni Liang	Lecturer
Dr Nasim Ferdosian	Lecturer
Dr Sheik Fattah	Lecturer
Ms Nimalika Fernando Thudugala Mudalige	Lecturer
Dr Muhammad Hasan	Associate Lecturer
Dr Rakibul Hasan	Associate Lecturer
Dr Chamara Manoj	Lecturer

Academic Staff: Electrical Engineering

Name	Title
Dr Ehsan Pashajavid	Professor, Discipline Lead, Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Professor Ahmed Abu-Siada	Professor
Professor Arindam Ghosh	Professor
Professor Yue Rong	Professor
Associate Professor Cesar Ortega-Sanchez	Associate Professor
Dr Siavash Khaksar	Senior Lecturer
Dr Nimsiri Abhayasinghe	Senior Lecturer
Dr Kit Yan Chan	Senior Lecturer
Dr Uzma Amin	Lecturer
Dr Hanieh Bakhshayesh	Lecturer
Dr Maria Kovaleva	Lecturer

Academic Staff: Mathematics

Name	Title
Dr Scott Lindstrom	Disciple Lead, Mathematics
John Curtin Distinguished Professor Victor Calo	Professor
Associate Professor Lorenzo Ntogramatzidis	Associate Professor
Dr Heather Lonsdale	Senior Lecturer
Dr Ian van Loosen	Senior Lecturer
Dr Roger Collinson	Senior Lecturer
Dr Hai Huyen Heidi Dam	Senior Lecturer
Dr Tiffany Jones	Lecturer
Dr Shuang Li	Lecturer
Mr Jordan Collard	Associate Lecturer

Academic Staff: Actuarial Science and Sustainable Development

Name	Title

Associate Professor Ray Bennett	Associate Professor, Discipline Lead, Actuarial Science and Sustainable Development
Associate Professor Jo-Anne Morgan	Associate Professor
Mr Mark Hayes	Senior Lecturer
Dr Titus Kipkoech Rotich	Senior Lecturer
Dr Salvatory Kessy	Lecturer

Academic Staff: Statistics and Industrial Optimisation

Name	Title
Professor Benchawan Wiwatanapataphee	Professor, Discipline Lead, Statistics and Industrial Optimisation
Professor Nicola Armstrong	Professor
Professor Yong Hong Wu	Professor
Professor Song Wang	Professor
Associate Professor Elham Mardaneh	Associate Professor
Associate Professor Zhou Guanglu	Associate Professor
Dr Sourav Das	Senior Lecturer
Dr Casey Josman	Lecturer
Dr Zhanglong Cao	Lecturer

Academic Staff: Physics & Astronomy

Name	Title
Dr Brendan McGann	Discipline Lead, Physics & Astronomy (Interim)
	Professor
Alisher Kadyrov	Professor
Professor Dmitry Fursa	Professor
Associate Professor Nigel Marks	Associate Professor
Dr Jacob Martin	Lecturer
Dr Liam Scarlett	Lecturer
Dr Jiaying Wang	Research Associate
Dr Jason Fogg	Research Associate
Dr Corey Plowman	Research Associate

Curtin Institute for Radio Astronomy (CIRA)

Name	Title
Professor Steven Tingay	Executive Director, Radio Astronomy
Professor David Davidson	CIRA Director, Engineering
Dr Adelle Goodwin	Associate Lecturer
Dr Adrian Sutinjo	Senior Lecturer
Dr Amir Forouzan	Research Associate
Mr Andrew Mcphail	Technical Operation Coordinater
Dr Andrew Williams	Instrument Engineer, M & C
Dr Anshu Gupta	Research Fellow
Ms Aoife Stapleton	Translation & Impact MWA Lead
Dr Apurba Bera	Associate Lecturer

GEEP Green Electric Energy Park

Name	Title
Professor Sumedha Rajakaruna	Professor

Hydrogen Storage

Name	Title

Professor Craig Buckely	John Curtin Distinguished Professor
Professor Mark Paskevicius	Professor
Dr Terry Humphries	Senior Research Fellow
Dr Jalal Azadmanjiri	Research Fellow
Dr Joshua Butson	Research Fellow
Dr Mauricio Di Lorenzo	Research Fellow
Dr Peter Connolly	Research Fellow
Dr Wanli Gao	Research Fellow
Mr Simon Doblinger	Research Fellow

Curtin Centre for Optimisation and Decision Science

Name	Title
Professor Ryan Loxton	Director, Centre for Optimisation & Decision Science
Fabrizio Padula	Deputy Director and Senior Researcher
Ritu Gupta	Associate Professor
Lorenzo Ntogramatzidis	Associate Professor
Guanglu Zhou	Associate Professor
Qun Lin	Senior Research Fellow
Elham Mardaneh	Associate Professor
Mengbin (Ben) Ye	Senior Research Fellow
Sarang Kulkarni	Senior Research Fellow
Scott B Lindstrom	Research Fellow

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