Tom Chandler is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of IT and coordinates the faculty's Interactive Media Major. Tom's research has focused upon the design and development of immersive simulations of the past, particularly the medieval Cambodian capital of Angkor. In the past three years, Tom has coordinated a small team of researchers at sensiLab to trial the evidence-based virtual reconstruction of the 12^th century temple of Angkor Wat that simulates thousands of animated agents moving to, from and around the complex. The techniques and procedures involved in developing digital visions of the past have been similarly applied to collaborative research in other domains, such as the simulation of train passenger crowding, quantifying ecological constraints on vision-based behaviour, and the visualisation of indigenous narratives in the Monash Country Lines Archive.

3D Modelling and Simulation, Virtual Heritage, Digital Humanities, Virtual Reality, Archaeological and Historical Visualisation, 3D Animation

3D Modelling and Simulation, Virtual Heritage, Digital Humanities, Virtual Reality, Archaeological and Historical Visualisation, 3D Animation

Dr Tom Chandler has experience as the Chief Examiner for the following units in the Faculty of IT:

• FIT1033 Foundations of 3D
• FIT1046 Interactive Media Foundations
• FIT3169: Immersive environments 
• FIT5204: Heritage informatics (Prato)

Tom coordinates the following units in the Faculty of IT's Interactive Media Major:

• FIT3001: Advanced 3D
• FIT3157: Advanced web design