Infrastructure Engineering Graduate Research Conference

IEGRC is the biggest research event of the year, organised by GIES and showcases the research work of the IE Graduate Students.

It is an event where innovation, collaboration, and excellence converge to shape the future of our built environment. This prestigious event brings together leading professionals, engineers, researchers, and visionaries from around the world to explore the latest trends, challenges, and breakthroughs in infrastructure development and design.

Infrastructure Engineering Postgraduate Conference 2020

Call for IEPC2020 Abstract and Poster Submission

Conference links for the submission of Abstracts and Posters are now available.
Please make sure to proceed based on instructions and templates provided via Canvas LMS to prepare your submissions.

Call for IEPC2020 Best Journal Paper Awards

Conference links for the submission of IEPC 2020 Best Journal Paper Awards & the Recognition for the First Author Publications are now available.
Please make sure to proceed based on instructions and templates provided via Canvas LMS to prepare your submissions.

The Infrastructure Engineering Graduate Research Conference (IEGRC) 2023 organised by the Graduate Infrastructure Engineering Society (GIES) along with the Department of Infrastructure Engineering University of Melbourne, will be held on Tuesday, 24th October 2023, from 8 am onwards at Rydges Melbourne CBD.

Join us on the day in bringing together the brightest minds in infrastructure engineering and showcasing the groundbreaking research and ideas of our esteemed PhD students.

For more details contact us at gie-s@unimelb.edu.au

Floor Guide

CLICK HERE to view the detailed IEGRC 2023 Program

IEGRC 2022 was held in Melbourne Connect on November 2, 2022. The conference theme of this year is “Engineering in a changing world”, and we had Dr Asal Bidarmaghz and Dr Eleanor Gee as our Keynote Speakers. We would like to thank all of the participating graduate researchers, academic staff and other guests for a very successful conference. Congratulations on those who won the best paper and best presentation prizes! Well done!

IEGRC 2022 Proceedings

Infrastructure Engineering Postgraduate Conference 2019

IEPC2019 Keynote Speech

With great pleasure, we announce our Keynote Speaker for IEPC 2019.
It is Prof. Jamie Evans who is gonna share his experience with travelling around world meeting Unimelb Alumni and let us know how can we get the maximum out of our Candidature.
#IEPC2019 #GIES #IE #unimelb #IEPCUnimelb

IEPC2019 Panel Discussion “Life After PhD”

Greetings from IEPC2019,
We are really honoured to have this esteemed guests for our Panel Discussion for IEPC 2019. Panel Theme would be “Life After PhD”
Let’s not miss this valuable chance to clarify your questions regarding the opportunities ahead. And don’t forget to join the GIES official page on Linkedin by the link below to receive all the conference news:
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13745230/
#IEPC2019 #GIES #IE #unimelb

IEPC 2019 Posters

Check out your IEPC 2019 posters on the notice boards through the department.
Some of your posters will be displayed during the conference as well.

IEPC 2019 How to Prepare Presentations

Conference links for the submission of your presentation slides are now available on LMS under GIES community. The deadline for submission in until 04 November, 11:59 pm.
Please make sure to proceed based on instructions given by Professor Lam Nelson on how to prepare your submissions in the link below:

Call for IEPC2019 Abstract and Poster Submission

Conference links for the submission of Abstracts and Posters are now available.
Please make sure to proceed based on instructions and templates provided via LMS to prepare your submissions.

Best Paper Publication Award for IEPC 2019

IEPC 2019 was graced by @Nick Haritos a Principal Fellow at The University of Melbourne, to encourage and recognise the students with First Author Publications within the year. He was one of the judges to select the Best Paper Publication Award for IEPC 2019. #phd #unimelb #iepc2019 #infrastructureengineering #publication #paper

Key Note Speaker Jamie Evans

Many Thanks to our Key Note Speaker Jamie Evans for the most engaging, interesting session on the most wanted questions “What to do after the PhD?” and “How can we get the most out of our Candidature at Unimelb?”. #phd #unimelb #iepc2019 #infrastructureengineering #keynotespeaker

panel discussion with Professor Greg Foliente

Certainly this year panel discussion with Professor Greg Foliente and his panel was a big win for our RHD studetns who got this chance to hear their exciting experiences in the life after PhD. In one sentence “you have to start from now working on your skills and networkings around your field of study and don’t wait for your graduation”
#IEPC2019 #IE #GIES

Lunch Time!

Our fantastic administration staffs in Infrastructure Engineering Department at the University of Melbourne. Certainly, without their help, this event wouldn’t happen. Thank you!

Acknowledging the GIES Commette for organizing the conference

It was an amazing experience for me being part of the IEPC2019 conference organization team at the Department of Infrastructure Engineering, the University of Melbourne.
Special thanks to Prof. Abbas Rajabifard the head of the department and Prof. Nelson Lam for giving this opportunity to us, GIES committee, to deliver this huge task.
#IEPC2019 #GIES #unimelb

The Committee members of GIES 2019: Achini Peiris, Tu Le, Milad Mohsenzadeh, Echo Wang, Zhao Hang, Linna GENG

The 2015 annual Postgraduate Conference was another key event in November. It was held on 13th November and the RHD students had the opportunity to present their work and receive feedback from fellow students, academic staff and experts from industry. We had another successful annual conference and I would like to congratulate RHD students on their progress and presentations. I would like to thank our keynote speaker, Brendan Driscoll, the director project Strategy from Melbourne Metro rail authority, who gave an interesting speech about one of the most important projects in Melbourne. Thanks also go to our guests for the discussion panel, Dr. Davood Shojaei, Dr. Brett Anderson, and Dr. Jessey Lee, who shared their experience and insight about transiting from academia to industry and highlighted the role of higher education in industry. I hope all participants have enjoyed and benefited from our guests’ talks. Last but not least, I would like to thank our graduate society — the GIES committee, and the RHD coordinator, Assoc. Prof. Nelson Lam for organizing the event. I would also like to acknowledge the invaluable help and support from Pauline Woolcock and our Research Committee in organizing the event.

The Postgraduate Conference was very successful and the forum which featured a panel discussion was well-attended and received.

I would like to congratulate to all awards winners as well. It should be mentioned that the best journal paper prizes won Jing Sun, Margarita Saft and Hosna Tashakkori, for civil engineering, hydrology and water resources and geomatics disciplines, respectively.

Winners of the best journal paper prizes Jing Sun (left), Margarita Saft (middle) and Hosna Tashakkori (right)

After the conference GIES committee held a meeting with Head of Department Prof Abbas Rajabifard to discuss about the gained experience and what would be next steps to improve the conference. On the meeting we agreed that the conference was very successful and new suggestions regarding a better coordination between research students and GIES committee were pointed out.

We wish everyone a great break over the coming summer and follow GIES website for future events!

Zahra Navidikashani and Mitko Aleksandrov

We would like to thank all of the academic staff, industry, other guests and particularly the presenting students for a very successful Postgraduate Conference. The day was filled with fantastic presentations from all of the research higher degree students within the department and from all specialised disciplines, and it’s safe to say that everyone got something out of the day. We would also like to thank our special guest speaker Emeritus Professor Len Stevens for a great opening talk on innovative engineering that was insightful and inspiring.v

In the middle of the conference day, we had a Discussion Forum with the topic “Facing the Future: Our research in the Service of Society”. GIES would like to thank Assoc. Prof. Geoff Sutherland, Dr Kein Gan, and Dr Hamed Olfat for their participation on the panel. Prior to the panel discussion, a short video about the research in our department was broadcasted to highlight our current research challenges and opportunities. Everyone at the conference was overwhelmed at the quality and professionalism of the video. We would like to thank the team for putting together the video: Olga Mikhaylova, Hamzeh Zarei, Camila Alvarez, Farzad A. Alamdara and Aiswarya K. Poovakka. The Forum has become a good tradition which adds value to our conferences, and we hope, we will see more interesting discussions at the next year conference.

We would also like to thank again a number of people who have all contributed in some way for putting together such a big event, namely Jenny Smith, Pauline Woolcock, Chris Charman, Assoc. Prof. Nelson Lam and Rose Macey.

GIES 2014