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Professor Christopher Fluke

Professor

Biography

Professor Christopher Fluke holds an academic position with Swinburne’s Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, and was the foundation Director of Swinburne's Advanced Visualisation Laboratory (Digital Capability Research Platform).   From 2020-2023, Prof Fluke was the SmartSat Cooperative Research Centre Professorial Chair in space system real-time data fusion, integration and cognition, undertaking research and development activities to help grow Australia's Space Industry. His primary research interests are in the use of advanced visualisation (hardware and software) and human-artificial intelligence teaming to accelerate discovery and enhance decision-making performance in data-driven contexts.  Supported by strong transdisciplinary and industry collaborations, with partners including CGI Space, Defence and Intelligence Australia, the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre,  and Propel Health AI, Prof Fluke's work has applications in public health, defence and a range of space-related contexts. 

Research interests

GPU and advanced HPC algorithms; Scientific Computing and Visualisation; Cyber-human discovery systems; Earth Observation Data Analytics

PhD candidate and honours supervision

Higher degrees by research

Accredited to supervise Masters & Doctoral students as Principal Supervisor.

Honours

Available to supervise honours students.

Teaching areas

Advanced Statistics and Big Data;Scientific Computing and Visualisation;Data Visualisation

Awards

  • 2018, Swinburne, Vice Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Innovation - Digital Innovation Precinct Team, Swinburne University of Technology
  • 2015, National, David Allen Prize - Swinburne Astronomy Productions, Astronomical Society of Australia
  • 2012, Swinburne, Vice Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching (Higher Education) - SAO Core Team, Swinburne University of Technology
  • 2012, National, Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning - SAO Core Team, Office for Learning & Teaching
  • 2006, Swinburne, Vice Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Entrepreneurship - Swinburne Spaceworks Team, Swinburne University of Technology
  • 2000, Other, Victoria Fellowship, Victorian State Government
  • 1995, Other, Laby Prize, Australian Institute of Physics

Publications

Also published as: Fluke, Christopher; Fluke, C.; Fluke, C. J.; Fluke, Chris; Fluke, Chris J.; Fluke, Christopher J.
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Recent research grants awarded

  • 2023: Accurate carbon and water accounting for agriculture: Fusing mobile eddy covariance tower measurements with Earth observation satellite data *; SmartSat CRC Fund Scheme
  • 2022: Advanced Cooperative Tasking and Intelligent Visualisation Environment for Space Domain Awareness (ACTIVE-SDA) *; SmartSat CRC Fund Scheme
  • 2022: Assessing and enhancing multi-spacecraft mission simulation and visualisation *; SmartSat CRC Fund Scheme
  • 2022: Implementation of a scalable platform to enable regulated digital health product development and commercialization *; Digital Health CRC
  • 2021: Artificial Intelligence as the Most Valuable Player: Enabling cyber-human teams to achieve decision superiority *; Defence Science Technology Group
  • 2020: Understanding human and artificial intelligence collaboration on time-critical decision-making *; Next Generation Technologies Fund
  • 2019: AstroMedical Innovation: Astronomy-inspired, data-driven approaches for medical imaging and diagnosis *; CASS Foundation Science and Medicine Grants
  • 2019: Industry Engagement Seed Grant: Astro-medical Innovation *; Astronomy Australia Limited
  • 2018: Developing and using VR, AR or Mixed reality for the management of chronic pain *; Medibank Private Limited Fund Scheme
  • 2018: Intelligent visualisation for Risk Management *; Appearition
  • 2017: Media art as urban storytelling: Australian opportunities for data-driven content on large format screens *; MIRVAC Funding Scheme
  • 2017: Project to support the Astronomy Data and Computing Services under the Astronomy NCRIS Program (ADACS) *; Astronomy Australia Limited
  • 2016: gSTAR Data Management and Collaboration Platform (Variation 2 to Support Operations of gSTAR) *; Astronomy Australia Limited
  • 2006: The Commonwealth Cosmology Initiative: From the First Objects to the Cosmic Web *; ARC Discovery Projects Scheme

* Chief Investigator