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Transforming Maintenance through Data Science
Melinda Hodkiewicz
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Prof Melinda Hodkiewicz

Chief Investigator

Melinda is the BHP Billiton Research Fellow in Engineering for Remote Operations (ERO) at UWA.

Melinda specialises in Maintenance, Asset Management, Risk, Reliability, & Condition Monitoring. She is a passionate advocator for the value maintainers add and the potential for their observations help in improve reliability and as such Melinda is the Theme Leader for Theme One – Support the Maintainer.

Melinda represents UWA and Theme One on the Strategic Risk and Reporting Board, Operating Committee and PhD Support Panel. Melinda is Co Supervising PhD students Ziyu Zhao, Tyler Bikaun and Chau Nguyen.

Research Repository UWA

  • Friday 7 February 2025
    Welcome to 2025! CTMTDS is pleased to share news and highlights from the past few months IN THE SPOTLIGHT # Congratulations to Dr. Braden Thorne who has graduated! Braden passed his thesis with minor revisions by examiners. Sandy Spiers who has had his thesis passed with minor revisions by examiners, and has received a...
  • Saturday 13 April 2024
    Welcome to the first newsletter for 2024 where we'll cover all of the exciting activities so far in 2024! IN THE SPOTLIGHT # Congratulations to Ziyu Zhao, whose thesis was 'passed subject to minor revision'. Well done Ziyu! Congratulations also to Braden Thorne and Sandy Spiers who both submitted their theses in May...
  • Friday 1 December 2023
    This month's newsletter focuses on the activities in December IN THE SPOTLIGHT # Congratulations to Research Fellow Eden Li on winning the Innovation and Excellence in Research award in the Australian Business Deans Council ( abdc.edu.au ) for her Data Workflow Method. The panel was impressed with the strong engagement and collaboration...
  • Tuesday 21 November 2023
    This month's newsletter focuses on the activities in November and includes award won by our Research Fellows Eden Li and Sirui Li IN THE SPOTLIGHT # Congratulations to Research Fellow Eden Li on being named a finalist in the 2023 Research and Engagement Awards. These awards recognise the achievements of Curtin researchers across...
  • Monday 31 July 2023
    July was a quiet month for events as researchers travel to present their research and we introduce new industry partners to our Centre. TEAM NEWS # We welcome Peter Rose, Peter is the Alcoa Partner Representative for Centre joining our Strategic Risk and Reporting Board (SRRB). Johan Breytenbach has joined the SRRB representing Roy...
  • Friday 30 June 2023
    This newsletter focuses on the activities of the Centre during May and June; a busy time for preparing and participating in the 26th World Mining Congress in Brisbane TEAM NEWS # BHP MECoE and CTMDS researchers from Perth that travelled to the World Mining Congress took the opportunity to catch up in...
  • Thursday 11 May 2023
    Welcome to the first newsletter for 2023! We ended 2022 with two events that showcased research across our themes to industry partners. The new year began with the arrival of two new post-doctoral researchers to the Centre. In May, they teamed up with a couple of PhD students to form a...
  • Tuesday 30 August 2022
    This month's newsletter focuses on Translation Theme 4 - Support the Organisation. IN THE SPOTLIGHT # Congratulations to Tim French on his promotion to Associate Professor, School of Physics, Maths and Computing, Computer Science and Software Engineering at UWA! Team News # New members joining the Centre in August include: Manuel Cifuentes, the BHP representative...
  • Wednesday 10 August 2022
    This month's newsletter focuses on the activities of Translation Theme 5. IN THE SPOTLIGHT # Congratulations to Eden Li and Mark Griffin for winning two awards for their conference paper at the World Building Congress 2022, organised by CIB, the International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction ! Their...
  • Wednesday 29 June 2022
    This month's newsletter focuses on Research Theme 1 - Support the maintainer. IN THE SPOTLIGHT # Congratulations to Tyler Bikaun whose paper "QuickGraph: A Rapid Annotation Tool for Knowledge Graph Extraction from Technical Text" was accepted into the Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, a top-ranking...
  • Friday 1 April 2022
    This month's newsletter focuses on Research Theme 3 - Support the decision maker. IN THE SPOTLIGHT # Congratulations to Ryan Loxton on the recently-launched Curtin Centre for Optimisation and Decision Science. This new centre focuses on developing efficient mathematical techniques for the optimisation and control of complex systems. It closely aligned with...
  • Monday 7 February 2022
    In 2022 the Centre's newsletter will be sent out monthly. Along with any exciting events or news, we'll be focusing on research that is being conducted by one of the Centre's Themes. We'll begin this month with Translation Theme 5. IN THE SPOTLIGHT # Congratulations to Melinda Hodkiewicz! # Congratulations to Theme 1...
  • Tuesday 11 January 2022
    Welcome to an update on CTMTDS activities Aug - Dec 2021. Team Updates # Changes to the members of the Centre in the second six months of 2021: One new PhD student, Chau Nguyen, joined the Centre in October. Chau will complete his PhD at UWA within Theme 1 supervised by Tim French...
  • Wednesday 18 August 2021
    Welcome to an update on CTMTDS activities Jan - Jun 2021. Team Updates # Changes to the members of the Centre in the first six months of 2021 include welcoming: Two new PhD students: Sandy Spiers joined the Centre in February. Sandy will complete his PhD at Curtin University within Theme 3, supervised by...
  • Wednesday 6 January 2021
    Welcome to an update on CTMTDS activities. Highlights # Research Fellow for Theme 1 Michael Stewart PhD was accepted, congratulations to Dr Michael Stewart. Chief investigator for Theme 1 Dr Wei Lui is now Associate Professor Wei Lui – congratulations Wei.· PhD Candidates Yingying Yang, Tyler Bikaun, and Ryan Leadbetter completed their first candidacy...
  • Monday 23 November 2020
    Welcome to an update on CTMTDS activities. Highlights # Gabriel González has successfully completed his first candidacy milestone. He presented his PhD research proposal at the Researchers Catch-Up on Friday, 7 July 2020. Melinda Hodkiewicz has been elected to the MRIWA College of Experts. The primary function of the College is to provide...
  • Tuesday 12 May 2020
    Welcome to an update on CTMTDS activities. Highlights # CTMTDS Launch # The Australian Research Council Training Centre for Transforming Maintenance through Data Science was officially launched at a ceremony held at Curtin University on Friday 21 February. The event, emceed by Prof Andrew Rohl, was attended by the Honourable Steve Irons MP,...