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ProfessorDouglas Creighton

Deakin Distinguished Professor and Director, IISRI

Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/Institute for Intelligent Systems Research and Innovation

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  • Deakin Distinguished Professor and Director, IISRI
    Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/Institute for Intelligent Systems Research and Innovation
  • +61 3 522 72179 (Work)
  • Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus, 75 Pigdons Road, Waurn Ponds, Victoria 3216

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    Geelong Quality Council
    Committee member
  • COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
    National Rail Industry Group Executive Committee
    Elected in 2020 by the Australasian Rail Association Industry membership to National Rail Industry Group Executive Committee, in recognition his extensive R&D experience with Australian rail, automotive and aviation OEMs and SMEs, and to contribute to enabling Australian rail manufacturing and supplier sectors to prosper.
  • AFFILIATION
    Deakin University Academic Board
    1 Jan 2022 - 31 Dec 2024
    Deputy Chair
  • AFFILIATION
    University Research and Research Training Committee (RRTC)
    1 Jan 2016 - 31 Dec 2024
    Chair
  • AWARDS AND HONOURS
    Best paper awards
    Three best paper awards in 2012, including IEEE 14th International Conference on Modelling and Simulation.
  • AWARDS AND HONOURS
    Institute for Intelligent Systems Research and Innovation Award
    Excellence in Industry Collaboration: Rollingstock Predictive Maintenance team, led by Professor Doug Creighton, Dec 2020
  • AWARDS AND HONOURS
    2016 Society of Automotive Engineers (Australasia) Mobility Engineering Excellence Gold Award
    One of four Gold Awards for Engineering Excellence, for the research and development of an Ingress/Egress discomfort assessment algorithms and technology for automotive design to evaluate automotive designs prior to production.
  • AWARDS AND HONOURS
    Institute for Intelligent Systems Research and Innovation Award - 2020
    Excellence in Project Impact Electoral Commission Modelling and Simulation team
  • CONFERENCE ORGANISING
    Industrial Internet Summit 4.0 - Sydney
    26 Feb 2020 - 27 Feb 2020
    Invited chair
  • CONFERENCE ORGANISING
    AusRail 2020
    December 2020: Creating more inclusive public transport as we move toward universal accessibility
  • CONFERENCE ORGANISING
    Vic Government Transport Regulators Forum
    Nov 2020, Advanced Aerial Mobility in Australia
  • CONFERENCE ORGANISING
    RMCRC Forum 2019
    Sydney, Aug 2019, Rail data analytics insights and benefits
  • CONFERENCE ORGANISING
    NZRail, Auckland, June 2019
    Harmonising the Technology Future of the Australasian Rail Industry
  • CONFERENCE ORGANISING
    AusRail 2018 - Canberra
    Invited Panellist, Transport Technology: How to Embrace Data and Disruption
  • CONFERENCE ORGANISING
    ARA Telecommunications and Technology Forum 2018 - Melbourne
    Identifying a long-term program to improve the Rail industry's ability to adopt and keep pace with telecommunication and information-based technologies
  • CONFERENCE ORGANISING
    VicWater 2017 - Melbourne
    Keynote, Modelling the Future State of Electricity
  • CONFERENCE ORGANISING
    Aurecon Digital Transformation and Exemplar Forum workshops - 2015/2016
  • CONFERENCE ORGANISING
    Natural Resources Forum Perth (2014)
    Invited speaker
  • CONFERENCE ORGANISING
    Simulation - Importance of Research and Development, Asia Pacific Simulation Technology and Training Conference, Adelaide (2012)
    Invited speaker and expert panel member
  • EVENT PARTICIPATION
    AusRail 2019 - Sydney
    Invited Panellist, Smart rail: Technology of the future
  • EVENT PARTICIPATION
    Australian Defence Simulation Office Simulation Roundtable (2011-2014)
    Invited expert panel member
  • EVENT PARTICIPATION
    Aurecon global senior executive meeting, Sydney, 2016
  • PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
    SMART RAIL Route Map
    Contributed to the strategic direction of the Australian rail industry by leading the development of a 30-year framework to define rail industry focus, initiatives and research programs for integration and support of next-generation digital and telecommunications technologies, termed the SMART RAIL Route Map. This project applied a novel Systems Thinking Strategy for Technology Road Mapping (TRM) methodology.
  • PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
    Lead author on a Deakin Mobility Series whitepaper titled Advanced Aerial Mobility and eVTOL aircraft in Australia: Promise and Challenges
    Lead author on a Deakin Mobility Series whitepaper titled Advanced Aerial Mobility and eVTOL aircraft in Australia: Promise and Challenges, which has attracted considerable national and international interest. The paper aims to create a national discussion in Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) and raise awareness of eVTOL and AAM across a broad number of stakeholders in Australia. As a consequence, Prof. Creighton became an invited participant of various state and federal workgroups thinking about this emerging transport mode.