PERSONNEL
The following people were Centre members during 2020. Members appear in multiple categories if their role in the Centre changed during the year.
Director
Peter Taylor (UniMelb)
Deputy Directors
Nigel Bean, Outreach (UoA)
Kerrie Mengersen, Stakeholder Engagement (QUT)
Scott Sisson, Media & Communications (UNSW)
Chief Operating Officer
Emily Duane (UniMelb)
Anita Vecchies (UniMelb) – maternity leave replacement from July
Professional Staff
Helena Beck (UTS)
Angela Dahlke (QUT)
Claudia Deasy (QUT)
Emily Duane (UniMelb)
Ben Hess (UniMelb)
Sarah Keany (UoA)
Tracy Kelly (QUT)
Tracy Kelly (QUT)
Luna Liu (UniMelb)
Tim Macuga (QUT)
Kris Mann (QUT)
Charlotte McLoughlin (UniMelb)
Minh Nguyen (UniMelb)
Angelika Nikolov-Arvela (MU)
Anita Ponsaing (UniMelb/UoA)
Anita Vecchies (UniMelb)
Rosanna Verde (UniMelb)
Zosia Wargocka (UNSW)
Chief Investigators
A Chief Investigator is a member named in Schedule A of the ARC Centre of Excellence Funding Agreement as a Chief Investigator. This person has direct responsibility to the ARC for delivering on ACEMS objectives. Usually, he or she will have overall intellectual responsibility for an ACEMS research project, leading research, providing effective supervision to students and mentoring as required.
Nigel Bean (UoA)
Kevin Burrage (QUT)
Jan de Gier (UniMelb)
Aurore Delaigle (UniMelb)
Peter Forrester (UniMelb)
Tim Garoni (MU)
Rob Hyndman (MU)
Robert Kohn (UNSW)
Dirk Kroese (UQ)
Kerrie Mengersen (QUT)
Anthony Pettitt (QUT)
Phil Pollett (UQ)
Matthew Roughan (UoA)
Louise Ryan (UTS)
Scott Sisson (UNSW)
Kate Smith-Miles (UniMelb)
Peter Taylor (UniMelb)
Ian Turner (QUT)
Matt Wand (UTS)
You-Gan Wang (QUT)
Partner Investigators
A Partner Investigator is a member employed at a Partner Organisation, who is the main contact for that organisation. The person may collaborate with an ACEMS Chief Investigator, act as the main contact for access to in-kind contributions, and contributes to strategic decisions as required.
Petra Kuhnert, CSIRO
Walter Willinger, AT&T
Daniel Elazar, ABS
Anders Holmberg, ABS
Keith Weeburg, Vicroads
Juan Ortiz, AIMS
Kerrin Bleicher, SAX Institute
Research Fellows
A Research Fellow is employed by ACEMS to work directly on an ACEMS research project. The person is responsible for contributing to research, helping with mentoring students and other activities as directed by their supervisor.
Toktam Babaei (QUT)
Stephanie Clark (UTS)
Stephen Crotty (UoA)
KD Dang (UTS)
Qibin Duan (QUT)
Earl Duncan (QUT)
Xuhui Fan (UNSW)
Megan Farquhar (QUT)
Mehdi Foumani (UniMelb)
Puwasala Gamakumara (MU)
Alexandr Garbali (UniMelb)
Jacinta Holloway Brown (QUT)
Jesper Ipsen (UniMelb)
Brodie Lawson (QUT)
Shi-Hao Li (UniMelb)
Benoit Liquet (QUT)
Luca Maestrini (UTS)
Jiadong Mao (UniMelb)
Clare Anne McGrory (QUT)
Sarat Babu Moka (UQ)
Pablo Montero Manso (MU)
Aiden Price (QUT)
Steven Psaltis (QUT)
Robert Salomone (UNSW)
Matthieu Simon (UniMelb)
Dorota Toczydlowska (UTS)
Insha Ullah (QUT)
Chris van der Heide (UQ)
David Warne (QUT)
Zongzheng Zhou (MU)
Associate Investigators
An Associate Investigator is a member nominated by a Chief Investigator and approved by the Executive Committee, who is employed at an Australian or overseas research institution. An Associate Investigator is not a Chief Investigator but does have significant engagement with ACEMS in some way. For example, this could be by engaging in a significant and ongoing research project in conjunction with an ACEMS Chief Investigator or by being a joint supervisor of an ACEMS student. Associate Investigators are appointed for renewable two-year terms.
Matthew Adams (QUT)
Azam Asanjarani (Auckland)
Davaatseren Baatar (MU)
David Balding (UniMelb)
Peter Ballard (UoA)
Andrew Barbour (UniMelb)
Adrian Barnett (QUT)
Peter Bartlett (UC Berkeley)
Nick Beaton (UniMelb)
Tomasz Bednarz (UNSW)
Hernan Benitez (Universidad Javeriana)
Boris Beranger (UNSW)
Andrew Black (UoA)
Michael Bode (QUT)
Howard Bondell (UniMelb)
Kostya Borovkov (UniMelb)
Rhys Bowden (UniMelb)
Peter Braunsteins (UniMelb)
James Brown (UTS)
Ross Brown (QUT)
Pamela Burrage (QUT)
Julian Caley (QUT)
Jess Cameron (Cancer Council Queensland)
Chris Carter (UNSW)
Nathan Clisby (Swin)
Andrea Collevecchio (MU)
Dianne Cook (MU)
Robert Cope (ANU)
Paul Corry (QUT)
Alysson Costa (UniMelb)
Susanna Cramb (QUT)
Tiangang Cui (MU)
Daryl Daley (UniMelb)
Aaron Darling (UTS)
Hans De Sterck (Waterloo)
Simon Denman (QUT)
Chris Drovandi (QUT)
Ali Eshragh (Newcastle)
Mark Fackrell (UniMelb)
Yanan Fan (UNSW)
Troy Farrell (QUT)
Frank Feng (UNSW)
Denzil G. Fiebig (UNSW)
David Frazier (MU)
Jing Fu (UniMelb/RMIT)
Clara Grazian (UNSW)
Jens C Grimm (Capgemini)
David Gunawan (Wollongong)
Anthony Guttmann (UniMelb)
Shovanaur Haque (ABS)
Sophie Hautphenne (UniMelb)
Markus Hegland (ANU)
Kate Helmstedt (QUT)
Mojtaba Heydar (UTas)
Wei Huang (UniMelb)
Mel Humphries (UoA)
Hon Hwang (UNSW)
Iwan Jensen (Flinders)
Wang Jin (QUT)
Sevvandi Kandanaarachchi (RMIT)
Paul Keeler (UniMelb)
Jonathan Keith (MU)
Mohamad Khaled (UQ)
Bonsoo Koo (MU)
Ursula Laa (MU/BOKU)
Pierre Lafaye de Micheaux (UNSW)
Brodie Lawson (QUT)
Catherine Leigh (RMIT)
Zhiyong Li (QUT)
Jess Liebig (Data61)
Jaslene Lin (UniMelb)
Benoit Liquet (Macquarie)
Fawang Liu (QUT)
Ruben Loaiza-Maya (MU)
Shev MacNamara (UTS)
Gael Martin (MU)
Anthony Mays (UniMelb)
James McGree (QUT)
Ross McVinish (UQ)
Patricia Menendez (MU)
Lewis Mitchell (UoA)
Asghar Moeini (Curtin)
Pablo Montero Manso (USyd)
Matt Moores (QUT)
Miranda Mortlock (QUT)
Mario Andres Munoz Acosta (UniMelb)
Mehwish Nasim (UoA)
Giang Nguyen (UoA)
Malgorzata O'Reilly (UTas)
John Ormerod (USyd)
Anastasios Panagiotelis (MU/USyd)
Oscar Peralta Gutierrez (UoA)
Erin Peterson (QUT)
Guoqi Qian (UniMelb)
Thomas Quella (UniMelb)
Rachael Quill (UoA/UniMelb)
Matias Quiroz (UTS)
Nick Read (UniMelb)
Ben Rohrlach (UoA)
Fred Roosta (UQ)
Joshua Ross (UoA)
Nathan Ross (UniMelb)
Ben Rubinstein (UniMelb)
Robert Salomone (QUT)
Edgar Santos-Fernandez (QUT)
Kate Saunders (TU Delft)
Matthew Simpson (QUT)
Nikki Sonenberg (UniMelb)
Leah South (QUT)
Laleh Tafakori (RMIT)
Thomas Taimre (UQ)
Priyanga Dilini Talagala (Moratuwa)
Thiyanga Talagala (Sri Jayewardenepura)
Emi Tanaka (MU)
Duncan Taylor (FSSA)
Nick Tierney (MU)
Minh Ngoc Tran (USyd)
Simon Tuke (UoA)
Radislav Vaisman (UQ)
Julie Vercelloni (QUT)
Mattias Villani (Linköping)
Earo Wang (Auckland)
Susan Wei (UniMelb)
Michael Wheeler (UniMelb)
Gentry White (QUT)
Nicole White (QUT)
Jason Whyte (UniMelb)
Walter Willinger (NIKSUN)
Stephen Woodcock (UTS)
Alan Woodley (QUT)
Paul Wu (QUT)
Hongbo Xie (QUT)
Nan Ye (UQ)
Lele (Joyce) Zhang (UniMelb)
Paul Zinn-Justin (UniMelb)
Students
A Student is a member who is either:
- supervised by an ACEMS Chief Investigator;
- a recipient of an ACEMS top-up scholarship; or,
- supervised by an ACEMS Associate Investigator or Research Fellow in a project that forms part of ACEMS activities.
William Abbott (UoA)
Aregawi Abera (UTas)
Pubudu Abeysiri Wickrama Liyanaarachchige (QUT)
Zeke Ahern (QUT)
Punya Alahakoon (UniMelb)
Hossein Alipour (UniMelb)
Ben Amiet (MU)
Xingyu An (QUT)
Ziwen An (QUT)
Hugh Andersen (QUT)
Anton Andreacchio (UoA)
Ashley Andrews (MU)
Aswi Aswi (QUT)
Sahil Balak (MU)
Igor Balnozan (UNSW)
Edward Barker (UniMelb)
Cameron Baulderstone (UoA)
Mark Baxendale (QUT)
Joshua Bean (UoA)
Sarah Belet (MU)
Lakshan Bernard (MU)
Abhishek Bhardwaj (ANU)
Aishwarya Bhaskaran (UTS)
Lingbin Bian (MU)
Joshua Bon (QUT)
Imke Botha (QUT)
Simon Bowly (UniMelb)
Lachlan Bridges (UoA)
Nicholas Bridges (UoA)
Lachlan Brown (UniMelb)
Alex Browning (QUT)
Raiha Browning (QUT)
Katie Buchhorn (QUT)
Mi-Thao Bui (MU)
Vanessa Buller-Haller (QUT)
Lou Campbell (UoA)
Scott Carnie-Bronca (UoA)
Michael Carr (QUT)
Jiaxin Chen (UNSW)
Sophie Chen (MU)
Yu-Chieh Chen (UNSW)
Fan Cheng (MU)
Vincent Chin (UNSW)
Aaron Chong (UniMelb)
Alex Cooper (MU)
Matthew Cooper (QUT)
Rixon Crane (UQ)
Rose Crocker (UoA)
KD Dang (UNSW)
Hung Dao (UNSW)
Laurence Davies (QUT)
Mohammad Davoudabadi (QUT)
Noah Day (UoA)
Dilishiya De Silva (QUT)
Matthew DeMaere (UTS)
Ashley Dennis-Henderson (UoA)
Vektor Dewanto (UQ)
Hom Nath Dhungana (UTS)
Valentina di Marco (MU)
Zhe Ding (QUT)
Thamalikha Dissanayake (UniMelb)
Wala Draidi (QUT)
Kalpani Ishara Duwalage (QUT)
Anthony Ebert (QUT)
Andrew Feutrill (UoA)
Owen Forbes (QUT)
Jack Ford Morgan (QUT)
Anny Francis (UNSW)
Puwasala Gamakumara (MU)
Trish Gilholm (QUT)
Max Glonek (UoA)
Ethan Goan (QUT)
Thomas Goodwin (UTS)
Caitlin Gray (UoA)
Lachlan Griffin (QUT)
Hritika Gupta (UniMelb)
Sayani Gupta (MU)
Adam Hamilton (UoA)
Patrick Hassard (QUT)
Virginia He (UTS)
Samudra Herath (UoA)
Jacinta Holloway Brown (QUT)
Yueran Hou (UNSW)
Shuwen Hu (QUT)
Farzana Jahan (QUT)
Sarah James (UoA)
Harshanie Jayetileke (QUT)
Chunxi Jiao (USyd)
Kaiwen Jin (MU)
Nicholas Johnson (UQ)
Scott Jones (QUT)
Jun Ju (UQ)
Nehleh Kargarfard (UTS)
Wathsala Karunarathne (UniMelb)
Vivek Katiel (UniMelb)
Xiongwen Ke (UNSW)
Shamika Prasadini Kekulthotuwage Don (QUT)
Ryan Kelly (QUT)
Fiona Kim (UNSW)
Jonah Klowss (QUT)
Stephanie Kobakian (QUT)
Mitchell Kracman (UoA)
Oliver Krzysik (MU)
Aline Kunnel (UoA)
Anthony Kwong (UoA)
Stuart Lee (MU)
Angus Lewis (UoA)
Dan Li (QUT)
Peiju Li (UNSW)
Patrick Li (MU)
Irene Li (UniMelb)
Ying Li (UNSW)
Shan Lin (UoA)
Chang Liu (MU)
Dennis Liu (UoA)
Kelvin Liu (UniMelb)
Yang Liu (UQ)
Tiffany Lo (UniMelb)
Oliver Lountain (UoA)
Danya Lui (UNSW)
Achini Madduma Wellalage (UniMelb)
Jesse Madeley (QUT)
Saranzaya Magsarjav (UoA)
Amalan Mahendran (QUT)
Alan Malecki (UTS)
Jiadong Mao (UniMelb)
Trevor Matthews (UoA)
Fenella McAndrew (UniMelb)
James McBroom (QUT)
Kyle Mclaren (QUT)
William Mead (UniMelb)
Somya Mehra (UniMelb)
Hayden Moffat (QUT)
Abraj Mohomed Haseem Mohomed Amsar (QUT)
Dylan Morris (UoA)
Ryan Moseni (UTS)
Curtis Murray (UoA)
Aby Nasrawi (MU)
Nick Nguyen (UNSW)
Tan Nguyen (QUT)
Behrooz Niknami (UniMelb)
Matthew Nitschke (UoA)
Tui Nolan (UTS)
Mitchell O'Sullivan (QUT)
Eric Parsonage (UoA)
Rex Parsons (QUT)
Jon Peppinck (QUT)
Doug Phillips (QUT)
Stanislav Polishchuk (MU)
Armin Pourkhanali (MU)
Joshua Price (UoA)
Jacob Priddle (QUT)
Zachri Prinsloo (UoA)
Anas Rahman (UniMelb)
Prosha Rahman (UNSW)
Samithree Rajapaksha (MU)
Cameron Roach (MU)
Jacinta Roberts (QUT)
Ephraim Rogers (UoA)
Em Rushworth (QUT)
Marcus Ruttkay (UniMelb)
Matt Ryan (UoA)
Aviva Samuelson (UTas)
Sophie Schiller (UoA)
Jesse Sharp (QUT)
Callum Shaw (MU)
Somayeh Shiri (MU)
Alex Simmons (QUT)
Harry Sisley (QUT)
Miriam Slattery (UoA)
Aaron Snoswell (UQ)
Paula Sobenko Hatum (QUT)
Tobin South (UoA)
Angus Southwell (MU)
Nicholas Spyrison (MU)
Amy Stringer (QUT)
Shian Su (UniMelb)
Yuru Sun (MU)
Ruoxu Tan (UniMelb)
Jiajun Tang (UniMelb)
Yifan Tang (UNSW)
Allan Trinh (UniMelb)
Russell Tsuchida (UQ)
Michael Ucci (UoA)
Tea Uggen (UTS)
Anthony Vine (QUT)
Sarah Vollert (QUT)
James Walker (UoA)
Jiesen Wang (UniMelb)
Riley Whebell (QUT)
Tom Whitaker (UNSW)
Kym Wilkins (UoA)
Fergus Willsmore (UoA)
Christyn Wood (QUT)
John Worrall (QUT)
Jinran Wu (QUT)
Max Wurm (UoA)
Chenchen Xing (UniMelb)
Yan Yablonovskiy (MU)
Fin Yang (MU)
Yu Yang (UNSW)
Alice Yao (UQ)
Estefania Yap (UniMelb)
James Yu (UTS)
Ziqing Yuan (UNSW)
Hong Zhang (UNSW)
Sherry Zhang (MU)
Jiyuan Zhang (UniMelb)
Lina Zhang (MU)
Mengfei Zhang (UNSW)
Ziwen Zhong (MU)
Ryan Zischke (MU)
Affiliate Members
An Affiliate Member is a person engaged in ACEMS outreach or stakeholder activities, or who contributes to ACEMS via other non-research activities.
Laura Boyle (UoA)
Glenn Brown (QUT)
Mary Coupland (UTS)
Tanya Dodgen (QUT)
Nicholas Fisher (USyd)
Jack Ford Morgan (QUT)
Lawrence Garufi (QUT)
Robyn Grote (QUT)
Anthony Harradine (Prince Alfred College)
Grace Heron (QUT)
Justin Kennedy (QUT)
Mark Lawrence (UoA)
Mitchell O'Hara-Wild (MU)
Michael O'Shea (QUT)
Jacob Priddle (QUT)
James Walker (UoA)
Alan Yu (QUT)