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A/ProfAlen Alempijevic

Deputy Head Of School (Teaching And Learning)

School of Electrical, Mechanical and Biomedical ENG

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  • Deputy Head Of School (Teaching And Learning)
    School of Electrical, Mechanical and Biomedical ENG
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BIO

Dr Alen Alempijevic is a leading research scientist in the area of robotic perception. His expertise in multi-modal sensor fusion and application of AI to estimation of underlying spatio-temporal properties of physical systems. He has lead research in localisation, tracking and deformable object reconstruction on a variety of industry driven projects including those in critical infrastructure maintenance, social navigation in dense urban environments, underground mining and trait estimation in livestock. Alen  is the Agriculture node leade at the UTS Robotics Institute.

In addition to his research leadership, Alen is an academic leader with extensive experience in engineering education, curriculum transformation and student success. As Associate Head of School (Education and Students) at UTS, he leads strategic initiatives across education, accreditation, coursework governance, and the student experience. He has played a key role in shaping the Mechatronic Engineering and Robotics programs at UTS and has contributed to faculty-wide educational quality and curriculum renewal initiatives.


Alen received his PhD in Robotics from UTS and was part of the Australian research team collaborating with University of California Berkeley in autonomous vehicles (under the Department of Defence sponsored DARPA Urban Grand Challenge). He was a Research Fellow in the ARC Centre of Excellence in Autonomous Systems before joining the School of Mechanical and Mechatronics at UTS as an tenured academic.

UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY APPOINTMENTS

  • Deputy Head of School Teaching and Learning
    Engineering and IT, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, Australia1 Jan 2025 - present
  • Senior Lecturer
    University of Technology Sydney, Engineering and IT, Sydney, AustraliaSep 2014 - present
  • Lecturer
    University of Technology Sydney, Engineering and IT, Sydney, AustraliaAug 2010 - Aug 2014
  • Research Fellow
    University of Technology Sydney, Engineering and IT, Sydney, AustraliaSep 2008 - Aug 2010
  • Research Assistant
    University of Technology Sydney, Engineering and IT, Sydney, AustraliaDec 2007 - Sep 2008

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Program Coordinator Mechatronic Engineering
    University of Technology Sydney, Engineering and IT, Sydney, Australia21 Mar 2020 - 31 Dec 2024
  • Visiting Scholar
    University of Bonn, Photogrammetry & Robotics Lab, Bonn, GermanyAug 2024 - Nov 2024
  • Visiting Scholar
    University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, United StatesJun 2007 - Nov 2007
  • Visiting Scholar
    University of Sydney, Australian Centre for Field Robotics, Sydney, AustraliaFeb 2007 - Jun 2007

NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Software Engineer
    Engineers Australia, AustraliaSep 2003 - Dec 2005
  • Membership Officer
    Engineers Australia, AustraliaApr 2001 - Sep 2003
  • Industry Automation Technician Internship
    Milan Blagojevic, Lucani, SerbiaJan 1995 - Jan 1998

DEGREES

  • PhD, Mechatronics Engineering
    University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia2004 - 2008
  • B. Eng, Computer Systems (Hons 1st class)
    University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia2000 - 2003
  • B.E and B.Sc, Computer Science and Engineering
    University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia1995 - 1999

PROFILE TYPE

  • Academic

AVAILABILITY

  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision

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