Melanie Ooi

Early life and education Ooi received her PhD in electronic engineering from Monash University in 2011.

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.

In 2026, Ooi was appointed as a full professor at the University of Waikato.

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). Ooi is also the youngest woman ever elected fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology.

Awards Rutherford Discovery Fellowship, Royal Society Te Apārangi (2019) Mike Sargeant Career Achievement Award, Institution of Engineering and Technology (2017) Excellence Award, International Education Association of Australia (2014) Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning, Australian Learning & Teaching Council (2011)

Selected works Ooi M.-P-L. Analytical Evaluation of Uncertainty Propagation for Probabilistic Design Optimisation. IOP Publishing, 2023.