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.