Enabling Aerospace & Defence Innovation - A MathWorks Seminar

Controls Systems Engineers, Aerospace Engineers, Program Managers, Engineering Managers, Team Leads, System Engineers, Engineers, Developers, and Scientists, Academics and Researchers in aerospace engineering

Jordan Watkins – Ascent Vision Technologies Australia
Jordan Watkins graduated from the University of Melbourne with a Masters in Mechatronics. He has been working at AVTA for 3 and a half years as a Control Systems Engineer specialising in various topics such as control design, robotic trajectory planning and optimisation algorithms.

Dr. Vincenzo Muscarello – Sir Lawrence Wackett Defence and Aerospace Centre
Dr. Vincenzo Muscarello is Senior Lecturer at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University). He obtained a master’s degree in Aeronautical engineering from Polytechnic University of Milan in 2009 and a Ph.D. in 2013. He is a specialist in aero-servo-elasticity and structural dynamics. His research interest spans multidisciplinary modeling for aircraft and rotorcraft dynamic design, verification, and certification. He was the scientific coordinator of the Clean Sky 2 project "FORMOSA", funded by the European Union and successfully completed in February 2023, with the aim to design innovative control surfaces with multiple functions for the NextGen Civil Tiltrotor developed by Leonardo Helicopters. He is currently working on Urban Air Mobility, Distributed Electric Propeller systems, Structural Coupling effects on rotorcraft, and the development of digital twin models for load prediction and fatigue life assessment.

Ben Goodman – Universal Motion Simulations
Ben is the Chief Technology Officer at Universal Motion Simulations based in Geelong, where he oversees development of the next-generation high-fidelity driver training simulator. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Engineers Australia and an accomplished architect and leader. Ben has been developing products in Australia for over 20 years across domains including defence, medical devices, rail, enterprise, fintec and consumer electronics.

Damien Ginevra – SYPAQ Systems
Damian currently works at SYPAQ systems, where his work as a Mechatronic engineering consultant sees him develop physical process simulation models and control algorithms for optimising the motion of robotic systems. The goal of his work with UMS has been to improve the fidelity of the simulator through tuning filters and controllers that convert vehicle motion to robot motion. He is particularly interested in optimisation methods and is currently pursuing this interest with a degree in Artificial Intelligence.

Dr. Muhammad Ali
Dr. Muhammad Ali is an Application Engineer at MathWorks and works closely with Simulink and Simscape customers to understand their business objectives and ensure that they are getting the most value out of our products and services. Ali has a background in retrofitting existing aircraft into electric, battery management systems and renewable energy integration. He did his PhD from UNSW Australia and worked there as a Researcher prior to joining MathWorks.