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ProfessorVicky Mak

Professor

Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/School of Information Technology

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  • Professor
    Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment/School of Information Technology
  • +61 3 925 17670 (Work)
  • Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125

BIO

Prof Mak-Hau leads the Advancing Optimization for Future Challenges Research
Program, overseeing fundamental research in industrial automation and
optimization with industry applications in Transportation, Energy, Defence,
SATCOM, and Health. Find out more about our research and find out how you can
harness the capabilities of my research team, our students to help build or
optimize your business.

Prof Mak-Hau obtained her PhD from the University of Melbourne, Department of
Mathematics and Statistics, in 2002. She completed two years of postdoctoral
research fellowship at CMIS/CSIRO and the University of Melbourne before
joining Deakin University in 2004.

Prof Vicky Mak-Hau was one of the Chief Investigators in three ARC Discovery
Projects and one ARC LIEF project (AUD 1.38M total), and is the lead CI in a
number of industry funded projects and Deakin funded projects. To date, she
has attracted over AUD $3.52M external research funding and over $727K Deakin
internal funding.

Research Groups
Prof Mak-Hau established and leads the Advancing Optimization for Emerging
Challenges Research Program. She also co-leads the Mathematics Lab, D2I

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY CURRENT APPOINTMENT

  • Professor
    Deakin University, School of Information Technology

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Professor
    Deakin University, School of Information Technology, Australia1 Jan 2024 - present
  • Associate Professor
    Deakin University, School of Information Technology, Australia1 Jan 2020 - 31 Jan 2023
  • Senior Lecturer
    Deakin University, School of Information Technology, Melbourne, Australia1 Jan 2009 - 31 Dec 2019
  • Lecturer
    Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia19 Jan 2004 - 31 Dec 2008
  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow
    University of Melbourne, Mathematics and Statistics, Melbourne, Australia2 Jul 2002 - 31 Dec 2003
  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow
    Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Mathematics and Information Sciences, Clayton South, Australia19 Nov 2001 - 30 Jun 2002

DEGREES

  • Doctor of Philosophy
    University of Melbourne
  • Graduate Certificate of Higher Education
    Deakin University
  • Bachelor of Science
    Deakin University

CERTIFICATIONS

  • Graduate Certificate of Higher Education
    Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia1 Sep 2006 - 1 Sep 2006

POSTGRADUATE TRAINING

  • Postdoctoral Fellowship
    Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Clayton South, Australia
    Postdoctoral Fellowship
  • Postdoctoral Fellowship
    University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
    Postdoctoral Fellowship

LANGUAGES

  • English
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review
  • Chinese (Cantonese)
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review
  • Chinese (Mandarin)
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review

FIELDS OF RESEARCH

  • Applied mathematics
  • Numerical and computational mathematics
  • Satisfiability and optimisation
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Operations research
  • Transportation, logistics and supply chains
  • Data engineering and data science
  • Satellite communications
  • Optimisation

AVAILABILITY FOR SUPERVISION

  • Masters by Research and PhD supervision

AREA/FACULTY

  • Faculty of Science Engineering and Built Environment

DEPARTMENT/SCHOOL/INSTITUTE/DISCIPLINE

  • School of Information Technology

AREAS OF EXPERTISE