Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering Fellowship

Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology Professors Ying Tan and Christina Lim have been elected as Fellows of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE).

Election to this Fellowship acknowledges the two as world leaders in their fields, with Professor Lim helping to shape optical-wireless communication technology and Professor Tan in robotics innovation, particularly rehabilitation robotics.

They were elected Fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2023 and received ARC Future Fellowships in 2009, the first round of the scheme.

Working in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Professor Lim has pioneered hybrid, fibre-wireless networking solutions for worldwide, next-generation, wireless system implementation. Her investigations of optical transport of wireless signals have shaped the landscape of fibre-wireless research. A former ARC Future Fellow, Professor Lim has led the Electronics and Photonics System Group. She and her team have co-founded KDH AR to commercialise their invention of a low-cost waveguide for augmented reality that overcomes many technical challenges hindering current AR technology.

Professor Tan co-leads the Human Robotics Laboratory in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Since 2017, she has been developing rehabilitation robots to help people recover movement after stroke or injury, along with smart prosthetics and new ways for people to work with robots. Her team created the award-winning ARMMotus, now used in hospitals across Asia, the US and the UK. This device has won major international design awards and is helping patients worldwide in their recovery.

The two are among 35 leading innovators elected by the existing Fellowship and join over 900 of Australia’s top engineers and applied scientists inducted into the Academy for their exceptional contributions to Australia’s innovation ecosystem.