People

Andreas Hamacher

Lead Capability Developer

Andreas is a software developer with a history in scientific visualisation applications and research. After earning his bachelor degree in scientific programming he was employed at RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, in the Virtual Reality Group which also operates a CAVE system. There, Andreas worked across disciplines, helping researchers apply visualisation and VR methods to their fields.

Owen Kaluza

Senior Visualisation Specialist

Owen is a software developer with a keen interest in graphics applications and research who has wide experience creating software solutions in a range of fields. Since graduating from La Trobe University with a degree in Computer Science in 2009 he has been working with researchers at Monash developing cross-platform and web-based 3D visualisation software and parallel GPU-based implementations of scientific software. Owen is a senior visualisation specialist and develops tools for viewing and interacting with scientific datasets in high-resolution immersive VR environments and explores new scientific and creative applications of CAVE2.

Toan Nguyen

Senior Visualisation Specialist

Toan is a highly passionate software developer and researcher, focusing primarily on development of algorithms and applications for biomedical imaging, image processing, computer vision, video coding, and scientific data and visualisation. He obtained a bachelor degree with first-class honours in software engineering from Ho Chi Minh City University of Science, Vietnam, in 2005. He then received his MS and PhD in computer science from Chonnam National University, South Korea, in 2008 and 2012 respectively.

Daniel Waghorn

Graphics Software Specialist

Daniel is a creative computing software developer with a particular interest in computer graphics and music. After completing a degree in games development at Monash University in 2007, Daniel moved to research into acceleration of musical synthesis routines using graphics processors, as well as human-computer music performance using interactive swarm algorithms. As a developer, he has worked with a wide range of game and media technologies to design and build software for research and education projects.

Kingsley Stephens (affiliate)

Senior Visualisation Software Specialist (Faculty of IT / Monash eResearch Programmer)

Nora Hamacher

Research Assistant

She has a Bachelor of Science in Scientific Programming (Aachen, Germany) and a Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence (Maastricht University, Netherlands) where her biggest interests were text and datamining as well as agent based AI.

John Pollard

Tactical Simulation Specialist

John is a former soldier and Monash graduate. He has brought his interdisciplinary expertise from the Department of Politics and International Relations and his research interests in Terrorism, Counter-Terrorism, and Intelligence at the Global Terrorism Research Centre to the Monash Immersive Visualisation Platform to develop an ethical framework for the immersive real-time testing of the moral competence of autonomous agents on the battlefield.