Biography

Prof. Prasad Yarlagadda worked in industry and university over 30 years in number of countries. He is currently Professor in Smart Systems and Project Director: Airports of the Future Research in Queensland University of Technology, Australia. In his role as Project Director, he led a multi-disciplinary research project, looking into future needs of aviation industry by looking at various conflicting factors such as security, passenger facilitation and business revenues. The Airports of the Future project aimed to improve the safety, security, operational and resource efficiency, and passenger experience within Australian airports by developing a “whole-of-airport” approach to design, management and operation of the airport system. The project built on a strong history and track record of research collaboration between QUT and several of the current partners. Taking a whole-of-industry approach was designed to ensure that all aspects of airport operations and design were considered simultaneously. This enabled individual components of the airport system to be modelled as well as the interactions between each of these systems to be better understood. This integrated approach was designed to enable industry participants to balance and effectively manage the often conflicting objectives of security, efficiency and the passenger experience.

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Research Interest

Smart Systems