Melanie Ooi
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Melanie Ooi | |
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| Alma mater | Monash University (PhD, 2011)[1] |
| Known for | Measurement-uncertainty frameworks; light-based weed-detection systems |
| Awards | Rutherford Discovery Fellowship (2019), IET Mike Sargeant Career Achievement Award (2017), IEEE I&M Outstanding Young Engineer Award (2014) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Instrumentation and measurement engineering; mechatronics; computational intelligence |
| Institutions | University of Waikato, Unitec Institute of Technology, Monash University, Heriot-Watt University |
Melanie Ooi is an instrumentation and measurement engineer and associate professor in the School of Engineering at the University of Waikato, where she also serves as assistant dean (Research).[2][3] Her research couples advanced instrumentation with machine-vision and computational-intelligence methods, and her test-data techniques have been adopted by multinational semiconductor companies.[2][4][5]
Ooi received her PhD in electronic engineering from Monash University in 2011.[1]
Career
After academic appointments at Monash University and Heriot-Watt University Malaysia, Ooi joined Unitec Institute of Technology (Auckland) in 2017 and moved to the University of Waikato the following year.[1]
She leads projects that apply hyperspectral imaging and tailored LED illumination for the real-time detection of invasive weeds such as ragwort, gorse and blackberry, enabling precision herbicide application in dairy pastures.[1]
Ooi's frameworks for analytical propagation of measurement uncertainty have been incorporated into the South African National Accreditation System’s guideline TG 50-02.[6]
In 2026, Ooi was appointed as a full professor at the University of Waikato.[7]
Professional service
She is a senior member of the IEEE, served on the Administrative Committee of the IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Society (2019–2022), and was secretary of its Technical Committee on Fault-Tolerant Measurement Systems (TC-32).[2][8] Ooi is also the youngest woman ever elected fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology.[9][10]
