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Faculty of EngineeringNever Stand Still
School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications
©2011 School of Electrical Engineering and TelecommunicationsUNSW SYDNEY NSW 2052AUSTRALIA
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School of Electrical Engineering and TelecommunicationsThe University of New South WalesUNSW SYDNEY NSW 2052AUSTRALIA
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Contents01.FOREWORD 3
Foreword from the Head of School 3
Goals of the School 4
Vision of the School 4
02.PEOPLE 5
School Organisational Structure 5
Current Staff 6
School Committees and Coordinators 11
Staff Excellence Awards 12
Academic Promotion 12
Farewell 13
New Appointments 14
Current Research Students 15
Undergraduate Students 19
ElSOC in 2010 20
Degrees Conferred in 2010 21
EE&T Staff vs Students Cricket Match 26
03.RESEARCH 27
Research Groups: Energy Systems 27
Research Groups: Microsystems 31
Research Groups: Systems and Control 35
Research Groups: Telecommunications 38
Wireless and Network Communications 39
Photonics 41
Signal Processing 42
Awards and Recognition 44
Research Publications 45
School Research Committee Report 57
External Committee and Board Memberships 57
Editorial Committees 58
Conferences, Workshops and Short Courses Hosted by EE&T 59
Keynotes and Tutorial Presentations 62
Research Funding 64
Research Centres and Institutes 67
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Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets (CEEM) 67
NSW Node of the Australian National Fabrication Facility (ANFF) 67
National ICT Australia (NICTA) 68
04.INDUSTRY, PARTNERS, COMMUNITY, OUTREACH 71
Industry Advisory Board 71
Industry Projects and Collaboration 72
The Australian Power Institute (API) 72
Energy Australia (Ausgrid) 73
The Energy Australia Chair in Electrical Power Economics 73
Ausgrid Cadetship Program 73
Industry Seminars 73
Thesis Poster Competition 73
Staff Training 73
Guest lectures 74
Industry-Based Courses 74
Industrial Training 75
Staff Visits and Secondments 77
High School Year 10 Workshop 77
Gerric Two Day Workshop 77
Internationalisation 78
Promotion and Marketing of EE&T 78
05.TEACHING 79
Overview 79
Student learning Support 80
Academic Executive Committee (AEC) 81
Highlights of the Year 82
Australian learning and Teaching Council (AlTC) Grant 82
External Quality Assessment by Emeritus Prof. David Wilcox 83
Block-Mode Summer Courses 83
New Courses & Programs 84
The New 5-Year BE ME 85
Educational Technology 87
Undergraduate Awards, Prizes and Scholarships 88
Alumni 94
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01.FoReWoRDFoReWoRD FRoM tHe HeAD oF sCHooL
After establishing strong foundations last year, 2010 has been a year of steady growth and success for the School. Provided with the opportunity to thrive, many of our staff and students have made great achievements this year.
As a School, we had a record-breaking 400 research publications, which contributed to 24% of the total publications over the Faculty of Engineering. This is an outstanding achievement and a great tribute to the research expertise and excellence of our staff and students. This was also reflected in the competitive funding secured by the School: 6 ARC linkage grants and 3 ARC Discovery grants, which is the highest number of ARC grants secured by our School in a single year. Electrical and Electronic Engineering at UNSW received an ERA rating of 5, which is the highest ERA rating available, marking outstanding performance. This is a great national endorsement of our School and the research that we do.
On the teaching front, we received approval for the new 5 year integrated BE ME in Electrical Engineering with minor program, which will be offered for the first time in 2012. This program is a huge step forward and a revolution in the teaching of Electrical Engineering and promises to produce high calibre, well-rounded engineering graduates. Dr Ray Eaton pioneered the launch of block mode summer courses this year, which was a great success and the first such offering in the Faculty.
Students have also been very active this year, with undergraduate student society ElSOC president Simon lewis receiving the UNSW Student Service Award for his work in creating a strong community and network for EE&T students. We also connected with high school students from 12 schools and hosted a Year 10 workshop to give students an understanding of what engineering is and to encourage them to pursue their tertiary study at EE&T, UNSW. Postgraduate enrolments rose significantly and 2010 saw the highest number of postgraduate students enrolled at the School over the last 10 years. We were fortunate also to receive the Ron Stillman Awards this year – 9 awards for incoming first year students and also the ABC Indigenous Engineering Scholarship. Two of our students also won the Australian Power Institute (API) first year bursaries.
Our existing collaborations with industry have strengthened this year. We set up a research cluster with NICTA, focusing on technologies for the digital economy. We also launched our first industry based course on Network Systems Architecture with CISCO, which was a huge success. Energy Australia funded a Professor in Electrical Power Economics position and the API renewed their existing academic staff funding and provided extra funding for a position in power protection. Our links with industry continue to be of great benefit to students as they develop industry desired skills and experience through the course of their EE&T degrees. Our collaborations with other tertiary institutions were also strengthened this
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year as we hosted a two-day workshop for the Heads of Schools in Electrical Engineering in G08 Universities, the first such gathering in 10 years. This inter-institute collaboration puts the School on the national map and allows us to develop standards across the country for teaching and research.
Our staff were recognised for their outstanding work both on national and international scales. A/Prof. Robert Malaney won the 2010 Popular Science Invention Awards for his pioneering work in quantum cryptography. Dr Kok Hou Wong and A/Prof. Francois ladouceur and their team were featured in Nature magazine for their work in silicone-based copolymers. Prof. Chee Yee Kwok, Dr Aron Michael and their team won the NSi Inventor of the Year Awards. Mr Ted Spooner received the 1906 Award by International Electrotechnical Commission for standardisation and Mr Phil Allen won the Faculty Technical Staff Excellence Award. In particular, Prof. Andrew Dzurak is to be congratulated for his appointment to Scientia Professor. In partnership with Dr Andrea Morello, his work in the interdisciplinary field of quantum information was recognised in Nature magazine. They also won the Faculty Research Excellence award. Collectively these are all outstanding achievements this year and it is great to see EE&T staff recognised on this scale.
We welcomed a range of new staff to the School this year: Dr Rukmi Dutta, Dr Jayashri Ravishankar, Dr Mohammad Salay Naderi, A/Prof. John Fletcher and Prof. Vassilios Agelidis all joined our Power Engineering team. Dr Asghar Tabatabaei also joined us this year in the area of Telecommunications. In addition, 2010 saw the well-deserved promotion of Dr Iain MacGill to Associate Professor.
Our achievements in 2010 have provided the School with a solid platform to excel in 2011 and raise the bar for electrical engineering and telecommunications research and teaching. It is clear from both the staff and student successes this year that the School of EE&T is producing the next generation of innovative engineers who will have the skills and knowledge to make a positive impact on industry and society. We look forward to the new challenges of 2011.
GoALs oF tHe sCHooL
The Reference Site for research and teaching of electrical engineering and telecommunications in Australia, and to be recognised as such internationally
A research intensive school where every academic staff member has the ability to attract competitive research funding
Be the school that the best undergraduate students choose, above other universities in the region, based on our reputation for research, teaching, use of educational technology, care of individual students and facilities
Provide a secure and satisfying work environment for all staff with adequate recognition of individual achievements and work performance
VIsIon oF tHe sCHooL
The UNSW School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications will continue to offer a well balanced education in the field of electrical engineering and telecommunications that is of the highest standard to Australian and international coursework students, propagating the opinion that
this is the school of choice for this field of study and that graduates from this School are equipped with the attributes required for industry.
We will also be conducting basic and applied electrical engineering and telecommunications research projects, generating results that are unanimously respected in the international engineering community and attracting funding from government and industry sources. This will provide a high repute research training ground for our postgraduate research students. As a consequence, the community and engineering profession at large will be endowed with information, analysis, consultation and active participants in professional activities.
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02.PeoPLesCHooL oRGAnIsAtIonAL stRUCtURe
The Head of School, Prof. Eliathamby Ambikairajah is responsible for the School’s strategy and development. He receives advice from the Industry Advisory Board and the Head of School Advisory Committee comprising the four Heads of Research Disciplines, Deputy Head of School, Director of Academic Studies, School Executive Officer, School laboratories Manager and Centre Directors. These committees are complimented by additional functional committees and coordinators and serve to achieve the objectives of the School.
Prof. Eliathamby Ambikairajah
FINANCESchool Executive
Officer Gordon Petzer
COMMITTEESService & FinanceOccupational Health & SafetyITMarketing, Alumni & WebsiteAdministrative
EDUCATIONDirector of
Academic StudiesDr Ray Eaton
RESEARCHDeputy Head of
SchoolProf. Chee Yee Kwok
LAB & ITSchool Lab
ManagerDr Ming Sheng
HEAD OF SCHOOL
INDUSTRY & HOS ADVISORY BOARD
Finance Officers and Store Staff
Academic ExecutiveCommittee
School Office Manager
Gladys Fong
School Office Staff PG Coursework CoordinatorUG Thesis CoordinatorIndustrial Training Coordinator
Research Committee
PG Research Coordinator
Heads of Research Groups
& Centre Directors
- Systems & ControlProf. Victor Solo
- TelecomProf. David Taubman
- Energy SystemsProf. Faz Rahman
- MicrosystemsProf. Chee Kwok
- ANFF CentreProf. Andrew Dzurak
- CERPAProf. Vassilios Agelidis
Professional Officers
Technical Officers and Workshop Staff
ACADEMIC STAFF
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MANAGEMENT
Prof. Eliathamby AmbikairajahBSc(Eng), PhD, CEng, FIET, CPEng, FIEAust, MIEEE
Head of SchoolProfessor in Signal Processing
Prof. Chee Yee KwokBSc BE PhD UNSW, SMIEEE
Deputy Head of School Professor, Head of Microsystems Research Group
Dr Ray EatonBE PhD UNSW, MIEEE
Director of Academic Studieslecturer in Systems and Control
Gordon PetzerBA GradDipEd Witw.
School Executive Officer
ACADEMIC STAFF
Dr Elias AboutaniosBE UNSW, PhD UTS, MIEEE
Senior lecturer in Signal Processing
Prof. Vassilios G. Agelidis BE DUT Greece, MAppSc CU Montreal, PhD Curtin, GradDipBus Curtin, MIET, MIEEE
Professor, Director of Centre for Energy Research & Policy Analysis (CERPA)
Dr David ClementsBSc Qld., ME PhD N’cle, MIEEE, MSIAM, SigmaXi
Associate Dean (Academic)Senior lecturer in Systems and Control
Dr Ashay DhamdhereBTech IIT India, MSc PhD Calif., MIEEE, MACS
lecturer in Telecommunications
Prof. Andrew DzurakBSc Syd., PhD Camb., MAIP Scientia Professor
Director UNSW Semiconductor Nanofabrication FacilityNSW Node Director, Australian National Fabrication Facility (ANFF)
Dr Rukmi DuttaBE Guwahati India, PhD UNSW, MIEEE, MIET
lecturer in Energy Systems
Dr Julien EppsBE PhD UNSW, MIEEE
Senior lecturer in Signal Processing
A/Prof. John FletcherBEng PhD Heriot-Watt, CEng, FIET
Associate Professor in Energy Systems
Dr Tara Julia HamiltonBE BCom Syd.,MEngSc UNSW PhD, Syd., MIEEE
lecturer in Microsystems
Prof. Tuan D. HoangBSc PhD Odessa, MIEEE, MSIAM
Professor in Systems and Control
A/Prof. François LadouceurBScEng , MSc Montreal, PhD ANU
Associate Professor in Photonics
Dr Torsten LehmannMSc EE PhD TUD Denmark, MIEEE
Senior lecturer in Microsystems
A/Prof. Iain MacGillBE MEngSc Melb., PhD UNSW, MIEEE, MIAEE
Associate Professor in Energy Systems Joint Director, Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets
A/Prof. Robert MalaneyBSc Glasgow., PhD St. Andrews, AMIEEE
Associate Professor in Telecommunications
Dr Tim MoorsBE W.Aust., PhD Curtin, MIEEE, MACM
Senior lecturer in Telecommunications
Dr Andrea MorelloMEng Torino, Italy, PhD Leiden, The Netherlands
Program Manager, Centre for Quantum Computer TechnologySenior lecturer in Quantum Nanosystems
Dr Hadis NosratighodsBSc Sharif Iran, MSc Tehran Iran, PhD UNSW
Associate lecturer in Signal Processing
Prof. Gang-Ding PengBSc Fudan, MSc PhD Jiao Tong, MOSA
Professor in Photonics and Optical Communications
Dr Toan PhungBE MEngSc PhD UNSW, MIEEE
Senior lecturer in Energy Systems
Prof. Faz Rahman BScEng BUET(Ban), MSc PhD UMIST, MIEEE, AMIEE, MISA
Professor, Head of Energy Systems Research Group
Prof. Rodica RamerBSc ME PhD Bucharest, FEMA, MIEEE, MAPS, MIEE, MWE
Professor in Microsystems
Dr Jayashri RavishankarBE Madras India, ME Anna India, MEng RMIT, PhD Anna India, MIEEE
lecturer in Energy Systems
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BE PhD Dublinlecturer in Biomedical Systems and Signal Processing
Dr Mohammad Salay NaderiBSc MSc PhD Sharif Iran, MIEEE, MIET, MIEAUST, MIAEE
lecturer in Energy Systems
Prof. Andrey SavkinMS PhD Leningrad, MIEEE
Professor in Systems and Control
Dr Deep SenBE PhD UNSW, SMIEEE, MASA, MARO
Senior lecturer in Signal Processing
Prof. Aruna SeneviratneBE Middlesex, PhD Bath
Professor in Telecommunications Director and Education Director, NICTA, ATP laboratory
Dr Vijay SivaramanBTech IIT Delhi, MS NCSU, PhD UCLA, MIEEE
Senior lecturer in Telecommunications
Dr Iain SkinnerBSc Qld., PhD ANU, MAMS
Senior lecturer in Photonics
Prof. Victor SoloBSc Qld., BSc BE UNSW, PhD ANU, FIEEE
Professor, Head of Systems and Control Research Group
Dr Asghar Tabatabaei BalaeiBSc MSc Sharif Iran, PhD UNSW
Associate lecturer in Telecommunications
Prof. David TaubmanBE BSc Syd, MSc PhD U.C. Berkeley, MIEEE
Professor, Head of Telecommunications Research Group
Dr Alex von BraschBE BSc PhD UNSW
Associate lecturer in Telecommunications
Prof. Jinhong YuanBE PhD, Beijing I.T., MIEEE
Professor in Telecommunications
Dr Wei ZhangPhD CUHK, MIEEE
Senior lecturer in Telecommunications
PROFESSIONAL AND TECHNICAL STAFF
Phil AllenProfessional Officer
Jiong AnAdministrative & Education Technology Officer
Gordon Bateslaboratory Manager, ANFF
Silvana CollingsPersonal Assistant to Head of School
Douglas DavisonProcurement Officer
Mervat FarahFinancial & Procurement Assistant
Gladys FongSchool Office Manager
Dr Eric GaujaMicrofabrication Manager, ANFF
Karen JuryOperations Manager, ANFF
Dr Baburaj KaranayilProfessional Officer, Energy systems
Dr Daniel KrchoProfessional Officer, Microsystems
Zhenyu LiuTechnical Officer & School OHS Officer
Gamini LiyadipitiyaBSc (Eng) Sri Lanka, M Eng Syd.
Industrial engineering experience in Power, Power electronics & controls, Electronics & systems.Senior Technical Officer
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Chris X. LuProfessional Officer, Systems and Control
Yanhua LuoTechnical Officer
Dr Linda D. MacksFacility Manager, ANFF
Albert J. McMasterTechnical Officer, ANFF
Tom MilletProfessional Officer, Telecommunications
May ParkAdministrative Officer
Bamini PratheepanAdministrative Officer
Subash PuthanveetilMechanical Tradesperson
Syed L. RahmanTechnical Officer
Dr Ming Shenglaboratory Manager/Professional Officer
Joanna SzymanskaProcess Engineer, ANFF
Nelly TaubmanAdministrative Officer
Richard Tucklaboratory Craftsman
Joe C. Y. YiuProfessional Officer, Telecommunications
Roy X. ZengSenior Technical Officer
RESEARCH FELLOWS and ASSISTANTS
Dr Zourab BrodzeliSenior Research Fellow
Dr Albert S. CanagasabeyPost-Doc Fellow
Dr Gregory ChanResearch Associate
Dr King Yuk ChanPost-Doc Fellow
Dr Teddy M.L. ChengResearch Fellow
Dr Mihai CiobotaruResearch Fellow
Dr Nicholas J. CutlerPost-Doc Fellow
Dr Fay E. HudsonSenior Research Fellow CQCT
Dr Faizan Javed Research Associate
Dr Muhammad KhalidPost-Doc Fellow
Dr Chaofeng J. LiResearch Fellow
Dr Jun LiPost-Doc Fellow
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Dr Wee Han LimResearch Fellow CQCT
Dr Reji K. MathewSenior Research Associate
Dr Aron W. MichaelSenior Research Assistant
Dr Eun Hee MinResearch Associate
Dr Geoffrey Stewart MorrisonSenior Research Fellow
Dr Aous T NamanSenior Research Associate
Dr Ido NevatPost-Doc Fellow
Dr Syed A. PashaSenior Research Associate
Dr Robert J. PasseySenior Research Associate CEEM
Paul H. M. R. PrevotResearch Assistant
Dr Upendra RathnayakeResearch Associate
Dr Maria I. T. RetnanestriResearch Associate
Dr Vidhyasaharan Sethu Post-Doc Research Fellow
Dr Leonardo Silvestri Research Associate
Dr Arun VishwanathSenior Research Associate
Mr Shuai WangResearch Assistant
Dr Kok Hou WongPost-Doc Fellow
Dr Floris A ZwanenburgSenior Research Fellow, CQCT
Dr Jim Basilakis Senior Research Fellow
Dr Christopher C. EscottResearch Fellow ANFF
Mr Eki Jaya Sasmita SetijadiResearch Assistant
EMERITUS, ADJUNCT and VISITING STAFF
A/Prof. Trevor R. BlackburnVisiting Associate Professor, Energy Systems
A/Prof. Roksana BoreliConjoint Associate Professor(NICTA), Telecommunications
Prof. Branko G. CellerProfessorial Visiting Fellow, Systems and Control(Head of School 1997 – 2006)
A/Prof. Colin GranthamVisiting Associate Professor, Energy Systems
A/Prof. Tim HeskethConjoint Associate Professor, Systems and Control(Head of School 2006 – 2009)
A/Prof. Peter D. NeilsonVisiting Professor, Systems and Control
A/Prof. Hugh R. OuthredProfessorial Visiting Fellow, Energy Systems
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Prof. Graham A. RigbyEmeritus Professor, Microsystems(Head of School 1991 – 1997)
Prof. Neville W. ReesEmeritus Professor(Head of School 1980 – 1988)
Mr Edward D. SpoonerSenior Visiting Fellow, Energy Systems
Mr Trevor W. WhitbreadVisiting Fellow, Photonics
Dr Sebastian Ardon Conjoint lecturer (NICTA), Telecommunications
Dr Wayan Gede AriastinaVisiting Fellow, Energy Systems
Prof. Ross BaldickProfessorial Visiting Fellow, Energy Systems
Dr Andrew BellVisiting Fellow, Signal Processing
Dr Chen ShaohuaVisiting Fellow, Photonics
Prof. Robert G. ClarkVisiting Professor, Microsystems/ANFF
Prof. Steven G. DuvallProfessorial Visiting Fellow, Photonics
Dr Maged ElkashlanVisiting Fellow, Wireless
Dr Kan GaoVisiting Fellow, Photonics
Prof. Peter J GawthropVisiting Professor
Dr Teddy S. GunawanVisiting Fellow, Signal Processing
Dr Hoang Kha HaVisiting Fellow, Systems and Control
Dr Warwick H. HolmesSenior Visiting Fellow, Signal Processing
Dr Edward JonesVisiting Fellow, Signal Processing
Dr Walter R LachsVisiting Research Fellow, energy Systems
Dr Lifei LouVisiting Fellow, Microsystems
Mr Mark M MackenzieVisiting Fellow, Microsystems
Dr Anirban MahantiConjoint lecturer (NICTA), Telecommunications
Mr Philip MallonVisiting Fellow, Signal Processing
Prof. Alexey MatveevProfessorial Visiting Fellow, Systems and Control
Dr Saeid V NooshabadiVisiting Fellow, Microsystems
Prof. Vojin G. OklobdzijaProfessorial Visiting Fellow, Systems and Control
Prof. Kuldip K PaliwalProfessorial Visiting Fellow, Signal Processing
Dr Fufei PangVisiting Fellow, Photonics
Dr Vahid Parvin Visiting Fellow, Energy Systems
Dr Christopher J. E. PhillipsVisiting Fellow, Systems and Control
Dr Weidong Steven SuVisiting Fellow, Systems and Control
Prof. Peter YoungProfessorial Visiting Fellow, Systems and Control
A/Prof. Pietro ZannutighVisiting Fellow, Signal Processing
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sCHooL CoMMIttees AnD CooRDInAtoRs
Committees were in place in 2010 to support and advise the Head of School.
Committee Committee Chair Key Functions
Academic Executive Committee
Prof. Chee Yee Kwok (Deputy Head of School)
Quality control of academic programs. Introduce new, and maintain existing, programs and courses. Discuss and implement means of improving learning and teaching experience for students.
Research Committee Prof. Andrey Savkin & Prof. David Taubman
Monitoring School research output. Prepare strategic research plan. Develop strategies to improve research success. Research mentoring for staff. Organise seminars.
Services & Finances Committee Dr Elias Aboutanios
Report on equipment and facilities expenditure proposals. Monitor resources and facilities requirements within the School. Make recommendations about future facilities needs of the School.
OH&S Committee Dr Iain SkinnerConsider and monitor all safety aspects of the School. Performance of risk assessments of all School activities. Dissemination of safety related material issued by the University OH&S Office.
IT Committee Dr Tim MoorsReview School IT position and prepare report on equipment replacement plans. Consider and plan future IT requirements for the School. liaise with the Faculty IT committee regarding funding opportunities.
Marketing, Website & Alumni Committee Associate Prof. Rob Malaney
Review, update and report on School marketing and material and website. Promote the electrical engineering profession to prospective High School students. Establish and develop relationships with EE&T alumni.
Administrative Committee Gordon Petzer & Dr Ray Eaton Maintain overall appearance and functions of the School. Organise events and manage School Scholarships.
Various administration responsibilities within the School were undertaken in 2010 by coordinators as listed below
Director of Academic Studies Dr Ray Eaton
In charge of all undergraduate teaching programs.Monitoring quality of teaching.Staff teaching and exam assessor allocation for both UG and PG courses.Coordination and quality control of examination papers.Undergraduate student consultation including program planning, approval, management of student progress and academic advice.Representation of School at Faculty education committee.
Undergraduate Thesis Coordinator Dr Toan Phung
Thesis topic approval.Finalising and quality control of thesis assessment.Advisor for thesis students
Industrial Training Coordinator
Dr Julien Epps & Prof. Rodica Ramer
Advisor for industrial training placements.Assessing industrial training reports, approval and confirmation of IT requirements.
Postgraduate Coursework Coordinator Dr Deep Sen
Assessment of PG coursework applications.Postgraduate student consultation including academic advice.
Postgraduate Research Coordinator Prof. Jinhong Yuan
Assessment and approval of PG research applications.Approval of PG thesis examiners.liaise with Faculty and Graduate Research School in relation to examiners reports and graduation.
Women in Engineering Coordinator Prof. Rodica Ramer
Promotion of electrical engineering to prospective High School students on information and open days.Holding meetings with existing female students.
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stAFF eXCeLLenCe AWARDs
Phil Allen was recognised with a Faculty Technical Staff Excellence Award
This was in recognition of Phil’s initiative, commitment and capability which resulted in his initiating, implementing and supporting major new equipment funding (The Wireless Network Modeling and Implementation Project). To overcome limited computational resources and equipment to implement and test wireless network modeling and design. Phil has also been pivotal in
shaping the School’s marketing activities to high school students for the last few years.
Andrew Morello & Andrew Dzurak recognised with a Faculty Research Excellence Award
This was in recognition of the team’s outstanding achievement in demonstrating, for the first time, the single-shot readout of an electron spin in silicon. This milestone has been beyond the reach of the world’s best research groups for over a decade. The results were published in Nature magazine, and attracted wide attention and recognition in the media. With this breakthrough, Dr Morello and Prof. Dzurak have reinforced their world leadership in quantum computing research, and opened the door to exciting developments in the field.
In the words of Ms. Jodi McKay, NSW Minister for Science and Medical Research: “This is an outstanding result for NSW research and one that that takes us one step closer to a 21st century computer revolution. We look forward to further remarkable breakthroughs from this world class team”.
ACADeMIC PRoMotIon
The School’s First Scientia Professor - Andrew Dzurak
In December 2010, Professor Andrew Dzurak was conferred as a UNSW Scientia Professor, the first member of our School to have been awarded this prestigious position. Scientia Professorships are conferred to those Professors within the university who have demonstrated outstanding research performance. The term “Scientia” is
drawn from the University’s arms and reflects the University’s commitment to the promotion of all branches of intellectual and practical scholarship.
Over the past decade Andrew Dzurak has built a leading international reputation in the fields of silicon quantum computing, silicon nanoelectronics and single-atom nanotechnologies. During this time he and his research group have overcome a series of major technological challenges to demonstrate that silicon-based quantum computing could one day be realized. Most recently, in collaboration with Dr Andrea Morello, he achieved the electronic readout of a silicon spin-based quantum bit (or “qubit”) via a “single shot” measurement – the first such demonstration in silicon. This landmark result, published in the journal Nature in September 2010, is the first paper to appear in Nature in the area of phosphorus-donor based quantum computing since Bruce Kane’s proposal in 1998 for a spin-based QC in silicon, which has now received over 1700 citations and which motivated the formation of the Centre for Quantum Computer Technology (CQCT) over a decade ago.
Prof. Dzurak has raised more than $80 Million in research and research infrastructure funding. This includes a US$4 Million grant for 2008-2012 from the US National Security Agency and the US Army Research Office, for silicon QC research, for which he is the lead Investigator. It also includes $10 Million for research infrastructure funding at UNSW which he raised from the Federal and State Governments to establish the NSW Node of the Australian National Fabrication Facility (ANFF). Prof. Dzurak is the NSW
phil allen at open Day in september 2010
Dr andrea morello and prof. andrew Dzurak
prof. Dzurak in the australian national fabrication facility that he has established at unsW
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Director of ANFF, which builds upon the existing Semiconductor Nanofabrication Facility that he established in 1995 in partnership with former colleague Bob Clark (now Chief Defence Scientist). When Andrew Dzurak returned to Australia from Cambridge in 1994 there was no capability for serious semiconductor nanofabrication in Australia. While device measurement equipment was in place at UNSW, all nanostructures had to be sourced from overseas, with no scope for genuine development work. The establishment of the nanofabrication laboratory, and now the ANFF, has enabled UNSW to take an international leadership position in the development of new nano- and quantum technologies. ANFF now represents a major resource for the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications.
Iain MacGill promoted to Associate Professor in 2010
An alumnus of the School of EE&T, Iain obtained his PhD here in 1999. In 2001 he joined the staff of the School as a Senior lecturer. He was also, in 2004, a founding member and first Research
Coordinator (Engineering) of the University’s Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets (CEEM). He became Joint Director (Engineering) for this Centre in 2008. Iain’s teaching and research interests at UNSW include electricity industry restructuring and the Australian National Electricity Market, sustainable energy generation technologies, distributed energy resources, energy efficiency options, energy and climate policy and environmental regulation. He has also run industry short courses and consulted to industry and government clients in these areas here in Australia and internationally. CEEM itself undertakes interdisciplinary research in the monitoring, analysis and design of energy and environmental markets and their associated policy frameworks. It brings together UNSW researchers from the Faculties of Engineering, Business, Science, law and Arts and Social Sciences.
FAReWeLL
Eric Gauja retires after 22 years service
Following 22 years of outstanding service to the School, Dr Eric Gauja retired this year from his position as Microfabrication Process Manager at the Semiconductor Nanofabrication Facility (SNF). Eric, who also received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the School, has been an integral part of the School’s research effort in microelectronics and semiconductor device fabrication. He began as a technical staff member in 1979 and was a key member of the technical team that established the School’s microelectronics clean-room facility within the Electrical Engineering building, under the direction of previous Head of School, Prof. Graham Rigby. In 1994 the semiconductor processing tool-kit was moved from the Electrical Engineering building to the new Semiconductor Nanofabrication Facility, adjacent to the Newton building. The SNF was established by Prof. Bob Clark and Prof. Andrew Dzurak and was a joint facility operated between the School of Electrical Engineering and the School of Physics until 2006. Since 2006 the facility has become part of the Australian National Fabrication Facility (ANFF), directed at UNSW by Prof. Dzurak.
Throughout the evolution of the SNF and ANFF laboratories, Eric managed all of the silicon microfabrication capabilities in the facility, including microlithography, silicon furnaces and chemical etching processes. He provided essential research support to many research staff and students over the past two decades, helping to fabricate a vast range of advanced microelectronic and micro-electro-mechanical devices, leading to many publication and patents throughout his career. He will perhaps be most fondly remembered as a patient and careful teacher of microfabrication, having trained countless PhD, Masters and undergraduate research students during his career. A farewell was held for Eric at ANFF and was well attended by past and present staff and students who had worked with Eric over the years. The photograph here shows a presentation to Eric by Prof. Ambikairajah at a School gathering this year.
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neW APPoIntMents
Dr Rukmi Dutta - Lecturer in Energy Systems (January 2010)
Research interests: Electrical machine drives; Electromagnetic analysis of Electric equipment using finite element analysis; Energy efficient generators for wind and wave; PV-wind hybrid systems, Renewable energy; Smart grid systems for distributed generation
Dr Jayashri Ravishankar– Lecturer in Energy Systems, API funded (January 2010)
Research interests: Modelling and Control; Power system dynamics; Wind energy integration
Dr Ashay Dhamdhere – Lecturer in Telecommunications, one year contract (January 2010)
Research interests: Body area networks; Content distribution networks; Traffic networks; Smart grids.
Dr Asghar Tabatabaei Balaei - Associate Lecturer in Telecommunications, NICTA funded (January 2010)
Research interests: Satellite navigation receiver design; GNSS interference effects; Integration of new positioning technologies in vehicular network environments (DSRC)
Dr Mohammad Salay Naderi – Lecturer in Energy Systems (May 2010)
Research interests: High Voltage Systems; Condition Monitoring of Power Equipment; Power Transformer - Design, Transient Analysis, Advanced Testing, Monitoring; Distributed Generation in the context of Smart Grid; Sustainable Energy Systems Analysis; Optimal Expansion of Power Generation Systems; Power System Protection and Transient Analysis.
Prof. Vassilios G Agelidis - Professor in Energy Systems and CERPA Director (July 2010)
Prof. Vassilios G Agelidis was appointed in July 2010 as Director of the Centre for Energy Research and Policy Analysis (CERPA) in 2010. CERPA is a multi-faculty institute focussed on innovation and development in all aspects of energy generation, utilisation and conservation.
Research interests: AC and DC microgrids; Energy efficiency; Fuel cells and battery storage; Grid-connected inverter technology; Inverters and control; Power electronics; Renewable energy systems and electricity grid integration; Solar PV; Sustainable energy systems based on wind; Voltage-source converter based HVDC systems
A/Prof. John Fletcher - Associate Professor in Energy Systems (August 2010)
Research interests: Power Electronics; Electrical Machine Drives; Renewable Energy; Electric Vehicle, Traction and Propulsion
Dr Geoffrey Stewart Morrison - Senior Research Fellow and Director Forensic Voice Comparison Laboratory (September 2010)
Research interests: Forensic voice comparison; Evaluation of forensic evidence
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MITRA BAHADORIAN
Mitra Bahadorian received her Best Paper Award at the International Conference on
System Theory and Control 2010 for her paper entitled: “Robust Model Predictive Control For Time-variant Systems” and contributing authors were Mitra Bahadorian, Borislav Savkovic, Ray Eaton and Tim Hesketh.
ALEXANDER KURUSINGAL and SARTHAK GROVER
Alexander Kurusingal and Sarthak Grover at the 6th IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob) 2010 for their paper entitled: “Experimental Study of Mobility in the Soccer Field with Application to Real-Time Athlete Monitoring” and contributing authors were Vijay Sivaraman, Sarthak Grover, Alexander Kurusingal, Ashay Dhamdhere and Alison Burdett (Toumaz Technology).
DAN XIAO
Dan Xiao’s Best Paper Award was granted at the International Conference on Electrical Machines
and Systems 2010 for his paper entitled: “Performance Improvement of a sensorless hysteresis direct torque controlled IPM synchronous motor drive using a modified switching pattern and input power factor correction” and contributing author was Faz Rahman
Energy Systems
Allan AaronThesis Topic: Optimalisation of investment and comercialisation in alternative energy in Australia.Supervisor: A/Prof. Iain MacGill
Salem M AlshibaniThesis Topic: Prospect of permanent magnet synchronous generators in wind turbines above 10MW.Supervisor: Prof. Agelidis Vassilios
Raji AmbikairajahThesis Topic: Smart sensors and online insulation condition monitoring systems for smart grids.Supervisor: Dr Toan PhungCo-supervisor: Dr Jayashri Ravishankar
Hyuntae ChoiThesis Topic: Multiterminal HVDC for large scale solar PV.Supervisor: Prof. Agelidis Vassilios
Guang-Er Lester ChongThesis Topic: Application of concentrated winding in interior permanent magnet machineSupervisor: Prof. Faz Rahman
Hedayatollah DalvandThesis Topic: Power and its quality measurements and automatic meter reading integration.Supervisor: Prof. Agelidis Vassilios
Pranesh Kumar DuttThesis Topic: Hybrib mini grid power system for rural and remote electrification of Fiji Islands.Supervisor: A/Prof. Iain MacGill
Benjamin James EllistonThesis Topic: Integrating solar electricity into the grid at high penetration.Supervisor: A/Prof. Iain MacGill
Gilbert Hock Beng FooThesis Topic: IPM motor drives.Supervisor: Prof. Faz Rahman
Sadhvi GangaThesis Topic: Energy markets and power systemsSupervisor: A/Prof. Iain MacGill
Minsoo JangThesis Topic: Fuell-cell power conditioning and grid interconnectionSupervisor: Prof. Agelidis Vassilios
Georgios KonstantinouThesis Topic: Topological investigations of power electronic controllers with minimum electrolytic capacitance storage and optimal modulation for the electrical power systems.Supervisor: Prof. Agelidis Vassilios
Kai Xian LaiThesis Topic: Condition monitoring of power system equipment.Supervisor: Dr Toan Phung
Amer Mohammad Yusuf Mohammad GhiasThesis Topic: TBASupervisor: Prof. Agelidis Vassilios
Quang Dai NguyenThesis Topic: PM machine for wind generationSupervisor: Prof. Faz Rahman
Michael Angelo PedrasaThesis Topic: Renewable energy systems.Supervisor: Ted Spooner
Iman SadinezhadThesis Topic: Application of Numerical Optimization Algorithms for power quality assessment.Supervisor: Prof. Agelidis Vassilios
Shengjie ShaoThesis Topic: Capacitorless DC systems for wind powerSupervisor: Dr Mihai CiobotaruCo-supervisor: Prof. Agelidis Vassilios
Herman Halomoan SinagaThesis Topic: Condition monitoring of power system equipmentSupervisor: Dr Toan Phung
Sharmeen SultanaThesis Topic: Power conversion efficiency of solar PV grid interconnectionSupervisor: Prof. Faz Rahman
Best Student Paper Awards
Tevita TukungaThesis Topic: The sustainability of electricity industry in Tonga.Supervisor: A/Prof. Iain MacGill
Balaji VeerasamyThesis Topic: Intelligent vehicle to grid charging technologySupervisor: Prof. Agelidis Vassilios
Peerapat VithayasrichareonThesis Topic: Electricity generation investment under uncertaintySupervisor: A/Prof. Iain MacGill
Guishi WangThesis Topic: Controller design of battery energy storage system aiming for extending the battery lifetime.Supervisor: Prof. Agelidis Vassilios
Wei YanThesis Topic: Nanocomposite dielectric materials for power system equipmentSupervisor: Dr Toan Phung
Wei ZhaoThesis Topic: HVDC for large scale solar PV integration with the electricity gridSupervisor: Prof. Agelidis Vassilios
Microsystems
Md. Abdullah Al HafizResearch Topic: Optical interconnects for systems in chip.Supervisor: Prof. Chee Yee Kwok
Kok Wai ChanResearch Topic: Silicon-based qubitsSupervisor: Prof. Andrew Dzurak
Ge ChenResearch Topic: Communication within a systems in a chip.Supervisor: Dr Saeid Nooshabadi
Ho Sung ChunResearch Topic: CMOS circuits for biomedical applicationsSupervisor: Dr Torsten lehmann
Kushal DasResearch Topic: Microelectronics for quantum computing control and read-out.Supervisor: Dr Torsten lehmann
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Juan Pablo Dehollain Lorenzana Research Topic: Quantum NanosystemsSupervisor: Dr Andrea Morello
Libin GeorgeResearch Topic: Power Supplies for Reconfigurable ElectronicsSupervisor: Dr Tara Julia Hamilton
Hamood-Ur-Rahman KhawajaResearch Topic: RF MEMS Supervisor: Prof. Rodica Ramer
Chul KimResearch Topic: VlSI design of an UWB transceiver.Supervisor: Dr Saeid Nooshabadi
Nai Shyan LaiResearch Topic: Silicon detectors for medicine and nonoelectronicsSupervisor: Prof. Andrew Dzurak
Graeme Wilson LoweResearch Topic: Investigations of electrostatic image potential on MOS interface in Si:P devicesSupervisor: Prof. Andrew Dzurak
Yashodhan Vijay MogheResearch Topic: Microelectronic circuits for medical implants.Supervisor: Dr Torsten lehmann
Jarryd James PlaResearch Topic: Quantum computing and coherent control of individual phosphorus donors in Si.Supervisor: Dr Andrea Morello
Md. Tanvir RahmanResearch Topic: Control microelectronics for silicon quantum computersSupervisor: Dr Torsten lehmann
Carl Peter RennebergResearch Topic: linearisation of sensors/smart sensors.Supervisor: Dr Torsten lehmann
Eugene Wai Ming SiewResearch Topic: RF MEMSSupervisor: Prof. Rodica Ramer
Kuan Yen TanResearch Topic: Tunneling through single P donor states via nano-Schottky contactsSupervisor: Prof. Andrew Dzurak
Yiwei XuResearch Topic: Optical internconnects for system in package.Supervisor: Prof. Chee Yee Kwok
Yuanyuan YangResearch Topic: Integrated circuit for biomedical implantsSupervisor: Dr Torsten lehmann
Chih-Hwan Henry YangResearch Topic: Silicon quantum dots for quantum information processing.Supervisor: Prof. Andrew Dzurak
Yi Xiu YangResearch Topic: RF MemsSupervisor: Prof. Rodica Ramer
Yi YangResearch Topic: RF MEMS Design Supervisor: Prof. Rodica Ramer
Systems and Control
Waqqas AhmadResearch Topic: Remote access of non-linear distributed control systems and controlSupervisor: Prof. Andrey Savkin
Abdul-Hakeem Hussein AlomariResearch Topic: Noninvasive estimation and control of blood flow in an implantable rotary blood pump for heart failure patientsSupervisor: Prof. Andrey Savkin
Mitra BahadorianResearch Topic: Real time & embedded control systems for robotics & biomedical engineeringSupervisor: Dr Ray Eaton
Dur-E-Zehra BaigResearch Topic: Filtering and controls od bio medical instrumentSupervisor: Prof. Andrey Savkin
Benjamin CassidyResearch Topic: Neuroimaging MethodsSupervisor: Prof. Victor Solo
Enlong CheResearch Topic: Real-time adaptive visual acquisitionSupervisor: Prof. Tuan D Hoang
Anton DelpradoResearch Topic: Visual servoing from a realtime settingSupervisor: Dr Ray Eaton
Thinh Thanh DoanResearch Topic: Multivariable predictive controlSupervisor: A/Prof. Tim Hesketh
Michael Colin HoyResearch Topic: Collision avoidance of unmanned vehiclesSupervisor: Prof. Andrey Savkin
Faizan JavedResearch Topic: Systems and controlSupervisor: Prof. Andrey Savkin
Muhammad KhalidResearch Topic: Robust state estimationSupervisor: Prof. Andrey Savkin
Christopher Xiaolong LuResearch Topic: Intelligent Control SystemsSupervisor: Emeritus Prof. Neville Rees
Goran MarjanovicResearch Topic: Signal processing/ Neuro-imagingSupervisor: Prof. Victor Solo
Paul David MetcalfResearch Topic: System identification for an automatic nuclear reactor power and temperature control systemSupervisor: Prof. Andrey Savkin
Huy Anh NguyenResearch Topic: Electrical engineering for bio-informaticsSupervisor: Prof. Tuan D Hoang
Anh Huy PhanResearch Topic: Wireless networkSupervisor: Prof. Tuan D Hoang
Seneviratne Mudiya SeneviratneResearch Topic: Sparse statistical signal processingSupervisor: Prof. Victor Solo
Hao SuResearch Topic: Modelling and control of cardiovascular response to moderate exerciseSupervisor: Prof. Andrey Savkin
Quang Hung TaResearch Topic: Optimal design 2-D filterSupervisor: Prof. Tuan D Hoang
Chao WangResearch Topic: Navigation and control of mobile robots systems and controlSupervisor: Prof. Andrey Savkin
Thein Moe WinResearch Topic: Control of electro-mechanical systemsSupervisor: A/Prof. Tim Hesketh
Zhiyu XiResearch Topic: MFC for industrial processesSupervisor: A/Prof. Tim Hesketh
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Xintao ZhangResearch Topic: Control technique for biomedical applicationsSupervisor: Prof. Andrey Savkin
Ying ZhangResearch Topic: Biomedical Signal ProcessingSupervisor: Prof. Andrey Savkin
Telecommunications
Syed Taha AliThesis Topic: Wireless sensor networksSupervisor: A/Prof. Vijay Sivaraman
Mohammad Abdul-Hame Al-RabayahThesis Topic: Position based routing in ad-hoc wireless networks.Supervisor: A/Prof. Robert Malaney
Marwan Hadri AzmiThesis Topic: lDPC code for Relay Channel.Supervisor: Prof. Jinhong Yuan
Asrul Izam AzmiThesis Topic: Optical fibre hydrophone.Supervisor: Prof. Gang Ding Peng
Youmna BorgholThesis Topic: Opportunistic networkingSupervisor: Prof. Aruna Seneviratne
Andrew Philip BradshawThesis Topic: 3D Image reconstruction techniques for medical imagingSupervisor: Prof. David Taubman
Stefanie BrownThesis Topic: Sound source isolation with spherical microphone arraysSupervisor: Dr Deep Sen
Aravind Surapura ChakrapaniThesis Topic: Dynamic error control in wireless networks.Supervisor: A/Prof. Robert Malaney
Xi ChenThesis Topic: 3D Video processing for multi-view video compression.Supervisor: Prof. David Taubman
Jiefeng Terrence ChenThesis Topic: Trust establishment for MANETSupervisor: A/Prof. Roksana Boreli
Siyuan ChenThesis Topic: Cognitive load measurement via eye activity.Supervisor: Dr Julien Epps
Shigang ChenThesis Topic: Fibre laser and grating based sensingSupervisor: Prof. Gang Ding Peng
Li Jing ChungThesis Topic: Soundfield aquisition, representation and synthesisSupervisor: Dr Deep Sen
Mentari Puteri Ning DjatmikoThesis Topic: Distributed securitySupervisor: A/Prof. Roksana Boreli
Jonathan GanThesis Topic: Image processing.Supervisor: Prof. David Taubman
Giovanni GeraciThesis Topic: Physical layer security for wireless broadcast channels Supervisor: Prof. Jinhong Yuan
Sara HakamiThesis Topic: Using caching and prefetching to improve network utilization in next generation mobile phones.Supervisor: Prof. Aruna Seneviratne
Mark Peter HiscocksThesis Topic: Diamond-based integrated optics.Supervisor: A/Prof. Francois ladouceur
Chee Cheun HuangThesis Topic: Speaker recognitionSupervisor: Dr Julien Epps
Mengyu HuanThesis Topic: Network codingSupervisor: Prof. Jinhong Yuan
Tao HuangThesis Topic: Coding for wireless communicationsSupervisor: Prof. Jinhong Yuan
Ronny Kurniawan IbrahimThesis Topic: Gait pattern classification using a waist mounted triaxial accelerometer for home telecareSupervisor: Prof. Eliathamby Ambikairajah
Ahmad Ali IqbalThesis Topic: Distributed Information SystemsSupervisor: Prof. Aruna Seneviratne
Philip Nan JiThesis Topic: Fibre optic devices for DWDM systems.Supervisor: Prof. Gang Ding Peng
Scott Llewellyn JonesThesis Topic: Self assembling gels in photonic materials.Supervisor: A/Prof. Francois ladouceur
Thivya KandappuThesis Topic: Security and privacy solutions for data networks.Supervisor: A/Prof. Vijay Sivaraman
Md. Anisul KarimThesis Topic: Wireless communication, realy, coding, iterative receivers.Supervisor: Prof. Jinhong Yuan
Nazeer KhanThesis Topic: Collaborative wireles local area network.Supervisor: Prof. Aruna Seneviratne
Phyu Phyu KhingThesis Topic: Biomedical signal processingSupervisor: Prof. Eliathamby Ambikairajah
Jia Min Karen KuaThesis Topic: Robust speaker recognition systemSupervisor: Prof. Eliathamby Ambikairajah
Alexander KurusingalThesis Topic: Communications protocols for highly dynamic sensor networks.Supervisor: A/Prof. Vijay Sivaraman
Ngoc Phu LeThesis Topic: Speech-based cognitive load classification systemSupervisor: Prof. Eliathamby Ambikairajah
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Qim Yi LeeThesis Topic: Biomedical engineering.Supervisor: Dr Stephen Redmond
Guanzhong LiThesis Topic: Multimedia cognitive load measurementSupervisor: Dr Julien EppsCo-supervisor: Dr Fang Chen
Huijun LiThesis Topic: Coding, communicationsSupervisor: Prof. Jinhong Yuan
Mo LiThesis Topic: Optical fibre laser sensorsSupervisor: Prof. Gang Ding Peng
Yang LiuThesis Topic: Fiber optic sensor.Supervisor: Prof. Gang Ding Peng
Wenliang LuThesis Topic: Speech and audio signal processing.Supervisor: Dr Deep Sen
Yi LuThesis Topic: Diversity and multiplexing tradeoff analysis of MIMO systemsSupervisor: Dr Wei Zhang
John William MatthewsThesis Topic: Quality of service in the future InternetSupervisor: A/Prof. Vijay Sivaraman
Muhammad Yusof Mohd NoorThesis Topic: Optical fibre lasersSupervisor: Prof. Gang Ding Peng
Aous Thabit NamanThesis Topic: Multimedia distribution with advanced networking technologies.Supervisor: Prof. David Taubman
Jack Wei-Yang TsaiThesis Topic: NPC - Multipath Routing in Mesh Networks.Supervisor: Dr Tim Moors
Arun VishwanathThesis Topic: Routers and networks with near-zero buffersSupervisor: A/Prof. Vijay Sivaraman
Ning WangThesis Topic: Classification of human movement patterns from a triaxial accelerometer for home telecareSupervisor: Prof. Eliathamby Ambikairajah
Shuai WangThesis Topic: 3D soundfield reproduction in non-anechoic environment.Supervisor: Dr Deep Sen
Zhe WangThesis Topic: Spectrum sharing in cognitive radio networksSupervisor: Dr Wei Zhang
Miao Fei XiangThesis Topic: Physical layer securitySupervisor: Prof. Jinhong Yuan
Yixuan XieThesis Topic: Error control coding, lDPC codesSupervisor: Prof. Jinhong Yuan
Tao YangThesis Topic: Iterative decoding of suposition coding in wireless communicationsSupervisor: Prof. Jinhong Yuan
Linjia YaoThesis Topic: Secret key generation for body-wearable wireless sensor devicesSupervisor: A/Prof. Vijay Sivaraman
Fawad NazirThesis Topic: DInfoNets: The information networksSupervisor: Prof. Aruna Seneviratne
Thanh Tuan NguyenThesis Topic: Signal processing for data processing.Supervisor: Prof. David Taubman
Xuan Vinh NguyenThesis Topic: Advanced data mining technique to exploit microarray gene data.Supervisor: Dr Julien Epps
Jhoanna Rhodette PedrasaThesis Topic: A decision-making system for mobility management using information exchange.Supervisor: Prof. Aruna Seneviratne
Paul Henri PrevotThesis Topic: Conformal polymeric artificial retinaSupervisor: A/Prof. Francois ladouceur
Adeel RaziThesis Topic: Multiuser MIMO precoding for frequency selective channels.Supervisor: Prof. Jinhong Yuan
Madeleine Gabrielle SabordoThesis Topic: Moving target detection and tracking: Radar signal processingSupervisor: Dr Elias Aboutanios
Fendy SantosoThesis Topic: Wireless intrusion detections.Supervisor: A/Prof. Robert Malaney
Long ShiThesis Topic: Space-time codes with PIC group decodingSupervisor: Dr Wei Zhang
Tet Fei YapThesis Topic: Speech-based cognitive load classificationSupervisor: Prof. Eliathamby Ambikairajah
Kun YuThesis Topic: Cognitive load analysis via pen interaction.Supervisor: Dr Julien Epps
Pega ZarjamThesis Topic: Cognitive load measurement based on EEG signal processingSupervisor: Dr Julien Epps
Chao ZhaiThesis Topic: Stochastic geometry for the analysis and design of wireless relay networksSupervisor: Dr Wei Zhang
Zhaonan ZhangThesis Topic: Sensor networks, data fusion, knowledge management.Supervisor: Dr Stephen Redmond
Zhi ZhaoThesis Topic: Energy efficiency in core optical networkSupervisor: A/Prof. Vijay Sivaraman
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UnDeRGRADUAte stUDents
STUDENT PROFIlE:SIMON LEWIS
Simon lewis graduated from the School in 2010 with first class honours. During his time at the School he was extremely active outside of the classroom. His extracurricular activities included: being active in the Electrical Engineering Society (ElSOC) committee and becoming President in his final year, being chief organizer of the annual Engineering Sports day (an event attracting over 1500 engineers), volunteering at CONTACT (student referral service) and volunteering for the orientation week “Yellow Shirts” program for two years.
During his time of President of ElSOC the society won awards for “People choice club of the year” and “Highly commended constituent
society”. Additionally in this year he was the main driving force for starting the Engineering Society of UNSW.
Following his final year Simon received awards for “Jacobs Australia leadership prize”, “Faculty of Engineering Student service award”, “Boeing Australia Prize for Undergraduate for academic merit and leadership in Engineering” and “6th Place for thesis poster competition”. Simon is currently employed at Endeavour Energy, one of the major NSW power supply utilities.
“Engineers like to work hard and play hard. Being involved outside of the classroom is a perfect way to do this, meet new friends and develop into the person you want to be.”
STUDENT PROFIlE:RAJI AMBIKAIRAJAH
Raji Ambikairajah graduated with a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering with honours in 2006 and commenced her PhD in 2010. She is also the Sydney Chapter leader of the global non-profit organisation Room to Read and is a scholarship holder on the Women on Boards ‘Next Generation of Corporate leaders’ program. In 2010, Raji won the Best Peer-Reviewed Paper Award at the Engineering leadership Conference for her paper entitled “leadership Through the Eyes of a Young Engineer”.
Raji ‘s undergraduate experience was an interesting one going from attending a girls’ high school to being one of a handful of females in a male dominated university program. She enjoyed the Women in Engineering seminars that were held and it was refreshing to hear from female engineers in the workplace who had come along to speak at these seminars. “There aren’t enough
female role models for female engineering students and I hope over time this will change, as more girls understand what engineering is, what it means to be an engineer and choose to do the degree and pursue an engineering career” according to Raji. In her 3rd and 4th years of the degree, she was the Vice-Chair of the UNSW IEEE branch and also mentored incoming first year EE&T students, which she really enjoyed. “It was nice to be able to reassure them about the degree, share my experiences with them and help them along”.
Another valuable aspect from doing an Electrical Engineering program was the strong and close friendships which she started 8 years ago. “When we were working together on assignments, and continued long beyond graduation day, where we are now attending each other’s weddings!
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eLsoC In 2010
As the student society for the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications our aim is to connect students with each other, the staff of the School and with industry and I must say that in 2010 we nailed it! We continued the great work of the past and can confidently say that ElSOC was one of the most successful societies
on campus and this was shown when ElSOC won the Arc “People’s Choice Award” at the clubs awards night.
Club activities throughout the year included: A total of 8 BBQ’s this year with the students enjoying contact with industry (Such as Teach for Australia and ESDR Electronics), free lunch and participating in “sporting” activities such as the annual 4 pie marathon. A drinks night which went off with resounding success; an electrifying night was had by all! The Faculty of Engineering Student Sports Day was again primarily run by ElSOC. This event attracted over 1500 Engineers and by all reports it was much more fun than licking your first 9V battery. ElSOC also attended every revue at the university in force. Our “witty” remarks throughout the shows usually attracted more laughter then the skits on stage!
ElSOC was also responsible for looking after the students in other ways such as: Starting a free tutoring service to help 1st and 2nd years outwit their lecturers and obtain that golden high distinction. Also in response to a student survey ElSOC started a free textbook borrowing service as well as making ourselves more available to the students. Additionally as an act of pity for the other schools of engineering ElSOC took the lead in spreading their awesomeness by being the primary driving force behind the founding of a society for all engineers called ENGSOC.
In summary 2010 was an extremely successful year for ElSOC made possible by an extremely driven and excellent committee. ElSOC continued its proud tradition of holistically looking out for the students of the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications.
(Written by Simon Lewis)
The 2010 Committee
Simon lewis President
leon Oriti Vice President
Mathew MacIntyre Secretary
Dinesh Mohan Treasurer
Afif Abdullah Industry liaison
Kylie Upton Acting Publicity Officer
Cassie Davies ARC Delegate
Chris Webb Acting co arc delegate
Eddie Mclean Photographer & Webmaster
Afif Abdullah Acting IET liaison
Matan livson 4th year Representative
Christine Armenian 4th year Representative
luke Swithenbank 3rd year Representative
Thomas Cooney 3rd year Representative
Fergal Cotter 3rd year Representative
Sandy Tulloch 2nd year Representative
Alan Glass 2nd year Representative
Chris Webb 2nd year Representative
Evan Stephenson Merchandise Officer
Chris Brown 1st Year Rep
2010 Elsoc president, simon lewis
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Undergraduate Degrees
Abeywickrama, Tenindra N.BE BSc (Electrical), Honours 1
Ahmad Khairi, Ahmad FarhanBE (Electrical)
Allom, JustinBE (Electrical)
Ambat, Vivek MenonBE (Electrical), Honours 1
Ao, Pak LonBE (Electrical), Honours 1
Atkins, Amy ElizabethBE (Electrical), Honours Class 2 Division 1
Beach, Iain AndrewBE (Electrical)
Bin Ramli, Abdul RazakBE (Electrical), Honours Class 2 Division 2
Brown, StefanieBE (Electrical), Honours 1
Brunero, Adam AlessioBE (Electrical), Honours 2 Division 1
Budiman, JokoBE (Electrical)
Bunchuaicharoenphon, OnanongBE (Electrical)
Carrapetta, James LukeBE (Electrical), Honours 1
Cassidy, BenjaminBE MBiomedE (Electrical), Honours 1
Cha, Hyeon TaeBE (Telecommunications)
Chai, Min WeiBE (Electrical), Honours 1
Chami, JalalBE MBiomedE (Telecommunications)
Chan, GabrielBE (Electrical)
Chen, HaoBE (Electrical), Honours 1
Cheng, YixuanBE (Telecommunications), Honours Class 2 Division 1
Cheung, GabrielBE Bcom (Electrical), Honours 2 Division 2
Choo, Alvin Jun ChongBE (Electrical), Honours 2 Division 1
Chung, Hang MingBE (Electrical), Honours 2 Division 1
Ciesla, Michael MirekBE Bcom (Telecommunications), Honours 1
Commerford, Iain MichaelBE (Electrical), Honours 1
Couch, Joseph DanielBE BA (Electrical), Honours 2 Division 2
Dong, LeiBE (Electrical), Honours 1
EfinBE MBiomedE (Electrical), Honours 1
Ediriweera, Miyuru KhemindaBE BA (Electrical), Honours 2 Division 1
Farley, Justin KirkBE (Electrical), Honours 2 Division 1
Feng, QianqianBE (Electrical), Honours 1
Fu, LeiBE (Electrical)
Gautam VenkatramanBE (Telecommunications), Honours 2 Division 1
Giam, Kai YiBE (Electrical), Honours 2 Division 1
Grenet, DavidBE MBiomedE (Electrical), Honours 2 Division 1
Gu, AmengBE (Electrical)
Guan, DeqiBE (Electrical), Honours 2 Division 1
Gunawan, Jeff AldrichBE (Electrical), Honours 2 Division 1
Gurgis, Mina Maged ShokryBE BSc (Telecommunications), Honours 2 Division 1
Huang, XinBE (Telecommunications)
Hussain, Muhammad IstafaBE (Electrical)
DeGRees ConFeRReD In 2010
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Jayanthakumar, Jonathan RajivBE MBiomedE (Electrical), Honours 1
Jenkins, ChristopherBE MBiomedE (Electrical)
Jian, Mandy ZhitianBE BA (Telecommunications)
Kfoury, RabihBE (Electrical), Honours 2 Division 2
Kim, Min ChungBE (Electrical)
Ko, Kieren Han-WeiBE (Electrical)
Kway Win, Me MeBE (Electrical), Honours 2 Division 1
Lai, Kwei-Gang JosephBE (Electrical)
Lam, Yau Shing KennethBE (Electrical)
Lam, Zi XingBE (Electrical), Honours 2 Division 2
Lee, Joel Chee ChoongBE (Electrical), Honours 1
Lee, Kai ShenBE (Electrical), Honours 1
Lee, Voon HianBE (Telecommunications), Honours 1
Lewis, Simon JamesBE (Electrical), Honours 1
Lim, Jingcong VernonBE (Electrical), Honours 1
Lin, JiajieBE (Electrical)
Lin, Zhiyong AlvinBE (Electrical), Honours 2 Division 1
Liu, ZhongzheBE (Electrical), Honours 2 Division 2
Loo, Poh SuanBE (Telecommunications), Honours 2 Division 2
Low, Yu DaBE (Electrical)
Luk, Edward Yue KiuBE BSc (Electrical), Honours 1
Maker, Samal Anil BE (Electrical), Honours 1
Manogaran, KohilaBE (Electrical), Honours 1
Marashdeh, MaramBE (Electrical)
May, Brendon FrancisBE BSc (Electrical), Honours 2 Division 1
Mendoza, MiguelBE (Electrical)
Miskin, Tuan ShammiBE (Electrical), Honours 2 Division 2
Nagel, JeremyBE (Electrical), Honours 1
Naotunna Palliya Guruge, Rukshan TharangaBE (Electrical)
Narushevich, Lars StanislawBe (Electrical), Honours 2 Division 1
Nash, John Harry RobertBe (Electrical), Honours 2 Division 1
Ng, Tong SoonBE (Electrical)
Noor Rehan, Mohd MustakhimBE (Telecommunications)
Obradovic, MilanBE MBiomedE (Electrical), Honours 2 Division 2
Oliver, Peter JohnBE (Electrical), Honours 1
Ong, Kong JieBE (Electrical), Honours 2 Division 2
Ooi, Ivan Meng LeongBE (Electrical), Honours 2 Division 1
Papapetros, Emanuel IsidorBE BCom (Electrical), Honours 2 Division 1
Piggott, Marc JamesBE BSc (Electrical), Honours 1
Popovac, IvanaBE MBiomedE (Electrical), Honours 2 Division 1
Poutilov, VladislavBE (Electrical)
Ratter, Adrian BrianBE BSc (Electrical), Honours 1, University Medal
Rizvi, TabishBE (Telecommunications), Honours 1
Saidina Omar, Ahmad Zainul AriffinBE (Electrical)
Shankar, RahulBE (Electrical), Honours 2 Division 1
Shen, Eric Wei-DaBE Bcom (Electrical), Honours 2 Division 2
Shibabaw, Bewketu TadiloBE (Telecommunications)
Siew, Eugene Wai MingBE (Electrical), Honours 1
Sirisatjakul, SaranyaBE (Electrical), Honours 2 Division 2
Sivapalan, SutharsanBE (Electrical)
Soo, Ji GiapBE (Electrical), Honours 2 Division 1
Soon, Pui KiunBE (Electrical)
Stephenson, Gregory GordonBE (Electrical), Honours 1
Su, KimBE (Telecommunications)
Sundaralingam, NeelanBe (Electrical)
Tian, MaoBE (Electrical)
Tipping, NathanBE (Telecommunications), Honours 2 Division 2
Tong, LeoBE BSc (Telecommunications)
Wang, KanBE Electrical
Wang, PuBE (Electrical), Honours 2 Division 2
a/prof. hugh outhred in 2010 graduation.
Dr David clements in 2010 graduation.
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Wang, YinchuBE (Electrical), Honours 2 Division 2
Ward, Benjamin EdwardBE (Electrical)
Ward, Christopher NormanBE (Electrical), Honours 2 Division 2
Wenham, Alison MareeBE BCom (Electrical), Honours 1
Weston, Joshua Kevin LakerBE (Electrical), Honours 2 Division 1
Wong, Heng Loong NicholasBE (Electrical), Honours 1
Wong, Jeffrey Tak HangBE (Electrical)
Wong, Siu WaiBE (Telecommunications), Honours 2 Division 1
Wong, Timothy RuenBE BCom (Electrical), Honours 1
Wood, Clare LouiseBE (Electrical), Honours 1
Woon, KennyBE (Telecommunications)
Wrigley, Andrew PhilipBE (Electrical)
Wunady, JefferyBE (Electrical), Honours 1
Wysocki, Michal FranciszekBE BCom (Electrical), Honours 1
Xu, JiaBE (Telecommunications)
Yang, Chih-Hwan HenryBE BSc (Electrical), Honours 1
Yang, Yi XiuBE (Electrical), Honours 2 Division 1
Youhana, Ninos DanielBE BCom (Electrical), Honours 2 Division 2
Zhang, AnleiBE (Electrical)
Zhang, ChiBE (Electrical)
Zhang, LingfeiBE (Electrical)
Zhang, XinBE (Electrical), Honours 1
Zhu, Yu JoshuaBE Bcom (Electrical), Honours 1
Postgraduate Coursework Degrees
Abdul Halim, Ili ShairahMEngSc, Microelectronics and Microsystems
Abdullah Jalani, FaizahMEngSc, Systems and Control
Agbi, Omotola OlawunmiMEngSc, Telecommunications
Ahmed, ShahparMEngSc, Telecommunications
Altvater, Bernhard Herbert EngelbertMEngSc, Telecommunications
Azmi, Aimie NazminMEngSc, Energy Systems
Bushan Gunasekaran, Saravana KumarMEngSc, Telecommunications
Cao, LuMEngSc(Extn),Telecommunications
Chen, Lu YingMEngSc, Telecommunications
Chen, PengMEngSc, Systems and Control
Chen, Szu-Ming MikeMEngSc, Microelectronics and Microsystems
Chen, WeisiMEngSc, Microelectronics and Microsystems
Chen, YongqiMEngSc, Energy Systems
Chen, ZhiyaoMEngSc, Microelectronics and Microsystems
Chen, ZhuoMEngSc, Telecommunications
Cheng, GongMEngSc(Extn), Energy Systems
Choudry, Muhammad OmerMEngSc, Telecommunications
Daruwalla, AreshMEngSc, Telecommunications
Dehollain Lorenzana, Juan PabloMEngSc, Microelectronics and Microsystems
Dejbakhsh, HosseinMEngSc, Energy Systems
Doumit, AntoineMEngSc, Energy Systems
Effendi, YasirMEngSc, Telecommunications
Farooqi, Abdullah TayyabMEngSc, Telecommunications
Feng, JiangMEngSc, Telecommunications
Feng, ShaohuaMEngSc, Microelectronics and Microsystems
Fu, Zheng JiaMEngSc, Telecommunications
Gao, MingMEngSc, Telecommunications
Goma, YansMEngSc, Energy Systems
Gomes, LindsayMEngSc, Energy Systems
Gong, ZhexingMEngSc, Microelectronics and Microsystems
He, PingMEngSc(Extn), Microelectronics and Microsystems
from left to right: tharmarajah thiruvaran, Vidhyasaharan sethu, Bo Yin & reji mathew
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He, YufengMEngSc(Extn), Energy Systems
Heslop, Simon francisMEngSc, Energy Systems
Hossain, Mohammad MinulMEngSc, Telecommunications
Hou, XiaoyuMEngSc, Telecommunications
Huang, YanMEngSc, Systems and Control
Jalaludeen, MohammedMEngSc, Telecommunications
Kentse, ThaboMEngSc, Energy Systems
Khan, Faraz AhmedMEngSc, Telecommunications
Khan, Hassan AliMEngSc, Telecommunications
Khan, QasimMEngSc, Telecommunications
Khattak, Adnan NawabMEngSc, Telecommunications
Khattak, Jawad ShehzadMEngSc, Microelectronics and Microsystems
Kuttambakam Narasimhulu, PradeepMEngSc, Systems and Control
Lee, Joan Hsiao HuiMEngSc(Extn), Microelectronics and Microsystems
Lei, YunMEngSc, Telecommunications
Li, ChengMEngSc, Telecommunications
Li, Hao DaMEngSc, Telecommunications
Li, JiajieMEngSc, Energy Systems
Lin, MingcongMEngSc, Systems and Control
Liu, ChaoMEngSc, Telecommunications
Liu, GangMEngSc, Telecommunications
Liu, WeikeMEngSc(Extn), Telecommunications
Lu, LeiMEngSc, Energy Systems
Maalouf, AminMEngSc, Energy Systems
Majzoub, AhmadMEngSc, Energy Systems
Malik, SufianMEngSc, Telecommunications
Merheb, MaanMEngSc, Energy Systems
Mohd Hassan, Siti LailatulMEngSc, Microelectronics and Microsystems
Mozafari, SarehMEngSc, Telecommunications
Munim, SohaibMEngSc, Energy Systems
Nguyen, Nam ThaiMEngSc, Telecommunications
Nguyen, Quang DaiMEngSc, Energy Systems
Noh, AzarynaMEngSc, Microelectronics and Microsystems
Ouyang, YiwenMEngSc, Energy Systems
Pan, JianmingMEngSc(Extn), Signal Processing
Paul, AllenMEngSc, Telecommunications
Rafiq, FarasMEngSc(Extn), Telecommunications
Rosli, Anis DiyanaMEngSc, Systems and Control
Ruan, YuanyuanMEngSc, Systems and Control
Sarvode, MadhuMEngSc, Telecommunications
Satayakitkajorn, NitiluxMEngSc, Telecommunications
Shakarchi, AidenMEngSc, Energy Systems
Siddiqui, Muhammad AtifMEngSc, Telecommunications
Sun, DaoweiMEngSc, Telecommunications
Sun, Wei ChenMEngSc, Telecommunications
Tan, Ken SeongMEngSc, Telecommunications
Tan, Shiau WanMEngSc, Telecommunications
Tang, ChenpingMEngSc(Extn), Systems and Control
Thaneerat, ThanakritMEngSc, Systems and Control
Uthaicharoenpong, TawitMEngSc, Systems and Control
Vissers, Henri AntoniusMEngSc, Energy Systems
Wang, JunMEngSc, Telecommunications
Wang, PengMEngSc, Energy Systems
Wang, ZheMEngSc, Telecommunications
Xia, Jie RongMEngSc(Extn) Energy Systems
Xie, Li YinMEngSc, Telecommunications
Yang, GuangMEngSc, Telecommunications
Yang, LuMEngSc(Extn), Telecommunications
Zeng, HuiMEngSc, Energy Systems
Zhai, BoMEngSc, Energy Systems
Zhang, DisiMEngSc(Extn), Telecommunications
Zhang, FanMEngSc, Telecommunications
Zhang, XiaoningMEngSc, Telecommunications
Zhang, YuMEngSc, Energy Systems
Zhou, WeiouMEngSc, Telecommunications
Zhou, XiaoboMEngSc, Energy Systems
Zhou, ZiboMEngSc(Extn), Microelectronics and Microsystems
Zhu, LinMEngSc, Telecommunications
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from left to right: Dr ray Eaton, prof. Eliathamby ambikairajah (hos), Dr Julien Epps, tharmarajah thiruvaran & Vidhyasaharan sethu)
Higher Research Degrees
Luong, Dung VietME, Systems and Control
Wang, LiangPhD, Signal Processing
Chan, Leroy Lai-YuPhD, Biomedical Engineering
Thorncraft, Stuart RussellPhD, Energy Systems
Sethu, VidhyasaharanPhD, Signal Processing
Tang, Howe HingPhD, Systems and Control
Humphrey, David EricPhD, Signal Processing
Nevat, IdoPhD, Telecommunications
Lai, Kai XianPhD, Energy Systems
Muhamad, Nor AsiahPhD, Energy Systems
Rathnayake, Rathnayake Mudiyanselage Upendra SudeshPhD, Telecommunications
Thiruvaran, TharmarajahPhD, Signal Processing
Savkovic, BorislavPhD, Systems and Control
Xiao, DanPhD, Energy Systems
O, Hio NamPhD, Energy Systems
Nazir, FawadPhD, Telecommunications
Mathew, Reji KuruvillaPhD, Signal Processing
Lim, Wee HanPhD, Microsystems
Khawaja, Hamood-Ur-RahmanPhD, Microsystems
Tan, FeiseliaPhD, Telecommunications
Wang, NingPhD, Signal Processing
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On Wednesday, 10 February, staff battled it out against students in a Staff vs Postgraduate Students cricket match. The match was 25 overs a side and was played on the Village Green on campus in searing temperatures with a BBQ in the innings break for lunch.
The students won a very close game, which was played in great spirits by all. Man-of-the-match was jointly awarded to Arun Vishwanath (Students) for his 37 not out (off 35 balls), and 1 wicket bowling, and also Abdullah Hafiz (Students) for his bowling figures of 3/16 off 5 overs, scoring 13 runs (off 13 balls), one catch and a direct-hit run out.
Back row left to right: a/prof. colin grantham, subash puthanveetil, richard tuck, paul-henri prevot, Dr Deep sen and prof. aruna seneviratne. front row left to right: a/prof. Vijay sivaraman, prof. Eliathamby ambikairajah (hos), prof. gang Ding peng, Dr tim moors and Douglas Davison.
Back row left to right: abdullah hafiz, peerapat Vithayasricharon, scott Jones, Dr arun Vishwanath, alexander Kurusingal, mark hiscocks, faizan Javed and Kushal Das. front row left to right: hamood ur rahman Khawaja, Dr nicholas cutler and adeel razi.
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03.ReseARCHThe breadth and depth of research activities undertaken by the School make it one of the largest postgraduate schools in Australia and a world leader in a number of research areas. The range of research areas has resulted in the organisation of the School into four broad research disciplines.
ReseARCH GRoUPs: eneRGY sYsteMs
ACADEMIC STAFF
Prof. Fazlur Rahman
Prof. Vassilios G Agelidis (Director of CERPA)
A/Prof. John Fletcher
A/Prof. Iain MacGill (Director CEEM)
Dr Rukmi Dutta
Dr Branislav Hredzak (joint with Systems and Control)
Dr Toan Phung
Dr Jayashri Ravishankar
Dr Mohammed Salay Naderi
RESEARCH FELLOWS
Dr Mihai Ciobotaru (CERPA)
Dr Nicholas Cutler (CEEM)
Dr Robert Passey (CEEM)
Dr Maria Retnanestri (CEEM)
ADJUNCT/VISITING STAFF
Prof. Ross Baldick
Prof. Mehdi Vakilian
A/Prof. Trevor Blackburn
A/Prof. Colin Grantham
A/Prof. Hugh Outhred
Dr Walter lachs
Dr Vahid Parvin
Ted Spooner
TECHNICAL SUPPORT STAFF
Dr Baburaj Karanayil
The Energy Systems Research Group conducts research in a wide range of areas associated with the generation, transmission, distribution, conversion, storage and utilisation of electrical energy, as well as in measurement, materials and electrical equipment. There are three main research themes, namely:
1. High-Voltage Engineering, Power System Equipment, Condition Monitoring Techniques, Energy Efficiency, and On-line Partial Discharge Detection.
2. Electrical Machines, Power Electronic Converters: Topologies and Control, and Variable-Speed Drives.
3. Renewable Energy Grid-Connected Systems, Solar PV Grid-Integration, Wind Farms and Grid-Integration, High Voltage Direct Current Transmission and Electricity Industry Restructuring
head of Energy systems group: prof. fazlur rahman
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High-Voltage Engineering (Dr Toan Phung and Dr Mohammad Salay Naderi)
Power System EquipmentZZ High-voltage generation, testing and measurement techniques.
ZZ Electric, thermal, and mechanical stresses in power system equipment (rotating machines, transformers, cables, and switchgear)
ZZ Electrical Insulation – characteristics of gaseous, liquid and solid dielectrics, breakdown mechanisms
ZZ In-serviced insulation ageing and degradation mechanisms.
ZZ Diagnostic techniques and sensors for insulation assessment
ZZ Power losses and energy efficiency
ZZ lightning, arcing
On-line condition monitoringZZ Partial discharge sensors and techniques - advanced computer-based data acquisition, low-frequency, conventional and ultra-high frequency discharge detection, acoustic methods, noise and interference reduction using signal processing. PD Analysis – application of novel signal analysis methods for discharge characterization and pattern recognition for fault diagnosis.
New Insulation materialsZZ Bio-degradable oils for use in transformers
ZZ Nano composites
Monitoring and control of substations and power system networksZZ Monitoring and protection, linking with communications research.
ZZ Electromagnetic transients - modelling and analysis
ZZ Insulation coordination
Intelligent SystemsZZ Data mining techniques, signal processing techniques, neural networks, expert systems for fault pattern recognition, smart grids.
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Electrical Machines, Power Electronics and Electrical Drives (Prof. Faz Rahman, A/Prof. John Fletcher and Dr Rukmi Dutta, Prof. Vassilios G. Agelidis, Dr Mihai Ciobotaru)
Design of Interior Permanent MachinesZZ Finite element analysis and design of power equipment.
ZZ The optimal design of the interior permanent magnet machine for high field weakening range and low cogging torque without skewing, for application in vehicle traction and wind power generation systems.
ZZ Segmented, multilayer and fractional-slot, concentrated winding designs of IPM machine structures for high field weakening range, high power and torque density.
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Power Electronic ConvertersZZ Power electronic converter circuits and their control techniques for application in power supplies, electric drives, active power filters, and in other applications such as power factor correction, drive circuits for lED and other lighting, voltage and current source converters for grid connection, modelling of power electronic circuits. Power converters for space and aero-space applications.
ZZ Matrix and Z-source converters for storage-free power conversion. Bidirectional converters for application in vehicle traction systems. Multi-phase, sparse-matrix converters and drives with high reliability and redundancy. Modulation techniques.
ZZ Multilevel converters, flying capacitor converters, active-neutral-point-clamped converters, optimised pulse-width modulation techniques, selective harmonic elimination techniques, modular multilevel converters, H-bridge modular multilevel converters
ZZ Anti-islanding techniques, grid-connected converters and control
ZZ High-voltage direct current transmission systems with voltage-sourced converters, modulation and control, back-to-back systems
Electrical Drive SystemsZZ Control techniques such as rotor flux oriented control (RFOC) of induction and synchronous machines for high dynamic response; Cogging and ripple torque minimization schemes for permanent magnet brushless DC magnet motor drives, field-weakening controllers for interior permanent magnet motors.
ZZ Sensorless direct torque control and flux control (DTC) of permanent magnet motors for high dynamic response; Voltage-source inverter and matrix converter driven IPM motor drive for very low-speed operation,
including zero speed; On-line estimation of torque, flux linkage, speed, position and stator resistance of machines with high-performance operation over wide speed range including zero to maximum field-weakening speed range.
ZZ Machine dynamics and control system design issues for interior permanent magnet (IPM), linear, switched reluctance (SR), and induction motors; modelling and control characteristics of drives when driven from various types of power converter circuits under different control techniques.
Renewable Energy and Electricity Industry Restructuring(A/Prof. Iain MacGill, Prof. Vassilios G. Agelidis, Dr Jayashri Ravishankar, Dr Mihai Ciobotaru)
Power System Dynamics and ControlZZ Analysis of the impact of interconnecting wind turbine generators to the utility grid.
ZZ FACTS controllers for grid connected wind energy conversion systems.
ZZ Dynamic stability analysis of renewable energy systems interconnected to the power grid
ZZ Electrical power delivery systems, power systems dynamics and control.
Power System Planning and Economics, Electricity Market Restructuring, Energy Markets, and Renewable Energy GenerationZZ Renewable energy – Integration of renewable energy sources into the electricity supply system – technology and wider institutional and policy frameworks.
prof. agelidis Vassilios with his phD student minsoo Jang on his research project “a single-phase single-stage fuel cell energy conversion system using a boost-inverter and a battery energy storage back-up unit”
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ZZ Renewable Energy Industry development - Technology, market, financial and institutional drivers of this industry’s development, policy options to maximize and direct its growth.
ZZ Power system operation -Theoretical and computational approaches for coordinating the operation of emerging power systems with independent participants and distributed resources.
ZZ Energy industry restructuring- Electricity market structures and pricing for investment and operation. Cooperative, competitive and strategic participant behaviour, market frameworks at the distribution system level, competition and distributed resources.
ZZ Distributed, renewable and demand-side resources – Operational characterization and modelling of renewables, novel small-scale generation, distributed energy storage and demand-side options.
ZZ Renewables applications – large-scale wind power developments, Building integrated PV, RAPS systems. Renewable options for the developing countries.
ZZ Distributed Artificial Intelligence - Evolutionary computation, intelligent agent approaches for complex, uncertain, problem domains.
ZZ Technical standards for PV systems and associated Balance of System equipment for grid connection.
Grid interconnection of renewable energy systemsZZ large-Scale plants, distributed generation, and stand-alone systems
ZZ Simulation, analysis, design, control, standards and testing, economic and policy issues.
Design and Implementation of electricity industry re-structuringZZ Wholesale and retail electricity markets
ZZ Tools for pricing, planning, ancillary services, network investment, regulation. Renewable energy policy, carbon pricing
ZZ Electricity load demand forecasting for the 5-minute Australian NEM
Smart Grid and distributed energy optionsZZ Renewable energy, flexible demand, energy efficiency, electric vehicles.
ZZ Tools for operation and investment.
ZZ Harmonics and distribution systems, signal processing for harmonics and grid event analysis
ZZ Frequency estimation under harmonics and interharmonics polluted grid environments
ZZ Real-time information gathering from distribution and transmission grids
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ReseARCH GRoUPs: MICRosYsteMs
ACADEMIC STAFF
Prof. Andrew Dzurak (Director of ANFF)
Prof. Chee Yee Kwok
Prof. Rodica Ramer (Joint with Telecommunications)
Dr Tara Hamilton
Dr Torsten lehman
Dr Andrea Morello
RESEARCH FELLOWS & STAFF
King Yuk Chan
Dr Christopher Escott (ANFF)
Dr Wee Han lim (ANFF)
Dr Fay Hudson (ANFF)
Dr linda Macks (ANFF)
Dr Aron Michael
Dr Floris Zwanenburg (ANFF)
ADJUNCT/VISITING STAFF
Emeritus Prof. Graham Rigby
Prof. Robert Clark
Dr Mark Mackenzie
Dr Saeid Nooshabadi
TECHNICAL SUPPORT STAFF
Gordon Bates (SNF/ANFF)
Eric Gauja (SNF/ANFF)
Daniel Krcho
Albert MacMaster (SNF/ANFF)
Joanna Szymanska (ANFF)
Neuromorphic Engineering (Dr Tara Julia Hamilton)
In neuromorphic engineering we build and model neural systems with the aim of understanding how the brain is able to perform complex computational tasks. Rather than simulating these systems on traditional computing platforms, we build chips using the physics of the transistors to obtain real-time, low-power solutions to the mysteries of the mind.
Another aim of neuromorphic engineering is to use neurally-inspired architectures to design low-power, noise-robust circuits for use in a broad range of engineering systems. Today this is of particular importance with shrinking minimum feature sizes. Circuits that can operate reliably with noise and mismatch are in high demand.
The research has focused thus far on modelling the cochlea and lower auditory pathways, modelling complex neural functions and developing strategies for performing computation with neuron-like “logic” structures. This work is funded by the ARC and further information can be obtained from Tara Julia Hamilton ([email protected]).
Circuits in nanoscale CMOS (Dr Tara Julia Hamilton and Dr Torsten lehmann)
This research addresses circuit design issues arising from the undesirable transistor properties, such as increased leakage currents and large component variability, found in the ultra-small devices of modern CMOS technologies (below the 65nm technology node). Two key areas are targeted: the design of ultra high speed logic circuits operating in excess of 30GHz, and the design of alternate analogue structures which can give good performance while components are suffering from severe mismatch poor transistor characteristics and reduced supply voltage. In both areas new circuit topologies are investigated to achieve standard digital and analogue functions. This research is supported by the ARC and Perceptia Devices Australia Pty. ltd.
head of microsystems group: prof. chee Yee Kwok
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Ultra-low temperature electronics (Dr Torsten lehmann)
This research is motivated by the need for controlling and observing spin-based silicon quantum computing processors in future quantum computers. Such quantum computing processors will be operating at temperatures below 1K. To facilitate the quantum processor control, conventional electronic circuits are required operating at temperatures below 4.2K. While bipolar junction transistors are inoperable at such temperatures, fully-depleted CMOS transistors are capable of such low-temperature operation. Their behaviour is somewhat modified though, and we have investigated the transistor characteristics under such operating conditions. Such gained knowledge of the transistor characteristics has further enabled us to design integrated circuit functions for ultra-low temperature operation; notably fast, programmable pulse generators and ultra-sensitive current amplifiers used for interfacing to single-electron transistors.
Circuits for biomedical implants (Dr Torsten lehmann)
This research is motivated by the strict power and reliability requirements of electronic implants and capsules, such as cochlear implants, vision prostheses and wireless endoscopes. The available power in such systems is very limited: either due to limits on safe transcutaneous power transfer or the limited capacity of installed batteries. The main focus of this research is therefore to reduce the power dissipation of the required circuit functions. Examples of circuits we have investigated include low-power data-receiver circuits, low-power, ultra-wide band radio transmitters, efficient transcutaneous power transfer, highly efficient on-chip power supplies, and ultra-low stand-by current electrode stimulator circuits. When electronic circuits are placed inside humans, and especially when such circuits stimulate nerve tissue, the reliability and correct operation of the electronics become paramount. For this reason we have also investigated active safety circuits that can detect faults in stimulation activity and thus ensure patient safety.
Advanced RF MEMS Technology for Modern Wireless Communications Systems (Prof. Rodica Ramer)
Recent advances in modern ultra wideband radar and wireless communications applications demand high performance and reconfigurable RF subsystems that simplify multiple complex functions using common hardware. These trends impose drastic requirements on passive and active devices. The reported performance of RF MEMS switches, with extremely low loss and high isolation, microscopic in size, have led to their applications in reconfigurable circuits. The proposal deals with the development of RF MEMS based reconfigurable devices that will enable flexible interconnections between various ports and channels and optimize the usage of bandwidth. This topic comprises multidisciplinary aspects including electrical design, electrical and mechanical simulation, fabrication and RF characterization.
Novel RF MEMS crossbar switch matrices topologies have been developed and 3x3 switch matrices have been fabricated. The fabricated switch matrices exhibit RF performances that are superior to any other existing technologies, with an operating bandwidth from DC to 40 GHz. These developed topologies have the potential to replace the large switch matrices systems in use on satellites for system redundancy and can also be employed in mobile phone transceiver frontend in order to switch between various frequency bands.
Novel reconfigurable three pole band pass filters have also been developed. They have been designed using RF MEMS contact switches. Our unique reconfigurable filter design technique allows designs that can switch between three different frequency bands, while maintaining the desired bandwidth e.g. of 1GHz.
Numerous building blocks required for phase shifters, switch matrices and other advanced devices for millimeter and sub-millimeter wave have also been developed.
MEMS based ultra-miniaturized optical systems (Dr Aron Michael and Prof. Chee Yee Kwok)
Existing approaches based on the assembly of discrete optical and mechanical components to implement smaller optical systems is not amenable to miniaturization. This project is developing new approaches to implement ultra-miniaturized lens based optical systems using MEMS technology. It covers
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ZZ Design, simulation, fabrication, and testing of new and novel micro-actuation mechanism. The key electrical and mechanical performance factors are low power consumption, low voltage operability, and large out-of-plane and lateral displacements.
ZZ Development of new nano/micro-fabrication techniques to realize micro-actuators and micro-lens in the same process.
Optical interconnect for 3D integration of integrated circuits (Dr Aron Michael and Prof. Chee Yee Kwok)
This project is about the development of optical interconnects for 3D integration. In 3D integration of integrated circuits, the silicon chips are stacked on top of each other. Aggressive dimensional scaling has brought us into the 32nm node. 3D integration will allow the era of gigascale integration to meet the ever growing demands of greater functionality in integrated circuit systems. Dimensional scaling does not scale the time constant delays along metal interconnects which is now seen as one of the road-blocks, amongst many others, for high speed operation in high performance chips. Optical interconnect is considered as a strong candidate to address this road-block. Investigations include both free space and guided optical interconnects. Since the chips are stacked, establishing an optical bus through the stack and having optical access at each chip level is essential. On the board level, optical interconnects are in the form of polymer waveguides. On the silicon level, silicon photonics is the dominant approach. This project aims to develop an optical bus that would permit optical communication between the board level and individual silicon chip levels in the 3D
stack. One key component is 45º micromirrors. We have successfully developed novel techniques for fabricating such micromirrors with ultra smooth surface (<4nm roughness), pairs of upward facing and downward facing 45º micromirrors and means of enlarging the effective 45º micromirror surface. Research is continuing on establishing guided optical path in throughsilicon-vias and efficient optical coupling to silicon photonics. Research is funded by the ARC and microfabrication work conducted in the Semiconductor Nanofabrication Facility,UNSW.
Integrated Quantum Computer Devices (Prof. Andrew Dzurak)
Prof. Andrew Dzurak leads a number of research projects within the Integrated Quantum Computer Devices Program of the Centre for Quantum Computer Technology (CQCT). The Program provides engineering design, modelling and nanofabrication of fully-configured Si:P qubits and associated pathway devices, making extensive use of the Semiconductor Nanofabrication Facility (SNF). The Program’s development of a MOS-compatible Al multi-layer gating technology has been a critical step in the development of a fully MOS spin qubit architecture in recent years. This technology has been successfully applied to the production of a range of devices which delivered significant research milestones in 2009, including fully tuneable Si quantum dot devices which have been operated in the single electron limit, transport devices in which tunnelling through single-P-donor states has been studied and spin qubit devices in which single shot spin readout has been demonstrated. The latter marks a major milestone in the development of a Si quantum computer.
Research projects currently taking place within the Program include:
ZZ Si MOS Spin Qubits
ZZ Spin Dependent Tunnelling through Single P Atoms
ZZ Si MOS Quantum Dots
ZZ Si:P Spin Qubit Control Using Cavity ESR
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The Quantum Measurement & Control Chip Program within the Centre for Quantum Computer Technology (CQCT) is managed by Dr Andrea Morello. The research projects within this program focus on the coherent control and readout of single-P-atom electron spin qubits in silicon. Throughout 2009, a new donor spin qubit architecture developed within the Centre was investigated in depth, achieving one of the most important milestones in solid-state spin qubits research - the single-shot readout of an electron spin.
Research projects currently taking place within the Program include:
ZZ Tunnel rates in qubit structures
ZZ Single-shot spin readout
ZZ Fast Electrically Detected Magnetic Resonance (EDMR) of P donors
ZZ Devices for local electron spin resonance
ZZ low-temperature integrated circuits for qubit readout
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ReseARCH GRoUPs: sYsteMs AnD ContRoL
ACADEMIC STAFF
Prof. Andrey Savkin
Prof. Victor Solo
A/Prof. Tuan D Hoang
Dr David Clements
Dr Ray Eaton
Dr Branislav Hredzak
RESEARCH FELLOWS
Dr Jim Basilakis
Dr Gregory Chan
Dr Teddy Cheng
Dr Syed Ahmed Pasha
Muhammad Khalid
Faizan Javed
ADJUNCT/VISITING STAFF
Emeritus Prof. Neville Rees
Prof. Branko Celler
Prof. Peter Neilson
Prof. Vojin G Oklobdzija
Prof. Peter Young
A/Prof. Tim Hesketh
Dr Hoang Kha Ha
TECHNICAL SUPPORT STAFF
Chris lu
Nonlinear Control (Dr David Clements)
Research projects include:
ZZ Reliable Numerical Algorithms for Control
ZZ Chemical Process Control
Nonlinear Control of Autonomous Vehicle (Dr Ray Eaton)
This research deals with autonomous and precise navigation of robotic vehicles, and is done in collaboration with the Mechatronics group within the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at UNSW. In particular, the research focuses on the application of precision farming, whereby the aim is to automate and robustly control agricultural machinery. This work is motivated by a need in the Australian farming industry to compensate for a dwindling labour workforce and to be more globally competitive. The team is currently working on an articulated system comprising an autonomous tractor pulling an agricultural seeding implement. Here, control inputs are inadequate to ensure the system follows a specified path with precision, given the varying and difficult operating conditions on the land.
Research projects include:
ZZ Kinematic Modelling of Articulated Systems
ZZ Nonlinear Control Design for Articulated Systems
ZZ Robust Control Design for Autonomous Vehicles Under the Influence of Slip
head of systems and control group: prof. Victor solo
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Control Methods for Actuator Systems in Hard Disk Drives (Dr Branislav Hredzak)
High-performance hard disk drives use dual-stage actuators in order to be able to compensate for vibrations caused by the disk, spindle motor, suspension, slider, or the head. In this research we develop novel control solutions for dual-stage actuators in order to improve the seeking performance, disturbance rejection and design flexibility. This results in a significantly faster response of the dual-stage actuator which in turn results in faster access to the data.
Optimization of Placement of Dynamic Network-on-chip Cores (Dr Branislav Hredzak)
Networks-on-chip (NoC) technology appears to be well-suited for providing the communication infrastructure of future dynamically reconfigurable systems-on-chip implemented using field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). In this research we develop optimization algorithms to dilate the application mapping as much as the available latency (slack) on critical connections allows. The free space can be used to provide additional flexibility when the configuration is required to be changed.
Communication Limited Control (Prof. Andrey Savkin)
In many distributed control systems communication bandwidth limits can compromise system stability and performance and a communication control trade-off must be managed.
Research projects include:
ZZ Information and Control
ZZ Networked Control Systems
ZZ Robust Control under limited Capacity Constraints
Multi-Agent Systems (Prof. Andrey Savkin)
Research projects include:
ZZ Navigation and Guidance of Autonomous Mobile Robots
ZZ Control of Mobile Wireless Systems
Robust Control and Filtering (Prof. Andrey Savkin)
Research projects include:
ZZ Control and Forecasting for Wind and PV Solar Power Systems
Control Applications – Biomedical (Prof. Andrey Savkin)
Research projects include:
ZZ Control of Physiological Variables during Kidney Dialysis
ZZ Control of Implantable Blood Pumps for Heart Failure Patients
Neuroimaging (Prof. Victor Solo)
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) is less than two decades old but has had a profound influence on the study of the brain and its diseases. This technology has in turn generated a fast growing demand for advanced statistical signal processing tools and thrown up novel problems in signal processing, distributed state estimation and multimodal imaging. This research is carried on mostly with colleagues at Harvard Medical School in the USA but also with colleagues in UNSW’s Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute (POWMRI).
Research Projects include:
ZZ Modelling of Intrinsic Brain Networks
ZZ Joint fMRI/MEG modelling
ZZ Information Theoretic Causality
Neural Coding (Prof. Victor Solo)
In the last decade and a half new micro measurement technologies involving multi-unit electrode recordings from the brains of awake animals such as monkeys and rats are allowing scientists to pursue fundamental studies of brain function. A potential engineering application is the development of true neural prosthetics. But the resultant need to analyse large volumes of data are generating new kinds of statistical signal processing and control problems that require new analysis tools. This research is carried on mostly with colleagues in the USA but also with colleagues at the University of Western Australia Medical School.
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Research Projects include:
ZZ System Identification for Multivariate Point Processes
ZZ State Estimation for Point Process Systems
ZZ Joint System Identification of Point Processes and Time Series
Geometric Signal Estimation (Prof. Victor Solo)
Many signal processing and control problems involve constraints that force parameters and or processes to lie in manifolds. Differential geometric methods are required to solve signal estimation, optimization and parameter estimation problems in such settings.
Research Projects include:
ZZ Geodesic Principal Components Analysis
ZZ Stochastic Attitude Estimation
ZZ Signal Estimation in Riemannian Manifolds
Econometrics (Prof. Victor Solo)
In Econometrics the advent of large data sets has put stress on traditional methods of empirical dynamic analysis. New tools of analysis are under rapid development falling under the rubric of ‘dynamic factor models’.
Research Projects include:
ZZ State Space approach to Dynamic Factor Models
ZZ Sparse State Space Models
ZZ Random Matrix theory for Stationary Processes
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RESEARCH FELLOWS
Dr Zourab Brodzeli (Photonics)
Dr Albert Steven Canagasabey (Photonics)
Dr Chaofeng James li (Wireless & Data Networks)
Dr Jun li (Wireless & Data Networks)
Dr Reji Kuruvilla Mathew (Signal Processing)
Dr Eun Hee Min (Photonics)
Dr Ido Nevat (Wireless & Data Networks)
Dr Upendra Rathnayake (Wireless & Data Networks)
Dr Aous Thabit Naman (Signal Processing)
Dr Vidhyasaharan Sethu (Signal Processing)
Dr leonardo Silvestri (Photonics)
Dr Geoffrey Stewart Morrison (Signal Processing)
Dr Arun Vishwanath (Wireless & Data Networks)
Dr Kok Hou Wong (Photonics)
ACADEMIC STAFF
Signal Processing
Prof. Eliathamby Ambikairajah
Prof. David Taubman
Dr Elias Aboutanios
Dr Julien Epps
Dr Stephen Redmond
Dr Deep Sen
Wireless & Data networks
Prof. Aruna Seneviratne
Prof. Jinhong Yuan
A/Prof. Robert Malaney
Dr Ashay Dhamdhere
Dr Tim Moors
Dr Vijay Sivaraman
Dr Asghar Tabatabaei Balaei
Dr Wei Zhang
Photonics
Prof. Gang Ding Peng
A/Prof. Francois ladouceur
Dr Iain Skinner
ADJUNCT/VISITING STAFF
Prof. Michael Houle (Signal Processing)
Prof. Boris Malomed (Photonics)
Prof. Kuldip K Paliwal (Signal Processing)
A/Prof. Roksana Boreli (Signal Processing)
A/Prof. Harvey Holmes (Signal Processing)
Dr Shaohua Chen (Photonics)
Dr Stephen Duval (Photonics)
Dr Maged Elkashlan (Wireless & Data Networks)
Dr Kan Gao (Photonics)
Dr Teddy Gunawan (Signal Processing)
Dr Edward Jones (Signal Processing)
Dr Fufei Pang (Photonics)
Dr Mingya Sheng (Photonics)
Trevor Whitbread (Photonics)
A/Prof. Pietro Zannutigh (Signal Processing)
TECHNICAL SUPPORT STAFF
Phil Allen
Tom Millet
Joe Yiu
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The Telecommunications Research Group consists of research and teaching in the areas of Wireless and Network Communications, Signal Processing, and Photonics. Our major research activities are as follows:
Wireless and Network Communications
The major research themes in wireless communications are: Channel coding and iterative receiver techniques; Space-time coding and MIMO techniques; Cooperative and cognitive radio communications; and wireless positioning and vehicular wireless ad hoc networks. Major research themes in the data networks include: Quantum coding for communications; Wireless sensor networks; Security and trust; Greening the internet; and Networking for multimedia communications. Recently, there has been significant cross-pollination between these traditionally distinct research areas. One good example of this is the interaction between channel coding for physical communications and cooperative network coding; another is the interaction between channel coding, information theory and quantum communications.
Some of our ongoing research projects are as follows:
Multiuser MIMO Communications (Prof. Jinhong Yuan)
Recent research shows that with multiple antennas placed at both the transmitter and receivers, referred to as multiple-input/multiple-output (MIMO) systems, wireless communication is able to increase the data rate significantly. This is a breakthrough in communications system design, since the multipath reflection in wireless channel, traditionally a pitfall of wireless communications, can be turned into a benefit, in increasing the wireless link capacity. Research is being conducted into novel transmission and multiple access signalling techniques with the aim of dramatically improving the reliability, throughput, and power efficiency of wireless downlink packet data services. This work is called the multiple-input/multiple-output (MIMO) spatial division multiple access (SDMA) technique and it will enable a breakthrough in multi-user multimedia services in the ICT industry sector. Potential applications of the project outcomes are in future 4G cellular mobile networks.
Cooperative Wireless Communications and Network Coding (Prof. Jinhong Yuan, Dr Wei Zhang and A/Prof. Robert Malaney)
The Wireless & Data Communications Research Group is working on developing novel transmission and receiving techniques with the aim of dramatically improving the reliability and throughput of wireless packet data services. In particular, by exploring the space resource of multiple users, we develop cooperative multi-user communication techniques where multiple users or multiple base stations cooperate with each other to transmit their information. This can thoroughly exploit the space resource of multiple-users and user cooperation diversity in wireless networks to largely improve the reliability, and spectrum and power efficiency. With users cooperating with each other, we can significantly reduce the transmission power/energy, making the systems more “green”. Potential applications of the project outcomes are in future wireless systems, such as mobile broadband wireless access (MBWA 802.20 or WiMAX 802.16).
Cognitive radio networks (Prof. Jinhong Yuan and Dr Wei Zhang)
The Wireless & Data Communications Research Group aims to develop novel spectrum agile radio communication techniques which can opportunistically exploit the spectral resource of licensed systems and utilise the amount of unused spectrum in an intelligent way. The School’s current research outcomes in this area include robust cooperative spectrum sensing and whispering radio technique which enable to break the spectrum-availability bottleneck and significantly improve the spectrum utilisation. The ultimate aim of the research is to dramatically improve the network’s spectrum efficiency, power efficiency and reliability, without interfering with other incumbent devices in the same frequency bands.
Space-Time Codes Design with Low-complexity Receiver (Dr Wei Zhang)
“Faster, higher and stronger” are major concerns for designing future broadband wireless communication systems. This project aims to design efficient signal transmission techniques for future generation wireless communications systems, which have the potential of
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achieving both high transmission performance and high data rate while meeting the stringent requirement of low-complexity receiver structures. The outcomes of the research will include the new space-time codes design and cost-effective receiver design. It is expected that the research will enable high speed wireless communications and influence the development of broadband wireless access solutions.
Improving Energy Efficiency of Internet Routers (Dr Vijay Sivaraman)
The ICT sector consumed 156 GigaWatts, or about 8% of the world’s total electrical power consumption, in 2007, of which 14% is attributed to network equipment. The increasing amount of power consumed by Internet routers is becoming a serious concern for router manufacturers and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) alike. It is limiting the switching capacity router manufacturers can pack per unit space, and bloating operational expense for ISPs due to higher electricity bills and cooling costs. In this research project our aim is to develop innovative methods for energy reduction in Internet routers. We are aiming to develop new router architectures that employ more optics, optimise the use of components such as packet storage memories and interface speeds, and integrate emerging standards such as Energy Efficient Ethernet.
Networks for Environment Pollution Monitoring (Dr Vijay Sivaraman)
Exposure to air pollution is known to increase the risk of cardiovascular and respiratory mortality, and exacerbate conditions such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Current systems for air pollution monitoring have very poor spatial resolution, and do not reflect actual exposures experienced by individuals.
In this project, we are building a system based on participatory sensor networks, whereby users with mobile phones contribute pollution data that is then collected centrally in real-time and displayed as a map. Alongside, we are developing tools that allow accurate estimation of personal exposure to air pollutants. Our research will help gain an understanding of urban air pollution distribution, as well as benefit individuals in understanding their personal health risk index.
Body-Area Networks for Healthcare Monitoring (Dr Vijay Sivaraman)
This research develops energy-efficient communication protocols for body-wearable wireless sensor devices to be used in pervasive medical monitoring. Today’s healthcare systems are struggling to cope with the needs of an ageing population exhibiting an earlier onset of chronic conditions that need long-term monitoring. Wearable wireless sensors can relieve this pressure by providing intelligent, non-intrusive, continuous monitoring at dramatically reduced cost, with round-the-clock diagnostic and intervention capability. Our work in this area is developing the highly energy-efficient, light-weight, flexible, and robust communication protocols that are an integral part of such a system.
Reliable Communications for Vehicular Networks (Dr Asghar Tabatabaei Balaei)
In order to reduce traffic accidents, effective solutions are required. Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs), or Vehicular Communication (VC) systems, have potential to provide solutions and are likely to be ubiquitous in the not-too-distant future. In such systems, equipment exists on board the vehicles as well as in road-side infrastructure. DSRC is the method of communication for this network. DSRC is an alternative solution to a GPS-only-based solution, where the
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GPS in the vehicle may have access to an INS. By using DSRC, it can also use positioning information from other nearby cars and road-side infrastructure to enhance its own position accuracy and availability.
Quantum Communications (A/Prof. Robert Malaney)
Quantum Communications is an emerging cross-disciplinary field of growing global significance. Research into advanced quantum protocols is being pursued that will dictate the key operations of emerging quantum networks. Specifically, we are investigating the optimal quantum repeater protocols for a range of network architectures in which quantum information transfer through a multihop environment occurs. We will also determine near-optimal versions of our protocols that will give engineers the ability to trade off quantum complexity with communication throughput. New applications of quantum communications are also being researched that will bring enhanced security and communications advantages not possible in classical networks. Our work will result in new applications and services that will have a major impact on the ongoing global efforts to develop the quantum internet.
Photonics
The major themes in Photonics research are: Photonic fibre devices; Fibre based sensors; Planar photonic components and optical circuitry; and New photonic materials for sensing, display and difficult environments.
Some of our ongoing research projects are as follows:
Structural Health Monitoring of Civil Infrastructures (Prof. Gang-Ding Peng)
This work develops highly multiplexed fibre sensor systems for structural health monitoring and risk assessment of critical transport infrastructures. This work is in collaboration with Sydney University and industry partner RTA.
Fibre Ring Laser Based Intracavity Gas and Chemical Sensors (Prof. Gang-Ding Peng)
Fibre laser based sensor systems have great potential for high sensitivity gas and chemical detection. We develop fibre ring laser based sensor systems in collaboration with Tianjin University, China.
Fibre-based Photoreactor for Photoinduced Processes (Prof. Gang-Ding Peng)
This research looks to address issues faced by solar induced photocatalysis through integrating improved particle and optic systems to increase photon efficiencies and harness a greater portion of solar/visible light. In collaboration with researchers in Chemical Engineering and Industry Chemistry, we develop an optical fibre photoreactor system that would effectively allow for improved utilisation of photons by the semiconductor surface.
Photosensitive Polymer Optical Fibres and Gratings (Prof. Gang-Ding Peng)
Polymer optical fibre Bragg gratings are useful for strain sensor applications for large dynamic range. We develop polymer optical fibres with higher photosensitivity and fabricating POF gratings for various industrial applications.
Porphyrin Technologies for Sensing in the Energy and Mining Industries (Prof. Gang-Ding Peng)
The project works on the next generation of “extreme” gratings and chemical sensors, both passive and active, primarily for applications in sensing within the petroleum and gas industries (but applicable across the mining industry). This is an international collaboration project in partnership with University of Sydney, Institute of Photonic High Technology, Germany and the Federal University of Technology, Brazil.
Diamond-based photonics (A/Prof. Francois ladouceur)
A/Prof. ladouceur directed the research effort at UNSW that led to the first scalable all-diamond integrated circuits using a combination of photolithography, reactive ion etching (RIE) and focused ion beam (FIB) techniques with important application in Quantum Key Distribution and Quantum Computing. This important work has been highlighted in New Scientist: “Diamond ‘wires’ – quantum computing’s best friend”.
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New photonics materials (A/Prof. Francois ladouceur)
A/Prof. ladouceur’s research effort is centred on the development of new photonics materials for display, biomedical and telecom applications. Of particular interest is the development of hydrogel-based electronics ink for conformal (flexible) displays, chiral (co)polymers for polarisation control and manipulation of polarisation in optical fibres, self-assembly of polymer for photoreceptors (pixels) definition in artificial retina and semiconducting polymers for artificial skin (tactile sensors).
Signal Processing
The major research themes in signal processing are: Image and video compression; Estimation and modeling of motion, depth and other multimedia features; Efficient and flexible multimedia communication; Paralinguistic speech processing to recover emotion, language and speaker information; Cochlear speech processing; Sound field acquisition, compression and synthesis; Radar signal processing; and Signal processing for biological, biomedical and health monitoring applications.
Some of our ongoing research projects are as follows:
Image and Video Compression (Prof. David Taubman)
The School has been conducting world-leading research in the area of compression of digital media. One focus of this work is scalable compression technologies, which generated embedded bit-streams whose subsets can simultaneously target numerous resolutions, bit-rates and regions of interest. Another focus is efficient representation and estimation of structural information, including motion, depth and geometric structure. Work in this area has contributed and is continuing to contribute to several major international image and video compression standards.
Multimedia Communication (Prof. David Taubman)
The School has also been very active in the development of efficient methods for image and video communication over networks. One focus of this work is the development of highly efficient and computationally tractable hybrid-ARQ protection strategies for scalably compressed multi-media over lossy packet networks. A second focus has been the development of algorithms and standards to facilitate efficient and flexible access to remotely located image and video. Major outputs from our work include the core
paradigm that underlies the JPIP standard (IS15444-9), a family of hybrid-ARQ protection algorithms collectively known as lR-PET (limited Retransmission Priority Encoding Transmission), and commercial deployment of some of these research outcomes through the Kakadu software toolkit.
Biologically Inspired Signal Processing (Dr Elias Aboutanios)
A collaboration between UNSW and a team from the Institute for Digital Communications at the University of Edinburgh (UoE) under the Biologically Inspired Signal Processing (BIAS), aims to develop novel algorithms for the study of non-stationary signals in general and bat echolocation calls in particular. Many of the engineering (and more specifically signal processing problems) we face have been addressed in nature, sometimes with astonishing degrees of specialisation and success. It is hoped that an improved understanding of natural systems would inspire novel technologies.
Signal Processing for Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (Dr Elias Aboutanios)
This project is a collaborative effort with a group from the department of Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge and more recently with the Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, and has the goal of investigating novel approaches for the processing of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy data in order to enhance the detection and study of biologically active compounds such as metabolites and heparin. This can lead to the unmasking of low concentration metabolites in a biological sample thereby contributing to the study of disease, toxicity, gene expression as well as drug development.
Paralinguistic Speech Processing (Dr Julien Epps and Prof. Eliathamby Ambikairajah)
Processing and recognition of the linguistic content of speech has been a major focus for speech processing research for some decades, however more recently attention is shifting towards non-linguistic speech information, such as speaker identity, emotion and cognitive load. The research effort within the school aims to characterise this information, towards improving recognition accuracies in a range of applications. Collaborators include the Institute for Infocomms Research (Singapore), the Australian National University, and National ICT Australia.
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Genomic signal processing (Dr Julien Epps)
This project concentrates on developing new period estimation techniques and significance measures for characterising structure within symbolic sequences such as DNA, in particular the nucleosome, whose function in evolutionary dynamics is a current area of major research interest in biology. Jointly with the John Curtin School of Medical Research at ANU, the new approaches are being evaluated on whole-genome data.
Language Identification and Dialect Identification (Prof. Eliathamby Ambikairajah)
Around the world, the identification of languages and their dialects is a pressing problem for government agencies who need to support cross-cultural services in order to satisfy their universal access obligations to the community. A language identification system dealing with more than two or three languages requires a front-end that will route the speech to the correct interpreter. This research analyses the acoustic and phonetic content of the wideband (0-7 kHz) speech signal to determine what language is being spoken. Many of the approaches to spoken language identification draw upon techniques used in current speaker-independent speech recognition systems.
Automatic Speaker Recognition and Forensic Applications (Dr Julien Epps and Prof. Eliathamby Ambikairajah)
The automatic determination of a person’s identity from their speech signal has a range of applications in authentication, security, defence and forensics. In 2009, the research group focused on the development of new frequency modulation (FM) features, which have shown great promise for characterising the speech signal in speaker recognition applications. In particular, the group has shown FM features can perform comparably to the mel frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCCs), which have been the uncontested standard front-end for speaker recognition systems, and that MFCC and FM subsystems can be fused to provide substantial gains in recognition accuracy, when evaluated on contemporary standard databases. This work is conducted in collaboration with the Institute for Infocomm Research (Singapore) and the Australian National University.
Signal processing methods for triaxial Accelerometry (Prof. Eliathamby Ambikairajah)
In this project, models and analysis methods are developed for automatically determining the type of terrain and gradient being traversed by a subject wearing a triaxial accelerometer. This information is critical to the accurate determination of the energy expenditure of the subject, which in turn has important applications in biomedical engineering and clinical medicine.
Forensic Voice Comparison Laboratory http://forensic.unsw.edu.au/ (Dr Julien Epps, Dr Geoffrey Stewart Morrison and Prof. Eliathamby Ambikairajah)
The FVC lab was established in September 2010. We conduct research in forensic voice comparison within the new paradigm for the evaluation of forensic evidence: Use of the likelihood-ratio framework (the same framework as is standard for the evaluation of DNA evidence); strength-of-evidence calculation based on objective acoustic measurements and statistical modelling; and empirical testing of the validity and reliability under conditions reflecting those of the case at trial. During 2010 we worked on procedures for measuring the reliability of forensic-comparison systems. We also worked on a project on incorporating forensic analysis techniques as part of an automatic speaker recognition system. The latter is a collaborative project led by IBM’s T J Watson Research Center.
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AWARDs AnD ReCoGnItIon
Faculty of Engineering Postdoctoral Writing Fellowship Grants
Muhammad Khalid completed his PhD under the supervision of Prof. Andrey Savkin on “Forecasting and control for wind power systems”. During his thesis, Muhammad published 2 Journal papers, 3 Book Chapters and 7 Conference
papers and he used the fellowship to complete and submit 3 journal papers as well as to apply for funding through Endeavour Research Fellowships and the ARC
Arun Vishwanath completed his PhD under the supervision of Dr Vijay Sivaraman on “Routers and Networks with Near-Zero Buffers”. As a result of his PhD studies Arun published 5 Journal papers and 7 Conference
papers and a Book chapter. He used his fellowship tenure to submit another 4 papers associated with his research. Arun also intends to apply for an ARC Discovery grant to fund an APD to support his continued research.
King Yuk (Eric) Chan completed his PhD under the supervision of Rodica Ramer on “RF MEMS for RF and Microwave Wireless Communication Systems”. During his thesis, Eric published three Journal papers and
seven Conference papers. He used the fellowship to propose collaboration with the Microwave Systems research group in CSIRO. Eric also worked on two journal papers which he submitted as part of the fellowship grant.
Wee Han Lim completed his PhD under the supervision of Andrew Dzurak on “Silicon-based quantum dots & microdosimeters”. As a result of his PhD studies Wee Han published six Journal papers and four Conference
papers. He used his fellowship tenure to submit another three papers associated with his research. Wee Han also intends to apply for an ARC Discovery grant to fund an APD to support his continued research
NSI Inventor of the Year Award 2010
Chee Yee Kwok, Aron Michael and YiWei Xu, all from the School of Electrical Engineering & Telecommunications, won the Best New Invention (Staff) Award in the NSi Inventor of the Year awards, for their work on optical interconnects for 3D silicon photonic optical chips using photopolymer waveguides. The NSi Inventor of the Year awards rewards innovative technologies of UNSW researchers and students that benefit the community and the environment - this is the second year of the awards.
Wei ZhangAwarded grant by Australian Academy of Science in 2010 to undertake international collaborative research in North America under the International Science linkages – Science Academies Program. Wei’s
project was entitled “Coding for Wireless Systems with low-Complexity Receiver”. He was hosted by Prof. Xiang-Gen Xia at the University of Delaware.
Elias AboutaniosDr Elias Aboutanios won the Best Oral Presentation Award with his paper entitled “Instantaneous Frequency Based Spectral Analysis of Nuclear Magnetic Spectroscopy Data” in the 3rd
International Congress on Image and Signal Processing (CISP’10), in Shanghai, China, 16-18 October 2010.
aron michael receives his award from paul levins, president of intellectual Ventures, australia and new Zealand
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ReseARCH PUBLICAtIons
Publications listed below are those included in the University’s verified annual Higher Education Research Data Collection (HERDC) Report. The School of EE&T consistently produces a very high number of publications per staff member. In 2010 the School was responsible for 24% of the total Faculty of Engineering HERDC publications.
Book Chapters
Chan, ll, Celler, BG, Zhang, JZ & lovell, NH, ‘Pervasive networks and ubiquitous monitoring for wellness monitoring in residential aged care’, Antonio Coronato (CNR, Italy); Giuseppe De Pietro (CNR, Italy) (eds), Pervasive and Smart Technologies for Healthcare: Ubiquitous Methodologies and Tools, pp 1-24
Khalid & Savkin, AV, ‘Direction dependent power curves for wind power prediction: a case study’, Prof. Robert J Howlett, Prof. lakhmi C Jain & Dr. Shaun H lee (eds), Sustainability in Energy and Buildings, Springer, Berlin
Khalid & Savkin, AV, ‘Model predictive control of wind energy storage system for frequency regulation’, Prof. Robert J Howlett, Prof. lakhmi C Jain & Dr. Shaun H lee (eds), Sustainability in Energy and Buildings, Springer, Berlin
lovell, NH, & Redmond, SJ, ‘Biosignal processing to meet the emerging needs of telehealth monitoring environments’, Subhas Chandra Mukhopadhyay, Aimé lay-Ekuakille (eds), Advances in biomedical sensing, measurements, instrumentation and systems, Springer, Berlin, pp 263-280
lovell, NH, Redmond, SJ, Basilakis, J, Mohktar, MS, Sukor, JA & Celler, BG, ‘The application of decision support systems in home telecare’, American Scientific Publishers, USA, pp 266-277
Redmond, S, Birznieks, I, lovell, NH & Goodwin, AW, ‘Classifying Torque, Normal Force and Direction Using Monkey Afferent Nerve Spike Rates’, AM Kappers, JBF van Erp, W M B Tiest, FCT van der Helm (eds), Haptics Generating and Perceiving Tangible Sensations Part 1, Springer, Heidelberg, pp 43-50
Redmond, SJ, Ee, YI, Basilakis, J, Celler, BG & lovell, NH, ‘ECG recording and rhythm analysis for distributed healthcare environments’, American Scientific Publishers, USA, pp 4-21
van schaik, A, Hamilton, T.J., & Jin, C, ‘Silicon models of the auditory pathway’, R. Meddis, E A. lopez-Poveda, R R Fay, A N Popper (eds), Computational models of the auditory system, Springer, New York
Wong, AC, Childs, PA & Peng, G, ‘Spectrally coded multiplexing techniques in fibre-optic sensor systems’, John Canning (eds), Trends in Photonics, Transworld Research Network, India, pp 233-276
Journal Articles
Aboutanios, E & Mulgrew, B, ‘Hybrid Detection Approach for STAP in Heterogeneous Clutter’, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, vol 46, no 3, pp 1021-1033
Aboutanios, E, ‘Estimation of the Frequency and Decay Factor of a Decaying Exponential in Noise’, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol 58, no 2, pp 501-509
Alomari, AH, Ayre, PJ, Savkin, AV, lim, EW & lovell, NH, ‘Sensorless estimation of inlet pressure in implantable rotary blood pump for heart failure patients’, Electronics letters, vol 46, no 7, pp 481-482
Al-Hafiz, MA, Michael, AW , Puzzer, T, & Kwok, CY, ‘Fabrication and Optical characterisation of planar silica lens pair’, Electronics letters, vol 46, no 21, pp 1459-1460
Al-Takrouri, SO & Savkin, AV, ‘A model validation approach to texture recognition and impainting’, Pattern Recognition, vol 43, no 6, pp 2054-2067
Ambikairajah, E, Epps, JR & Gunawan, TS, ‘Perceptual Speech Enhancement Exploiting Temporal Masking Properties of Human Auditory System’, Speech Communication, vol 52, no 5, pp 381-393
Ambikairajah, E, Yin, B & Chen, F, ‘language-dependent contribution measuring and weighting for combining likelihood scores in language identification systems’, Journal of Signal Processing Systems, vol 59, no 2, pp 201-210
Argyros, A, Straton, M, Docherty, A, Ge, Z, Wong, KH, ladouceur, F, Poladian, l & Min, EH, ‘Consideration of chiral optical fibres’, Frontiers of Optoelectronics in China, vol 3, no 1, pp 67-70
Azmi, leung, IK, Childs, PA & Peng, G, ‘Composite cavity fiber laser for sensor applications’, Sensors & Transducers Journal, vol 116, no 5, pp 1-12
Azmi, Sen, D & Peng, G, ‘Sensitivity enhancement in composite cavity fiber laser hydrophone’, Journal of lightwave Technology, vol 28, no 12, pp 1844-1850
Basilakis, J, lovell, NH, Celler, BG & Redmond, SJ, ‘Design of a Decision Support Architecture for Management of Remotely Monitored Patients’, IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine, vol 14, no 5, pp 1216-1226
Bianchi, F, Redmond, SJ, Narayanan, MR, Cerutti, S & lovell, NH, ‘Barometric pressure and triaxial accelerometry-based falls event detection’, IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, vol 18, no 6, pp 619-627
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Bishop, A, Pathirana, PN & Savkin, AV, ‘Vision-Based Target Tracking and surveillance with Robust-Set-Valued State Estimation’, IEEE Signal Processing letters, vol 17, no 3, pp 289-292
Canagasabey, A, Ibsen, M, Corbari, C, Gladyshev, A V, Dianov, E M & Gallo, K, ‘Aperiodically poled silica fibers for bandwidth control of quasi-phase-matched second-harmonic generation’, Optics letters, vol 35, no 5, pp 724-724
Chan, G, Tang, C, Middleton, PM, Cave, G, Harvey, M, Savkin, AV & lovell, NH, ‘Augmented photoplethysmographic low frequency waves at the onset of endotoxic shock in rabbits’, Physiological Measurement, vol 31, no 12, pp 1605-1621
Chen, X, Zhang, C, Webb, D, Kalli, K & Peng, G, ‘Highly sensitive bend sensor based on Bragg grating in eccentric core polymer fiber’, IEEE Photonics Technology letters, vol 22, no 11, pp 850-852
Chen, X, Zhang, C, Webb, D, Peng, G & Kalli, K, ‘Bragg grating in polymer optical fibre for strain, bend and temperature sensing’, Measurement Science and Technology, vol 21, no 9
Cheng, TM, Savkin, AV & Malyavej, V, ‘Decentralized robust set-valued state estimation in networked multiple sensor systems’, Computers and Mathematics With Applications, vol 59, no 8, pp 2636-2646
Childs, PA, Wong, AC, Yan, B, li, M & Peng, G, ‘A review of spectrally coded multiplexing techniques for fibre grating sensor systems’, Measurement Science and Technology, vol 21
Childs, PA, Yu, X, Wong, AC, (liao, Y B) & Peng, G, ‘Fourier and Wavelet Analysis for Optical Fibre Sensor Networks: A Review’, International Journal of Microwave and Optical Technology, vol 5, no 6, pp 654-662
Chong, Gl, Dutta, R & Rahman, MF, ‘Electromagnetic losses in a 1kW Concentric Wound IPM Machine for Field Weakening Applications’, Journal of Applied Superconductivity and Electromagnetics (JASEM), vol 1, no 1, pp 95-100
Chua, C-P, Redmond, SJ, Mcdarby, G & Heneghan, C, ‘Towards Using Photo-Plethysmogram Amplitude to Measure Blood Pressure during Sleep’, Annals of Biomedical Engineering, vol 38, no 3, pp 945-954
Chung, lJ, Sen, D & Epps, JR, ‘Interband mutual information in blind audio bandwidth extension’, AES : Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, vol 58, no 11, pp 952-965
Cutler, N & Outhred, HR & MacGill, IF, ‘Utilising Multiple Grid Points in Numerical Weather Rediction System Forecasts to Characterise Potential large Rapid Changes in Wind Power Generation’, Modern Energy Review, vol 2, no 22, pp 44-47
Denny, F, Scott, JA, Pareek, VK, Peng, G & Amal, R, ‘Computational fluid dynamics modelling and optimal configuring of a channeled optical fibre photoreactor’, Chemical Engineering Science, vol 65, pp 5029-5040
Denny, F, Scott, JA, Peng, G & Amal, R, ‘Channelled Optical Fiber Photoreactor for improved air quality control’, Chemical Engineering Science, vol 65, pp 882-889
Eaton, RP, Katupitiya, J, Siew, KW & Howarth, B, ‘Autonomous farming: modelling and control of agricultural machinery in a unified framework.’, International Journal of Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications, vol 8, no 1 - 4, pp 444-457
Escott, CC, Zwanenburg, FA & Morello, A, ‘Resonant tunnelling features in quantum dots’, Nanotechnology, vol 21, no 27, pp 274018-
Fuechsle, MM, Mahapatra, S, Zwanenburg, FA, Friesen, M, Eriksson, M, Simmons, MY & Simmons, MY, ‘Spectroscopy of few-electron single-crystal silicon quantum dots’, Nature Nanotechnology, vol 5, no 7, pp 502-505
Gunawan, TS, Ambikairajah, E & Khalifa, O, ‘Forward masking threshold estimation using neural networks and its application to parallel speech enhancement’, IIUM Engineering Journal, vol 11, no 1, pp 15-26
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Narayanan, MR, Redmond, SJ, Scalzi, M, lord, SR, Celler, BG & lovell, NH, ‘longitudinal Falls Risk Estimation using Triaxial Accelerometry’, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol 57, no 3, pp 534-541
Neilson, PD & Neilson, MD, ‘On theory of motor synergies’, Human Movement Science, vol 29, pp 655-683
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Pathirana, PN, Bishop, AN, Ekanayake, SW, Black, TJ & Savkin, AV, ‘A method for stereovision-based tracking for robotic applications’, Robotica, vol 28, no 4, pp 517-524
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Peters, GW, Nevat, I & Yuan, J, ‘Detection of Gaussian constellations in MIMO systems under imperfect CSI’, IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol 58, no 4, pp 1151-1160
Peters, GW, Nevat, I, Sisson, SA, Fan, Y & Yuan, J, ‘Bayesian Symbol Detection in Wireless Relay Networks via likelihood-Free Interference’, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol 58, no 10, pp 5206-5218
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Rahman, MF & Chong, Gl, ‘Saliency ratio derivation and optimisation for an interior permanent magnet machine with concentrated windings using finite-element analysis’, IET Electric Power Applications, vol 4, no 4, pp 249-258
Rahman, MF & Foo, GH, ‘Direct Torque Control of an IPM Synchronous Motor Drive at Very low Speed Using a Sliding Mode Stator Flux Observer’, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, vol 25, no 4, pp 933-942
Rahman, MF & Foo, GH, ‘Sensorless Direct Torque and Flux Controlled IPM Synchronous Motor Drive at a Very low Speed Without Signal Injection’, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol 57, no 1, pp 395-403
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Rahman, MF, Foo, GH & Sayeef, SM, ‘Rotor Position and Speed Estimation of a Variable Structure Direct-Torque-Controlled IPM Synchronous Motor Drive at Very low Speeds Including Standstill’, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol 57, no 11, pp 3715-3723
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S.J. Shao and V.G. Agelidis, “Review of DC system technologies for large scale integration of wind energy systems with electricity grids”, invited contribution to the open journal: Energies, 2010, 3(6), 1303-1319.
S.R. Ekanayake, T. lehmann, A.S. Dzurak, R.G. Clark and A. Brawley, ‘Characterization of SOS-CMOS FETs at low Temperatures for the Design of Integrated Circuits for Quantum Bit Control and Readout’, IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, vol 57, no 2, pp 539-547
Salay Naderi, Mohammad, M. Khakbazan-fard, H. HAERI, M. PASSAR & P. NARIMISSA, ‘Generation Expansion Planning for Iran Power Grid’, IRANIAN JOURNAl OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOlOGY TRANSACTION B-ENGINEERING, vol 34, no B3, pp 325-333
Salay Naderi, Mohammad, ‘Short Circuit Current level Control and Its Effects on Circuit Breakers Transient Studies’, Journal of Electrical Engineering: Theory and Applications, vol 1, no 1, pp 4-17
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Savkin, AV & Teimoori, H, ‘Bearings-Only Guidance of a Unicycle-like Vehicle Following a Moving Target with a Smaller Minimum Turning Radius’, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol 55, no 10, pp 2390-2395
Savkin, AV & Teimoori, H, ‘Decentralized navigation of groups of wheeled mobile robots with limited communication’, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol 26, no 6, pp 1099-1104
Savkovic, B, ‘Decorrelating Properties of Chromatic Derivative Signal Representations’, IEEE Signal Processing letters, vol 17, no 8, pp 770-773
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Taubman, DS & Bradshaw, AP, ‘A Mathematical Model of Human Semicircular Canal Geometry: A New Basis for Interpreting Vestibular Physiology’, JARO - Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, vol 11, no 2, pp 145-159
Taubman, DS & Humphrey, DE, ‘A filtering approach to edge preserving MAP estimation of images’, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, no 99
Taubman, DS & Mathew, RK, ‘Quad-Tree Motion Modelling with leaf Merging’, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol 20, no 10, pp 1331-1345
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Teimoori, H & Savkin, AV, ‘A biologically inspired method for robot navigation in a cluttered environment’, Robotica, vol 28, no 5
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Wong, KH, Stenzel, M, S. Duvall & ladouceur, F, ‘Exploitable Flexible Honeycomb Structured Porous Films from Sol-Gel Cross-linkable Silicone Based Random Branched Copolymers’, Chemistry of Materials, vol 22, pp 1878-1891
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Conference Papers
Abedinia, O, Naderi, MS, Jalili, A & Khamenehpour, B, ‘Optimal tuning of multi-machine power system stabilizer parameters using genetic-algorithm’, 2010 International Conference on Power System Technology: Technological Innovations Making Power Grid Smarter, POWERCON2010, Hangzhou, China, 24-28 October IEEE, USA
Aboutanios, E, ‘Generalised DFT-Based Estimators of the Frequency of a Complex Exponential in Noise’, Proceedings of the 3rd International Congress on Image and Signal Processing (CISP 2010), Yantai, China., 16 - 18 October 2010
Aboutanios, E, Kopsinis, Y & Rubtsov, D, ‘Instantaneous Frequency based Spectral Analysis of Nuclear Magnetic Spectroscopy Data’, Proceedings of the 3rd International Congress on Image and Signal Processing (CISP 2010), Yantai, China., 16 - 18 October 2010
Alam, N., Balaei, AT & Dempster, AG, ‘Positioning enhancement with double differencing and DSRC’, Procs 23rd Int. Tech. Meeting of the Satellite Division of the U.S. Inst. of Navigation, Portland, Oregon, USA, 21-24 September U.S. Institute of Navigation, Arlington, VA, USA
Ali, ST, Sivaraman, V & Osprey, D, ‘Secret key generation rate vs. reconciliation cost using wireless channel characteristics in body area networks’, Proceedings - IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing, EUC Hong Kong, 11-13 December IEEE
Alomari, AH, Savkin, AV, A, PJ, lim, E & lovell, NH, ‘Modelling and control of an implantable rotary blood pump for heart failure patients’, American Control Conference, ACC, Baltimore, MD, USA, June 30- July 02, 2010
Alomari, AH, Savkin, AV, A, PJ, lim, E, Salamonsen, RF, Rosenfeldt, Fl, lovell, NH & Zhang, ‘In Vivo Validation of Pulsatile Flow and Differential Pressure Estimation Models in a left Ventricular Assist Device’, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Conference Proceedings, Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 31 - September 4,IEEE Society, USA
Al-Rabayah, M & Malaney, RA, ‘A high capacity scalable routing protocol for VoIP in wireless ad hoc networks’, Proceedings of the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 18-21 April Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.
Al-Rabayah, M & Malaney, RA, ‘A new hybrid location-based ad hoc routing protocol’, GlOBECOM - IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, Miami, Fl, USA, 6-10 December 2010
Ambikairajah, E, Ibrahim, RK & Sethu, V, ‘Novel delta zero crossing regression features for gait pattern classification’, Buenos Aires, 31 August - 4 September IEEE
Ambikairajah, R, Phung, BT, Ravishankar, J & Blackburn, TR, ‘A Comparison of Noise Reduction Techniques for Online Monitoring of Partial Discharge in High Voltage Power Cables’, International Conference on Condition Monitoring and Diagnosis (CMD2010), 6-11 September, 2010, Tokyo, Japan
Ambikairajah, R, Phung, BT, Ravishankar, J, Blackburn, TR & liu, Z, ‘Smart Sensors and Online Condition Monitoring of High Voltage Cables for the Smart Grid’, IEEE 14th International Middle East Power Systems Conference (MEPCON’10), 19-21 December, 2010, Cairo, Egypt
Aravind Surapura, C, li, J, Malaney, RA & Yuan, J, ‘The optimal performance of cooperative communication systems as a function of location information quality’, 2010 IEEE Globecom Workshops, GC`10, Miami, Fl, USA, 5-10 December IEEE, USA
Ariastina, W, Phung, BT & Blackburn, TR, ‘Partial Discharge Properties in Biodegradable Oil Impregnated Insulation’, International Conference on Condition Monitoring and Diagnosis (CMD2010), 6-11 September, 2010, Tokyo, Japan, Paper P2-64.
B, Youmna, Ardon, SG, Mahanti, A & Carlsson, N, ‘Toward Efficient On-Demand Streaming with BitTorrent’, lecture Notes in Computer Science, Chennai, 11 - 15 May Springer Verlag, New York
Balaei, AT & Aboutanios, E, ‘Characterization of Interference effects in Multiple Antenna GNSS Receivers’, Proceedings of the 3rd International Congress on Image and Signal Processing (CISP 2010), Yantai, China., 16 - 18 October 2010
Banciu, MG, Ioachim, A, Militaru, N, lojewski, G & Ramer, R, ‘Structures exhibiting left-handed properties in microwave range’, 2010 33rd International Semiconductor Conference, CAS 2010 - Proceedings, Sinaia, Romania, 11-13 October, 2010
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Boerema, N, Kay, MJ & MacGill, IF, ‘Renewable energy integration into the Australian National Electricity Market: Characterising the energy value of wind and solar generation’, Solar Canberra, Australia, 1-3 December Australian Solar Energy Society
Brodzeli, Z, Bal, HK, Sidiroglou, F & Collins, S F, ‘Transverse strain sensor based on etched phase-shifted fiber Bragg gratings’, Far East and Pacific Rim Symposium on Smart Materials, Structures and MEMS, Porto, 8-10 September SPIE
Bushell, Drew & Skinner, IM, ‘One Key to the Future: Engaging with Globally Recognised Ethical Norms’, Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference for the Australasian Association for Engineering Education, Sydney, Australia, 5-8 December The Faculty of Engineering & Information Technology, University of Technology, Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Canagasabey, A, Cook, K, liu, Y, Aslund, M, Ghias, A, Peng, G & Canning, J, ‘Thermal distribution across an N2 curtain along an MCVD preform during thermal processing with a H2/O2 burner using a regenerated FBG array’, Karlsruhe, Germany, 21-24 June The Optical Society, USA
Canagasabey, A, Corbari, C, Ibsen, M & Kazansky, PG, ‘Second Harmonic Generation in Periodically Poles Silica Fibres’, Sydney, Australia, 4-5 March Technical Digest
Canagasabey, A, Corbari, C, Ibsen, M, Kazansky, PG, Zhu, EY, Qian, l, Helt, l G, liscidini, M & Sipe, J E, ‘Tailoring Second-Harmonic Generation in Birefringent Poled Fiber via Twist’, 16-21 May IEEE, USA
Chai, Q, li, X, Zhang, J, Hao, QQ, Q, li, P, lu, Sun, W, Yuan, l & Peng, G, ‘The ultra-weak feedback effect of DBR fiber laser and its sensing applications’, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, Volume Beijing, China, 18-20 October IEEE
Chen, Q, Chou, CT, Kanhere, SS, Zhang, W & Jha, SK, ‘Performance of Multi-Hop Whisper Cognitive Radio Networks’, Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on New Frontiers in Dynamic Spectrum Access, Singapore, 6-9 April IEEE
Chen, S & Peng, G, ‘A smart seismic geophone based on distributed feedback fiber lasers’, 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems. ISCAS Sydney, Australia, 4-5 March IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, USA
Chen, T, Boreli, R & Sivaraman, V, ‘TARo: Trusted Anonymous Routing for MANETs’, Proceedings - IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous Computing, EUC Hong Kong, 11-13 December IEEE
Chen, X, Zhang, C, Van hoe, B, Webb, D, Kalli, K, Van Steenverge, B & Peng, G, ‘Photonic Skin for Pressure & Strain Sensing’, Brussels, Belgium, 12 April SPIE, USA
Chen, X, Zhang, C, Van hoe, B, Webb, D, Van Steenberge, G, Kalli, K, Berghmans, F, Thienpont, H, Urbanczyk, W, Sugden, K & Peng, G, ‘Polymer Photonic Sensing Skin’, Brussels, Belgium, 12 April SPIE, USA
Cheng, TM & Savkin, AV, ‘Decentralized control of mobile sensor networks for asymptotically optimal self-deployment in blanket coverage’, Baltimore, USA, June 30 - July 02,IEEE
Cheng, TM & Savkin, AV, ‘Distributed Control of Mobile Robotic Sensor Networks for Multilevel Barrier Coverage’, Singapore, 7-10 December IEEE
Chong, Gl, Dutta, R & Rahman, MF, ‘A Comparative Study of Rotor losses in an IPM with Single and Double layer Concentrated Windings’, Proceedings of International Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems (ICEMS), Korea, October IEEE, Korea
Chong, Gl, Dutta, R & Rahman, MF, ‘Design of a Highly Efficient 1kW IPM Machine with a Very Wide Constant Power Speed Range’, Proceedings of International Power Electronics Conference -ECCE-Asia (IPEC),, Japan, 21-24 June, IEEE, Japan
Chong, Gl, Dutta, R & Rahman, MF, ‘Field Weakening Performance of a Concentrated Wound PM Machine with Rotor and Magnet Geometry Variation’, Proceedings of general meeting of Power and Energy Society (PES),, Minneapolis, MN, 25-29 July IEEE, Minneapolis, USA
Chong, Gl, Dutta, R, Rahman, MF, Nguyen, Q D & lovatt, H, ‘Comparison of Concentrated and Distributed Windings in an IPM Machine for Field Weakening Applications’, 2010 20th Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference (AUPEC 2010), Christchurch, New Zealand, 5-8 December, IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, USA
Chun, H & lehmann, T, ‘A Power Efficient Programmable Gain Boosting Current Mirror for Biomedical Electronics’, Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, Paphos, Cyprus, 3-5 Nov. IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, USA
Chun, H & lehmann, T, ‘CMOS Current Reference Generator Using Integrated Resistors’, 2010 International Conference on Electronics and Information Engineering, Kyoto, Japan, 1-3 Aug. IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, USA
Chun, H, lehmann, T & Yang, Y, ‘Implantable Stimulator for Bipolar Stimulation Without Charge Balancing Circuits’, Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, Paphos, Cyprus, 3-5 Nov. IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, USA
Corkish, RP, Bremner, S, Bruce, A, Duo, H, Hawkes, E, Kay, MJ, lennon, AJ, Sproul, AB, Spooner, ED, Shrestha, SK, Stapleton, G, Uddin, A, Watt, ME & Wentworth, D, ‘Renewable Energy Education at UNSW’, Canberra, 1 - 3 December AuSES (Australian Solar Energy Society), Canberra
Cutler, N, Outhred, HR & MacGill, IF, ‘Forecasting scenarios of wind power generation for the next 48 hours to assist decision-making in the Australian National Electricity Market’, Solar2010 48th AuSES Annual Conference, Canberra, 1-3 Dec AuSES
D. D. C. lu, G.M. l. Chu and V.G. Agelidis, “A high step-up, non-isolated DC-DC converter with reduced repeated power processing”, in Conf. Rec. of IEEE-ECCE 2010, Sapporo, Japan, June 2010, pp. 2897-2904.
Das, K & lehmann, T, ‘SOS current mirror matching at 4K: A brief study’, 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems. ISCAS Paris, France, 30 May-2 June IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, USA
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Das, K, lehmann, T & Rahman, MT, ‘4.2K CMOS Circuit Design For Digital Readout Of Single Electron Transistor Electrometry’, 2010 53rd IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Seattle, WA, USA, 1-4 Aug. IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, USA
Elliston, B, MacGill, IF & Diesendorf, MO, ‘Grid parity: a potentially misleading concept?’, Solar Canberra, ACT, 1-3 December Australian Solar Energy Society
Fletcher, J & Hassanain, N, ‘Comparison of DC capacitor requirements for 3- and 5-phase permanent magnet generators feeding diode rectifiers’, 2010 20th Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference (AUPEC 2010), Christchurch, NZ, 5-8 Dec IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, USA
Fletcher, J, Yang, J & O-Reilly, J, ‘An Overview on DC Cable Modeling for Fault Analysis of VSC-HVDC Transmission Systems’, 2010 20th Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference (AUPEC 2010), Christchurch, NZ, 5-8 Dec IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, USA
Fletcher, J, Zhang, H, Finney, S, Massoud, A, Yang, J & Williams, B, ‘Dc-link Capacitor Voltage VBalancing for a Five-level Diode-clamped Active Power Filter Using Redundant Vectors’, 2010 20th Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference (AUPEC 2010), Christchurch, NZ, 5-8 Dec IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, USA
G. Konstantinou and V.G. Agelidis, “A novel bidirectional rectifier-three-level flying capacitor inverter topology without DC-link passive components”, in Conf. Rec. of 2010 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), Atlanta, Georgia, USA, September 12-16, 2010, pp. 2578-2583.
G. Konstantinou, S.R. Pulikanti and V.G. Agelidis, “Harmonic elimination control of a five-level DC-AC cascaded H-bridge hybrid inverter”, in Conf. Rec. of IEEE PEDG 2010, China, pp. 352-357.
G.S. Konstantinou and V.G. Agelidis, “Bipolar switching waveform: novel solution sets to the selective harmonic elimination problem”, in Conf. Rec. of IEEE ICIT 2010, Valparaiso, Chile, pp. 696-701.
George, l, lehmann, T & Hamilton, TJ, ‘Reusable Power Supply ICs for E-Waste Reduction in Mobile Consumer Electronics’, Singapore, October GSTF
Grantham, C & Mckinnon, DJ, ‘Single-pass induction motor parameter identification method taking into account saturation and rotor parameter variations’, 2010 International Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems (ICEMS), Incheon, South Korea, 10-13 Oct .IEEE, USA
Grantham, C, ‘Electrical machines and drives for potentially explosive atmospheres’, 2010 International Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems, ICEMS2010, Incheon, Korea, 10-13 October 2010
H. Dalvand and V.G. Agelidis, “Application of a variable inductor in single-phase hybrid harmonic filters in Conf. Rec. of 14th International Conference on Harmonics and Quality of Power 2010 (ICHQP), pp. 1-6.
H. Dalvand and V.G. Agelidis, “Real-time measurement of power quantities in fully distorted systems”, in Conf. Rec. of 14th International Conference on Harmonics and Quality of Power 2010 (ICHQP), pp. 1-6.
H. Dalvand and V.G. Agelidis, “Real-time measurement of power quantities under sinusoidal and non-sinusoidal conditions for single-phase systems”, in Conf. Rec. of 2010 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE) Atlanta, Georgia, USA, September 12-16, 2010, pp. 428-433.
Hamilton, T, Tapson, J, Jin, C & Van schaik, A, ‘Investigation the implications of outer hair cell connectivity using a silicon cochlea’, 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems. ISCAS Paris, France, May 30-June 2,IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, USA
Hamilton, T.J, & van schaik, A, ‘The self-tuned regenerative electromechanical parametric amplifier: a model for active amplification in the cochlea,”,”’, 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems. ISCAS Paris, France, May 30-June 2,IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, USA
Hao, QQ, Chai, Q, li, X l, Zhang, J, Q, li, P, lu & Peng, G, ‘Hydrophone based on the feedback effect of composite cavity optical fiber laser’, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, Volume Beijing, China, 18-20 October 2010
Hesketh, T & Xi, Z, ‘On discrete time terminal sliding mode control for nonlinear systems with uncertainty’, American Control Conference (ACC),Baltimore, MD, June 30 2010-July 2IEEE, Baltimore, MD
Hoang, TD & Apkarian, P, ‘Nonsmooth u synthesis’, Control Automation Robotics & Vision (ICARCV), 2010 11th International Conference on, Singapore, 7-10 December IEEE Press
Hoang, TD, Kha, H. H., Nguyen, T & Seneviratne, A, ‘2-D two-fold symmetric circular shaped filter design with homomorphic processing application’, 2010 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP, Dallas, Tx, 14-19 March IEEE, USA
Hoang, TD, Pham, TT & Nguyen, H, ‘Non-Orthogonal amplify-and-Forward Relaying with Partial Channel State Information’, Sydney, Australia, 18-21 April IEEE, USA
Hoang, TD, Phan, AH, Kha, H. H. & Nguyen, HH, ‘Nonsmooth optimization-based beamforming in multiuser wireless relay networks’, Gold Coast, Australia, 13-15 December IEEE, USA
Hoang, TD, Rashid, U., Kha, H. H. & Nguyen, H, ‘Optimized power allocation by semidefinite programming and unscented transformation for nonlinear sensor network’, Gold Coast, Australia, 13-15 December IEEE, USA
Hoy, M, Savkin, AV & Garratt, MA, ‘Navigation of an Unmanned Helicopter in Urban Environments’, Singapore, 7-10 Dec IEEE
Hredzak, B & Diessel, OF, ‘Towards Dilated Placement of Dynamic NoC Cores’, Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings 10281 Dynamically Reconfigurable Architectures, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, July Schloss Dagstuhl - leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik, Germany, Dagstuhl, Germany
Hredzak, B, ‘Improvement of Short-Span Seeking Performance in a Dual-Stage Hard Disk Drive Actuator’, 11th International Conference on Control Automation Robotics and Vision, Singapore, 7-10 Dec IEEE, Singapore
Huynh, VT, Katupitiya, J, Kwok, NM & Eaton, RP, ‘Derivation of an error model for tractor-trailer path tracking’, Proceedings of 2010 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Knowledge Engineering, ISKE Hangzhou, China, 15-16 November IEEE, USA
I. Koprinska, R. Sood, and V.G. Agelidis, “Variable selection for five-minute ahead electricity load forecasting”, in Conf. Rec. of 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2010 pp. 2901-2904.
I. Sadinezhad and V.G. Agelidis, “Slow sampling on-line optimization approach to estimate power system frequency”, in Conf. Rec. of IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting 2010, July 26 - July 29, 2010, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, pp. 1-7.
I. Sadinezhad and V.G. Agelidis, “Undersampled on-line ANN-EKF based estimation of harmonics/interharmonics in power systems”, in Conf. Rec. of IEEE Power Engineering Society General Meeting 2010, July 26 - July 29, 2010, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, pp. 1-8.
I. Sadinezhad and V.G. Agelidis, “A new optimization technique to measure frequency and harmonics in power systems”, in Conf. Rec. of 14th International Conference on Harmonics and Quality of Power 2010 (ICHQP), pp. 1-8.
I. Sadinezhad and V.G. Agelidis, “A new quasi Newton filtering technique for power system frequency estimation and harmonics/interharmonics rejection”, in Conf. Rec. of 14th International Conference on Harmonics and Quality of Power 2010 (ICHQP), pp. 1-6.
Iqbal, AA & Seneviratne, AP, ‘Is comprehension useful for mobile semantic search engines?’, AICI - lecture Notes in Computer Science, Sydney, Australia, 22-25 November ,Springer, Germany
Iqbal, AA, Ott, M. & Seneviratne, AP, ‘Resource selection from distributed semantic web stores’, Proceedings - 2010 4th International Conference on Network and System Security, NSS Article number 5635838, Melbourne, VIC, 1-3 September, 2010
Iqbal, AA, Ott, M. & Seneviratne, AP, ‘Simplistic hashing for building a better bloom filter on randomized data’, Proceedings - 13th International Conference on Network-Based Information Systems, NBiS Article number 5636126, Gifu, 14-16 September, 2010
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Javed, F, Chan, G, Savkin, AV, Middleton, PM, Mackie, J & lovell, NH, ‘Respiration-induced changes in ear photoplethysmography relates to relative blood volume during hemodialysis’, 2010 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 31 August - 4 September IEEE, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Javed, F, Savkin, AV, Chan, G, Mackie, J & lovell, NH, ‘linear parameter varying system based modeling of hemodynamic response to profiled hemodialysis’, 2010 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 31 August - 4 September IEEE, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Javed, F, Savkin, AV, Chan, GS, Middleton, PM, Mackie, J & Cheng, TM, ‘Modeling and control of hemodynamic variables during hemodialysis’, Proc IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Atlanta, USA, pp 4673-4678.
Ji, P, Yu, J, Peng, G & Wang, T, ‘Passband optimisation for hybrid 40G/100G system using tunable asymmetric interleaver’, European Conference on Optical Communication, ECOC, Torino, 19-23 September
Jones, S, Wong, KH, Thordarson, P & ladouceur, F, ‘Electroactive self-assembling hydrogels for flexible display technology’, Proceedings of the 19th AIP/ACOFT Congress Melbourne, 5-9th December AIP, Australia
Kay, MJ & MacGill, IF, ‘Improving weather forecasts for wind energy applications’, IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Sciences, Canberra, ACT, Australia, 27 - 29 January IOP Publishing ltd, Bristol UK
Kha, H. H., Hoang, TD, Nguyen, T & Seneviratne, A, ‘Two-fold symmetric diamond-shaped 2-D filter design with quincunx sampling application’, ICCE 2010 - 3rd International Conference on Communications and Electronics, Nha Trang, Vietnam, 11-13 August 2010
Khalid & Savkin, AV, ‘Model Predictive Control based efficient operation of battery energy storage system for primary frequency control’, Singapore, 7-10 December IEEE
Khan, FA, Dempster, AG & Rizos, C, ‘Projected bandwidth loop ? A less complex alternative to adaptive bandwidth loops’, Proc IEEE/ION PlANS, Indian Wells, California, USA, 4-6 May IEEE
Khorrami, M, Naderi, MS & Nejad, NK, ‘Using interphase power controller to control the short circuit level in transmission power network’, 2010 International Conference on Power System Technology: Technological Innovations Making Power Grid Smarter, POWERCON2010, Hangzhou, China, 24-28 October IEEE, USA
Kim, C & Nooshabadi, SV, ‘A 200Mbps, 0.66nJ/b DTR UWB receiver for high data rate wireless biotelemetry applications’, 2010 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, BioCASPaphos, Cyprus, 3-5 November, IEEE Computer Society, Piscataway, NJ, United States
Kua, JM, Epps, JR, Ambikairajah, E & Nosratighods, MH, ‘Front-end Diversity in Fused Speaker Recognition Systems’, The Proceedings of APSIPA ASC Singapore, 14-17 December, Asia-Pacific Signal Processing Association, Hong Kong
Kua, JM, Thiruvaran, T, Nosratighods, MH, Ambikairajah, E & Epps, JR, ‘Spectral centroid amplitude and frequency for speaker recognition’, Brno, Czech Republic, 28 June - 1 July
Kwok, CY, Al-Hafiz, MA, Xu, Y & Michael, AW, ‘Issues in IC 3D Integration: Electrical, Optical, Fluidic Connectivity’, Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Frontier Photonics and Electronics, Sydney, Australia, 4-5 March School of Electrical & Telecommunications, UNSW, Sydney, Australia
ladouceur, F, Brodzeli, Z & Ball, HK, ‘State of Charge of Battery Indicator based on Fibre Optic Probe’, 19th AIP/ACOFT Congress Melbourne, Australia, 5-9 December AIP, Australia
ladouceur, F, Brodzeli, Z, Ball, HK, Chigrinov, V & Murauski, A, ‘Electrical Energy Harvesting Device for current/voltage fibre-based sensors’, 19th AIP/ACOFT Congress Melbourne, Australia, 5-9 December AIP, Australia
ladouceur, F, Hiscocks, MP, Mckenzie, WR, Ganesan, K, Gibson, B & Prawer, S, ‘Towards characterisation of millimetre length waveguides and new fabrication method for nanoscale diamond photonic structures’, Budapest, Hungary, 5-9 September Elsevier
ladouceur, F, Hiscocks, MP, Munroe, PR & Mckenzie, WR, ‘The Focussed Ion Beam Hard Mask: Insights into the Mechanism a New Application for Photonic Structures’, Microscopy and Microanalysis, Portland, USA, 1-5 August 2010
ladouceur, F, Hiscocks, MP, Su, CH, Ganesan, K, Gibson, B, Greentree, A, Hollenberg, l & Prawer, S, ‘Accessing diamond waveguides and future applications’, California, USA, 23-28 January SPIE, USA
ladouceur, F, lovell, NH, Micolich, AP, Matteucci, P, Prevot, P & Alvares, D, ‘Inkjet Printed low Power Organic Transistors for Integrated Biomedical Sensors’, 19th AIP/ACOFT Congress Melbourne, 5-9 December AIP, Australia
ladouceur, F, Mckenzie, WR & Hiscocks, MP, ‘Fabricating novel diamond waveguides using the focused ion beam hard mask’, 19th AIP/ACOFT Congress Melbourne, Australia, 5-9 December AIP, Australia
ladouceur, F, Min, EH, Wong, KH, Setijadi, E & Argyros, A, ‘Polymer Optical Fibre (POF) from P(methyl methacrylate) Bearing Chiral materials: Novel Mechanism of light Gudiance’, 19th AIP/ACOFT Congress Melbourne, Australia, 5-9 December AIP, Australia
ladouceur, F, Wong, KH & Min, EH, ‘Polymer Optical Fibre with Enhanced Surface Properties via Surface Chemistry Modifications’, 19th AIP/ACOFT Congress Melbourne, Australia, 5-9 December AIP, Australia
le, NP, Epps, JR, Ambikairajah, E & Sethu, V, ‘Robust Speech-Based Cognitive load Classification Using a Multi-band Approach’, The Proceedings of APSIPA ASC Singapore, 14-17 December, Asia-Pacific Signal Processing Association, Hong Kong
le, NP, Epps, JR, Choi, E & Ambikairajah, E, ‘A Study of Voice Source and Vocal Tract Filter Based Features in Cognitive load Classification’, Istanbul, Turkey, 23 - 26th August, IEEE
lee, QY, Chan, G, Redmond, SJ, Middleton, PM, Steel, E, Malouf, P, Critoph, C, Flynn, G, O’lone, E & lovell, NH, ‘Classification of low systemic vascular resistance using photoplethysmogram and routine cardiovascular measurements’, 2010 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Conference Proceedings, Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 31 - September 4,IEEE Society, USA
lehmann, T & Hamilton, TJ, ‘Integrated circuits towards reducing e-waste: future design directions’, 2010 International Conference on Green Circuits and Systems (ICGCS 2010), Shanghai, China, 21-23 June IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, USA
lehmann, T, Chun, H, Preston, P & Suaning, GJ, ‘Current-limited passive charge recovery for implantable neuro-stimulators: Power savings, modelling and characterisation’, Paris, France, 30 May-2 June IEEE, USA
li, G, ‘Machine learning in fuel consumption prediction of aircraft’, Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics, ICCI Article number 5599714, Beijing, 7-9 July, IEEE, Beijing
li, JCF, Zhang, W, Nosratinia, A & Yuan, J, ‘Opportunistic spectrum sharing based on exploiting ARQ retransmission in cognitive radio networks’, GlOBECOM - IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, Miami, Fl, USA, 6-10 December 2010
li, M, liu, K & Peng, G, ‘Fibre Ring laser Intra-Cavity Absorption Spectroscopy for Gas Sensing’, Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Frontier Photonics and Electronics, Sydney, Australia, 4-5 March School of Electrical & Telecommunications, UNSW, Sydney, Australia
li, M, liu, KH & Peng, G, ‘Sensitivity Analysis of Erbium-doped Fibre laser Based Intra-cavity Absorption Gas Sensor’, Perth, Australia, 11-14 July Technical Digest
li, X l, Chai, Q, Zhang, J, Hao, QQ, Q, li, P, lu, Sun, W, Yuan, l & Peng, G, ‘DFB fiber laser hydrophone based on intensity demodulation’, Beijing, china, 18-20 Octobers PIE, USA
li, X, Chai, Q, Zhang, J, Hao, Q, Q, li, P, lu, Sun, W, Yuan, l & Peng, G, ‘DFB fiber laser hydrophone based on a intensity demodulation’, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, Volume Beijing, China, 18-20 October 2010
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liu, T, liu, KH, Jiang, J, Peng, G, Wang, Y, Jia, DG, Zhang, H, Jin, W & Zhang, YM, ‘Gas detection techniques with fiber optical spectrum absorption at near-IR wavelength’, Florida, USA, 7 April SPIE, USA
liu, Y, Zhang, C, Brackley, C, Yang, S, Yang, F & Peng, G, ‘A new method to fabricate sea-island bicomponent microstructured polymer optical fibre’, Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Frontier Photonics and Electronics, Sydney, Australia, 4-5 March School of Electrical & Telecommunications, UNSW, Sydney, Australia
lovell, NH, Redmond, SJ, Basilakis, J & Celler, BG, ‘Biosignal Quality Detection: An Essential Feature for Unsupervised Telehealth Applications’, 12th IEEE International Conference on e-Health Networking Applications and Services (Healthcom), lyon, France, 1-3 July IEEE
lovell, NH, Redmond, SJ, Basilakis, J & Celler, BG, ‘Telehealth technologies for managing chronic disease - experiences from Australia and the UK’, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Conference Proceedings, Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 31 - September 4,IEEE Society, USA
luo, Y, Yan, B, li, M, Zhang, X, Zhang, Q & Peng, G, ‘Stress and strain sensing with multimode POF Bragg gratings’, Progress in Electromagnetic Research Symposium, Boston, USA, 5-8 July Progress in Electromagnetic Research, New York
M. Jang and V.G. Agelidis, “A minimum power-processing stage fuel cell energy system based on a boost-inverter with a bi-directional back-up battery storage”, in Conf. Rec. of IEEE APEC 2010, USA, pp. 295-302.
M. Jang and V.G. Agelidis, “Grid-interfaced fuel cell energy system based on a boost-inverter with a bi-directional back-up battery storage”, in Conf. Rec. of 2010 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), Atlanta, Georgia, USA, September 12-16, 2010, pp. 4499-4506.
MacGill, IF & Aaron, A, ‘Improving investment outcomes in the development and commercialisation of clean energy technologies within Australia’, Solar Canberra, Australia, 1-3 December Australian Solar Energy Society
MacGill, IF & Boerema, N, ‘The economics of transmission constraint on wind farms - some evidence from South Australia’, Solar Canberra, Australia, 1-3 December Australian Solar Energy Society
MacGill, IF & Elliston, B, ‘The potential role of forecasting for integrating solar generation into the Australian National Electricity Market’, Solar Canberra, Australia, 1-3 December Australian Solar Energy Society
MacGill, IF, Bruce, A & Cain, A, ‘Assessing the potential impacts of electric vehicles on the electricity distribution network’, Solar Canberra, Australia, 1-3 December Australian Solar Energy Society
MacGill, IF, Pedrasa, MA & Spooner, ED, ‘The value of accurate forecasts and a probabilistic method for robust scheduling of residential distributed energy resources’, Singapore, 14-17 June IEEE, USA
Malaney, RA & Dao, TN, ‘On the capacity of location tracking systems for wireless VoIP’, 2010 IEEE-RIVF International Conference on Computing and Communication Technologies: Research, Innovation and Vision for the Future, RIVF Hanoi, Vietnam, 1-4 November, IEEE, USA
Malaney, RA, ‘Quantum location verification in noisy channels’, GlOBECOM - IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, Miami, Fl, USA, 6-10 December 2010
Mann, S & Hamilton, T.J. , ‘A Neuron Optimized for FPGA Implementation’, The Proceedings of APSIPA ASC Singapore, 14-17 December Asia-Pacific Signal Processing Association, Hong Kong
Matveev, AS, Teimoori, H & Savkin, AV, ‘A method for navigation of an autonomous vehicle for border patrol’, Baltimore, USA, June 30 - July 02,IEEE
Matveev, AS, Teimoori, H & Savkin, AV, ‘Navigation of a Non-Holonomic Vehicle for Gradient Climbing and Source Seeking Without Gradient Estimation’, Baltimore, USA, June 30 - July 02,IEEE
Matveev, AS, Teimoori, H & Savkin, AV, ‘Range-Sensor Based Navigation of a Unicycle-like Mobile Robot in Cluttered Environments’, Atlanta, USA, 15-17 December IEEE
Matveev, AS, Teimoori, H & Savkin, AV, ‘Sensor-based tracking of environmental level sets by a unicycle-like mobile robot’, 2010 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2010), Alaska, USA, May 3-8,Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), USA
Mehani, O, Jourjon, G, Boreli, R & Ernst, T, ‘Mobile Multimedia Streaming Improvements with Freeze-DCCP’, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 20-24 September ACM New York, NY, USA, USA
Michael, AW, lou, l, & Kwok, CY, ‘A Novel Piezoelectric Actuation Mechanism’, Perth, Australia, 6-9 July Technical Digest
Mohktar, MS, Basilakis, J, Redmond, SJ & lovell, NH, ‘A Guideline-Based Decision Support System for Generating Referral Recommendations from Routinely Recorded Home Telehealth Measurement Data’, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Conference Proceedings, Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 31 - September 4,IEEE Society, USA
Morrison, GS, Thiruvaran, T & Epps, JR, ‘An issue in the calculation of logistic-regression calibration and fusion weights for forensic voice comparison’, Proceedings of the 13th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Melbourne, Australia, 14-17 December
Morrison, GS, Thiruvaran, T & Epps, JR, ‘Estimating the Precision of the likelihood-Ratio Output of a Forensic-Voice-Comparison System’, Proceedings of Odyssey 2010: The language and Speaker Recognition Workshop, Brno, Czech Republic, 28 June - 1 July
Muhamad, NA, Phung, BT & Blackburn, TR, ‘Discrimination of Corona and Surface Discharge Patterns in Soy Seed-Based Transformers
Insulation Oil’, IEEE 9th International Power and Energy Conference (IPEC2010), Singapore, 27-29 October 2010, pp.915-920.
Muhamad, NA, Phung, BT & Blackburn, TR, ‘PDC patterns of biodegradable transformers insulation oil after experienced faults and at different moisture levels’, 20th Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference (AUPEC 2010), Christchurch, NZ, 5-8 December 2010
N. Flourentzou, G.S. Konstantinou and V.G. Agelidis, “DC-bus capacitorless rectifier-inverter motor drive with online optimized harmonic controlled PWM”, in Conf. Rec. of. IEEE ICIT 2010, Valparaiso, Chile, pp. 344-349.
Nejad, NK, Naderi, MS & Naderi, MS, ‘Developing frequency dependent power system equivalent model using QZ algorithm for transient studies’, 2010 International Conference on Power System Technology: Technological Innovations Making Power Grid Smarter, POWERCON2010, Hangzhou, China, 24-28 October IEEE, USA
Nguyen, XV & Epps, JR, ‘MinCEntropy: A novel information theoretic approach for the generation of alternative clusterings’, Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, ICDM Sydney, NSW, Australia, 14-17 December IEEE
Nooshabadi, SV & Chen, G, ‘A hybrid equivalent-bit spacing scheme for low energy and high performance for bus signalling’, 2010 53rd IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Seattle, USA, 1-4 Aug. IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, USA
Outhred, HR & Thorncraft, SR, ‘Integrating Non-Storable Renewable Energy into the Australian Electricity Industry’, Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-43), Hawaii, 5-8 January IEEE Computer Society, USA
Passey, RJ & MacGill, IF, ‘Using policy design to manage the impact of stakeholder pressure during the policy development process: possible lessons from recent Australian energy policy’, Solar2010 48th AuSES Annual Conference, Canberra, Australia, 1-3 December AuSES
Peng, G & Webb, D, ‘Progress in Photosensitive Polymer Optical Fibres and Gratings’, Karlsruhe, Germany, 21-24 June The Optical Society, USA
Peng, G, liu, KH, li, M & Jing, WC, ‘Development of fibre laser based gas and chemical sensors’, Perth, Australia, 11-14 July Technical Digest
Peng, G, ‘Photosensitive Polymer Optical Materials, Fibres and Polymer Optical Fibre Gratings’, Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Frontier Photonics and Electronics, Sydney, Australia, 4-5 March School of Electrical & Telecommunications, UNSW, Sydney, Australia
Phan, A. H., Hoang, TD & Kha, H. H., ‘New optimized solution method for beamforming in cognitive multicast transmission’, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Ottawa, 6-9 September, IEEE, New York
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Phan, AH, Hoang, TD, Kha, H. H. & Ngo, DT, ‘A reverse convex programming for beamforming in cognitive multicast transmission’, ICCE 2010 - 3rd International Conference on Communications and Electronics, Nha Trang, Vietnam, 11-13 August 2010
Phan, AH, Hoang, TD, Kha, H. H. & Ngo, DT, ‘Nonsmooth optimization for beamforming in cognitive multicast transmission’, GlOBECOM - IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, Miami, Fl, USA, 6-10 December 2010
Phung, BT, Muhamad, NA & Blackburn, TR, ‘Partial Discharge and Dissolved Gas Analysis of Common Fault Types in Bio-degradable Oil Transformers’, CIGRE, Paris, France, 23-27 August 2010
R. Sood, I. Koprinska and V.G. Agelidis, “Electricity load forecasting based on autocorrelation analysis”, in Conf. Rec. of 2010 IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks.
R. Zolfaghari, Y. Shrivastava and V.G. Agelidis, “Spectral analysis techniques for estimating power quality indices”, in Conf. Rec. of 14th International Conference on Harmonics and Quality of Power 2010 (ICHQP), pp. 1-8.
R. Zolfaghari, Y. Shrivastava, V.G. Agelidis, and G.M.l. Chu, “Spectral analysis techniques with Kalman filtering for estimating power quality indices” in Conf. Rec. of 2010 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference Europe, pp. 1-8.
R. Zolfaghari, Y. Shrivastava, V.G. Agelidis, and G.M.l. Chu, “Using windowed ESPRIT spectral estimation for measuring power quality indices” in Conf. Rec. of 2010 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference Europe, pp. 1-8.
Rahman, MF & Xiao, D, ‘Implementation of sensorless direct torque control using matrix converter fed Interior Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor’, The Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan, Hokkaido, Japan, 21-24 June IEEE, Japan
Rahman, MF & Xiao, D, ‘low Speed and Standstill Operation of Sensorless Direct Torque and Flux Controlled IPM Synchronous Motor Fed by Matrix Converter’, Proceedings of International Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems (ICEMS), Incheon, South Korea, 10-13 October IEEE, Korea
Rahman, MF & Xiao, D, ‘Performance Improvement of a Sensorless Hysteresis Direct Torque Controlled Matrix Converter IPM Synchronous Motor Drive Using a Modified Switching Pattern and an Input Power Factor Correction’, Proceedings of International Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems (ICEMS), Incheon, South Korea, 10-13 October IEEE, Korea
Raju, R, Prusty, BG, Kelly, DW, Peng, G & lyons, D, ‘Delamination Characterisation of curved composites using Acoustic Emission and FBG’, Proceedings of 2010 International Maritime Conference, Sydney, 27 - 29 January Pacific 2010 International Maritime Conference, Sydney
Raju, R, Prusty, BG, Kelly, DW, Peng, G & lyons, D, ‘Failure Analysis of laminated Composites with Embedded Fibre Bragg Gratings (FBG)’, Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Frontier Photonics and Electronics, Sydney, Australia, 4-5 March School of Electrical & Telecommunications, UNSW, Sydney, Australia
Ramer, R & Rahman, HU, ‘Experimental considerations for fabrication of RF MEMS switches’, Penang, 3-4 Aug. IEEE, Piscataway, USA
Ramer, R, Chan, KY & Mansour, R, ‘Miniaturized RF MEMS switch cells for crossbar switch matrices’, Yokohama, 7-10 Dec. IEEE, Piscataway, USA
Ramer, R, Khawaja, HUR & Chan, KY, ‘FABRICATION OF RF NEMS SERIES SWITCH USING SURFACE MICROMACHINING’, IASTED Technology Conferences (ARP,RA,NANA,ComBio 2010), Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 1-3 November IASTED: ACTA Press, PO Box Anaheim, CA, USA, US
Rashid, U., Hoang, TD & Kha, H. H., ‘Optimized power allocation in nonlinear sensor networks via semidefinite programming’, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Ottawa, 6-9 September, IEEE, New York
Ravishankar, J & Rahman, MF, ‘Dynamic compensators for grid connected wind farms’, 2010 Joint International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems, PEDES 2010 and 2010 Power India, New Delhi, India, 20-23 December IEEE, Piscataway, USA
Ravishankar, J & Rahman, MF, ‘Performance Enhancement of Grid Connected Wind Energy Conversion Systems’, Cairo, Dec 19-21, IEEE
Razi, A, Tasadduq, B, Haroon, A & Imtiaz, Hira, ‘Comparison of Time Domain and Frequency Domain Equalization for HSDPA Channel’, Taiwan, 5-7 May IEEE, USA
Redmond, SJ, Scalzi, M, Narayanan, MR, lord, SR, Cerutti, S & lovell, NH, ‘Automatic Segmentation of Triaxial Accelerometry Signals for Falls Risk Estimation’, 2010 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 31 - September 4,IEEE, Buenos Aires, Argentina
S. R. Pulikanti, G. Konstantinou and V.G. Agelidis, “An n-level flying capacitor based active neutral-point-clamped converter”, in Conf. Rec. of IEEE PEDG 2010, China, pp. 553-558.
S.R. Pulikanti, G. Konstantinou and V.G. Agelidis, “Seven-level cascaded ANPC-based multilevel converter”, in Conf. Rec. of 2010 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE), Atlanta, Georgia, USA, September 12-16, 2010, pp. 4575-4582.
Savkin, AV, Baig, Cheng, TM, Su, SW & Celler, BG, ‘Modelling of Human Heart Rate Response during Walking, Cycling and Rowing’, Buenos Aires, Argentina, September IEEE
Savkin, AV, Hoy, M & Matveev, AS, ‘Mixed Nonlinear-Sliding Mode Control of an Unmanned Farm Tractor in the Presence Sliding’, Singapore, 7-10 Dec IEEE
Savkovic, B, ‘Time-variant robust model predictive control under limited capacity communication constraints’, American Control Conference (ACC),Baltimore, MD, USA, June 30 2010-July 2IEEE, Baltimore, MD
Sen, D & lu, W, ‘A framework for predicting speech quality using detectability of multiple distortions’, Pite, Sweden, June Audio Engineering Society, USA
Sen, D & lu, W, ‘Tolerance and sensitivity of various parameters in the prediction of temporally localized distortons in degraded speech’, Sydney, Australia, August Journal of Acoustic Society of America, USA
Sen, D, Wang, S & Deffrasness, A, ‘Psychoacoustically motivated frequency dependent Tikhonov regularization for soundfield parameterization’, 2010 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP, Dallas, USA, 14-19 March IEEE, USA
Sen, D, Wang, S & Meng, Q, ‘Spatio-temporal measurement and compensation in soundfield synthesis using exponentially swept sine stimuli’, Proceedings of 20th International Congress on Acoustics ICA Melbourne, Australia, 29-31 August Australian Acoustical Society, Sydney
Seneviratne, AP, Iqbal, AA & Ott, M, ‘Semantic Content Distribution with Aggregated Profiles’, Sierre, Switzerland, 22-26 March ACM New York, NY, USA, NY
Seneviratne, AP, Iqbal, AA & Ott, M., ‘Removing the Redundancy from Distributed Semantic Web Data’, lecture Notes in Computer Science, Bilbao, Spain, 30 August - 3 September Springer Verlag, New York
Seneviratne, AP, Nazir, F & Predinger, H, ‘Participatory Mobile Social Network Simulation Environment’, Cape Town, South Africa, 23-27 May IEEE, USA
Seneviratne, AP, Pedrasa, JR & Pedrasa, MA, ‘Information Exchange for Enhanced Network Selection’, Proceedings of the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, Sydney, Australia, 18-21 April Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.
Seneviratne, AP, Rathnayake, U, Ott, M & Iftikhar, M, ‘Mobile Data Transfer Scheduling with Uncertainty’, Cape Town, South Africa, 23-27 May IEEE, USA
Seneviratne, AP, Rathnayake, U, Ott, M & Petander, H, ‘Protocol Support for Bulk Transfer Architecture’, Beijing, China, 25-27 June IEEE, USA
Shahid, B, Kannan, AA, lovell, NH & Redmond, SJ, ‘Ultrasound User-Identification for Wireless Sensor Networks’, Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 31 - September 4,IEEE
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Shahroudi, M. M., Abdollahzadeh, H., Naderi, M. S., Mozafari, B., Mahdavizadeh, F. & Tavighi, A., ‘Monitoring and unbalance mitigation of harmonic current symmetrical components, using double complex-ADAlINE algorithm’, 2010 1st Power Quality Conference, PQC Article number 5624736, Tehran, Iran, 14-15 September, IEEE
Shahroudi, M. M., Abdollahzadeh, H., Tavighi, A., Naderi, M. S. & Mozafari, B., ‘Application of a new fast-responding estimation approach in DVR to mitigate voltage sags in harmonic distortion conditions’, 2010 1st Power Quality Conference, PQC Article number 5624736, Tehran, Iran, 14-15 September, IEEE
Shi, l, Zhang, W & Xia, X.-G., ‘A design of high-rate full-diversity STBC with low-complexity PIC group decoding’, GlOBECOM - IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, Miami, Fl, USA, 6-10 December 2010
Sinaga, H, Phung, BT & Blackburn, TR, ‘Neuro fuzzy recognition of ultra-high frequency partial discharges in transformers’, IEEE 9th International Power and Energy Conference (IPEC2010), Singapore, 27-29 October 2010, pp.346-351.
Sinaga, H, Phung, BT & Blackburn, TR, ‘Recognition of Single and Multiple Partial Discharge Sources in Transformer Insulation’, International Conference on Condition Monitoring and Diagnosis (CMD2010), 6-11 September, 2010, Tokyo, Japan, Paper A4-4.
Sivaraman, V, Dhamdhere, A, Kurusingal, A., Chen, H & Burdett, A, ‘Experiments with Wireless Sensor Networks for Real-Time Athlete Monitoring’, Denver, CO, USA, October IEEE, USA
Sivaraman, V, Grover, S., Kurusingal, A., Dhamdhere, A & Burdettz, A, ‘Experimental study of mobility in the soccer field with application to real-time athlete monitoring’, 2010 IEEE 6th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications, Niagara Falls, ON, 11-13 October IEEE
Sivaraman, V, Kurusingal, A. & Dhamdhere, A, ‘Modeling Signal Strength of Body-Worn Devices’, Denver, CO, USA, October IEEE, USA
Sivaraman, V, Vishwanath, A, Thottan, M & Dovrolis, C, ‘Enabling a Bufferless Core Network Using Edge-to-Edge Packet-level FEC’, San Diego, CA, 14-19 March IEEE, USA
Sivaraman, V, Zhao, Z, Russell, C & Vishwanath, A, ‘An Empirical Model of Power Consumption in the Net FPGA Gigabit Router’, Mumbai, India, December IEEE, USA
Solo, V & Marjanovic, G, ‘Sparse signal estimation with nonlinear conjugate gradients’, 2010 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP, Dallas, TX, USA, 14-19 March IEEE, USA
Solo, V & Noh, J, ‘Rician distributed functional MRI: Asymptotic power analysis of likelihood ratio tests for activation detection’, 2010 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP, Dallas, TX, USA, 14-19 March IEEE, USA
Solo, V & Pasha, SA, ‘TESTING FOR INDEPENDENCE BETWEEN A POINT PROCESS AND AN ANAlOG SIGNAl’, 2010 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP, Dallas, TX, 14-19 March IEEE, USA
Solo, V & Ulfarsson, MO, ‘A semiparametric PCA approach to fMRI data analysis’, 2010 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP, Dallas, TX, USA, 14-19 March IEEE, USA
Solo, V & Ulfarsson, MO, ‘Sparse variable noisy PCA using l0 penalty’, 2010 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, ICASSP, Dallas, TX, USA, 14-19 March IEEE, USA
Solo, V & Ulfarsson, MO, ‘Threshold selection for group sparsity’, Dallas, TX, USA, 14-19 March IEEE, Piscataway, USA
Solo, V, ‘On Random Matrix Theory for stationary processes’, Dallas, TX, USA, 14-19 March IEEE, Piscataway, USA
Tang, C, Chan, G, Middleton, PM, Cave, G, Harvey, M, Savkin, AV & lovell, NH, ‘Pulse transit time variability analysis in an animal model of endotoxic shock’, 2010 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Conference Proceedings, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 31 August - 4 September IEEE
Tapson, J, Hamilton, T.J., & van schaik, A, ‘live demonstration: The self-tuned regenerative electromechanical parametric amplifier’, IEEE, USA
Taubman, DS & Naman, AT, ‘Predictor selection using quantization intervals in JPEG2000-Based Scalable Interactive Video (JSIV)’, International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2010), Hong Kong, 26-29 Sept IEEE, USA
Taubman, DS & Xi, C, ‘Distributed source coding based on punctured conditional arithmetic codes’, International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2010), Hong Kong, 26-29 Sept IEEE, USA
Thanigaivelan, B, Postula, A, Jin, C, van schaik, A, & Hamilton, T.J., ‘Symbolic analysis of the Tau cell log-domain filter’, Kuala lumpur, Malaysia, 6-9 December IEEE
Thanigaivelan, B, Ball, D, Wiles, J, & Hamilton, T.J., ‘An 8-Channel Neural Recording System with Programmable Gain and Bandwidth’, The Proceedings of APSIPA ASC Singapore, 14-17 December Asia-Pacific Signal Processing Association, Hong Kong
Thanigaivelan, B, Postula, A, & Hamilton, T.J., ‘live demo: affine arithmetic based symbolic circuit analyzer’, 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems. ISCAS Paris, France, May 30-June 2,IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, USA
Tian, F, Zhang, W, Ma, W.-K. & Ching, PC, ‘Distributed space-time coding for two-path successive relaying’, GlOBECOM - IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, Miami, Fl, USA, 6-10 December 2010
van schaik, A, Jin, C, Mcewan, A, & Hamilton, T.J, ‘A log-domain implementation of the Izhikevich neuron model’, 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems. ISCAS Paris, France, May 30-June 2,IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, USA
Van schaik, A, Jin, C, Mcewan, A, Hamilton, T, Mihalas, S & Niebur, E, ‘A log-domain implementation of the Mihalas-Niebur neuron model’, 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems. ISCAS Paris, France, 30 May-2 June IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, USA
Vithayasrichareon, P, MacGill, IF & Nakawiro, T, ‘Sustainability Challenges for Electricity Industries in ASEAN Newly Industrializing Countries’, Power and Energy Systems (Asia PES 2010), Phuket, Thailand, 24-26 November ACTA Press, Calgary
Vithayasrichareon, P, MacGill, IF & Wen, F, ‘Electricity Generation Portfolio Analysis for Coal, Gas and Nuclear Plant under Future Uncertainties’, Power and Energy Systems (Asia PES 2010), Phuket, Thailand, 24-26 November ACTA Press, Calgary
Vithayasrichareon, P, MacGill, IF & Wen, F, ‘Electricity generation portfolio evaluation for highly uncertain and carbon constrained future electricity industries’, IEEE PES General Meeting, PES 2010. Article number 5590220, Minneapolis, MN, 25-29 July, IEEE, USA
Wang, Z & Zhang, W, ‘Opportunistic spectrum access in cognitive relay networks based on white space modeling’, GlOBECOM - IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, Miami, Fl, USA, 6-10 December 2010
Wang, Z, Hassan, M & Moors, T, ‘A Study of Spatial Packet loss Correlation in 802.11 Wireless Networks’, Denver, USA, 11-14 October IEEE
Wang, Z, Hassan, M & Moors, T, ‘Efficient loss Recovery using Network Coding in Vehicular Safety Communication’, Sydney, Australia, 18-21 April, IEEE
Wen, J & Peng, G, ‘Development on Bismuth-doped Silica-based Optical Fibers’, Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Frontier Photonics and Electronics, Sydney, Australia, 4-5 March School of Electrical & Telecommunications, UNSW, Sydney, Australia
Willems van Beveren, lH, Huebl, H, Starrett, RP & Morello, A, ‘Radio frequency readout of electrically detected magnetic resonance in phosphorus-doped silicon MOSFETs’, Conference on Optoelectronic and Microelectronic Materials and Devices, Proceedings, COMMAD Canberra, ACT, Australia, 12-15 December IEEE, Denver, CO, USA
Wong, ACl, Giovinazzo, M, Tam, HY, lu, C & Peng, G, ‘Single tilted moire fiber Bragg grating for simultaneous measurement of refractive index and temperature’, 2010 Asia Communications and Photonics Conference and Exhibition, ACP Shanghai, China, 8-12 December, IEEE Computer Society, Piscataway, NJ, United States
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Xiao, D & Rahman, MF, ‘A novel sensorless hysteresis direct torque control for matrix converter fed interior permanent magnet synchronous motor’, IEEE PES General Meeting, PES 2010. Article number 5590220, Minneapolis, MN, 25-29 July, IEEE, USA
Xiao, D & Rahman, MF, ‘Sensorless direct torque and flux control for matrix converter-fed interior permanent magnet synchronous motor using adaptive sliding mode observer’, IEEE PES General Meeting, PES 2010. Article number 5590220, Minneapolis, MN, 25-29 July, IEEE, USA
Xiao, D, Foo, GH & Rahman, MF, ‘A new combined adaptive flux observer with HF signal injection for sensorless direct torque and flux control of matrix converter fed ipmsm over a wide speed range’, 2010 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2010 - Proceedings, Atlanta, GA, 12-16 September IEEE, New York
Xie, Y, Redmond, SJ, Basilakis, J & lovell, NH, ‘Effect of ECG Quality Measures on Piecewise-linear Trend Detection for Telehealth Decision Support Systems’, Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 31 - September 4,IEEE
Xu, Y, Michael, AW, Kwok, CY & Peng, G, ‘A novel stacked-die optical-interconnect prototype system: fabrication technique for front and rear 45 micro-mirror pair’, Perth, Australia, 6-9 July Technical Digest
Xu, Y, Michael, AW, Kwok, CY & Peng, G, ‘Detail study on the rear 45? micromirror smoothness on (100) Si substrates’, Procedia engineering, linz, 5th-8th September, Elsevier, Amsterdam
Yan, B, Childs, PA, Yiu, C, Sang, X, Xu, D & Peng, G, ‘Spectrally coded multiplexing based on FBG pairs’, Progress in Electromagnetic Research Symposium, Boston, USA, 5-8 July Progress in Electromagnetic Research, New York
Yan, B, Yiu, C, li, M, Guo, JJ & Peng, G, ‘Chirped Fiber Grating with Nonlinear Effective Index Modulation’, Proceedings of the Joint Workshop on Frontier Photonics and Electronics, Sydney, Australia, 4-5 March School of Electrical & Telecommunications, UNSW, Sydney, Australia
Yan, W, Phung, BT & Blackburn, TR, ‘Comparison of Partial Discharge Patterns between Mineral and Bio-degradable Oil Insulation Systems’, International Conference on Condition Monitoring and Diagnosis (CMD2010), 6-11 September, 2010, Tokyo, Japan, Paper A3-2.
Yang, N, Elkashlan, M. & Yuan, J, ‘Cooperative selection diversity in wireless multiuser relay networks’, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Ottawa, 6-9 September, IEEE, New York
Yang, N, Elkashlan, M. & Yuan, J, ‘Dual-hop amplify-and-forward mimo relaying with antenna selection in nakagami-m fading’, GlOBECOM - IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, Miami, Fl, USA, 6-10 December 2010
Yang, Y & lehmann, T, ‘Current recycling in linear regulators for biomedical implants’, 2010 53rd IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Seattle, WA, USA, 1-4 Aug. IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, USA
Yap, T, Ambikairajah, E, Epps, JR & Choi, E, ‘Cognitive load Classification Using Formant Features’, Kuala lumpur, Malaysia, 10-13 May, IEEE
Yap, T, Epps, JR, Ambikairajah, E & Choi, E, ‘An Investigation of Formant Frequencies for Cognitive load Classification’, Interspeech Makuhari, Japan, 26-30 September, International Speech Communication Association
Yap, T, Epps, JR, Choi, E & Ambikairajah, E, ‘Glottal features for speech-based cognitive load classification’, Dallas, TX, March 14-19, IEEE
Yuan, J, Aravind Surapura, C & Malaney, RA, ‘Energy Efficiency of Hybrid-ARQ Based Geographic Routing’, 2010 IEEE-RIVF International Conference on Computing and Communication Technologies: Research, Innovation and Vision for the Future, RIVF Hanoi, Vietnam, 1-4 November IEEE, USA
Yuan, J, Karim, MA & Chen, Z, ‘Nested Distributed Turbo Code for Relay Channels’, Taipei, Taiwan, 16-19 May IEEE, USA
Yuan, J, li, J, Marwan, A & Malaney, RA, ‘Design of network-coding based multi-edge type lDPC codes for a multi-source relaying system’, 6-10 Sept IEEE, USA
Yuan, J, li, J, Marwan, A & Malaney, RA, ‘Novel lDPC code structures for the nonergodic block-fading channels’, Brest, 6-10 Sept IEEE, USA
Yuan, J, Marwan, A, Ducyk, D, Moeneclaey, M & Boutros, J J, ‘Universal lDPC codes for cooperative communications’, Brest, 6-10 Sept IEEE, USA
Yuan, J, Mu, JC & Xie, Y, ‘Design of rate-compatible protograph-based lDPC codes with mixed circulants’, Brest, 6-10 Sept IEEE, USA
Yuan, J, Razi, A, Ryan, D & Collings, I, ‘Performance of Vector Pertubation Multiuser MIMO Systems over Correlated Channels’, Sydney, Australia, 18-21 April IEEE, USA
Yuan, J, Yang, N & Elkashlan, M, ‘Symbol Error Rate of Wireless Multiuser Relay Networks in Nakagami-m Fading Channels’, Cape Town, South Africa, 23-27 May IEEE, USA
Zarjam, P, Chen, F & Epps, JR, ‘Evaluation of Working Memory load using EEG Signals’, 5th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology, Singapore, 14-17 December
Zhang, J, Chai, Q, li, X, Hao, Q, Q, li, Sun, W, Yuan, l, lu, PH & Peng, G, ‘Composite cavity fiber laser sensor based on feedback modulation’, Proceedings of IEEE Sensors Waikoloa, HI, USA, 1-4 November IEEE
Zhang, J, li, X, Chai, Q, Hao, Q, Q, li, Sun, W, Yuan, l, lu, PH & Peng, G, ‘Hydrophone based on intensity modulated DFB fiber laser’, Proceedings of IEEE Sensors Waikoloa, HI, USA, 1-4 November IEEE
Zhang, W & Han, Z, ‘Opportunistic Feedback in Collaborative Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Radio’, Proceedings of the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 18-21 April Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.
Zhang, W, Shi, l & Xia, X.-G., ‘A systematic design of space-time block codes with reduced-complexity partial interference cancellation group decoding’, 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory Proceedings, Austin, TX, 13-18 June 2010
Zhang, X, Peng, G, Zhang, X, Wang, Q, li, P & Zhang, S, ‘Mode Competition in Concentric-type Multicore Fibre lasers Combined with large Mode Area Single Mode Fibre’, Proceedings of SPIE Volume 3241 Smart Materials, Structures, and Integrated Systems, SPIE, Washington, USA
Zhang, Y, lin, X, Zhu, G, Zhang, W & lin, Ql, ‘Efficient Rank Based KNN Processing over Uncertain Data’, 26th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, ICDE 2010 - Conference Proceedings, USA, March 1-6, IEEE Computer Society, 445 Hoes lane - P.O.Box Piscataway, NJ 08855-1331, United States, New Jersey, USA
Zhu, G, lin, X, Zhang, W, Wang, W & Shang, H, ‘Pref Index: An Efficient Supergraph Containment Search Technique’, Scientific and Statistical Database Management, Heidelberg, Germany, June 30th - July 2ndSpringer, Berlin Heidelberg New York
Zhu, J, Huang, J & Zhang, W, ‘Optimal one-dimensional relay placement in cognitive radio networks’, Proceedings of WCSP Suzhou, China, 21-23 October IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, United States
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sCHooL ReseARCH CoMMIttee RePoRt
The Research Committee plays a key role in the management and promotion of the School’s research goals and research funding. The objectives of the committee include:
ZZ linkage schemes
ZZ Assisting researchers in applying for internal University funding schemes and representing the School’s interests in regard to these schemes
ZZ Attracting high quality research students and helping supervisors assess potential research students
ZZ Managing and representing the School’s interests in regard to competitive scholarship programs for research students
ZZ Recruiting outstanding researchers to add to the critical mass in the School’s focused research theme areas
ZZ Representing the School’s interests in regard to the ERA (Excellent in Research Australia) initiative
A new initiative in 2010 was the organisation of a School Research Workshop, which was well attended by academic staff of the School. This successful event is likely to be continued annually.
eXteRnAL CoMMIttee AnD BoARD MeMBeRsHIPs
Prof. Vassilios G AgelidisZZ External Examiner for University Tenaga Nasional, Malaysia
ZZ Chapter Chair IEEE NSW PES
ZZ ARC IntReader
Prof. Eliathamby AmbikairajahZZ Technical Program Chair for the Circuits and Systems/VlSI program in the Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit Conference (APSIPA ASC)
ZZ External examiner for Taylors College University (TCU), Malaysia
A/Prof. Trevor BlackburnZZ Chair of the NSW Chapter of the IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES)
ZZ Member Standards Committee El-24 on lightning Protection
ZZ Member Standards Committee El-07 on High Voltage Switchgear and Testing
ZZ Chair of Standards Committee El-07-2-1 on low/Medium Voltage Insulation Coordination
ZZ Member Electrical Assessors Panel of the National Association of Testing Authorities (NATA)
members of the international organising committee and all the chairs of the apsipa asc
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ZZ Member South Australian Panel of Electricity Experts (under SA Electricity Act 1996)
ZZ Member CIGRE International Task Force D1-20 (Cable Diagnostics)
ZZ Member Australian CIGRE Panel APD1 (Electrical Materials and Diagnostic Methods)
Prof. Andrew DzurakZZ Qucor Pty ltd, Director
ZZ Cambridge Australia Scholarships, Member of Selection Committee
ZZ UNSW Faculty of Engineering, Professorial Promotions Committee
Dr Julien EppsZZ Member, IEEE Signal Processing in Education Technical Committee
A/Prof. Francois LadouceurZZ UNSW Faculty of Engineering, A/Prof. Promotion Committee
Dr Geoffrey Stewart MorrisonZZ Chair, Acoustical Society of America, Subcommittee on Forensic Acoustics, established November 2010
ZZ Member Australasian Speech Science & Technology Association, Forensic Speech Science Committee
ZZ Member International Association for Forensic Phonetics and Acoustics, Research Committee
Dr Toan PhungZZ Member CIGRÉ Australian Panel D1 – Materials and Emerging Technologies for Power Systems.
ZZ Convener of Australian EMTP User Group
Dr Mohammad Salay NaderiZZ Member Technical Committee of Distributed Generation Expansion at Ministry of Energy, Iran
ZZ Member IET Young Professionals Summit Task Force
Dr Dipanjan SenZZ Member IEEE Speech & language Technical Committee
Prof. Victor SoloZZ Member Executive Committee of the UNSW Brain Sciences institute
Mr Edward SpoonerZZ Chairman of Standards Australia El42 Committee “Renewable Energy Systems”
ZZ Member Australian representative on IEC TC82 “Photovoltaics”. Co-convener of working group 3 “Systems” and member of working group 6 “Balance of system components”
ZZ Member of the IEC Joint coordinated working group (JCWG) on Stand Alone Power Systems
Prof. David TaubmanZZ Member Australian Standards Committee IT-029 “Coded Representation of Picture, Audio and Multimedia/Hypermedia Information”
ZZ Head of Delegation from Australia (and manager of the membership status) for the ISO committee ISO/IEC JTC1/SC29/WG1 (aka JPEG)
Prof. Jinhong YuanZZ Chair IEEE NSW Joint Communications/Signal Processing/Ocean Engineering Societies Chapter
eDItoRIAL CoMMIttees
Prof. Vassilios G AgelidisZZ Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics
Prof. Eliathamby AmbikairajahZZ Editorial board member of The Transactions of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineering
A/Prof. John FletcherZZ Associate Editor for the International Journal of Electronics, Taylor and Francis
Prof. Andrey SavkinZZ Associate editor for Automatica
ZZ Associate editor for Nonlinear Analysis - Hybrid Systems.
Prof. David TaubmanZZ Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
Dr Wei ZhangZZ Editor of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
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ConFeRenCes, WoRKsHoPs AnD sHoRt CoURses HosteD BY ee&t
January 2010
Title: Recursive Smoothing Using Particle Filters
Speaker: Dr Sumeetpal S. Singh, Cambridge university
Research Group: Telecommunications organised by Prof. Jinhong Yuan
February 2010
Title: Transmission and detection techniques in multi-user MIMO OFDE channels
Speaker: Prof. li Ping, City University of Hong Kong
Research Group: Telecommunications organised by Prof. Jinhong Yuan
Title: Holography: Origin, Development, and Beyond
Speaker: Prof. Francis Yu, Penn State University, USA
Research Group: Telecommunications
Title: Smarter Energy IBM-Research
Speaker: Deva Seetharam, IBM India
Research Group: Telecommunications organised by Dr Vijay Sivaraman
Title: Shuffled Frog-leaping Algorithm and Its Applications
Speaker: Prof. Xia li, Shenzen University, China
Research Group: Telecommunications organised by Dr Wei Zhang
March 2010
Title: Joint Workshop on Frontier Photonics and Electronics
Organiser: UNSW, The University of Tokyo and The University of Sydney
Speaker: Prof. Kazuo Hotate, Prof. Gang-Ding Peng, Prof. John Canning and A/Prof. Zuyuan He
Research Group: Photonics organised by Prof. Gang-Ding Peng
Title: Optical isolator: Application to Photonic Integrated Circuits
Speaker: Prof. Tetsuya MIZUMOTO, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Research Group: Photonics organised by Prof. Gang-Ding Peng
Title:Automatic Detection Of Mine-like Objects In Seabed Imagery from Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
Speaker: Dr Phil Chapple, DSTO
Research Group: Photonics organised by Dr Iain Skinner
The Australia-Japan-China Joint Workshop on Frontier Photonics and Electronics was held at the School of Electrical Engineering & Telecommunications, UNSW on 4 and 5 March 2010.
This workshop brought together about 50 Japanese, Chinese and Australian researchers. The two-day workshop featured 43 presentations reporting on the latest progress in frontier photonics and electronics. Prof. Graham Davies, Dean of Faculty of Engineering, opened the workshop and gave a welcome speech to the attendants. Prof. Chee Yee Kwok briefly introduced the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications and Photonics and Optical Communications to the guests.
This workshop provided a platform for close interaction to establish close academic links and research collaboration. It offered an opportunity to form future international partnerships of excellence among the staff and research students of the participating universities. The attendants enjoyed the stimulating and interactive forum.
the workshop was attended by more than 50 Japanese, chinese and australian researchers.
prof. graham Davies, Dean of the faculty of Engineering, welcomed attendants and opened the Workshop
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Title: Maximum-Throughout Irregular Distributed Space-Time Code for Near-Capacity Cooperative Communications
Speaker: Dr Michael Ng, The University of Southampton, UK
Research Group: Telecommunications organised by Prof. Jinhong Yuan
Title: Efficient Simulations Using Matlab
Speaker: Dr Elias Aboutanios, UNSW
Research Group: Telecommunications
Title: The Road towards 4G: SC-FDMA For Future Broadband Wireless Communications
Speaker: Prof. Khaled Ben letaief, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Research Group: Telecommunications organised by Dr Wei Zhang
Title: Cognitive MIMO Systems: Theory and Practice
Speaker: Prof. Rui Zhang, I2R & National University of Singapore
Research Group: Telecommunications organised by Dr Wei Zhang
Title: Gaussian Relay Channels with Correlated Noise
Speaker: Prof. Shuguang Cui, Texas A&M University
Research Group: Telecommunications organised by Dr Wei Zhang
Title: Coalition and Correlated Game Theoretical Approaches for Cognitive Radio Networks
Speaker: Prof. Zhu Han, University of Houston
Research Group: Telecommunications organised by Dr Wei Zhang
Title: Security and Privacy in European Intelligent Transport systems Research
Speaker: Dr Frank Kargl, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Research Group: Telecommunications
Title: Physical layer Network Coding
Speaker: Dr Shengli Zhang, Shenzhen University, China
Research Group: Telecommunications organised by Dr Wei Zhang
Title: Resource Allocation in Hybrid Marco/Femto Networks
Speaker: Dr Xiaoli Chu, King’s College london, UK
Research Group: Telecommunications organised by Dr Wei Zhang
Title: Error Bounds for Decode-and-Forward Relaying
Speaker: Prof. lars K. Rasmussen, KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Research Group: Telecommunications organised by Prof. Jinhong Yuan
Title: OpenWSN: Open-Source Standards-Based Protocol Stacks for Wireless Mesh Networks
Speaker: Dr Thomas Watteyne, Berkeley
Research Group: Telecommunications organised by Prof. Jinhong Yuan
Title: Signal Sensing for Flat Fading Channels
Speaker: Prof. Mike Faulkner, Victoria University
Research Group: Telecommunications organised by Prof. Jinhong Yuan
Title: Wireless Information Assurance Going Forward
Speaker: Konstantinos (Kostas) Pelechrinis, University of California, Riverside
Research Group: Telecommunications organised by Dr Vijay Sivaraman
Title: Statistical Delay QoS Provisionings in Wireless Networks: Effective Capacity and QoS-Driven Resource Allocations
Speaker: Prof. Xi Zhang, Texas A&M University, USA
Research Group: Telecommunications organised by Dr Wei Zhang
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INVITED TALK – ALUMNUS ADRIAN CLARK
Title: An Industry Perspective on the emergence of Smart Electricity Grids
Speaker: Adrian Clark, Smart Grids Energy Australia
June 2010
Title: The Architectural Assues of NBN
Speaker: Michael Bolan, System Engineering, CISCO
Research Group: Telecommunications organised by Dr Vijay Sivaraman
July 2010
Title: From Artificial Retina to Artificial Skin
Speaker: A/Prof. Francois ladouceur, Paul-Henry Prevot & Daren Alvares
Research Group: Photonics
Title: Some Glimpses on the Capacity of Optical Channels
Speaker: Prof. Stefan Moser, NCTU, Taiwan
Research Group: Telecommunications organised by Prof. Jinhong Yuan
August 2010
Title: Speech Enhancement Based on Microphone Array for Voice Conference Systems
Speaker: Dr Yusuke Hioka, NTT Cyber Space laboratories, Japan
Research Group: Telecommunications organised by Dr Deep Sen
September 2010
Title: Algorithms for Energy-Saving: Speed-scaling and Sleeping
Speaker: Dr lachlan Andrew, Swinburne University of Technology
Research Group: Telecommunications organised by Dr Vijay Sivaraman
October 2010
Title: Perspective in Power Engineering Research Including Renewable Energy and Smart Grid
Speaker: A/Prof. Z.Y Dong, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Research Group: Energy Systems
Title: Optimal Carbon Taxes for Electric Power Supply Chains with Transmission Constraints
Speaker: Prof. Yu-Chi Wu, NUU, Taiwan
Research Group: Energy Systems organised by Prof. Vassilios Agelidis
Title: Simulation of Power Electronic Systems using PlECS
Speaker: Dr Mihai Ciobotaru, CERPA, UNSW
Research Group: Energy Systems organised by Prof. Vassilios Agelidis
Title: Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Operational Practice of Internet Routing
Speaker: Prof. Geoffrey Xie, Dept of Computer Science, US Naval Postgraduate School
Research Group: Telecommunications organised by Dr Vijay Sivaraman
Title: A Unified Framework for Key Agreement over Wireless Fading Channels
Speaker: Prof. lifeng lai, University of Arkansas, USA
Research Group: Telecommunications organised by Dr Wei Zhang
prof. Khaled Ben letaief, Dean of Engineering from hong Kong university of science & technology, the road towards 4g: sc-fDma for future Broadband Wireless communications (april 2010), organized by Dr Wei Zhang.
Dr Wei Zhang and prof. shuguang cui from texas a&m university, usa, gaussian relay channels with correlated noise.
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Title: The Economics of Transit and Peering Interconnections in the Internet
Speaker: Dr Amogh Dhamdhere, CAIDA, San Diego
Research Group: Telecommunications organised by Dr Ashay Dhamdhere
Title: Challenges for the Government in Intelligent Transport Systems
Speaker: Philip Mallon
Research Group: Microelectronics
December 2010
Title: Analysis and Design of Extremum Seeking Controllers
Speaker: Prof. Dragan Nesic, The University of Melbourne
Research Group: Systems and Control
Title: Challenges for the Government in Intelligent Transport Systems
Speaker: Philip Mallon
Research Group: Microelectronics
SHORT COURSES
A/Prof. Trevor Blackburn & Dr Toan PhungZZ Short Course on “Partial Discharges in High Voltage Insulation”, July 12-13, 2010
A/Prof. Trevor Blackburn, Prof. Mehdi Vakilian & Dr Toan PhungZZ Short Course on “Applications of ATPDraw to Power System Analysis”, 19-20 August 2010
Prof. Andrew DzurakZZ CQCT Annual Workshop, Sydney, Feb 2010
ZZ International Conference on Nanotechnology and Nanoscience (ICONN-2010), Sydney, Feb 2010
ZZ UNSW Future leaders Workshop, Sydney, April 2010
ZZ Emerging Technologies Conference (Australian Department of Defence), Sydney, May 2010
ZZ University of Melbourne, School of Physics – Advanced Condensed Matter Graduate Seminar
ZZ CMOS Emerging Technologies Workshop, Whistler, Canada, May 2010
ZZ European Union – Australia Joint Science & Technology Coordination Committee, Sydney, June 2010
KeYnotes AnD tUtoRIAL PResentAtIons
A/Prof. Trevor BlackburnZZ Invited lecture, Conference on Remote Monitoring & Control Technologies in Oil & Gas, Mining & Industry, Perth August 2010
ZZ Judge, NSW branch of the Institution of Engineering & Technology (IET) “Present Around the World” thesis presentation competition
Dr Nick CutlerZZ Renewable Energy Research Conference, Trondheim, Norway, June 2010
ZZ Risø-DTU National laboratories, Roskilde, Denmark, June 2010.
ZZ University of Melbourne, for the Melbourne Energy Institute and the Earth Sciences Postgrad Society, October 2010
ZZ ARO/NSA/IARPA Quantum Computing & Quantum Algorithms Program Review, Cincinnati, August 2010
ZZ MORGO 2010 (“Taking Calculated Risks”), Waitangi, New Zealand, September 2010
ZZ Keio University Colloquium, Yokohama, Japan, September 2010
ZZ International Conference on Solid State Devices and Materials, Tokyo, Japan, September 2010
ZZ IEEE Macquarie Engineering Colloquium, Macquarie University, Sydney, October 2010
ZZ ANFF Research Showcase and International Advisory Committee Meeting, Melbourne, Nov 2010
ZZ 19th Australian Institute of Physics Congress, Melbourne, December 2010
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ZZ Atomic Functionalities in Silicon Devices (AFSiD) Workshop, Melbourne, December 2010
Dr Tara Julia HamiltonZZ Seminar at University of Wollongong, School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics, April 2010
ZZ Talk and discussion group at Telluride Neuromorphic Cognition Engineering Workshop, Telluride, Colorado USA, June - July 2010
ZZ Seminar at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, December 2010
A/Prof. Iain MacGillZZ IIR Electricity Substations and Network Management Conference Sydney, February 2010
ZZ ElC Annual Economics Teachers’ Conference, Sydney, March 2010
ZZ Professional Development Course and Academic Exchange for Technical Staff or FEDRC and QFB, China at Southern Cross University, March 2010
ZZ informa Decentralised Energy Conference, June 2010
ZZ Australian Defence Force Academy, August and September
ZZ Energy Politics and Governance, ANU, September
ZZ Energy Delta Convention 2010, Groningen, Netherlands, November 2010
Dr Andrea MorelloZZ Oral presentation at American Physical Society March Meeting, Portland, USA, March 2010
ZZ Invited talk at Single Dopant Control Workshop, leiden, The Netherlands, March-April 2010
ZZ Oral presentation at Silicon Science and Technology for Quantum Computing Workshop, Albuquerque, USA August 2010
Dr Geoffrey Stewart MorrisonZZ Keynote speaker at BIT’s 1st Annual World Congress of Forensic Science in Dalian, China, October 2010
ZZ Invited presentation at the 13th Australasian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology in Melbourne in December 2010
ZZ Presented tutorial and organised a Special Session on Forensic Voice Comparison and Forensic Acoustics at the 2nd Pan-American/Iberian Meeting on Acoustics in Cancún, Mexico, November 2010
A/Prof. Hugh OuthredZZ Public lecture, PSETEE STTNAS College, Jogjakarta, February 2010
A/Prof. Hugh Outhred with Dr Maria RetnanestriZZ Electrical Engineering Department, Gadjah Mada University UGM, Jogjakarta, Indonesia, May 2010
Dr Toan PhungZZ Invited talk on Partial Discharge Monitoring to EnergyAustralia, Sydney, 6 August 2010
ZZ Invited talk on Partial Discharge Monitoring to EnergyAustralia, Newcastle, 25 August 2010
ZZ Invited talk on Partial Discharge Monitoring to Integral Energy, Huntingwood, 17 November 2010
Prof. Andrey SavkinZZ Plenary talk at Chinese Multiagent Systems Conference, Beijing, October 2010
Prof. Fazlur RahmanZZ Key-note speech at the IECI Conference, “Role of Power Electronics in an Energy Conscious World”, Melaka, Malaysia, February 2010.
ZZ lecture Program of the Joint Electrical Institutions Sydney, “Towards More Electric Vehicles”, 2010 Engineers Australia, IEEE, IET, August 2010.
Prof. David TaubmanZZ Keynote speaker at WIAMIS’2010, April 2010
ZZ Gave a series of three invited tutorials at the University of Brescia, April 2010
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External research funding in the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications continues to grow. 2010 was a particularly strong year due in large part to significant infrastructure grants in addition to a good showing in national completive and other public sector grants.
Annual External Research Income 2008 2009 2010
Australian competitive grants $1,847,122 $1,903,902 $1,885,102
Other public sector research income $522,844 $443,590 $845,722
Industry and other research income $598,230 $655,757 $615,501
Research infrastructure and capital funding $332,448 $875,478 $3,435,703
Total external research income $3,300,644 $3,878,727 $6,782,028
NEW FUNDING COMMENCING IN 2010
Arc: Discovery Grants
David TaubmanDP1096665: Prof. DS Taubman
“Non Parametric Modelling of Motion and Depth fields with Boundary Geometry for Scalable Compression and Dissemination”
$376,000
Wei ZhangDP1094194: Dr W Zhang; Prof. X Xia
“Efficient Signal Transmission Techniques for Future Wireless Communications Systems”
$150,000
Iain MacGillDP1096268: Dr RA Betz; Dr IF MacGill
“Climate change and energy policy: elements of a robust policy mix”
$300,000
Andrew DzurakDP1096600: Prof. AB Rozenfeld; Prof. AS Dzurak; Prof. DN Jamieson; Dr ML Lerch; Dr S Guatelli; Dr Z Kuncic; Prof. M Zaider; Dr MI Reinhard
“Development of innovative radiation detectors and computational techniques for improving quality of life”
$310,000 (administered by UoW)
Arc: Linkage Grants
Vassilios G Agelidis LP0991663: Prof. VG Agelidis; Prof. B Vucetic; Dr Y Li
“An Intelligent Integrated Energy Communications System” $660,000
Francois Ladouceur LP100200532: A/Prof. Francois Ladouceur, Dr Andrew M Michie, Prof. Vladimir G Chigrinov
“Multipoint voltage sensor for high power distribution lines”
$270,000
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Iain MacGillLP100200756: Dr Iain F MacGill, Dr Paul J Twomey, Dr Regina A Betz
“The economic value of smart integration of electric vehicles into the Australian electricity industry”
$220,000
Torsten LehmannLP100200770: A/Prof. Gregg J Suaning, Dr Torsten Lehmann, Prof. David B Hibbert, Dr Paul M Carter, Mr Charles R Leigh, Mr Padraig J Hurley
“Chip-scale implantable bionics for next generation therapeutic neural prostheses”
$560,000 (administered by School of Grad Biomedical Engineering UNSW)
Geoffrey Stewart Morrison, Julien Epps, Eliathamby Ambikairajah LP100200142: Dr Geoffrey Stewart Morrison, Dr Julien R Epps, Prof. Eliathamby Ambikairajah, Prof. Gary Edmond, Prof. Joaquín González-Rodríguez, Dr Daniel Ramos, Prof. Cuiling Zhang
“Making demonstrably reliable forensic voice comparison a practical everyday reality in Australia”
$278,000
Tara J HamiltonLP100200275: Dr Floris A van Schaik, Dr Tara J Hamilton
“Novel circuits and design strategies for sub-65 nanometre complementary metal oxide semiconductor technologies”
$160,014
Deep Sen LP110100613: Dr Dipanjan Sen, Dr Brett A Swanson
“Physiologically accurate audio processing in cochlear implants”
$210,000
ARC: Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities LIEF
Several EE&T staff were named in successful cross Faculty and multi institutional lIEF grants commencing in 2010
Victor Solo LE100100055 (Administered by Faculty of Medicine, UNSW): Prof. Caroline Rae, A/Prof. Lynne E Bilston, A/Prof. Colin W Clifford, Prof. Vaughan G Macefield, A/Prof. Rosslyn A Simmons, Prof. Ronald R Grunstein, Prof. Victor Solo, Dr Thomas F Denson, Prof. John R Hodges
“State of the art upgrade to multi transmit multi receive technology for research dedicated 3 Tesla magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner”
$400,000.00
Francois LadouceurLE100100096 (Administered by School of Chemistry, UNSW): Dr Pall Thordarson, Dr Chiara Neto, Prof. John J Gooding, Prof. Gregory G Warr, Prof. Laura A Poole Warren, Prof. Hans G Coster, Prof. Tom P Davis, Prof. Anthony S Weiss, A/Prof. Francois Ladouceur, A/Prof. Sebastien Perrier, Prof. Vicki Chen, A/Prof. Brian S Hawkett, A/Prof. Martina Stenzel, Prof. Marcela M Bilek, Dr Penny J Martens, A/Prof. Katharina Gaus, Dr Margaret Sunde, A/Prof. Andrew T Harris, Dr Volga Bulmus, Prof. Brett A Neilan
“A unique soft matter high performance scanning probe microscopy (HP SPM) facility”
$450,000
Rodica RamerLE100100081 (Administered by UoW): Prof. Shi Xue Dou, Dr Germanas Peleckis, Prof. Anatoly B Rozenfeld, A/Prof. Gursel Alici, Prof. Mark J Walker, Dr Rongkun Zheng, Prof. Simon P Ringer, Dr Sean S Li, A/Prof. It Meng
(Jim) Low, A/Prof. Mohan V Jacob, Prof. Elena Pereloma, Prof. Janusz Nowotny, Prof. Hua Kun Liu, Prof. Catherine M Stampfl, A/Prof. Rodica Ramer, Dr Marc P in het Panhuis, Prof. Roger A Lewis, A/Prof. Alexey V Pan, Prof. Min Gu, Prof. Ying I Chen, Prof. Dr Xiaolin Wang, Prof. Robert L Stamps, Dr Shane J Kennedy, Dr Frank Klose, Dr Suzanne V Smith, Prof. Gordon G Wallace
“Combined scanning tunnelling microscope system for materials characterisation and manipulation at nano scale”
$600,000
Julien Epps, Eliathamby AmbikairajahLE100100211(Administered by UWS): Prof. Denis K Burnham, Dr Felicity M Cox, Prof. Andrew R Butcher, A/Prof. Janet M Fletcher, Prof. Michael Wagner, Dr Julien R Epps, Dr John C Ingram, Dr Joanne Arciuli, Dr Roberto Togneri, Dr Philip J Rose, Dr Nenagh M Kemp, Prof. Anne Cutler, Prof. Robert Dale, Dr Takaaki Kuratate, Prof. David M Powers, A/Prof. Stephen Cassidy, Dr David B Grayden, Dr Deborah E Loakes, Prof. Dr Mohammed Bennamoun, Dr Trent W Lewis, Dr Roland Goecke, Prof. Catherine T Best, A/Prof. Steven Bird, Prof. Eliathamby Ambikairajah, Prof. John T Hajek, Dr Shunichi Ishihara, Dr Yuko Kinoshita, Dr Dat T Tran, Dr Girija Chetty, Prof. Mark Onslow
“The Big Australian Speech Corpus: An audio visual speech corpus of Australian English”
$650,000
Andrew DzuraklE10010003 (Administered by USyd): Dr Julie M Cairney, Prof. Paul R Munroe, Prof. Simon P Ringer, Prof. Michael Ferry, Prof. Yiu Wing Mai, Dr Xiaozhou liao, Prof. David R McKenzie, Prof. Stuart R Wenham, Prof. Andrew S Dzurak, A/Prof. Marion A Stevens
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Kalceff, Prof. Geoffrey M Spinks, Prof. Shi Xue Dou, Dr Nagarajan Valanoor, Dr Zongwen liu, Dr Gwénaëlle Proust, Prof. David J Young, A/Prof. Filip C Braet, Prof. Tailoi Chan ling, Prof. Dr Thomas Maschmeyer, Prof. Hak Kim Chan, Dr Daniela Traini, Prof. Michael V Swain, A/Prof. Andrew T Harris, Prof. John W Crawford, Prof. Daniel T Potts
“Advanced focused ion beam (FIB) / scanning electron microscopes (SEM) for nanometre scale characterisation and fabrication”
$1,200,000
Other Commencing Research Funding
Andrew DzurakDIISR-EIF
Commonwealth investment in Australian National Fabrication Facility (ANFF)
$4,380,000
Andrew DzurakNSW Office for Science and Med
EIF - Australian National Fabrication Facility limited (ANFFl): NSW Nodes Consortium
$605,000
Trevor Blackburn & Toan PhungAustralian Strategic Technology Program (ASTP)
The Impact of Increasing Harmonic levels on Distribution System Equipment
$49,000
Deep SenAttorney-General’s Department Contract Research
“Acoustic Holography using Spatially Precise Acoustic Field Capture and Analysis”
$38,000
Hugh Outhred & Nick CutlerAustralian energy operator
“A study to develop a visual decision support tool to forecast large, rapid changes in wind power and manage power system security in the NEM”
$135,145
Geoffrey Stewart Morrison Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), through the Army Research Laboratory (ARL)
“Incorporation of forensic analysis techniques as part of an automatic speaker recognition system”
UNSW Internal/Strategic Grants
2010 Goldstar Awards:
ZZ Tuan Duong Hoang “Exploring newly emerging techniques in nonlinear control and filtering” - $40,000
ZZ Tim Moors (with Mahbub Hassan, CSE chief investigator), “Towards Safer Roads: Reliable Wireless Networking for Vehicles” - $30,000
ZZ Vijay Sivaraman (with Sanjay Jha, CSE chief investigator), “Flying Networks: Airborne Sensing for Environmental Monitoring and Disaster Response” - $30,000
2010 Faculty Research Grants / Early Career Research Grants:
ZZ Kok Hou Wong & Eun Hee Min “Chemical and Thermal Resilient PMMA Plastic Optical Fiber (POF) via Molecular Surface Modification” - $25,000
ZZ Stephen Redmond “Advanced technologies for the detection of falls among the elderly in the home environment” - $21,765
ZZ Mohaddeseh Nosratighods “Automatic Infant Cry Recognition using acoustic speech analysis” - $14,000
ZZ Elias Aboutanios “Chromatic Derivatives and Non-Stationary Biological Signals: An Investigation” - $25,000
2010 Major Research Equipment Infrastructure Initiative (MREII) and other infrastructure funding:
ZZ Gang-Ding Peng “Advanced facility for next generation sustainable energy, biomedical and nano-imaging optical fibre technology” - $610,000
ZZ Andrew Dzurak “SNF Special Gases System: Toxic/Flammable Gas-Handling Infrastructure for Nanostructure Device Processing” - $160,000
ZZ Andrew Dzurak “Nanotechnology Initiative” - $150,000
ZZ Andrew Dzurak “NCRIS 5.4 Fabrication” - $200,000
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Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets (CEEM)
The UNSW Centre for Energy and Environmental Markets (CEEM) was established in 2004 as interdisciplinary research collaboration between the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications (EE&T) and the School of Economics within the Faculty of Commerce and Economics. Dr Iain MacGill of EE&T is one of the two joint directors for CEEM, and Mr Ted Spooner is the Research Coordinator (Engineering). Prof. Hugh Outhred was the founding director of CEEM and is now a Visiting Professorial Fellow in EE&T. EE&T hosted three CEEM post doctoral fellows in 2010 – Dr Maria Retnanestri, Dr Rob Passey and Dr Nick Cutler.
The Centre undertakes research in three primary streams – sustainable energy transformation including energy technology assessment, renewable energy integration and energy services in developing countries; energy and environmental market design including electricity industry restructuring, emissions trading and renewable energy policy; and distributed energy options including energy efficiency, distributed generation and smart grids.
In addition to its on-going research activities, CEEM held its annual conference, hosted workshops and seminars plus presented external short courses, workshops and seminars in 2010
The following lists events hosted by CEEM IN 2010.
5th CEEM Annual Conference
The 5th CEEM Annual Conference was held on 25 February 2010. This one day conference aimed to provide an overview of the outcomes of the Copenhagen Climate Conference from different stakeholder perspectives as well as an assessment of its implications for Australian climate policy options. CEEM staff also gave short focussed presentations on a number of our research projects relevant to Australia’s current and proposed domestic energy and climate policies.
Workshops/Symposia/Public Fora
“Political innovations for climate policy in Australia: new paradigms for old problems?” UNSW, 3 Nov 2010.
Seminars - hosted by CEEM
“The Brave New World of Carbon Trading“ by Prof. Clive Spash, the Norwegian University of life Sciences, 3 March 2010.
“Subsidies for Renewable Energies in the Presence of learning Effects and Market Power”, by Johanna Reichenbach, University of Kiel, Germany, 28 April, 2010.
“A Field Experiment with Tradable Development Rights in Germany”, a public seminar by Jens Müller, Information Management and Market Engineering (IME) Graduate School at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany, 29 April, 2010.
“Forward Markets in the Electricity Industry: an Experimental Investigation”, by Silvester van Koten, CERGE-EI, Prague, Wed 1 May, 2010, Australian School of Business.
“What Energy Future? Sustainable lifestyles on a finite planet” by Dr Perry Sioshansi from Menlo Energy Economics, Friday 17 September, 2010
“Social Dimensions of Sustainable Energy”, by Dr Barbara Farhar, of the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute, University of Colorado at Boulder, Monday 11 October, 2010.
“Competitiveness issues in Phase 3 of the EU-ETS”, a public seminar by Dr Andreas löschel , Head of the Department of Environmental and Resource Economics, Environmental Management at the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim, Germany, 3.00 - 4.00pm Wed, 13 October, 2010.
External Events
CEEM staff presented at or participated in a number of Australian and International meetings, including the AuSES 2010 Conference, several local and international workshops and gave invited presentations at over 20 conferences during the year.
Nsw Node of the Australian National Fabrication Facility (ANFF)
The Australian National Fabrication Facility (ANFF) was established under the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) in 2007 to provide Australian researchers from both the public and private sectors with access to nano- and micro-fabrication equipment and services. The NSW Node of ANFF, directed by Prof. Andrew Dzurak, operates within the Semiconductor Nanofabrication Facility (SNF) at UNSW and offers particular expertise in nanoelectronics and high resolution electron beam
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lithography (EBl). More than 100 research staff and students from UNSW and external organisations made use of ANFF-SNF facilities in 2010.
ANFF-SNF cleanrooms cover more than 600m2, providing zones with particle counts equivalent to ISO5, ISO6 and ISO7. Key instruments and facilities include:
ZZ three high resolution EBl systems, including the flagship Raith 150TWO
ZZ UV lithography equipment
ZZ a range of deposition systems and etching tools
ZZ high temperature silicon oxidation, diffusion and annealing furnaces
ZZ wet chemical process lines
ZZ a suite of metrology tools
ZZ device packaging and bonding tools
ZZ Special Gases System to ensure the safe storage and distribution of hazardous process gases to the laboratory.
Commonwealth and State government investments throughout the period 2007-2013 are supporting a $9m procurement program for new research infrastructure to maintain ANFF-NSW’s identity as an internationally competitive research facility. Specific motivations for new tool purchases include support for 6” wafer scale processing, the introduction of new process technologies (such as atomic layer deposition) and a widening of the range of research disciplines supported (eg. by providing parallel process lines to accommodate non-Si-MOS compatible processes).
ANFF investments also provide salary support for a number of Node staff. Of particular value to ANFF users is the availability of ANFF process engineers
to provide training on all tools and processes running within ANFF-SNF, and to perform process development work on behalf of ANFF users.
EE&T Staff involved in ANFF include
ZZ Prof. Andrew Dzurak (Director of NSW Node)
ZZ Prof. Chee Yee Kwok
ZZ Prof. Rodica Ramer
ZZ Dr Christopher Escott
ZZ Dr Wee Han lim
ZZ Dr Fay Hudson
ZZ Dr linda Macks
ZZ Dr Aron Michael
ZZ Dr Floris Zwanenburg
ZZ Gordon Bates
ZZ Eric Gauja
ZZ Albert MacMaster
ZZ Joanna Szymanska
ZZ Karen Jury
anff-nsW node Director, prof. andrew Dzurak and unsW DVc(r), prof. les field with anff Board members at the anff-nsW opening
anff-nsW was formally opened on 26 february 2010 by nsW chief scientist and scientific Engineer, prof. mary o’Kane
ANFF-NSW Official Opening
The NSW Node of the Australian National Fabrication Facility (ANFF-NSW) was formally launched on 26 February 2010 with more than 150 guests in attendance from around Australia and overseas. Formal proceedings included: welcoming remarks by Prof. les Field, UNSW DVC(R), and Dr Bob Frater, ANFFl Chairman; presentations by Prof. Andrew Dzurak, ANFF-NSW Node Director, and Prof. Andrew Briggs, International Guest Speaker from Oxford University; and the official opening of the Node by Prof. Mary O’Kane, NSW Chief Scientist and Scientific Engineer. Prof. O’Kane also announced the award of $1.5m in State leveraging Fund support for the three NSW-based ANFF Nodes to provide salaries in support of the ANFF- EIF Project (2009-2013).
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A number of media releases and press articles followed the formal opening of ANFF-NSW:
ZZ “NSW Nanotech gets $1.5 million boost”, Press release from Jodi McKay, Minister for Science and Medical Research, NSW government, 26 February 2010.
ZZ “Nanotechnology Powers Up”, UNSW Media article featured on UNSW website and UNSW-Engineering website, March 2010.
ZZ “Nanotechnology Powers Up”, Uniken magazine, May/June 2010.
NATIONAL ICT AUSTRALIA (NICTA)
NICTA is Australia’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Centre of Excellence. The Centre is an independent company in the business of research, commercialisation and research training. With over 700 people, NICTA is the largest organisation in Australia dedicated to ICT research. One of the two Sydney-based NICTA laboratories is located at UNSW in building l5 on the west side of Anzac Parade.
NICTA aspires to be one of the world’s top-ten international ICT research institutes by 2020. The centre’s long-term contribution will be to create new ICT industries for Australia.
NICTA’s six research groups are:
ZZ Machine learning
ZZ Computer Vision
ZZ Software Systems
ZZ Optimisation
ZZ Control and Signal Processing
ZZ Networks (directed by Prof. Aruna Seneviratne)
As a founding member of NICTA, UNSW has a large-scale, long-term strategic partnership with NICTA. The Centre provides funding for salaries, PhD student scholarships, research funding and support, writing scholarships for PhD students and conference travel for academics engaged in NICTA research.
At the undergraduate level, NICTA sponsors the School of EE&T annual Fourth Year Thesis Poster Competition and funds the Telecommunications Excellence Awards, recognizing high achieving students in each year of the BE Telecommunications. In addition, several NICTA scholarships are offered in the Faculty Taste of Research
program run every year for high achieving students completing Year 3 of a BE program. Students have the opportunity to work in the NICTA labs. This program has been very successful in the School with many students going on to postgraduate research.
See the Awards and Prizes section of this Report for details of the 2010 NICTA Telecommunications Excellence winners.
In 2010, NICTA’s total funding support to UNSW exceeded $1.5 million, including joint appointments, scholarships and prizes, of which a substantial proportion was received by the School of EE&T. In 2010 there were 19 PhD students in the School in receipt of NICTA scholarships.
UNSW-NICTA Cluster: Technologies for Digital Economy
The cluster was set up in 2010 to foster closer collaborative research between EE&T and NICTA. Dr Vijay Sivaraman heads the research in the School and Dr Roksana Borelli at NICTA. Roksana is also a conjoint member of the School. The cluster currently employs one full-time researcher and one PhD student at EE&T with a similar number at NICTA, and it is expected to grow in size over time. The members meet weekly and are collaboratively working on privacy and trust issues in networks. The cluster published one conference and two journal papers within the first 8 months of existence.
Cognitive load measurement using physiological and behavioural signals
This research commenced in 2007 with speech-based cognitive load classification, and is headed by Dr Fang Chen, who holds a conjoint position with UNSW. Subsequently the project has expanded to also include EEG, GSR, eye activity and pen-based measures of mental load. Dr Julien Epps holds a
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joint appointment with the project, and Prof. Eliathamby Ambikairajah is also seconded. A total of six EE&T NICTA-supported PhD students are affiliated with the project, and weekly research and project meetings are held. In 2010 the group published two journal papers and eleven conference papers with an EE&T affiliation.
EE&T staff involved with NICTA include
ZZ Prof. Aruna Seneviratne (Director of ATP node)
ZZ Prof. Eliathamby Ambikairajah
ZZ Dr Julien Epps (Conjoint Senior Researcher at NICTA)
ZZ Dr Vijay Sivaraman
ZZ Dr Asghar Tabatabaei Balaei
ZZ Dr R.M. Upendra Sudesh Rathnayake
NICTA staff holding conjoint appointments with the School in 2010
ZZ A/Prof. Tim Hesketh
ZZ A/Prof. Roksana Borelli
ZZ Dr Fang Chen
ZZ Dr Sebastien Ardon
ZZ Dr Anirban Mahanti
a/prof. Vijay sivaraman heads the collaborative research unsW-nicta cluster: technologies for Digital Economy
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The School’s Industry Advisory Board provides a critical link with example major stakeholders of the School’s teaching and research outcomes. We herein express the sincere gratitude of the School for their energy, advice and interest in the future of the School.
The Board comprises key industry representatives who have an association with the School or who are School alumni. These representatives occupy an essential place in the quality assurance of our programs in that they continue to provide high level advice and feedback to the School about curriculum and program design, new courses, industry trends and needs, the expectation of industry with regards to graduate capabilities. They also provide assistance in marketing the School and its programs.
The Board meets formally twice a year, however continuous input and interaction is received via email correspondence. In 2010 the board had active input into the curriculum for the School’s design courses and provided valuable input into the design of the new 5-year integrated BE ME in Electrical Engineering. The board has expressed strong support for this program and its targeted graduate capabilities.
Board meetings are attended by the Head of School, heads of the research groups, the Director of Academic Studies, and the School Executive Officer.
Objectives of the IAB:ZZ To ensure EE&T programs and courses are valuable to high school students and that graduates are equipped with the appropriate skills as approved by industry
ZZ To develop industry based courses with the School
ZZ To advise the School on changes and innovation in industry so that they can be accommodated into our courses and programs so that we produce better graduates
ZZ To provide a link for staff to have industry experience, especially while on sabbatical from their academic career
ZZ To assist in the School’s marketing to increase interest in our programs
Steven Duvall Consultant
Quentin Goldfinch Director R&D Silverbrook Research
Grant Garraway Systems Engineering Manager Raytheon Australia
Nevill Inglis Technical Manager Avaya labs Australia
Kim Jagger Principal Sydney Boys High School
Steven Jones Manager Design & Construct Projects TransGrid
Jim Metcalfe Director, General Manager, Applied Technology Division CISRA (Canon Information Systems Research Australia Pty ltd)
Don Parker Director/Principal Engineer Provecta Process Automation Pty ltd
Neil Roberts Manager - Professional Development Ausgrid
Aruna Seneviratne Director, ATP laboratory, National ICT
Glen Wightwick Director, Australia Development laboratory Chief Technologist IBM Australia
a meeting of the industry advisory Board
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The Australian Power Institute (API)
With one of largest power engineering training groups in Australia, the School of EE&T is a significant recipient of funds from the Australian Power Institute and has a substantial number of API bursary holders within its student group.
The API was set up in 2004 with financial support from a large number of electrical supply utilities in Australia. They were concerned that the supply of graduate power engineers was inadequate to
satisfy the demands of the electrical industry in the current expansion phase of the industry, both in the industry user areas and in the supply system area. Recent research has estimated that there are currently approximately 5000 power engineering professionals in the industry in Australia and it is forecast that 700-1000 additional graduates will be needed in the next 5 years to meet growth and retirements from the industry.
The aims of the establishment of the API were to provide assistance to those Australian universities with power engineering teaching and research groups. The main aim of the assistance is to encourage more students to take up power engineering studies and to establish high quality training facilities to enable a supply of quality power engineers able to ensure the high standards of power engineering. To do this they provided financial assistance to employ new academic staff and to develop teaching existing power engineering laboratories in universities and to establish new laboratory and similar facilities to provide cutting edge technology for education purposes.
Initially the API concentrated its support on undergraduate teaching by providing funds for staff and laboratory support. At present the School has one academic member supported by the API and is currently advertising for a second academic to be supported by the API. Dr Jayashri Ravishankar was appointed under the Early Academic Career program in January 2010. A second position in Power Protection is expected to commence in late 2011.
As part of the teaching support the API developed a large number of teaching modules that were able to be accessed by any university power groups and used to support their teaching. The API also established a system of bursaries
for undergraduate students, providing them with some financial support and also, through the API member utilities, providing vacation employment in the power utilities for the bursary holders. The bursaries are aimed primarily at first year students but second and third year students are also eligible to apply.
In 2010 the School of EE&T hosted the Australian Power Institute bursary presentation which was attended by industry representatives, the bursary holders from 2007, 2008 and 2009 plus their families. The 2010 bursaries were sponsored by 33 companies in Australia. Three electrical engineering students from EE&T were recipients of the 2010 bursaries. They are Daniel Bahnean, Baneet Pal Kaur and William Widjaja.
More recently the API has addressed postgraduate teaching and research activities and is currently developing a proposal to establish a centre of excellence in research for power engineering, to be based at a number of universities, including UNSW.
In addition, UNSW has received a number of grants of money to enable its teaching laboratories to be developed. These include development of the high voltage teaching laboratory, the only one used for undergraduate training in Australia, the power electronics laboratory and the establishment of a power quality laboratory facility for training purposes.
Dr Jayashri ravishankar appointed under the Early career academic program
api 2010 recipients: (from left to right) Baneet pal Kaur, Daniel Bahnean and William Widjaja)
industry advisory Board members with the recipients of api Bursaries. front row right hand side: mike griffin (chief Executive & chief operating office, api)
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Energy Australia (Ausgrid)
The School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications has enjoyed a long relationship with Energy Australia (now Ausgrid).
The Energy Australia Chair in Electrical Power Economics
In 2010 Energy Australia agreed to sponsor the position of a Chair in Electrical Power Economics. The role of the Chair will focus on the development of economic, innovative and sustainable power systems including infrastructure, operation and supply and the impacts of an emissions trading scheme. The Memorandum of Understanding was signed by Energy Australia and UNSW in September 2010. The position will be advertised in 2011.
Ausgrid Cadetship Program
The Ausgrid Cadetship program is designed for high achieving students with strong academic results – particularly in maths and physics. The cadetship is a five-year program that combines work with university study. Successful students complete the BE Electrical Engineering, specialising in power engineering.
The following EE&T students commenced Ausgrid Cadetships in 2010:
ZZ Davina King (1st year)
ZZ Jonathan Sun (1st year)
ZZ Michael Canning (1st year)
ZZ Chris Brown (2nd year student)
Industry Seminars
Alumni Lecture Series at EE&T: An Industry Perspective on the Emergence of Smart Grids
Adrian Clark, alumnus of the School of Electrical Engineering & Telecommunications (Class of 2002), returned to the School to present a lecture on the industry perspective on the emergence of Smart Grids. Since graduation, Adrian has been working at Energy Australia (now Ausgrid) and is currently the Manager of the Smart Grids program for the company. His lecture was the first of EE&T’s Alumni lecture Series and was attended by 200 students and staff.
Thesis Poster Competition
Every year in November the School runs a thesis poster competition for BE students who have just completed their final year thesis. The competition is attended and judged by approximately 20 industry representatives, including the Industry Advisory Board. This provides the industry representatives with an opportunity to monitor the quality of, and have in-depth discussions with, our students. Representatives provide feedback, not only to the students, but also to the academic staff in relation to their knowledge on the topic and communication and presentation skills. This feedback has been very helpful for the Academic Executive Committee of the School with the aim of improving the thesis student presentations.
The School encourages industry-based final year thesis projects. These projects are usually created after students have spent time in an industrial training placement and have been motivated to continue with challenging projects.
See the Awards and Prizes section of this Report for details of the 2010 Poster competition winners.
Staff Training
Industry provides occasional training to staff in appropriate areas. In particular, Raytheon have provided courses to two academic staff in the area of systems engineering. This training was initiated through the Industry Advisory Board after agreement from the board that it would be beneficial for graduates to have increased exposure systems engineering concepts, particularly via our design courses.
perry stephenson on site during Energy australia work placement.
Zoja savkovic during industrial training
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Guest Lectures
Industry representatives provide occasional lectures in various courses. In particular, ElEC4445 Entrepreneurial Engineering and ElEC4122 Strategic leadership and Ethics involve guest lectures from professional engineers as well as professionals in other appropriate disciplines outside of engineering.
InDUstRY-BAseD CoURses
Network Systems Architecture Course (GSOE9758) – A UNSW-CISCO Collaboration
The official launch of GSOE9758 “Network Systems Architecture”, took place at the beginning of semester 2, 2010, with Kevin Bloch, Chief Technology Officer, Cisco Australia and New Zealand, the Dean of Engineering, Prof. Graham Davies, and the lecturers Dr Vijay Sivaraman (EE&T) and Prof. Sanjay Jha (CSE) present and addressing the students and industry attendees.
A key collaboration between Cisco and the Schools of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications and Computer Science and Engineering has resulted in the successful introduction of this new course. A pioneering course in Australia, it introduces the top-down process of architecting a network system, teaches how to align technology decisions with the business, and integrates the various methodologies and technologies which are typically taught in isolation. During the course, practical and real-world case studies were emphasised, such as architecture of the Australian National Broadband Network (NBN), University campus network, and mobile networks.
The course is targeted particularly at post-graduate coursework students and individuals already in industry, as well as final year BE students. People working in industry are encouraged to attend without gaining formal UNSW credit. Session 2, 2010 saw approximately 54 enrolled students, including 6 industry participants. The course was well-received, and students perceived great value in learning how business drivers play a key role in technology selection. The course is being offered again in session 2, 2011.
CISCO Certified Networking Academy Courses
A Cisco Certified Networking Academy, established and located within the School of EE&T, has been running courses that have enabled many students from both the University of NSW and industry to become qualified as industry recognised Cisco Certified Network Associates (CCNA). This local Academy is part of a “global education program that teaches students how to design, build, troubleshoot, and secure computer networks for increased access to career and economic opportunities in communities around the world”. Students are also able to pursue additional training such as the CCNA Security curriculum which provides “a next step for individuals who want to enhance their CCNA-level skill set and help meet the growing demand for network security professionals.
The CCNA courses, which consist of online material, interactive tools, and hands-on learning activities, complement the School’s degrees and help individuals prepare for networking careers in particular.
The most popular courses help enable students to obtain the Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) certificate which is highly regarded by employers seeking employees with networking skills. During 2010 approximately 50 students undertook CCNA courses.
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Industrial Training is assessed as a compulsory part of the course ElEC4122 Strategic leadership and Ethics. Students must complete the industrial training requirement in order to receive a completed assessment for this course, but the industrial training assessment does not affect the mark received for ElEC4122.
The industrial training requirement in all undergraduate engineering degree programs continues to provide an essential complement to university coursework. Students are required to submit a written report on their industry placements, typically 2000-3000 words, describing the organisation of the Company and summarising the work done and the training received. The report must be accompanied by certification of their industrial placement by a senior company representative.
Many EE&T students elect to do more training than the minimum 60 days, widening their practical experience and increasing their value as graduate engineers to prospective employers. Below is a list of some companies who provided Industrial Training placements to EE&T students during 2010.
Although the list is not exhaustive, the School would like to thank all companies who provided training to our undergraduate students over the past few years.
3M Australia
Actew-AGl
ADVANPACK SOlUTIONS PTE lTD
AGIlENT TECHNOlOGIES
Alcatel-lucent
Alstom
AUSTRAlIAN ARMY RESERVE
Australian Communications and Media Authority
BECA PTY lTD
BHP BIllITON
BIG SWITCH PROJECTS
BrainWaves – A Step Ahead
CANON INFORMATION SYSTEMS RESEARCH AUSTRAlIA
CAP-XX (supercapacitors)
China Telecom
China Telecom, Guang Han, Sichuan Province
CHZM HIll AUSTRAlIA
Cisco
COCHlEAR lTD
CONNEll WAGNER
COUNTRY ENERGY
CSIRO
DEFENCE MATERIAl ORGANISATION
DEFENCE SCIENCE TECHNOlOGY AGENCY
Delta Electricity
DIGIPlUS
Downer EDI
ElECTROIMPACT
ElTEK PACIFIC PTY lTD
ENERGY AUSTRAlIA
E-nose
Eraring Energy
ERICSSON AUSTRAlIA PTY lTD
ESDR Electronics
FSH (Fire Services Hardware)
FUJITSU MICROElECTRONIC
GEMPlUS TECHNOlOGIES ASIA PTE lTD
General Electric, Korea
GEORGE BEYROUTHI
GFI GROUP PTE lTD
GHD
Honeywell
HPM
Indian Oil Corporation
INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH
Institute of Microelectronics Singapore
INTEGRAl ENERGY
Intel Malaysia
IP AUSTRAlIA
JCM GOlD HK lIMITED
JP MORGAN
JPSpec, Malaysia
Jurutera Teras Bistar (consulting engineers), Malaysia
Korea Telecom (China)
KEPPEl SHIPYARD (BENOI YARD)
lake Technology
larson and Toubro (India)
MHIS
Mike Rectifiers
MOBIlE COMMUNICATION GROUP
NAlCD PACIFIC
National ICT Australia
National Instruments
National Measurement Institute
NEC Shanghai
NEMMCO
Neuroscience Research Australia
NOKIA
NORMAN DESIGN AND YOUNG
NORMAN DISNEY & YOUNG
Northrup Consulting Engineers
NSW Dept of Commerce (Gov’t Chief Information Office)
Omron Electronics
Optical Fibre Technology Centre
Orion Integration
OSTECHNOlOGY
Omron Electronics
macar awad in his 4th year industrial training placement in railcorp
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PACIFIC CONNEX lTD
Partners in Productivity
PHIlIPS
MEDICAl SYSTEMS
POWER AUTOMATION PTE lTD
Public Works Department, Malaysia
PT Chevron Pacific Indonesia
Qualcomm
RailCorp
Renewable Energy Systems Australia
ResMed
Rexchip Electronics Corp, Taiwan
Rio Tinto Alcan Yarwun
REUTERS
ROADS AND TRAFFIC AUTHORITY
RODE MICROPHONES
SAM YICK ENG. lTD.
Sapphicon Semiconductor
SCHNEIDER ElECTRIC AUSTRAlIA
SEAGATE
SENSATA TECHNOlOGIES
ShunDe XinGuang Electrical Appliance Company (China)
SIEMENS AUSTRAlIA
Silverbrook Research
SINGAPORE TECHNOlOGIES AEROSPACE PTE lTD
SINGTEl OPTUS PTY lTD
STARHUB PTE lTD
STARNET
Startech Communications
STEP Electronics (Hills Industries)
TAllYGENICOM PTE lTD
Teleplan
Tenrod
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS
Tianjin Electric and Power Company
TOSHIBA ElECTRONICS MAlAYSIA
TOSHIBA PTE lTD
TRACTOR lINE HOlDINGS
TRANS GRID
UEC TECHNOlOGIES
UNIlEVER AUSTRAlIASIA
UNION SWITCH AN SIGNAl
United Group limited, Infrastructure
UNITED GROUP RAIl, MAINTRAIN
UNITED MICROElECTRONICS CORPORATION
VOR ENVIRONMENTAl
Waterman AHW
WESTERN DIGITAl MAlAYSIA
WorkBuddy Solutions
V-Fuel
Zhejiang Electric Power Design Institute
Zoja savkovic on site during her industrial training placement
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stAFF VIsIts AnD seConDMents
Dr Julien Epps
ZZ Senior Researcher (Joint appointment with UNSW), National ICT Australia, 2009 -2012
A/Prof. Robert Malaney
ZZ Visiting Professor in the Department of Physics, The University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Dr Andrea Morello
ZZ On sabbatical leave (SSP) from April 1 to June 30, 2010 at the Walter-Schottky Institute, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Dr Geoffrey Stewart Morrison
ZZ Invited lecturer in the Judicial Phonetics Specialisation Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas / Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo in Madrid, Spain
ZZ Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of linguistics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
GeRRIC tWo DAY WoRKsHoP
The School participated in the January summer holiday program run by the Gifted Education Research Resource and Information Centre (GERRIC) at UNSW by offering new workshop called “Human body meets machine”. Dr Stephen Redmond planned and hosted the two day event for GERRIC.
In addition to some basic introductory electrical engineering, the school students were hooked up to machines to play computer games. The machines read the electrical signals made naturally when students flexed their arm muscles. The computer recorded and interpreted the signals, then moved the figure in the computer game as a result. The interaction between the human body and machines is significant area of research within EE&T and one of Stephen’s areas of interest. GERRIC’s holiday programs allow gifted young people to work on material that really challenges them in a manner that is not available in schools. Almost 700 young people – from as young as four years through to 16 years of age – gave up part of their holidays to attend classes at UNSW. There are 60 different workshops on offer throughout the year. Stephen Redmond’s “Human body meets machine” was one of 20 which was offered for the first time.
HIGH sCHooL YeAR 10 WoRKsHoP
An initiative was undertaken by the School in 2010 to promote electrical engineering to high school students. The students were invited to EE&T for a one week workshop in electrical engineering during their spring school holidays (27 September – 1 October). The four and a half day workshop included twenty Year 10 students selected by their respective schools. In total, twelve schools were represented at this workshop. Five EE&T staff members, Stephen Redmond, Julien Epps, Jayashri Ravishankar, Tara Hamilton and Ray Eaton coordinated the workshop which included hands-on challenges, introductory topics in electrical engineering, laboratory tours, social events and a site visit to Cochlear. The Cochlear visit was sponsored by the Tek Mark Group (supplier of test and measurement equipment).
Over 90% of the participants indicated that they would like to attend a follow-up Year 11 workshop to be held in semester 2 in 2011. The strong indication from these students is that they would like to seriously pursue electrical engineering at UNSW when they finish high school.
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Visits
Tunghai University visit (20 April 2010)
University of Kuala Lumpur visit (22nd April 2010) In April 2010, the Deputy Director of the International Office at University of Kuala lumpur (UniKl) Ms Nor Zunaini Abdul Kadir, visited the School of EE&T, along with her colleague Professor Badri, the Dean of the Electrical Engineering Faculty at UniKl to discuss the possibilities of UniKl students studying at EE&T, UNSW under the 1+3 program.
School of EE&T visit to Temasek, Singapore
Dr Ray Eaton and Prof. Ambikairajah visited Temasek Engineering School, Singapore in June 2010 to strengthen collaborations between the two schools and to engage Temasek students in the EE&T, UNSW 2+2 program.
Visit to UK and Ireland
In July 2010, Prof. Ambikairajah visited the University of Birmingham, UK and also British Telecom laboratories to establish research collaborations between these institutions and EE&T. As part of this visit, Prof. Ambikairajah also visited the National University of Ireland, Galway and the Athlone Institute of Technology to strengthen existing links between these institutes and the School of EE&T.
Following this visit, Dr Peter Jancovic and Dr Munevver Kokuer from the University of Birmingham spent a week at EE&T, UNSW in December 2010 via the U21 exchange.
International Research Visitors
Hosted by Prof. Gang-Ding Peng
ZZ Prof. Dongjian He, Mechanical and Electronic Engineering, Northwest University of Agriculture and Forestry, China, February 2010
ZZ Prof. Xin Tan and Mr Yasong of Tianjin University, China, March 2010
Hosted By Prof. Rodica Ramer
ZZ Prof. Manos M. Tentzeris, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA, October2010
ZZ Dr Sami Barmada, University of Pisa, ITAlY, September 2010
ZZ Dr Marco Raugi, University of Pisa, ITAlY, September 2010
Hosted by Dr Wei Zhang
ZZ Prof. Xia li, Shenzhen University, China, February 2010
ZZ Prof Khaled Ben letaief, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, April 2010
ZZ Prof. Xuemin (Sherman) Shen, University of Waterloo, Canada, April 2010
ZZ Prof. Rui Zhang, I2R & National University of Singapore, April 2010
ZZ Prof. Shuguang Cui, Texas A&M University, USA, April 2010
ZZ Prof. Zhu Han, University of Houston, USA, April 2010
ZZ Dr Shengli Zhang, Shenzhen University, China, April 2010
ZZ Dr Xiaoli Chu, King’s College london, UK, April 2010
ZZ Prof. Xi Zhang, Texas A&M University, USA, April 2010
ZZ Prof. lifeng lai, University of Arkansas, little Rock, USA, October 2010
PRoMotIon AnD MARKetInG oF ee&t
In 2010 the School continued its online advertising with Google, Facebook and Baidu.
Open day in 2010 was well attended despite the inclement weather. EE&T put on a great show of its skills and talents with help from staff, students and alumni. This year representatives from key engineering employers joined the EE&T stand making it one of the largest ever.
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From a learning and teaching perspective, 2010 was a productive year, with the School focusing considerable attention on two issues, namely preparation for Engineers Australia Accreditation (to occur) in early 2011, and the design and ultimate approval of a new innovative 5-year degree program, the Bachelor of Engineering Master of Engineering (BE ME) in Electrical Engineering with minor.
The School now offers a suite of degree programs providing significant flexibility of choice for students wishing to pursue either an undergraduate or postgraduate education. The School remains committed to providing students with the best possible educational experience while equipping them with the necessary skills and attributes required when they graduate.
Following on from 2009, the School continues to be at the forefront of teaching innovation. This is evidenced not only by the increase in the smart use of educational technology, but also the award of several learning and teaching grants within the School in 2010. In terms of program innovation, the new 5-year BE ME with minor degree is also something the School is very proud of, and excited about.
At the undergraduate level, the School currently delivers single degree programs in each of the areas of Electrical Engineering, Telecommunications, and Photonics. A suite of combined degrees are also available to students, as listed below. These programs require an additional 1-2 years on top of that required completing the normal single degree. At the postgraduate level, a range of coursework programs are delivered, including the accredited* Master of Engineering (ME), Master of Engineering Science (MEngSc), Graduate Diploma (GradDip), and Graduate Certificate (GradCert).
At both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, each of the programs allows students to specialise in one key of from communications, systems and control, signal processing, energy and power systems, microsystems, photonics, or biomedical engineering.
Single Degree Years
BE (Electrical Engineering) 4
BE (Telecommunications) 4
BE (Photonics) 4
Combined Degrees Years
BE BA (Elec Eng/Tele/Phot) 5
BE BSc (Elec Eng/Tele/Phot) 5
BE MBioMedE (Elec Eng/Tele/Phot) 5
BE BCom (Elec Eng/Tele) 5.5
BE llB (law) (Elec Eng/Tele) 6
Postgraduate Coursework Degrees Years
GradCert 1
GradDip 1.5
MEngSc 1.5
MEngSc (Ext) 2
ME (accredited*) 2
*Seeking accreditation from Engineers Australia.
The School saw a healthy increase in commencing undergraduate students in 2010, with 233 new enrolments compared to 173 in 2009. The total undergraduate student enrolment in 2010 was 642, a small increase from the total the previous year. 2010 saw the first intake of students into the 2-year ME program which caters primarily to international students. In addition, there was an increase in the total number of international postgraduate coursework students for the engineering science degrees. With an increase in appointed staff, and student numbers as they were in 2010, the student/staff ratio remained at a healthy level of 17.4. Commencing and total enrolments by degree program are tabled below:
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Program Code 2008 2009 2010
Electrical Engineering 3640 75 103 137
Telecommunications 3643 17 24 27
Photonics 3644 1 4 2
EE/Biomed 3727 11 15 8
Tele/Biomed 3723 1 0 1
EE/Science 3725 7 14 15
Tele/Science 3641 0 3 2
Photonics/Science 3634 2 0 0
EE/Arts 3720 0 1 7
Tele/Arts 3646 0 2 0
BE/BCom 3715 14 7 34
Total 128 173 233
Undergraduate Student/Staff Ratio
2008 2009 2010
Student Number 613 634 642
Academic Staff 32 34 37
Student/Staff Ratio 19.2 18.6 17.4
stUDent LeARnInG sUPPoRt
Students are informed via the School website and individual course outlines, of how to avail themselves of services and support outside the School, including the learning centre, the careers and counselling service and the library. Within the School, students receive learning support via several mechanisms, including:
Director of Academic Studies: In addition to the School office and its staff, the Director of Academic Studies acts as a primary interface for all students with the School, providing undergraduate and postgraduate student consultation. Students consult for advice on such issues as program planning, program and course approval, and academic standing. The Director of Academic Studies is also supported by a Postgraduate Coursework Coordinator.
Academic advisors: The School has assigned four academic advisors who are available, primarily to students who are facing academic issues and who the university have deemed to be in poor academic standing. Students not in good academic standing are required to meet with one of the advisors to discuss any difficulties the students are experiencing and if possible provide assistance or advice in this regard. The advisors provide academic counselling and program planning advice to assist them in returning to good academic standing. The advisors work in collaboration with the Director of Academic Studies.
School Office: Staff within the School office provide administrative support for undergraduate and postgraduate students to assist with course selection, enrolment, timetabling issues, and final year thesis management. They are also able to direct students toward alternative and/or additional help if required. In addition, the School records system is managed by the School office. The School office staff are trained by the School office manager who reports to the Director of Academic Studies.
Academic and Tutor Access: Academic and tutorial staff of a particular course are available to students for consultation. This usually takes the form of small-group consultation or individual consultation. Additional academic staff support is provided via email or the learning management system. In addition, if there are requests from the students for additional tutorials, then short-term, “in-house” tutorial support is made available.
ELSOC: The Electrical Engineering Society (ElSOC) is an integral and vital part of the School and who foster a strong group dynamic. All undergraduate students are automatically members of ElSOC upon initial enrolment. In addition to
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social events to enhance the student learning experience, ElSOC is responsible for organising and running tutorials for 2-3 hours per week during semester time, particularly for first and second year courses. Similar support is available for advanced standing students. ElSOC have also constructed an electrical engineering Wiki, http://elsoc.wikia.com/wiki/ELSOC_Wiki, which provides for a group learning environment.
Technical and Professional Officers: The technical and professional officers provide student support, particularly in the area of laboratory management including OH&S, maintenance of computing facilities and final year thesis.
Facilities: All students have access to computing support within the School in the form of a computer laboratory. Computing facilities within this laboratory enable students to undertake general purpose computing such as word processing and internet-based work as well as more technical computing involving Matlab, C compilers, and other CAD-based software. These computing facilities are open extended hours.
ACADeMIC eXeCUtIVe CoMMIttee (AeC)
The AEC is the education committee of the School, responsible for maintaining and improving all academic programs within the School. This involves many aspects, such as monitoring and implementing quality control of teaching, discussing short term and longer term teaching plans for the School, discussing and recommending new course and program proposals and course revisions, providing a forum for new and innovative teaching and learning strategies to improve the student learning experience.
In 2010, members of the AEC included:
ZZ Prof. Chee Yee Kwok, Chair
ZZ Dr Ray Eaton, Director of Academic Studies
ZZ Dr Julien Epps
ZZ Dr Torsten lehmann
ZZ Dr Toan Phung
ZZ Dr Deep Sen
ZZ Prof. David Taubman
ZZ A/Prof. Jinhong Yuan
The committee normally meets on five or six occasions during the year. During 2010, it was particularly active, meeting eight times, primarily due to Engineers Australia accreditation planned for early 2011 and the design of the new 5-year BE ME degree. Outside these meetings, the committee members were also involved in providing academic advice at information and open days, and at the various visits at which High School students attended the School.
Among the agenda items that were discussed and dealt with by the AEC during 2009 were:
ZZ Design of 5-year BE ME degree with minor. This unique program is aimed at elite students, and allows them to gain a postgraduate qualification in electrical engineering while also exposing them to significant breadth through a chosen minor taken outside the School.
ZZ Single degree program reviews. The current single degree programs have been in place now since 2006, with the first intake in 2006 now graduated. For this reason, and prompted by the EA accreditation in 2011, the programs were reviewed by the AEC. Minor structure recommendations were made, however revisions were largely confined to ensuring the content of the courses were up to date and synchronised.
Head of School of EE&T interviewed by Sydney Morning Herald (15th May 2010)
The Head of School, Prof. Eliathamby Ambikairajah, was interviewed by the Sydney Morning Herald on the work that he has been doing in improving student learning and using educational technology.
The article was featured in the Saturday 15th May 2010 edition: http://www.smh.com.au/national/education/no-time-for-playtime-20100514-v4gv.html
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ZZ Mapping of graduate attributes and assessments. The AEC undertook a curriculum and assessment mapping exercise as a part of the program review, also an important contributor to the EA accreditation in 2011.
ZZ Review of the 4th year Design Proficiency course. This design course in 4th year is an important “gatekeeper” course for students, assessing their design competency in the various sub-disciplines of electrical engineering. As a part of the program and course review, the AEC undertook a more detailed analysis of the feedback and results of this course. Such analysis revealed students could benefit from additional design skills going into 4th year. The AEC thus proposed and planned a design skills workshop for students entering 4th year to be run in February 2011.
ZZ External Quality Assurance report. This commissioned report continued on from 2009, following the visit from an external international visitor, Prof. David Wilcox. Prof. Wilcox visited in late 2009 and early 2010, undertaking an extensive quality assurance assessment of the undergraduate programs within the School. As a result of the report produced by Prof. Wilcox, the AEC discussed its various recommendations, including laboratory demonstrator training and examination paper consistency. The AEC have taken action against some of the recommendations.
ZZ Discussion of the assessment of final year thesis. This issue is also a discussion/action point for the Faculty of Engineering as a whole, and is still an ongoing discussion. The discussion centred around the consistency and approach of assessing final year thesis reports, ensuring that there are clear guidelines for academic staff in the assessment process.
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2010 Faculty Learning and teaching grants:
Congratulations to staff who secured grants to develop learning and teaching initiatives in 2010. These are significant achievement towards the School’s learning and Teaching initiatives.
Elias Aboutanios “Development of a Systems Engineering Curriculum Tied to the BlueSat student satellite project” - $8,000
The purpose of this work was to develop an introductory satellite systems course that will primarily prepare students interested in taking part in the BlueSat project. The wider aim of the project is to lay the groundwork for an
introductory space systems engineering course that can form a starting point for a complete masters program in satellite systems engineering.
Ray Eaton “Development of a suite of online modules for teaching ElEC1111” - $17,000
This project aims to progress the current use of educational technology, to develop an online module-based course teaching the fundamentals of electric circuits. As such, the course will be split up into many smaller modules, with each module comprising a small lecture clip (on average 15-20 minutes), accompanied by online interactive tutorials, a smaller lab exercise, and finally an online assessment task. More difficult concepts can be also explained via the use of online video tutorials as well as narrated and videoed practical experiments. The assessment for each module will be executed online also via the use of multiple-choice, and short answer/calculation style problems.
Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) Grant
Iain Skinner, Pam Mort, Rudrajit Mitra (UNSW) and colleagues from USyd. “An Online Writing Centre for Undergraduate Engineering Students: a One Stop Shop” - $219,000
The project will create a customised on-line space (OWC) to develop students’ writing in a systematic and coordinated way across engineering disciplines in the undergraduate years at UNSW and USyd. The project will encompass the development of both face-to-face and online resources which will be merged in an online setting embedded within engineering curricula. The resources will provide students with relevant, engineering-based learning materials and activities, supported by elearning tools to develop written communication across the undergraduate years. The OWC will also meet students’ writing needs through a semi-automated diagnostic assessment of their writing. This will link them with appropriate resources and activities. In this way, the OWC will make explicit for students their learning outcomes in writing as they move from years 1 to 4 through interactive resources targeting the various writing products (eg design report, field-report, thesis). At the same time, elearning tools will guide students through the writing process, providing structures for their drafts and prompts to stimulate reflection on their writing. The OWC will allow students to build a portfolio of their writing and lecturers to create learning communities to promote peer feedback. As members of the community, lecturers will also be able to provide feedback on drafts or final versions of students’ work. The project will build on the team’s established
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expertise in the design, development, implementation and evaluation of writing resources for students in online and face-to-face contexts.
External Quality assessment by Emeritus Prof. David Wilcox
The School commissioned an external international examiner to undertake a quality assessment of the undergraduate programs within the School. The visit took place both in November 2009, as well as in March 2010. The purpose of the visit was to carry out a Quality Assurance assessment on the programs, course, facilities and staff. For this task, Emeritus Prof. David Wilcox from the National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG), was invited. The assessment involved (but was not limited to):
ZZ Analysing and assessing the program content for each of the School’s programs.
ZZ Assessing the undergraduate examination papers and providing feedback.
ZZ Assessing some of the School’s laboratory materials.
ZZ Moderating a selection of undergraduate theses.
ZZ Meeting undergraduate students from varied cohorts.
ZZ Meeting and having discussions with, the staff and the AEC.
ZZ Observing some of the various teaching activities within the School.
Prof. Wilcox compiled a report, within which several commendations and recommendations were outlined. In particular, and among others, he commended the School on its degree programs, leadership, morale, use of educational technology, and embracing of innovation. Several recommendations were also made by Prof. Wilcox, including improvements on the way in which teaching is assessed, and how laboratory demonstrators are chosen and trained. All recommendations have been discussed by the AEC, many of which have been actioned.
Block-Mode Summer Courses
Following on from their success in 2009, an expanded suite of courses were run in block-mode over the summer period. The courses cater for the different needs of students, such as: mid-year entry or advanced standing students whose program needs to be better synchronised going into the next year; students wishing to accelerate their program such that they can either finish in a shorter time, or be able to “underload” during the normal semester time and their
final year when the thesis is taken. These summer courses were initially introduced in the summer period between 2009 and 2010 as part of the School’s learning and teaching strategy. In the 2010/2011 summer semester the following courses were run:
ZZ ElEC1111 Electrical and Telecommunication Engineering (Year 1)
ZZ ElEC2134 Circuits and Signals (Year 2)
ZZ ElEC2133 Analogue Electronics (Year 2)
ZZ ElEC3104 Digital Signal Processing (Year 3)
ZZ TElE3113 Analogue and Digital Communications (Year 3)
ZZ TElE3118 Network Technologies (Year 3)
The block mode delivery provides increased flexibility in student learning encourages and promotes self-directed learning for students and reduces the teaching load for academic staff during normal semester times.
The summer courses run over an 8-week period straddling the Christmas/New Year break. They are provided with no face to face lectures, but rather with pre-recorded video lectures and access to an experienced research student mentor. In addition, labs and tutorials are provided in block-mode, and hence students are required to participate in intensive lab and tutorial sessions in just two of the 8 weeks. Academic staff involvement is limited to support and monitoring of the mentor, as well as setting the assessments.
Course Details:
ZZ Enrolments normally restricted to 25 students per course. In the 2010/2011 summer session, the capacity of two courses was doubled as a trial.
ZZ Duration of course – 8 weeks, split into two 4-week periods before and after Christmas/New Year
ZZ Online and pre-recorded video lectures – pre recording done in live lectures or non-live lectures using electronic white board technology
ZZ Quizzes at end of each lecture set to enable progress to next set of lectures
ZZ Weeks 1-3 and 5-7 for independent learning using videos
ZZ labs and Tutorials in weeks 4 and 8
ZZ One mentor (senior PhD student) assists each course to liaise with students online and face-to-face in weeks 4 and 8.
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Go8 Benchmarking
2010 saw the re-introduction of a Heads of Schools of Electrical Engineering workshop, initiated, organised and hosted by the School of Electrical Engineering & Telecommunications. This workshop was attended by electrical engineering Schools from all Go8 universities in Australia, and provided a forum to discuss a great range of issues including learning and teaching, teaching innovation, challenges in electrical engineering education, research, funding, and current and future degree models. This was a very constructive and collegial meeting, not only paving the way for possible future collaborations, but also providing a means of School benchmarking.
neW CoURses & PRoGRAMs
GSOE9758 Network Systems Architecture. This new course was run for the first time in 2010. Approximately 60 students enrolled, and 6 industry representatives attended the course without assessment, rendering the course a success. The School will run the course again in 2011, after which the School of Computer Science and Engineering will take over for the next 2 years.
GSOE9510 Ethics and Leadership in Engineering. This course was also run for the first time in 2010. This course was designed as a postgraduate version of the 4th year core ethics course, ElEC4122. The course can be taken as an engineering and technical management course in all the Masters by coursework programs.
2-Year Master of Engineering. This program to be accredited by Engineers Australia, received its first student intake in 2010. This program appeals to international students, wishing to receive an accredited Masters degree, undertaking project work, design, and a wide choice of professional and postgraduate electives.
The Heads of Schools in Electrical Engineering in the G08 and associate universities attended a 2 day workshop (30th Nov/1st Dec) that was organised by the School of Electrical Engineering & Telecommunications in collaboration with ADFA. The 2 day workshop had a total of 8 sessions with many facilitators. The workshop was highly commended by all who participated.
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tHe neW 5-YeAR Be Me
The School has introduced a 5-year integrated degree program, the Bachelor of Engineering Master of Engineering in Electrical Engineering with minor. This program is designed to attract elite local and international students who wish to pursue both a professional undergraduate degree and an engineering Masters degree in electrical engineering within the one program with additional flexibility to undertake a minor either within or outside the Faculty. The program intends to not only provide students with a broad education in another discipline through their chosen minor, but importantly, future engineering graduates for industry who have significant depth of knowledge in electrical engineering. Such an elite integrated degree program does not currently exist in Australia.
There are moves in Australia towards wider availability of 5-year professionally accredited engineering programs. The School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications has developed an outline for such a 5-year program which is expected to lead to accreditation by Engineers Australia (subject to approval) and provide engineers to industry with a high level of professional competency in electrical engineering.
The BE ME offers:
Improved flexibility:
ZZ A minor can be chosen in many interest areas - psychology, music, languages, commerce, mechatronics, photovoltaics, maths, physics, computer science are currently available, with more to come.
ZZ Significant elective choice exists from year 2 onwards, including choice among 19 postgraduate electives not normally accessible to 4-year BE program students.
Better specialisation:
ZZ Students maximise their depth of learning in the Electrical Engineering disciplines of their choice.
ZZ Increase advanced project work, allowing students to work right at the cutting edge during their fourth and fifth year project.
More design:
ZZ Coursework thread in engineering design from year 1 to year 4.
Easier integration with international exchange
ZZ Four to six courses can be arranged overseas as a part of the minor.
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Minors for the BE ME in Electrical Engineering programUAC Code: 425013 Program Code: 3731 CRICOS Course Code: 074733F
Minors consist of a minimum of 4 courses and a maximum of 6 courses, mutually agreed upon by the School of Electrical Engineering & Telecommunications and the School providing the minor. Minors taken within the Faculty of Engineering must consist of a maximum of 4 courses as 2 general education courses must be taken outside the Faculty.
The degree can be completed in 4.5 years if students do two summer sessions.
In May 2011, The University of New South Wales became the first Australian institution to be awarded the maximum five stars in the new QS Stars™ ratings system, a comprehensive evaluation based on 30 indicators conducted by QS, the higher education information provider behind the QS World University Rankings. UNSW Electrical Engineering is listed as 34th in the world according to these rankings.
Music MinorYear 2 MUSC1101 Music reinvented
Year 3/4/5 Select two courses in Musicianship
AND
Select one from the following: Electronic Music; Film Music; Popular Music; Music history; Psychology of Music; Music analysis; Ethnomusicology; Musicianship C
Language MinorYear 2/3/4/5 Select six language courses are available in different
languages
Commerce MinorYear 2/3/4/5 ACCTB2 Accounting
FINSB2 Finance
ECONC2 Business Economics
ECONB2 Business Strategy
IBUSB2 International Business
MGMTA2 Management
MGMTB2 Human Resource Management
MARKB2 Marketing
Psychology MinorYear 2/3/4/5 PSCY1001 - Psychology 1A
PSCY1011 - Psychology 1B
PSYC2061 - Social and Developmental Psychology
PSYC2071 - Perception and Cognition
PSYC2081 - Learning and Physiological Psychology
PSYC2101 - Assessment, Personality and Psychopathology
Mechatronics MinorYear 3/4/5 MTRN3020 Modelling and Control of Mechatronic Systems
MTRN3100 Robot Design
MTRN4230 Robotics
MTRN4010 Advanced Autonomous Systems
Photovoltaics MinorYear 2 SOLA3540 Applied Photovoltaics
Year 3/4/5 Select three from the following of:
SOLA2020 Photovoltaic Techn & Manufacturing
SOLA3507 Solar Cells & Systems
SOLA5509 Photovoltaics Materials Processing Technology
SOLA5508 High Efficiency Silicon Solar Cells
OR
SOLA4012 Grid-Connected Photovoltaics
SOLA5054 PV Stand-Alone Sys. Des.& Inst
SOLA5057 Managing Energy Efficiency
SOLA5053 Wind Energy
SOLA3010 Low Energy Building and Photovoltaics
Computing MinorYear 2 Select two from the following courses:
COMP2911: Engineering Design in Computing
COMP3231: Operating Systems
COMP3211: Computer Architecture
COMP4601: Configurable Systems and Logic Design
Year 3/4/5 Select two from many breadth and depth courses available
Mathematics MinorYear 2 MATH2620 Higher Complex Analysis
MATH2130 Higher Mathematical Methods for Differential Equations
Year 3 MATH2901 Higher Theory of Statistics
Year 4/5 MATH3XXX (2 courses)
Physics MinorYear 2 PHYS2040 Quantum Physics
PHYS2030 Laboratory
PHYS2060 Thermal Physics
Year 3 PHYS3210 Quantum Mechanics
PHYS3080 Solid State Physics
PHYS3060 Advanced Optics
AND One other course
BE ME in Electrical Engineering (Integrated Degree with Minor)
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eDUCAtIonAL teCHnoLoGY
The School increased the use of innovative teaching methodologies and of educational technology during 2010. The technology, located in rooms G3 and 214 within the Electrical Engineering building, allows course content to be presented in a manner that is more self-paced, caters to individual student needs and preferences, and which can be revisited as needed. The School has committed to ramp up use of the technology even further in 2011 for the betterment of the learning and teaching experience of our students.
In addition to the use of existing educational technology, the School’s laboratory manager, Dr Ming Sheng, successfully bid for funding for the implementation of state-of-the-art distributed teaching laboratory facilities, with the aim of guaranteeing more efficient use of the laboratories and further enhancing the learning environment within the labs for students. With this funding, several laboratories are currently being fitted out with audio and visual communication equipment, enabling the rooms to be utilised as part of a concurrent distributed laboratory environment. Completion of this project is expected in mid-2011.
Minors for the BE ME in Electrical Engineering programUAC Code: 425013 Program Code: 3731 CRICOS Course Code: 074733F
Minors consist of a minimum of 4 courses and a maximum of 6 courses, mutually agreed upon by the School of Electrical Engineering & Telecommunications and the School providing the minor. Minors taken within the Faculty of Engineering must consist of a maximum of 4 courses as 2 general education courses must be taken outside the Faculty.
The degree can be completed in 4.5 years if students do two summer sessions.
In May 2011, The University of New South Wales became the first Australian institution to be awarded the maximum five stars in the new QS Stars™ ratings system, a comprehensive evaluation based on 30 indicators conducted by QS, the higher education information provider behind the QS World University Rankings. UNSW Electrical Engineering is listed as 34th in the world according to these rankings.
Music MinorYear 2 MUSC1101 Music reinvented
Year 3/4/5 Select two courses in Musicianship
AND
Select one from the following: Electronic Music; Film Music; Popular Music; Music history; Psychology of Music; Music analysis; Ethnomusicology; Musicianship C
Language MinorYear 2/3/4/5 Select six language courses are available in different
languages
Commerce MinorYear 2/3/4/5 ACCTB2 Accounting
FINSB2 Finance
ECONC2 Business Economics
ECONB2 Business Strategy
IBUSB2 International Business
MGMTA2 Management
MGMTB2 Human Resource Management
MARKB2 Marketing
Psychology MinorYear 2/3/4/5 PSCY1001 - Psychology 1A
PSCY1011 - Psychology 1B
PSYC2061 - Social and Developmental Psychology
PSYC2071 - Perception and Cognition
PSYC2081 - Learning and Physiological Psychology
PSYC2101 - Assessment, Personality and Psychopathology
Mechatronics MinorYear 3/4/5 MTRN3020 Modelling and Control of Mechatronic Systems
MTRN3100 Robot Design
MTRN4230 Robotics
MTRN4010 Advanced Autonomous Systems
Photovoltaics MinorYear 2 SOLA3540 Applied Photovoltaics
Year 3/4/5 Select three from the following of:
SOLA2020 Photovoltaic Techn & Manufacturing
SOLA3507 Solar Cells & Systems
SOLA5509 Photovoltaics Materials Processing Technology
SOLA5508 High Efficiency Silicon Solar Cells
OR
SOLA4012 Grid-Connected Photovoltaics
SOLA5054 PV Stand-Alone Sys. Des.& Inst
SOLA5057 Managing Energy Efficiency
SOLA5053 Wind Energy
SOLA3010 Low Energy Building and Photovoltaics
Computing MinorYear 2 Select two from the following courses:
COMP2911: Engineering Design in Computing
COMP3231: Operating Systems
COMP3211: Computer Architecture
COMP4601: Configurable Systems and Logic Design
Year 3/4/5 Select two from many breadth and depth courses available
Mathematics MinorYear 2 MATH2620 Higher Complex Analysis
MATH2130 Higher Mathematical Methods for Differential Equations
Year 3 MATH2901 Higher Theory of Statistics
Year 4/5 MATH3XXX (2 courses)
Physics MinorYear 2 PHYS2040 Quantum Physics
PHYS2030 Laboratory
PHYS2060 Thermal Physics
Year 3 PHYS3210 Quantum Mechanics
PHYS3080 Solid State Physics
PHYS3060 Advanced Optics
AND One other course
BE ME in Electrical Engineering (Integrated Degree with Minor)
YEAR 5
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prof. Eliathamby ambikairajah in g3
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UnDeRGRADUAte AWARDs, PRIZes AnD sCHoLARsHIPs
Yu Zhu said he was finding Engineering to be an interesting and inspiring field and he was enjoying studying at UNSW. “UNSW has a recognised reputation in Engineering teaching and research,” he said.
Students from School of Electrical Engineering & Telecommunications who received the Dean’s Awards include:
ZZ Sam Jiang, stage 1
ZZ Raymond lao, stage 1
ZZ Gian Frez, stage 1
ZZ Richard Sofatzis, Stage 1
ZZ Fergal Cotter, stage 2
ZZ Chi Cheng, stage 2
ZZ Manas Bellani, stage 2
ZZ Thomas Cooney, stage 2
ZZ Rachpon Kalra, stage 3
ZZ Duncan Edwards, stage 3
ZZ Voon lee, stage 3
ZZ Di Yan, stage 3
ZZ Adrian Ratter, stage 4
ZZ Yu Zhu, stage 4
The Dean’s Honours List
The Dean’s Honours list recognises high achieving students enrolled in one of the UNSW Faculty of Engineering’s undergraduate programs, including combined degree programs.
A minimum overall accumulative NSS WAM of 75 (Distinction average) is required for inclusion on the Dean’s Honours list. Students who maintain this level of academic excellence can expect to graduate with First Class Honours.
2010 School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications Dean’s Honours ListZZ Ang, Eric Guang Rui
ZZ Ao, Pak lon
ZZ Au, Carson Ka Shun
ZZ Bellani, Manas
ZZ Brodie, Andrew
ZZ Chai, Min Wei
ZZ Chen, Meng
ZZ Cheng, Andi
ZZ Cheng, Chi Man
ZZ Chittasy, Viriya
ZZ Choi, Charlie
ZZ Choi, David
ZZ Chow, Jing Ting Amanda
Dr margaret mackisack presenting hayden Wittig (Year 1 student, EE&t) with the ron stillman award 2010
from left to right: prof. graham Davies (Dean), adrian ratter, louise gates, Yu Zhu and prof. richard henry (Deputy Vice-chancellor (academic)
The Dean’s Awards
The UNSW Faculty of Engineering recognises its highest achieving students annually at the Dean’s Awards. The award recognises students whose results are in the top two per cent of overall marks. One hundred and thirteen students were awarded the Dean’s Awards in 2010. In an exceptional achievement, Electrical Engineering students Adrian Ratter and Yu Zhu received their fourth award in as many years.
Adrian Ratter, in the final year of a combined Electrical Engineering and Science degree, said he was passionate about his chosen career path. “Engineering is a challenging and interesting field where you have real potential to do something good for the world,” he said.
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ZZ Chu, Derek Tze Wei
ZZ Commerford, Ian
ZZ Cooney, Thomas Michael
ZZ Cotter, Fergal Brian
ZZ D’Anna, luke
ZZ Davies, Cassandra
ZZ Devcic, Josip
ZZ Dong, lei
ZZ Edwards, Duncan
ZZ Fang, lei
ZZ Favaloro, David
ZZ Feng, Qian Qian
ZZ Forrester, Kurt David
ZZ Frez, Gian
ZZ Gaddipati, Durgavenkata Sai
ZZ Han, Chong
ZZ Hemphill, Martin Hugh
ZZ Hua, Richard
ZZ Huang, Yifei
ZZ Hussein, Tarik
ZZ Hwang, Jason Chun Chieh
ZZ Jiang, Sam Shan
ZZ Kalra, Rachpon
ZZ Krebs, Xavier Nicholas
ZZ lao, Raymond
ZZ lee, Voon Hian
ZZ lewis, Simon James
ZZ li, Edmund Timothy
ZZ li, Kai Wen
ZZ liou, Jung-Chang
ZZ lopes, Christopher
ZZ Ma, David
ZZ Mace, louis Henri
ZZ Mai, Weijie
ZZ Maker, Samar Anil
ZZ Mathew, Nikhil
ZZ May, Samuel Barry
ZZ Molomby, Tom
ZZ Murugan, Rakesh Arun
ZZ Nsabimana, Olivier
ZZ Oliver, Peter John
ZZ Phua, Germae Shih May
ZZ Ratter, Adrian Brian
ZZ Riordan, Michael
ZZ Rosenthal, Kevin Barry
ZZ Rowley, William Thomas
ZZ Shepherd, David
ZZ Siew, Wai Ming Eugene
ZZ Sofatzis, Richard James
ZZ Stephenson, Gregory Gordon
ZZ Stephenson, Perrin
ZZ Sugiono, Victor
ZZ Wang, Ying
ZZ Webb, Christian
ZZ Williams, Matthew Marlon
ZZ Wong, Heng Meng Jeremy
ZZ Wong, Roy Kok Fung
ZZ Wu, Fanfan
ZZ Wunady, Jeffery
ZZ Wysocki, Michal
ZZ Xie, Jiawei
ZZ Xu, Jirong
ZZ Xu, Rui
ZZ Yan, Di
ZZ Ye, Zhu Nan
ZZ Youdale, Nikolaus
ZZ Zhang, Chennan
ZZ Zhang, Qiang
ZZ Zhang, Teng
ZZ Zhang, Yuchen
ZZ Zhao, Chenyu
ZZ Zhu, li
ZZ Zhu, Yu Joshua
prof. graham Davies (Dean), simon lewis and prof. richard henry (Deputy Vice-chancellor (academic)
The Jacobs Australia Engineering Leadership Prize
The Jacobs Australia Engineering leadership Prize is awarded to recognise outstanding engineering leadership or management exhibited by a UNSW student.
In 2010, the award went to Simon lewis, President of ElSOC.
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The Boeing Company Prizes
The Boeing Company awarded two prizes for students enrolled in the School of Electrical Engineering & Telecommunications in 2010.
ZZ The Boeing Company Prize for Undergraduate Achievement in 3rd Year Engineering to recognise high achievement entering final year of Electrical Engineering degree.
The prize was awarded to Manas Bellani.
ZZ The Boeing Company Prize for final year Undergraduate leadership in Engineering to recognise significant academic merit and leadership.
The prize was awarded to Simon Lewis.
The Energy Australia Prizes
Energy Australia has had a long relationship with the School of Electrical Engineering & Telecommunications awarding prizes to students in third and fourth year studies of Electrical Engineering degrees. Students are selected on their academic performance in subject areas related to Energy.
In 2010, two prizes were awarded to students who have achieved outstanding academic performance particularly in Energy related subjects.
ZZ The Energy Australia Electrical Energy Third Year Prize was awarded to Chi Man Cheng
ZZ The Energy Australia Electrical Energy Fourth Year Prize was given to Pak lon Ao
The NICTA Telecommunications Excellence Awards
National ICT Australia (NICTA) is proud to recognise the best performing telecommunications students in the School of EE&T with an excellence award. Prizes are awarded to high achieving students in the undergraduate telecommunications degree.
The recipients for the awards in 2010:
The NICTA First Year Best Performing Prize in Telecommunications Degree Wei Shen
The NICTA Second Year Best Performing Prize in Telecommunications Degree Gian Frez
The NICTA Third Year Best Performing Prize in Telecommunications Degree Ni Ding
The NICTA Fourth Year Best Performing Prize in Telecommunications Degree Voon Hian lee
pak lon ao, recipient of Energy austral 4th Year prize & mr neil roberts manager of professional Development, ausgrid (Energy australia)
from left to right: prof. Eliathamby ambikairajah (hos), prof. terry percival (Director, Broadband and the Digital Economy neville roach laboratory (Kensington), nicta, Voon hian lee (4th year recipient), gian frez (2nd year recipient), ni Ding (3rd year recipient) and Dr ray Eaton
Dr ray Eaton, manas Bellani and simon lewis at the 2011 graduation reception
cheng chi man, recipient of Energy australia 3rd Year prize & mr neil roberts manager of professional Development, ausgrid (Energy australia)
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Winners of the EE&T 2010 Thesis Poster Competition
Rank Student Supervisors Thesis Topics
1 James Carrapetta Dr Vijay Sivaraman Wireless Sensor Board for Measuring Air Pollution
1 Marc James Piggott Prof. Victor Solo Neural Coding: A least Square Approach
3 Jeremy Heng Meng Wong Prof. Andrew Dzurak Quantum Effects in Silicon MOS Nanostructures
4 Voon Hian lee Dr Hadis Nosratighods Automatic Infant Cry Analysis – An Acoustic Approach
5 Huaiyu lin Prof. Andrey Savkin and Prof. Nigel lovell Investigation in lVAD & CVS interaction & A Non-Invasive Control Approach
6 Alan Pak lon Ao Dr Toan Phung UHF Detection of Partial Discharge in Oil - Insulated Power Transformers
6 Simon lewis A/Prof. Iain MacGill and Kevin Nuner Analysis & Management of the Impacts of Photovoltaics in a Distribution Network
8 Nicholas James Webb Prof. David Taubman Reconstruction of Vertebra Slice Geometry from Orthogonal X-Rays
9 Joshua Kevin laker Weston A/Prof. Iain MacGill Electric Vehicles and the Grid - Can we power the vehicles of tomorrow
10 Jonathan Rajiv Jayanthakumar
Dr Deep Sen and Dr Joseph Paul An Analysis of the Role of the First Reflection in the Simulation of Distance with Audio
10 Tabish Rizvi Dr Stephen Redmond Falls Detection Using Accelerometry & Barometric Pressure
The Institute of Engineering & Technology (IET) Prize
IET Prizes are awarded annually by the Institution of Engineering & Technology Australia to outstanding students who are pursuing or have just completed a course of study which has been accredited by the Institution or by a National Institution with which the IET has a mutual recognition agreement.
In 2010 Adrian Ratter, who is also a University Medallist, received this prize.
The Engineers Australia Top Student Award
The main objective of this award is to encourage more students to undertake engineering studies and to remain in the profession after graduation. The award recognises the academic achievements of the top final year engineering students who complete undergraduate program in Electrical Engineering. Adrian Ratter and Rachpon Kalra are the recipients of this award in 2010.
EE&T Final Year Thesis Poster Competition
The School of Electrical Engineering & Telecommunications holds an annual final year thesis poster competition. Fourth Year students’ thesis posters are selected and judged by academic staff and industry representatives. Ten posters were selected from a short list of 18. These were judged on content and presentation.
rachpon Kalra, mr allan sangster and adrian ratter
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Special highlights were the careers night in Session 1, at which final year scholars discussed their ambitions and prospects with sponsors, and the poster competition in Session 2, at which students presented on their respective experiences during a 24 week work placement.
In November 20 applicants were interviewed for scholarships to be awarded in 2011.
The Ron Stillman Award
This award was established in recognition of the late Ron Stillman, to encourage and reward elite students coming into their first year of study at the School of EE&T in 2010.
Recipients of the 2010 Ron Stillman Award are:
ZZ Manav Jaydip Bhatt
ZZ Thomas Andrew Fisk
ZZ Matthew Thomas Goodwin
ZZ Thomas Stephen lozanov
ZZ Juan Esteban Johnson Undurrage
ZZ William Widjaja
ZZ Hayden Wittig
ZZ Tien-Chun Wu
UNSW Co-op Scholarships
The UNSW Co-op scholarship offers more than financial support, it aims to develop students into professionals, not just graduates at the end of a university degree and makes sure our students have lots of fun along the way.
All UNSW Co-op scholars have the opportunity to gain experience on multiple industry placements with leading companies. This not only provides invaluable insight into the real workforce but also puts Co-op graduates ahead of the competition when it comes to graduate recruitment.
In 2010 there were 23 electrical engineering and telecommunications students across the 5 years of the program. (Students not only complete their BE but also 68 weeks of structured workplace-based training provided by the sponsors.) Jenny Ding, Varuni Fernando, Robert Makepeace and Ninor Mansor joined the program as new students in 2010.
The year’s sponsors were Alcatel-lucent, Alcoa, Cochlear, Dematic, Downer EDI, National Instruments, Provecta, QANTAS, Sydney Water, TEMCO, and Tooheys.
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The Faculty of Engineering Rural Scholarships
The Faculty of Engineering Rural Scholarships Program is designed to assist students living in rural and isolated areas to undertake one of more than 20 full-time engineering programs offered by the Faculty of Engineering at UNSW. Each year the Faculty of Engineering Rural Scholarships Program provides approximately 20 scholarships, valued at $10,500 per annum for four years. Michael Fogarty and Patrick Hoy are the holders for 2010 Engineering Rural Scholarships.
The Doble Undergraduate Engineering Scholarships
Doble Engineering is a global company which has been providing support for the electric power industry and selling instrumentation and consulting services for over 85 years. Their corporate headquarters is in the U.S., however they have offices all around the world. The scholarship was initiated by Mr Bob Smith, the immediate past CEO of Doble and graduate of UNSW.
This prestigious scholarship has been established to encourage and support high achieving 3rd and 4th year continuing undergraduate students studying at UNSW EE&T. Three stipends are available, each valued at $10,000. In addition to the award, students have the option of taking up a 2-month summer internship within the School of EE&T, providing them with valuable hands-on experience working in an environment engaging in engineering research and teaching, as well as contributing towards their 60-days industrial experience.
The recipients for 2010 Doble Scholarships are Alexandra Boulgakov, Duncan Edwards and David Bloch.
from left to right: prof. chee Yee Kwok, patrick hoy (recipient of rural scholarship, David Bloch, prof. graham Davies (Dean of the faculty of Engineering), and alexandra Boulgakov (recipient of Doble scholarship)
from left to right: mr robert smith (principal policy officer Energy supply and networks, Energy Branch), mp John Kaye, prof. Eliathamby ambikairajah (hos), Dr David clements (associate Dean), Dr ray Eaton (Director of academic studies)
The Ross Mackellar Award
This award, sponsored by alumnus Ross Mackellar, was created to recognise academic achievement by a student showing outstanding improvement in his/her first five semesters of study within the School of EE&T. One award valued at $1000 will be given. The recipient for Ross Mackellar Award in 2010 is Tabish Rizvi.
University Medal
The University Medal is awarded to students who have exhibited outstanding academic performance during their programs. In 2010, the university medal was awarded to Adrian Ratter.
from left to right: prof. graham Davies (Dean), adrian ratter, a/prof. John fletcher, prof. Eliathamby ambikairajah (hos), Dr ray Eaton
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BE (Telecommunications), First Class Honours 2005
Currently an engineer at Thales Australia
BE (First Class Honours), UNSW 2002, ScD MIT 2007
Adrian lee is currently employed as a researcher in Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
Why did you choose to study Electrical/Telecommunications Engineering?
I was interested in electrical things from a young age, and I’ve always loved pulling things apart and seeing what’s inside and discovering how things work. This degree has just made all those childhood dreams come true – with this degree I can figure out how almost anything works, and can come up with my own ideas as well.
In your experience, are there many jobs for Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications graduates?
Whilst searching for job myself, I had many interviews and received several excellent offers. There is a huge demand for engineers and I don’t see this changing as engineers are the professionals building and improving services in the community. There are a plethora of jobs out there for EE&T graduates, not only in their specialised fields but also in
other engineering roles and even non-engineering positions. Engineers are also highly sought after by finance companies for their analytical skills.
Is Electrical Engineering / Telecommunications still a relevant degree choice for current students?
EE&T is one of the best choices to make in terms of maximising career options. For those students who know what they want to do, become engaged in that area and attack it such that you will be the expert in the coming years for that field. And for those unsure what fields they like, ensure that you diversify your subjects – this will allow you to learn a broad range of skills and knowledge that becomes invaluable to any employer, since you will be able to show them that you can learn anything thrown at you, that you are the person who can solve any problem that needs to be solved.
What are some other things you’ve enjoyed in your engineering career?
I enjoyed teaching both at the undergraduate and graduate levels in UNSW and MIT. I cherish the moments when I know that my students finally grasp a difficult concept.
What did your degree give you that you value most in your current position?
My BE degree gave me the necessary tools and the mindset to become an analytical thinker.
Is Electrical Engineering & Telecommunications still a relevant degree choice for current students?
I think an EE&T degree provides the best training for tackling complex problems. In fact, I think that students
with an EE&T background make the best neuroscientists. Our brain is an amazingly complex system: a network of ~1011 neurons and ~1015 synapses communicating at a millisecond time frame. An EE&T degree provides us with the necessary basic toolboxes, e.g., signal processing, system analysis, to start teasing apart how our brain dynamically responds to and interacts with our surroundings. The fundamentals taught in an EE&T program can be widely applied to many different fields. This flexibility, in my opinion, makes EE&T a smart degree choice for the brightest minds that dare to explore different possible career paths.
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ADRIAN KC LEE
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BE (First Class Honours), 2005
Founder, lX Innovations – an electronics design house
BE (First Class Honours), 2005, MCom 2006
Currently works at lX Innovations
How well did your degree prepare you for the work that you do now?
The degree has enabled me become a much more competent designer by understanding the theory behind the design.
In your experience, are there many jobs for Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications graduates?
Definitely. EE&T equips you with a way of thinking, and teaches you to learn. This is an invaluable skill in almost any industry.
Is Electrical Engineering / Telecommunications still a relevant degree choice for current students?
Yes! Every day lX is contacted to design new products using cutting edge technologies. Some have the potential to save lives or significantly improve the quality of someone’s life. There is no better job than one in which you can design new embedded systems all day long, knowing that you are making a real difference in the world.
In your experience, are there many jobs for Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications graduates?
There are so many different jobs available for EE&T graduates, including power, biomedical, control, mining, banking and teaching.
Is Electrical Engineering / Telecommunications still a relevant degree choice for current students?
EE&T is very relevant. It opens the door to some really unique opportunities. I didn’t grow up designing electronic devices, but by the end of the degree, I had a thorough understanding of electronics and could confidently apply for positions as varied as an embedded systems engineer or a power engineer.
Is EE&T mainly just maths and science?
EE&T is so much more than just maths and science. It uses that as a foundation for other courses such as design and the thesis that really promote creativity. Maths and science are an essential foundation in order for students to fully understand and appreciate electrical engineering. But the course goes beyond teaching maths and science, by applying them to real problems and using them to solve real issues. In my opinion, there’s no better way to harness maths and science to equip a student for the workforce.
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BE (First Class Honours), University Medal 2007.
Currently works as a Business Analyst at Macquarie Group
What kinds of jobs did some of your EE &T friends go into?
A few of my friends went to work in engineering consulting companies.
Others work as a business consultant, railway engineer, and a researcher.
What did your degree give you that you value most in your current position?
Problem solving skills as well as creativity and techniques in designing solutions to meet requirements.
In your experience, are there many jobs for Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications graduates?
EE&T degree equips graduates with skills that are valuable to a lot of different industries. The career opportunities for EE&T graduates are therefore very broad.
Is Electrical Engineering / Telecommunications still a relevant degree choice for current students?
Yes. I believe EE&T is the core of many important innovations and engineering contribution to society. In addition to the problem solving skills and creative mindset encouraged throughout the degree, students will gain valuable knowledge on edge technology in different streams such as signal processing, electronics and power.
NELLY LAYDRUS
