Thank you to everyone who joined us at Leonda by the Yarra to celebrate the 2025 Mobility Technology Excellence Awards. It was a fantastic evening recognising outstanding innovation, collaboration, and achievement across the mobility engineering sector. Congratulations to all the award winners.
 

CORPORATE AWARDS:

Leader in Innovation – Overall

• Premcar, Victoria
  Nissan Warrior Program

Leader in Innovation – Services

• iMotiv, Victoria
  The home-grown automotive engineering talent at iMotiv

Leader in Innovation – Product Design

• Red Automotive Technologies, South Australia
  Tow guardian ultimate towing system

Leader in Innovation Corporate Award – Special Commendation

• Applied Electric Vehicles, Victoria
  For their Generation 6 Blanc Robot™ 

PROFESSIONAL AWARDS:

Young Mobility Engineer of the Year

• Adrian Vinovrski, Savic Motorcycles, Victoria
  Mechanical and electrical engineering for Australia’s first high-performance electric café racer

Woman Mobility Engineer of the Year

• Jin Zhang, University of New South Wales
  Empowering future engineers: The academic leadership in UNSW Redback Racing

Significant Services to the Mobility Sector

• Ali Akbarian, Mobility Engineering, New South Wales
  Transforming the disability mobility industry through community empowerment and engineering excellence

Significant Services to the Mobility Sector – Special Commendations

• Professor Stephen Robinson, RMIT University, Victoria
  Professor Robinson’s cross-disciplinary leadership has transformed transport safety by integrating psychology with engineering, advancing world-first innovations, mentoring future leaders, and setting new standards across the mobility sector
• Antony Buysen, SC group (Supacat), Victoria
  Antony’s leadership has transformed customer service, united teams, and set a new benchmark for organisational excellence

STUDENT AWARDS:

Leader in Innovation Excellence – Post Graduate Award

• Jane Xu, RMIT University
  Metrics, attentional control and haptic intervention during takeover in conditionally automated driving

Leader in Innovation Excellence – Under Graduate Award

• Jakob Haas, University of Tasmania
  Engineering a local advantage: turning compliance challenges into competitive strength for Australian tipper builders

Leader in Innovation Excellence – Under Graduate Award – Special Commendation

• Zack Harvey, Deakin University, Bridgestone World Solar Challenge
  Creating a sophisticated team project delivering an outcome to a severely tested vehicle - participating in a demanding program to compete against international teams

FINALISTS:

Corporate Awards

• Australian Automobile Association (AAA), Canberra
• Commercial Vehicle Compliance, Victoria
• Doftek Pty Ltd, Victoria
• ePalash Technology Pty Ltd, Victoria
• Vyom Tech Pty Ltd (t/a Metakosmos), New South Wales

Professional Awards

Woman Mobility of the Year

• Sakshi Garg, B2 Australia, South Australia
• Jacqueline Howell, seeing machines, Canberra

Significant Service to the Mobility Sector

• Matt Jennings, Deakin University, Victoria
• Scott Nargar, Hyundai, New South Wales
• Bernard Rajapaske, Waverley Toyota, Victoria
• Lincoln Volpe, SC-Group (Supacat), Victoria

Student Awards

Leader in Innovation Excellence – Post Graduate Award

• Abolfazl (Nima) Baghbani, Deakin University, Victoria
• Swapnil Kumar, Imperial College London, UK
• Luoyan Wei, University of Tasmania

Leader in Innovation Excellence – Under Graduate Award

• Katayoon Kiany, University of Melbourne, Victoria