Dr Lily (Li) Qiao

Dr Lily (Li) Qiao

Senior Lecturer

Qualifications

  • PhD in Guidance, Navigation and Control (GNC), Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA), 2011.

Certificate

  • Certificate of Completion with Merit from Graduate Teaching Training Program UNSW Canberra. Feb - Jun 2015
  • Certificate of Completion from Fundations of University Learning and Teaching (FULT) Program 2019
  • National Mental Health First Aid certificate, 2019 - 2021
  • UNSW Course Design Institute, September 2023 
UNSW Canberra
School of Eng & Tech

Senior Lecturer in Space Systems Engineering at the School of Engineering and Technology (SET), UNSW Canberra campus

Lily completed her PhD in Guidance Navigation and Control in 2011, including a study exchange at the School of Surveying and Spatial Information Systems at the University of New South Wales, Sydney.

Before joining UNSW Canberra, she was research associate at the Australian Centre for Space Engineering Research (ACSER) at UNSW Sydney from 2011 to 2014, working for the desig...

E-mail
l.qiao@unsw.edu.au
Location
School of Engineering and Technology, UNSW Canberra Room 204, Level 2, Building 16 at UNSW Canberra

Internal:

  • UNSW Career Advancement Fund for Female Academics July 2018-  May 2020
  • Tradespace Exploration SEIT SFRG  2022
  • Smart Mission Design , SET SFG 2024

Research interests

  • Spacecraft autonomous navigation/orbit determination based on GNSS, celestial navigation
  • Spacecraft attitude determination and control system (ADCS)
  • Kalman filter technology
  • Space system engineering
  • Digital system engineering

  • Chair, IEEE Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Section 2024
  • Founder and chair of the Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society Chapter in the IEEE ACT section 2022- 2024
  • President of Women in Space Chapter (WiSC) of National Space Society of Australia (NSSA) http://wisc.nssa.com.au/
  • Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2024
  • Executive committee member of IEEE Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Section, ADFA Students Councillor. 2020-2023
  • UNSW Canberra representative of Women in Research Network since 2021 (147 members and 35 in Canberra) 2020-2023

My Research Supervision

Scholarships of $35,000 (AUD) are available for PhD students who achieved H1 /High Distinction in their UG program and/or have completed a Masters by Research. If you are interested, contact me. 

Currently, I have three PhD student under supervision. The topics are as follows:

  • Test and Evaluation of Artificial Intelligence Systems.
  • Real-time cybersecurity risk assessment and mitigation platform for national critical infrastructure.
  • A dynamic modular approach to system architectures across the Product Lifecycle

 

My Teaching

Teaching
  • Space Systems Design - ZEIT8008
  • Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) - ZEIT8009
  • Radar Technology and Application - ZEIT4227