Curtin Institute for Data ScienceExecutive Director
Institute leadership
CIDS people
Org chart
The CIDS team, from institute leadership through delivery.
The public org chart is less useful as a pile of boxes than as a map of who carries which part of the work: leadership, partnerships, software, data science, HPC and research-data infrastructure.
Data science
Dr Paul Hancock
Lead Data Scientist
Research Software Development, Scientific Data Management, High Performance Computing, Radio Astronomy
Dr Torrance Hodgson
Senior Data Scientist
HPC workflows, parallel computing and radio astronomy imaging.
Dr Uno Fang
Data Scientist
Applied AI · Computer Vision · Generative AI · AI Solution Design · Technical Consulting
Dr Rebecca Handcock
Senior Data Scientist
Spatial data science, research evaluation and bibliometrics.
High Performance Computing
Research Office
Research Software Development
Veelash Mongar
Software Development Team Lead
Web applications, end-user training and research software.
Alex Massen-Hane
Software Developer
Programming, optimisation, data analysis and HPC.
Amber Xu
System Developer
Power Platform, Full-Stack Development and Process Automation
Josh Williams
Software Developer
Front-end, Mobile and custom software architecture.
Keegan Smith
Software Developer
Data science, Software Development and Supercomputing, Linux Cluster Environments
Tom Rath
Software Developer
Software Development, Machine Learning and Cloud & Security
Project Management and Business Support
Arun Veluchamy
Program Manager
Project Management Methods and Tools, Project Forecasting and Financial Analysis
Rike Fisher
Business Manager
Administration and Marketing
Chaital Vasta
Project Officer
PMO Documentation & Compliance, Effective project administration
Kamila Durakova
Contracts Officer
Business Process Management, Project Administration and Reporting
Shea Wong
Administrative Officer
Administrative processes and systems support, Event planning and coordination
Business Development
Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC)
Nick Jenkins
Program Manager (Research Software), ARDC
Software Quality Engineering, Domain-driven Data Models at Scale
Amanda Del Valle
Senior Business Analyst, ARDC
Requirements, data infrastructure and stakeholder management.
Jamie Archer
Product Manager
Product Ownership and Management, Software Engineering, Value Delivery
Kylie Black
Research Data Specialist
Developing and Publishing Detailed Metadata Records, Sensitive Data Classification Schemes
Matthias Liffers
Product Manager, ARDC
Persistent identifiers, metadata profiles and research tracking.
Trish Radotic
RDA Regional Community Manager, ARDC
Project management, community engagement and technical sales.
Innovation Central Perth (ICP)
Project teams are assembled from this structure rather than assigned as a one-size-fits-all department.
Academic Institute Members
Academic Institute Members extend the CIDS bench into Curtin faculties.
These are the people and research areas CIDS can connect into when a project needs specialist academic depth beyond the core delivery team.
Faculty of Humanities
Dr Ashish Doshi
Areas of Research: Visualisation, photogrammetric 3D reconstruction, computer vision, VR technologies, HPC hardware infrastructure and software development.
Faculty of Science and Engineering
Rakib Hasan
Areas of Research: Natural language processing, deep learning, trustworthy AI and affective computing.
Faculty of Health Sciences
Dr Saurabh Gupta
Areas of Research: Cancer genomics and bioinformatics.
Faculty of Humanities
Professor Lucy Montgomery
Areas of Research: Open knowledge, scholarly communication, university performance, open access and digital scholarship.
Faculty of Science and Engineering
Dr Hadrien Devillepoix
Areas of Research: Planetary astronomy
Faculty of Science and Engineering
Associated Professor Petra Helmholz
Areas of Research: Spatial science, Machine learning
Faculty of Humanities
Associated Professor Andrew Woods
Areas of Research: Visualisation
Faculty of Science and Engineering
Associated Professor Raffaella Demichelis
Areas of Research: Computational materials chemistry
Faculty of Humanities
Dr Karl Huang
Areas of Research: Open knowledge, Open science, Open access, Bibliometrics, Scientometrics, Data science, Statistics, Financial risk modelling
Faculty of Science and Engineering
Associated Professor Sonny Pham
Areas of Research: HPC, AI, ML, Computer vision, LLM, Health
Faculty of Business and Law
Carolina Garcia
Areas of Research: Tourism sustainability, policies and statistics
Faculty of Health Sciences
Associated Professor Elizabeth Thomas
Areas of Research: Health research
Faculty of Business and Law
Professor Kirsten Holmes
Areas of Research: Tourism
Faculty of Science and Engineering
Associated Professor Susannah Soon
Areas of Research: AI and health
Faculty of Science and Engineering
Dr Himanshu Agrawal
Areas of Research: Industry 4.0, loT, AI and ML for Network traffic and Cybersecurity
Faculty of Health Sciences
Dr Sharmani Barnard
Areas of Research: Data linkage, Trusted research environments, Mortality and Mortality displacement
Faculty of Business and Law
Associate Professor Elizabeth Jackson
Areas of Research: Agricultural and livestock digital supply chain innovations
Faculty of Business and Law
Professor Anthony Langlois
Areas of Research: Applied Ethics - particularly interested in ethical issues arising out of digital transformation and AI
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