Our People

Staff and Members | Management Committee | Research Committee | Teaching and Learning Committee

Staff and Members

Executive Directors of BMET

• Professor David Dagan Feng
  Director of the Institute (Research)
  Director, Biomedical and Multimedia Information Technology (BMIT) Research Group
• Professor Andrew Ruys
  Director of the Institute (Education)

Biomechanics, Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering

Coordinated by Associate Professor Colin Dunstan

• Professor Andrew Ruys
  Bioceramics, Biopolymers, Biometals, Biomedical device design
  Director of the Institute (Education)
  Professor, Biomedical Engineering
• Professor Roger Tanner
  Rheology, Polymer processing, Computational mechanics
  Peter Nicol Russell Professor of Mechanical Engineering
• Associate Professor Qing Li
  Biomechanics, Micro-structural Materials Design, Tissue scaffolds
  Associate Professor in Biomedical Engineering, School of AMME
• Dr Graham Brooker
  Bio-Mechatronics, Robotics
  Senior Lecturer, Australian Centre for Field Robotics
• Dr Ahmad Jabbarzadeh
  Nano-Rheology & Nano-Tribology, Molecular simulations
  Senior Lecturer, School of AMME

Biotechnology and Biomolecular Engineering

Coordinated by Associate Professor Fariba Dehghani

• Professor Hans Coster
  Biophysics and Bioengineering
  Director Biophysics and Bioengineering
• Professor Tim Langrish
  Bio-processing
  Professor and Head of School, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
• Associate Professor Vincent Gomes
  Polymer technology Respiratory system
• Dr Ali Abbas
  Bioengineering and Biological systems engineering
  Senior lecturer and Director of the Laboratory for Multiscale Systems
• Dr John Kavanagh
  Fermentation for biofuels, nitrogen fixation & vitamins
  Senior lecturer, Director of Undergraduate Laboratories in Chemical, Biomolecular Engineering
• Dr Wojciech Chrzanowski
  Biointerfaces, nano-bio-characterization
  Lecturer, the Faculty of Pharmacy

Biomedical Devices and Instrumentation

Coordinated by Dr Alistair McEwan

• Associate Professor Javid Atal
  Fiber-Optics, Photonics
  Associate Professor, Fibre-optics and Photonics Laboratory
• Associate Professor Rafael Calvo
  Affect-sensitive learning
  Director for Learning and Affect Technologies Engineering
• Associate Professor Philip Leong
  Reconfigurable computing, Biologically inspired computing
  Director, Computer Engineering Laboratory
• Associate Professor Steve Simpson
  Processing of external eeg signals in Epilepsy
  Principal Research Fellow
• Associate Professor Craig Jin
  Neuromorphic Engineering, BioElectronics
  Associate Professor, ARC Australian QEII Fellow, Senior Lecturer
• Associate Professor Xiaoke Yi
  Fiber optics optical communications, Microwave photonics
  Associate Professor, ARC QEII Fellow & Senior Lecturer, Fibre-optics and Photonics Laboratory

Imaging, Visualisation and Information Technologies

Coordinated by Dr Jinman Kim

• Professor David Dagan Feng
  Biomedical information technology
  Director of the Institute (Research)
  Director, Biomedical and Multimedia Information Technology (BMIT) Research Group
• Professor Seokhee Hong
  Graph drawing, Visualisation of biological networks
  ARC Research Fellow, and Member of BMIT Research Group
• Associate Professor Tom Cai
  Biomedical multimedia data management, Image informatics
  Associate Professor, Director of Multimedia Lab and Member of BMIT Research Group
• Associate Professor Michael Charleston
  Bioinformatics, Computational biology
  Associate Professor, SIT
• Associate Professor Masahiro Takatsuka
  Visualisation &Neural networks with Biomedical applications
  Director of VisLab, and Member of BMIT Research Group
• Associate Professor Bing Bing Zhou
  Parallel and distributed computing; Bioinformatics
  Theme Leader, Distributed Computing and the Life Sciences, Centre for DHPC
• Dr Josiah Poon
  Co-evolutionary algorithms, Health informatics
  Senior Lecturer, Undergraduate Director
• Dr Simon Poon
  Health Informatics, Analysis of high-dimensional drug interactions
  Senior Lecturer, Postgraduate Director
• Dr Fabio Ramos
  Bio-Mechatronics, Medical Robotics
  Senior Lecturer, School of IT and Australian Centre for Field Robotics
• Dr Xiuying Wang
  Biomedical image registration, Multi-sensors data fusion
  Lecturer, Associate Director of Multimedia Lab and Member of BMIT Research Group
• Dr Zhiyong Wang
  Multimedia information processing, Retrieval & Management
  Senior Lecturer, Associate Director of Multimedia Lab and Member of BMIT Research Group
• Dr Yong Xia
  Biomedical Image Segmentation, Pattern recognition & Understanding
  Postdoctoral Research Fellow, and Member of BMIT Research Group

Management Committee

Chair

• Professor Archie Johnston
  Chair of the Research Institute
  Dean of the Faculty of Engineering & IT (University Officer)

Board Members

• Professor John Patterson
  Associate Dean (Research)
  Faculty of Engineering & IT
• Dr Tim Wilkinson
  Associate Dean (Education)
• David Cox
  Chief Operating Officer
  Faculty of Engineering & IT
• Professor David Dagan Feng
  Director of the Institute (Research)
  Director, Biomedical and Multimedia Information Technology (BMIT) Research Group
• Professor Andrew Ruys
  Director of the Institute (Education)
  Professor, Biomedical Engineering
• Professor Michael Fulham
  Clinical Director of the Institute
  Director, Department of PET and Nuclear Medicine

Research Committee

Chair

• Professor David Dagan Feng
  Director of the Institute (Research)
  Director, Biomedical and Multimedia Information Technology (BMIT) Research Group

Teaching and Learning Representative

• Professor Andrew Ruys
  Director of the Institute (Education)

Research Theme Coordinators

• Associate Professor Colin Dunstan
  Biomechanics, Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering
  Associate Professor, School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering
• Associate Professor Fariba Dehghani
  Biotechnology and Biomolecular Engineering
  Associate Professor, School of Chemical Engineering
• Dr Alistair McEwan
  Biomedical Devices and Instrumentation
  Senior Lecturer, School of Electrical and Information Engineering
• Dr Jinman Kim
  Imaging, Visualisation and Information Technologies
  Senior Lecturer, Director of Visual Telehealth Lab, and Member of BMIT Research Group

Teaching and Learning Committee

Chair

• Professor Andrew Ruys
  Director of the Institute (Education)
  Professor, Biomedical Engineering

Research Representative

• Professor David Dagan Feng
  Director of the Institute (Research)
  Director, Biomedical and Multimedia Information Technology (BMIT) Research Group

Stream Coordinators

• Associate Professor Qing Li
  Mechanical Major
  Associate Professor in Biomedical Engineering, School of AMME
• Associate Professor David Rye
  Mechatronic Major
  Associate Professor, Australian Centre for Field Robotics
• Associate Professor Fariba Dehghani
  Chemical and Biomolecular Major
  Associate Professor, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
• Dr Alistair McEwan
  Electrical Major
  Senior Lecturer, School of Electrical and Information Engineering
• Associate Professor Tom Cai
  Information Technology Major
  Associate Professor, Director of Multimedia Lab and Member of BMIT Research Group