Energy Systems (Head: Prof.Faz Rahman)

A/Prof. Hugh Outhred

Competitive electricity industry structure & regulation and related policy issues such as environmental sustainability; Grid-connected & stand-alone photovoltaic systems; wind energy; The interaction of distributed generation with electricity supply systems; Efficient electricity use.

Dr. I. MacGill

Competitive electricity industry structure & regulation and related policy issues such as environmental sustainability; Grid-connected & stand-alone photovoltaic systems; wind energy; the interaction of distributed generation with electricity supply systems; efficient electricity use.

Dr. Branislav Hredzak

Design and control of mechatronic systems and servo systems; electric drives; renewable energy; electric and hybrid vehicles; active balancing of rotating machinery

Dr. Toan Phung

High-voltage engineering; Partial discharge measurement and analysis; Condition monitoring of power system equipment; Power system analysis.

Prof. Faz Rahman

Servo motors and servo systems; Power electronic circuits for electrical drives; Drive analysis and design; Motion control systems design; Direct torque control; Rotor flux oriented vector control; On-line parameter and state estimation for drives; Power factor correction techniques/active filtering.

Mr. Ted Spooner

Renewable energy power systems both stand alone and grid connected; Technical issues of grid connection of distributed generation; Power electronic applications for renewable energy systems.

Microelectronics (Head: Prof. Chee Yee Kwok)

Prof. Andrew Dzurak

Development of enabling technologies for solid state quantum computation; Semiconductor nanostructures; single electron transistors; Quantum electronics including low-dimensional (1D and 0D) quantum devices; General solid state devices; Electron beam lithography.

Prof. Chee Yee Kwok

Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS); Microactuators, microsensors, MOEMS; Optical cross-switches; Biomedical applications of MEMS; Microfabrication technology; Materials for MEMS; VLSI fabrication technology; Analog floating-gate CMOS design and devices; Low voltage low power designs.

Dr. Torsten Lehmann

Solid-state circuits and systems; Ultra low-power CMOS design; Bio-medical microelectronics; Cochlear implants; High-performance analogue circuits in deep sub-micron CMOS; VLSI neural networks.

Dr. Andrea Morello

Solid-state devices for quantum computing: manipulation and detection of single electron spins in silicon, single-electron transistors, quantum transport through individual dopant atoms; Quantum magnetism and molecular magnets; Low-dimensional superconductors, quantum phase transitions; Electron-,nuclear- and muon spin resonance; Theory of decoherence and limits of quantum mechanics at the large scale; Magnetic probes at ultra-low temperatures.

A/Prof. Rodica Ramer

Designing with ferrimagnetics; Designing with high temperature superconductors; Computer aided design (CAD); Nonliner effects in optical fibres.

Photonics (Head: A/Prof Francois Ladouceur)

A/Prof Francois Ladouceur

IIntegrated optics Modelling and optimisation of photonics devices, Hybrid integration, Photonics interconnects, Holography and interferometry

Prof. G.D. Peng

Optical fibre communication and fibre sensor systems; Application-specific glass optical fibres and devices; Application-specific polymer optical fibres and devices; Photonic signal processing technologies.

Dr. Iain Skinner

Optical fibres and integrated optics; Nonlinear optical switching; Optical solitons ; Nonlinear effects in optical fibres.

Systems and Control Head: Prof Victor Solo

Prof. Branko Celler

Physiological systems modeling; Modelling of excitable tissues; Neural control of cardiac function; Neural control of renal function; Automated ECG signal processing and interpretation; Medical instrumentation; Medical information systems; Telemedicine remote monitoring.

Dr. David Clements

Systems theory; Analysis of non-linear models for control; Numerical algorithms for control design; Control design-development of design techniques for robust control.

Dr. Ray Eaton

Control of large-scale systems; Analysis and control of non-linear systems; Backstepping; Sliding-mode control; Control of output-feedback systems.

A/Prof. Tim Hesketh

Computer aided design and real-time control; Control algorithms; Control applications.

A/Prof. Tuan Duong Hoang

Systems Engineering (uncertain linear and nonlinear systems, linear and nonlinear robust control and filtering, adaptive control, fuzzy logic control with applications in vehicle control, aeronautics and robotics); Digital Signal Processing (digital filter and filter bank design, multidimentional filters and applications in image processing, digital communication); Broadband communication (transmultiplexer for multi-carrier data transmission, multi-input multi-output (MIMO) and diversity techniques, space-time coding, multiuser detection, channel estimation and equalization); Optimization (convex programming, global optimization with engineering applications); Mobile computing

Professor Andrey Savkin

Robust and nonlinear control; Hybrid dynamical systems; Control of communication networks; Application of control and signal processing to Biomedicine; Missile guidance.

Professor Victor Solo

Stochastic control, adaptive control; Adaptive signal processing in Telecommunications; Signal processing; Medical image processing; System identification; Time series analysis.

Signal Processing (Head: Prof. David Taubman)

Dr. Elias Aboutanios

Signal and image processing; Radar and sonar signal processing; Statistical and multidimensional signal processing; Parameter estimation; Signal detection.

Prof. E. Ambikairajah

Speech processing: speech speaker recognition; Speech recognition; Speech coding and enhancement; Neural networks and pattern recognition; Cochlear modelling; Engineering education.

Dr. Julien Epps

Speech modeling and front-end processing; Speaker verification; speech recognition, speech and audio coding, auditory modelling, speech enhancement. Genomic signal processing, DNA sequence analysis, microarray analysis, Applications of digital signal processing and pattern recorgnition.

Dr. Deep Sen

Digital signal processing; Biophysical modeling of auditory physiology; Speech and audio processing; Speech compression, enhancement, recognition; Audio compression; Text to speech synthesis.

Prof. David Taubman

Image and video compression; Image & video enhancement; Statistical methods for image reconstruction & Restoration; Distributed multi-media processing systems; Image video analysis.

Telecommunications (Head: Prof. David Taubman)

Dr. Robert Malaney

Quality of service in data networks; Network management; Wireless communications; Positioning systems.

Dr. Tim Moors

Transport protocols/TCP; Dependable networks; Quality of service over wireless LANs; Protocol architectures; Computer communications; Networks, internet, data networking; Local area networks; Wireless and mobile networks.

Professor Aruna Seneviratne

QOS management; IP protocols and mobility; Programable networks; Internet service architectures.

A/Prof. Jinhong Yuan

Mobile & satellite communications; Communication system evaluation; Digital modulation; Information theory; Error control coding; Channel modeling; Antenna array; Joint source & channel coding; Turbo coding and interative processing; Space-time coding and processing; Wideband-CDMA and OFDM wireless systems.

Dr. Wei Zhang

Mobile and wireless communications; space-time coding and MIMO; cooperative communications; cognitive radio; ultra-wide band communications.