[1] She is an emeritus professor of Mechanical Engineering at Melbourne University[2] and director of the start-up company MineOptima.
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.
[5][6] The engineering faculty of Melbourne University honours her work by offering postdoctoral scholarships in her name.
[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.