Our People

School Executive

Name	Position
Associate Professor Michael Barlow	Head of School (Acting)
Professor Andrey Miroshnichenko	Deputy Head of School
Ms Fiona Wright	School General Manager
Dr Neda Aboutorab	Deputy Head of School (Undergraduate Teaching)
Associate Professor Frank den Hartog	Deputy Head of School (Postgraduate Teaching)
Associate Professor Sean O'Byrne	Deputy Head of School (Research)
Professor Hussein Abbass	Deputy Head of School (People)
Matthew Barrett	Engineering Manager
Ms Bobby Matthews	Executive Assistant to the Head of School
Sally Browning	Manager Administration Support Group

Teaching Coordinators

Undergraduate Coordinators

Name	Position
Associate Professor Kate Wilson	Director of Undergraduate Studies
Matthew Doolan	Mechanical Engineering Program Coordinator
Dr Saber Elsayed	Computing and Cyber Security Program Coordinator
Dr Matt Woolley	CDF Program Coordinator
Hemant Singh	Work Experience Coordinator
Safat Al-Deen	Civil Engineering Program Coordinator
Dr Jong-Leng Liow	Aeronautical Engineering Program Coordinator
Dr Matt Woolley	Electrical Engineering Program Coordinator
Dr Oleksandra Molloy	Aviation Program Coordinator
Dr Andrey Alenin	Final Year UG Engineering Project Coordinator
Dr David Powell	Undergraduate Assessment coordinator
Associate Professor Warren Smith	Naval Architecture Program Coordinator

Postgraduate Coordinators

Name	Position
	Director of PG Studies
Dr Alireza Abbasi	PG Project Management Program Coordinator
Dr Huadong Mo	PG Systems Engineering Program Coordinator
Dr Ripon Chakrabortty	PG Engineering Science and Decision Analytics Program Coordinator
	PG Capability Program Coordinator
Dr Melrose Brown	Space Program Coordinator
Dr Nour Moustafa	Master of Cyber Security Programs Coordinator
Dr Li (Lily) Qiao	Postgraduate Assessment Coordinator

Administration Coordinators

Name	Position
Associate Professor Harald Kleine	Facilities Coordinator
Dr Faycal Bouhafs	School Student Integrity Advisor
Dr Graham Wild	IT Coordinator
Dr Matthias Kramer	WHS Coordinator

Research Coordinators

Name	Position
Associate Professor Sean O'Byrne	Deputy Head of School (Research)
Dr Amar Khennane	Postgraduate Research Coordinator
Dr Daryl Essam	Postgraduate Research Coordinator
Daoyi Dong	Research Student Admissions and Scholarships Coordinator
Dr Fangbao Tian	Research Student Admissions and Scholarships Coordinator
Associate Professor Xiuping Jia	Research Reporting and Communication Coordinator
Dr Oleksandra Molloy	Human Research Ethics Coordinator

Technology Support Group Coordinators

Name	Position
Dr Trevor Wheatley	Laser Labs Coordinator

John Arnold

Emeritus Professor

j.arnold@adfa.edu.au

School of Engineering & Information Technology

Imaging
Md Asikuzzaman

Lecturer

+61 2 626 88151

m.asikuzzaman@unsw.edu.au

School of Engineering & Information Technology
Sudantha Balage

Lecturer in Space Engineering

+61 2 5114 5118

s.balage@adfa.edu.au

School of Engineering & Information Technology

AI for Space
Paul Barnes

Adjunct Associate Professor

paul.barnes@adfa.edu.au

School of Engineering & Information Technology
Alastair Barnett

Software Developer

Capability Systems Centre

School of Engineering & Information Technology
Matt Barrett

Engineering Operations Manager

+61 2 5114 5120

M.Barrett@adfa.edu.au

School of Engineering & Information Technology
Jim Baxter

Senior Technical Officer

+61 2 5114 5121

j.baxter@adfa.edu.au

School of Engineering & Information Technology
Craig Benson

Visiting Fellow

c.benson@adfa.edu.au

School of Engineering & Information Technology

Space Research
Sumana Biswas

Research Associate

+61 2 5114 5629

sumana.biswas@adfa.edu.au

Capability Systems Centre

School of Engineering & Information Technology

Technology Decision Making
Faycal Bouhafs

Senior Lecturer

+61 2 5114 5124

F.Bouhafs@unsw.edu.au

School of Engineering & Information Technology

Project Management

Optimization & Design
James Bowman

Technical Officer

+61 2 5114 5125

james.bowman@adfa.edu.au

School of Engineering & Information Technology
Russell Boyce

Chair for Intelligent Space Systems

russell.boyce@adfa.edu.au

School of Engineering & Information Technology

Space Research

Space Situational Awareness

Space Ethics

AI for Space
Toby Boyson

Electrical Engineering Program Coordinator and Yowie Coordinator

+61 2 5114 5126

T.Boyson@adfa.edu.au

School of Engineering & Information Technology

Hypersonics & High Speed Flows
Shane Brandon

Professional Engineer

+61 2 5114 5127

s.brandon@unsw.edu.au

School of Engineering & Information Technology
Melrose Brown

Lecturer and Space Program Coordinator

+61 2 5114 5129

melrose.brown@adfa.edu.au

School of Engineering & Information Technology

Space Research

Space Situational Awareness

AI for Space
Lawrie Brown

Honorary Senior Lecturer

Lawrie.Brown@adfa.edu.au

School of Engineering & Information Technology
Susan Burdekin

Honorary Senior Lecturer

s.burdekin@adfa.edu.au

School of Engineering & Information Technology
Christopher Capon

Research Fellow

c.capon@unsw.edu.au

School of Engineering & Information Technology

Space Research

Space Situational Awareness

AI for Space