Meet our school staff
Delivering excellence in research and education
Our academics are pioneers in the diverse fields encompassing electrical and software engineering.
Key leadership
Professor Jianguo Zhu, Head of School
Professor Philip Leong, Deputy Head of School
Ms Melissa Yeung, School Manager
Professor Yonghui Li, Director International
Associate Professor Jin Ma, Research Training Director
Associate Professor Wanli Ouyang, Research Director
Dr David Boland, Postgraduate Coursework Director
Dr Yash Shrivastava, Undergraduate Teaching Director
Dr Luping Zhou, Teaching and Learning Director
Professor Philip Leong, Computer Engineering
Associate Professor Weidong Xiao, Power Engineering
Professor Abbas Jamalipour, Telecommunications Engineering
Professor Yonghui Li, Internet of Things
Associate Professor Javid Atai, ME and MPE (Electrical Engineering)
Professor Yonghui Li, ME and MPE (Telecommunications)
Associate Professor Weidong Xiao, ME and MPE (Power Engineering)
Dr Dong Yuan, ME and MPE (Software Engineering)
Associate Professor Javid Atai, Electrical Engineering - stream coordinator
Dr Dong Yuan, Software Engineering - stream coordinator
Academics
Professor Rafael Calvo
Professor Dong Xu
Associate Professor Wanli Ouyang
Dr Dong Yuan
Dr Luping Zhou
Professor David Hill
Professor Jianguo Zhu
Associate Professor Jin Ma
Associate Professor Weidong Xiao
Associate Professor Gregor Verbic
Dr Sinan Li
Professor Branka Vucetic
Professor Abbas Jamalipour
Professor Yonghui Li
Dr Zihuai Lin
Dr Phee Yeoh
Dr Peng Cheng
Dr Wanchun Liu
Dr Peng Wang
Dr Zhanwei Hou
Emeritus Professor
- Emeritus Professor Trevor Cole
Served as the Peter Nicol Russell Professor within the School for 25 years prior to retiring in 2005. His research focused on radioastronomy and electronics as well as the marketing of technology-based goods and services. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Science and Engineering, and an Honorary Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia.
Adjunct and Honorary Academics
- Honorary Professor Zhao Yang (Joe) Dong
Member of the ARC College of Experts and was Head of School 2013–2017. His research aims to enhance the reliability and economic efficiency of electricity supply networks by utilising advanced engineering and computational methods.
- Honorary Professor Hong Yan
Former professor of imaging science at the University of Sydney and current Chair Professor of computer engineering at City University of Hong Kong. His research interests include bioinformatics, image processing and pattern recognition.
- Honorary Associate Professor David Levy
Roving ambassador for the School of Electrical and Information Engineering, teaching block courses in Real-time Systems and Computer Architecture at various universities within China. He was the Head of School 2005–07.
- Honorary Associate Professor Dylan Lu
Former academic whose research concerns the design and development of power electronics converter topologies and control techniques for different applications, including AC grids and microgrids, as well as the improving efficiency and reliability of power electronics system.
- Honorary Associate Professor Abelardo Pardo
Former Associate Professor at The University of Sydney and current Professor and Dean Academic at the Division of Information Technology, Engineering and the Environment at the University of South Australia. His research interests include the design and deployment of technology to increase the understanding and improve digital learning experiences.
- Honorary Associate Professor Shiping Chen
Principal research scientist at CSIRO Data61and senior member of the IEEE whose research interests include secure data storage and sharing, and secure multi-party collaboration.
- Dr Linh Nguyen (Adjunct Associate Professor)
Leading researcher in photonic signal processing and microwave photonics. He is currently supervising five postgraduate students as an auxiliary supervisor.
Visiting Scholars
- Mag. Ing. Branislav (Bran) Selić
Specialist in designing and implementing large-scale industrial software systems. His expertise has pioneered the application of model-based engineering methods and has led the definition of several international standards in that domain, including the widely used Unified Modelling Language (UML).
- Dr Hu Yongjun
Research specialist in big data analytics, multimodal machine learning and deep learning presently on assignment with the Centre for IoT and Telecommunications.
Professional staff
Ms Rita Wong, Senior Administrative Officer (UG and PG coursework)
Ms Ping Zhang, Senior Administrative Officer (Research, Research Training and System Support)
Ms Linda Yeung, Project and Administration Officer
Ms Rodica-Maria Popp, IT Operations and Liaison Manager
Dr Rui Chu, Professional Officer
Dr Thomas Huang, Professional Officer
Dr Peter Jones, Senior Technical Officer
Mr Danny Phillips, Building Attendant
