ITRI’s first research conference a success

Alfred Deakin Professor Saeid Nahavandi has declared the Institute for Technology Research and Innovation’s (ITRI) inaugural research conference an overwhelming success.

The brainchild of Professor Nahavandi - who heads up the globally-regarded Centre for Intelligent Systems Research within ITRI - the conference was held at the Waterfront Campus in Geelong in November.

“We had an excellent attendance by all our researchers all wanting to hear what their colleagues were doing,” Professor Nahavandi said.

“More importantly we had a fantastic exchange of ideas and that is the very core of ITRI - interdisciplinary research.”

Professor Lee Astheimer, Deakin’s DVC (Research) formally opened the conference.

Other guest speakers included Professor Roger Horn, Deakin’s Director of Research Training, and newly graduated PhD student, Dr Mandy Herring.

Dr Herring spoke vividly of the journey from student to staff member within ITRI.

A highlight of day two of the conference was an address by keynote speaker Professor Maria Forsyth, Associate Director of the Australian Centre for Electro-materials Science at Monash University.

Her address was on the topic Novel Electro-materials and Electro-interphases: from Energy to Sustainable Infrastructure.

In addition more than 80 of ITRI’s researchers got the chance to showcase their research projects and to have their presentations judged by their peers.

The winners, presented with certificates and a cheque at the end of the conference, were:
(1st Year) Tarannum Afrin
(1st Year) Rasika Dinayadura
(2nd Year) Jinfeng Wang
(3rd Year) Yaqiong Zhou

For more information about ITRI:
www.deakin.edu.au/itri

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