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.
