Summary
Melinda Hodkiewicz is a Professor based in Perth with 11 years in academic leadership and a long career spanning industry and research in maintenance, asset management, safety and industrial data standards. She leads the Technical Language Processing group at UWA and has founded multiple labs and programs focused on system health, living labs and conversational maintenance tools that bridge NLP and engineering practice. An influential standards contributor, she represents Australia on ISO technical committees and has led development of ontology-based interoperability (ISO 23726) and ISO 55000 mirror committees, translating formal standards into practical industry impact. Her background as a PhD mechanical engineer with early hands-on maintenance experience gives her a rare blend of field credibility and data-centric research, enabling pragmatic solutions for complex socio-technical systems.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Mechanical Engineering, PhD, Mechanical Engineering at The University of Western Australia
BA(Hons), Metallurgy & Science of Materials, BA(Hons), Metallurgy & Science of Materials at University of Oxford