Professor Elizabeth Chang PhD, MSc, BSc, FIEEE

Professor Elizabeth Chang is Professor and Canberra Fellow in the School of Business, the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA). Her current research focuses on Defence Logistics; Intelligent Transportation, Ambient Security, Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet-of-Things; Trust and Risks, Situation Awareness in Ad-hoc enviornment; Virtual Collaborative Logistics and underlying technologies including data intelligence and real time big data analytics.

In combining IT and Logistics she empowers the research work and professional training in Logistics and Transporation in a way that would not otherwise be possible. She is excellent in working with public and private sector professionals, academics from many fields as well as PhD Students. She is motivated by the idea of “creating value by making connections’ and is  looking forward to working  with you locally and internationally to help build one of the best research groups in the world in the area of Logistics and Transportation and especially for Defence, public and private sectors, please contact her at elizabeth.chang@unsw.edu.au or e.chang@adfa.edu.au.

Her previous work as CIO/CTO for a multi-national transport logistics corporation in Hong Kong and the last 10 years of successful collaborative research with WA Department of Planning and Infrastructure, WA Department of Transport, Main Roads WA, Fleetwood Corp, Specialised Container Transports, Port Authorities; Blu-logistics and many Road Transport and Logistics Association and Societies, allowed her to acquire a thorough understanding of many issues facing the transportation and logistics industry nationally and globally, and these have provided deep insights and essential foundations for academic research and development and extension to Defence through ‘research and teaching informed by industry experience’.

Her previous academic achievement includes 20 Competitive Research Grants including 10 Australian Research Council (ARC) Grants worth over $11.5 million. She has supervised/co-supervised 38 PhD theses to completion. Her first PhD student, Dr Wenny Rahayu, received the Best Thesis Award from the Australian Association of Computer Science, 4 recent PhD theses have received the Chancellor’s Best Thesis Award, and 4 PhD graduates’ were awarded ARC Post-docs. She has delivered 36 Keynote/Planary speeches largely at major IEEE Conferences and published many scientific work including 6 authored, 8 edited books, 15 book chapters, 90+ International journal papers and over 300 refereed conference papers with an H-Index of 30 (Google Scholar)  and has over 5000 citations of her work. Her initial fundamental education in Computer Science and Software Engineering has given her a unique strength in applied and multidisciplinary science, social science and emerging technologies research.