Dr Brendan Wright
Postdoctoral Fellow
- Ph.D. Physics (2018)
Intelligent Polymer Research Institute, University of Wollongong
Major: Physics of Excited-States in Condensed-Matter
Supervision: Prof. Attila Mozer & Assoc. Prof. Tracey Clarke
Thesis: ”The driving force dependence of charge carrier dynamics in donor-acceptor organic photovoltaic systems using optical and electronic techniques”
? - B. Nanotechnology Honours (2011)
School of Chemistry and Molecular Bioscience, University of Wollongong
Major: Computational Chemistry
Supervision: Assoc. Prof. Haibo Yu
Thesis: ”Development of a polarisable force field for Nafion”
Engineering
Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering
Research data scientist and machine learning engineer; background in experimental physics, signals analysis, and software engineering; professional experience in technical consulting, business process automation, and data analytics; a passion for generative learning models and computational optimisation.
- Publications
- Media
- Grants
- Awards
- Research Activities
- Engagement
- Teaching and Supervision
- Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) R&D Project Grant, "Machine learning applications for utility-scale PV", RG220681, Dec 2022
- Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics (ACAP) Industrial Collaboration Grant,?"End-of-Life Classification of Solar Panels", Mar 2022
- Winning Entry, 1st International Eurovision AI Song Contest, hosted by VPRO, Netherlands, May 2020; ”Beautiful the World” available at youtu.be/sAzULywAHUM; Australian team as collaboration between academics at RMIT and UNSW, and industry partner Uncanny Valley; personal contribution included developing raw audio and song structure generation capabilities with learning algorithms.
Current research at UNSW focuses on the study of electrochemical defect mechanisms in silicon photovoltaics; modelling state-space dynamics using generative representation learning to investigate underlying physical mechanisms; more broadly, utilising recent developments in machine learning to model complex dynamic systems.
My Research Supervision
- Chukwuka Madumelu; secondary supervision of doctoral candidate in photovoltaic engineering, University of New South Wales, 2019-2022