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Thushara ABHAYAPALA

Email:
Url:http://rsise.anu.edu.au/~thush
Department:InfoEng, ASP

Research Interests:

Physically inspired signal processing problems in the areas of Acoustic and Audio; Wireless and Mobile Communications; and Bio-medical applications. These include broadband/ nearfield beamforming, array signal processing, wireless channel modelling, sound propagation modelling, spatial soundfield recording and reconstruction, MIMO systems, space-time-frequency coding.

Duties:

Associate Professor, Information Engineering, Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering (RSISE) in the College of Engineering and Computer Science (CECS).

Bio:

He received the B.E.(hons 1) degree in interdisciplinary systems engineering in 1994 and the Ph.D. degree in Telecommunications Engineering in 1999 from ANU. From 1995 to 1997, he worked as a Research Engineer at the Arthur C. Clarke Centre for Modern Technologies, in Sri Lanka. Since December 1999, he has been a faculty member at ANU.

Thushara considers 'research training' as a top priority. He has proudly supervised 19 PhD students and 2 research Masters students. He has co-authored over 110 peer reviewed papers. He rarely writes alone.

He is an associate editor for EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking.


Brian ANDERSON

Email:
Url:http://users.rsise.anu.edu.au/~briandoa
Department:InfoEng, NICTA, SysCon

Research Interests:

Professor Anderson's research interests have included many contributions in the area of circuits, signal processing and control, and currently his work focuses on distributed control of multiagent systems, sensor network localization, adaptive and nonlinear control.

Bio:

  • Undergraduate degrees in Mathematics and Electrical Engineering at Sydney University
  • Doctoral degree in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University.
  • Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Newcastle, Australia from 1967 through 1981.
  • Professor and Head of the Department of Systems Engineering at the Australian National University in Canberra, 1994 to 2002.
  • Director of the Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering from 1994 to 2002.
  • Inaugural CEO of the newly formed National ICT Australia
  • Chief Scientist of NICTA, From May 2003 to June 2006

    He has held many visiting appointments in the United States, Europe and Asia, including the University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and Tokyo Institute of Technology.

    Professor Anderson has served as a member of a number of government bodies, including the Australian Science and Technology Council and the Prime Minister's Science, Engineering and Innovation Council. He was a member of the Board of Cochlear Limited, the world's major supplier of cochlear implants, from 1995 to 2005. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, and an Honorary Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Australia. In 1989, he became a Fellow of the Royal Society, London, and in 2002 a Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Engineering. He holds honorary doctorates of the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, and the Universities of Sydney, Melbourne, New South Wales and Newcastle. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in 1993.

    He was President of the International Federation of Automatic Control for the triennium 1990 to 1993, and served as President of the Australian Academy of Science for four years from 1998 to 2002.



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    Lars ANDERSSON

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    Department:InfoEng, NICTA


    Chris BAKER

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    Department:DirOffice, InfoEng

    Research Interests:

    Coherent radar techniques, radar signal processing, radar signal interpretation, Electronically scanned radar systems, natural echo locating systems and radar imaging.

    Bio:

    Chris Baker is the Dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science at The Australian National University. Prior to this he held the Thales-Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in intelligent radar systems at University College London. He has been actively engaged in radar system research since 1984 working in both the public and private sectors. He is the author of over one hundred and fifty publications and is a much requested speaker on the topic of radar systems. He provides advice and consultancy to the global aerospace industry as well as to a variety of international governments. He is the recipient of the IEE Mountbatten premium (twice), the IEE Institute premium and is a fellow of the IEE. Until 2007 he was the chairman of the IEE Radar, Sonar and Navigation systems professional network. He is a visiting Professor at the University of Cape Town, Cranfield University, University College London and the University of Adelaide.

    Nick BARNES

    Email:
    Url:http://users.rsise.anu.edu.au/~nmb/
    Department:DCS, InfoEng, NICTA

    Research Interests:

    Bionic eye. Computer vision. Biological vision. Biologically inspired vision. Structre and motion recovery.


    Kim BLACKMORE

    Email:
    Url:http://engnet.anu.edu.au/DEpeople/Kim.Blackmore/
    Department:ASP, DE, Student Services

    Research Interests:

    Bushfire Sensor Network
    Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
    Machine Learning
    Signal Processing
    Flexible Learning

    Duties:

    Kim is the coordinator of the CECS Flexible Learning Unit. The FLU is develops and delivers Continuing Professional Development courses, and assists lecturers to redesign courses using flexible delivery methods.


    Andrew BLAKERS

    Email:
    Url:http://solar.anu.edu.au
    Department:DE, Solar

    Research Interests:

    solar energy, semiconductors. For further information, please visit the "Photovoltaic Processes", "Linear Concentrator" and "Sliver Cell" webpages: http://solar.anu.edu.au/research/pv.php http://solar.anu.edu.au/research/linearconc.php http://solar.anu.edu.au/research/sliver.php



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    Gerard BORG

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    Department:ASP, InfoEng, DE



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    Leilei CAO

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    Department:DE


    Kylie CATCHPOLE

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    Department:DE, Solar

    Research Interests:

    Nanophotonics for photovoltaics, surface plasmons, light trapping.
    For further information visit: Nanophotonics Research Page



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    Weitian CHEN

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    Department:InfoEng, SysCon


    Paul COMPSTON

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    Url:http://engnet.anu.edu.au/DEpeople/Paul.Compston
    Department:DE


    Andres CUEVAS

    Email:
    Url:http://engnet.anu.edu.au/DEresearch/semiconductor/
    Department:DE, Solar, InfoEng

    Research Interests:

    Andres Cuevas, PhD (Univ Politecnica Madrid, 1980), M Eng (Telecommunications, U. Pol. Madrid, 1976) has held academic positions at the Polytechnical University of Madrid (1980-1992) and at the Australian National University (since 1993). He has been a Fulbright Scholar at Stanford University and a visiting researcher at the universities of Florida and Catalunya, the CNR-Istituto LAMEL in Bologna and the Fraunhofer ISE in Freiburg. His contributions to the field of silicon solar cells and photovoltaic solar energy are described in more than 260 scientific publications, including several patents and book chapters. His broad interests in semiconductor physics and technology have recently focused on novel characterisation techniques for electronic materials and devices, the study of fundamental properties of silicon, the passivation of its surface by means of silicon nitride, and the advancement of multicrystalline silicon solar cells.


    Arvin DEHGHANI

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    Department:InfoEng, ASP


    Michael DENNIS

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    Department:DE, Solar


    Matt DOOLAN

    Email:
    Url:http://engnet.anu.edu.au/DEpeople/Matt.Doolan/
    Department:DE



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    Manfred DOUDAR

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    Department:InfoEng, NICTA


    Salman DURRANI

    Email:
    Url:http://engnet.anu.edu.au/DEpeople/Salman.Durrani/
    Department:ASP, InfoEng, DE

    Research Interests:

    Wireless and digital communication, Parametric channel modelling, Channel estimation for fading channels, Beamforming for wireless ad hoc networks, Modelling of smart antenna systems and Code Division Multiple Access systems.

    Duties:

  • Lecturer, Department of Engineering, College of Engineering & Computer Science, ANU.
  • PhD Student Advisor, College of Engineering and Computer Science, 2006-present
    (one of three student advisors for existing PhD students in the College. See https://studentdb.rsise.anu.edu.au/student_advisors.cgi).
  • Student Mentor, Bachelor of Engineering (Research and Development) degree program, Department of Engineering, CECS, 2007-present.
  • Program Advisor (supporting to Associate Dean Undergraduate), Department of Engineering, CECS, 2005-2008.
  • Bio:

    Salman Durrani received the B.Sc. (1st class honours) degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Engineering & Technology, Lahore, Pakistan in 2000. He received the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia in 2004. Since March 2005, he has been a Lecturer in the Department of Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. His current research interests include wireless and digital communications, channel modelling and channel estimation, wireless ad-hoc networks and MIMO and smart antenna systems. He has 30 publications to date in refereed international journals and conferences.

    Dr. Durrani was awarded a University Gold Medal during his undergraduate studies. He was a recipient of an International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (IPRS) for the duration of his PhD. He received a Deans Award for Teaching Excellence from College of Engineering & Computer Science in 2007. He is a Member of IEEE and a Member of Institution of Engineers, Australia.


    Vernie EVERETT

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    Department:DE, Solar

    Research Interests:

    automation, motion control, electronics, optics and optoelectronics, plasma


    Jin FAN

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    Department:InfoEng


    Roy FEATHERSTONE

    Email:
    Url:http://users.rsise.anu.edu.au/~roy
    Department:InfoEng

    Research Interests:

    robot dynamics; dynamics simulators; robotic actuator technology; complex physical motion;

    Bio:

    I am the inventor of the articulated-body dynamics algorithm and the author of two books on dynamics algorithms. I am a recipient of an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship, which I held at Oxford University, and I am a Fellow of the IEEE. I have 7 years experience working in UK and US industry, and 20 years research experience, mostly in robot dynamics, kinematics, control and actuator technology.


    Baris FIDAN

    Email:
    Url:http://users.rsise.anu.edu.au/~fidan/
    Department:InfoEng, SysCon

    Research Interests:

    Control of Multi-Agent Systems/Swarms, Sensor Network Localization, Cooperative Target Geolocation, Robust Adaptive Control, Nonlinear/Switching Control of Multivariable/Time Varying/Multi-Agent Systems, Flight Control of High Performance Aircraft and Hypersonic Vehicles, Semiconductor Manufacturing Process Control, Disk Drive Servo-Systems, Motion Planning and Control of Mobile Robots, Articulated/Reconfigurable Robots, Active Vision and Vision Based Control

    Duties:

    Investigator and deputy project leader in a 3-year NICTA-DSTO project, “SWARM: Characterization, Diagnosis, and Assurance of Health and Quality of Sensor Formations”; Researching in several areas related to complex syytems engineering; Supervising PhD/masters/honors/summer scholar students; Teaching one systems & control course per year


    Roland GOECKE

    Email:
    Url:http://users.rsise.anu.edu.au/~roland
    Department:InfoEng

    Research Interests:

    My research interests can be largely summarised as being in vision for HCI and related signal processing areas, such as Computer Vision (face tracking, object tracking, Active Appearance Models, 3D lip tracking, gesture recognition, driver assistance technology, background subtraction / novelty detection, thermal imaging), Affective Computing (affective state recognition using video, audio and physiological measures, bloodflow estimation), Multimodal HCI, Audio-Video Speech Processing, Image Processing, and Signal Processing (signal fusion / integration).

    Duties:

    I am a Senior Lecturer / Research Fellow at the University of Canberra and an Adjunct Researcher at the Information and Human Centred Computing group in the College of Engineering and Computer Science (CECS).

    Bio:

    In the past, I worked as a Senior Research Scientist at Seeing Machines, a spin-off company from ANU and RSISE, as a researcher for the NICTA Canberra Research Lab, as well as for the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics, Germany. My PhD was awarded by the ANU in 2004 for work on audio-video automatic speech recognition, including a real-time stereo vision lip tracking algorithm. I was awarded the PhD of the Year award in 2004 by the Australian Speech Science and Technology Association (ASSTA). Much of my work has been on and continues to be on face and facial feature tracking from a HCI point of view.

    I am or have been the (co-)supervisor of 7 PhD students, 4 Masters students, and several summer scholars and other interns. I have (co-)authored about 40 papers and book chapters.

    I have been or am on the organisation committee of several workshops and conferences, including VisHCI, NRTL, Interspeech and AVSP. I regularly review papers for top international conferences and journals (e.g. IEEE Trans. PAMI), and have been an examiner for several PhD theses (external to the ANU).

    I am an avid bushwalker and enjoy being outdoors whenever I can.



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    Leif HANLEN

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    Department:ASP, InfoEng


    Richard HARTLEY

    Email:
    Url:http://users.rsise.anu.edu.au/~hartley/
    Department:InfoEng


    David HILL

    Email:
    Url:http://rsise.anu.edu.au/~dhill
    Department:InfoEng, SysCon

    Research Interests:

    Generally interested in networks, automatic control, stability theory, power systems and systems science. Current work emphasises complex systems and networks, adaptive systems, hybrid/switched systems, learning control and nonlinear systems with application to power networks and the Internet.

    Bio:

    Received the BE and BSc degrees from the University of Queensland, Australia, in 1972 and 1974, respectively. Received the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Newcastle, Australia, in 1976. Currently a Professor and Australian Research Council Federation Fellow in the Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering at ANU. Has held academic and substantial visiting positions at the universities of Melbourne, California (Berkeley), Newcastle (Australia), Lund (Sweden), Sydney and Hong Kong (City University). Holds honorary professorships at the University of Sydney, University of Queensland (Australia), South China University of Technology, City University of Hong Kong, Wuhan University and Northeastern University (China). Elected a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, USA and the Australian Academy of Science; also a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.


    Charlotte HUCHER

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    Department:ASP, DE

    Research Interests:

    My research interests include space-time code design, cooperative protocols for both single-hop and multi-hop cooperative networks, network coding... I am currently working on an ARC project on "reliable communication in wireless cooperative networks under channel uncertainty".

    Bio:

    I received my Engineering degree from Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (ENST) as well as my master degree in Digital communications from Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis in 2005. I then received my PhD degree in Electronics and Communication from TELECOM ParisTech (ex ENST) in 2009. I am now a Research Fellow in ANU, in the Advanced Signal Processing department (RSISE).



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    Matt JAMES

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    Department:DE, SysCon


    Hao JIN

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    Url:http://engnet.anu.edu.au/DEpeople/Hao.Jin
    Department:DE, Solar


    Haley JONES

    Email:
    Url:http://engnet.anu.edu.au/DEpeople/Haley.Jones/
    Department:DE

    Research Interests:

    Cradle-to-cradle paradigm
    Sustainable systems


    Shankar KALYANASUNDARAM

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    Department:DE


    Rod KENNEDY

    Email:
    Url:http://web.mac.com/rodken/
    Department:ASP, InfoEng

    Research Interests:

    Broad interest in wireless communications, equalization, blind algorithms, ion channel modeling, broadband arrays and beamforming, nearfield arrays, spatial information theory, RF antenna analysis, information theory, servo control, medical imaging, GPU accelerated computation, wireless channel modeling, MIMO systems, inverse problems, statistic and Markov channels, dimensionality of systems, measurement and modeling head related transfer functions, dummy heads, pitch shifting speech, digital TV receivers, discretization of continuous systems, image registration, direction of arrival estimation, nonlinear filtering, convergence of algorithms, detection and estimation, ultrawideband communication systems, reduced complexity Viberbi and sequential estimation, error propagation in feedback receivers, multipath richness estimation, spatial correlation, sensor coupling and correlation, signal concentration and uncertainty principles, compressed sensing (compressive sampling), context-free grammars and related.

    Duties:

    Professor and Head of Department, Information Engineering, Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering (RSISE) in the College of Engineering and Computer Science (CECS).

    Bio:

    In the past I have won a number of university prizes in engineering and mathematics, received a University Medal at UNSW and the Australian Telecommunications and Electronics Research Board Medal, held a Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship and made grade of IEEE Fellow. I've (co)-supervised between 28-32 PhD students at ANU (depending on how you count) and collaborated on many papers and book chapters (around 240).

    In an earlier career phase I worked on the Australia Telescope project at CSIRO where I busied myself with: surveying for the compact array stations, field RF interference measurements, radio telescope control system design (Masters degree) and RF analysis of shaped cassegrain reflector systems. Despite this the Telescope works even today.

    Currently obsessed with windsurfing and a competent Squash player. Played representative cricket, soccer, baseball and squash.

    Favourite sayings: "People have died for less" and "Small things amuse small minds".


    Jon KIM

    Email:
    Url:http://engnet.anu.edu.au/DEpeople/Jonghyuk.Kim
    Department:DE, SysCon

    Research Interests:

    Dr Jon Kim's research interests are on

  • Autonomous robotics, focusing on visual perception and its use for aiding autonomous navigation
  • Data fusion accross multiple agents
  • Achiving persistent autonomy for life-long operations
  • Ground and aerial robot systems
  • Duties:

  • Lecturer, School of Engineering, ANU, 2005-present, Teaching Mechatronics Stream (Control systems, Dynamics, and Electronics)
  • U/G course advisor, School of Engineering, ANU, 2008-present, With Paul Comptson and Haley Jones
  • DE R&D (Research and Development) program coordinator, School of Engineering, 2005-2007, Facilitated R&D projects for high-achieving students in DE
  • Bio:

    Dr. Jon Kim received his BS (1st-class honour equivalent) and MS degrees in electrical engineering at the Chungnam National University, South Korea in 1997, 1999 respectively. He has obtained his doctoral degree on mechatronics at the University of Sydney in 2004, pioneering the area of airborne simultaneous localisation and localisation (SLAM). He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Autonomous Systems (CAS) in Sydney before he joined ANU.

    He is the recipient of the Charles Sharpe Beecher Prize and Award from IMechE, UK, 2005 for his contributions to the aerospace engineering. He co-chaired ACRA (Australasian Conference in Robotics and Automation) in 2008 and served an Associated Editor role for IEEE-IROS in 2008.


    Tharaka LAMAHEWA

    Email:
    Url:http://users.rsise.anu.edu.au/~tharaka/
    Department:InfoEng, ASP

    Research Interests:

    Information capacity of fading channels with/without feedback, space-time coding, wireless channel modelling, MIMO capacity analysis, spatial precoder design.

    Duties:

    Research Fellow, Information Engineering, Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering (RSISE) in the College of Engineering and Computer Science (CECS)


    Hongdong LI

    Email:
    Url:http://rsise.anu.edu.au/~hongdong
    Department:NICTA, InfoEng


    Paulette LIEBY

    Email:
    Department:InfoEng, NICTA

    Research Interests:

    3D shape analysis, differential geometry, graph theory, combinatorics of finite sets.

    Duties:

    NICTA project leader for AASEDP (Automated Anatomical Structure Extraction for Diagnosis & Population Norms).

    Bio:

    1994: 1rst Cl. Honours in Computer Science and Mathematics, CDU, Darwin. 1999: Phd Pure Mathematics, CDU, Darwin. 1999-2003: research associate with Magma, Sydney Uni. 2004-to date: research programmer and engineer, NICTA.


    Bin LIU

    Email:
    Url:http://users.rsise.anu.edu.au/~binliu/
    Department:InfoEng, SysCon

    Research Interests:

    My research interests include stability analysis and applications of nonlinear systems and hybrid systems, optimal control and stability, chaos and complex networks synchronization and control, and Lie algebra.

    Duties:

    I am a Research Fellow in Department of Information Engineering. I am working as a Queen Elizabeth II Fellow with Professor David J. Hill for the Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project (DP0881391)“Dynamic Analysis and Control for Hybrid Systems and Networks" (2008-2012).

    Bio:

    I received the M.Sc. degree from the Department of Mathematics, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China, in 1993, and Ph.D. degree from the Department of Control Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, in June 2003, respectively. I was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology from July 2003 to July 2005, a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada, from August 2005 to October 2006, and a visiting Research Fellow at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China, in 2004. Since July 1993, I have been with the Department of Information and Computation Sciences, Hunan University of Technology, Hunan, China, where I became an Associate Professor in 2001, and a Professor in 2004. Now I am a Research Fellow and Queen Elizabeth II Fellow in Department of Information Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. I am the author or coauthor of over 50 research journal articles. I am an editor of The Journal of the Franklin Institute, an associate editor of Mathematical Problems in Engineering, and an associate editor of DCDIS-Series B. I am a member of AMS and a reviewer of American Mathematical Reviews.


    Nianjun LIU

    Email:
    Url:http://nicta.com.au/director/research/programs/asst/people/nianjun_liu.cfm
    Department:InfoEng, NICTA


    Keith LOVEGROVE

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    Department:DE, Solar


    Adrian LOWE

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    Department:DE


    Daniel MACDONALD

    Email:
    Url:http://engnet.anu.edu.au/DEresearch/semiconductor/
    Department:DE, Solar

    Research Interests:

    Crystalline silicon photovoltaics, recombination and trapping in semiconductors, metallic impurities in silicon and their impact on solar cells.



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    Rob MAHONY

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    Department:DE, SysCon, InfoEng


    Keith MCINTOSH

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    Department:DE, Solar



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    Sudha MOKKAPATI

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    Department:DE, Solar



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    Hendra NURDIN

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    Department:InfoEng, SysCon

    Research Interests:

    Systems and control theory: Quantum and classical control, quantum system realization, stochastic approximation and modelling

    Bio:

    Qualifications: PhD eng. & infor. sci. (ANU), M.Sc eng. math. (Twente, the Netherlands), ST elec. eng. (ITB, Indonesia)


    Lars PETERSSON

    Email:
    Url:http://nicta.com.au/director/research/programs/asst/people/lars_petersson.cfm
    Department:InfoEng, NICTA



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    John PYE

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    Department:DE, Solar


    Qinghua QIN

    Email:
    Url:http://engnet.anu.edu.au/DEpeople/Qinghua.Qin
    Department:DE

    Research Interests:

    Finite element method, boundary element method, Smart materials and structures, Fracture and damage mechanics, Composite materials, Mechanics of biomaterials,Solid mechanics, Engineering computation


    Mark REED

    Email:
    Url:http://users.rsise.anu.edu.au/~mreed/
    Department:ASP, InfoEng

    Research Interests:

    Research Topics: The following are topics that I would be interested in working on: * Application of Turbo Receivers to Galileo and Radar Applications * Applications of the "Turbo Principle" to Control Theory Problems * System Performance Optimisation in Cellulars Systems * Spread Spectrum Techniques for Indoor Wireless IR Communications * Iterative Receivers for S-T Coding and MIMO Systems * Particle Filtering for Communication Systems * Particle Filtering for Estimation Problems * Turbo Synchronization

    Duties:

    I am a researcher within the Wireless Signal Processing Program of National ICT Australia (NICTA) and am working at the Australian National University attached to the Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering (RSISE) within the Department of Telecommunication Engineering. I am also a participant in the Australian Research Council (ARC) supported Australian Communications Research Network (ACoRN).

    Bio:

    Dr. Mark Reed has worked in industry and research positions for the last 15 years with positions in the U.S.A., Switzerland, and Australia. He pioneered the area of iterative receiver design as part of his doctoral studies and was part of a team that designed and developed a world first Satellite-UMTS Modem for the European Space Agency. He also completed further work on 3G Basestation design as technical lead in the highly successful European Commission project, ASILUM, which investigated and validated advanced signal processing schemes for link improvement in UMTS. Since April 2003 Dr Reed is employed as a Principle Researcher at the National ICT Australia (www.nicta.com.au, http://rsise.anu.edu.au/$sim$mreed/), and is an Adjunct Assoc. Professor at the Australian National University (www.anu.edu.au), Canberra, Australia, where he is involved in research, education, and commercialization,within the wireless signal processing program. He has over 40 international journal and conference papers, is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, and has been listed as inventor on five patent applications.


    John RICHARDS

    Email:
    Url:http://cecs.anu.edu.au/director
    Department:InfoEng

    Duties:

    Dean and Director, College of Engineering and Computer Science



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    Antonio ROBLES-KELLY

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    Department:InfoEng, NICTA


    Margaret ROSSITER

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    Department:DE


    Parastoo SADEGHI

    Email:
    Url:http://users.rsise.anu.edu.au/~parastoo/
    Department:InfoEng, ASP

    Research Interests:

    My research interests are in the fields of Information Theory, Wireless and Digital Communications, Medical Image Analysis and Computer Vision, and Applications of Information Theory in Life Sciences.

    More specifically, I am currently working on Channel Estimation and Coding for Fading Channels with/without Feedback, Real-Time Image Registration, Optimization of Mismatched Decoding, Information Capacity of Time-Varying Fading Channels, Information Capacity of Finite-State Markov Channels, and Modeling and Information Theory of Multiple-Antenna Wireless Communications.

    Duties:

  • I am a Fellow (Senior Lecturer) in the Department of Info Eng
  • I am a Chief Investigator (CI) in the ARC grant "Model-Based Approach to Adaptive Channel Coding and Estimation for Future Wireless Systems", 20072009
  • I am one of the three student advisors in the College. See https://studentdb.rsise.anu.edu.au/student_advisors.cgi
  • I am coordinating weekly seminars in the Department. See http://cecs.anu.edu.au/seminars/
  • Bio:

    I received the BE and ME degrees in electrical engineering from Sharif University of Technology, and the PhD degree in electrical engineering from The University of New South Wales, Sydney. I have more than four years of industry experience in the R&D sector.

    For 2007-2009, I am the recipient of the ARC grant "Model-Based Approach to Adaptive Channel Coding and Estimation for Future Wireless Systems". For my PhD, I received the Australian Postgraduate Award (APA). I also received two IEEE Region 10 paper awards (in 2003 and 2005) for my research in the information theory of time-varying fading channels.

    I have visited various research institutes, including the Signal and Information Processing Laboratory, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland. I have served in the technical program committee (TPC) of ISSSTA in 2004 in Sydney and have been the reviewer of many IEEE conferences and journals.


    Karim SEGHOUANE

    Email:
    Url:http://nicta.com.au/director/research/programs/seacs/people/abd_krim_seghouane.cfm
    Department:InfoEng

    Research Interests:

    Statistical signal and image processing


    Chunhua SHEN

    Email:
    Url:http://users.rsise.anu.edu.au/~cs
    Department:InfoEng

    Research Interests:

    computer vision, pattern recognition, machine learning

    Duties:

    Researcher at NICTA; adjunct research fellow at RSISE, ANU.

    Bio:

    Ph.D., School of Computer Science, University of Adelaide, 10/2005; MSc, Department of Electronics Science and Engineering, Nanjing University, 04/2002; BS, Department for Intensive Instruction, Nanjing University, 07/1999. Now I am working at Vision Science, Technology and Applications program (ViSTA), NICTA. Additionally I am affiliated with Research School of Information Science and Engineering, Australian National University (Adjunct Research Fellow, from 05/2006 on); and School of Computer Science, University of Adelaide (Adjunct Lecturer, from 03/2007 on).



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    David SMITH

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    Department:ASP, InfoEng, NICTA


    Zbigniew STACHURSKI

    Email:
    Url:http://engnet.anu.edu.au/DEpeople/Zbigniew.Stachurski
    Department:DE



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    Vish SWAMINATHAN

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    Department:InfoEng, NICTA



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    Elizabeth THOMSEN

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    Department:DE, Solar


    Jochen TRUMPF

    Email:
    Url:http://users.rsise.anu.edu.au/~trumpf/
    Department:InfoEng

    Research Interests:

    Control theory and observer theory, geometric optimisation for applications in observer design, wireless communication and other areas of technology.

    Duties:

    Research Fellow, Associate Dean (Research Training) for the ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science with responsibility for the College's Higher Degree by Research (HDR) programs

    Bio:

    I completed my PhD in Mathematics at the University of Würzburg in 2002. Before joining the ANU in 2003 I spent a few months as a post-doc at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beer-Sheva, Israel and at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, IN, USA.



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    Marta VIVAR

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    Department:DE, Solar



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    Nidhi VYAS

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    Department:InfoEng


    Lei WANG

    Email:
    Url:http://users.rsise.anu.edu.au/~wanglei/
    Department:InfoEng

    Research Interests:

    My research interest lies in computer vision and machine learning. For computer vision, I focus on content-based image & video indexing and retrieval. For machine learning, my research mainly involves Support Vector Machines and Kernel based methods. Besides these, I have broad interest in the topics in the fields of machine learning, pattern recognition, and data analysis.

    Duties:

    I was awarded the ARC Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship and then became an ARC Research Fellow in the department of Information Engineering, RSISE, ANU. My ARC project (with Prof. Richard Hartley) is ``Computer Vision Optimization Problems with Machine Learning'', which aims to employ the state-of-the-art machine learning techniques to solve the large-scale optimization problems in the field of computer vision. I am also (co-)supervising a number of graduate students.

    Bio:

    More information about my background and research work can be found from my homepage: http://users.rsise.anu.edu.au/~wanglei/


    Klaus WEBER

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    Department:DE, Solar

    Research Interests:

    Photovoltaics, Solar Energy, Semiconductor Devices. For further information, please visit the "Photovoltaic Processes" and "Sliver Cell" webpages: http://solar.anu.edu.au/research/pv.php http://solar.anu.edu.au/research/sliver.php


    Yongxiang XIA

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    Department:InfoEng, SysCon

    Research Interests:

    Communication networks; Complex networks and applications



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    Masahiro YANAGISAWA

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    Department:DE, SysCon


    Brad (Changbin) YU

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    Url:http://cecs.anu.edu.au/~bradyu
    Department:InfoEng, SysCon

    Research Interests:

    Current research interests include: Autonomous Agents Systems (especially rigid multi-agent formations), Graph Theory (focus on Graph Rigidity), Distributed Control of Complex Systems and Sensor Network Localization without GPS. Broad research interests also include: Robotic, Neural Networks, Fuzzy Systems, Pervasive Computing and Embedded System Design.

    Duties:

    Chief Investigator / APD, ARC Discovery Project (Jul 2008 – Jul 2011): Large Scale Complex Multi-agent Systems: Control Methodologies and Information Architectures Project Member, NICTA-DSTO Joint Project (Jan 2009-Dec 2010): Control of SWARMs Supervisor of 3 PhD candidates, 1 MPhil Candidate and 2 Honors Students

    Bio:

    Changbin (Brad) Yu was born in Shandong, China. He received the B.Eng degree with first class honors in computer engineering from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore in 2004, and a PhD in Engineering from the Australian National University (ANU) in 2008 under the supervision of Prof. Brian Anderson. He is now a Research Fellow/APD at Department of Information Engineering, the Australian National University, adjunct at Canberra Research Laboratory, NICTA Ltd. and School of Control Science and Engineering, Shandong University. He was a recipient of an 2008 ARC Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship, a 2006 Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad, an 2005 Australian Government's Endeavour Asia Award and an undergraduate scholarship from the Republic of Singapore.


    Guohua ZHANG

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    Department:InfoEng, SysCon

    Research Interests:

    power system control, renewable energy, complex network



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    Andrew ZHANG

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    Department:ASP, InfoEng


    Jun ZHAO

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    Department:InfoEng, SysCon

    Research Interests:

    Switched systems and hybrid control, Nonlinear control Theory, Complex dynamical networks

    Bio:

    Education: Ph.D., 1991: M.S., 1984: B.S., 1982.1: Professional Experience: 2006.11-present: Fellow, Department of Information Engineering, Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering The Australian National University; 1994.1-2006.10: Professor, School of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, P.R.China; 2003.11-2005.5: Research fellow, Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong; Visiting Positions Held: 1998.2-1999.2: Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA; Professional Activities and Associations: • Member of IFAC Technical Committee on Developing Countries • Member of Control Theory Committee, Chinese Association of Automation • Member of Control Theory and Application Committee, Chinese Society of Aeronautics and Astronautics • Associate Editor of Control Theory and Applications • Associate Editor of Control & Decision • Associate Editor of Complex Systems & Complexity Science



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    Zhenning ZHI

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    Department:ASP, InfoEng


    Jun ZHOU

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    Url:http://cecs.anu.edu.au/~junzhou
    Department:InfoEng


    Uwe ZIMMER

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    Url:http://www.transit-port.net/Uwe.Zimmer/
    Department:DCS, InfoEng