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I am a Senior Lecturer in Mathematical Data Science, at School of Mathematics and Physics, The University of Queensland. I obtained my BSc degree in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, from Beijing Normal University in 2006. I obtained my MPhil and PhD degrees from City University of Hong Kong in 2008 and 2011 respectively, where I was working as a research fellow from Oct 2011 to Feb 2013. During Feb 2013 -- Aug 2014, I was working as a postdoctoral associate at Department of Statistical Science, Duke University. Before joining UQ in Jan 2022, I worked at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. My research interests cover statistical learning theory (kernel methods, stochastic gradient methods, support vector machine, pairwise learning, online learning, error analysis, sparsity analysis, and the implementation of algorithms), mathematical data science, and their applications to artificial intelligence, immunological bioinformatics, systems biology, and computational social science.

Dr Xiao Guo is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The University of Queensland. He received his PhD from UQ in 2022. His research focuses on scanning near-field optical microscopy (s-SNOM) and light–matter interactions in nanomaterials and nanostructures across the mid-infrared to terahertz spectrum. Since 2022, he has completed 70+ independent peer reviews for internationally recognised journals, including Nature Communications, Light: Science & Applications, and ACS Photonics. He lectures ELEC3100: Fundamentals of Electromagnetic Fields and Waves at UQ. He has delivered invited talks at NFO-17 and a 50-minute invited seminar at IRMMW-THz 2024.

His community service includes interim session chair (THz) at ISUPTW 2024 (IEEE Photonics Society), Technical Program Committee member for the 4th and 5th International Conference on Advanced Optics & Photonics Research in Engineering, Youth Editorial Board member of PhotoniX Life, and external grant reviewer for a European funder. His invited review on terahertz near-field optical microscopy in Applied Physics Reviews was recognised as an ESI Highly Cited Paper (top 1%) in 2024 and 2025. He is a member of the Institute of Physics (IOP), the American Chemical Society (ACS), and the Australian Institute of Physics (AIP).

Personal website: xiaoguo1995.github.io/

Lei Guo (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc. degree in electronics information science and technology from Xidian University, Xi’an, China, in 2010, and the M.Eng. degree in microwave engineering and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, in 2012 and 2017, respectively.

His current research interests include electromagnetic medical imaging, biomedical signal processing, physics-guided deep learning in microwave medical imaging, and microwave circuit design for millimetre-wave antenna array systems.

Dr. Guo received the IEEE R.W. P. King Award for the Best Paper published in IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION in 2015, several Best Paper prizes at international conferences, e.g., the Best Paper Prize at the International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (ISAP), two Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project Grants in 2023 and 2024, and Advanced Queensland Fellowship in 2021.

He is also an Associate Editor of IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING and Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, and a Guest Editor of IEEE ANTENNAS AND WIRELESS PROPAGATION LETTERS.

Prof Guo joined the Advanced Water Management Centre (AWMC), renamed as the Australian Centre for Water and Environmental Biotechnology in July 2021, at The University of Queensland in 2013. He is currently the ACWEB Deputy Director - Research. His research focuses on effective integration of process engineering, environmental microbiology and environmental biotechnology to develop innovative and sustainable solutions to achieve high-levels of contaminant removal from water or wastewater. He is also an active researcher in environmental dimension of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). As a pioneer, Prof Guo and his team discovered that non-antibiotic pharmaceuticals/chemicals contribute to the spread of AMR, which has substantially augmented our understating of the causes of AMR. His ground-breaking findings have been covered by many mainstream media outlets, including ABC News, The Daily Mail, Science Daily and The Courier-Mail, via over 100 press stories. He has to date won over $14M in government, industry and university research funding including ARC Discovery and Linkage, mostly as the lead Chief Investigator. He has published more than 200 fully refereed papers both in multidisciplinary journals such as PNAS and Nature Communications, and specialised journals including The ISME Journal, Water Research and Environmental Science & Technology. His research output and achievements have been recognized through national and international awards or fellowship, including 2013 Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) and 2017 Australian Research Council Future Fellowship. He is an Editor of the Journal of Hazardous Materials, Water Science & Technology, and an Associate Editor of Water Research.

I bring industry and academic experience in working on quantum error mitigation, quantum error correction, and quantum control theory to enable quantum computing demonstrations on hardware. I am currently investigating the feasibility of combining error mitigation and error correction techniques with quantum algorithms at the University of Queensland. My team's recent focus spans quantum kernel methods, quantum Hamiltonian simulations for chemistry and optimization, and analysis of quantum channels and their impact on quantum learning. While my group is a theoretical physics research group, we focus on hardware-aware algorithms design and have close partnerships with superconducting qubit experimental platforms at UQ and IBM, with supporting classical computational compute capability at Pawsey Sentonix through NCMAS. I co-lead the quantum computing workstream with Prof. Sally Shrapnel for the Queensland Digital Health Center; I work closely with Prof. Eleanor Rieffel quantum algorithms aligned with the work of the newly established Queensland Decarbonization Alliance and I lead the Asia Pacific Hub of IBM Quantum's Industry Working Group for Healthcare and Lifesciences. Prior to this, I worked on execution of dynamic circuits for error mitigation and quantum error correction applications at IBM Quantum (US) for three years. My work resulted in 3 patents and being recognised as one of IBM Research’s Top Technical Contributors in 2023 globally. I have also designed classical algorithms for noise filtering and prediction for trapped ions at the Quantum Control Laboratory in the University of Sydney, winning ARC EQUS inaugural Director’s Medal in Australia in 2019. QDA is hiring a postdoc position in Quantum Algorithms (https://lnkd.in/e9jZQUEt) and funning two Ph.D positions: Robust Quantum Algorithms for Decarbonisation Applications (https://lnkd.in/gQ3S6bjY) & Distributed Quantum-Enhanced Algorithms (https://lnkd.in/gV7z4EQj)

Professor Gurgenci's current research interests include energy systems analysis; geothermal and concentrating solar thermal power plant technologies; development of intelligent tutoring and compterised assessment systems for teaching machine design.

Hal Gurgenci, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, has many years of industry and academic experience in solar energy, manufacturing and mining. Professor Gurgenci is the Founding Director of the Queensland Geothermal Energy Centre of Excellence (QGECE).

Dr Adrien Guyot is an environmental scientist whose research focuses on the impacts of climate variability on ecosystems. His current role at the School of Civil Engineering within the University of Queensland is to manage projects, in the different aspects of their lifetime: from attracting fundings to support research, designing methods to address fundamental or practical issues, implementing and following up everyday life of projects, to the delivery and the communication of the results. He is using a combination of cutting edge environmental sensors and advanced numerical models to address the complexity of the processes. He is currently working on a few applied projects (details below), with a particular focus on specific issues related to Australian landscapes: droughts and wildfires. He is particularly interested in developing methods to characterise processes to further improve environmental management.

Adrien is also involved in teaching, giving some guest lectures in catchment hydrology courses, or sustainable designs at The University of Queensland. He is always keen to work with undergraduate and postgraduate students and regularly proposes some projects. Feel free to contact him!

Amber is a writer, editor, and communications strategist who teaches in the Writing, Editing and Publishing program. Her PhD, which received a Dean's Award for Outstanding HDR Theses, focused on the experiences of readers with a history of depression who choose and use self-help books. This research considered the ways readers interact with texts, from a reader-response or reader-reception approach. Amber has an enduring interest in publishing ecosystems, popular psychology, illness narratives, and user-centred writing.

In addition to her teaching, Amber works as a communications adviser for the Queensland Department of Education and as production manager and copyeditor for the Journal of Australian Studies. Her essays and creative non-fiction have been published in Griffith Review, Overland, and Kill Your Darlings, among others.

Diep Ha is a dentist and a mid-career researcher at the UQ School of Dentistry. She completed her PhD in Oral Epidemiology at the University of Adelaide. Relative to opportunities, Diep Ha has made exceptional contributions to the national population-based research programs in child oral health. Her contribution was evidenced in research leadership as a Chief Investigator in three successful NHMRC projects, in intellectual input to development of new data collection instruments such as questionnaires, oral epidemiological examination protocols.

Diep Ha is interested in conducting population-based research investigating complex interactions between multilevel determinants of oral health. Her current focus is on effects of fluoride use, dietary patterns on oral health, improve oral health that lead to better health, quality of life and reducing inequality among vulnerable populations.

Diep Ha is currently supervising several PhD, Master by research and Honours students. She currently mentors a team of ECRs in conducting the two projects, of which she is a Chief Investigator.

I am a clinician scientist and academic leader with research in melanoma cell biology and experimental melanoma therapy. I received my degree in medicine from the University of Heidelberg, Germany (1990-1998). I graduated summa cum laude with a PhD in Cell Biology from the University of Heidelberg (1993-1999) and trained in clinical dermatology at the University of Hamburg, Germany (1999-2003). In 2003 I moved to Philadelphia, PA, to work as a post-doctoral fellow in Meenhard Herlyn’s lab at The Wistar Institute (2003-2007). From there I was recruited as an associate faculty member to the Centenary Institute/University of Sydney (2007-2013). In 2013 I commenced a position as Associate Professor for Cutaneous Oncology at University of Queensland Diamantina Institute (now Frazer Institute) and was promoted to full Professor in April 2016.

I am a trauma and emergency radiologist and forensic radiologist in Brisbane, Queensland. I am the Academic Lead for Clinical Radiology at the UQ medical school and have been involved with Radiopaedia.org since 2015.

Valerie’s research focusses on coastal ecosystem conservation and restoration. She holds an AXA-UNESCO research fellowship on mangrove community forestry for resilient coastal livelihoods, endorsed as an action of the UN Ocean Decade. She co-leads a National Environmental Science Program (NESP) project on carbon abatement and biodiversity enhancements from controlling feral ungulates in wetlands in Australia and is developing a framework to measure verified biodiversity benefits in coastal wetland restoration projects in partnership with CSIRO. She recently led a NESP project on coastal wetland restoration opportunities in Australia for blue carbon and co-benefits for biodiversity, fisheries, water quality, and coastal protection and an Australian Research Council linkage project to identify social and ecological conditions that enable effective mangrove conservation over global and regional scales with partners at The Nature Conservancy and Healthy Land and Water. She has published research on the drivers of global mangrove losses and gains and coastal wetland restoration opportunities. She has co-authored international guidelines on mangrove restoration with Conservation International and incorporation of coastal wetlands into national greenhouse gas inventories with the Australian Government International Blue Carbon Partnerships. Valerie is an experienced ecologist and is a board member of the Society of Ecological Restoration Australasia and a representative of Australia’s Restoration Decade Alliance.