Meet the Professors: Prof Vinayak Dixit & Prof Lisa Keay

The 2019 Meet the Professors series is a wonderful chance for staff and students to celebrate the careers and achievements of our newly promoted and recruited professors. Our speakers will share their specialist knowledge and provide insights into ‘what’ and ‘who’ influenced their lives and careers.

Professor Vinayak Dixit, UNSW Engineering

Professor Vinayak Dixit is the Director of the Research Centre for Integrated Transportation Innovation (rCITI) at UNSW. He started of doing his Integrated M.Tech in Mathematics and Computing from IIT Delhi and PhD in Transportation Engineering from University of Central Florida. After which he joined as the Associate Director of Research at the USDOT funded Evacuation Centre at Louisiana State University. His research has focussed on understanding choice and behaviour and development of new technologies for transportation engineering. Current project includes exploring new insurance paradigms in automated vehicles and novel traffic signal systems using crowdsourced data.

Lecture: Global Transport Transformed from Infrastructure to Service Delivery

Transport has historically been about physical design and delivery. This in recent years has evolved into a service delivery paradigm, solving the complex needs of society’s mobility demands. Increasingly, it has become about data management, risk management, business innovation and optimizing the human experience. Prof Dixit will present the emerging scientific basis for the future of mobility planning, operations and risks as well as their management.

Please see Professor Vinayak Dixit webpage HERE

Professor Lisa Keay, School of Optometry, UNSW Science

Lisa Keay is the Head of School for the School of Optometry and Vision Sciences, University of New South Wales and a Senior Research Fellow at The George Institute for Global Health, Sydney, Australia. She has a PhD in epidemiology and a Masters in Public Health. She completed a research fellowship at Johns Hopkins University in 2007-2008 at the Dana Center for Preventive Ophthalmology.

Lecture: Ageing and safe mobility
Most older Australians are life-long drivers. We have built our communities with vast road networks to allow heavy reliance on motor vehicles for independence and mobility. Many studies have documented the effects of age-related functional changes on driving ability. While crash rate increases with age, the participation in driving in later years is growing. Findings from a large scale trial evaluating a safe transport program and investigations of naturalistic driving patterns of older members of the community using live, in-vehicle monitoring will be shared. This research will be discussed in the context of age-based licensing, transport alternatives and the vehicles of the future