Visualisation Institute (VI)

Dr Endriana Audisho is a lecturer and Public Programs Director at the School of Architecture, University of Technology Sydney (UTS). Her research and teaching practice are deeply rooted in postcolonial and decolonial frameworks, aiming to uncover spatial and social injustices while proposing alternative architectural and urban narratives, fictions, and imaginaries. She explores decolonial approaches to architectural education, experimenting with pedagogies and practices that realign the field with its socio-political dimension.

Her scholarly journey began with her PhD titled ‘Screening Architecture: Architecture, Media and Conflict since the 1990s,’ which presented ways for architecture to critically engage with the geopolitical and aesthetic challenges emerging from a culture increasingly driven by conflict and its mediation. Part of this research was exhibited in the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial, 2015, through the project and installation ‘Indo-Pacific Atlas.’ Endriana has been the recipient of the NSW Architects Byera Hadley Travel Scholarship and the Canadian Centre for Architecture’s (CCA) doctorate research residency, making her the first UTS doctoral student to receive this award. Recent scholarly contributions include chapters in The Routledge Handbook of Architecture, Urban Space and Politics, and Living Politics in the City, as well as articles in academic journals such as Places and Interstices: Journal of Architecture and Related Arts.

Endriana’s teaching portfolio spans architectural design, history and theory, architectural communication, and professional practice. She has extensive experience in coordinating design studios, having led first and second-year design for the past decade as well as research and travel design studios in the Master of Architecture titled ‘Cities Under Surveillance’ and ‘The Counter-Archive.’ Endriana has also played an important role in the Professional Practice stream at UTS Architecture, having coordinated Architectural Advocacy for the past four years. The subject invites architecture and landscape architecture students to reflect on their civic, social, environmental, and ethical responsibilities as design professionals. 

From 2014-2020, Endriana served as the Interdisciplinary Electives Course Director, where she curated the electives stream for the undergraduate and graduate degrees across Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Interior Spatial Design. In this role, Endriana launched the ‘Summer International Masterclass Series,’ inviting internationally renowned architects, academics, and scholars to run intensive workshops and seminars. Currently, as UTS Architecture’s Public Program Director, Endriana is curating a public program centred on the theme of Solidarity. Through a combination of public lectures, collaborative workshops, and teach-ins, Solidarity prompts collective learning and, in some cases, a deliberate unlearning in pursuit of a transformative, collaborative agenda to shape a more just future.

Dr Nimish Biloria occupies the position of Professor of Urban Systems and Health at the School of Architecture, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), where his research systematically investigates the intersections between spatial configuration, health outcomes, and equity principles, with particular emphasis on how built environment interventions can create transformative change for vulnerable populations experiencing spatial and health inequities. His systems-oriented approach encompasses investigations across multiple spatial scales to establish a comprehensive theoretical and methodological framework for designing healthy, sustainable, and equitable urban environments. Professor Biloria's research methodology recognizes that spatial relationships, accessibility patterns, and the physical design of urban environments fundamentally influence health outcomes for vulnerable populations. His scholarly work demonstrates how spatial justice principles can be systematically integrated within architectural and urban design processes to ensure equitable access to health-promoting environments for vulnerable populations.

With over a decade of distinguished academic leadership at Delft University of Technology's Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, and extensive international research experience spanning Europe, Asia, and Australia, Professor Biloria has developed transdisciplinary methodologies that integrate environmental sensing, computational design, neuroscience, and material science. His approach systematically examines how spatial interventions across multiple scales can reshape the environmental, social, technological, and health systems that determine urban experiences and population well-being, with particular attention to vulnerable populations who face spatial barriers to health equity. Professor Biloria treats the built environment as a complex adaptive system, acknowledging that urban health outcomes emerge from dynamic interactions between individual-level physiological responses, neighborhood-scale environmental exposures, city-wide infrastructure systems, and global climate processes.

Professor Biloria's transdisciplinary spatial research encompasses several interconnected domains:

• Multi-Scale Environmental Health Systems: Implementing integrated environmental sensing and psychophysiological monitoring approaches in the built environment to understand how climate change, urban heat, air quality, thermal comfort, and built environment interact to influence public health, emphasizing the complex interactions between broad urban policies and individual exposures.
• Neuroscience-Informed Urban Design: Using psychophysiological monitoring, environmental sensing, and urban simulations to map urban stressors and their neurobiological effects on residents, examining how noise, visual complexity, green spaces, and urban density impact mental health, guiding design choices to reduce urban stress.
• Adaptive Spatial Infrastructure for Aging Populations: Developing adaptive buildings and resilient urban environments by leveraging computational design, machine learning, and urban analytics to ensure equitable access to healthy environments for vulnerable populations that adapt to demographic changes.
• Climate-Resilient Spatial Design: Advancing bio-based materials, adaptive reuse, and circular design to combat climate change and promote health equity for vulnerable populations. His work creates closed-loop urban systems and green infrastructure that cut embodied carbon and develop climate-adaptive spaces, shielding residents from heat, pollution, and health risks.

Professor Biloria views cities as dynamic, interconnected systems where local interventions can generate far-reaching impacts across multiple temporal and geographic scales. His research, backed by the EU, Australian government, industry, and non-profits, underscores its societal importance and interdisciplinary support. As the founder of Springer's S.M.A.R.T. Environments series and the Joint Author of the upcoming Routledge book 'Super Ageing Societies' (2026), he bridges academic knowledge with real-world solutions by partnering with residents, scientists, technology companies, policymakers, health professionals, urban planners, and industry stakeholders to tackle urban health issues. His work demonstrates how exploring the relationships between the built environment and health, spanning from material chemistry to city-wide climate adaptation, can lead to solutions that enhance population health, sustainability, and social justice. Biloria's approach emphasizes understanding and shaping the complex interactions among materials, technology, environment, and health, from molecular to metropolitan scales. He advocates cross-sector collaborations to transform urban systems into integrated networks that support human and planetary wellbeing through evidence-based spatial design, innovative materials, responsive technologies, and equitable governance.

ARC DECRA Research Fellow 2025-7

Theme Lead of the UTS Ageing Research Collaborative (Design and Innovation)

Academic Lead of the UTS Disability Research Network

Phillippa Carnemolla is a Professor in the School of Built Environment within the Faculty of Design Architecture and Building. She is passionate about research that investigates the influence of our built environments on people's independence, autonomy and how care is provided and received. She focuses on promoting community-led research and innovation in housing, workplaces, residential aged care, specialist disability accommodation and inclusive cities across aged care and disability support contexts. 

Phillippa leads work commissioned by the National Disability Insurance Agency, state government agencies and departments across NSW, Tasmania and Victoria, The Big Issue and service providers of disability support and aged care. She has held a number of national board and advisory positions with organisations, including the Centre for Universal Design Australia, the City of Sydney, the Greater Cities Commission and NSW Department of Planning. In recognition of her research excellence in housing and care provision, she is a Uniting Research Fellow, Honorary Associate Professor at Edith Cowan University and a finalist in the AFR Tertiary Education Awards (2022).

International Recognition
Her transdisciplinary research is recognised globally, with many international governments and agencies citing her work as evidence for policy innovation and reform across housing and care. The US Senate has tabled her research as part of a 2022 hearing before the committee on addressing the housing needs of American seniors. The World Health Organisation (UNICEF) cites her investigations into the breadth of health, care and social impacts resulting from inclusive design approaches (2022). The UK Government Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities cites her review on housing and homelessness in their report, testing innovative approaches to improving outcomes for people experiencing homelessness (2023). Closer to home, her research into models of aged care is cited in the 2023 National Aged Care Design Principles and Guidelines.

Community-led research
Phillippa oversees projects in housing, aged care, and disability, fostering collaborations among a wide array of stakeholders, including Australia’s leading housing and disability support/aged care providers (Uniting, Achieve Australia, and Northcott). She is recognised within academic, industry and community sectors for her exemplary community-centred approach, having led diverse research teams that prioritise the inclusion of people with disability as project leaders, researchers, strategists, and analysts. Her leadership of the ‘My Home My Community project’ was recently referenced in the UTS application to the Australian Elective Carnegie Community Engagement Classification. The case study included in the application highlighted Assoc. Prof Carnemolla’s leadership in designing and delivering engaged research and practice. Of significant value was her ability to guide a diverse team of researchers, including people with intellectual disability. By embedding diversity and inclusion at the heart of the project, the research effectively demonstrated the integration of diverse forms of knowledge – including disciplinary, contextual, and lived experience – to further the field. This contribution, complemented by other institutional examples of engaged scholarship, resulted in UTS being awarded the Classification in 2023. This was a significant achievement, with UTS being one of the only two institutions receiving the Classification nationally.

Specialist Disability Accommodation Research 2023
In 2023 she lead the analysis of exclusive Australian national housing data on the National Disability Insurance Scheme’s (NDIS) Specialist Disability Accommodation (SDA) housing stock. Bringing together a national team of housing and disability academics and experts, including people with disability, the team developed inclusive data translations for people with sensory disability (blind and visually impaired) and intellectual disability for the state-based data being analysed.

She is the Deputy Head of School (Research) of the School of Professional Practice and Leadership at the University of Technology, Sydney Australia. Her research interests are in the contextual nexus of Learning sciences, Usability Evaluation, Human Computer Interaction, Education Technology and Individual Differences. She has served on a number of prestigious journals including Education Technology Research and Development (ETR&D), Internet and Higher Education and the Journal of Computing in Higher Education, (JCHE) where she was an Associate Editor.

She received her BSc Computer Science from the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago; her MSc Software Development and Management from Rochester Institute of Technology, USA and her PhD in Information Science and Learning Technologies from the University of Missouri-Columbia, USA. She has a Blended Learning Designer certificate from the University of Central Florida, and holds certifications as a Creative Commons Educator, Project Management Professional (PMP), Six Sigma.

She is an Organisation of American States (OAS) and Fulbright Scholar who has worked at University of Melbourne, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA, and the University of the West Indies Open Campus. She has over 70 research outputs which includes an open sourced book published by Springer titled Global Perspectives on Educational Innovations for Emergency Solutions. She has received numerous awards including Instructor of the Year in 2013 from University of Missouri; Excellence award in 2012 from the Project Management Institute, Outstanding Publication award in 2018 from the Association for Education Communications and Technology and Leaner Engagement and Social Impact awards in 2022.

She has served as the Leader of the learning design team in the Faculty of Science and as the lead for various Faculty of Science projects (e.g., Blackboard to Canvas conversion, COVID design and delivery). She joined the Faculty of Engineering and IT in 2023 as a member of the Professional Practice and Leadership School.

Cherine Fahd is one of Australia’s leading photographic artists. For nearly three decades, she has exhibited, written, and curated works in photography and image-based practices. Her projects often involve members of the public, her family, and friends, exploring how the camera brings people together. Her practice examines the everyday uses of photography in the family album, on social media, and in applied contexts that promote visibility and social inclusion.

Her scholarly research extends to the role of photography in grief and mourning, alongside its social and cultural functions. She is widely published, with her essays and reviews appearing in Sydney Review of Books, The Conversation, Sydney Morning Herald Spectrum, ABC Arts, and in leading international journals including Photography and Culture, photographies, and Philosophy of Photography.

Her photographic methodology for working with communities is highly sought after. She has presented on photography for research impact at the University of Sydney and worked as a research fellow with the Sydney Social Sciences and Humanities Advanced Research Centre on multiple projects for the Hunt-Symes Sexuality Institute. She has contributed to the cross-institutional project Cloak: Queer Science, Fashion and Photography, which was shortlisted for the 2024 Eureka Science Prize, and continues to work with Living Lab Northern Rivers on projects with flood-affected communities. She is also a postgraduate student in the Master of Psychotherapy and Counselling at the University of Western Sydney, where she is being trained in practice-based methods of relational person-centered practice that she extends to her photographic work with communities.

Fahd holds a PhD from Monash University and is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Design and Society at the University of Technology Sydney. She was the inaugural co-chair of the Powerhouse Photography Artist Advisory Group and has two forthcoming books: Photographing for the Practices series with Duke University Press, and the Powerhouse Photography book—the first major publication on contemporary Australian photography from the Powerhouse collection. Her keynote lecture, Photography, Suicide and the Limits of Knowing, was presented at the Deathscapes conference for the International Association of Photography and Theory. She is also co-editing an upcoming special issue of Photographies (Taylor & Francis) on Photography and Memory in the Age of AI.

Sam Ferguson is a Associate Professor within the School of Computer Science at UTS. He has a background in music, cognitive science, as well as psycho-acoustics and acoustics. He focuses on sound and music and its relationship with creativity and human experience, in contexts such as installation art, creative coding and machine learning, as well as focusing on cognitive science. He has more than 110 publications in areas as diverse as spatial hearing and loudness research, to datasonification, emotion, and tabletop computing. He has served as Deputy Head of School (Teaching and Learning) for one the highest ranked Computer Science departments in Australia, and has taught a wide variety of subjects within the Interaction Design discipline. He is currently the Director of Teaching and Learning Engagement for the Faculty of Engineering and IT. 

Dr Jaime Garcia is an Associate Professor in Games Development at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). 

His research interests focus on leveraging interactive video game technologies—including serious games and gamification—to enhance wellbeing, learning, and engagement across diverse contexts.

Before joining UTS, Jaime worked as a Software Engineer at Neuroscience Research Australia, primarily designing, developing and maintaining fall prevention video games and mobile apps for the Falls Balance Injury Research Centre.

He holds a PhD in Software Engineering and Information Systems from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and a BSc in Computer Science and Engineering from the Ponticia Universidad Javeriana Cali (Colombia).

His research projects include:

The IMMERSE Project (interactive work incorporating live chamber and digital music performance),
Project ELAINE (an asynchronous exergame for the elderly),
Last Island (a computer-aid board game to teach sustainability),
The StepKinnection Project (a bespoke Kinect game to prevent falls in the elderly),
The MobileRehApp (an Augmented Reality mobile game for ankle sprain rehabilitation).
These projects have led to a series of high-quality publications in prestigious international conferences and journals.

Jaime has been twice awarded the Branko Cesnik Award for the best scientific paper in 2012 and 2015.

Jaime's work has been profiled by CNET, the Sydney Morning Herald, the 2SER Radio Station, the Australian Ageing Agenda, the Enquiring Minds Television Show on TVS and the UTS News Room.

During his career, Jaime has also worked in several software engineering projects for companies in the finance and accounting sector.

Dr Janet Ge is an Associate Professor in the School of Built Environment (SBE), The Faculty of Design and Society and a member of the ethics committee at the faculty. Janet is also a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) and an associate member of the Australian Property Institute (API). Janet is also one of the Board of Directors of the Asian Real Estate Society (AsRES).

Janet's primary research covers housing affordability, the housing market, and house prices, property development finance and investment, and the application of property technologies, with over a hundred refereed papers, book chapters and reports published. Two articles received the 'Highly Commended Award' in 2012 and the 'Most Innovative Paper Award' from the Pacific Rim Real Estate Society Conferences. Janet has been the editor on the topic of Urban Science and Real Estate Dynamics: Insights into Housing, Finance, and Land Use and Buildings Journal for MDPI.

Her doctoral research explored the use of multiple regression analysis and recurrent neural network methods to establish forecasting models for estimating private housing prices in Hong Kong. She also applied cusp catastrophe theory to develop a generic system for predicting discontinuous changes in housing prices and their effects under different housing policies. The thesis received the Excellent Building Research Postgraduate Award from the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) Australia and a Chapter Medal and the Professional Excellence Awards (PEA) for the Outstanding Graduate of the Doctor of Philosophy (Building) Program from the Australian Institute of Building (AIB) in 2005. 

Janet has a strong track record in collaborative research for organisations and the property industry. Examples of completed projects include social and economic benefits and costs for development projects, policy impacts and financial risk management of property development firms, property price forecasting in Sydney, economic appraisal of strategic conservation planning options, etc. Janet received the 2023 Award for Highest Impact Industry Partnership (Research, Teaching or Philanthropy) presented by the faculty.

Janet lectures in property investment and valuation to undergraduates and property development finance to postgraduates in the School of the Built Environment. Janet has supervised several PhD and Master's theses to completion in the past, and she is also a Category 1 UTS Research Supervisor.

Sumita Ghosh is an academic who focuses on responsive urban design and spatial planning in the School of Built Environment, Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building, UTS. As an architect and urban planner, Sumita has more than 30 years of teaching, research and professional experience. She has previously worked for the government, local councils, research organisations and universities in Australia and New Zealand.

Sumita's core area of research is focused on ‘Urban Resilience’ that connects to multiple strands of urban sustainability research. Her research interests focus on green infrastructure planning and policy (urban forestry and local food production); urban morphologies, and climate change impacts and adaptation using spatial GIS and remote sensing applications. Her research explores food urbanism theory and practices in designing and master planning for precincts and creating healthy and sustainable communities.

She has participated in multidisciplinary research projects with various Australian universities and the Foundation for Research Science and Technology (FRST), New Zealand Government on green infrastructure, sustainable settlement modelling and community development practices. She was the Chief Investigator (CI) from UTS in a collaborative research project funded by the Horticulture Australia Limited (HAL) Category 1 grant that investigated Australia's urban forests' carbon benefits and pollution mitigation potential. She participated in the City of Sydney’s Environmental Grant Programme to conduct qualitative social research on rooftop urban food production in the Sydney CBD in Australia. She has been a Chief Investigator from UTS in Landcom's urban transformation project on local foodscapes and placemaking in high densities. She has contributed as a CI in IKEA's project on measuring how households adopting sustainable lifestyles and practices, and solar energy use, could contribute to CO2 emissions savings and residential energy efficiency. Currently, she is working with Achieve Australia's project on mapping Specialist Disability Housing (SDA) in NSW, Australia, and the NSW Department of Education and Training's project on sharing green space.

Sumita teaches urban design, strategic planning, master planning and spatial analysis (using Geographic Information Systems or GIS methods) in the Master of Planning degree at UTS. She also supervises doctoral and postgraduate research students in the School of Built Environment in the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building at UTS. She has published in peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers. Sumita is the former Director of Higher Degree Research Programs in DAB and the former Course Director of Postgraduate Planning for on-campus planning courses.

Dr Jacqueline Gothe is a design researcher in visual communication design, information design and practices of critical visualisation. Her research approach foregrounds research through design as a knowledge creating paradigm. She has widely researched the application of communication and design principles in land management investigating transdisciplinary approaches in environmental projects. 

Jacqueline’s work as a visual communication designer and researcher in contemporary Australia acknowledges that a visual dialogue with land is a project of recognition and revisioning – the recognition of the lived experiences, culture and knowledge of generations of Aboriginal people and the revisioning of landscapes through a collective act of will. Practices of collaboration and co-creation are central to this investigation of the materialisation of transcultural and transdisciplinary knowledges to inform change in land management. For the past decade she has worked in partnership with Firesticks Alliance, an Indigenous-led network that mentors, shares and supports the revival of cultural burning practices in natural resource and fire management contexts. Her communication and information design contribution to Firesticks has been recognised by the International Institute of Information Design Awards (IIID).

Professor Bronwyn Hemsley is Head of Speech Pathology at UTS and co-lead of the UTS Disability Research Network

Winner - 2023 The Sax Institute Research Action Award

Winner - 2023 UTS Vice Chancellor's UTS Medal for Research Impact

Bronwyn is a Certified Practicing Speech Pathologist, Fellow of Speech Pathology Australia, and Fellow of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication. With 15 years postdoctoral experience Bronwyn has been awarded more than $5M in research funding enabling development of a comprehensive program of research relating to communication, swallowing, social media, and other advanced assistive technologies (including VR/AR, generative AI, apps for communication, 3D food printing). 

Bronwyn was the lead investigator and project lead for the 'UTS Co-Creating Safe and Enjoyable Meals' project funded by the NDIS Quality & Safeguards Commission and the Victorian Department of Families, Fairness, and Housing (2020-2022) which can be viewed at www.enjoysafemeals.com She is the course director for the UTS Open Short Course 'Co-Creating Safe and Enjoyable Meals for People with Swallowing Disability.'

Bronwyn has completed an NHMRC PhD Scholarship 2005-2007, NHMRC Postdoctoral Fellowship to the Communication Disability Centre at the University of Queensland in 2009-2012, two NHMRC research project grants (2013-2017) (on the safety of people with communication disability in hospital) and 2014-2018 (on Australia's 'My Health Record'), and the Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA) (Australian Research Council) 2014-2017 on the use of Twitter as a form of communication for people with communication disability. She was the lead investigator on an ARC Discovery project 'An Appetite for the Future: 3D Printed Food for People with Swallowing Disability' (2020-2024). Within these projects, she has completed primary PhD supervision for three high performing graduates, Dr. Melissa Brunner (2020, now lecturer at USYD) and Dr. Rebecca Smith (2023, now lecturer at WSU) and Dr Rebecca Smith (2024, now postdoctoral Research Fellow at La Trobe University), and Dr Susan Guthrie (UK, Leeds University and NHS). She currently supervises four PhD scholars.

Bronwyn's research excellence and engagement in translating this to teaching, policy, and practice was recognised with the Dean's Award for Research Excellence for a Mid Career Researcher at the University of Newcastle (2016). In 2018, her research impact case was put forward to the ARC Engagement and Impact Assessment for FOR20 (Communication, Language, and Culture) for the University of Newcastle and was awarded a High Ranking for ‘Impact’ and a High Ranking for ‘Approach to Impact’. This impact accounted for one quarter of the 'high impact' rankings obtained at the University of Newcastle in that year. At UTS, she has won the Faculty Dean's Award for Research Excellence at UTS (2021).

A/Prof Tony Huang is Course Director of Data Science and Innovation at the UTS Transdisciplinary School and an Executive Committee member of the UTS Visualisation Institute. Prior to joining UTS, he led the Human-Data Interaction Program at the Swinburne Data Science Research Institute and the Collaboration and Visual Analytics Group at the Human Interface Technology Laboratory Australia (HIT Lab AU) in Tasmania.

His research focuses on human-centred AI and visual data analytics, particularly how AI, data analytics and interactive visualisations can support people in understanding complex information, communicating analytical findings and making informed decisions. His current research includes human-AI interaction, responsible AI, AI-supported visual analytics, and the design and evaluation of human-in-the-loop AI and analytics systems.

A/Prof Huang has extensive experience leading and collaborating in transdisciplinary research and industry projects, working with researchers, industry partners and domain experts across disciplinary boundaries to address real-world problems through AI, data analytics and visualisation. His work spans business and finance, health, education, manufacturing, energy and sustainability, with applications ranging from remote training and maintenance in manufacturing to business and organisational decision-making, AI-powered personal companions to support sustainable self-care for chronic pain, and eco-visualisation for pro-environmental behaviour change.

Within UTS, he leads a research team of PhD students, postdoctoral researchers, research assistants and visiting scholars. The team develops methods and tools that combine AI and machine learning with human knowledge, interactive visualisation and domain expertise to support effective and responsible decision-making.

His research has resulted in more than 200 publications in high-quality academic venues, including books on human-centric visualisation published by Springer and collaborative technologies published by Wiley-IEEE Press. His research has attracted more than AUD $3 million in funding, including competitive ARC Discovery and Linkage projects, as well as projects funded by government and industry partners such as the NSW Department of Education, Water Corporation, EnergyAustralia and Boeing.

The impact of his research and international standing are reflected in invited keynote speeches at international conferences and industry forums, the commercialisation and industry adoption of technologies developed through his research, and his recognition among Stanford’s top 2% of scientists worldwide each year since 2020. He received funded international visiting appointments and fellowships at the University of Konstanz in Germany, HKUST (Guangzhou) in China, and National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University in Taiwan, and presented in invitation-only Dagstuhl Seminars in Germany and NII Shonan Meeting in Japan.

A/Prof Huang has a strong track record in curriculum design, accreditation and academic program leadership, particularly in data science and emerging technologies. As Course Director in Data Science and Innovation, he has led major curriculum development and redevelopment initiatives, integrating data science with innovation, specialised disciplinary knowledge and real-world applications. These initiatives emphasise inclusion and diversity while providing flexible learning pathways that support students’ different backgrounds, interests and career goals. They have attracted strong interest from international students and contributed to sustained enrolment growth. He works across faculties and with industry to develop contemporary curricula that respond to advances in technology, evolving industry needs and diverse student learning needs. He also led the development of Australia’s first and only Executive Master of Data Science and Innovation, designed for experienced professionals and industry leaders. His educational initiatives and projects have also attracted external funding, including support from the Australian Government Office for Learning and Teaching and the Tasmanian Clinical Education Network.

A/Prof Huang has served as Associate Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Visual Languages and Computing. He is Associate Editor of Behaviour & Information Technology, an invited Guest Editor for Q1 and SCI-indexed journals, founding and current Chair of the award-winning IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Visual Analytics and Communication, a grant assessor for the Australian Research Council and international funding agencies, and an invited examiner of about 25 PhD theses across Australian universities. He has also provided consultancy to Fortune 500 companies and successfully supervised and mentored numerous PhD candidates and postdoctoral researchers who have progressed to senior positions in academia and industry. He has been regularly invited to take on senior leadership roles at major international conferences, including as General Chair and Program Chair, and is currently a General Co-Chair of IEEE Pacific Visualization 2026 and the Australasian Data Science and Machine Learning Conference (AusDM 2026).

Andrew Johnston is Professor at the University of Technology Sydney, where he is Acting Head of School of Computer Science.  He is also research director of the UTS Animal Logic Academy, a unique, professionally-equipped studio focusing on the creative application and design of digital technologies. Since 2021 he has been Co-Director of the UTS Visualisation Institute.

Andrew's research work focuses on the design of systems that support experimental, exploratory approaches to interaction, and the experiences and real-world practices of the people who use them.

In recent years, Andrew has created large-scale interactive projection systems for dance and physical theatre performances in collaboration with Stalker Theatre. Productions featuring his work have toured internationally and been attended by more than 50,000 people to date. He has also led numerous projects exploring new approaches to animation, immersive visualisation and augmented and virtual reality. His research in these areas is concerned with the real-world use of these technologies by a diverse range of users including field technicians, musicians, organisational leaders and the general public.

Andrew has supervised numerous practice-based research PhDs to completion, and his graduates include high-profile researchers and artists working in Australia and internationally. During his time at UTS Andrew has designed, developed and presented undergraduate and postgraduate courses in interactive media and interaction design.

Dr Faezeh Karimi is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Computer Science. She holds academic degrees in both Computer Science and Information Systems. Her research has been focused on the application of data analytics, social network analysis, and information system theories in education, healthcare and sustainability fields. She specialises in utilising data visualisation techniques for communicating research outcomes and key knowledge.

Faezeh received her PhD from the School of Computing at National University of Singapore and taught there for a couple of years. Before joining UTS, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Sydney, Faculty of Engineering and IT. She worked with the University of Sydney's Deputy Vice Chancellor Offices of Indigenous strategy and service (ISS) and Education on the application of data and social network analytics for visualising the sociocultural climate of the campus and enhancing cultural competence in the social fabric of the student body.

Dr Kaveh Khalilpour joined the Faculty of Engineering and IT as an Associate Professor in 2019. He is an interdisciplinary complex systems engineering academic focusing on the intersection of sustainability and socio-technical networks. His research interests lie in the application of operations research (OR), AI, and data science in searching for innovative approaches to address sustainable development goals, particularly those related to the energy-water-food-justice nexus. 

Since 2020, he has been on Elsevier/Stanford's 2% Scientists list (0.5% in the Energy field). His published works are majorly related to new product/network/market design and span from carbon capture technology and energy load forecasting, to lifecycle analysis of new products, to examining the techno-economic feasibility of leaving the grid and turning to renewable energy storage systems, with a growing emphasis on issues of justice and equity in energy transitions.

A/Prof Khalilpour is a recognised academic in the fields of community energy, energy democracy and just transitions. His work focuses on community-led energy initiatives, participatory governance and equitable pathways to a sustainable energy future. He is the founder of the ComErgy Network and the Community Energy Futures Conference series, initiatives dedicated to advancing energy democracy, bottom-up development and community-driven approaches to a just and equitable energy transition.

Before joining the Faculty of Engineering and IT, Kaveh worked in a number of schools at various Australian and overseas universities, including Data Science and AI, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Physics, Petroleum Engineering, and Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering.

Prior to pursuing an academic career, Kaveh worked for government and industry, tackling the emerging policy and technical issues in the oil, gas and biotechnology sectors. This diverse career background has shaped his research and teaching philosophy at the nexus of social and academic idealism and industrial realism.

Catherine Killen is an Emeritus Professor in the School of Built Environment at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia. She teaches in the Postgraduate Project Management Program and conducts research on the management of innovation and projects with a focus on project portfolio management. Catherine has published more than 100 journal articles, conference papers and book chapters in these areas. Her recent projects have explored the links between strategy and projects in construction, the use of data visualisations to support project and portfolio decision making, and the multi-dimensional nature of strategic value. Her research is published in top journals such as the International Journal of Project Management, Project Management Journal, and IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. Catherine also delivers corporate workshops and assists organisations benchmark and improve their innovation and portfolio decision-making processes. 

Catherine has a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Virginia (USA) with high distinction, a Master of Engineering Management from the University of Technology, Sydney (awarded the MEM prize), and a PhD from the Macquarie Graduate School of Management (MGSM) in Sydney, Australia.