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Doreen Anne Thomas
AM FTSE
OccupationProfessor of Mechanical Engineering
Employer University of Melbourne
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Doreen Anne Thomas AM FTSE is a mathematician and electrical and mechanical engineer. [1] She is an emeritus professor of Mechanical Engineering at Melbourne University [2] and director of the start-up company MineOptima. [3]

Career

Thomas earned her BSc from the University of Cape Town, and another from the University of Witwatersrand. At Oxford she earned an MSc and a D.Phil [3] in 1976, with a mathematical dissertation entitled Problems in Functional Analysis supervised by Hilary Priestley. [4] Her mathematical in network analysis work led to her contributions in electrical and mechanical engineering.

As professor in the many engineering schools, in mathematics and statistics [5] and as associate dean of research and research training [5] at Melbourne she has done much to encourage women to be engineers. [5] [6] The engineering faculty of Melbourne University honours her work by offering postdoctoral scholarships in her name. [7] [6] [5] In 2006 she as appointed as the University of Melbourne's first female professor of Engineering. [1] She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering and a Fellow of Engineers Australia. [8] She also has over 150 publications in international peer reviewed journals and conference proceedings. [3]

She commercialised her mining software optimising mine design via her start-up company MineOptima which was acquired by the mining software company RPM. [9] This software, which reduces development time and haulage costs in underground tunnel design, has been licensed to some of the world’s largest mining companies. [1]

Awards

Selected publications

  • M. Brazil; C.J. Ras; D.A. Thomas (March 2016). "An exact algorithm for the bottleneck 2-connected k -Steiner network problem in L p planes". Discrete Applied Mathematics. 201: 47–69. doi: 10.1016/J.DAM.2015.07.029. ISSN  0166-218X. Zbl  1329.05268. Wikidata  Q61714566.
  • Julian de Hoog; Tansu Alpcan; Marcus Brazil; Doreen Anne Thomas; Iven Mareels (January 2015). "Optimal Charging of Electric Vehicles Taking Distribution Network Constraints Into Account" (PDF). IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. 30 (1): 365–375. doi: 10.1109/TPWRS.2014.2318293. ISSN  0885-8950. Wikidata  Q61714578.
  • P. A. GROSSMAN; M. BRAZIL; J. H. RUBINSTEIN; D. A. THOMAS (June 2013). "MINIMAL CURVATURE-CONSTRAINED PATHS IN THE PLANE WITH A CONSTRAINT ON ARCS WITH OPPOSITE ORIENTATIONS". International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications. 23 (03): 171–196. doi: 10.1142/S0218195913500064. ISSN  0218-1959. Zbl  1330.65086. Wikidata  Q61714606.
  • Robert R Kerr; Anthony N. Burkitt; Doreen Thomas; Matthieu Gilson; David B Grayden (7 February 2013). "Delay selection by spike-timing-dependent plasticity in recurrent networks of spiking neurons receiving oscillatory inputs". PLOS Computational Biology. 9 (2): e1002897. doi: 10.1371/JOURNAL.PCBI.1002897. ISSN  1553-734X. PMC  3567188. PMID  23408878. Wikidata  Q34585649.
  • M. Brazil; D.A. Thomas (2006). "Network optimization for the design of underground mines". Networks. 49 (1): 40–50. doi: 10.1002/NET.20140. ISSN  0028-3045. Zbl  1131.90410. Wikidata  Q61714626.

References

  1. ^ a b c "Professor Emeritus Doreen Thomas". www.vic.gov.au. 7 March 2019. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
  2. ^ "Search - Doreen A. Thomas". search.unimelb.edu.au. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
  3. ^ a b c d "Prof Doreen Thomas". findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
  4. ^ Doreen Thomas at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ^ a b c d e "Prof. Emeritus Doreen Thomas Honoured on Queen's Birthday". AMSI. 15 June 2021. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
  6. ^ a b Jones, Nicole (27 October 2020). "Opportunities and challenges for women in engineering and IT". Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
  7. ^ "Doreen Thomas Postdoctoral Fellowships for Women in Engineering (University of Melbourne)". engineeroxy.com. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
  8. ^ "Prof Doreen Thomas". findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
  9. ^ "AMSI Doreen Thomas:Network optimisation in the access design for underground mines". AMSI Optimise 2019. Archived from the original on 18 April 2019. Retrieved 11 October 2021.
  10. ^ "Prof Doreen Thomas". University of Melbourne. Retrieved 18 December 2023.
  11. ^ "Victorian Honour Roll of women inductees". www.vic.gov.au. 2019. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
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