People | ARC Research Hub for Digital Enhanced Living

Researchers at the Hub are drawn from a diverse range of disciplines.

The ARC Research Hub brings together eight partner industry collaborators, and five Australian and six international universities led by Deakin University’s Co-Directors of Applied Artificial Intelligence Institute (A2I2), Alfred Deakin Professors Kon Mouzakis and ARC Laureate Professor Svetha Venkatesh.

Researchers are experts in a variety of fields including nursing, aged care, palliative care, health informatics, sport and exercise science, human computer interaction, pattern recognition and data analysis and software engineering.

The Hub has close collaborations with research teams from:

Institutional / Domestic

Professor Kon Mouzakis Deakin University – Alfred Deakin Professor, Hub Director
Professor Svetha Venkatesh Deakin University – Alfred Deakin Professor, ARC Laureate, Hub Deputy Director
Professor John Grundy Monash University – ARC Laureate, Translational Director
Professor Rajesh Vasa Deakin University – Chief Investigator
Professor Alison Hutchinson Deakin University – Alfred Deakin Professor, Chief Investigator
Professor Michael Berk Barwon Health – Alfred Deakin Professor, Chief Investigator
Professor Ralph Maddison Deakin University – Chief Investigator
Professor Abbas Kouzani Deakin University – Chief Investigator
Professor John Yearwood Deakin University – Chief Investigator
Professor Nilmini Wickramasinghe Deakin University – Chief Investigator
Assoc Professor Santu Rana Deakin University – Chief Investigator
Assoc Professor Truyen Tran Deakin University – Chief Investigator
Professor Sunil Gupta Deakin University – Chief Investigator
Dr Wei Luo Deakin University – Chief Investigator
Professor Mohamed Abdelrazek Deakin University – Chief Investigator
Dr Leonard Hoon Deakin University – Chief Investigator
Emeritus Professor Anthony Maeder Flinders University – Chief Investigator
Professor David Powers Flinders University – Chief Investigator
Professor Helen Christensen Black Dog Institute – Chief Investigator
Professor Patricia Williams Flinders University – Chief Investigator
Professor Sue Gordon Flinders University – Chief Investigator
Assoc Professor Niranjan Bidargaddi Flinders University – Chief Investigator
Assoc Professor Felix Tan University of New South Wales – Chief Investigator
Dr Kit Huckvale University of New South Wales (Rep Black Dog Institute) – Chief Investigator
Peter Dafnas Deakin University – Senior Partnerships Manager
Kevin Hoon Deakin University – Hub Manager
Dr Scott Barnett Deakin University – Chief Investigator
Professor Jean-Guy Schneider Deakin University – Chief Investigator
Associate Professor Carsten Rudolph Monash University – Chief Investigator
Dr Jordan Vincent Deakin University – Chief Investigator
Dr Anju Curumsing Deakin University – Chief Investigator
Dr Anupam Chaudhuri Deakin University – Research Fellow

Institutional / International

Professor Henning Langberg University of Copenhagen, Denmark – Partner Investigator
Assoc Professor Lars Kayser University of Copenhagen, Denmark – Partner Investigator
Professor Freimut Bodendorf Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen, Nuremberg – Partner Investigator
Dr Hemant Ghayvat Technical University of Denmark – Partner Investigator
Professor Jim Warren The University of Auckland – Partner Investigator
Dr Roopak Sinha Auckland University of Technology – Partner Investigator
Professor Alan Smeaton Dublin City University – Partner Investigator
Professor Finn Kensing University of Copenhagen, Denmark – Partner Investigator

Industry

Fonda Voukelatos Uniting AgeWell – Partner Investigator
Trudy Sutton ACH Group – Partner Investigator
Matt Macfarlane Icetana – Partner Investigator
John Fouyaxis GoAct – Partner Investigator
David Varley C-Born – Partner Investigator
Nina Bowes Uniting AgeWell – Partner Investigator
Nicole Cockayne University of New South Wales (Rep Black Dog Institute) – Partner Investigator
Peter DeYoung C-Born – Partner Investigator
Voytek Szapirko NeoProducts Pty Ltd – Partner Investigator
Dr Tanya Petrovich Dementia Australia – Partner Investigator
Dr Tom McClean Uniting NSW.ACT, Partner Investigator
Sharon Grocott Interrelate, Partner Investigator
Dr Steven Strange Health Metrics, Partner Investigator

PhD Students

Kerry Rigby, Deakin University
Duc Xuan Nguyen, Deakin University
Ben Joseph Philip, Deakin University
Shangeetha Sivasothy, Deakin University
Tara Johnson, Deakin University
Rebecca Nourse, Deakin University & University of Copenhagen
Hala Abdelkader, Deakin University
Judith Hocking, Flinders University
Nicky Baker, Flinders University
Roxanne Llamzon, The University of New South Wales
Bokyung Lee, The University of New South Wales