Energy Systems (Head: A/Prof.Faz Rahman)

A/Prof. Trevor Blackburn

Power equipment operation; High voltage insulation; High impedance arcing faults; Partial discharge diagnostics; Insulation ageing studies; Voltage and current transients in LV systems; Lightning and its effects; Energy efficiency.

A/Prof. Colin Grantham

Rapid parameter determination of machines; Synthetic loading of machines; Rapid efficiency measurement of machines; Dynamic braking of induction motors; Self-excited induction generators; The application of high temperature superconductors to electrical power engineering; Active power filters.

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. 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.

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. Toan Phung

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

A/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. Saeid Nooshabadi

VLSI design; Microelectronics; Integrated circuits.

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

A/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

Professor 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.

A/Prof. Peter Neilson

Neuroengineering research and mathematical modelling of human neural movement control systems.

Signal Processing (Head: A/Prof. David Taubman)

A/Prof. E. Ambikairajah

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

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.

A/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: A/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.