Dr Mehdi Khatamifar' research interests are computational fluid dynamics, buoyancy-driven flows, turbulent flows, natural convection, heating/cooling systems, heat sinks, heat exchangers, additive manufacturing, innovative heat dissipating materials, solar thermal energy, building heating and ventilation and building facade design.
A/Prof Siva Sivakugan has been lecturing at JCU for over 20 years in the fields of geotechnical engineering and foundation engineering. He is currently managing over 150,000 AUD in research grants and has published over 250 journal articles.
Prof Rabin Tuladhar has more than 15 years of experience teaching in the fields of structural analysis and design, mechanics of materials, statics, and transportation engineering. As a Course Coordinator and the past Associate Dean Learning and Teaching, he is also involved in curriculum design, quality assurance in teaching, industry liaison, accreditation, mentoring, and academic advising.
Prof John Ginger has been lecturing at JCU for over 20 years in the fields of structural analysis and design, mechanics of materials and fluid mechanics. In addition to being a Fellow of Engineers Australia, he conducts research and consultancy work in Wind-Structural Engineering and Structural V.
Dr Neil Fraser Neil worked widely in business intelligence, data engineering, statistics, data science, strategy and information management in industry. Since 2016 he has been teaching Applied Data Science at postgraduate level. His interests are in open data, behavioural modelling, natural language processing, visualisation, geospatial intelligence and machine learning for innovation in IoT.
Dr Sourav Das is a Senior Lecturer in statistics and data science with varied and interdisciplinary interests in applied and methodological statistics. His research expertise are in methodology and applications of statistical analysis of time series and spatial processes. He investigates natural events that evolve over space and time, includes landslides, tropical cyclones, river flow and diseases.