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Thushara ABHAYAPALA

Position:Academic Staff
Email:
Url:http://rsise.anu.edu.au/~thush
Phone:+61 2 612 58683
Building:RSISE (115)
Room:B141
Department:InfoEng, ASP
Staff category:Academic

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.