Rate My Professor Wynita Griggs

Dr. Wynita Griggs is a Lecturer in Transport Engineering holding joint appointments in the Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering, where she also serves as Deputy Director of Education for third- and fourth-year students, and the Department of Civil Engineering at Monash University in the Faculty of Engineering, Clayton campus. She earned a PhD in Engineering from the Australian National University in 2007, with a thesis entitled "Stability Results for Feedback Control Systems." Earlier, she completed a Bachelor of Science and Arts with an Honours year in mathematics. Her career includes a postdoctoral fellowship in Ireland under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 ENABLE-s3 project, where she designed vehicle-in-the-loop traffic emulation platforms, collaborated with IBM Research-Ireland on context-aware in-car reasoning systems, and secured related patents. She subsequently worked as a research scientist at University College London, developing vehicle-in-the-loop simulation platforms in partnership with IBM.

Griggs' research focuses on mathematical control theory, encompassing stability theory, dissipative systems theory, ergodicity under feedback control, and robust control, with applications to intelligent transportation systems. Her work addresses connected and autonomous vehicles, vehicle-to-everything communications, pedestrian and cyclist safety via systems like Herd Routes, and simulations using tools such as SUMO. Current projects include the Tram Stop Constructability Innovation funded by Yarra Trams in collaboration with the Monash Institute of Railway Technology and support for the Monash Connected Autonomous Vehicles student team. She has produced 46 research outputs, including highly cited publications such as "A 'mixed' small gain and passivity theorem in the frequency domain" (2007, Systems & Control Letters, 94 citations), "A large-scale SUMO-based emulation platform" (2015, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 62 citations), "On the design of campus parking systems with QoS guarantees" (2015, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 57 citations), and recent articles like "A new framework to predict and visualize technology acceptance: A case study of shared autonomous vehicles" (2025, Technological Forecasting and Social Change). Griggs received the Best Digest Paper award at the 2nd International Conference on Connected Vehicles and Expo in Las Vegas. She accepts PhD students and contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goals 7 and 11. Her collaborations extend to patents with IBM and international networks on EV-grid integration.