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Gopi is currently working as Post Graduate Program Coordinators for Maintenance and Reliability Engineee4irgn Programs for Federation University, Australia since 2016. He has extensive experience in the Universities and Industries in asset management, maintenance and reliability engineering, operations management, project management and quality engineering. Before joining Federation University in 2016, he has worked in University of Queensland as Researcher and lecturer, Qld University of Technology as senior lecturer and head of engineering management programs and Central Qld University in Australia as Professor and Head of Post Graduate Programs, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India as Visiting Professor, University of Natural Resources and Environment, PNG as Visiting Professor, Indian Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management, Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology and Central Queensland University as Adjunct Professor and Global Consulting Company, Cardno as Principal Consultant. He has delivered his courses in Australia, Singapore, Indonesia, China, Malaysia and India. Gopi has secured more that 2 million dollars of research and industry funding in asset management, maintenance, reliability, warranty, lifecycle cost and risk modelling. In Australia, Rail CRC and Asset Management CRC along with Qld Rail, QR National, ARTC, QLD Health, Mackay Regional Council, Sun Water, Unity Water, Macquarie Generation, Gladstone Power, Lulea University of Technology along with Swedish Rail and LKAB and in India, Tata Steel and Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur funded some of his own and collaborative projects. He has supervised more than 12 higher research degree candidates and published more than 150 high quality scholarly articles in reputed International journals and conferences including one prizewinning best paper in emerald publication. Gopi is actively involved with Asset Management Council (earlier Maintenance Engineering Society of Australia, MESA, professional body and technical society of Engineers Australia). He was industry reviewer of International Standard for Asset Management ISO55000, ISO55001, ISO55002 and Total Asset Management Plan for Queensland Government. He was Vice president of Maintenance Engineering Society (Qld Chapter), President of Australian Society of Operations Research (Qld Chapter) and Chair of Asset Management Council, Brisbane Chapter.

Research Interest

Terotechnology and Life Cycle Costs; Maintenance and Reliability Engineering Projects; Maintenance Management; Reliability Applications; Asset Management Systems; etc