People

Academic Staff

Prof. Denny OetomoProfessor
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
Prof. Ying TanProfessor
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
Dr. Jonathan EdenSenior Lecturer
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
Dr. Vincent CrocherSenior Research Fellow
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
Dr. Alireza MohammadiSenior Research Engineer
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
Dr. Tomislav BacekResearch Fellow
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
Dr. Justin FongResearch Fellow
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, UoM

Research Higher Degree (PhD/MPhil) Candidates

Co-Supervisors

Prof. Menghe MiaoPrincipal Research Scientist
CSIRO
Prof. Peter ChoongHugh Devine Chair of Surgery
St Vincent’s Hospital
Dr. Marlena KlaicSenior Research Fellow
School of Health Sciences, UoM
Prof. Jennifer McGinleyProfessor
Department of Physiotherapy, UoM
Prof. David GraydenClifford Chair in Neural Engineering
Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, UoM
Dr. Ye PuSenior Lecturer, ARC Decra Fellow
Dept. of Electrical Engineering, UoM
Dr. Wafa JohalAssociate Professor, ARC Decra Fellow
Sch. of Comp. and Info. Systems, UoM
Dr. Jing MuHonorary Fellow
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, UoM

Alumni

Jihoon Lim, PhD (2025) – currently Post Doctoral Fellow at the University of Melbourne.
Chongzhi Wang, PhD (2025) – to be updated.
Ziyu Li, PhD (2025) – to be updated.
Xiruo Cheng, PhD (2025) – currently Postdoc Fellow at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Mingrui Sun, PhD (2025) – currently at Senstride as the founding engineer.
Hengchang Liu, PhD (2025) – currently a Sessional Lecturer at Victoria University.
Tianshi Yu, PhD (2024) – currently Post Doctoral Fellow at the University of Melbourne
Justin Fong, former Research Fellow (2017-2024), PhD (2017) – currently Honorary Fellow at the University of Melbourne and Engineering Design Lead at Product Design Lab
Yu Xia, PhD (2023) – currently Post Doctoral Fellow at the University of Melbourne
Mark Robinson, PhD (2023) – currently Research Engineer at the University of Melbourne
Jing Mu, PhD (2023) – currently Post Doctoral Fellow at the University of Melbourne and Co-Founder at Virtetic
Raphael Maria Mayer, PhD (2022) – currently Co-Founder and CTO at Virtetic
Jason Chen, MPhil (2022) – currently R&D Director at Fourier Intelligence
Lawrence (Zheyu) Liu, MPhil (2022) – currently Co-Founder and CTO of Aura Intelligent Control Technology Co., Ltd
Gijo Sebastian, former Post-Doctoral Fellow (2019-2021), PhD (2019) – currently Guidance, Navigation & Control Engineer at BAE Systems Australia
Ricardo Garcia Rosas, PhD (2020) – currently Co-Founder and CEO at Virtetic
Lei Lu, former Post-Doctoral Fellow (2019-2020) – currently Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at King’s College London
Michael Munforte, Sadly passed away whilst completing his PhD in 2019
Wences Shaw-Cortez, PhD (2019) – currently Post-Doctoral Researcher at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
Florence Leong, PhD (2019) – currently Post-Doctoral Researcher at Imperial College, London
Michael Lei, PhD (2018) – currently working on a Startup in Macau
Jonathan Eden, PhD (2018) – currently Lecturer in this lab
Rina Shvartsman, PhD (2016) – currently Associate Lecturer, Dept Mechanical Engineering, University of Melbourne
Hadiyanto Sugianto, PhD (2016) – currently Engineer at Promech Mechanical Services
Benjamin Leng Vongchanh, MPhil (2016) – currently working at Boeing Australia
Shou Han Zhou, PhD (2015), MPhil (2010) – currently Research Fellow at Monash University
Darwin Lau, PhD (2014) – currently Assistant Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong
Rhys Davis, MPhil (2012) – currently Co-Founder at dealPad
Stephen Roosen, MPhil (2012) – currently Senior Software Engineer at Arbiter Modelling Systems
Kishor Bhalerao, former Post-Doctoral fellow (2010-2012), currently Applied Scientist at Amazon Robotics