Nataliia Sergiienko

Dr Nataliia Sergiienko

Senior Lecturer

School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering

College of Engineering and Information Technology

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

Impact story

Waves to watts: converting wave power to electricity

Sustainable Green Transition Research Strategy

Proposed PhD projects

  • robust controllers for wave energy converters
  • holistic design of floating offshore wind turbines
  • stabilisation of floating offshore wind turbines
  • dynamics of hybrid wind-wave systems
  • use of wave energy converters to reduce low-frequency waves
  • co-located wind-wave energy systems
  • use of wave energy to charge AUVs
  • UAVs with a distributed propulsion system

 

Previous Honours/*Masters projects

Aerospace   # Co-supervision
2025 Aerodynamic design and development of a dual-wing unmanned aerial system 4 Harry Rowton
2025 Standardising biological testing protocols with CubeSat technology 3  
2024 Design, build and fly a distributed propulsion aircraft 6 Harry Rowton
2023 UAV with a distributed propulsion system 6 Harry Rowton
2021 Lunar crate exploration 4 A/Prof Rini Akmeliawati
2020 Drone for weed control 6 A/Prof Rini Akmeliawati
2020 Design, build and test a dual-fuel turbine engine 1  
2020 Design and build a perching UAV 6 Prof Maziar Arjomandi
2019 Design, build and test a CubeSat 6 Prof Maziar Arjomandi
Robotics      
2020 Robotic vulnerable road user platform 4 Andrew van den Berg
2020 Active kangaroo target 3 Dr David Harvey
Andrew van den Berg
Renewables      
2025 Wave-powered autonomous underwater vehicle 6  
2025 Controlling coastal erosion with wave energy 6 Prof Ben Cazzolato
2025 Broadband energy absorption of water waves 1  
2024 Controlling coastal erosion with wave energy 4 Prof Ben Cazzolato
2023/24* Co-located wind-wave energy system 1  
2023/24 Floating offshore wind turbine 2  
2023/24* Hybrid wind-wave energy system 2  
2023 Controlling coastal erosion with wave energy 4 Prof Ben Cazzolato
2022 Controlling coastal erosion with wave energy 6 Prof Ben Cazzolato
2021 Offshore wind turbine control 6 Prof Maziar Arjomandi
2021* Floating offshore wind platforms for different turbine sizes 3  
2021* Hybrid offshore aquaculture and wave energy conversion platform 3 A/Prof Boyin Ding
2020* Numerical and experimental study of a floating offshore wind turbine  3  
2020 Design, build and test a floating wind turbine 1 Leandro Souza Pinheiro da Silva
2019 Automatic alignment of a heliostat 2 Prof Ben Cazzolato
2017 Surging and pitching wave energy converters 1 Prof Ben Cazzolato
2016 Heaving buoy wave energy converter 3 Prof Ben Cazzolato

 

Date Position Institution name
2023 - ongoing Senior Lecturer University of Adelaide
2019 - 2022 Lecturer in Aerospace Engineering University of Adelaide
2016 - 2016 Casual tutor - Advanced PID Control University of Adelaide
2015 - 2017 Casual tutor - Dynamics and Control II (Auto Control II) University of Adelaide
2014 - 2016 Casual tutor - Engineering Mechanics (Dynamics) University of Adelaide
2007 - 2012 Modelling, Simulation and Analysis Engineer Innalabs Ltd

Date Type Title Institution Name Country Amount
2025 Award Net Zero Electricity Award Institute of Sustainability, Energy and Resources Australia -

Language Competency
English Can peer review
Russian Can peer review
Ukrainian Can peer review

Date Institution name Country Title
2014 - 2018 University of Adelaide, Adelaide Australia PhD in Mechanical Engineering
2005 - 2007 National Technical University of Ukraine 'KPI' Ukraine Master of Engineering (Control Systems for Aerospace Vehicles)
2001 - 2005 National Technical University of Ukraine 'KPI' Ukraine Bachelor of Engineering (Aerospace)

Year Citation
2025 Xue, L., Sergiienko, N. Y., Ding, B., Cazzolato, B., Wei, Z., Yang, Y., . . . Xue, Y. (2025). Control optimization and dynamic response analysis of a combined semi-submersible floating wind turbine and point-absorber wave energy converters. Ocean Engineering, 320, 15 pages.
DOI Scopus2 WoS3
2025 Gu, Y., Ding, B., Sergiienko, N. Y., Cazzolato, B. S., & Giorgi, G. (2025). The effects of predominant nonlinear hydrodynamics on the power absorption performance of a heaving point absorber adopting linear control principles. Ocean Engineering, 325, 120774.
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2025 Cui, L., Spinks, N., Sergiienko, N. Y., Tothova, D., Leontini, J. S., Cazzolato, B. S., & Manasseh, R. (2025). Helmholtz-type resonator with increased tunability and reduced viscous loss with application to wave energy converters. Ocean Engineering, 333, 121432-1-121432-11.
DOI Scopus1 WoS1
2025 Neshat, M., Sergiienko, N. Y., da Silva, L. S. P., Mirjalili, S., Gandomi, A. H., Abdelkhalik, O., & Boland, J. (2025). Hybrid wave–wind energy site power output augmentation using effective ensemble covariance matrix adaptation evolutionary algorithm. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 222, 115896.
DOI Scopus2 WoS2
2025 Sergiienko, N. Y., Xue, L., da Silva, L. S. P., Ding, B., & Cazzolato, B. S. (2025). Statistical analysis of floating hybrid wind–wave energy systems. Applied Energy, 401, 126669.
DOI Scopus1
2025 Cui, L., Bennetts, L. G., Westcott, A. -R., Leontini, J. S., Sergiienko, N. Y., Cazzolato, B. S., & Manasseh, R. (2025). Attenuating transmitted infragravity waves by a small heaving body. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 1020, A29-1-A29-35.
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2025 Liu, G., Mayon, R., Sergiienko, N., & Ning, D. (2025). Point absorber wave energy converter arrays coupled with a V-shaped breakwater energy concentrator. Ocean Engineering, 342(P3), 123050.
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2024 Akmeliawati, R., Harvey, D., Sergiienko, N., Yang, L. J., & Park, H. C. (2024). Preface. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, 1248 LNEE, vii-viii.
2024 Cui, L., Sergiienko, N. Y., Leontini, J. S., Cohen, N., Bennetts, L. G., Cazzolato, B., . . . Manasseh, R. (2024). Protecting coastlines by offshore wave farms: On optimising array configurations using a corrected far-field approximation. Renewable Energy, 224, 120109-1-120109-14.
DOI Scopus8 WoS8
2024 Neshat, M., Sergiienko, N. Y., Nezhad, M. M., da Silva, L. S. P., Amini, E., Marsooli, R., . . . Mirjalili, S. (2024). Enhancing the performance of hybrid wave-wind energy systems through a fast and adaptive chaotic multi-objective swarm optimisation method. Applied Energy, 362, 122955.
DOI Scopus28 WoS27
2024 Galván-Pozos, D. E., Sergiienko, N. Y., García-Nava, H., Ocampo-Torres, F. J., & Osuna-Cañedo, J. P. (2024). Numerical analysis of the energy capture performance of a six-leg wave energy converter under Mexican waters wave conditions. Renewable Energy, 228, 14 pages.
DOI Scopus1 WoS1
2024 Sergiienko, N. Y., Cannard, P. A., Cui, L., Leontini, J. S., Manasseh, R., & Cazzolato, B. (2024). Impact of wave energy converters on infragravity waves: An experimental investigation. Ocean Engineering, 309(Part 1), 118345-1-118345-10.
DOI Scopus5 WoS5
2024 Neshat, M., Sergiienko, N. Y., Rafiee, A., Mirjalili, S., Gandomi, A. H., & Boland, J. (2024). Meta Wave Learner: Predicting wave farms power output using effective meta-learner deep gradient boosting model: A case study from Australian coasts. Energy, 304, 132122-1-132122-17.
DOI Scopus12 WoS8
2024 Westcott, A. -R., Bennetts, L. G., Sergiienko, N. Y., & Cazzolato, B. S. (2024). Broadband near-perfect capture of water wave energy by an array of heaving buoy wave energy converters. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 998, A5-1-A5-33.
DOI Scopus4 WoS4
2024 Gao, Q., Hayward, J. A., Sergiienko, N., Khan, S. S., Hemer, M., Ertugrul, N., & Ding, B. (2024). Detailed mapping of technical capacities and economics potential of offshore wind energy: A case study in South-eastern Australia. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 189, 113872.
DOI Scopus26 WoS23
2023 da Silva, L. S. P., Pesce, C. P., de Oliveira, M., Sergiienko, N. Y., Cazzolato, B., & Ding, B. (2023). Stochastic analysis of the nonlinear dynamics of oscillating water columns: A frequency domain approach. Applied Ocean Research, 139, 103711-1-103711-10.
DOI Scopus3 WoS2
2023 Cui, L., Sergiienko, N., Cazzolato, B., Leontini, J., Tothova, D., Cannard, P., . . . Manasseh, R. (2023). On using Helmholtz-type resonance to reduce the size of dual-purpose offshore oscillating water column wave energy converters. Physics of Fluids, 35(9), 097110-1-097110-15.
DOI Scopus9 WoS7
2023 Gubesch, E., Sergiienko, N. Y., Nader, J. -R., Ding, B., Cazzolato, B., Penesis, I., & Li, Y. (2023). Experimental investigation of a co-located wind and wave energy system in regular waves. Renewable Energy, 219, 119520-1-119520-10.
DOI Scopus12 WoS12
2023 Meng, F., Sergiienko, N., Ding, B., Zhou, B., Silva, L. S. P. D., Cazzolato, B., & Li, Y. (2023). Co-located offshore wind–wave energy systems: Can motion suppression and reliable power generation be achieved simultaneously?. Applied Energy, 331, 120373-1-120373-12.
DOI Scopus32 WoS26
2022 Sergiienko, N. Y., Bacelli, G., Coe, R. G., & Cazzolato, B. S. (2022). A comparison of efficiency-aware model-predictive control approaches for wave energy devices. Journal of Ocean Engineering and Marine Energy, 8(1), 17-29.
DOI Scopus12 WoS9
2022 Neshat, M., Mirjalili, S., Sergiienko, N. Y., Esmaeilzadeh, S., Amini, E., Heydari, A., & Garcia, D. A. (2022). Layout optimisation of offshore wave energy converters using a novel multi-swarm cooperative algorithm with backtracking strategy: A case study from coasts of Australia. Energy, 239, 1-29.
DOI Scopus53 WoS45
2022 Meng, F., Ding, B., Sergiienko, N. Y., Chen, H., Xu, H., & Li, Y. (2022). Power set-point tracking of a point absorber with multiple power take-off units in irregular waves. IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, 13(2), 767-777.
DOI Scopus15 WoS9
2022 Schubert, B. W., Sergiienko, N. Y., Cazzolato, B. S., Robertson, W. S. P., & Ghayesh, M. H. (2022). The true potential of nonlinear stiffness for point absorbing wave energy converters. Ocean Engineering, 245, 12 pages.
DOI Scopus15 WoS14
2022 Tran, N., Sergiienko, N. Y., Cazzolato, B. S., Ghayesh, M. H., & Arjomandi, M. (2022). Design considerations for a three-tethered point absorber wave energy converter with nonlinear coupling between hydrodynamic modes. Ocean Engineering, 254, 111351-1-111351-15.
DOI Scopus10 WoS10
2022 Sergiienko, N. Y., da Silva, L. S. P., Bachynski-Polić, E. E., Cazzolato, B. S., Arjomandi, M., & Ding, B. (2022). Review of scaling laws applied to floating offshore wind turbines. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 162, 112477-1-112477-13.
DOI Scopus62 WoS48
2022 Schubert, B. W., Robertson, W. S. P., Cazzolato, B. S., Sergiienko, N. Y., & Ghayesh, M. H. (2022). Nonlinear stiffness enhancement of submerged wave energy device in high fidelity model. Ocean Engineering, 254, 111295-1-111295-18.
DOI Scopus10 WoS10
2022 Gao, Q., Khan, S. S., Sergiienko, N., Ertugrul, N., Hemer, M., Negnevitsky, M., & Ding, B. (2022). Assessment of wind and wave power characteristic and potential for hybrid exploration in Australia. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 168, 15 pages.
DOI Scopus56 WoS50
2022 Neshat, M., Nezhad, M. M., Sergiienko, N. Y., Mirjalili, S., Piras, G., & Garcia, D. A. (2022). Wave power forecasting using an effective decomposition-based convolutional Bi-directional model with equilibrium Nelder-Mead optimiser. Energy, 256, 1-16.
DOI Scopus41 WoS37
2022 da Silva, L. S. P., de Oliveira, M., Cazzolato, B., Sergiienko, N., Amaral, G. A., & Ding, B. (2022). Statistical linearisation of a nonlinear floating offshore wind turbine under random waves and winds. Ocean Engineering, 261, 112033-1-112033-15.
DOI Scopus24 WoS21
2022 da Silva, L. S. P., Sergiienko, N. Y., Cazzolato, B., & Ding, B. (2022). Dynamics of hybrid offshore renewable energy platforms: Heaving point absorbers connected to a semi-submersible floating offshore wind turbine. Renewable Energy, 199, 1424-1439.
DOI Scopus45 WoS35
2021 Tran, N., Sergiienko, N. Y., Cazzolato, B. S., Ding, B., Wuillaume, P. -Y., Ghayesh, M. H., & Arjomandi, M. (2021). On the importance of nonlinear hydrodynamics and resonance frequencies on power production in multi-mode WECs. Applied Ocean Research, 117, 102924-1-102924-14.
DOI Scopus13 WoS11
2021 Skene, D. M., Sergiienko, N., Ding, B., & Cazzolato, B. (2021). The prospect of combining a point absorber wave energy converter with a floating offshore wind turbine. Energies, 14(21), 7385-1-7385-24.
DOI Scopus23 WoS19
2021 Souza Pinheiro da Silva, L., Cazzolato, B. S., Sergiienko, N., & Ding, B. (2021). Efficient estimation of the nonlinear aerodynamic loads of floating offshore wind turbines under random waves and wind in frequency domain. Journal of Ocean Engineering and Marine Energy, 7(3), 287-303.
DOI Scopus14 WoS12
2021 Souza Pinheiro da Silva, L., Cazzolato, B., Sergiienko, N., & Ding, B. (2021). Nonlinear Dynamics of a Floating OffshoreWind Turbine Platform via Statistical Quadratization - Mooring, Wave and Current In-teraction. Ocean Engineering, 236, 1-13.
DOI Scopus26 WoS21
2021 Sergiienko, N. Y., da Silva, L. S. P., Ding, B., & Cazzolato, B. S. (2021). Importance of drivetrain optimisation to maximise electrical power from wave energy converters. IET Renewable Power Generation, 15(14), 11 pages.
DOI Scopus8 WoS7
2021 Neshat, M., Sergiienko, N. Y., Mirjalili, S., Nezhad, M. M., Piras, G., & Garcia, D. A. (2021). Multi-mode wave energy converter design optimisation using an improved moth flame optimisation algorithm. Energies, 14(13), 1-17.
DOI Scopus19 WoS17
2021 Gu, Y., Ding, B., Sergiienko, N. Y., & Cazzolato, B. S. (2021). Power maximising control of a heaving point absorber wave energy converter. IET Renewable Power Generation, 15(14), 3296-3308.
DOI Scopus8 WoS7
2021 Sergiienko, N. Y., Cocho, M., Cazzolato, B. S., & Pichard, A. (2021). Effect of a model predictive control on the design of a power take-off system for wave energy converters. Applied Ocean Research, 115, 12 pages.
DOI Scopus23 WoS20
2020 Neshat, M., Alexander, B., Sergiienko, N. Y., & Wagner, M. (2020). New insights into position optimization of wave energy converters using hybrid local search. Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, 59, 100744-1-100744-18.
DOI Scopus33 WoS25
2020 Souza Pinheiro da Silva, L., Cazzolato, B., Sergiienko, N., Ding, B., Morishita, H., & Pesce, C. (2020). Statistical linearization of the Morison’s equation applied to wave energy converters. Journal of Ocean Engineering and Marine Energy, 6(2), 157-169.
DOI Scopus25 WoS23
2020 Schubert, B. W., Robertson, W. S. P., Cazzolato, B. S., Ghayesh, M. H., & Sergiienko, N. Y. (2020). Performance enhancement of submerged wave energy device using bistability. Ocean Engineering, 213, 14 pages.
DOI Scopus22 WoS19
2020 Tran, N., Sergiienko, N. Y., Cazzolato, B. S., Ding, B., Ghayesh, M. H., & Arjomandi, M. (2020). The impact of pitch-surge coupling on the performance of a submerged cylindrical wave energy converter. Applied Ocean Research, 104, 102377-1-102377-17.
DOI Scopus8 WoS6
2020 Neshat, M., Sergiienko, N. Y., Amini, E., Nezhad, M. M., Garcia, D. A., Alexander, B., & Wagner, M. (2020). A new bi-level optimisation framework for optimising a multi-modewave energy converter design: A case study for the marettimo island, mediterranean sea. Energies, 13(20), 5498.
DOI Scopus27 WoS24
2020 Silva, L. S. P., Sergiienko, N. Y., Pesce, C. P., Ding, B., Cazzolato, B., & Morishita, H. M. (2020). Stochastic analysis of nonlinear wave energy converters via statistical linearization. Applied Ocean Research, 95, 15 pages.
DOI Scopus47 WoS39
2019 Meng, F., Cazzolato, B., Li, Y., Ding, B., Sergiienko, N., & Arjomandi, M. (2019). A sensitivity study on the effect of mass distribution of a single-tether spherical point absorber. Renewable Energy, 141, 583-595.
DOI Scopus13 WoS10
2019 Sergiienko, N., Cazzolato, B., Arjomandi, M., Ding, B., & Souza Pinheiro da Silva, L. (2019). Considerations on the control design for a three-tether wave energy converter. Ocean Engineering, 183, 469-477.
DOI Scopus22 WoS17
2019 Ding, B., Sergiienko, N., Meng, F., Cazzolato, B., Hardy, P., & Arjomandi, M. (2019). The application of modal analysis to the design of multi-mode point absorber wave energy converters. Ocean Engineering, 171, 603-618.
DOI Scopus20 WoS12
2018 Sergiienko, N., Rafiee, A., Cazzolato, B., Ding, B., & Arjomandi, M. (2018). Feasibility study of the three-tether axisymmetric wave energy converter. Ocean Engineering, 150, 221-233.
DOI Scopus55 WoS45
2017 Sergiienko, N., Cazzolato, B., Ding, B., Hardy, P., & Arjomandi, M. (2017). Performance comparison of the floating and fully submerged quasi-point absorber wave energy converters. Renewable Energy, 108, 425-437.
DOI Scopus85 WoS73
2016 Sergiienko, N., Cazzolato, B., Ding, B., & Arjomandi, M. (2016). An optimal arrangement of mooring lines for the three-tether submerged point-absorbing wave energy converter. Renewable Energy, 93, 27-37.
DOI Scopus46 WoS34
- Gao, Q., Hayward, J. A., Sergiienko, N., Saeed Khan, S., Hemer, M., Ertugrul, N., & Ding, B. (n.d.). Offshore Wind Energy Development Strategies and Scenario Analyses: A Case Study in Australia.

Year Citation
2023 Neshat, M., Sergiienko, N. Y., da Silva, L. S. P., Amini, E., Nasiri, M., & Mirjalili, S. (2023). Adaptive bi-level whale optimization algorithm for maximizing the power output of hybrid wave-wind energy site. In M. Seyedali (Ed.), Handbook of Whale Optimization Algorithm: Variants, Hybrids, Improvements, and Applications (pp. 291-308). Elsevier.
DOI Scopus3
2022 da Silva, L. S. P., Ding, B., Guo, B., & Sergiienko, N. Y. (2022). Wave energy converter modelling, control, and power take-off design. In D. Ning, & B. Ding (Eds.), Modelling and Optimisation of Wave Energy Converters (pp. 97-128). Online: CRC Press.
DOI Scopus10
2022 Sergiienko, N. Y., & Ding, B. (2022). Multi-mode wave energy converters. In D. Ning, & B. Ding (Eds.), Modelling and Optimisation of Wave Energy Converters (1 ed., pp. 169-200). Online: CRC Press.
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2022 Mayon, R., Ning, D., Ding, B., & Sergiienko, N. Y. (2022). Wave energy converter systems - status and perspectives. In D. Ning, & B. Ding (Eds.), Modelling and Optimisation of Wave Energy Converters (pp. 3-58). Online: CRC Press.
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Year Citation
2025 Sergiienko, N., & da Silva, L. S. P. (2025). SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS OF A FLOATING HYBRID WIND-WAVE SYSTEM TO WAVE ENERGY CONVERTER PARAMETERS. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering OMAE Vol. 5 (pp. 10 pages). CANADA, Vancouver: AMER SOC MECHANICAL ENGINEERS.
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2025 Sergiienko, N., Cocho, M., & Paap, A. (2025). POSITION ESTIMATION OF A WAVE ENERGY CONVERTER USING LIMITED SENSOR DATA. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering OMAE Vol. 5 (pp. 7 pages). CANADA, Vancouver: AMER SOC MECHANICAL ENGINEERS.
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2023 Sergiienko, N., Cazzolato, B., Cohen, N., Manasseh, R., Turner, I., & Flocard, F. (2023). The application of temporal gating in the measurement of response amplitude operators. In Proceedings of the European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference Vol. 15. Bilbao: European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference Series.
DOI Scopus1
2023 Cohen, N., Flocard, F., Turner, I. L., Sergiienko, N., & Cazzolato, B. (2023). Experimental Investigation into the Air Compressibility Scaling Effect on OWC Performance and Wave Height. In Proceedings of the European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference Vol. 15. Bilbao: European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference Series.
DOI Scopus2
2023 Sergiienko, N., Tuck, W., Cannard, P., Georgiadis, M., Capper, B., Schultz, J., . . . Cazzolato, B. (2023). Preliminary Investigation of Ocean Wave Refraction Using an Array of Wave Energy Converters. In Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering (OMAE, 2023) Vol. 8 (pp. 1-8). Melbourne, Australia: American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
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2023 da Silva, L. S. P., Sergiienko, N., Cazzolato, B. S., Kiu, K., Gonçalves, R. T., & Ding, B. (2023). NONLINEAR AERO-MOORING EFFECTS ON FLOATING OFFSHORE WIND TURBINES UNDER RANDOM WIND AND WAVES: ENVIRONMENTAL DIRECTION EFFECTS. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering - OMAE Vol. 8 (pp. 11 pages). Melbourne, Australia: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
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2023 da Silva, L. S. P., Sergiienko, N. Y., Cazzolato, B. S., Meng, F., de Oliveira, M., & Ding, B. (2023). MOTION SUPPRESSION OF A FLOATING OFFSHORE WIND TURBINE USING HEAVING POINT ABSORBERS: A CASE STUDY IN AUSTRALIA. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering - OMAE Vol. 8 (pp. 10 pages). Melbourne, Australia: AMER SOC MECHANICAL ENGINEERS.
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2023 Gubesch, E., Nader, J. R., Ding, B., Cazzolato, B., Li, Y., Sergiienko, N., & Penesis, I. (2023). EXPERIMENTAL HYDRODYNAMIC INVESTIGATION OF A CO-LOCATED WIND TURBINE AND WAVE ENERGY CONVERTER. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering - OMAE Vol. 8 (pp. 10 pages). Melbourne, Vic, Australia: American Society of Mechanical Engineers(ASME).
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2023 Hewins, S., Nader, J. R., Gubesch, E., & Sergiienko, N. (2023). POSITIVE INTERACTION OF HYDRODYNAMIC MOTIONS OF AN OFFSHORE WIND TURBINE WITH CO-LOCATED WEC. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering - OMAE Vol. 8 (pp. 1-9). Melbourne, VIC, Australia: American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
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2023 Pang, T. Y., Ding, B., Liu, L., & Sergiienko, N. (2023). SHORT-TERM SEA SURFACE ELEVATION PREDICTION USING DEEP LEARNING METHODS. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering - OMAE Vol. 5 (pp. 10 pages). Melbourne, Australia: American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
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2021 Skene, D. M., Sergiienko, N., Ding, B., & Cazzolato, B. (2021). The potential for combining floating wind turbines with point absorbing wave energy converters. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering - OMAE Vol. 9 (pp. 10 pages). virtual online: American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
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2020 Tran, N., Sergiienko, N. Y., Cazzolato, B. S., Ghayesh, M. H., & Arjomandi, M. (2020). The effect of nonlinear pitch-surge coupling on the performance of multi-dof submerged wecs. In Proceedings of the International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference Vol. 2020-October (pp. 144-151). online: ISOPE.
Scopus2
2020 Sergiienko, N. Y., Neshat, M., Silva, L. S. P. D., Alexander, B., & Wagner, M. (2020). Design optimisation of a multi-mode wave energy converter. In Proceedings of the 39th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering (OMAE 2020) Vol. 9 (pp. 1-11). Online: American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
DOI Scopus19 WoS3
2020 Neshat, M., Alexander, B., Sergiienko, N. Y., & Wagner, M. (2020). Optimisation of large wave farms using a multi-strategy evolutionary framework. In Proceedings of the 2020 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO'20) Vol. abs/2003.09594 (pp. 1150-1158). New York: Association for Computing Machinery.
DOI Scopus26 WoS23
2020 Gu, Y., Ding, B., & Sergiienko, N. Y. (2020). Power maximising control of heaving point absorber wave energy converters using quadratic damping force. In 14th ISOPE Pacific/Asia Offshore Mechanics Symposium, PACOMS 2020 (pp. 330-334). online: ISOPE.
Scopus1
2020 Souza Pinheiro da Silva, L., Sergiienko, N. Y., Cazzolato, B. S., Ding, B., Pesce, C. P., & Morishita, H. M. (2020). Nonlinear analysis of an oscillating wave surge converter in frequency domain via statistical linearizatio. In Proceedings of the 2020 39th International Conference on Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering - OMAE Vol. 9 (pp. 11 pages). online: ASME.
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2019 Ding, B., Wuillaume, P. -Y., Meng, F., Babarit, A., Schubert, B., Sergiienko, N., & Cazzolato, B. (2019). Comparison of wave-body interaction modelling methods for the study of reactively controlled point absorber wave energy converter. In The 34th International Workshop on Water Waves and Floating Bodies (pp. 1-4). online: CARMA.
2019 Neshat, M., Alexander, B., Sergiienko, N., & Wagner, M. (2019). A hybrid evolutionary algorithm framework for optimising power take off and placements of wave energy converters. In GECCO '19 Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Vol. abs/1904.07043 (pp. 1293-1301). New York: ACM.
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2018 Howard, C., Sergiienko, N., & Gallasch, G. (2018). Monitoring the age of vehicle shock absorbers. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Science and Innovation for Land Power 2018 (ICSILP 2018) (pp. 1-4). Adelaide Convention Centre, Adelaide, South Australia: DST Group.
2018 Arbonès, D., Sergiienko, N., Ding, B., Krause, O., Igel, C., & Wagner, M. (2018). Sparse incomplete LU-decomposition for wave farm designs under realistic conditions. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) Vol. 11101 (pp. 512-524). Coimbra, Portugal: SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG.
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2018 Schubert, B., Meng, F., Sergiienko, N., Robertson, W., Cazzolato, B., Ghayesh, M., . . . Arjomandi, M. (2018). Pseudo-nonlinear hydrodynamic coefficients for modelling point absorber wave energy converters. In Proceedings of the 4th Asian Wave and Tidal Energy Conference (AWTEC 2018) (pp. 1-10). online: AWTEC.
2018 Ding, B., Sergiienko, N., Meng, F., Cazzolato, B., Hardy, P., & Arjomandi, M. (2018). Enhancing the relative capture width of submerged point absorbing wave energy converters. In Proceedings of the 4th Asian Wave and Tidal Energy Conference: AWTEC 2018 (pp. 1-10). online: AWTEC.
2017 Ding, B., Sergiienko, N., Bleckly, B., Souza Pinheiro da Silva, L., Cazzolato, B., & Arjomandi, M. (2017). Power-take-off control in a scaled experiment of a point absorber wave energy converter. In T. Lewis (Ed.), Proceeding of the 12th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference (EWTEC 2017) (pp. 1-7). Cork, Ireland: EWTEC.
2017 Meng, F., Rafiee, A., Cazzolato, B., Arjomandi, M., Ding, B., Piper, J., . . . Qiuhao, H. (2017). Numerical simulation of a submerged spherical point absorber with asymmetric mass distribution. In T. Lewis (Ed.), Proceedings of 12th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference 2017. Cork, Ireland: EWTEC.
2017 Ding, B., da Silva, L., Sergiienko, N., Meng, F., Piper, J., Bennetts, L., . . . Arjomandi, M. (2017). Study of fully submerged point absorber wave energy converter - modelling, simulation and scaled experiment. In Proceedings of the 32nd International Workshop on Water Waves and Floating Bodies (IWWWFB) (pp. 1-4). Dalian, China: IWWWFB.
2017 Sergiienko, N., Cazzolato, B., Hardy, P., Arjomandi, M., & Ding, B. (2017). Internal-model-based velocity tracking control of a submerged three-tether wave energy converter. In Proceeding of the 12th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference (pp. 1126-1-1126-8). Cork, Ireland: EWTEC.
2016 Ding, B., Sergiienko, N., Meng, F., Cazzolato, B., Arjomandi, M., & Hardy, P. (2016). Enhancing the relative capture width of submerged point absorbers. In 1st Indo-Australian Marine Renewable Energy Workshop. Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
2016 Wu, J., Shekh, S., Sergiienko, N., Cazzolato, B., Ding, B., Neumann, F., & Wagner, M. (2016). Fast and effective optimisation of arrays of submerged wave energy converters. In Proceedings of the 2016 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (pp. 1045-1052). Denver, CO: Association for Computing Machinery.
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2016 Arbonès, D., Ding, B., Sergiienko, N., & Wagner, M. (2016). Fast and effective multi-objective optimisation of submerged wave energy converters. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Parallel Problem Solving from Nature Vol. 9921 (pp. 675-685). Edinburgh, United Kingdom: Springer.
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2016 Sergiienko, N., Cazzolato, B., DIng, B., & Arjomandi, M. (2016). Three-tether axisymmetric wave energy converter: estimation of energy delivery. In Proceedings of the 3rd Asian Wave and Tidal Energy Conference (AWTEC 2016) Vol. 1 (pp. 163-171). Marina Bay Sands, Singapore: Research Publishing Services.
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2015 Sergiienko, N., & Chen, L. (2015). Adaptive head stabilisation system for a snake-like robot. In Proceedings of Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation 2014 Vol. 02-04-December-2014 (pp. 1-7). Melbourne, Australia: Australian Robotics and Automation Association Inc..
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Year Citation
2025 Neshat, M., Sergiienko, N. Y., Silva, L. S. P. D., Mirjalili, S., Gandomi, A. H., Abdelkhalik, O., & Boland, J. (2025). Hybrid Wave-wind System Power Optimisation Using Effective Ensemble
Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolutionary Algorithm.

Grants:

Years Grant title Scheme Amount awarded
2025 Open-water propeller dynamometer The University of Adelaide Small Equipment Support Scheme $5,500
2025 Distributed Propulsion Systems for Future Airplanes ARC LP $536,380
2025 Flume wave generator The University of Adelaide, the SET Faculty Research and Teaching Capital Equipment $99,230
2024 A new phase of offshore renewable energy hydrodynamics ARC DP $638,518
2024 Ocean Wave Energy in Australia Blue Economy Cooperative Research
Centre		 $260,797
2023 Development of a coupled LTD-CFD workflow for simulation of wave energy converters in extreme sea states National Computational Merit Allocation Scheme 2024 1,000,000 core hours
2023 Developing a deployment-ready robust controller for wave energy converters ARC Early Career Industry Fellowship $448,887
2022 Wave gauge system for measuring wave height in a wave flume or tank The University of Adelaide Small Equipment Support Scheme $7,500
2021 Advanced Control: The fast-track to commercialisation of wave energy converters Access to Pawsey Supercomputers – Energy and Resources Merit Allocation Scheme 750,000 core hours
2020 Advanced Control: The fast-track to commercialisation of wave energy converters Access to Pawsey Supercomputers – Energy and Resources Merit Allocation Scheme 250,000 core hours
2020 Ultra-fine Attitude Control via Event-based Star Tracking and Piezoelectric Stabilisation SmartSat CRC $600,000
2020 Adaptive Electrical Capacitance Volume Tomography for Multiphase Flows ARC LIEF $760,000

Awards:

Year Award   Funding
2025 Defence and Security Institute Ingenuity Prize
Honours project "Wave-powered AUV"		 Defence and Security Institute  
2025 Net Zero Electricity Award
Honours project "Wave Energy: Power and Protection"		 Institute of Sustainability, Energy and Resources  
2024 Third Prize - Mechanical Engineering Project
Honours project "Coastal Defence Powered By Waves"		 The University of Adelaide
Ingenuity		  
2024 Net Zero Electricity Award
Honours project "Coastal Defence Powered By Waves"		 Institute of Sustainability, Energy and Resources  
2024 Best Paper Award 2nd AP SDEWES  
2020 Best Paper Award (Real World Application) GECCO 2020  
2019 Women’s Research Excellence Award The University of Adelaide $5,000
2019 SA Fresh Scientist    
2019 Best Paper Award (Real World Application) GECCO 2019  
2018 Dean's Commendation For Doctoral Thesis Excellence The University of Adelaide  
2017 Best Research Quality in Control Centre for Energy Technology  
2014 Australian Postgraduate Award The University of Adelaide  
2005 Ukraine Parliament Scholarship    
2004 The Pavlovsky Scholarship National Technical University of Ukraine  
2003 The Kyiv Mayor Scholarship for Gifted Youth    
Date Position Institution Subject
2021, 2023 Project advisor The University of Adelaide Research Methods & Project Management
2019, 2020,
2023, 2024		 Course coordinator, Lecturer The University of Adelaide Space Vehicle Design
2019 - 2020 Course coordinator, Lecturer The University of Adelaide Advanced Topics in Aerospace Engineering
2016 - 2018 Teaching assistant The University of Adelaide Advanced PID Control
2015 - 2016 Teaching assistant, invited lecturer The University of Adelaide Dynamics and Control II (Auto Control II)
2014 - 2016 Teaching assistant The University of Adelaide Engineering Mechanics (Dynamics)

 

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2025 Co-Supervisor Adaptive control strategies for bio-inspired soft robotic systems Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Peppe Grasso
2025 Principal Supervisor Nonlinear hydrodynamics and control of offshore renewable energy systems Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Zehao Liu
2022 Co-Supervisor Mathematical Theory of Controlling Coastlines While Generating Power Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Amy-Rose Westcott
2021 Co-Supervisor Robust Power-Maximising Control of Wave Energy Converters Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Mr Yifeng Gu

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2019 - 2023 Co-Supervisor Stochastic Analysis of Marine Renewable Energy Devices: Wave, Wind, and Hybrid Systems Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Leandro da Silva
2019 - 2021 Co-Supervisor Performance Enhancement of Submerged Ocean Wave Energy Converter using Nonlinear Stiffness Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Benjamin Wilhelm Schubert
2018 - 2022 Co-Supervisor The impact of hydrodynamic coupling on the performance of multi-mode wave energy converters Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Miss Ngan Bich Dinh Tran

Date Role Committee Institution Country
2025 - 2025 Director Conference Track Director The 16th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference (EWTEC 2025) Portugal
2022 - 2023 Member Technical programme committee The 19th International Conference on Intelligent Unmanned Systems Australia
2021 - ongoing Advisory Board Member The Sir Ross and Sir Keith Smith Fund - Advisory Committee The Sir Ross and Sir Keith Smith Fund Australia

Date Role Editorial Board Name Institution Country
2025 - ongoing Member Applied Ocean Research Elsevier United Kingdom

Date Topic Presented at Institution Country
2025 - 2025 Toward defining wave prediction requirements for wave energy applications Blue Economy CRC webinar series: Highlights from the European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference 2025 Blue Economy CRC Australia
2025 - 2025 Broadband wave energy absorption The 2nd China-Ireland Marine Renewable Energy Seminar Dalian University of Technology China
2025 - 2025 Opportunities for wave power UniSA Energy Research Showcase Day University of South Australia Australia
2025 - 2025 Wave Power with a Purpose: Protecting Coasts and Offshore Assets - Zhejiang University China
2025 - 2025 Wave Power with a Purpose: Protecting Coasts and Offshore Assets - Ocean University of China China
2025 - 2025 Wave Power with a Purpose: Protecting Coasts and Offshore Assets - Dalian University of Technology China
2024 - 2024 Ocean Wave Energy in Australia Blue Economy CRC webinar Blue Economy CRC Australia
2024 - 2024 Using wave energy converters to protect coasts and offshore structures KOZWaves 2024 The University of Otago New Zealand
2023 - 2023 Opportunities for wave power Centre for Energy Technology Research Day University of Adelaide Australia
2023 - 2023 Academic promotion Academic Women's Forum University of Adelaide Australia
2022 - 2022 Trends, Challenges, and Future Perspectives for Floating Offshore Wind Turbine Development - Blue Economy CRC Australia

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