Complex sentence: He was previously the head of faculty and professor at Hartford Graduate Campus of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Hartford, Connecticut and prior to that, a member of the faculty at Swinburne University of Technology in Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia where he attained tenure in 1997.
Split into simpler sentences: He was previously associated with Swinburne University of Technology in Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia. Prior to joining Rensselaer, Dr. Younessi was a member of the faculty at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, where he attained tenure in 1997.