Habibullah Habibullah

Dr Habibullah Habibullah

Senior Lecturer, Mechatronics Engineering

School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering

College of Engineering and Information Technology

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.

Available For Media Comment.

Dr Habibullah is a senior lecturer and program director of the electrical electronics and electrical mechatronic engineering program at UniSA STEM, Mawson Lakes Campus. Previously, he was a lecturer in Mechatronics Engineering with the School of Environment, Science and Engineering (SESE), Southern Cross University (SCU), Australia. Followed by an FNRS Scientific Collaborator with the BEAMS Department, Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium, Research Associate, and Casual Academic positions at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Canberra at the Australian Defence Force Academy.
Dr Habibullah received a BSc in Mechanical Engineering with First Class Honours 1st from the Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology (RUET), Bangladesh. He has been awarded the University Gold Medal for his excellent performance during his undergraduate study. He has completed ME and PhD degrees in Mechatronics Engineering from the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia. He is a member of the Asian Control Association (ACA), the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), and an Ex. member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC).
His research interests are in key areas of control theory and application, mechatronics, bio-mechatronics, robotics, industrial automation, nanotechnology, low-frequency vibration isolation, and vibration control of mechanical structures.

  • Agricultural Robotics and intelligent control
  • Control theory and applications
  • Automotive Mechatronics, Bio-mechatronics
  • Dynamic system modeling and identification
  • Nanotechnology and nano-applications
  • Low-frequency vibration isolation for gravitational wave detection
  • Vibration control of flexible mechanical structures
  • Industrial Automation 
  • Nanopositioning control 

Year Citation
2025 Sabrin, S., Hong, S. -H., Karmokar, D. K., Habibullah, H., Fitridge, R., Short, R. D., & Szili, E. J. (2025). Healing wounds with plasma-activated hydrogel therapy. Trends in Biotechnology, 43(2), 278-289.
DOI Scopus10 WoS9 Europe PMC4
2025 Ma'sum, M. A., Pratama, M., Lughofer, E., Liu, L., Habibullah., & Kowalczyk, R. (2025). Few-shot continual learning via flat-to-wide approaches. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 36(5), 8966-8978.
DOI Scopus1 WoS3 Europe PMC1
2025 Furqon, M. T., Pratama, M., Shiddiqi, A., Liu, L., Habibullah, H., & Dogancay, K. (2025). Time and frequency synergy for source-free time-series domain adaptations. Information Sciences, 695(121734), 20 pages.
DOI Scopus3 WoS1
2024 Hasan, M., Khan, M. Z. I., Biswas, R., Islam, N., Habibullah, H., & Afikuzzaman, M. (2024). Modeling of transient free convection flow in terms of permeability and thermal radiation. Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry, 149(12), 6551-6572.
DOI Scopus2 WoS1
2024 Furqon, M., Pratama, M., Liu, L., Habibullah, H., & Dogancay, K. (2024). Mixup domain adaptations for dynamic remaining useful life predictions. Knowledge-based Systems, 295(111783), 1-13.
DOI Scopus14 WoS14
2024 Sabrin, S., Hong, S. H., Sushil Kumar, K. C., Oh, J. S., Derrick-Roberts, A. L. K., Karmokar, D. K., . . . Szili, E. J. (2024). Electrochemically Enhanced Antimicrobial Action of Plasma-Activated Poly(Vinyl Alcohol) Hydrogel Dressings. Advanced Functional Materials, 34(21), 2314345-1-2314345-15.
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2024 Ma'sum, M. A., Sarkar, M. D. R., Pratama, M., Ramasamy, S., Anavatti, S., Liu, L., . . . Kowalczyk, R. (2024). Dynamic long-term time-series forecasting via meta transformer networks. IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, 5(8), 4258-4581.
DOI Scopus1
2024 Masum, M. A., Pratama, M., Ramasamy, S., Liu, L., & Habibullah, H. (2024). Unsupervised few-shot continual learning for remote sensing image scene classification. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 62(4707214), 1-14.
DOI Scopus3 WoS2
2023 Islam, R., Habibullah, H., & Hossain, T. (2023). AGRI-SLAM: a real-time stereo visual SLAM for agricultural environment. Autonomous Robots, 47(6), 649-668.
DOI Scopus34 WoS24
2023 Sabrin, S., Karmokar, D. K., Karmakar, N. C., Hong, S. H., Habibullah, H., & Szili, E. J. (2023). Opportunities of electronic and optical sensors in autonomous medical plasma technologies. ACS Sensors, 8(3), 974-993.
DOI Scopus19 WoS17 Europe PMC5
2022 Islam, R., & Habibullah, H. (2022). Place recognition with memorable and stable cues for loop closure of visual SLAM systems †. Robotics, 11(6), 1-17.
DOI Scopus7 WoS6
2022 Hossain, T., Habibullah, H., Islam, R., & Padilla, R. V. (2022). Local path planning for autonomous mobile robots by integrating modified dynamic-window approach and improved follow the gap method. Journal of Field Robotics, 39(4), 371-386.
DOI Scopus42 WoS32
2022 Hossain, T., Habibullah, H., & Islam, R. (2022). Steering and speed control system design for autonomous vehicles by developing an optimal hybrid controller to track reference trajectory. Machines, 10(6, article no. 420), 1-19.
DOI Scopus27 WoS20
2021 Burton, N. A., Padilla, R. V., Rose, A., & Habibullah, H. (2021). Increasing the efficiency of hydrogen production from solar powered water electrolysis. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 135, 1-16.
DOI Scopus342 WoS279
2020 Habibullah, H. (2020). 30 Years of atomic force microscopy: creep, hysteresis, cross-coupling, and vibration problems of piezoelectric tube scanners. Measurement: Journal of the International Measurement Confederation, 159(107776), 1-11.
DOI Scopus52 WoS40
2019 Habibullah, H., Pota, H. R., & Petersen, I. R. (2019). A robust control approach for high-speed nanopositioning applications. Sensors and Actuators, A: Physical, 292, 137-148.
DOI Scopus13 WoS13
2018 Habibullah, H., Pota, H. R., & Petersen, I. R. (2018). A novel application of minimax LQG control technique for high-speed spiral imaging. Asian Journal of Control, 20(4), 1400-1412.
DOI Scopus7 WoS7
2017 Habibullah, H., Pota, H. R., & Petersen, I. R. (2017). A novel control approach for high-precision positioning of a piezoelectric tube scanner. IEEE transactions on automation science and engineering, 14(1, article no. 7425278), 325-336.
DOI Scopus35 WoS30
2016 Habibullah, H., Pota, H., & Petersen, I. R. (2016). Reduction of phase error between sinusoidal motions and vibration of a tube scanner during spiral scanning using an AFM. International Journal of Control, Automation and Systems, 14(2), 505-513.
DOI Scopus11 WoS8
2014 Habibullah, H., Pota, H. R., & Petersen, I. R. (2014). High-speed spiral imaging technique for an atomic force microscope using a linear quadratic Gaussian controller. Review of Scientific Instruments, 85(3, article no. 033706), 1-10.
DOI Scopus26 WoS26
2014 Habibullah, H., Pota, H. R., Petersen, I. R., & Rana, M. S. (2014). Tracking of triangular reference signals using LQG controllers for lateral positioning of an AFM scanner stage. IEEE - ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 19(4, article no. 6557502), 1105-1114.
DOI Scopus51 WoS46
2014 Rana, M. S., Pota, H. R., Petersen, I. R., & Habibullah, H. (2014). Effect of improved tracking for atomic force microscope on piezo nonlinear behavior. Asian Journal of Control, 17(3), 747-761.
DOI Scopus26 WoS22
2013 Habibullah, H., Pota, H. R., Petersen, I. R., & Rana, M. S. (2013). Creep, hysteresis, and cross-coupling reduction in the high-precision positioning of the piezoelectric scanner stage of an atomic force microscope. IEEE transactions on nanotechnology, 12(6, article no. 6589158), 1125-1134.
DOI Scopus64 WoS48

Year Citation
2025 Ma'sum, M. A., Pratama, M., Liu, L., Habibullah, H., & Kowalczyk, R. (2025). Federated few-shot class-incremental learning. In The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2025) (pp. 1-30). US: ICLR.
2025 Masum, M. A., Pratama, D., Ramasamy, S., Liu, L., Habibullah, H., & Kowalczyk, R. (2025). PROL: Rehearsal Free Continual Learning in Streaming Data via Prompt Online Learning. In IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Visions (ICCV 2025) (pp. 1-11). US: IEEE/CVF.
2025 Ma'sum, M. A., Pratama, M., Ramasamy, S., Liu, L., Habibullah, H., & Kowalczyk, R. (2025). Vision and language synergy for rehearsal free continual learning. In The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2025) (pp. 1-31). US: ICLR.
2024 Ma'sum, M. A., Pratama, M., Ramasamy, S., Liu, L., Habibullah, H., & Kowalczyk, R. (2024). PIP: prototypes-injected prompt for Federated Class Incremental Learning. In CIKM ’24 Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (pp. 1670-1679). US: Association for Computing Machinery.
DOI Scopus2
2021 Islam, R., & Habibullah, H. (2021). A semantically aware place recognition system for loop closure of a visual SLAM system. In 2021 4th International Conference on Mechatronics, Robotics and Automation, ICMRA 2021 (pp. 117-121). US: IEEE.
DOI Scopus7 WoS5
2019 Ali, M. S., & Habibullah, H. (2019). A review on the current status of boiler inspection and safety issues in Bangladesh. In Energy Procedia Vol. 160 (pp. 614-620). Netherlands: Elsevier.
DOI Scopus9 WoS6
2017 Gupta, T. D., Habibullah, H., Pota, H. R., & Petersen, I. R. (2017). Design and application of a data driven controller using the small-gain constraint for positioning control of a nano-positioner. In 1st Annual IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications, CCTA 2017 Vol. 2017-January (pp. 117-122). US: IEEE.
DOI Scopus4 WoS4
2017 Gupta, T. D., Habibullah, H., Pota, H. R., & Petersen, I. R. (2017). Data driven controller design for positioning control of an AFM scanner. In IFAC PapersOnline Vol. 50 (pp. 10889-10894). US: Elsevier.
DOI Scopus2 WoS1
2017 Nguyen, K. T., Habibullah, H., Pota, H. R., Hattori, H. T., & Petersen, I. R. (2017). A negative imaginary theory-based controller synthesis for vibration control of a piezoelectric tube scanner. In IFAC PapersOnline Vol. 50 (pp. 3202-3207). US: Elsevier.
DOI Scopus6 WoS5
2016 Rana, M. S., Pota, H., Petersen, I. R., & Habibullah, H. (2016). Limiting factor for a piezoelectric tube scanner. In Proceedings of the American Control Conference Vol. 2016-July (pp. 7402-7407). US: 2016 American Automatic Control Council (AACC).
DOI Scopus7 WoS6
2015 Habibullah, H., Rehman, O. U., Pota, H. R., & Petersen, I. R. (2015). Design of a robust controller for vibration control of a piezoelectric tube scanner. In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control Vol. 54rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2015 (pp. 6029-6034). US: IEEE.
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2015 Habibullah, H., Pota, H., & Petersen, I. R. (2015). Robust spiral positioning control of a piezoelectric tube scanner. In IEEE Conference on Control and Applications, CCA 2015 - Proceedings (pp. 852-857). US: IEEE.
DOI
2014 Habibullah, H., Pota, H., & Petersen, I. R. (2014). High-precision spiral positioning control of a piezoelectric tube scanner used in an atomic force microscope. In Proceedings of the American Control Conference (pp. 1625-1630). US: 2014 American Automatic Control Council.
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2014 Habibullah, H., Pota, H. R., & Petersen, I. R. (2014). Phase-locked loop-based proportional integral control for spiral scanning in an atomic force microscope. In IFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline) Vol. 19 (pp. 6563-6568). US: International Federation of Automatic Control.
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2013 Rana, M. S., Pota, H. R., Petersen, I. R., & Habibullah. (2013). Spiral scanning of atomic force microscope for faster imaging. In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2013 (pp. 354-359). US: IEEE.
DOI Scopus4 WoS4
2013 Rana, M. S., Pota, H. R., Petersen, I. R., & Habibullah. (2013). Nonlinearity compensation for improved nanopositioning of atomic force microscope. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Control Applications (pp. 461-466). US: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
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2013 Habibullah., Pota, H. R., Petersen, I. R., & Rana, M. S. (2013). Reduction of cross-coupling between X-Y axes of piezoelectric scanner stage of atomic force microscope for faster scanning. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Control Applications (pp. 455-460). US: IEEE.
DOI Scopus10 WoS7
2013 Rana, M. S., Pota, H., Petersen, I. R., & Habibullah, H. (2013). Improvement of the tracking accuracy of an AFM using MPC. In Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE 8th Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications, ICIEA 2013 (pp. 1681-1686). US: IEEE.
DOI Scopus10 WoS9
2013 Habibullah, H., Petersen, I., Pota, H. R., & Rana, M. S. (2013). LQG controller with sinusoidal reference signal modeling for spiral scanning of atomic force microscope. In Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE 8th Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications, ICIEA 2013 (pp. 1474-1479). US: IEEE.
DOI Scopus12 WoS8
2013 Habibullah, H., Pota, H. R., & Petersen, I. R. (2013). Developing a spiral scanning method using atomic force microscopy. In 2013 9th Asian Control Conference, ASCC 2013 (pp. 1-6). US: IEEE.
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2013 Rana, M. S., Pota, H. R., Petersen, I. R., & Habibullah, H. (2013). Control of resonant modes of a smart structure using OMPC. In 2013 9th Asian Control Conference, ASCC 2013 (pp. 1-6). US: IEEE.
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2012 Rana, M. S., Pota, H. R., Petersen, I. R., & Habibullah. (2012). High performance control of a PZT scanner for fast nanoscale positioning of atomic force microscope. In 2nd Australian Control Conference 2012 (pp. 464-469). US: IEEE.
Scopus14 WoS12
2012 Habibullah., Rehman, O. U., Pota, H. R., & Petersen, I. R. (2012). Internal reference model based optimal LQG controller for atomic force microscope. In 2012 12th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, ICARCV (pp. 294-299). US: IEEE.
DOI Scopus12 WoS9
2012 Habibullah., Pota, H. R., & Petersen, I. R. (2012). LQG controller with a vibration compensator for the lateral positioning of an AFM scanner. In 2nd Australian Control Conference, AUCC 2012 (pp. 324-329). US: IEEE.
Scopus7 WoS5

Courses I teach

  • MFET 5023 Robotics and Automation (2025)
  • EEET 1003 Electrical Circuit Analysis (2024)
  • EEET 3046 Control Systems (2024)
  • MFET 5023 Robotics and Automation (2024)

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2023 Co-Supervisor 130- Waste heat recovery from the exhaust gas of a diesel-gen-set to produce additional power using different Rankine and Organic Rankine cycles to compare the performance between different cycles. Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Wing Yee Ng
2022 Co-Supervisor h4>Thermally conductive, mechanically resilient thermoplastic nanocomposites for heat exchangers Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Xiao Su
2022 Co-Supervisor span class="cf0">Advanced time series domain adaptation Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Muhammad Tanzil Furqon
2022 Co-Supervisor h4>Mechanically strong elastomer composites with multifunctionalities by Using cost­-effective, safe nanomaterials - Master Full Time Mr Sanjay Stephen Chelliah
  • Position: Senior Lecturer, Mechatronics Engineering
  • Email: habibullah.habibullah@adelaide.edu.au
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