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Rahul studied Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), for his Bachelor and Master degrees in 2014 and 2016, respectively. 

He obtained his PhD from the University of Melbourne in 2021 and is currently working on a Melbourne Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Faculty of Engineering & Information Technology (FEIT).

Jamie Evans is a Professor in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Pro Vice-Chancellor (Education) at the University of Melbourne. He studied at the University of Newcastle (upon Hunter, not Tyne) and at the University of Melbourne and has worked previously at the University of California, Berkeley (Go Bears!), the University of Sydney and Monash University.

His main research area is wireless communications including wireless power transfer, an idea that Tesla experimented with. He loves teaching, and he loves movies, his favourite being the 1987 Aussie gem, The Big Steal

Mitch Goodwin is a media artist, curator and an academic with a research focus on digital aesthetics, media ecologies, education futures and cultures of automation. He has a diverse publication profile including critical media studies, curriculum design, and digital anthropology. He writes regularly for The Conversation on music and culture.

He is currently developing a monograph and a media assemblage, The Digital Gothic, and working with generative AI for an international collaboration, Slow Down Time. Mitch is a Liverpool FC fan and a Bowie tragic.

Scarlet is a BSc M. Mechanical Engineering student at the University of Melbourne. Coupled with her passions revolving around space, science and building a more sustainable future, she also has a deep appreciation for music and the arts, and has immersed herself in the world of Bowie’s music and has thus developed an understanding of the creative vision that inspired his work.  

David J. Gunkel is an author, award-winning researcher and educator, and leading scholar in the field of AI and robot ethics. He has written and published fourteen books, including The Machine Question:  Critical Perspectives on AI, Robots and Ethics  (MIT Press 2012),  Robot Rights  (MIT Press 2018),  How to Survive a Robot Invasion  (Routledge 2020), and Person, Thing, Robot: A Moral and Legal Ontology for the 21st Century and Beyond (MIT Press 2022). He currently holds the position of Presidential Research, Scholarship and Artistry Professor in the Department of Communication at Northern Illinois University (USA). 

Katja Hölttä-Otto is a Professor of Engineering Design in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Melbourne. She is a recipient of the USA National Science Foundation CAREER award and serves as an associate editor for the Design Science Journal.

Prof. Hölttä-Otto works in design theory and methodology with specific emphasis on interdisciplinary topics linked to engineering design. Her expertise includes creativity in engineering, empathy and user centered design, design thinking and design methods in general.

Javane received her Bachelor's degree and Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Amirkabir University of Technology (2016) and Sharif University of Technology (2019), respectively.

Currently, she is a PhD student in the Faculty of Engineering & Information Technology (FEIT) at the University of Melbourne.

Professor Joe Klewicki is Head of the School of Electrical, Mechanical and Electrical (“EMI”) Engineering at The University of Melbourne, and the Director of Infrastructure for the Faculty of Engineering and IT. He is a Fellow of the Australasian Fluid Mechanics Society, the American Physical Society, and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

As a researcher, Professor Klewicki specialises in experimental methods in fluid dynamics, turbulent and unsteady flows, vorticity dynamics, boundary layers, and atmosphere surface layer phenomena. He received his BS (1983), MS (1985) and PhD (1989) degrees from MSU, Georgia Tech and MSU respectively.

Melissa Kozul is a Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne. She obtained her PhD at the University of Melbourne in 2018 and was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Thermo Fluids Research Group at NTNU for three years prior to her current appointment. Melissa’s research expertise is in the high-fidelity numerical simulation of fundamental turbulent flows that feature critically in energy and transport technologies.

To date her research interests have included turbulent wall-bounded flows and turbulent gas-liquid flows. Her most recent work focuses on the highly complex turbulent flows within the gas turbines used to produce electricity and propel airplanes.

As a MD & chief executive of veski Julia leads a team responsible for the continued development and delivery of veski’s programs which include a prestigious fellowships program, an inspiring women program and a range of complementary skills, training and education activities.

Julia contributes to the councils and committees of the Australian British Chamber of Commerce, St Vincent’s Hospital Foundation; Medicines Manufacturing Innovation Centre; Inspiring Australia – Vic and AgTech Seeds pre-accelerator program. Julia is also a Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Claudia Sandberg is a film historian and filmmaker who teaches at the University of Melbourne. Her research activities evolve around Cold War audio-visual memory, German and Latin American cinemas, and socialist film cultures. Sandberg is the author of Peter Lilienthal. A Cinema of Exile and Resistance (Berghahn Books, 2021) and she co-edited the volumes Contemporary Latin American Cinema. Resisting Neoliberalism? (2018) and The German Cinema Book (2nd edition, 2020). Together with Alejandro Areal Vélez she made Hidden Films. A Journey From Exile to Memory (2016), a documentary that examines the value of DEFA Chile films as audio-visual memory of the Pinochet dictatorship.

Professor Justin Zobel is the University of Melbourne’s Pro-Vice Chancellor (Graduate & International Research), with oversight of the University's research degrees and international research relationships.

In the research community, Professor Zobel is best known for his role in the development of algorithms for efficient web search and for his contributions to robust research methodologies. He is the author of three highly regarded textbooks on graduate study and research practice.