CIC Team
The Curtin Institute for Computation (CIC) consists of a dedicated team including management, administration, computational specialists and software developers, that collaborates and assists Curtin University researchers in data, computational, analytics and visualization problems. The team has a diverse research background in computer science, electrical engineering, physics, astronomy, bioinformatics, materials science, and computational chemistry.
More specifically, the team offers a number of skills and services to Curtin researchers.
Meet the CIC Team:
- Professor Melanie Johnston-Hollitt (Director)
- Aniek Roelofs (Developer – COKI)
- Dr Arti Verma (Senior Data Scientist – AFID)
- Arun Veluchamy (Project Coordinator)
- Asha Stabback (Business Development Manager – ASDAF)
- Blaine Campbell (Administration Support Officer)
- Calvin Pang (Data Scientist)
- Cameron Davis (Editing Intern)
- Carlo Martinotti (Data Scientist)
- Christian Proud (Developer – Lynas/CIC)
- Dr Daniel Marrable (Lead Data Scientist)
- Daphne Dado (Admin Support Officer – CIC & ASDAF)
- Faisal Malik (Project Coordinator – ASDAF)
- Dr Foad Farivar (High Performance Computational Specialist)
- Isabelle Perger (Centre Manager for the Digital Transformation Space)
- Dr Jamiu Ekundayo (Senior Data Scientist)
- Joel Dunstan (Developer – ADACS)
- Dr Julian Tonti-Filippini (Senior Data Scientist – COKI)
- Dr Kathryn Barker (Scientific Project Manager)
- Dr Kathryn Napier (Lead Data Scientist – COKI)
- Keegan Smith (Software Developer – COKI)
- Dr Leah Riungu-Kalliosaari (Project Coordinator)
- Leigh Tyers (High Performance Computational Specialist)
- Nick Swainston (Developer – ADACS)
- Dr Paul Hancock (Data Science Project Lead – ADACS)
- Dr Rebecca Handcock (Senior Data Scientist – COKI)
- Rike McLernon (Administration)
- Robert Fernandez (Developer)
- Dr Sawitchaya (Nancy) Tippaya (Senior Data Scientist)
- Srikanth Kompella (Data Scientist)
- Tara Lind (Research Intern)
- Torrance Hodgson (Senior Data Scientist – PaCER)
We are also proud of our alumni, who in the past, contributed immensely to the institute
- Dr Rebecca Lange (ALCOA)
- Dr Kevin Chai (seconded to Health Economics and Data Analytics Group)
- Dr Roberta Fornarelli (Water Corporation WA)
- Shiv Meka (WA Department of Health)
- Dr Rui Wang (Rio Tinto)
- Dr Andrea Bedini (Fortescue Metals Group)
- Timothy Young (Scitech Perth)
- Dr Richard Hosking (Project Haast)
- Cara Kreck
- Dr Rakib Hassan (Geoscience Australia)
- Dr Rafiq Mohammed
- Dr Behrouz Beheshti (Avanade)
We also work closely with associated computational specialist:
To get in touch with the team, please e-mail: curtinic@curtin.edu.au