Prof. Abbas Rajabifard
Abbas Rajabifard (born August 23, 1966) is a professor and the head of the Department of Infrastructure Engineering in the Melbourne School of Engineering at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is also the director of the Center for Spatial Data Infrastructures and Land Administration (CSDILA).
Aside from his roles as Head of Department at the University of Melbourne and Center Director at CSDILA, Rajabifard is also the organization leader and academic leader of the Australia Disaster Management Platform (ADMP) – a joint research project between the University of Melbourne and IBM. He is also the director of recently established the Centre for Disaster Management and Public Safety (CDMPS) at the University of Melbourne. The CDMPS is focused on conducting multi-disciplinary research and training on disaster management and public safety both nationally and internationally.[2] He has been a member of Victorian Spatial Council (VSC) since November 2007 and is also a senior research fellow in the University’s Department of Geomatics since 2004.