Distinguished Professor Mike Xie

Employment history

• Jan 2016 - present, RMIT Distinguished Professor and Interim Director of Advanced Materials Enabling Capability Platform Director, RMIT University, Australia
• Jul 2012 - present, Director, Centre for Innovative Structures and Materials, RMIT University, Australia
• Apr 2012 – Dec 2015, Professor and Deputy Head (Research & Innovation), School of Civil, Environmental and Chemical Engineering, RMIT University, Australia
• Jul 2002 - Apr 2012, Professor and Discipline Head of Civil Engineering, School of Civil, Environmental and Chemical Engineering, RMIT University, Australia
• Jan 1998 – Dec 2001, Associate Professor, School of the Built Environment, Victoria University, Australia
• Jul 1995 - Dec 1997, Senior Lecturer, Department of Civil and Building Engineering, Victoria University, Australia
• May 1993 - Jun 1995, Lecturer, Department of Civil and Building Engineering, Victoria University, Australia
• Feb 1992 - May 1993, Research Fellow of Department of Aeronautical Engineering and Manager of Finite Element Analysis Research Centre, University of Sydney, Australia
• Oct 1990 - Oct 1991, Senior Research Assistant to Professor O.C. Zienkiewicz, F.R.S., Department of Civil Engineering, University of Wales, Swansea, UK

• Design and manufacture innovative structures and materials
• Structural optimization
• Computational mechanics
• Microstructural design of materials

• PhD (Civil Engineering), 1991, University of Wales, Swansea, United Kingdom
• BEng (Engineering Mechanics), 1984, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Professional memberships

• Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering
• Fellow, Institution of Engineers Australia

Industry collaboration

• Have been retained as a specialist consultant to various companies including Boeing, Sinclair Knight Merz, Bovis Lend Lease and so on.

Professional service

• Chairman of Organising Committee for the Australasian Conference on Applied Mechanics, Melbourne, 2005
• Chairman of Organising Committee for the 4th International Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction, Melbourne, 2007
• Subject Editor, Applied Mathematical Modelling journal (Elsevier), 2012 – 2015