Associate Investigators

Christoph Bergmeir is a María Zambrano (Senior) Fellow in the Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at University of Granada, Spain, and an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence at Monash University. Before this, he was a Visiting Research Data Scientist at Meta Inc. (former Facebook Inc.) in California in the US, and a Senior Lecturer at Monash University. He has a track record of working in forecasting for capacity planning, sustainable energy, and supply chain, and has led teams that have delivered systems for short-term power production forecasting of wind and solar farms, and energy price forecasting. Christoph holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Granada, and an M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from the University of Ulm, Germany. He has over 5,800 citations and an h-index of 30. He has received more than AUD $2.7 million in external research funding. Four of his publications on time series forecasting over the last years have been Clarivate Web of Science Highly Cited Papers (top 1% of their research field).

Marcus is an Associate Professor in the School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering at The University of Queensland. His research interests and expertise are in optimisation, evolutionary computation and machine learning, including cross-disciplinary collaborations and real-world applications. He is particularly interested in understanding the relationship between algorithm performance and problem instance structure to quantify notions of problem difficulty in black-box optimisation. Marcus is also interested in algorithm benchmarking, experimental reproducibility and data-driven optimisation problems.

Tim Fletcher is a Professor of Urban Ecohydrology at the University of Melbourne.  He is internationally regarded for his expertise in waterway and stormwater management. His research focus includes urban hydrology, stormwater quality and the design and performance of stormwater treatment and harvesting systems.  Tim co-leads the Melbourne Waterway Research Practice Partnership at the University of Melbourne.  He is an author of the industry-standard Model for Urban Stormwater Improvement Conceptualisation (MUSIC) and in 2011 received a prestigious Australian Research Council Future Fellowship.  Tim is a former Invited Professor at INSA Lyon (2008-9) and is co-chair of the Novatech conference, one of the leading international conferences on integrated urban water management.

Lachlan L. H. Andrew received the B.Sc., B.E., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Melbourne in 1992, 1993, and 1997, respectively. He has been with the University of Melbourne since 2019. From 2014 to 2018, he was with Monash University and the Swinburne University of Technology, Australia, from 2008 to 2014. From 2010 to 2014, he was an ARC Future Fellow.

He was a Senior Research Fellow with the University of Melbourne and a Lecturer with RMIT, Australia. From 2005 to 2008, he was a Senior Research Engineer with the Department of Computer Science, Caltech. His research interests include algorithmic aspects of energy management and performance analysis of network resource allocation algorithms. He was a co-recipient of the ACM SIGMETRICS test of time award in 2021, The IEEE William R. Bennett Prize in 2014, and the best paper award at IGCC2012, IEEE INFOCOM 2011, and IEEE MASS 2007. He is a Member of the ACM.

Senthooran is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence at the Faculty of Information Technology with over ten years of experience in industry and academia. His current research focuses on applying advanced optimisation techniques to solve practical problems in many vital areas of our society, including energy, water, health services and sports. He also works in explainable AI developing generic methods for adding reasoning capabilities to decision-support systems to improve their useability. He has successfully delivered such ‘explainable’ systems to various industry partners. A few of his ongoing and past projects include the optimisation of the layout of chemical plants, the location and configuration of a network of hydrogen production plants, bulk water distribution, training of engineers, and sports schedule, as well as the development of an alert-safe nurse rostering.