Melanie of University of Waikato

Biography:

Associate Professor Dr. Melanie Ooi received her PhD from Monash University in 2011. She was an Associate Professor and Programme Director of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Heriot-Watt University's Malaysia campus before moving to Unitec Institute of Technology New Zealand as Head of Engineering. She is currently an Associate Professor in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, and Assistant Dean (Research) at The University of Waikato.

Melanie has introduced pioneering industry-academic engineering programs that has been implemented in Monash University and RMIT University. Her research in electronics test technologies has led to several proposals of new testing standards and methodologies that have been adopted by the industry (Freescale Semiconductor, Texas Instruments, Western Digital etc). In addition to electronics test, she has proposed new standard and expanded uncertainty theories and frameworks with application to medical measurement, structural and mechanical systems. Her work in measurement uncertainty propagation has been adopted by the South African National Accreditation System (national body responsible for conformity assessment) in their guidelines document TG 50-02 since October 2017.