School-Based Researchers
Computer Science
Professor Simeon Simoff
Professor Simoff is Dean of the School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics and the Program Leader of the Human-Machine Interaction research program. His research interests include artificial intelligence, data mining/analytics and knowledge discovery, human computer interactions, virtual worlds and immersive environments, visual computing and visual data mining and analytics.
Dr Anton Bogdanovych
Dr Bogdanovych is a Lecturer within the School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics; and a researcher with the Human-Machine Interaction research program. He is involved in a number of research projects related to virtual reality, artificial intelligence, robotics and motion.
Dr Vinh Nguyen
Dr Nguyen is a Lecturer in the School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics; and a researcher with the Human-Machine Interaction research program. His research projects include space-efficient visualisation for relational information, visual analytics for biomedical and genomic data (Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia), visual analytics for multi-dimensional data and intelligent visual analytics.
Associate Professor Glenn Stone
Dr Stone is an Associate Professor within the School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics; and a researcher with the Human-Machine Interaction research program. His research interests focus on computationally intensive statistical methods with applications in: flow cytometry in food safety, remote sensing, meta-/ecogenomics and wavelet methods for non-Gaussian data.
Dean’s Unit of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics
Dr Omar Mubin
Dr Mubin recently joined the School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics and is a researcher in the Human-Machine Interaction research program. His research interests comprise Human Computer Interaction, exploring the role of robots in education, empirical research in Human Computer Interaction and user-centred design.
Engineering
Dr Ranjith Liyanapathirana
Dr Liyanapathirana is Senior Lecturer in telelcommunications and course advisor in the School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics; and a member of the BENS research program. He has contributed to telecommunications through the formulation of novel algorithms, modulation techniques, and performance evaluation via computer simulation and has expertise in relay networks, wireless sensor networks for structural health monitoring, and antenna design for biomedical applications.
Professor Jonathan Tapson
Professor Tapson is a Professor in Electrical Engineering and graduate student supervisor in the School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics; and a researcher in the BENS research program. His research interests include understanding the signal processing properties of spiking neurons, building biologically realistic learning in neural systems and using bio-inspired design for novel biomedical and industrial electronic sensors..
Linguistics
Dr Bruno Di Biase
Dr Di Biase is a Senior Lecturer in second language acquisition and Italian in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts. A school-based Marcs researcher in the Speech and Language research program, his research focuses on language learning and its relationship to language teaching, bilingualism, language maintenance and attrition and language documentation in multilingual communities.
Dr Satomi Kawaguchi
Dr Kawaguchi is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts; and a school-based researcher in the Speech and Language research program. Her research interests include developing theory-practice connections in language learning, vocabulary learning and second language acquisition.
Dr Robert Mailhammer
Dr Mailhammer is Lecturer in Linguistics in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts; and member of the Speech and Language research program. His research interests are broad with concentrations on historical linguistics, language documentation, phonetics & phonology, and morphology.
Dr Michael Proctor
Dr Proctor recently joined UWS as a lecturer in Linguistics in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts, and member of the Speech and Language research program. His research makes use of MRI and ultrasound to examine how the human vocal tract is shaped during speech production and singing, and to understand how consonants and vowels are produced in different languages.
Dr Ruying Qi
Dr Qi is a Senior Lecturer in bilingualism and Chinese and Leader of the Chinese Liaison Unit in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts; and in the Speech and Language research program. Dr Qi’s research interests include bilingual (in particular Chinese-English) first language acquisition, pronoun and person identification, and lexical and tone development.
Mathematics
Dr Laurence Park
Dr Park is a Lecturer in computational mathematics statistics in the School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics; and researcher in the Human-Machine Interaction research program. His research interests include large-scale multi-label learning, and computing document models from user interaction and analysis of Social Network graphs.
Medical Science
Dr Ingvars Birznieks
Dr Birznieks is a sensory neurophysiologist in the School of Health and Science; and a school-based researcher in the BENS research program. With a research interest in sensory information encoding mechanisms, his current focus is cross-disciplinary projects linking neuroscience, clinical neurology, and biomedical engineering.
Dr Antonio Lauto
Dr Lauto’s multidisciplinary research spans the fields of tissue engineering and biomaterials to medical applications of laser technology. He is a Lecturer in the School of Health and Science and a school-based researcher within the BENS research program.
Professor Vaughan Macefield
Dr Macefield is a Professor and Foundation Chair of Integrative Physiology in the School of Medicine; and a member of the BENS research program.. He is known internationally as a world expert in recording the firing properties of human sympathetic neurones in health and disease, and as a leading investigator in human sensorimotor control. He is interested in how different physiological systems interact in health and disease.
Dr David Mahns
Dr Mahns is a Senior Lecturer in Integrative Physiology in the School of Medicine; and member of the BENS research program. He specialises in quantifying the contribution of sensory nerves arising from skin and deep structures such as muscle and bone to perception. Recent work has focused on defining how we distinguish between non-painful and painful stimuli.
Professor John Morley
Dr Morley is Professor and Chair of Anatomy and Cell Biology in the School of Medicine; and a school-based researcher of the BENS research program. His research is in the area of sensory neuroscience, in which he has investigated issues of neural coding in the somatosensory, visuomotor, and visual systems.
Dr Carl Parsons
Dr Parsons is a Lecturer in Anatomy and Cell Biology at the School of Medicine; and a member of the BENS research program. The study of the mechanisms of neuronal plasticity has been the dominant theme in Dr Parsons' research, with a major current focus on the investigation of the mechanisms underlying the pathophysiology of tinnitus.
Psychology
Dr Phoebe Bailey
Dr Bailey is a Lecturer in Psychology in the School of Social Sciences and Psychology. Her research focuses on age-related differences in social cognition and how these influence financial decision-making.
Dr John Cass
Dr Cass is a Research Lecturer in Psychology in the School of Social Sciences and Psychology; and member of the Multisensory Processing research program. A major research theme is sensory dynamics and other research interests include the effects of context on visual perception and the perceptual integration of audio and visual information.
Professor Joseph Ciarrochi
Professor Ciarrochi is a researcher in Psychology in the School of Social Sciences and Psychology. His research focuses on understanding and developing social and emotional functioning including identifying character strengths that promote social well-being, designing and evaluating interventions to reduce suffering, promote vitality, and promote social effectiveness, identifying the developmental causes and consequences of character and contextual behavioural science topics.
Dr Harry Haladjian
Dr Haladjian is a post-doctoral research fellow in Psychology in the School of Social Sciences and Psychology. His research focuses on visual perception, working memory, attention, and consciousness.
Dr Christine Kitamura
Dr Kitamura is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology in the School of Social Sciences and Psychology; and a member of the Speech and Language research program. Her research encompasses early speech perception and language acquisition in infancy, infant auditory-visual speech perception, and the role infant directed (ID) ID speech plays in mapping social/emotional and linguistic cues to support language acquisition.
Dr Ahmed Moustafa
Dr Moustafa is a Lecturer in Psychology in the School of Social Sciences and Psychology. His research interests lie at the intersection of computational modelling, cognitive neuroscience, and clinical neuropsychology. His current focus is understanding learning and cognitive function in various psychiatric and neurological disorders.
Dr Rebecca Pinkus
Dr Pinkus is a Lecturer in Psychology in the School of Social Sciences and Psychology. Her research examines person-level moderators of responses to comparisons (e.g., self-esteem, age) as well as situation-level moderators and how individuals balance concerns about the self with concerns about the relationship.
Dr Rachel Robbins
Dr Robbins is a Research Lecturer in Psychology in the School of Social Sciences and Psychology; and member of the Multisensory Processing research program. Her research interests are in how experience and development change the way we see the world, with a specific interest in face and body recognition.
Dr Michael Tyler
Dr Tyler is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology in the School of Social Sciences and Psychology; and a member of the Speech and Language research program. He conducts research into cross-language speech perception, spoken word recognition, and second-language speech learning.
Dr Baljinder Sahdra
Dr Sahdra is a Lecturer in Psychology in the School of Social Sciences and Psychology. Her research investigates conflicts and harmony at multiple levels – groups, friends, romantic couples, and family members.
Dr Tamara Watson
Dr Watson is a Research Lecturer in Psychology in the School of Social Sciences and Psychology; and member of the Multisensory Processing research program. Her research interests include identifying the basis for perceptual stability and perceptual omission during saccadic eye movements, steady state visual evoked potential measures of audiovisual integration and altered visual perception in schizophrenia.
Dr Gabrielle Weidemann
Dr Weidemann is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology in the School of Social Sciences and Psychology. She is currently conducting research examining associative learning and classical conditioning processes in human participants and the role that associative learning and memory play in the acquisition of likes and dislikes.
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