Bhagya is a PhD student at Monash University. My project is titled “Road Pavement Maintenance Scheduling Accounting for Minimizing Congestion.” The primary objective of my research is to optimize the scheduling of pavement upgrades with the following goals in mind: minimizing traffic disruption across the Melbourne road network, ensuring upgrades are completed on time, and matching the work scheduled to the available equipment and appropriately skilled people. My supervisors are former OPTIMA CI Professor Mark Wallace and Associate Investigator Dr Ilankaikone Senthooran. Also there are two other non optima supervisors Dr Graeme Gange and Professor Le Hai Vu.