People

Leadership

Professor Abbas Rajabifard
Centre Director
PhD (Melb), MSc (ITC), Postgrad-Dipl (ITC), BSurv (Tehran), MISAust, MSSIAust, FIEAust, Hon FSSSI

Neda Rahmani
Executive Assistant to Director
neda.r@unimelb.edu.au

Researchers

Prof Abbas Rajabifard
Centre Director
Enterprise A/Prof Alice Kesminas
Lead Industry Engagement
Dr Soheil Sabri
Senior Research Fellow, Urban Analytics Data Infrastructure
Emeritus Prof Ian Williamson AM
Senior Advisor

PhD (NSW), DrHC (Olsztyn), Hon DSurv (Melb), FTSE, FISAust, FIEAust, FRICS, HonMFIG, HonFMSIAust, LS, CPEng(Re
Chris McRae
Executive Advisor; Former Chief Executive Land Use Victoria
Dr Katie Potts
Research Fellow, Sustainability and Resilience
Dr Davood Shojaei
Senior Lecturer, Visualisation Lead
A/Prof Jagannath Aryal
Remote Sensing Lead
Dr Benny (Yiqun) Chen
Technical Architecture Lead
Prof Alexander Felson
Research Associate
Yibo Zhang
System Developer
Yuke Xie
System Developer
Michael (Tong Long) Song
System Developer
Dr Amir Khodabandeh
Lecturer, Department of Infrastructure Engineering
Dr Behzad Rismanchi
Senior Lecturer, Building Energy Efficiency Lead
Dr Behnam Atazadeh
DECRA Senior Research
Enterprise A/Prof Bahador Bahadori
Industry Engagement
Brian Marwick
Senior Advisor, Geoscape
Yasi Kazemzadeh
Research Assistant
Neda Rahmani
Research Assistant
Thomas Weichert
Technical & IT Support
Dr Amin Talei
Senior Research Advisor
Flood & Environmental Modeling
Assoc Prof Mohsen Kalantari
Honorary Associate Professor
Dr Sasan Adibi
Senior Research Associate
Spatial Enable Health
Dr Hamed Olfat
Honorary Research Associate-Land Administration
Dr Muyiwa Agunbiade
Research Associate, Urban and Land Development
Dr Ali Aien
Research Associate 3D Platform GeoCity
Afshin Mesbahmarjani
Honorary Research Associate-Land Administration

Research students

Advisory Committee

Our Advisory Committee comprises distinguished Australian and overseas leaders in spatial science and technologies from academia and industry. Members encourage the promotion of networking linkages and research opportunities between the Centre researchers and their own institutions and networks.

The Hon Mr Gary Nairn
Advisory Committee; Chairman, Mulloon Institute
Jamie Leach
CEO & Founder, Open Data Australia
Chris McRae
Executive Advisor; Former Chief Executive Land Use Victoria
Dr Greg Scott
Senior International Advisor, UN Global Geospatial Information Management; UN-GGIM, NY, USA
Prof David Coleman
Professor Emeritus, The University of New Brunswick, Canada
Prof Stig Enemark
Former President, Int’l Federation of Surveyors; Development and Planning Dept., Aalborg University, Denmark
Dr Keith Clifford Bell
International Development Advisor Former World Bank technical advisory specialist, Former Surveyor-General of Victoria
Tony Burns
Executive Director & Business Development, Land Equity International Pty Ltd, Australia
Prof Harlan Onsrud
Professor Emeritus School of Computing and Information Science University of Maine, USA
Dr Daniel Steudler
FIG Vice President, Federal Office of Topography, Swisstopo, Switzerland
Craig Sandy
Surveyor General of Victoria, Chair Intergovernmental Committee on Surveying and Mapping (ICSM) Department of Transport and Planning, Victoria, Australia
Tom Champion
Director, Reeds Consulting, Australia
Mr Jan Wandek
Director, Emerg Solutions, Australia