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Director, SMART Infrastructure Facility
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UOW
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Prof Perez is the Director of the SMART Infrastructure Facility at the University of Wollongong, overseeing research in infrastructure-related fields such as water and energy efficiency, future transport and mobility, smart cities and communities, as well as infrastructure system engineering and logistics. He is a specialist of integrative infrastructure modelling and socio-technological transitions. Pascal is a Fellow of the Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand (MSSANZ) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales. He is the Chair of the Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network’s Scientific Advisory Committee (AURIN), as well as a member of the Executive Council of IOT Alliance Australia (IOTAA), and a member of the International Advisory Board of UK’s Collaboratorium for Research on Infrastructure and Cities (UKCRIC).
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Smart Cities
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Associate Professor
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UOWD
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Food Security: A large scale national collaborative project on food security in the UAE
Dr Sundarakani is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Business at the University of Wollongong in Dubai (UOWD). He has 20 years of teaching and research experience in the area of Supply Chain Management across various universities including the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Tiruchirappalli, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee, the National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland. The total worth of his research and consulting projects are valued at around S$2 Million plus AED 7,185,000. In March 2020, He was awarded an AED 6.9 Million grant from the Ministry of Education, UAE for Food safety research in collaboration with IQBA, Dubai Municipality and UAE University.
Dr Sundarakani is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Business at the University of Wollongong in Dubai (UOWD). He has 20 years of teaching and research experience in the area of Supply Chain Management across various universities including the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Tiruchirappalli, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee, the National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland. The total worth of his research and consulting projects are valued at around S$2 Million plus AED 7,185,000. In March 2020, He was awarded an AED 6.9 Million grant from the Ministry of Education, UAE for Food safety research in collaboration with IQBA, Dubai Municipality and UAE University.
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Food Security: A large scale national collaborative projec on food security in the UAE
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Associate Professor
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UOWD
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Food Security: A large scale national collaborative project on food security in the UAE
Dr Ioannis Manikas is Associate Professor in Logistics and Supply Chain Management at the University of Wollongong in Dubai. His work experience includes twelve years of post-doctorate experience working as an academic and consultant in the UK, and the UAE, as well as ten years of pre-doctorate experience, working as a researcher, consultant, and adjunct lecturer in Greece and the UK, and in Central America. Until 2016, Dr Manikas was Principal Lecturer in Logistics and SCM and Director of Business Studies at the University of Greenwich, Department of Systems Management and Strategy. He has participated in a total of 13 research and consultancy projects. Dr Manikas is author of 55 journal publications, book chapters and conference papers. Dr Manikas is currently the Principal Investigator for the READY project, with a focus on Food Security and Supply Chain Resilience for the UAE, funded by the UAE Ministry of Education (AED 6.8M). He is also the Principal Investigator for two internal research grants, with a focus on Urban Food Production methods for the UAE.
Dr Ioannis Manikas is Associate Professor in Logistics and Supply Chain Management at the University of Wollongong in Dubai. His work experience includes twelve years of post-doctorate experience working as an academic and consultant in the UK, and the UAE, as well as ten years of pre-doctorate experience, working as a researcher, consultant, and adjunct lecturer in Greece and the UK, and in Central America. Until 2016, Dr Manikas was Principal Lecturer in Logistics and SCM and Director of Business Studies at the University of Greenwich, Department of Systems Management and Strategy. He has participated in a total of 13 research and consultancy projects. Dr Manikas is author of 55 journal publications, book chapters and conference papers. Dr Manikas is currently the Principal Investigator for the READY project, with a focus on Food Security and Supply Chain Resilience for the UAE, funded by the UAE Ministry of Education (AED 6.8M). He is also the Principal Investigator for two internal research grants, with a focus on Urban Food Production methods for the UAE.
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Food Security: A large scale national collaborative projec on food security in the UAE
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UOWMKDU
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Global Health: Machine Learning and Computer Vision Entomology: How data mining transform public health and biodiversity conservation
