Dr Steve Petrie

Biography

Steve is an Earth Observation Research Fellow in Swinburne's Space Technology and Industry Institute. He is an inter-disciplinary researcher with experience in satellite Earth Observation and image processing, data science, neural networks, astrophysics, mathematical biology, and evolutionary optimisation. He leads the Earth Observation stream within the Space Institute's Remote Sensing Program.

Steve's background is in physics; he has an MPhil in theoretical cosmology and a PhD in infectious disease modelling. His PhD involved modelling influenza infection dynamics within the respiratory tract, in order to assess the fitness of drug-resistant strains of influenza. He also has extensive experience implementing projects on high performance computing infrastructure, including supercomputers run by Swinburne University, Melbourne University, and Melbourne Bioinformatics, as well as cloud computation services run by Amazon Web Services and the National eResearch Collaboration Tools and Resources project (Nectar).