Professor Doreen Thomas was Head of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Melbourne 2000-2006 and she is also in charge of the Mathematics for Engineers program.
She received a B.Sc.Hons at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa, then went on to graduate with an MSc followed by the D.Phil.Degree in Mathematics at St Anne's College, University of Oxford.
Her research in Optimal Network Design has applications in Telecommunications, VLSI design, Computational Biology and Underground Mining and she has worked on optimisation problems in all these areas. She leads a team of researchers and PhD students working at the University of Melbourne with research funding from the Australian Research Council and Newmont Australia Ltd. She has worked with a number of mining companies on their underground mine design.
She is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Combinatorial Optimisation and a Senior member of IEEE. She is a Fellow of Engineers Australia. In April 2007 she will take up a Plumer Visiting Research Fellowship at St Anne's College, Oxford.
Professor Doreen Thomas spoke at WIC's February 2007 HOT Breakfast on the topic of "Leadership in ICT with a Difference".
Download Doreen Thomas's Presentation (WIC members only)
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Date: 7th February 2007
Format: Microsoft Power Point