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	School 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
Dr Melrose Brown	Director of PG Studies
Dr Alireza Abbasi	Project Management Program Coordinator
Dr Huadong Mo	Systems Engineering Program Coordinator
Dr Ripon Chakrabortty	Engineering Science and Decision Analytics Program Coordinator
Dr Charles Hoke	Capability Program Coordinator
Dr George Bowden	Space Program Coordinator
Dr Sigi Ma	Master of Cyber Security Programs Coordinator
Tim Lynar	Cyber Security Program 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

Steven Pender

Lecturer

+61 2 5114 5193

s.pender@adfa.edu.au

School of Engineering & Information Technology

Project Management
Edwin Peters

Research Fellow

edwin.peters@unsw.edu.au

School of Engineering & Information Technology

Space Research

Space Situational Awareness

AI for Space
Mark Pickering

Professor

+61 2 5114 5194

m.pickering@adfa.edu.au

School of Engineering & Information Technology

Space Situational Awareness

Imaging
Hemanshu Pota

Associate Professor

+61 2 5114 5197

h.pota@adfa.edu.au

School of Engineering & Information Technology

Sustainable Infrastructure

Systems & Control

Cyber-Physical Systems
David Powell

Senior Lecturer and Undergraduate Assessment Coordinator

+61 2 5114 5198

david.powell@adfa.edu.au

School of Engineering & Information Technology

Advanced Electromagnetics
John Purnell

Industry Specialist

Capability Systems Centre

School of Engineering & Information Technology
Lily (Li) Qiao

Lecturer in Space Systems Engineering and SEIT Postgraduate Assessment Coordinator

l.qiao@adfa.edu.au

School of Engineering & Information Technology

Systems Engineering

Systems & Control
Mohamed Radwan

Research Associate

m.radwan@adfa.edu.au

School of Engineering & Information Technology

Optimization & Design
Methma Rajamuni

Research Associate

m.rajamuni@adfa.edu.au

School of Engineering & Information Technology

Fluid & Fluid-structure Interactions
Jing Rao

Lecturer

jing.rao@adfa.edu.au

School of Engineering & Information Technology

Systems & Control

Advanced Materials & Impact Dynamics
Sridhar Ravi

Senior Lecturer

sridhar.ravi@adfa.edu.au

School of Engineering & Information Technology

Fluid & Fluid-structure Interactions

Trusted Autonomy
Tapabrata Ray

Professor

+61 2 5114 5201

t.ray@adfa.edu.au

School of Engineering & Information Technology

Optimization & Design
Hatem Saad

Casual Academic

h.saad@adfa.edu.au

Capability Systems Centre

School of Engineering & Information Technology
Parastoo Sadeghi

Professor and ARC Future Fellow

p.sadeghi@unsw.edu.au

School of Engineering & Information Technology
Dilini Samarasinghe Widana Arachchige

Research Associate

d.samarasinghe@adfa.edu.au

School of Engineering & Information Technology
Fendy Santoso

Visiting Research Fellow

F.Santoso@adfa.edu.au

School of Engineering & Information Technology
Ruhul Sarker

Professor

+61 2 5114 5203

r.sarker@adfa.edu.au

School of Engineering & Information Technology

Optimization & Design
David Sharp

Senior Technical Officer

+61 2 5114 5205

d.sharp@adfa.edu.au

School of Engineering & Information Technology