Research group team
A/Prof Farnad Nasirzadeh
Farnad’s research focuses on improving workers’ safety and performance in construction and infrastructure projects. He has worked as a consultant for around 20 years in several large construction projects. He has received numerous awards such as the best research award from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and Research Excellence award from IPMA (Project Management Association). Farnad’s research aims to achieve max performance for human using technologies like wearables, computer vision, and automation.
Dr Chandan Karmakar
Chandan is a Senior lecturer in the School of Information Technology (IT). His research expertise is to combine signal processing and machine learning to predict, detect and classify different healthy and diseased conditions.
Dr Hannah Bereznicki
Hannah is a Research Fellow and Lecturer in the School of Psychology at Deakin University. Hannah’s research focuses on cognitive neuroscience, trauma, and mental health trajectories with the aim to improve mental health outcomes.
Dr Abdul-Manan Sadick
Sadick is a Senior Lecturer in the School of A+B. His research has focused on how individuals interact with the constructed environment, aiming to optimize environmental performance while simultaneously prioritizing the satisfaction, well-being, and productivity of people.
Dr Ahsan Habib
Ahsan is a Lecturer in Software Engineering in the School of Infromation Technology at Deakin University. His expertise is to use machine learning to predict health issues.
Dr Mostafa Mir
Mostafa is a Data Scientist in the Centre for Work Health and Safety, SafeWork NSW. His professional work has focused on applying advanced statistical and machine learning techniques to analyse large datasets related to work health and safety, and develop predictive models to identify potential risks and suggest preventive measures.
HDR students
Hadi Mahami
Farzaneh Moshtaghian
Md Abdullah Al Imran
Sanaz Sadeghi
Ihsan Ul Haq
Maedeh HR
Strategic Advisory Committee
The Workforce Safety and Performance Research and Innovation Group is supported by a Strategic Advisory Committee, comprising of Deakin and external stakeholders. They provide advice on research directions of the group, collaborations and industry engagement.
Members
Prof Brad Aisbett, School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Head of School, Deakin University
Prof Peter Enticott, School of Psychology, Pro Vice-Chancellor, Research Planning and Governance, Deakin University
Prof David Halliwell, Pro Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President, Partnerships, Deakin
Prof David Halliwell, Industry Professor, Deputy Dean SEBE, Deakin
Prof Brad Aisbett, Head of School of Exercise & Nutrition Sciences, Deakin
Prof Peter Enticott, Associate Dean of Research, Faculty of Health, Deakin
John Setka, Secretary of Victorian branch of the CFMEU