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Dr Ai Wang has been actively involved in fundamental and applied research into multiphase systems over the last 10 years in mineral and pyro-metallurgical processing. She obtained her doctor degree of Chemical Engineering in the University of Newcastle. Her research involves a combination of experimental measurement, theoretical and computational modelling (e.g. CFD) using either commercial software ANSYS or self-developed codes. Using computationally modelling methods, Dr Ai optimized the structure of flotation column; modelled the collision between particles and bubbles in the presence of turbulence; simulated the diffusion of reactant gas through coke microstructure while reacting with carbon. Using experimental methods, Ai investigated the flow field inside flotation columns using Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV); examined the rise dynamics of particle-laden bubbles in pure water and in surfactant solution using high-speed camera. Ai was also involved in gasification of coke in the thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) under both CO2 and H2O environment wherein she developed image processing algorithms to analysis coke maceral composition and reacted microstructure. A summary of her current and past research can be found in

https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=l_ZPjRUAAAAJ&hl=en

Examples of Dr Ai’s role as leading researchers includes the following projects: “Optimization of a cyclonic-static micro-bubble flotation column using CFD” with the National Engineering Research Centre of Coal Preparation and Purification (in China); “National 973 Key Basic Research Development Program: Basic Research of Large-Scale Quality Improvement and Utilization of Low-Quality coal" (in China); “Hydrodynamics of Flow Regime Transition in a Reflux Flotation Cell” Project 24 with Australia Research Council, Centre of Excellence for Enabling Eco-Efficient Beneficiation of Minerals, (in Australia); “Coke Reactivity with CO2 and H20 and Impacts on Coke Microstructure and Gas Diffusion” with the Centre for Ironmaking Materials Research etc. In acknowledgement of her work in the multiphase flow and reacting engineering, Dr Ai is selected to be reviewers for abstracts submitted to the 16th International Conference on Gas–Liquid and Gas–Liquid–Solid Reactor Engineering (GLS-16). She is also the lead guest editor in the Special issue "Recent Advances in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Simulation of Flotation" in the journal Minerals in MDPI publication group. Ai also co-supervised final-year graduate students. Dr Ai was also reviewer for Q1 journals such as “the Colloids and Surfaces A”, “ACS Omega” and Q2 journals such as “materials” and “powders” etc.

Professor Geoff Wang received his PhD in Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering from the Northeastern University, Shenyang, China in 1990. After earned about 2-year Visiting Academic experience at University of New South Wales, he joined the University of Queensland in 1996 and has been leading in the research focusing on modeling and simulation of the Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering processes, such as iron ore sintering, iron- & steel-making, sustainable energy, coalbed methane (CBM) extraction and carbon dioxide capture and utilization including CO2 -sequestration with enhanced coalbed methane (CO2-ECBM) recovery. Professor Wang’s research activity and interests are directed towards developing energy and environmental technologies. He has made significant contributions to the field of research on fluid flow, heat and mass transfer in chemical reactors, particularly gas solid reaction kinetics associated with various porous media. He has been active and completed research programs in clean energy technologies such as pulverized coal injection into blast furnaces, hydrogen production through lower emission coal combustion, and CO2 electrochemical conversion to fuel or reusable chemicals.

Professor Wang is author of a monograph entitled "Pulverized Coal Injection Technology for Blast Furnaces" and has over 100 original journal publications and about 60 refereed conference papers, included 2 patents.

Shuai Wang is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at ielab (led by Professor Guido Zuccon) at The University of Queensland. His research focuses on information retrieval (IR), large language models (LLMs), and natural language processing (NLP), with particular emphasis on developing AI-driven systems for knowledge-intensive tasks.

Shuai completed his PhD on automating medical systematic reviews using neural retrieval systems and generative models (thesis: AI-driven Automated Systematic Reviews). His doctoral work encompassed automatic MeSH term suggestion, screening prioritization, seed-driven retrieval methods, and automatic Boolean query formulation.

His broader research contributions span federated search optimization and improving model efficiency in IR and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) applications. His work has been published at premier venues including SIGIR, ECIR, WSDM, and EMNLP. He has served on program committees for SIGIR, ECIR, ICTIR, and TOIS, and as SIGIR-AP Queensland local satellite chair.

Education

• PhD, The University of Queensland (2021–2025)
• Master's degree, The University of Queensland (2020–2021)
• Bachelor's degree, The University of Western Australia (2017–2019)

I lead the Technology-Driven Drug Discovery (Tech3D) Group at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience, UQ. We believe that the key to solving some of our world's biggest challenges, whether that be in medicine or agriculture, relies on the ability to precision engineer molecules at will. My group harnesses three technological pillars to engineer peptides and proteins, which are computational biology, molecular libraries, and nanotechnology. We aspire to design better drugs, creating next generation biotechnological agents that have real impact. These could be new cancer drugs that harness the body's immune system or new insecticides that are environmentally friendly. In these pursuits, we value advancement, fun, balance, respect, fairness, and integrity.

I have been involved in peptide and protein research for over two decades, and am highly experienced in bioinformatics, chemistry, structural characterization, biophysics, and biochemistry. I trained with experts in peptide and protein characterization: an Honours project with Professor Garry King at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (2004), an APA scholarship with Professor David Craik at the University of Queensland Institute for Molecular Bioscience, Brisbane, Australia (2005-2009) and a NHMRC fellowship with Professor Mingjie Zhang at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China (2009-2011) and A/Professor Andreas Hofmann at Griffith University Eskitis Institute, Brisbane, Australia (2011-2012). I returned to the University of Queensland in 2012 to join an industry partnership funded by an ARC linkage grant. I currently hold an ARC Future Fellowship and am responsible for a team of research officers, assistants and postgraduate students.

My research output has been recognised by >30 prizes and awards for leadership, research translation and fundamental research excellence, as well as numerous invitations to speak at academic and pharmaceutical conferences. I have over 100 publications and have been cited by researchers from across the world.

Liguang Wang is an internationally recognised researcher in mineral processing, with research leadership in flotation science and process intensification to enable efficient recovery of critical and energy-transition minerals. His research group has delivered patented and patent-pending technologies, supported by international (PCT) filings, for flotation process intensification, monitoring, and control, bridging fundamental understanding with industrial application. He received his PhD from Virginia Tech (Supervisor: Roe-Hoan Yoon) in 2006 and was awarded the ACARP Research and Industry Excellence Award in 2022.

More details from the lab website.

Fully funded PhD project: We are seeking a domestic student working on sustainable production of lithium minerals, which is supported by an Australian Research Council Linkage grant. Web link for the scholarship: https://study.uq.edu.au/study-options/phd-mphil-professional-doctorate/projects/sustainable-beneficiation-lithium-minerals

I am a Research Fellow in Health Economics at the University of Queensland’s Centre for the Business and Economics of Health (CBEH). My research focuses on the economic evaluation of varying healthcare interventions for cancer, with interests in exercise oncology, precision medicine, and implementation science. I am dedicated to advancing the long-term wellness of women following cancer treatment, specifically by identifying the cancer rehabilitation programs that provide the best value for money for this population. Additionally, I explore the role of therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals in cancer treatment, seeking to develop innovative cost-effective analysis that enable more robust evaluation of these novel therapies at the production stage.

Dr Wang is currently appointed as Honorary Research Fellow / Lecturer at UQ, double affiliated to RMIT University as Senior Lecturer. She is holding Ph.D in Geography, University of Queensland, Australia, 2018; M.S. in GIS, Northern Illinois University, USA, 2011; B.S. in Urban Planning, Sun Yat-Sen University, China, 2009. Before joining UQ in 2015, she worked as a Geographic Information System (GIS) analyst (2011-2012) in Arizona State Government, USA, and a GIS manager (2012-2015) eTour International, a private IT sector in Hawaii, USA. She has been working as an Australian Research Council (ARC) Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2018-2020) and as an Associate Lecturer (2021-2022) at UQ. She was nominated by the Australia Academy of Sciences as the Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science in 2021. I have been involved in teaching in six courses at UQ: GEOM 2001 Introduction of Geographic Information Analysis (lecturer and course coordinator); GEOM 3003/7002 Spatial Modelling and Analysis (lecturer and course coordinator); GEOM 1001 Fundamentals of Geographic Information and Technologies (lecturer and tutor); GEOG2001 Human Mobility and Migration, GEOG 2205/7205 Global Population Issue, and GEOG 3205 Applied Demography.

Dr Brydon Wang is an author, lawyer, and scholar researching the trustworthy regulation of technology. His work focuses on how we design and govern benevolent data structures and decision-making systems that support human-centric, climate-resilient cities. Dually qualified in law and architecture, Brydon brings more than twenty years of experience across construction, legal practice, and academia. He is currently an Associate Director at KPMG, advising on major infrastructure transactions, and an Honorary Fellow at the Centre for Policy Futures at the University of Queensland.

​Brydon’s research investigates how regulation can increase the perceived trustworthiness of decision-makers, particularly in contexts of automated systems and informational asymmetry. His interdisciplinary methods blend doctrinal legal analysis with creative research strategies. He was lead editor of Automating Cities: Design, Construction, Operation and Future Impact (Springer, 2021) and lead editor of the forthcoming Large Floating Solutions (Springer, 2025), a volume exploring sustainable marine infrastructure and governance, that follows on from the previous edited collection Large Floating Structures: Technological Advances (Springer 2015). His work has been featured by the Centre for Digital Built Britain (Cambridge University), The Conversation, ABC Radio National’s Future Tense, and Seeker’s How Close Are We to Living in the Ocean?

Before joining KPMG, Brydon taught contract law, data privacy, and AI regulation at the Queensland University of Technology, where he received the 2024 Vice Chancellor’s Award for Early Career Teaching. He also taught Responsible Data Science in UQ’s Master of Data Science programme. His PhD thesis, The Role of Trustworthiness in Automated Decision-making Systems and the Law, was awarded the 2022 Faculty of Business and Law Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award. His research combines doctrinal legal research with creative research methodologies to explore the governance of automation, digital infrastructure, and smart urban systems. Through his creative research strategies, Brydon has also become an award-winning artist.

​Brydon began his career in architecture and contract administration on award-winning construction projects, before practising as a technology and construction lawyer at Allens Linklaters. He remains passionate about integrating policy, law, and infrastructure to ensure technological systems are designed with trust and transparency at their core.

Dr Zhiliang Wang is an ARC Future fellow in The University of Queensland. He has focused on renewable energy conversion processes, including water splitting, carbon dioxide fixation and methane conversion. He has accumulated rich experiences in the design of photocatalysts and photoelectrodes and achieved over 80 publications in highly ranked journals with over 7000 citations. He has been awarded with the J G Russell Award by the Australia Academy of Science, UQ Foundation of Research Excellent Award by UQ and other prizes.

Dr Ran Wang graduated with her PhD in 2015, and after undertaking a postdoc position in Scripps Research, USA returned to Australia in 2017. She is now a Senior Postdoctoral Researcher supported by the prestigious Bushell Postdoctoral Research Fellowship from the Gastroenterology Society of Australia. Dr Wang is interested to understand the nature of inflammation in gut and lung and investigate the local and systemic impacts of chronic gut inflammation. In addition to a growing track-record in the mucosal immunology field, she is also building an inter-disciplinary research profile in material science and nanotechnology for drug delivery and immune modulation. She is the Associate Editor of Frontier of Cellular and Infection Microbiology Journal since 2018.

Dr. Zhuyuan Wang is a Postdoc Research Officer at UQ Dow Centre in the School of Chemical Engineering. He is an active and frontline researcher in the field of membrane separation with over 6 years of experience. He used to work at a listed membrane manufacturing company in China (2016-2019), focusing on developing Polyamide Thin Film Composite (PA-TFC) for water treatment. He then commenced his Ph.D. research at Monash university (2019-2023, Monash) under the supervision of Prof. Xiwang Zhang and Prof. Huanting Wang.

Zhuyuan is currently interested in developing ion-exchange membranes, especially proton exchange membranes, and in their application around electrolyzers for green hydrogen production and CO2 electrochemical reduction.

Zhuyuan has firstly authored high profile peer-reviewed journal papers, including Nature communications and Progress in polymer science. He developed a scalable production method for quality 2D materials, which has been awarded twice as the “Best project of the year” from ARC Industry Transformation Research Hub for Energy-efficient Separation (EESep).