2009 Annual Report - Engineering

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SCHOOL OF
ELECTRICAL
ENGINEERING &
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
annualreport
www.eet.unsw.edu.au
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SCHOOL OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
CONTENTS
01. FOREWORD
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Foreword from the Head of School
5
Goals of the School
6
Vision of the School
6
02.PEOPLE
7
School organisational structure
and committees
7
Current staff
8
Management
8
Academic Staff
8
Professional and Technical Staff
9
Research Staff
10
Visiting Staff
11
Committee Membership
12
School Coordinators
13
Service Awards
14
Academic
Promotions
14
Internal Appointments
14
Retirements
14
New appointments
16
Current research students
16
Current undergraduate students
19
ELSOC Annual Report
20
Graduations
21
03.RESEARCH
25
Research Groups: Energy Systems
25
Research Groups: Microsystems
28
Research Groups: Systems and Control
33
Research Groups: Telecommunications
38
Awards and Prizes
46
Research Commercialisation
46
Research Publications (2008)
47
ANNUAL REPORT 2009
Research Highlight: Quantum Computing
56
Research Committee Report
57
Editorial Board Membership
57
Student Research Conference
57
Conferences and Workshops Hosted by EE&T
58
Keynotes and Tutorial Presentations
60
Key Research Infrastructure
60
04. RESEARCH FUNDING AND RESEARCH CENTRES
63
Research Funding
63
Australian Development Research Award
64
Research Centres
65
05. INDUSTRY, PARTNERS, COMMUNITY AND OUTREACH
67
Industry Advisory Board
67
Industry Projects
68
Staff Visits and Secondments
68
Seminars from Industry
68
Research Visitors
69
Co-op Scholarships
69
Industrial Training
70
Thesis Poster Competition
70
School Advertising
71
06.TEACHING
73
Overview
73
Academic Executive Committee (AEC)
75
Highlights of Teaching and Learning in 2009
76
Sessional Teaching Workshop
78
New or Approved Courses
78
The New 2-Year Master of Engineering (ME)
80
New Educational Technologies
81
Awards, Prizes, and Scholarships
82
Alumni
84
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ANNUAL REPORT 2009
01. FOREWORD
FOREWORD FROM THE HEAD OF SCHOOL
The year 2009 was a very transitional
year for the School, marked with
many challenges. As the new Head
of School, I believe that these
challenges provided the opportunity
for change and positive growth. I am
pleased to report that 2009 has been
an important stepping stone in the
School’s history, with many positive
transformations.
Professor Eliathamby Ambikairajah
We established a new administration,
including Prof. Chee Yee Kwok as
Deputy Head of School and Dr Ray
Eaton as Director of Academic
Studies. Eight new internal committees
were set up, all of whom have been
very active and instrumental in the
strong development of the School.
As a School this year, we increased
research publications by our staff –
resulting in having the largest amount
of refereed conference publications
in the Faculty in 2009. We obtained
significant amounts of strategic
funding and improved teaching quality.
The newly appointed Industry Advisory
Board has made valuable suggestions
to help us ensure that all our graduates
have industry relevant knowledge and
experience. We received approval for
our new 3+2 BEngSc/ME structure,
which was a great stepping stone in
our program offerings. We revamped
the infrastructure in the School to
provide an encouraging learning
environment for our students and
our vibrant undergraduate student
society ELSOC, along with the newly
established postgraduate student
society, have created a great sense of
community within the School. I am also
pleased to say our strong promotional
activities of the School, together with
the dynamic nature of the School’s
growth in 2009, have resulted in an
increase in both our undergraduate
and postgraduate student enrolments,
which are expected to continue to rise.
Our key collaboration with the
Australian Power Institute (API) this
year has greatly helped to improve our
lab facilities and allowed us to appoint
an API funded position. The School’s
strong partnership with the National
Information and Communications
Technology, Australia (NICTA) ATP
Laboratory has been instrumental
in helping the School provide
scholarships for many of our research
postgraduate students and Taste of
Research students, and has also led
to several NICTA sponsored School
events.
It was wonderful to see our staff be
recognised for their outstanding work
both on the national and international
scales. In particular, Prof. David
Taubman is to be congratulated on
winning the 2009 Inventor of the Year
Awards for his Kakadu™ software and
Dr Wei Zhang for the 2009 IEEE Young
Researcher Award. Dr Iain MacGill was
a recipient of the 2009 UNSW Staff
Excellence Awards, which was a great
acknowledgement of his contribution
to the School. Our alumni also excelled
in 2009, with Adrian Clark being
named Australia’s Young Professional
Engineer of the Year and Susan Angus
being awarded the Malcolm Chaikin
Prize for Research Excellence in
Engineering.
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New staff play an important role in the
future of the School and this year we
made 2 new appointments: Dr Stephen
Redmond in Biomedical Systems and
Dr Tara Hamilton in Microsystems. The
School also recognises the importance
of women in engineering, still a
relatively untapped market of great
potential, and increased the number of
female staff and mentors this year.
Key members of our academic staff
concluded their long service to the
School this year – including former
Heads of School Prof. Branko Celler
and A/Prof. Tim Hesketh. Senior
Lecturer Mr Edward Spooner and
Professional Officer Mr Jeff Lee also
retired in 2009. I would like to take
this opportunity to thank all of them
for their invaluable contribution to
the School over the years and for the
impact that they made.
The groundwork for growth and
positive change has been set in 2009.
Our goals for the future are to build
on this foundation and to meet our
high performance targets across
all aspects of the School. We have
a committed and dynamic team of
staff, eager and energetic students,
and I believe that the School is well
positioned to make great strides,
wonderful achievements and build
a strong national and international
reputation in 2010.
GOALS OF THE SCHOOL
VISION OF THE SCHOOL
The
The UNSW School of Electrical
Engineering and Telecommunications
will continue to offer a well balanced
education in the field of Electrical
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.
Reference Site for research &
teaching of Electrical Engineering
& 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, facilities
Provide
a secure and satisfying
work environment for all staff
with adequate recognition of
individual achievements and work
performance
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.
ANNUAL REPORT 2009
02.PEOPLE
SCHOOL ORGANISATIONAL STRUCTURE
AND COMMITTEES
Head of School
Professor Eliathamby Ambikairajah
Executive Management Team
Professor Eliathamby Ambikairajah, Head of School
Professor Chee Yee Kwok, Deputy Head of School
Dr Ray Eaton, Director of Academic Studies
Mr Gordon Petzer, School Executive Officer
Postgraduate Coursework Coordinator
Dr Deep Sen
Postgraduate Research Coordinator
Professor Jinhong Yuan
Head of School Advisory Committee
OH&S Committee
Professor Eliathamby Ambikairajah, Chair
Dr Iain Skinner, Chair
Academic Executive Committee
IT Committee
Professor Chee Yee Kwok, Chair
Dr Tim Moors, Chair
Research Committee
Marketing, Website, & Alumni
Committee
Professor Andrey Savkin & Professor
David Taubman, Chairs
Associate Professor Robert Malaney, Chair
Services and Finances Committee
Administrative Committee
Dr Elias Aboutanios, Chair
Mr Gordon Petzer & Dr Ray Eaton, Chairs
School Laboratory Manager
Dr Ming Sheng
School Office Manager
Ms Gladys Fong
Each committee chair reports to the Head of School. Minutes are
published on the School website and made available to all School staff.
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CURRENT STAFF
During 2009, the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications (EE&T) had 33 full time academic teaching staff,
23 research staff, more than 20 visiting and conjoint academics plus 28 technical and other support staff. This makes
EE&T at UNSW one of the largest schools of its kind in Australia.
School staff provide their expertise to various national and international committees, technical associations, specialised
societies and conferences, editorial boards and Standards Australia Committees in addition to engaging as consultants for
government and private industry.
Staff conduct groundbreaking research across multiple disciplines leading to several centers within the School in addition to
inter-school and inter-faculty centers.
MANAGEMENT
ACADEMIC STAFF
A/Prof. Tim Hesketh
Head of School, until March
Prof. Eliathamby
Ambikairajah
Head of School
Professor in Signal
Processing
Dr Elias Aboutanios
Senior Lecturer in Signal
Processing
Prof. Chee Yee Kwok
Deputy Head of School
Professor, Head of
Microsystems Research
Group
Prof. Branko G.Celler
Professor in Systems and
Control
A/Prof. Tuan D. Hoang
Associate Professor in
Systems and Control
Dr Ray Eaton
Director of Academic Studies
Lecturer in Systems and
Control
Dr David Clements
Senior Lecturer in Systems
and Control
Associate Dean (Academic)
Dr Branislav Hredzak
Senior Lecturer in Systems
and Control
Mr Gordon Petzer
School Executive Officer
Prof. Andrew Dzurak
Professor in Microsystems
Director, Semiconductor
Nanofabrication Facility
NSW Node, Australian
National Fabrication Facility
(ANFF)
Dr Julien Epps
Processing
Dr Tara Hamilton
Lecturer in Microsystems
2009
Systems and Control
Director of Education, NICTA
A/Prof. François
Ladouceur
Photonics
Dr Torsten Lehmann
Senior Lecturer in
Microsystems
A/Prof. Robert Malaney
Telecommunications
ANNUAL REPORT 2009
Dr Iain MacGill
Senior Lecturer in Energy
Systems
Joint Director, Centre for
Energy and Environmental
Markets
Prof. Andrey Savkin
Professor in Systems and
Control
Prof. Jinhong Yuan
Professor in
Telecommunications
Postgraduate Research
Coordinator
Dr Tim Moors
Senior Lecturer in
Telecommunications
Dr Deep Sen
Processing
Postgraduate Coursework
Coordinator
Dr Andrea Morello
Senior Lecturer in Quantum
Nanosystems
Program Manager, Centre
for Quantum Computer
Technology
Prof. Aruna Seneviratne
Professor in
Telecommunications
Australian Technology Park
Laboratory Director and
Education Director, NICTA
Dr Hadis Nosratighods
Postdoctoral Fellow
(Lecturing in Signal
Processing)
Dr Vijay Sivaraman
Senior Lecturer in
Telecommunications
Prof. Gang-Ding Peng
Professor in Photonics and
Optical Communications
Dr Iain Skinner
Senior Lecturer in Photonics
Mr Jiong An
Administrative/Education
Technology Officer
Dr Toan Phung
Systems
Prof. Victor Solo
Professor, Head of Systems
and Control Research Group
Mr Gordon Bates
Laboratory Manager, ANFF
Prof. Faz Rahman
Professor, Head of Energy
Systems Research Group
Mr Edward Spooner
Systems
Mr Yin Hang Cheung
Administrative Assistant
Prof. Rodica Ramer
Professor in Microsystems
Prof. David Taubman
Professor, Head of
Telecommunications
Research Group
Mrs Silvana Collings
Personal Assistant to Head
of School
Dr Stephen Redmond
Lecturer in Biomedical
Systems and Signal
Processing
Dr Alex Von Brasch
Postdoctoral Fellow
(Lecturing in
Telecommunications)
Mr Doug Davison
Procurement Officer
Dr Wei Zhang
Senior Lecturer in
Telecommunications
PROFESSIONAL AND
TECHNICAL STAFF
Mr Philip Allen
Professional Officer
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Mrs Mervat Farah
Financial & Procurement
Assistant
Mr Albert J. McMaster
Technical Officer, ANFF/SNF
Ms Nelly Wijaya
Ms Gladys Fong
School Office Manager
Mr Tom Millett
Mr Joe C. Y. Yiu
Senior Technical Officer
Dr Eric Gauja
Microfabrication Manager,
ANFF
Ms May Park
Administrative Officer
Mr Roy X. Zeng
Ms Karen Jury
Operations Manager, ANFF
Ms Michelle Price
OHS Officer, ANFF/SNF
RESEARCH STAFF
Dr Albert S. Canagasabey
Post-Doc Fellow
Dr Baburaj Karanayil
Mr Syed L. Rahman
Technical Officer
Dr Gregory Chan
Research Associate
Dr Daniel Krcho
Ms Bamini Pratheepan
Dr Teddy M. L. Cheng
Research Fellow
Jeff Lee
Mr Subash Puthanveetil
Mechanical Tradesperson
Dr Nicholas J. Cutler
Post-Doc Fellow
Mr Zhenyu Liu
Technical/OHS Officer
Dr Ming Sheng
Professional Officer/
Laboratory Manager
Dr Ashay Dhamdhere
Senior Research Associate
Mr Gamini Liyadipitiya
Mr Chris X.Lu
Ms Joanna Szymanska
Process Engineer, ANFF
Mr Richard Tuck
Laboratory Craftsman
Dr Fay E. Hudson
Senior Research Fellow,
CQCT
ANNUAL REPORT 2009
Dr Chaofeng J. Li
Research Fellow
Mr Shuai Wang
Research Assistant
Roksana Boreli
Conjoint Associate Professor
Dr Jun Li
Post-Doc Fellow
Dr Kok H. Wong
Post-Doc Fellow
T. W. Whitbread
Visiting Fellow
Dr Wee H. Lim
Research Fellow ANFF
Dr Floris A. Zwanenburg
CQCT
Dr Linda D. Macks
CQCT/ANFF
Dr Jim Basilakis
Senior Research Fellow
Dr Christopher C. Escott
Research Fellow ANFF
Dr Syed A. Pasha
Research Associate
Mr Reji K. Mathew
Senior Research Associate
Dr Robert J. Passey
Senior Research Associate CEEM
Mr Paul H. M. R. Prevot
Research Assistant
Dr Aron W. Michael
Senior Research Assistant
VISITING STAFF
Rod G. Clark
Visiting Professor
Steven. G. Duvall
Professorial Visiting Fellow
M. Elkashlan
Visiting Fellow
C. Hales
Visiting Fellow
W. Harvey Holmes
Senior Visiting Fellow
W. R. Lachs
Visiting Research Fellow
S. G. Leon-Saval
Visiting Fellow
P Mallon
Visiting Fellow
G. S. Morrison
Visiting Fellow
Peter D. Neilson
Visiting Professor
Dr Eun H. Min
Research Associate
Dr Ido Nevat
Post-Doc Fellow
Neville W. Rees
Emeritus Professor
Saeid Nooshabadi
Senior Visiting Fellow
Vojin G. Oklobdzija
Hugh R. Outhred
K. K. Paliwal
C. J. E. Phillips
Visiting Fellow
Graham A. Rigby
Emeritus Professor
Trevor R. Blackburn
Visiting Associate Professor
Dr Maria I. T. Retnanestri
Research Associate
D. Siu
Visiting Fellow
M. E. Smith
Visiting Fellow
Colin Grantham
Visiting Associate Professor
R. A. Zakarevicius
Visiting Fellow
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David Taubman
Torsten Lehmann
Toan Phung
Ray Eaton
Deep Sen
Jinhong Yuan
Chee Yee Kwok
Andrew Dzurak
Victor Solo
Faz Rahman
David Taubman
Aruna Seneviratne
Committee
Members
Tuan Hoang
Gang-Ding Peng
Ming Sheng
Gordon Petzer
Andrea Morello
Rodica Ramer
Francois Ladouceur
Jinhong Yuan
David Taubman
Aruna Seneviratne
Faz Rahman
Victor Solo
Andrew Dzurak
Chee Yee Kwok
Andrey Savkin
Research
Committee
Raymond Eaton
Julien Epps
Chee Yee Kwok
Eliathamby Ambikairajah
Committee Chair
Andrey Savkin
Academic
Executive
Committee
Head of School
Advisory Committee
Toan Phung
Gordon Petzer
Ming Sheng
Jeff Lee
Joseph Yiu
Tom Millet
Chris Lu
Daniel Krcho
Baburaj Karanavil
Philip Allen
Elias Aboutanios
Services
& Finance
Committee
Jiong An
Postgraduate
Research student
(TBA)
Stephen Redmond
Alex VonBrasch
Julien Epps
Hadis Nosratighods
Francois Ladouceur
Iain Mac Gill
Gladys Fong
Jiong An
Philip Allen
Wei Zhang
Perry Stepheson
(ELSOC)
Gordon Petzer
Roy Zeng
Gang-Ding Peng
Silvana Collings
Gladys Fong
Douglas Davison
Ming Sheng
Subash
Puthanveetil
Raymond Eaton
Deep Sen (Website Chair)
Branislav
Hredzak
Jeff Lee
Tim Moors (Alumni Chair)
Philip Allen (Marketing Chair)
Robert Malaney
Marketing, Website &
Alumni Committee
Vijay Sivaraman
David Taubman
Tim Moors
IT Committee
Joseph Yiu
Chris Lu
Baburaj Karanavil
Zhenyu Liu
Iain Skinner
OH&S
Committee
Douglas Davison
Ming Sheng
Jiong An
Matthew Cheung
Gladys Fong
Subash Puthanveetil
Richard Tuck
Gamini Liyadipitiyo
Zhenyu Liu
Syed Rahman
Roy Zeng
Mervat Farah
May Park
Nelly Wijaya
Bamini Pratheepan
Silvana Collings
Gordon Petzer
Administrative
Committee
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COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP
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ANNUAL REPORT 2009
SCHOOL COORDINATORS
Women
in Elec &
Telecom
Engineering
Coordinators
Industrial
Training
Coordinators
ELSOC
Liaison
Coordinators
Thesis
Coordinators
Summer
Courses
Coordinators
PG Research
Society
Coordinator
Rodica Ramer
Rodica Ramer
Ray Eaton
Toan Phung
Ray Eaton
Vijay
Sivaraman
Iain Skinner
Hadis
Nosratighods
Julien Epps
Alex
VonBrasch
Branislav
Hredzak
Iain Skinner
Jinhong Yuan
Julien Epps
Each
committee outlines a set of
semester and yearly goals that
will contribute to the progress and
development of the School
 The
committees’ functions are to
achieve each of their outlined goals
within the agreed budget and time
frame
Key Tasks across the School
Committees for 2009
IT Committee
1.
Review School IT position and
prepare report on appropriate
equipment replacement plans
2.
Include School IT and maintain
School IT Business Unit Recovery
Plan (BURP)
Services & Finance Committee
1.
Report on equipment and facilities
expenditure proposals
2.
Prepare School Operational Plan
(with other committees)
Academic Executive Committee
1.
2.
Prepare Engineers Australia
accreditation document for new 2
year Masters program
Prepare School Learning &
Teaching Plan
Research Committee
1.
Prepare Research reports for
2006-2008 plus 2009
2.
Prepare School Strategic
Research Plan
3.
Develop strategies to increase
number of competitive grant
applications and success rates
Establish and develop a
relationship with EE&T alumni –
professional guest lectures and
set up Industry Research Forum
with alumni
Assessment
Committee
Coordinator
NICTA
Coordinator
BlueSat
Coordinators
Chee Yee
Kwok
Julien Epps
Elias
Aboutanios
Faz Rahman
Eliathamby
Ambikairajah
Alex
VonBrasch
2.
Review, update and re-produce
School marketing material &
promote to increase future
enrolment in our programs
3.
Full overhaul of School website.
Collect, update and report news
on website on regular basis
Occupational Health & Safety
Committee
1.
Implement all aspects of the
UNSW OHS management system
by the end of 2009
2.
Set up OHS awareness campaign
in School
Marketing, Alumni and Website
Committee
1.
Co-op
Coordinator
Administrative Committee
1.
Maintain overall appearance and
functioning of the School
2.
Organise social events, manage
School scholarships, responsible
for the School’s Show & Tell
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ACADEMIC
PROMOTIONS
RODICA RAMER and JINHONG
YUAN were both promoted to
Professor in 2009.
Rodica Ramer has
been with the School
of EE&T since February
1993, when she was
appointed as a Lecturer
in Microsystems. Rodica’s
research interests
cover various aspects
of high frequency engineering
with emphasis on the design
and fabrication of microwave
devices. Her current research
lies in the areas of RF MEMS
and reconfigurable structures.
Within the School, she currently
teaches RF Electronics,
Microwave Engineering as well as
Electromagnetics and Antennas.
Jinhong Yuan came
to UNSW in 2000
also as a Lecturer in
Telecommunications
after spending time as a
Research Fellow at the
University of Sydney.
Jinhong’s primary research
and teaching interest is in Mobile
and Wireless Communications,
information theory, error control
coding, and digital modulation. He
has published two books, two book
chapters, over 170 papers, three
patents, over 20 industrial reports,
and along with his students, is the
recipient of several best paper
awards.
INTERNAL APPOINTMENTS
With the change to the Head of School in April 2009, the following additional
internal appointments were made:
Deputy Head of School: Professor Chee Yee Kwok
Director of Academic Studies: Dr Ray Eaton
Postgraduate Research Coordinator: Professor Jinhong Yuan
Postgraduate Coursework Coordinator: Dr Deep Sen
RETIREMENTS
The year 2009 saw the retirements of several long serving
members of staff. The School acknowledges their valuable
contribution to its success over many years.
Professor Branko Celler (BSc ‘69, BE Hons ‘72, PhD ’78 UNSW)
Professor Branko Celler came to UNSW as an undergraduate student
completing a BSc in computer science and physics in 1969 and a BE with
honours in electrical engineering in 1972. In 1978 he received one of the
University’s first PhDs in the emerging discipline of biomedical engineering. After
a period of postdoctoral research in the United States, and then as Director of
Research and Development at Sydney’s Medicheck Referral Centre, he rejoined
UNSW as a Lecturer with the School’s Department of Systems and Control
in 1981, which was followed by promotions to Senior Lecturer in 1985 and
Associate Professor in 1996. During the early 1980s Dr Celler was instrumental
in establishing the School’s Biomedical Engineering Laboratory. With the
establishment of the Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering in 1995, he
also served as an Adjunct Professor in the Graduate School until he accepted a
full professorship in the School of Electrical Engineering in 1997.
Professor Celler was appointed Head of School in 1998. During his eightyear headship, Professor Celler led an extensive review of the School’s staff,
programs and facilities with a view to revitalising the School’s activities. As
part of this process, he successfully applied for University and federal funding
to develop a ‘virtual classroom’ within the School. The establishment of this
facility has contributed to the School’s reputation as a leader in the use of
educational technology for collaborative teaching and distance education. In
2006, Professor Celler stepped down as Head of School to become CEO of
the TeleMedCare Group, which he established to commercialise telehealth
SERVICE AWARDS
Special congratulations go to Philip Allen, who was recognised for a Long Service Award, after having provided
25 years of valuable service to the School. As a Professional officer within the School, Philip has contributed to
the School in many ways, including teaching and research support in the areas of photonics and networking, and
has also provided tremendous input in IT support and marketing for the School.
ANNUAL REPORT 2009
power electronics teaching facilities in the
School and then, after being appointed
to the academic staff and developing
his activities in renewable energy he
became a leading influence in developing
testing methods and standards for PV
inverter systems in Australia. He was
also responsible over the last few years
for significant developments and in
the teaching of the first year electrical
engineering program in the School.
From one Head of School to another: Prof Branko Celler receiving gift for
29 years of distinguished service to the school.
Mr Jeff Lee (BE ‘72, MEngSc ‘74,
ME ‘84, UNSW)
technologies for managing chronic illness and for aged care. Since stepping
down as Head of School, Professor Celler continued his association with the
School as a research Professor, until retiring from UNSW at the end of the year
and taking up a position as Executive Dean of the College of Health and Science
at the University of Western Sydney.
Associate Professor Tim Hesketh (BSc Hons ’70, MSc ’72 Cape Town,
PhD ’83 Massey)
Associate Professor Tim Hesketh joined UNSW in 1987 and
was appointed as a Senior Lecturer within the School of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science. Since joining the School, he
has taught subjects in control, real-time systems, digital systems,
signal processing, electronics and computer-aided design, while
his research has focused on control theory and its applications in
areas such as embedded systems, real-time computing and linear
output feedback systems.
In 2000, Associate Professor Hesketh took up a post as Deputy President of
the Academic Board, and also was appointed Associate Dean (Academic) of
the Faculty of Engineering, a role which he continued until 2005, at which point
he was seconded as project director for the University’s UNSW Asia project. In
2001, he also served a year as Acting Dean of Engineering. In 2006, he returned
to the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications as Head of
School, which he continued until April 2009. Associate Professor Hesketh has
now retired from the School and is currently NICTA’s Director of Education.
Mr Ted Spooner (BE UNSW, ME UNSW)
Ted Spooner joined the School in 1974 as
a professional officer and provided invaluable
contributions to a number of research projects
within the School. He was instrumental in using
UNIX for its first real application in Australia when
he was working on the digital protection project.
He was heavily involved in the development of
Jeff Lee retired at the end of 2009
after 37 years of service to the School.
He started, and faithfully remained,
within the Systems and Control
group where he provided real-time
computer hardware implementation
and software support to undergraduate
and postgraduate students and staff
for that discipline. He was more
widely known throughout the School
for his management of the School’s
data and telecommunication network
services, essential services for all
business operations of the School.
Jeff was around (with Peter Ivanov)
when the School’s first serial network,
which sped along at 9600 Baud, was
commissioned, and has guided and
overseen the continual development of
the school’s network ever since.
In addition, Jeff’s broad expertise was
also valuable in providing logistic and
technical support for conference sites
and more general engineering support
to both staff and students.
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NEW APPOINTMENTS
CURRENT RESEARCH STUDENTS
With several retirements during both
in 2009 and from previous years,
the School started to embark on
a significant recruiting process to
bolster the research and teaching
strengths in key areas. In particular,
for 2009, appointments were
made in the areas of Biomedical
Engineering, Embedded systems
and Signal Processing.
The number of commencing research students steadily increased in 2009 from
2008, with 16 new PhD and 4 Master of Engineering (research) students starting.
Overall, the total number of research students in 2009 declined slightly to 85
from the 2008 level of 99. A total of 45 local and 40 international students make
up this total.
Number of students
Commencing Research Students 2005-2009
We welcomed the following lecturing
academic staff:
Dr Stephen Redmond,
July 2009, Biomedical
Systems and Signal
Processing.
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30
25
20
15
10
5
0
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
PhD
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26
18
12
16
ME
5
6
1
3
4
Total
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32
19
15
20
Total Research Students 2005-2009
The School also undertook
recruitment in the area of Energy and
Power Systems, with appointments
made in the latter half of the year.
These new appointments will join the
School in 2010.
140
120
100
80
60
40
20
0
Number of students
Dr Tara Hamilton,
December 2009,
Microsystems.
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
Local
74
74
61
57
45
International
43
47
46
42
40
Total
117
121
107
99
85
ANNUAL REPORT 2009
Students enrolled in research degrees in 2009 include:
Allan Aaron
Energy Systems
Supervisor: Prof. Hugh Outhred
Abdullah Al-Hafiz
Microsystems
Supervisor: Prof. Chee Yee Kwok
Syed Taha Ali
Telecommunications
Supervisor: Dr Vijay Sivaraman
Abdul-Hakeem Alomari
Systems and Control
Supervisor: Prof. Andrey Savkin
Mohammad Abdul-Hameed
Al-Rabayah
Telecommunications
Supervisor: A/Prof. Robert
Malaney
Mohammad Yusuf Mohammad
Ghias Amer
Photonics
Supervisor: Prof. Gang-Ding Peng
Chakrapani Aravind Surapura
Telecommunications
Malaney
Asrul Izam Azmi
Photonics
Marwan Hadri Azmi
Telecommunications
Supervisor: A/Prof. Jinhong Yuan
Mitra Bahadorian
Systems and Control
Supervisor: Dr Ray Eaton
Dur-E-Zehra Baig
Systems and Control
Youmna Borghol
Telecommunications
Supervisor: Prof. Aruna
Seneviratne
Gilbert Hock Beng Foo
Energy Systems
Supervisor: Prof. Faz Rahman
King Yuk Chan
Microsystems
Supervisor: A/Prof, Rodica Ramer
Sara Hakami
Telecommunications
Seneviratne
Kok Wai Chan
Microsystems
Supervisor: Prof. Andrew Dzurak
Michael Hoy
Systems and Control
Ge Chen
Microsystems
Supervisor: Dr Saeid Nooshabadi
Ronny Kurniawan Ibrahim
Signal Processing
Supervisor: Prof. Eliathamby
Ambikairajah
Jiefeng Chen
Telecommunications
Seneviratne
Shigang Chen
Photonics
Lester Chong
Energy Systems
Ho Sung Chun
Microsystems
Supervisor: Dr Torsten Lehmann
Kushal Das
Microsystems
Anton Delprado
Systems and Control
Supervisor: Dr Ray Eaton
Thanh Thinh Doan
Signal Processing
Supervisor: Dr Julien Epps
Ahmad Ali Iqbal
Telecommunications
Seneviratne
Faizan Javed
Systems and Control
Phyu Phyu Khing
Signal Processing
Ambikairajah
Chul Kim
Microsystems
Supervisor: Dr Saeid Nooshabadi
Jia Min Karen Kua
Signal Processing/NICTA
Ambikairajah
Alexander Kurusingal
Telecommunications
Kai Xian Lai
Energy Systems
Supervisor: Dr Toan Phung
Nai Shyan Lai
Microsystems
Philip Ji
Photonics
Ngoc Phu Le
Signal Processing/NICTA
Ambikairajah
Md. Anisul Karim
Telecommunications
Qim Yi Lee
Systems and Control
Muhammad Khalid
Systems and Control
Wee Han Lim
Microsystems
Nazeer Khan
Telecommunications
Seneviratne
Yang Liu
Photonics
Hamood Ur Rahman Khawaja
Microsystems
Supervisor: A/Prof. Rodica Ramer
Graeme Wilson Lowe
Microsystems
Phillip Maher
Telecommunications
Malaney
Goran Marjanovic
Systems and Control
Supervisor: Prof. Victor Solo
Hiscocks Mark
Photonics
Supervisor: A/Prof. Francois
Ladouceur
John William Matthews
Telecommunications
17
18
Ning Wang
Signal Processing
Ambikairajah
Shuai Wang
Signal Processing
Supervisor: Dr Deep Sen
Thein Moe Win
Systems and Control
Supervisor: A/Prof. Tim Hesketh
Chen Xi
Signal Processing
Supervisor: Prof. David Taubman
Zhiyu Xi
Systems and Control
Supervisor: A/Prof. Tim Hesketh
Francis Mehani
NICTA
Supervisor: Dr Roksana Boreli
Jarryd James Pla
Microsystems
Supervisor: Dr Andrea Morello
Long Shi
Telecommunications
Supervisor: Dr Wei Zhang
Yashodhan Moghe
Microsystems
Md.Tanvir Rahman
Microsystems
Herman Halomoan Sinaga
Energy Systems
Muhammad Yusof Mohd Noor
Photonics
Umar Rashid
Systems and Control
Supervisor: A/Prof. Tuan Huang
Hao Su
Systems and Control
Nor Asiah Muhamad
Energy Systems
R.M. Upendra Sudesh
Rathnayake
Telecommunications
Seneviratne
Feiselia Tan
Telecommunications
Seneviratne
Aous Thabit Naman
Signal Processing
Fawad Nazir
Telecommunications
Seneviratne
Huy Anh Nguyen
Systems and Control
Supervisor: A/Prof Tuan Huang
Thanh Tuan Nguyen
Signal Processing
Jhoanna Rhodette Pedrasa
Telecommunications
Seneviratne
Michael Angelo Pedrasa
Energy Systems
Supervisor: Dr Ted Spooner
Anh Huy Phan
Systems and Control
Supervisor: A/Prof. Tuan Huang
Adeel Razi
Telecommunications
Fendy Santoso
Telecommunications
Supervisor: A/Prof. Robert Malaney
Kuan-Yen Tan
Microsystems
Howe Hing Tang
Systems and Control
Golam Sarwar
NICTA
Supervisor: Dr Roksana Boreli
Tharmarajah Thiruvaran
Signal Processing / NICTA
Ambikairajah
Borislav Savkovic
Systems and Control
Jack Tsai
Telecommunications
Supervisor: Dr Tim Moors
Jones Scott
Photonics
Supervisor: A/Prof. Francois
Ladouceur
Tevita Tukunga
Energy Systems
Supervisor: Dr Iain MacGill
Akila Seneviratne
Systems and Control
Supervisor: Prof. Solo and A/Prof.
Huang
Vidhyasaharan Sethu
Suprervisor: Prof. Eliathamby
Ambikairajah
Arun Vishwanath
Telecommunications
Peerapat Vithayasrichareon
Energy Systems
Supervisor: Dr Iain MacGill
Dan Xiao
Energy Systems
Yixuan Xie
Telecommunications
Yiwei Xu
Microsystems
Supervisor: Prof. Chee Yee Kwok
Tao Yang
Telecommunications
Yuan Yuan Yang
Microsystems
Tet Fei Yap
Ambikairajah
Pega Zarjam
Xintao Zhang
Systems and Control
Ying Zhang
Systems and Control
Zhaonan Zhang
Systems and Control
Supervisor: Prof. Branko Celler
Xuan Vinh Nguyen
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ANNUAL REPORT 2009
CURRENT UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
A similarly healthy increase in 2009 commencing undergraduate
students was experienced, with 153 new students starting
compared to 128 in 2008. The total undergraduate student
enrolment in 2009 was 634, up from 613 the previous year.
STUDENT PROFILE
Stefanie Brown completed her undergraduate
degree in 2009 with first class honours,
specialising in Signal Processing. She has
been a UNSW Co-op Scholar for the duration
of her degree and has been the recipient of a
Dean’s Award in two separate years. Stefanie
has been provided valuable service to the School,
firstly as an active member of ELSoc in the role of VicePresident for two years, and as a popular and sought
after lab demonstrator for courses in 1st to 3rd years,
where she particularly enjoyed assisting newer electrical
engineers through their university experience.
“The best thing about the EE degree is that it is so broad;
I’ve concentrated on DSP, but have been able to learn
a bit about electronics and computing at more detailed
levels too.”
Richard Sofatzis grew up in Sydney, moving
from Earlwood to Hurstville in 2000, and
completing his HSC at All Saints Grammar
School, South Belmore. Richard is studying
Electrical Engineering and is also a Coop scholar, inspired to apply after seeing
the benefits which resulted for his older brother, who
studied Engineering. Outside of university life, Richard in
involved in a leadership capacity at Convivio, a congress
for school-aged youth, as well as Reasons for Hope,
a motivating weekend away for young adults. He is a
keen tennis player and teaches piano to young budding
pianists, and has an interest in reading philosophy.
When asked about why Richard chose Electrical Engineering,
he states “… because I enjoy fiddling with things, getting
them to work and I have a good eye for detail. I have
always been interested in electrical devices, gadgets and
computers, and I wanted to study a course that not only
used computers or equipment but one in which I could
understand, design, and make things work.”
1200
Number of students
STUDENT PROFILE
Total Undergraduate Students 2005-2009
1000
800
600
400
200
0
2005
2006
2007
2008
Local
631
507
453
410
2009
403
International
333
253
207
203
231
Total
964
760
660
613
634
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ELSOC ANNUAL REPORT
ELSOC is the student society for the School of Electrical Engineering and
Telecommunications of the University of New South Wales. Our aim is to provide
to the students everything the school is unable to; from social activities to help
liaising with industry.
2009 was a very successful year for us. We were responsible for the
organization and running of the Engineering Sports Day, an event which draws in
1000 students from the whole Faculty of Engineering to compete in a sporting
competition and enjoy a free barbeque. The event also included the Defence
Force landing a Navy Helicopter on the oval at the university. For our role in this
ELSOC was awarded a prize for the best event of any society in the university.
We were also able to secure awards for the most improved constituent society in
the university.
2009 also saw a dramatic increase in student attendance of social events
including the drinks night and barbeques. At these barbeques the students were
introduced to industry representatives from Cochlear and Renesas. We also
pioneered a new website design which actively encourages students to interact
via forums, as well as provided a wiki page where students were able to share
their knowledge with the rest of the school. Students were also able to purchase
from a new range of merchandise including new t-shirt designs and a jersey.
THE 2009 COMMITTEE
Perry Stephenson President
Stefanie Brown Vice President
Cassie Davies Secretary
Matan Livson Treasurer
Simon Lewis Industry Liaison
Andrew Hankins Publicity Officer
Dinesh Mohan ARC Delegate
Sam May Mascot & Webmaster
Not Elected IET Liaison
Scott Macarthur-King
4th year Representative
Will Rowley 3rd year Representative
Marty Hemphill 3rd year Representative
Leon Oriti 2rd year Representative
Afif Abdullah 2rd year Representative
Evan Stephenson 1st year Representative
Brendan Dundas 1st year Representative
ANNUAL REPORT 2009
GRADUATIONS
Abdul Halim,Ili Shairah
MEngSc, Microelectronics and Microsystems
Cao, Shuang
MEngSc, Signal Processing
Abdullah Jalani,Faizah
MEngSc, Systems and Control
Cassidy, Benjamin
BE MBiomedE (Electrical), Honours 1
Agbi,Omotola Olawunmi
MEngSc, Telecommunications
Chan, Gabriel
BE (Electrical)
Ahmad Khairi, Ahmad Farhan
BE (Electrical)
Chen, Szu-Ming Mike
Ahmed, Syed Sohaib
Chen, Zhiyao
Allom, Justin
BE (Electrical)
Cheng, Kenneth Ying Kit
BE (Telecommunications)
Altvater, Bernhard Herbert Engelbert
Cheng, Gong
MEngSc(Extn), Energy Systems
Azmi,Aimie Nazmin
MEngSc, Energy Systems
Chiang, Shih-Hao Michael
Bhatti,Abdul Wahab
Choudry, Muhammad Omer
Brown, Stefanie
BE (Electrical), Honours 1
Chung, Hang Ming
BE (Electrical), Honours 2 Division 1
Brunero, Adam Alessio
Chung, Li Jing
Bushan Gunasekaran, Saravana Kumar
Cohen, Lance
BE MBiomedE (Electrical), Honours 2 Division 1
Bye, Robin Trulssen
PhD, Systems & Control
Conyers,Susan Jane
MEngSc, Electric Power Engineering
Couch, Joseph Daniel
BE BA (Electrical), Honours 2 Division 2
Cutler,Nicholas Jeffrey
PhD, Energy Systems
Dangar, Jack
Dejbakhsh, Hossein
Dejbakhsh,Hossein
Dela Fuente, Anna Katrina
BE (Electrical)
Djatmiko, Mentari Puteri Ning
BE BSc (Telecommunications), Honours 1
Doumit, Antoine
Efin, Efin
BE MBiomedE (Electrical), Honours 1
Ezzy, John Edward
BE BA (Telecommunications)
Farley, Justin Kirk
Farooqi,Abdullah Tayyab
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Fazeel-Ur-Rehman,Hasan
Fernando, Kasun Devinka
BE BCom (Electrical), Honours 1
Foster, Lindsay David
Gerrand, Robert James
Gong,Zhexing
Goon, Chin Soon
Gunawan, Jeff
Gunawan, David Oon Tao
PhD, Signal Processing
Guruge, Rukshan Tharanga
BE (Electrical)
Ham, Yean Choon
Hankins, Andrew
He, Zhen
He,Yufeng
Hoang, Hung Gia
Holcroft, Joshua Michael
BE BSc (Electrical), Honours 1
Johnstone, Patrick
Hsu, Judy Pi-Shen
BE MBiomedE (Electrical)
Joon,Sanjeev Kumar
Huang, Weizhong
Karantonis, Dean
Huang, Wenqi
BE MBiomedE (Electrical), Honours 2 Division
1
Kazi, Tanzil Kabir
Kdeiss,Wahib
Huang, Wei-Chen
GradDip, Telecommunications
Kentse,Thabo
Huang, Yan
Humphrey, David Eric
Hussain, Muhammad Istafa
BE (Electrical)
Jabbar, Atif
Jalaludeen, Mohammed
Jamil, Fahd Bin
Jenkins, Christopher
Jian, Jhitian
BE BA (Telecommunications)
Johnson, Alison Maree
BE (Electrical)
Khan, Qasim
Khattak, Adnan Nawab
Kodila Srikanth, Pallavi
Krishnan, Jagindran
Kuttambakam Narasimhulu, Pradeep
Lam, Kenneth Yau Shing
BE (Electrical)
Law, Garth
BE BSc (Telecommunications)
Lee, Joel
ANNUAL REPORT 2009
Lee, Joan Hsiao Hui
MEngSc(Extn), Microelectronics and
Microsystems
Leong, Melody Jessica
Li, Jiajie
Li, Ke
Li, Sen
Lim, Rolene Yanni
Lin, Mingcong
Liu, Dunrui
BE (Electrical)
Liu, Fanye
Liu, Chao
Liu, Weike
MEngSc(Extn), Telecommunications
Loo, Poh Suan
BE (Telecommunications), Honours 2 Division 2
Low, Han Lip
BE (Electrical)
Lu, Dan
BE (Electrical)
Lu,Lei
Luong,Dung Viet
ME,Systems & Control
Maalouf,Amin
Macarthur-King, Scott Alexander
Manzar, Jawad
Marashdeh, Maram
BE (Electrical)
Mathew,Reji Kuruvilla
Meng, Zi Fan
BE (Electrical)
Mohammad, Ian Taufiq
BE (Electrical)
Mohd Hassan, Siti Lailatul
Pasha, Syed Ahmed
Moro, Kaushik Vinayak
Paul, Allen
Mudannayake, Chathura Prasanna
PhD, Energy Systems
Phoopattanakul, Theerasit
MEngSc, Signal Processing
Muhamad, Nor Asiah
PhD, Energy Systems
Popadic, Milos
BE BCom (Electrical), Honours 1
Muhammad Usman Ghani,.
Qazi, Sameer Hashmat
PhD, Telecommunications
Munim, Sohaib
Rabbani, Khawaja Shazad
Munir, Irfan
Rahman, Sajeed
BE (Electrical)
Mursidi, Edwin Arnan
BE (Electrical)
Rahman, Tanjim
BE (Electrical)
Nagel, Jeremy
Ramachandran, Prem Jude
BE (Electrical)
Narushevich, Lars
Reid, James Campbell
Nelson, Steven Nicholas
Rifkin, David
Nevat, Ido
Romanos, Raymond
Nguyen, Duy Duc
Rosli, Anis Diyana
Nguyen, Nam Thai
Ruan, Yuan Yuan
Noh, Azaryna
Saeed, Chaudhary Bilal
GradDipEngSc, Telecommunications
Ouyang, Jun
Saidina Omar, Ahmad Zainul
BE (Electrical)
Pan, Jinjiang
BE (Electrical)
Samat, Safwan Syariff
Papapetros, Emanuel Isidor
BE BCom (Electrical), Honours 2 Division 1
Santhakumar, Venuganan
BE BSc (Electrical), Honours 2 Division 2
Sastra, I Gede Oka Caraka
BE (Electrical)
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Sayeef, Saad Mohammad
PhD, Energy Systems
Serhan, Hassan
Sethu, Vidhyasaharan
Shah, Zawar
Shakarchi, Aiden
Shankar, Rahul
Shen, Chen
Shi, Chao
BE MBiomedE (Telecommunications),
Honours 2 Division 2
Shi, Quan
BE (Electrical)
Siddiqui, Muhammad Amin
Sivapalan, Sutharsan
BE (Electrical)
Sun, Kai Ken
BE (Electrical)
Tadilo, Bewketu
Weitzel, Jonathan
Tan, Alvin Meng Wei
BE (Electrical)
Wong, Chan Kit
BE (Telecommunications), Honours 1
Tan, Jun Yang
Wong, Nicholas
Tan, Ken Seong
Wong, Siu Wai
Tan, Lauren Nerine
MEngSc, Electric Power Engineering
Wong, Wilkin Wai Kit
Tan, Shiau Wan
Woo, Boqiang Dennis
Tang, Tiffany Chung Yan
BE BA (Electrical), Honours 2 Division 2
Wood, Clare Louise
Tang, Chenping
MEngSc(Extn), Systems and Control
Woon, Kenny
Taylor, Andrew Bryan
Wrigley, Andrew Philip
BE (Electrical)
Teimoori Sangani, Hamid
Xue, Minjie
Thiruvaran, Tharmarajah
Yang, Chih-Hwan Henry
BE BSc (Electrical), Honours 1
Thorncraft, Stuart Russell
PhD, Energy Systems
Yang, Yi Xiu
Tran, Douglas
BE (Electrical)
Yeung, Anson Chi-Ming
PhD, Photonics
Tufanoglu, Okan
BE (Electrical)
Yin, Bo
Venkatraman, Roshan
BE (Electrical)
Yu, Zheng
BE (Electrical)
Vu, Victor
BE (Photonics)
Zgliniecki, Michael
BE (Electrical)
Walsh, Chris
BE BSc (Electrical), Honours 2 Division 2
Zhai, Bo
Wang, Chao
Zhang, Henry Xin
Wang, Xin
Zhang, Yu
Wang, Jun
Zhao, Haibo
Wang, Liang
Zhou, Munan
Wang, Zhe
Zhou, Weiou
Ward, Christopher
Zhu, Michael
Wee, Jun Yuan
BE (Electrical)
ANNUAL REPORT 2009
03.RESEARCH
In keeping with the School of EE&T’s strong history of research, 2009 once again saw
research from the school gaining recognition in conference and journal forums worldwide.
This is summarised below.
School Research Publications Output
Number of Publications
250
200
School of Electrical
Engineering and
Telecommunications
publication output
from the seven years
to start of 2009
150
100
50
0
Conferences
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
113
132
115
115
130
152
167
Journals
55
54
48
70
69
83
63
Total
168
186
163
185
199
235
230
ACADEMIC STAFF
Prof Fazlur Rahman
(Head of Group)
Dr Iain MacGill
Dr Tuan Phung
RESEARCH GROUPS: ENERGY SYSTEMS
The Energy Systems Research Group conducts research in a wide range of
areas associated with the generation, transmission, storage and utilisation
of electrical energy, as well as in measurement, materials and electrical
equipment. There are three main research themes, namely,
(joint with Systems and Control)
1.
High-voltage engineering, Power system equipment, condition monitoring
of equipment, energy efficiency, on-line partial discharge detection.
2.
Electrical machines, power electronic converters, and variable-speed
drives.
3.
Power Systems Dynamics and Control, Integration of Wind Energy
Systems into utility Grid, Power system planning and economics,
electricity market restructuring, energy markets, renewable energy
generation.
Mr Ted Spooner
ADJUNCT/VISITING STAFF
A/Prof Hugh Outhred
A/Prof Colin Grantham
A/Prof Trevor Blackburn
Dr Walter Lachs
Dr Wayan Gede Ariastina
RESEARCH STAFF
High-Voltage Engineering (Dr Toan Phung)
Dr Robert Passey (CEEM)
High
Dr Maria Retnanestri (CEEM)
Electrical
Dr Nicholas Cutler
voltage generation, testing and measurement techniques.
Insulation - characteristics of gaseous, liquid and solid
dielectrics; study of insulation ageing mechanisms; diagnostic methods.
Partial
SUPPORT STAFF
Dr Baburaj Karanayil
Discharge Measurement - advanced computer-based data
acquisition, conventional and ultra-high frequency discharge detection,
acoustic methods, noise and interference reduction using signal
processing.
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High
performance control
techniques such as rotor flux
oriented control (RFOC) of induction
motors, direct torque control (DTC)
of permanent magnet motors,
sensorless estimation of stator and
rotor flux linkage, speed estimation
techniques, cogging and ripple
torque minimization schemes for
permanent magnet brushless
DC magnet motor drives, field
weakening controllers for interior
permanent magnet motors.
High-performance
Partial
Discharge Analysis application of modern digital
analysis methods for discharge
characterization and pattern
recognitions for fault diagnosis.
Power
System Equipment - on-line
condition monitoring of strategic
plant items such as HV cables,
power transformers, generators and
switchgear.
Intelligent
systems – data mining
techniques, neural networks, fuzzy
logic for pattern recognition, smart
grids.
Power Electronics and Drives
(Professor Faz Rahman)
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, resonant
circuits for lighting, grid connection
of inverters, modeling of power
electronic circuits; active filters;
DC, brushless DC, AC induction,
synchronous and stepping motor
drives;
and variablespeed drives and their controller
design issues, Machine dynamics
and control system design issues
for such machines such as interior
permanent magnet (IPM), switched
reluctance motors (the buried
magnet motor), and induction
motors; modeling and control
characteristics of drives when
driven from various types of power
converter circuits under different
control techniques.
Induction
and permanent magnet
machines and drive systems
for automobile traction, energy
conversion/generation system
design and associated power
converters and their control.
Matrix
converter and Z-source
inverter for application in the
42V PowerNet in automobiles.
Sensorless matrix converter driven
IPM motor drive for very low-speed
operation including zero speed.
Interior Permanent Machines
(Professor Faz Rahman & Dr
Rukmi Dutta)
Finite
element analysis and design
of power equipment.
The
optimal design of the interior
permanent magnet machine for
high field weakening range; with
application in vehicle traction and
wind power generation systems.
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Segmented,
multilayer and
concentrated winding designs of
IPM machine structures for high field
weakening range, high power and
torque density.
Power System Dynamics and
Control, Integration of Wind
Energy Systems (Dr Jayashri
Ravishankar)
Analysis
of the impact of
interconnecting wind turbine
generators to the utility grid.
FACTS
controllers for grid
connected wind energy conversion
systems.
Dynamic
stability analysis of
renewable energy systems
interconnected to the power grid
Electrical
power delivery systems,
power systems dynamics and
control.
Power System Planning and
Economics, Electricity Market
Restructuring, Energy Markets,
and Renewable Energy
Generation (Dr Iain MacGill)
Renewable
energy - Integration
of renewable energy sources into
the electricity supply system –
technology and wider institutional
and policy frameworks.
Renewable
Energy Industry
development - Technology, market,
financial and institutional drivers of
this industry’s development, policy
options to maximize and direct its
growth.
Power
system operation Theoretical and computational
approaches for coordinating the
operation of emerging power
systems with independent
participants and distributed
resources.
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.
Distributed,
renewable and demandside resources - Operational
characterization and modeling
of renewables, novel small-scale
generation, distributed energy
storage and demand-side options.
Renewables
applications - Largescale wind power developments,
Building integrated PV, RAPS
systems. Renewable options for the
developing world.
Distributed
Artificial Intelligence Evolutionary computation, intelligent
agent approaches for complex,
uncertain, problem domains.
Technical
standards for PV systems
and associated Balance of System
equipment for grid connection.
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RESEARCH GROUPS: MICROSYSTEMS
ACADEMIC STAFF
Prof Chee Yee Kwok
(Head of group)
Prof Andrew Dzurak
A/Prof Rodica Ramer
(Joint with Telecommunications)
Dr Torsten Lehman
Dr Andrea Morello
Dr Tara Hamilton
Prof Robert Clark
Prof Graham Rigby
Dr Mark Mackenzie
Dr Saeid Nooshabadi
RESEARCH STAFF
Dr Christopher Escott (ANFF)
Dr Fay Hudson (ANFF)
Dr Linda Macks (ANFF)
Dr Floris Zwanenburg (ANFF)
Dr Aron Michael
Dr Wee Han Lim (ANFF)
MEMS based optical cross-switch(OXC) (Prof. Chee Yee Kwok)
This project is about the development of an all-optical cross switch using MEMS
technology for applications in provisioning and restoration of optical communication
networks. Whilst many silica fiber based optical switches have been reported, this
development uniquely addresses the monolithic integration of the switch within the
fabric of planar silica waveguides on a silicon substrate. This is facilitated by the
successful development of two novel and critical components: (1) An low voltage
bistable actuation mechanism for out-of-plane actuation of the micromirror which
is monolithically integrated onto the actuator. (2) A pair of planar silica focusing
element for low loss free-space propagation within the switch. The actuator consist
of a bimorph microbridge with special spring attachments at the ends and additional
‘leg’ supports on the sides to control the beam axial stiffness, torsional stiffness
and torsional moments. The main microbridge structure is multilayered where the
residual stress and thickness of the layers have to be judiciously controlled during
the microfabrication process in order for the microbridge to exhibit the desired
bistable behaviour. Microfabrication of the bimorph bistable micromirror actuator is
highly complex and involves both surface and bulk micromachining. The planar silica
focusing element consist of a graded-index variation of the silica film in the vertical
direction and appropriate curvature of the lens front in the horizontal direction.
Further details can be obtained from http://www.eet.unsw.edu.au/staff/kwok/
profile.htm including a video demonstration of the bistable actuator. Research
was funded by the ARC and microfabrication work conducted in the Semiconductor
Nanofabrication Facility,UNSW.
SUPPORT STAFF
Daniel Krcho
John Elzey (ANFF)
Eric Gauja (SNF/ANFF)
Albert MacMaster (SNF/ANFF)
Gordon Bates (SNF/ANFF)
Joanna Szymanska (ANFF)
Bistable microbridge/micromirror actuator
Optical switching in operation.
ANNUAL REPORT 2009
Optical interconnect for 3D integration of integrated circuits
(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. Further details can be obtained from publications in http://www.
eet.unsw.edu.au/staff/kwok/profile.htm
Upward facing 45º micromirror
Schematic of optical link between 2
levels in a 3D stack.
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Integrated Quantum Computer Devices (Prof. Andrew Dzurak)
(a) Schematic top-view and (b)
SEM image of one of the Si:P
spin qubit devices produced and
measured during 2009. P donors
are incorporated via controlled
ion implantation. Spin readout is
achieved via a single electron
transistor (SET) detector.
Professor 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:
Si
MOS Spin Qubits
Spin
Si
Dependent Tunnelling through Single P Atoms
MOS Quantum Dots
Si:P
Spin Qubit Control Using Cavity ESR
Quantum Measurement (Dr Andrea Morello)
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:
Tunnel
rates in qubit structures
Single-shot
Three-level pulse sequence for single-shot
spin readout. The main panel shows averaged
SET current as a function of the “read” pulse
voltage. The time-resolved single-shot traces
highlight the correct tuning region where
projective readout of spin-down (blue) or spinup (red) electrons is obtained.
Fast
spin readout
Electrically Detected Magnetic Resonance (EDMR) of P donors
Devices
for local electron spin resonance
Low-temperature
integrated circuits for qubit readout
ANNUAL REPORT 2009
Development of RF MEMS Technology for Modern Wireless
Communications Systems – (Prof. Rodica Ramer)
In modern wireless communication systems, information data transmission
has to be able to handle multiple frequency bands and to provide multiple
channels for different signals. The solution is to combine the increase in
bandwidth (ultra-wide bandwidth) and speed, thus develop technologies for the
transceiver architecture. This, in turn, requires new technologies and fabrication
processes for circuits, devices and components, as well as the development of
new materials. We focused our research to develop RF MEMS technology for
reconfigurable communication systems with multifunctional capabilities.
One solution to handle multiple frequency bands and signals is to provide
physical routing capability to the transceiver. While signal routing at low
frequencies could be easily achieved, this becomes progressively more
complex as frequency increases. Switch matrices existed for many years,
however, due to the technology limitation provided by solid state semiconductor
FET and PIN diodes, they cannot support the requirements for the next
generation wireless communications. We concentrated on the advantages of RF
MEMS and developed switch matrices that overcome the bandwidth limitation
and outmatch the RF performance provided by all existing technologies. We
also developed novel reconfigurable filters using RF MEMS that can switch filter
band without using several separate different filters.
Novel RF MEMS crossbar switch matrices topologies have been developed
and 3x3 switch matrices have been fabricated as a proof of concept. The
fabricated switch matrices exhibit RF performance that is 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 coaxial-based
systems in use on satellites for system redundancy. These designs could also
be applied to mobile phone transceiver frontend in order to switch between
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 located at 8, 9 and 10GHz, while maintaining
the desired bandwidths of 1GHz.
RF MEMS switch design
SEM picture of the fabricated switch
cell,
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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 are somewhat modified,
though, and we have investigated the transistor characteristics under such
operating conditions. Such gained knowledge of the transistor characteristics
have further enabled us to design integrated circuit functions for ultra-low
temperature operation; notably fast, programmable pulse generators and ultrasensitive 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 trancutaneous 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-wideband 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.
“LouLou” chip: A test chip for characterisation
of a number of critical circuit functions for
biomedical implants.
ANNUAL REPORT 2009
ACADEMIC STAFF
RESEARCH GROUPS: SYSTEMS AND CONTROL
Prof Victor Solo
(Head of group)
Prof Branko Celler
Prof Andrey Savkin
A/Prof Tuan Hoang
A/Prof Tim Hesketh
Dr David Clements
Nonlinear Control (Dr D Clements)
Research projects include:
Reliable
Numerical Algorithms for Control
Chemical
Process Control
Dr Ray Eaton
(joint with Energy Systems)
Emeritus Prof Neville Rees
Prof Peter Neilson
Prof Vojin G Oklobdzija
Dr Hoang Kha Ha
RESEARCH STAFF
Dr Jim Basilakis (BSL)
Nonlinear Control and Robotics (Dr R 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.
Dr Gregory Chan (BSL)
Dr Teddy Cheng
Dr Syed Ahmed Pasha
SUPPORT STAFF
Chris Lu
Kinematic
Modeling of Articulated Systems
Nonlinear
Control Design for Articulated Systems
Robust
Control Design for Autonomous Vehicles Under the Influence of Slip
Jeff Lee
Computer Aided Design and Real-time Control (A/Prof. T Hesketh)
Testable
Design
Modelling,
Learning
Sliding
estimation, simulation and control for intransigent systems
and Adaptive Control
mode and adaptive control in steel making
Control Methods for Actuator Systems in Hard Disk Drives (Dr B Hredzak)
This research is motivated by a recently developed track-seek and track-following
method for dual-stage actuators in hard disk drive which provides a unified servocontrol framework for track seeking and track following. High-performance hard
disk drives use dual-stage actuators to compensate for vibrations caused by the
disk, spindle motor, suspension, slider, or the head. Dual-stage actuators consist
of a primary voice-coil-motor (VCM) actuator and a secondary, high-bandwidth
piezoelectric (PZT) actuator. During track seeking, the servo actuator is moving
from the current track to the required target track in order to read or write the
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data. Once the target track is reached, the track
following mode ensures reliable reading or writing
of the data. So, seeking performance in a hard disk
drive is a very important parameter that determines
how fast the user can access the data. A few novel
solutions to improve the seeking performance
have been developed. Introduction of anti-windup
compensation for secondary control loop improves
settling duration, disturbance rejection, recovery from
saturation in the secondary actuator loop, and design
flexibility. An alternative to improve the short-seeking
performance is to replace a constant saturation
non-linearity in the secondary loop of the dual-stage
control system by a dynamic saturation non-linearity.
The dynamic saturation ensures secondary actuator
signal boundedness while modulating the control
error fed to secondary control loop. This yields
significantly faster response of the secondary
actuator giving faster settling time and hence faster
access to the data.
Seek command
Control
system
Position
feedback
Spindle motor
driver
PZT-actuator
VCM / PZT
driver
VCM-actuator
ANNUAL REPORT 2009
Communication Limited Control (Prof. A Savkin)
Neural Coding (Prof. V Solo)
In many distributed control systems communication
bandwidth limits can compromise system stability and
performance and a communication control tradeoff must be
managed.
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.
Information
and Control
Networked
Control Systems
Robust
Control under Limited Capacity Constraints
Multi-Agent Systems (Prof. A Savkin)
Research Projects include:
System
Control
of Mobile Robots
State
Missile
Guidance Algorithms
Joint
Control
of Mobile Radio Systems
Control Applications (Prof. A Savkin)
Diabetes
Control
Vision
Control
of Wind Power Systems
Identification for Multivariate Point Processes
Estimation for Point Process Systems
System Identification of Point Processes and Time
Series
Geometric Signal Estimation (Prof. V 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.
and Control
Neuroimaging (Prof. V Solo)
Geodesic
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).
Stochastic
Modeling
Joint
of Intrinsic Brain Networks
fMRI/MEG modelling
Information
Theoretic Causality
Principal Components Analysis
Attitude Estimation
Construction
of Stochastic Processes on Manifolds
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Bioinformatics (A/Prof. H D Tuan)
Microarray
Gene
expression data processing,
profiling and prediction/interaction
Statistical
learning for clustering and classification.
Bioinformatics is the application of statistics and computer
science to the field of molecular biology, particularly in those
areas of genomics involving large-scale DNA sequencing.
It now entails the creation and advancement of databases,
algorithms, computational and statistical techniques and
theory to solve formal and practical problems arising from the
management and analysis of biological data.
Econometrics (Prof. V Solo)
Nonlinear control and filtering (A/Prof. H D Tuan)
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’.
Robust
and adaptive control with applications in vehicle
control, guidance in aeronautics and robotics
Nonlinear
State
Space approach to Dynamic Factor Models
Sparse
State Space Models
Random
Matrix theory for Stationary Processes
Cognitive (4G) Communication (A/Prof. H D Tuan)
OFDM
- orthogonal frequency division multiplexing
Random
multiple access techniques
Channel
estimation and equalization
Relay
and cognitive communication networking
MIMO
coding, beamforming and optimisation based
techniques
Information
theory for network capacity
Cognitive (4G) communication aims at providing high
bandwidth to mobiles users via heterogeneous wireless
architectures and dynamic spectrum access techniques.
The inefficient usage of the 3G spectrum is substantially
improved by opportunistic access to the licensed bands
without interfering with the existing users. Therefore, the
broad range of available spectrum and diverse Qualityof-Service requirements impose research challenges in
communication networking and access protocol
estimation and filtering with applications in
multi-target tracking, data fusion and sensor networking
Kalman
filters and nonlinear extensions
Gaussian
mixture approximation and dynamic Bayes
network
The aim of this research is to develop a systematic and
efficient approach to address fundamental challenges in
emerging areas within nonlinear control and filtering. These
challenges arise in almost all areas of target tracking,
navigation and guidance of wheeled and flying vehicles,
missiles and mobile robots, control of biomedical systems.
Signal Processing and Compressed Sensing
(A/Prof. H D Tuan)
Low-complexity
one-dimensional and multi-dimensional
digital filter design
Compressed
sensing with applications in image
processing
Less-powered
Statistical
digital filter bank for wireless transmission
signal processing for bio-signals
ANNUAL REPORT 2009
The aim of this research is to develop a systematic and
efficient approach to address fundamental challenges in
analysis and synthesis of sparse systems in the emerging
areas of wireless communication and sensor network, and
distributed signal processing.
Optimization (A/Prof. H D Tuan)
Fast
convex optimization for online computation
Nonsmooth
spectral optimization for large scale and
nonconvex problems
The key developments in all areas of system and control,
signal processing, digital communication and information
at the end are down to solutions of complex optimization
problems, which certainly require new tools and ideas for
their effective solution.
Estimating energy expenditure using triaxial
accelerometry (Dr Stephen Redmond)
Traditional methods of energy expenditure estimation, in
the free-living environment, attempted using accelerometry
operate without knowledge of the slope of the terrain which
is being traversed. The ability to recognise the gradient
of the walking surface will most likely improve upon these
simplistic energy estimates. We have investigated the
benefit of step-by-step segmentation of the accelerometry
signal in classifying the various gradients. Future work
will incorporate this slope classification information with
traditional tri-axial accelerometry energy expenditure
estimation techniques, using a linear least squares model,
and compare the results to the gold-standard measure
provided by gas analysis of oxygen uptake.
A shear force transducer for use in robotic
manipulator digits (Dr Stephen Redmond)
It is often difficult to grasp and manipulate fragile and
slippery objects with prosthetic or robotic arms. One
significant problem faced is controlling the amount of grip
force to apply. If the force applied is too small the object
will slip, but too great force will damage it. In a human
hand, mechanoreceptors provide feedback and help control
the amount of force applied; however, it can be difficult to
provide this feedback in a robotic hand because a single
sensor is unable to compete with the thousands of afferent
nerves present in the human finger pad. Typically the
glabrous skin of the hand is able to detect the distribution
of forces and any changes therein. It has been shown that
in a human model localised incipient slip events provide
information critical to controlling the amount of grip force
excreted on the object being manipulated. While developing
a sensor capable of dynamically detecting slip is the desired
endpoint, a sensor with the capacity of detect static shear
forces may demonstrate some utility, where the coefficient
of friction between the tactile sensing surface and the
object being manipulated, is known. This would allow for
a suitable amount of normal force to be applied to the
surface, as indicated by the shear force detected at the
gripping interface. We have prototyped an initial design
for a robust capacitive static shear force sensor, that can
easily be produced at a low cost for all volumes. The sensor
design is fabricated directly onto a printed circuit board.
The device has been characterised both with and without a
silicone skin covering the capacitor plates, demonstrating
considerable utility in estimating the shear force applied to
the sensor surface.
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HEAD OF GROUP
Prof David Taubman
SIGNAL PROCESSING
Prof David Taubman
Prof Eliathamby Ambikairajah
Dr Deep Sen
Dr Elias Aboutanios
Dr Julien Epps
Dr Stephen Redmond
WIRELESS & DATA NETWORKS
A/Prof Jinhong Yuan
Prof Aruna Seneviratne
A/Prof Robert Malaney
A/Prof Rodica Ramer (Joint with Microsystems)
Dr Tim Moors
Dr Vijay Sivaraman
Dr Wei Zhang
PHOTONICS
RESEARCH GROUPS: TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Telecommunications Research Group at the School of Electrical Engineering and
Telecommunications consists of research and teaching in the areas of Wireless
& Network Communications, Signal Processing, and Photonics. Our research
activities include:
Wireless and Network Communications
Wireless Broadband for the National Broadband Network for Rural and
Bush areas (Prof. J. Yuan, Dr W. Zhang, A/Prof. R. Malaney, Dr T. Moors)
One of the crucial challenges for the NBN is that a relatively small population is
currently spread over vast Australian regions (especially in the remote and rural
areas). We are working on how to establish novel and emerging solutions to the
problem of this 'wireless tail' or ‘last mile’ to the national broadband network,
for the practical situations of high density housing (cities) and low-density, rural
communities, bush areas.
Prof Gang Ding Peng
A/Prof Francois Ladouceur
Multiuser MIMO Communications (Prof. Jinhong Yuan)
Dr Iain Skinner
A/Prof Harvey Holmes
Dr Stephen Duval (Photonics)
A/Prof Roksana Boreli (Signal Processing)
Prof Kuldip K. Paliwal (Signal Processing)
Dr Shaohua Chen (Photonics)
Trevor Wayne Whitbread (Photonics)
Dr Maged Elkashlan (Wireless)
RESEARCH STAFF
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 multiuser multimedia services in the ICT industry sector. Potential applications of the
project outcomes are in future 4G cellular mobile networks.
Dr Ashay Dhamdhere (Wireless)
Dr Ziyi Ge (Photonics)
Dr Nathaniel Groothoff (Photonics)
Dr Kok Hou Wong (Photonics)
Dr Eun Hee Min (Photonics)
Dr Ruiqin Xiong (Signal processing)
Dr Albert Steven Canagasabey (Photonics)
Dr Chaofeng James Li (Wireless)
Dr Jun Li (Wireless)
Dr Reji Kuruvilla Mathew (Signal Processing)
Dr Ido Nevat (Wireless)
Mr Paul Henri Prevot (Photonics)
Mr Shuai Wang (Signal Processing)
Mr David Gunawan (Signal processing)
SUPPORT STAFF
Philip Allen
Joe Yiu
Tom Millet
Cooperative Wireless Communications and Network Coding
(Prof. J. Yuan, Dr W. Zhang, A/Prof. R. 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 multiuser 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).
ANNUAL REPORT 2009
Cognitive radio networks (Prof. J. Yuan, Dr W. 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.
Wireless Sensor Networks and Applications
(Dr Vijay Sivaraman)
Wireless and ad-hoc sensor networks continue to be an
area of focused international research. The Biomedical
Systems Laboratory (BSL) Wireless Sensor Network (WSN)
project is a novel application and integration of wireless
mesh networking using ZigBee, Bluetooth and Wireles LAN
low power modules with Ethernet access points. Current
research is focused on embedded network technology,
microprocessors, power and storage, microsensors,
operating systems, disruption tolerant networks, privacy,
security and data fusion and error reduction algorithms.
Other research is exploring mobile nodes based on active
asset tracking technology (active RFID) which leverage
existing Wi-Fi infrastructure and Internet/Intranet facilities
to measure location by measuring signal strength using
triangulation and Received Signal Strength Indication (RSSI).
Reliable Communications for Vehicular Networks
(Dr T. Moors, Dr A. Tabatabaei)
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
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.
Wireless Mesh Networks (Dr Tim Moors)
EE&T have focused on WMNs that span cities and are used
for gathering data about vehicular traffic flows on roads
and for controlling traffic signals on those roads. Unlike
vehicular communication described elsewhere, these WMNs
do not communicate to mobile devices but do have tight
timeliness and reliability requirements. Our contribution
has been in the area of novel routing algorithms that
use multiple paths through the mesh network to provide
spatial diversity and so enhance reliability, without adding
delay that would be incurred from temporal diversity from
retransmission. These techniques are applicable to a wide
variety of industrial control applications (e.g. chemical and
manufacturing plants) that require reliable timely delivery,
but where it is infeasible to lay cables.
Enabling Optical Packet Switched Networks with
Minimal Buffering (Dr Vijay Sivaraman)
This research develops novel tools and techniques that
help Internet service providers overcome the fundamental
limitations of optical storage technology in order to deploy
all-optical packet switching in the future Internet. Our work
paves the way towards adoption of a cost-effective and
green technology to aid the Internet backbone and meet
future growth requirements. Our collaboration with a major
international Internet equipment manufacturer allows us
to develop a holistic framework for network-wide design,
deployment, and operation, incorporating new traffic
management techniques and service models that can
readily be adopted by Internet service providers world-wide.
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Quantum Communications (A/Prof. R. 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.
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 roundthe-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.
Photonics
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
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
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.
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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”.
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
Image and video compression (Prof. David Taubman)
Since 2000, the School has been conducting world-leading
research in the area of compression of digital media.
Specific outputs from this work include: 1) Adoption of the
EBCOT algorithm proposed by Taubman into the JPEG2000
standard (IS15444-1) for scalable image compression;
2) Development of the Kakadu software for JPEG2000
and related technologies, which is in use by well over
200 commercial organizations; 3) Development of Motion
Compensated Wavelet Lifting, a core video transformation
technology for scalable video compression, to which we
hold important patents; and 4) Development of novel
hardware implementation strategies for JPEG2000,
including a complete ASIC implementation of the JPEG2000
block encoder (the key computational element), achieving
up to 5 times the throughput of existing comparable
designs. Current projects include: 1) Development of
advanced motion compensation techniques for video
compression; 2) Novel strategies for the compression of
depth and elevation imagery; 3) Theoretical and practical
contributions to distributed coding techniques, with an
emphasis on the relatively unexplored area of distributed
arithmetic coding; and 4) Ongoing development and
proposal of new technologies for inclusion in the JPEG2000
series of standards.
Top view of a diamond waveguide illuminated using green laser light (bottom right) and displaying
its mode pattern (top left).
Multimedia communication (Prof. David Taubman)
Major contributions in this area are: 1) Proposal and
adoption of the core paradigm for interactive image/video
communication into the JPIP standard (IS15444-9) for
internet imaging; and 2) The development of a family of
highly efficient and computationally tractable hybrid-ARQ
protection strategies for scalable compressed multi-media,
collectively known as LR-PET (Limited Retransmission
Priority Encoding Transmission). Current ongoing projects
are focussed on the following themes: 1) Intelligent clientserver distribution of scalable video, in which some of the
temporal redundancy is exploited through the network
communication process itself; 2) Novel techniques to
transport and exploit metadata in conjunction with imagery
and video content; and 3) Ongoing development and
proposal of new technologies for inclusion in the JPIP
standard for internet imaging.
Inverse problems in imaging (Prof. David Taubman)
This topic is concerned with the enhancement and/or robust
reconstruction of imagery from incomplete, blurred and
noisy observations. In the context of this project we have
developed an important solution to a classic chicken-andegg problem in inverse imaging. Specifically, a common
problem is that the reconstruction process would be made
much easier if a good segmentation of the scene into
discrete objects were available, while such a segmentation
generally requires the availability of high quality
reconstructed images. Joint solution of these two problems
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(reconstruction and segmentation) have been difficult,
plagued by the additional difficulty that segmentation is not
generally a well defined problem. We have developed an
approach which provides an implicit segmentation and also
lends itself to problems involving very complex observation
models, which usually prove computationally challenging.
Our approach demonstrates oustanding performance when
applied to the problem of colour image demosaicing, which
is fundamental to practically all modern digital cameras.
3D Imaging and video (Prof. David Taubman)
Since 2004 we have been collaborating with the
University of Padua, Italy, on a project involving interactive
communication of 3D scenes, based on images and depth
maps. We are currently assembling our own equipment
for the capture and creation of 3D video content, based on
up to 8 high definition scientific video cameras. Ongoing
projects in this area will explore problems related to 3D TV,
spatio-temporal sensor fusion and distance education based
on 3D scene surveillance methods.
Objective QoS measurements of speech synthesis
systems (Dr Deep Sen)
Monitoring and automatic assessment of speech
transmission quality is of paramount importance in
telecommunications networks. This research is focused
on supplanting human subjective testing of speech quality
which remains the most reliable means of testing speech
synthesis systems. While intrusive algorithms are the thrust
of this work, the fundamental theoretical contributions
of the work supports non-intrusive environments such as
Text-to-Speech synthesis. Aspects of this research are
being considered for standardisation by the International
Telecommunications Union as part of the new P.OLQA
standard. This research is conducted in collaboration with
AT&T Laboratories (Florham Park, NJ).
3D soundfield acquisition, analysis and synthesis
(Dr Deep Sen)
This project is concerned with inventing parametric
representations of 3D soundfield synthesis systems.
Soundfield synthesis is an advanced sound reproduction
technology that overcomes the inherent incapabilities of
currently deployed stereo and multi-channel audio systems.
The superiority and novelty of the proposed approach is due
to its foundation in fundamental acoustics. The absence of
this foundation in existing deployed systems contributes
directly to their flawed ability to render accurate spatial
audio. Benefitting applications include consumer audio
systems, highly-directional beamforming for surveillance and
tele-presence.
Cochlear modelling (Dr Deep Sen)
The accurate physiological modelling of cochlear
hydromechanics and electro-physiology is a multi-disciplinary
field which spans basic science, medicine and engineering.
Not only does it facilitate fundamental understanding of
cochlear physiology but also finds engineering applications
such as in auditory prosthetics (both implants and hearing
aids) as well as automatic prediction of human listening
behaviour and speech/audio coding. Currently research is
focused on modelling the outer-hair-cell electro-motility and
non-linear innervation at the hair cells synapse. The work
is carried out in joint collaboration with University of Illinois
(UC), Australian National University and the MIT-Harvard
Health Science Technology department.
Biological 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.
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Language Identification and Dialect Identification
(Prof. E. 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 (Prof. E. Ambikairajah, Dr J. Epps and
Dr M. Nosratighods)
The automatic determination of a person’s identity from their
speech signal has a range of applications in authentication,
security, defense 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.
Paralinguistic Speech Processing (Prof. E.
Ambikairajah and Dr J. Epps)
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 automatic language determination,
speaker emotion, cognitive load and level of interest. The
research effort within the school aims to characterise this
information accurately, and results in emotion recognition
have challenged the state of the art. Cognitive load
measurement from speech is a collaborative project led by
National ICT Australia.
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.
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.
A decision support system for telehealth applications
(Dr Stephen Redmond)
At the Biomedical Systems Laboratory (BSL) we are
currently developing a decision support system to enable
clinicians, monitoring vast amounts of remotely acquired
telehealth data, to manage their telehealth patients
effectively. A trial is currently underway in Blacktown,
Western Sydney, remotely gathering data recorded in the
unsupervised environment. A record is also kept of the
patient’ state of wellbeing for later retrospective training of
the decision support system.
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Signal quality algorithms for unsupervised
electrocardiogram, pulse oximetry and blood
pressure measurement (Dr Stephen Redmond)
The noisy nature of unsupervised telehealth recordings has
highlighted the necessity for signal quality measures of some
commonly performed telehealth measurements, such as
the electrocardiogram, pulse oximetry and blood pressure.
Since these data are destined for automatic interpretation,
ignorance of the signal quality will dramatically affect the
accuracy of any physiological parameters extracted from
the raw data waveforms. This project has progressed
significantly, with several papers published on work relating to
the electrocardiogram, Thesis students performing work on
blood pressure signal quality algorithms, and a PhD student
addressing the automatic identification of quality issues in the
pulse oximetry photoplethysmogram.
Triaxial accelerometry-based falls risk estimation
among the elderly population (Dr Stephen Redmond)
Falls among the elderly population are a major cause of
morbidity and injury - particularly among the over 65 age
group. Validated clinical tests and associated models, built
upon assessment of functional ability, have been devised
to estimate an individual's risk of falling in the near future.
Those identified as at-risk of falling may be targeted for
interventative treatment. The migration of these clinical
models estimating falls risk to a surrogate technique, for
use in the unsupervised environment, might broaden the
reach of falls risk screening beyond the clinical arena. We
have characterised the movements of 68 elderly subjects
performing a directed routine of unsupervised physical
tasks; the movement characterisation is achieved through
the use of a triaxial accelerometer. By extracting a number
of falls related features from the accelerometry signals,
combined with a linear least squares model, we can map to
a clinically validated measure of falls risk with a correlation
of coefficient of 0.81 (p<0.001), proving the utility of such
unsupervised assessment of falls risk.
Wireless sensor networks to detect falls and estimate
falls risk (Dr Stephen Redmond)
This project aims to investigate the extension of the
previously mentioned project, which uses a directed
routine assessment, to unobtrusive estimation of falls
risk among the elderly community. The technique will
employ the combined use of a single wireless body-worn
accelerometer sensor and indoor localisation technology,
to characterise the movements of the elderly subject and
hence estimate their risk of falling in the near future. Again,
once those at risk of falling are identified, a preventative
strategy implemented by allied healthcare providers may be
initiated. Leveraging existing asset tracking technologies,
such as active RFID, ultrasound or infrared, would provide
information regarding the subject’s location within the home
and hence enable the estimation of walking speeds, average
durations of particular activities (such as toileting, or stair
climbing) and identification of sit-to-stand transitions; all of
which are known to correlate with a risk of falling. Similarly,
analysing patients movements, it may be possible to detect
falls events at night time, when the subject is not wearing a
more traditional falls detection wearable device.
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Interpretation of accelerometric, gyroscopic and
barometric signals for falls event detection
(Dr Stephen Redmond)
A falls detection system, employing a Bluetooth-based wearable
device, containing a triaxial accelerometer and a barometric
pressure sensor, has been developed at the BSL. The aim of this
study is to evaluate the use of barometric pressure measurement,
as a surrogate measure of altitude, to augment previously
reported accelerometry-based falls detection algorithms. The
accelerometry and barometric pressure signals obtained from
the waist-mounted device are analysed by a signal processing
and classification algorithm to discriminate falls from activities of
daily living. This falls detection algorithm has been compared to
two existing algorithms which utilise accelerometry signals alone.
A set of laboratory-based simulated falls, along with other tasks
associated with activities of daily living (16 tests) were performed
by 15 healthy volunteers (9 male and 6 female; age: 23.7 ±
2.9 years; height: 1.74 ± 0.11 m). The algorithm incorporating
pressure information detected falls with the highest sensitivity
(97.8%) and the highest specificity (96.7%).
Classification of finger pad afferent nerve activity
in monkeys under the influence of force and torque
stimulation (Dr Stephen Redmond)
While the characteristics of afferent nerve responses to tactile
stimuli are well understood, the nature of how vast arrays of
these various nerve types, located in the finger pads, contribute
information to encode more complex stimuli, such as surface
curvatures, force magnitudes and force directions, are poorly
understood. We have investigated the application of some
pattern recognition procedures to spike counts recorded from an
ensemble of afferent nerves, in monkeys, subjected to several
combinations of normal force and twist (torque). A microelectrode
was placed into the median nerve; the technician listens to
the amplified signal to detect a successful implantation. Once
implanted, the technician searches for the exact location of the
nerve unit, on the finger pads, which is generating the spike train.
Once located its exact location is recorded. The afferent nerve
is then characterised as being a slow or fast adapting nerve of
type. Employing a Parzen window classifier with a feature selection
procedure, we can show that 100% classification accuracy
is achievable across are range of different normal forces and
torques, given only few select afferent nerves.
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AWARDS AND PRIZES
Dr Wei Zhang won the IEEE Communications Society Asia-Pacific
“Outstanding Young Researcher Award” for 2009. This award honours
researchers who have been very active in IEEE ComSoc publications
and conference activities over the last 2 years. This year, IEEE received
a large number of applications and Wei was one of 6 researchers to
win this award, the only recipient from Australia. Dr Wei Zhang won
the award for his contributions to his spectrum sensing algorithm and
spectrum sharing solutions for cognitive radio. He has 3 US patents
(filed) and one ARC Discovery Project on cognitive radio research. Cognitive radio
is an exciting emerging technology, which has potential for dealing with problems
posed by the stringent requirements and scarcity of the radio spectrum. Potential
applications of Dr Wei Zhang’s research outcomes allow co-existence of various
wireless communication systems working in the same spectrum band, leading to
new services and open markets for new players.
Prof. David Taubman - 2009 Inventor of the Year Awards, Information
and Communication Technology category for his image and video
compression software, known as KakaduTM
Dr Susan Angus, an EE&T and Co-op alumnus and PhD graduate,
was awarded the Malcolm Chaikin Prize for Research Excellence in
Engineering.
This award recognises the best PhD thesis (high quality thesis, strong
ability to convey the excitement of her field of research to the scientific
community and raising the profile of Engineering to the community at
large) in the calendar year.
After completing honours in the Centre for Quantum Computer Technology, she
decided to continue at UNSW as a PhD student under the supervision of Prof.
Andrew Dzurak. Susan’s research involved the construction of silicon quantum
dots and silicon single electron transistors in the Semiconductor Nanofabrication
Facility; and the subsequent electronic characterization of these devices at mK
temperature (~-273C). Susan is now a Research Fellow in the School of Physics
at the University of Melbourne, responsible for establishing a hybrid electricaloptical characterisation platform at mK temperature.
RESEARCH COMMERCIALISATION
Patents
Chul Kim, Torsten Lehmann and Saeid Nooshabadi, "Wireless Endoscope
System and Transceiving Method Thereof", Korean Patent Application 10-20090037336, 2009.
KY Chan, M. Daneshmand, R. Ramer, “Monolithic RF MEMS Crossbar Switch
Matrix”, US Patent Application 61/132459, 2009.
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RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS (2008*)
Book Chapters - Scholarly Research
Teimoori Sangani, A. & Savkin, AV., 2008,
‘Collision-free Navigation of Wheeled Mobile Robot
Using The Rang-Only’, in New Research on Mobile
Robots, eds E.Gaines & L. Peskov, Nova Science
Publishers, Hauppauge, NY.
Wang, L., Su, S., Chan, GS., Celler, BG., Cheng,
TM. & Savkin, AV., 2008, ‘Cardiovascular
response identification based on nonlinear support
vector regression’, in Biomedical Engineering
Systems and Technologies, eds A.Fred, J. Filipe,
and H.Gamboa, Springer, Berlin.
Journal Articles - Scholarly Refereed
Akhtar, M., Epps, JR. & Ambikairajah, E., 2008,
‘Signal processing in sequence analysis: Advances
in Eukaryotic Gene Prediction’, in IEEE Journal of
selected topics in signal processing, special issue
on Genomis and Proteomic signal processing., vol
2(3), pp. 310 - 321.
Angus, SJ., Ferguson, AJ., Dzurak, A. & Clark,
RG., 2008, ‘A silicon radio-frequency single
electron transistor’, in Applied Physics Letters, vol
92(11), pp. 112103 - 112105.
Brands, K., Colvin, EK., Williams, LJ., Wang,
R., Lock, RB. & Tuch, BE., 2008, ‘Reduced
immunogenicity of first-trimester human fetal
pancreas.’, in Diabetes, vol 57(3), pp. 627 - 634.
Bye, RT. & Neilson, PD., 2008, ‘The BUMP model
of response planning: Variable horizon predictive
control accounts for the speed-accuracy tradeoffs
and velocity profiles of aimed movement’, in Human
Movement Science, vol 27(5), pp. 771 - 798.
Chan, G., Middleton, PM., Celler, BG., Wang,
L. & Lovell, NH., 2008, ‘Detecting change in
left ventricular ejection time during head-up tiltinduced progressive central hypovolemia using
a finger photoplethysmographic pulse oximetry
wave form’, in Journal of Trauma: Injury Infection
and Critical Care, vol 64, pp. 390 - 397.
Chao, C. & Grantham, C., 2008, ‘The comparison
of warm-core and cold-core designs of iron-cored
HTS inductors for electric power applications’, in
Physica C - Superconductivity and Its Applications,
vol 468(15-20), pp. 2149 - 2151.
Cheng, TM., Savkin, AV., Celler, BG., Su, WS.
& Wang, L., 2008, ‘Nonlinear Modelling and
Control of Human Heart Rate Response During
Exercise With Various Work Load Intensities’, in
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol
55(11), pp. 2499 - 2508.
Childs, P., Wong, A., Leung, IK., Peng, G. &
Liao, Y., 2008, ‘An in-line in-fibre ring cavity
sensor for localized multi-parameter sensing’, in
Measurement Science and Technology, vol 19(6),
pp. 1 - 8.
Childs, PA., Wong, AC., Terry, WR. & Peng,
G., 2008, ‘Measurement of crack formation in
concrete using embedded optical fibre sensors
and differential strain analysis’, in Measurement
Science and Technology, vol 19(6), pp. 1 - 9.
Cutler, N., Kepert, J., Outhred, HR., MacGill, IF.
& Kay, MJ., 2008, ‘Characterizing Future Large,
Rapid Changes in Aggregated Wind Power using
Numerical Weather Prediction Spatial Fields’,
published online in Wind Energy, 9 December
2008. In hard copy Wind Energy: 2009;
12(6):542–555. DOI: 10.1002/we.312
Cutler, N., Kepert, J., Outhred, HR. & MacGill,
IF., 2008, ‘Characterizing Wind Power Forecast
Uncertainty with Numerical Weather Prediction
Spatial Fields’, in Wind Engineering, vol 32(6), pp.
509 - 524.
*As verified in June 2009 Higher Eduction Research Data Collection return
Dong, S., Luo, M., Peng, G. & Cheng, W.,
2008, ‘Broad range pH sensor based on sol-gel
entrapped indicators on fibre optic’, in Sensors
and Actuators B - Chemical, vol 129, pp. 94 - 98.
Dutta, RD. & Rahman, MF., 2008, ‘Design
and analysis of an interior permanent magnet
(IPM) machine with very wide constant power
operation range’, in IEEE Transactions on Energy
Conversion, vol 23(1), pp. 25 - 33.
Guatelli, S., Reinhard, M., Mascialino, B.,
Prokopovich, D., Dzurak, A., Zaider, M. &
Rosenfeld, A., 2008, ‘Tissue equivalence
correction in silicon microdosimetry for protons
characteristic of the LEO space environment.’, in
IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol 55(6),
pp. 3407 - 3413.
Gunawan, TS., Epps, JR. & Ambikairajah, E.,
2008, ‘Boosting approach to exon detection in
DNA sequences’, in Electronics Letters, vol 44(4),
pp. 323 - 324.
Gunawan, DO. & Sen, D., 2008, ‘Spectral
envelope sensitivity of musical instrument sounds’,
in Journal of the Acoustical Society of America,
vol 123(1), pp. 500 - 506.
Gupta, AK., Nooshabadi, SV. & Taubman, DS.,
2008, ‘Efficient interfacing of DWT and EBCOT in
JPEG2000’, in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and
Systems for Video Technology, vol 18(5), pp.
687 - 693.
Herborn, SR. & Seneviratne, AP., 2008, ‘Dial `M`
for middlebox managed mobility’, in IEEE Network,
vol 22(5), pp. 41 - 47.
Herrmann, G., Hredzak, B., Venkataramanan, V.,
Spurgeon, S. & Edwards, CR., 2008, ‘A novel
discrete-time sliding mode technique and its
application to a HDD dual-stage track-seek and
track-following servo system’, in International
Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing,
vol 22(4), pp. 344 - 358.
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Karantonis, D., Cloherty, SL., Lovell, NH.,
Mason, DG., Salamonsen, RF. & Ayre, P., 2008,
‘Noninvasive detection of suction in an implantable
rotary blood pump using neural networks’, in
International journal of computational intelligence
and applications, vol 7, pp. 237 - 247.
Khan, NM., Simsim, M. & Rapajic, P., 2008, ‘A
generalized model for the spatial characteristics
of the cellular mobile channel’, in IEEE
Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol 57(1),
pp. 22 - 37.
Hiscocks, MP., Ladouceur, F., Ganesan, K.,
Huntington, S., Gibson, B. & Prawer, S., 2008,
‘Diamond waveguides fabricated by reactive
ion etching’, in Optics Express, vol 16(24), pp.
19512 - 19519.
Hiscocks, MP., Kaalund, CJ., Ladouceur, F.,
Huntington, S., Gibson, B., Trpkovski, S., AmpemLassen, E., Prawer, S., Butler, J. & Simpson,
D., 2008, ‘Reactive ion etching of waveguide
structures in diamond’, in Diamond and Related
Materials, vol 17(11), pp. 1831 - 1834.
Hoang, HG., Hoang, TD. & Apkarian, P., 2008,
‘A Lyapunov Variable-Free KYP Lemma for SISO
Continuous Systems’, in IEEE Transactions on
Automatic Control, vol 53(11), pp. 2669 - 2673.
Hoang, TD., Hung, NV., Narikiyo, T. & Apkarian,
P., 2008, ‘Adaptive Control for Nonlinearly
parameterized uncertainties in robot
manipulators’, in IEEE Transaction on Control
Systems Technology, vol 16(3), pp. 458 - 468.
Hoang, HG., Hoang, TD., Nguyen, TQ. & Kha, HH.,
2008, ‘Design of Exactly Linear Phase K-Regular
IIR Half-Band Filter’, in IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON
CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS II-EXPRESS BRIEFS, vol
55(12), pp. 1264 - 1268.
Hopf, T., Yang, C., Hearne, SM., Jamieson, DN.,
Gauja, E., Andresen, SE. & Dzurak, A., 2008,
‘Low-Noise Detection System for the Counted
Implantation of Single Ions in Silicon’, in IEEE
Transactions on Nuclear Science, vol 55(2), pp.
812 - 816.
Hredzak, B. & Herrmann, G., 2008, ‘Augmentation
of short-span seeking performance using dynamic
saturation’, in IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, vol
44(1), pp. 81 - 83.
Hredzak, B., Hermann, G., Turner, M., Postlethwaite,
I. & Guo, G., 2008, ‘Discrete robust anti-windup to
improve a novel dual-stage large-span track-seel/
following method’, in IEEE transactions on control
system technology, vol 16(6), pp. 1342 - 1351.
Hudson, FE., Ferguson, AJ., Escott, CC., Yang, C.,
Jamieson, DN., Clark, RG. & Dzurak, A., 2008,
‘Gate-controlled charge transfer in Si:P Double
quantum dots’, in Nanotechnology, vol 19, pp.
195402 - 195496.
Jourjon, G., Lochin, E. & Senac, PG., 2008,
‘Design, implementation and evaluation of a
QoS-aware transport protocol’, in Computer
Communications, vol 31(9), pp. 1713 - 1722.
Kingsley, J., Allan, A., Li, Y., Vucetic, B. & Yuan,
J., 2008, ‘Power allocation and code construction
for space-time turbo trellis codes with partial CSI
feedback’, in Electronics Letters, vol 44(11), pp.
689 - 690.
Li, EH., Peng, G. & Ding, X., 2008, ‘High spatial
resolution fiber-optic Fizeau interferometric strain
sensor based on an in-fiber spherical microcavity’,
in Applied Physics Letters, vol 92(10), pp. 1 - 3.
Li, EH. & Peng, G., 2008, ‘Wavelength-encoded
fiber-optic temperature sensor with ultra-high
sensitivity’, in Optics Communications, vol
281(23), pp. 5768 - 5770.
Lim, E., Karantonis, D., Reizes, JA., Cloherty, SL.,
Mason, DG. & Lovell, NH., 2008, ‘Noninvasive
average flow and differential pressure estimation for
an implantable rotary blood pump using dimensional
analysis’, in IEEE Transactions on Biomedical
Engineering, vol 55(8), pp. 2094 - 2101.
Liu, KH., Jing, W., Peng, G., Zhang, J., Wang, YL.,
Liu, T., Jia, DG., Zhang, H. & Zhang, YB., 2008,
‘Wavelength Sweep of Intracavity Fiber Laser
for Low Concentration Gas Detection’, in IEEE
Photonics Technology Letters, vol 20(17-20), pp.
1515 - 1517.
MacGill, IF., 2008, ‘Assessing Australia’s
Sustainable Energy Technology Options : Key
Issues, Uncertainties, Priorities and Potential
Choices’, in Asia Pacific Journal of Environmental
Law, vol 11, pp. 85 - 100.
MacGill, IF., Outhred, HR. & Passey, RJ., 2008,
‘The governance challenge for implementing
effective market-based climate policies: A case
study of The New South Wales Greenhouse Gas
Reduction Scheme’, in Energy Policy Journal, vol
36(8), pp. 2999 - 3008.
Manchester, IR., Savkin, AV. & Faruqi, FA., 2008,
‘Method for Optical-Flow-Based Precision Missile
Guidance’, in IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and
Electronic Systems, vol 44(3), pp. 835 - 851.
Michael, AW., Kwok, CY., Yu, KS. & Mackenzie,
MR., 2008, ‘A novel bistable two-way actuated
out-of-plane electrothermal microbridge’, in
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electron transistor at 4.2K’, in Proc.2008
International Conference on Nanoscience and
Nanotechnology, eds , Melbourne, Australia, USA,
pp. 145 - 147
Dzurak, A., 2008, ‘Development and Fabrication
of Cylindrical Silicon-on-Insulator Microdosimeter
Arrays’, in 2008 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium
Conference Record, eds , Dresden Germany,
United States, pp. 1044 - 1049
High spatial resolution
microphone
array with eight
omnidirectional
microphones
Ekanayake, SR., Lehmann, T., Dzurak, A. &
Clark, RG., 2008, ‘Qubit control-pulse generator
circuits for operation at cryogenic temperatures’,
in Proc. 8th IEEE International Conference on
Nanotechnology, eds , Texas USA, USA, pp.
472 - 474
Lai, N., Lim, WH., Ziebell, A., Reinhard, M.,
Rosenfeld, A. & Dzurak, A., 2008, ‘Development
ad Fabrication of Cylindrical Silicon-on-Insulator
Microdosimeter Arrays’, in 2008 IEEE Nuclear
Science Symposium Conference Record, eds
, Dresden, Germany, United States, pp. 1044 - 1049
Moors, T., Hakami, S., Landfeldt, B. & Zaidi, Z.,
2008, ‘Detection and identification of anomalies in
wireless mesh networks using Principal Component
Analysis (PCA)’, in Proc. International Symposium
on Parallel Architectures, Algorithms, and Networks
(I-SPAN), eds , Sydney, , pp. 266 - 271
Microphone array in anechoic test chamber
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RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT:
QUANTUM COMPUTING
The arrival of superfast quantum
computing is closer following recent
breakthroughs by an international team
led by researchers Professor Andrew
Dzurak and Dr Andrea Morello from the
School of Electrical Engineering and
Telecommunications and the Centre for
Quantum Computing Technology.
Quantum computing relies on being
able to control and observe the
behaviour of quantum particles – for
instance individual electrons - to deliver
enormous processing power. In the two
new breakthroughs, written up in the
international journals Nano Letters and
Applied Physics Letters, researchers
have for the first time demonstrated
two ways to deliberately place an
electron in a nano-sized device on a
silicon chip.
Articles published week of 14 DECEMBER 2009
Volume 95 Number 24
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PHYS ICS
LETTERS
The achievements set the stage for
the next crucial steps of being able to
observe and then control the electron’s
quantum state or “spin”, to create a
quantum bit. Multiple quantum bits are
coupled to make up the processor of a
quantum computer..
“Individual phosphorus atoms have
been deliberately introduced in a
nanometre-size silicon transistor. This
special ‘single-atom transistor’ works
by letting single electrons hop on and
off the phosphorus atom, one after the
other in a controllable way. A quantum
bit can be formed by choosing to leave
the electron on the atom, and using its
spin as carrier of quantum information,”
Dr Morello says.
Dr Morello describes the
two breakthroughs as “very
important results” and, while
it is still hard to say when a
quantum computer will become
reality, recent progress is very
encouraging.
Reprinted with permission from the American Institute of Physics.
(a) SEM image and (b) schematic
cross-section of a Si MOS quantum
dot. Barrier gates (B1 and B2)
control tunnel coupling between the
dot and the electron reservoirs
forming the leads. Lead gates
(L1 and L2) control the electron
density in the leads. A plunger
gate (P) independently controls the
electron occupancy in the dot.
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EDITORIAL BOARD
MEMBERSHIP
Prof. Andrey Savkin
Associate
Editor, Automatica
Associate
Editor, Nonlinear
Analysis: Hybrid Systems
Prof. Victor Solo
Associate
Editor, Econometric
Theory
Prof. Jinhong Yuan
Editor,
RESEARCH COMMITTEE REPORT
The Research Committee plays a key role in realising the following
research goals of the school:
Increasing
research income, particularly via the ARC Discovery and
ARC Linkage schemes
Increasing
the number of journal and conference publications,
particularly the number of papers published in peer-reviewed journals
of high international standing
Increasing
the number of higher degree research students and
research student completion rate
Increasing
the number of postdoctoral and research fellows
Recruiting
outstanding researchers to add to the critical mass in the
School’s focused research theme areas
A new initiative in 2009 was the organisation of a new seminar series
by Research Committee members to assist early career researchers
to improve their ARC Discovery proposals. The first of these was given
by Prof. Victor Solo, a former ARC Panel Member. Seminars directed
towards ARC Linkage proposals are also planned.
STUDENT RESEARCH CONFERENCE
With a view to the next generation of EE&T researchers, the purpose of
the Student Research Conference was to provide undergraduate students
an introduction to the research activities and strengths in the school and
encourage high quality students to consider pursuing postgraduate research
degrees at the School.
The conference, held on the 22nd of September, 2009, was attended by
over 60 registered students, predominantly 4th year students, with a healthy
attendance by 3rd year students also. The program included research overview
talks, poster presentations, lab visits and a Q/A session, and was a great
success in terms of student attendance and enthusiasm.
ETRI Journal on
Information, Telecommunications
and Electronics
Dr Deep Sen
Member
of Editorial Board,
International Journal of
Electronics & Communications
(Elsevier)
Dr Wei Zhang
Guest
Editor, Journal of
Communications, Special
issue on “Cognitive Radio
Enabled Communications and
Networking”
Guest
Editor, Journal of
Communications, Special issue
on “Coding and Modulation for
Cooperative Communications”
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CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS HOSTED BY EE&T
Prof. Jinhong Yuan
General
Chair, 10th Australian Communications Theory Workshop 2009
The 10th Anniversary of the Australian Communications Theory Workshop
was held on 4-7 February 2009, at UNSW, Sydney. The workshop offers
three research overviews by three invited speakers – Prof. David Taubman
(University of New South Wales), Prof. Mike Faulkner (Victoria University), and
Prof. Daniel Palomar (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), and
12 invited technical talks presented in four technical sessions. In addition to the
core technical program, it also includes a one-day tutorial session on Convex
optimizations given by Prof. Daniel Palomar, sponsored by ACoRN.
The workshop was sponsored by UNSW, CSIRO ICT Centre, NICTA, ITR and
ACoRN. There were over 110 attendants.
General
Chair, Third ACoRN Cooperative Wireless Communication Workshop.
ACoRN Workshop on Cooperative Communications was held at ATP, Sydney,
in July 2009. It was jointly held with other ACoRN three day events. It brought
together the leading researchers in Cooperative Wireless Communications in
Australia to provide a comprehensive overview of current research interests, and
hopefully result in future collaborative links.
The workshop provides a forum for Australian researchers to present and discuss
recent research developments in the area of cooperative communications,
such as the fundamental principles, analysis and design of cooperative
communications, with special emphasis on advanced cooperative transmission
and receiving techniques. The workshop covers: - Cooperative relay algorithms:
decode and forward, amplify and forward, compress and forward, distributed
antenna arrays, parallel relaying, multi-hop transmission. - Analysis of cooperative
communication systems: Capacity analysis, outage performance analysis,
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diversity analysis, system performance analysis with varying degrees of channel
state information. - Coding techniques: cooperative space-time coding, softinformation relay, cooperative LDPC codes, differential cooperative coding, turbo
codes. - Advanced transmission techniques: relay selection, power allocation
techniques. - Advanced receiving techniques: iterative receivers, channel
estimations. - Multi-terminal relay networks: spatial multiplexing, transmission
precoding and interference cancellation at relays, MAC scheduling.
The
Australia-China Joint Workshop on Optical Fibre Sensors for Industrial
Applications – 8 September, 2009.
This workshop brings together Australian and Chinese researchers and engineers
who are involved in several related international and industry collaborative
projects in optical fibre and photonic sensors and their industrial applications. In
recent years, these collaborative projects have been sponsored by the Australian
Government Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research (DIISR)
and its Chinese counterpart, the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST),
the Australian Research Council (ARC) and its Chinese counterpart, the National
Natural Science Foundation of China (NNSFC), and industry partners RTA and
RailCorp.
The workshop was sponsored by DIISR and MOST and attended by
representatives from RTA, RailCorp, Tianjin University, University of Science
and Technology of China, Sydney University and University of New South Wales.
Prof. Ambikairajah addressed and welcomed the guests at the workshop. The
workshop featured 12 industrial and research presentations reporting on the
latest progress in fibre-optic and photonic sensing technologies.
This workshop was attended by about 40 Australian and Chinese researchers
and engineers who are involved in several related international and industry
collaborative projects in optical fibre and photonic sensors and their industrial
applications.
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KEYNOTES
AND TUTORIAL
PRESENTATIONS
Prof. Gang-Ding Peng presented
“Applications of Fibre Laser
Based Sensors”, Tutorial in 14th
OptoElectronics And Communications
Conference: Workshops, Hong Kong,
Monday, 13 July 2009
Prof. Gang-Ding Peng presented
“Spectrally Coded Multiplexing For
Fibre Grating Sensor Systems”, Invited
talk at 20th International Conference
on Optical Fibre Sensors, Edinburgh,
UK, Wednesday, 7 October, 2009
Dr Tuan Phung presented “Partial
Discharge and Partial Discharge
Measuring on Inverter Driven Motors”
as an invited lecture to the 2009
Lecture Program of the Joint Electrical
Institutions (Engineers Australia, IEEE,
and IET), Engineers Australia, Sydney
Division, 30 April, 2009
Prof. Jinhong Yuan presented
“An overview of coded cooperation
techniques” at the ACoRN Cooperative
Wireless Communication Workshop
KEY RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE
Photonics
A new MCVD lathe facility, funded by the Australian Research Council, has been
installed in POCG, UNSW. This facility will enable new generation of structured
and doped optical fibres to be fabricated. The new facility installed at UNSW is
supported by more than eight partner universities.
The lab has also received a new LIEF grant that completes the upgrade and
establishment of a new National Fibre Facility at UNSW for fabricating the next
generation of advanced optical fibres specifically tailored for remote optical
fibre sensing and other novel applications. Remote optical fibre technologies
are the way forward for effective and safe monitoring of many industries, and
will play a big part in the sustainability and safeguarding of Australia's core
oil, gas and alternative energy sectors. They are equally important to health
industry applications, particularly in medical and imaging technologies. This
facility brings together world-class Australian expertise—from across nine
universities—in advanced structured optical fibres, complex fibre diagnostic
systems, nanoscale imaging, and environment monitoring, to design and
implement the next generation of technologies required to develop these
sectors.
UNSW is the home of Australia’s first optical fibre fabrication capabilities in both
silica and polymer. In a long historical tradition of bringing parties together, the
facility will be underpinned by 5 local Schools – bringing Electrical Engineering
& Telecommunications, Materials Science and Engineering, Chemical Science
and Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Mechanical and
Manufacturing Engineering – and will bring together leading researchers, both
nationally and internationally, for the common good of Australia’s optical fibre
research and technology capability, which has over several decades grown to
be world class.
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Australian National
Fabrication Facility
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 research support. The
NSW Node of ANFF is hosted within the Semiconductor
Nanofabrication Facility (SNF), which has been a key
laboratory within the School of Electrical Engineering &
Telecommunications since 1994. The ANFF-NSW laboratory
now supports over 100 leading nanotechnology researchers
from around Australia and positions the School as a key
national hub for this important enabling technology.
They School is a key participant in ANFF with Professor
Andrew Dzurak serving as Director of the ANFF-NSW Node
and also SNF Director. The facility supports the numerous
research activities within the School, in areas as diverse
as nanoelectronics (Dzurak) and microsystems (Kwok/
Lehmann), micro-electro-mechanical systems or MEMS
(Kwok), quantum computing (Dzurak/Morello), photonics
(Peng/Ladouceur) and biomedical engineering (Lovell/
Ladouceur). Over 20 of the School’s PhD students utilize
the ANFF laboratory, which provides a world-class research
environment for device engineering.
Now in its 17th year of operation, the SNF contains
equipment for fabricating a range of semiconductor and
other devices in a cleanroom environment. Key instruments
include two high resolution electron beam lithography (EBL)
systems, an atomic force microscope, high temperature
silicon oxidation and diffusion furnaces, a range of metal
deposition systems and plasma tools, UV lithography
equipment and wet chemical process lines. SNF service
equipment includes the Special Gases System which stores
and distributes process gases to the laboratory. A rooftop
gas enclosure houses gas cylinders, distribution pipes,
NSW Chief Scientist and Scientific Engineer, Professor Mary O’Kane, UNSW
Dean of Science, Professor Merlin Crossley (left), UNSW Dean of Engineering,
Professor Graham Davies (right), ANFF-NSW Node Director, Professor Andrew
Dzurak and ANFF-NSW Node Acting Facility Manager, Dr Linda Macks at the
official opening of the ANFF-NSW Node.
exhaust extraction and environmental control equipment.
Gas monitoring and automatic safety interlocks are
incorporated due to the hazardous nature of some gases.
In 2009, the ANFF-NSW Node completed a major cleanroom
construction project delivering two new cleanrooms which
have been validated with particle counts equivalent to ISO5
and ISO6. This represents a doubling of the laboratory space
available within the SNF (now totalling 600m2). Commonwealth
and State government investments under ANFF will also
deliver approximately $7m worth of new fabrication tools to
the NSW Node. Among these are the flagship Raith 150TWO
high resolution electron beam lithography system and a
Lesker e-beam evaporator, both of which were installed and
commissioned in 2009. Installations scheduled throughout the
period 2010-12 include: a mask aligner, silicon furnace stack
and associated tools supporting 6” wafer processing; an ion
implanter (for Si dopants); a range of new metal and insulator
deposition and plasma processing tools (including PECVD,
LPCVD and ALD systems); and a suite of metrology tools
(including ellipsometer, profilometer and optical microscopes).
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04.
RESEARCH FUNDING AND
RESEARCH CENTRES
RESEARCH FUNDING
2009 was another very strong
year for research funding in the
School of Electrical Engineering and
Telecommunications, with a total of
around $3.4m in external funding.
Listed below are the new sources of
funding awarded during 2009.
ARC Discovery Grants
Prof. David Taubman - "Approved NonParametric Modelling of Motion and
Depth fields with Boundary Geometry
for Scalable Compression and
Dissemination" - $376,000
Dr Wei Zhang (with Prof. Xia) - "Efficient
Signal Transmission Techniques for
future Wireless Communications
Systems" - $150,000
Dr Iain MacGill (with Regina Betz) "Climate change and energy policy:
elements of a robust policy mix" $300,000
Dr Andrew Dzurak (with Prof. AB
Rozenfeld et al) - "Development
of innovative radiation detectors
and computational techniques for
improving quality of life" - $310,000.
ARC Linkage Grants
Dr Deep Sen - “Parametric Soundfield
Representation” - $210,000
A/Prof. Francois Ladouceur “Diamond
based Ultra Violet emitting devices” $750,000
ARC LIEF Grants
Industry Grants
Gang Ding Peng, Chee Yee Kwok,
Rodica Ramer and Deep Sen (with
other 8 universities - administrating
organization UNSW)- "Advanced facility
for next generation sustainable energy,
biomedical and nano-imaging optical
fibre technology" - $600,000
“Development of new techniques
for partial discharge monitoring and
location in high voltage underground
power cables”, $150,000 from 20072009, funded by the ASTP (Australian
Strategic Technology Program). UNSW
investigators: A/Prof. T.R. Blackburn
and Dr T. Phung. The ASTP is part
of the Energy Networks Association
of Australia (ENA) which is the peak
national body representing gas and
electricity distribution businesses
throughout Australia. The ASTP
itself is composed of 18 electricity
transmission and distribution utilities,
including most of the largest utilities in
Australia.
Victor Solo (with 8 CIs; lead CI Prof.
Caroline (Lindy) Rae of POWMRI
(Prince of Wales medical Research
Institute) - "'State of the art upgrade to
multi-transmit multi-receive technology
for research dedicated 3 Tesla MRI
Scanner'" - $400,000.
Andrew S Dzurak (with 6 more CIs the
lead CI Dr Julie M Cairney (University
of Sydney) "Advanced focused ion
beam (FIB) / scanning electron
microscopes (SEM) for nanometre
scale characterisation and fabrication"
$1,200,000.00
Francois Ladouceur (with 20 more
CIs, the lead CI: Dr Pali Thordarson,
Chemistry, UNSW) " A unique soft
matter high-performance scanning
probe microscopy (HP-SPM) facility
" - $450,000
Rodica Ramer (administered by
Professor S.X. Dou U of Wollongong)
"Combined scanning tunneling
microscope system of materials
characterization and manipulation at
nano scale", - $400,000.
Julien Epps and Eliathamby
Ambikairajah (with with other 11
universities - administering organization
UWS) - "The Big Australian Speech
Corpus: An audio-visual corpus of
Australian English" - $650,000
UNSW – INTERNAL
Deep Sen, “Multidimensional Objective
Measure of Speech Quality”, ViceChancellor’s Proof of Concept $48,000
Phil Allen, Tim Moors, Rob Malaney,
Vijay Sivaraman, “Wireless Network
Modelling and Implementation”, UNSW
IT Investment Plan - $89,000
Goldstar Awards:
Tuan
Hoang, ““Exploring newly
emerging techniques in nonlinear
control and filtering” - $40,000
Tim
Moors (with Mahbub Hassan,
CSE chief investigator), “Towards
Safer Roads: Reliable Wireless
Networking for Vehicles” - $30,000
Vijay
Sivaraman (with Sanjay Jha,
CSE chief investigator), “Flying
Networks: Airborne Sensing for
Environmental Monitoring and
Disaster Response” - $30,000
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Faculty Research Grants / Early
Career Research Grants:
Julien
Epps, Hua Ying (ANU), and
Gavin Huttley (ANU), “Investigation
of nucleosome structure using
signal processing based periodicity
measures” - $30,000.
Ashay
Dhamdere, “Real-Time
Communication Protocols for BodyWorn Sensors Monitoring Athletes in
Field Sports” - $25,000
Major Research Equipment
Infrastructure Initiative Grants:
Andrew
Dzurak “SNF Special
Gases System: Toxic/Flammable
Gas-Handling Infrastructure for
Nanostructure Device Processing” $78,500
Andrey
Savkin, Nigel Lovell, Branko
Celler, Eliathamby Ambikairajah,
and Stephen Redmond “Ambulatory
monitoring equipment for assessing
physiological function” - $118,000
AUSTRALIAN
DEVELOPMENT
RESEARCH AWARD
The School of Electrical Engineering
& Telecommunications of the
University of New South Wales
(UNSW) was awarded an Australian
Development Research Award in
the area of Environment, Forest
and Climate Change (ADRA Project
EFCC011) on Overcoming Barriers to
Renewable Energy in Rural Indonesia
by Community Capacity Building.
The ADRA EFC011 Project is an
interdisciplinary research project
involving UNSW staff in conjunction
with Indonesian collaborators.
The UNSW research project team
includes: Prof. Hugh Outhred (Principal
Investigator), Dr Maria Retnanestri
(Research Leader, Indonesia
researcher), Dr Stephen Healy
(Research Supervisor), Dr Muriel Watt
(Research Supervisor) and Ms Long
Seng To (PhD Research Student, China
researcher).
The research project is funded by
AusAID, totaling AUD 310,000 over
three years (2008-2011), through its
2007 ADRA funding round. Additional
funding was sought and obtained
from photovoltaic (PV) companies (in
Indonesia, Australia and Japan) and
other institutions including the e8 and
STTNAS Jogjakarta, to run the project
activities in Indonesia. The funds also
partly support a related project in
China.
Main activities in Indonesia in 2009
include:
January
2009: Workshop in
Renewable Energy & Sustainable
Development in Indonesia (jointly
funded by the e8), aimed at
understanding and formulating
strategies to overcome barriers to
renewable energy in Indonesia and
other developing countries.
April-May
2009: 9-day STTNAS
student Renewable Energy study
tour (jointly funded by BP Solar
& STTNAS Jogjakarta), in which
students visited various RE sites,
factories, laboratory & research
agency in Indonesia. This is aimed
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at facilitating RE learning and model
design for capacity building as well
as fostering students interest in a
future career in renewable energy
and RE stakeholders networking
Jakarta, 19-20/2/09, Workshop on
RE & Sustainable Development in
Indonesia: Past Experience – Future
Challenges, attended by more than
100 workshop participants from
various institutions (government,
embassies, donors, research bodies,
universities, private companies,
NGOs and local communities) and
countries (Australia, Canada, Finland,
France, Germany, Indonesia, Japan,
Switzerland, UK, and the USA).
23 April – 1 May 2009, STTNAS
College RE study tour, visiting various
RE (geothermal, PV, microhydro and
bio-energy) sites, factories, laboratory
and research agencies in West Java
and Jakarta.
RESEARCH CENTRES
Centre for Energy and
Environmental Markets (CEEM)
The UNSW Centre for Energy and
Environmental Markets (CEEM)
was established in 2004 as an
interdisciplinary research collaboration
between the School of Electrical
(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).
Professor Hugh Outhred was the
founding director of CEEM and is now
a Visiting Professorial Fellow in EE&T.
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.
CEEM has provided a valuable
platform for interdisciplinary work in
the energy area at UNSW with joint
publications and submissions across
five Faculties, and a valuable model for
such interdisciplinary research efforts
at UNSW. Funding is now approaching
$2m in research funding obtained
over the last five years, while postdoctoral and PhD Student numbers
have expanded. Research funding
success in 2009 included an Australian
Energy Market Operator (AEMO)
post-doctoral fellowship supporting
Dr Nick Cutler’s PhD research on
wind integration, an ARC Discovery
grant on robust energy and climate
policy mixes, and Commonwealth
Environmental Research Facilities
(CERF) support for work on the
impact of renewable energy on the
National Electricity Market. The
Centre has an active seminar and
workshop program. Events in 2009
included a CERPA funded workshop
on renewable energy deployment
opportunities for Australia and a
NSW Government funded workshop
on German-Australian renewable
energy integration challenges. CEEM
also contributed to two Australian
Academy of Technological Sciences
and Engineering (ATSE) workshops on
sustainable energy technologies over
the year.
EE&T hosted three CEEM post-doctoral
fellows in 2009 – Dr Maria Retnarestri,
Dr Fushuan Wen and Dr Robert
Passey, and five PhD students – two
of whom successfully completed their
programs during the year. CEEM academics
also supervised eight EE&T honours thesis
projects over the year.
Industry and community engagement
included CEEM contributions to the work
of Standards Australia, the Australian
Energy Market Commission, the AEMO Wind
Energy Research Reference Group, the
Environmental Defenders Office Technical
Experts Group and the Climate Institute
Strategic Council. CEEM academics gave
invited presentations at over a dozen
industry conferences, jointly ran several
industry workshops, provided around
ten submissions to government energy
policy processes, made numerous media
contributions and appeared before three
Senate Committees. Consultancy work
in 2009 included projects energy and
climate technology and policy issues for the
Federal and NSW State Governments and a
number of Non-Government Organisations
and Industry Associations. The Centre was
a joint winner of the UNSW Excellence in
Community Engagement (Groups) Award for
2009.
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Centre for Quantum Computer
Technology (CQCT)
The ARC Centre of Excellence for
Quantum Computer Technology
(CQCT), headquartered at the
University of New South Wales,
comprises 19 Research Programs
across eight Australian and two
international research institutions.
All Programs are engaged in coordinated research in line with the
Centre’s mission “to position Australia
as a leader in quantum computer
technology, a field which will play a
crucial role in the future of information
technology”.
The School participates in the Centre’s
experimental efforts in silicon-based
quantum computing via the Integrated
Quantum Computer Devices Program
led by Professor Andrew Dzurak
and the Quantum Measurement and
Control Chip Program led by Dr Andrea
Morello. These two Programs interact
closely on a number of research
projects leading towards the key goals
of: demonstrating the coherent control
of a single spin-based qubit in silicon;
and demonstrating coupling between
two qubits. Longer-term goals seek to
integrate control electronics and scale
up to multi-qubit operation.
The Centre receives significant funding
from the Australian Research Council
and the US Army Research Office as
well as support from host institutions
and State governments, with an annual
research income of order A$7m.
National ICT
Australia (NICTA)
NICTA is Australia’s
Information and
Communications
Technology (ICT) Centre of Excellence.
We are 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.
NICTA aspires to be one of the world’s
top-ten ICT research centres by 2020.
Our long-term contribution will be to
create new ICT industries for Australia.
NICTA’s four research themes are:
Embedded
Systems – developing
‘smart products’ of the future.
Networked
Systems – technologies
that connect the ‘smart products’
of embedded systems together to
form ‘smart networks’.
Making
Sense of Data – finding
ways to make sense and extract
value from the growing amounts of
data created by ICT systems.
Managing
Complexity – developing
efficient and reliable tools and
processes to solve complex ICT
problems.
As a founding member of NICTA,
UNSW has a large-scale, long-term
strategic partnership with NICTA. In
2009, NICTA’s total funding support to
UNSW included $$1,522,000 including
joint appointments, scholarships
and prizes, of which a substantial
proportion was received by the School
of EE&T.
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05.
INDUSTRY, PARTNERS,
COMMUNITY AND OUTREACH
INDUSTRY ADVISORY BOARD
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.
Objectives:
To
ensure our programs and courses are valuable
to high school students and that our graduates are
equipped with the appropriate skills as approved by
industry
To
left to right: Don Parker, Grant Garraway, Jim Metcalfe, Kim Jaggar, Steven
Jones, Aruna Seneviratne, Steven Duvall, Neil Roberts
develop industry based courses with the School
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
To
provide a link for staff to have industry experience,
especially while on sabbatical from their academic career
To
assist in the school’s marketing to increase interest
in our programs
Dr Steven G. Duvall
Consultant
Mr Nevill Inglis
Technical Manager, Avaya Labs Australia
Mr Jim Metcalfe
Director, General Manager, Applied Technology Division CISRA
(Canon Information Systems Research Australia Pty Ltd)
Mr Steven Jones
Manager Design & Construct, Projects TransGrid
Mr Don Parker
Director/Principal Engineer, Provecta Process Automation Pty Ltd
Mr Grant Garraway
Systems Engineering Manager, Raytheon Australia
Mr Glenn Wightwick
Director, Australia Development Laboratory Chief Technologist
IBM Australia
Mr Quentin Goldfinch
Director, R&D Avaya Labs Australia
Prof. Aruna Seneviratne Director, ATP Laboratory, National ICT Australia
Mr Neil Roberts
Manager, Professional Development Energy Australia
Dr Kim Jaggar
Principal, Sydney Boys High School
Board meetings are also attended
by the Head of School, heads of the
research groups, the Director of
Academic Studies, and the School
Executive Officer.
Some outcomes during 2009 included:
Agreement
to develop an industry
based Systems Engineering course
– Raytheon
Extended
Industry Internships for
high-performing 3rd year students.
NICTA has already pledged to
provide 4 internships when this
program is in place.
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STAFF VISITS AND
SECONDMENTS
INDUSTRY PROJECTS
A/Prof. Ladouceur, “Development of bistable
hybrid solid state memory devices”, joint
project with Sillana Pty Ltd, Brisbane,
Australia.
Visiting Professor, Tokyo University
Guest Professor, Tianjin University
Note that funded industry-related projects
are listed in the Research Funding section of
this report.
Prof. Eliathamby Ambikairajah
Visiting Scientist, Institute for
Infocomm Research, Singapore,
Jan 2009
Dr Toan Phung, “On-site insulation condition
monitoring of HV cables in Integral Energy
and EnergyAustralia substations”.
Prof. Jinhong Yuan
Visiting Associate Professor, ITR,
UniSA, 2009
Prof. Jinhong Yuan
Visiting Scientist, CSIRO ICT Centre,
2009
Dr Toan Phung
API-sponsored (Australian Power
Institute) academic sabbatical
appointment with EnergyAustralia
(EA), Engineering Transmission and
Technology, Network Test, 2009
Dr Wei Zhang
Visiting Professor, Chinese
University of Hong Kong, Nov.
2009.
Dr Wei Zhang
Visiting Research Collaborator,
Princeton University, July 2009.
Dr Wei Zhang
Visiting Professor, Hong Kong
University of Science and
Technology, April 2009.
Dr Julien Epps
Senior Researcher (Joint
appointment with UNSW), National
ICT Australia, 2009-2012
Dr Toan Phung conducting on-site condition
monitoring of HV cables in Integral Energy
and EnergyAustralia substations (top and
bottom)
Dr Toan Phung, “Partial Discharge in
inverter driven low-voltage motors”, with
in-kind equipment support from Toshiba. A
presentation was given in the 2009 Lecture
Program of the Joint Electrical Institution
Sydney (Engineers Australia, IEEE, IET).
SEMINARS FROM INDUSTRY
“Towards a Smarter Planet”, Glen Wightwick,
Director of the IBM Australia Development Laboratory
& IBM Australia Chief Technologist, Wednesday 30th
September 2009
“The National Broadband Network - It's Much
More Than Fast Internet!”, John Turner - Vice
President of Alcatel-Lucent's National Broadband
Network Program in Australia
Mr Philip Mallon, RTA, Optical Fibre Sensors in
Transportation
Mr Greg Won, RTA, Fibre Optic Monitoring of Road
Pavement Infrastructure Affected by Underground
Mining
As part of ELEC4445 Entrepreneurial Engineering
Guy Pross, Better Inc, “Better Place”
P. Lightbody, NICTA, “IP: A primer for the entrepreneur”
Mr Nick Cuevas, PlantWeave Technologies, “Start-up life”
Dominik Mersch, Dominik Mersch Gallery Pty Ltd, “Art in Intellectual Property”
Dr Jim Katsifolis, Future Fibre Technologies (Melbourne), “Fibre Optic Intrusion Detection
Systems”
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CO-OP SCHOLARSHIPS
RESEARCH VISITORS
In 2009, the School had twenty-three Co-op Scholars spread over the five
years of the program, including five new scholars who commenced in year
1. Co-op scholars are students sponsored by a pool of companies and who
complete their BEs over 5 years while simultaneously completing 68 weeks
of full-time industrial training at these same sponsors. In 2009 the year
4 scholars completed their respective extended (24-week) placements at
Alcatel-Lucent, Cochlear, Downer EDI, Sydney Water and TEMCO (a division of
BHP Billiton).
Prof. Alexey Matveev
St.Petersburg University, Russia,
visiting Prof. Andrey Savkin.
The highlight of the year was the very successful annual Poster Presentation
and Reception in August. At this event, the year 4 scholars presented on
the projects they had completed during these placements. Also, it is worth
noting that all four of the graduating year 5 scholars gained honours:
Prof. Xiang-Gen Xia
University of Delaware, USA, visiting
Dr Wei Zhang
Stefanie Brown, Andrew Hankins, Jeremy Nagel and Claire Wood.
At the end of November, the School, together with representatives of the
sponsors, interviewed 25 school-leavers to fill the 4 new scholarships for
2010. There had been 78 written applications.
For more information about Co-op Scholarships see www.coop.unsw.edu.au
Prof. Romeo Ortega
the Laboratoire de Signaux ET
Systemes of Supelec in Gif-sur-Yvette,
France, visiting Prof. Andrey Savkin
Dr Yang Yang
University College London, UK,
visiting Dr Wei Zhang
Prof. Aria Nosratinia
University of Texas at Dallas, USA,
visiting Dr Wei Zhang
Prof. Manos Tentzeris
Georgia Tech., Atlanta, USA, visiting
Prof. Rodica Ramer
Prof. R. Mansour
University of Waterloo, Canada,
visiting Prof. Rodica Ramer
Prof. Hong Chen
Tongji University, visiting Prof. GangDing Peng
Prof. Byoungho Lee
Seoul National University, visiting
Prof. Yimo Zhang, Prof. Tiegan
Liu, A/Prof. Dageng Jia, A/Prof.
Hongxia Zhang, Dr kun Liu
Tianjin University, visiting Prof. GangDing Peng
Dr Ming Xiao
KTH Sweden, visiting Prof. Jinhong
Yuan
Dr Andrew Zhang
NICTA, ANU, visiting Prof. Jinhong
Yuan
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INDUSTRIAL TRAINING
The industrial training requirement in all
undergraduate engineering degree programs
continues to provide an essential complement
to university coursework. 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 2009.
Although the list is not exhaustive, the school
would like to thank all companies who provided
training to our undergraduate students.
THESIS POSTER COMPETITION
As in previous years, the 2009 thesis poster competition was a premier event,
well attended by UNSW academic and executive staff, industry representatives and
guests from external research organisations.
Thesis Poster Competition
In addition, as a part of the final year
thesis course, students prepare and
present posters at the conclusion of their
project. For the past 11 years, the School
has held a poster competition, where the
best posters during the year are judged by
academics and industry representatives.
The best three are awarded a certificate
and monetary prize, to be awarded on the
day of the graduation ceremony.
Cochlear
Teleplan
Lake
Technology
CAP-XX
(supercapacitors)
Cisco
Big
Switch Projects
Downer
Energy
EDI
Australia
TransGrid
National
Mike
Instruments
NICTA Telecommunications Prize
Rectifiers
Orion
Each year, NICTA generously sponsor
a prize for students in each stage
of an electrical engineering or
telecommunication degree, who have
shown outstanding academic performance
in telecommunications.
Integration
NSW
Dept of Commerce (Gov’t Chief
Information Office)
Honeywell
China
Telecom
Alcatel-Lucent
Alstom
Eraring
Energy
Results:
Energy
Rank
Country
Student
Supervisor
Topic
1
Macarthur-King, Scott
Prof. David Taubman
Laser Pointer Driven Computer
Mouse
2
Wong, Nicholas
Prof. Jinhong Yuan
Network Coding Schemes for
Wireless Communications
3
Cassidy, Ben
Prof. Victor Solo
Functional Magnetic Resonance
Imaging
4
Hankins, Andrew
Dr Elias Aboutanios
Novel Ink Drop Watcher
5
Grenet, David
Dr Gregg Suaning;
Dr Richard Fitzparick
A Wireless Mobile
Neurostimulator
6
Tang, Tiffany
A/Prof. Francois Ladouceur;
Dr Peter Reece
Applications of Microstructred
Polymer Optical Fibers in Optical
Micromanipulation
7
Bhardwaj, Rohan
Prof. Nigel Lovell
Optimal Image Processing for
Retinal Prosthesis
8
Brown, Stefanie
Dr Deep Sen
Beamforming with the Eigenmike
8
Choon, Ham Yean
Dr Julien Epps;
Dr Yu Shi
Smart Cameras as Embedded
Systems
Walsh, Chris
Prof. David Taubman
Hardware Error Detection
& Correction for Harsh
Environments
GHD
PT
Chevron Pacific Indonesia
Qualcomm
Canon
Information Systems Research
Australia (CISRA)
Partners
in Productivity
TeleMedCare
Northrup
Consulting Engineers
ResMed
HPM
Institute
of Microelectronics, A*STAR,
Singapore
NEC
Shanghai
Optical
Tianjin
Fibre Technology Centre
Electric and Power Company
National
ICT Australia
Actew-AGL
CSIRO
10
Renewable
United
Energy Systems Australia
Group Limited, Infrastructure
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SCHOOL ADVERTISING
In 2009, EE&T embarked on some new
initiatives to increase the exposure of its
program offerings to the community. These
included bus advertising and online advertising
via Google AdWords.
Open Day in 2009 was well attended, and
EE&T produced one of its largest ever stands.
In all, around 20 staff, 10 alumni and 30
students combined their efforts to make this a
highly successful event.
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06.TEACHING
OVERVIEW
Single Degree
Years
The School offers a range of both undergraduate and postgraduate
programs to cater for the varying requirements of our students. 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.
BE (Electrical Engineering)
4
4
BE (Photonics)
4
BE BA (Elec Eng/Tele/Phot)
5
The School is very proud to consistently be at the forefront of teaching
innovation. It continues to lead the way in the design, implementation, and
adaption of educational technology, highlighted by the Virtual Classroom
environment, designed and implemented within the School, and used
increasingly by staff to heighten the educational experience for the
students. In 2009, several courses made use of such technology, which
also aided in the implementation of 3 courses run in online video-based
and block mode over the summer period.
BE BSc (Elec Eng/Tele/Phot)
5
BE MBioMedE (Elec Eng/Tele/Phot)
5
At the undergraduate level, we deliver single degree programs in each
of 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 Master of
Engineering Science (MEngSc), and Graduate Diploma (GradDip).
At both the undergraduate and postgraduate level, each of the programs
allows the students to specialise in one of the key specialisation areas
of communications, systems and control, signal processing, energy and
power systems, microsystems, photonics, and biomedical engineering.
Combined Degrees
BE BCom (Elec Eng/Tele)
5.5
BE LLB (Law) (Elec Eng/Tele)
6
Postgraduate Coursework Degress
GradDip
1.5
MEngSc
1.5
MEngSc (Ext)
2
School coursework degree programs
2009 saw a healthy increase in
commencing undergraduate students,
with 153 new students starting
compared to 128 in 2008. The total
undergraduate student enrolment
in 2009 was 634, up from 613 the
previous year. Commencing and total
enrolments by degree program are
tabled below:
Commencing undergraduate students
2008
2009
Elec. Eng.
75
89
Telecom.
17
20
Photonics
1
4
EE/MBiomed
11
13
Tele/MBiomed
1
0
EE/Science
7
14
Tele/Science
0
3
Photonics/Science
2
0
EE/Arts
0
1
Tele/Arts
0
2
BE/BCom
14
7
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Total Undergraduate Students 2005-2009
Number of students
1200
1000
800
600
400
200
0
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
Local
631
507
453
410
403
International
333
253
207
203
231
Total
964
760
660
613
634
Total Coursework Master Students 2005-2009
250
Number of students
200
150
100
50
0
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
Local
41
38
32
30
25
International
113
113
96
92
172
Total
154
151
128
122
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Among the agenda items that were
discussed and dealt with by the AEC
during 2009 were:
The
Quality Assurance of our
programs and of our teaching. This
took the form of several factors,
among them an external audit by
Professor David Wilcox, the piloting
of a Collaborative Peer Review
process for teaching, the quality
of 4th year honours thesis and
assessment, and the quality of final
examinations
The
ACADEMIC EXECUTIVE
COMMITTEE (AEC)
The AEC is a committee responsible
for overseeing the academic programs
within the School, both undergraduate
and postgraduate. 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.
The committee underwent a change
in membership in April 2009
coinciding with the appointment of
the new Head of School, Professor
Eliathamby Ambikairajah. Professor
Ambikairajah, previously the Chair of
the AEC, appointed new Deputy Head
of School, Professor Chee Yee Kwok,
as its new Chair.
In 2009, members of the AEC
included:
Professor
Chee Yee Kwok, Chair
Dr
Ray Eaton
Dr
Julien Epps
Dr
Torsten Lehmann
Dr
Toan Phung
Dr
Deep Sen
Professor
David Taubman
Associate
Professor Jinhong Yuan
Normally, during any calendar year,
the committee meets on five or six
occasions, and also depending on
whether there are more urgent issues
to discuss. Due to the transitional
period for the School during 2009,
the committee met formally on three
occasions after the appointment
of the new Head of School in
April. 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.
introduction of summer courses
for the end of 2009, run in blockmode and supported by online prerecorded videos.
Continued
improvement in the
quality of course outlines, to ensure
more consistency across the School
and completeness and clarity of
graduate attributes.
Introduction
of several
undergraduate and postgraduate
elective courses, increasing the
flexibility for students, and exposing
them to new technologies.
The
approval of the new 2-year
Master of Engineering (ME) program
as well as the initial planning of its
accreditation.
Reporting
of the outcomes of new
and innovative 4th year Design
Proficiency course, run for the first
time in 2009.
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HIGHLIGHTS OF TEACHING AND LEARNING IN 2009
Summer Session Courses
As a part of the School’s learning and
teaching strategy, it is progressively
introducing summer courses as a
means of providing increased flexibility
in student learning, encouraging and
promoting self-directed learning for
students, and reducing teaching load
for academic staff during normal
session time.
The following courses were delivered
over the summer session (November
2009-January 2010), with enrolments
limited to 25 students for each course,
running for a total of eight weeks in
block-mode, split up into two 4-week
periods before and after Christmas.
ELEC1111
Electrical and
Telecommunications Engineering
(Year 1)
ELEC2133
Analogue Electronics
(Year 2)
ELEC3104
(Year 3)
Digital Signal processing
All courses were delivered with the
aid of:
to be very beneficial and will thus be
implemented into the future.
Online
and pre-recorded video
lectures;
Quizzes
used at the end of each
lecture set to enable progression to
the next set of lectures;
Laboratories
and tutorials (each
3-4 half days per week) run in
block-mode over Week 4 and 8
allowing Week 1-3 and Week 5-7 for
independent learning;
One
mentor (senior PhD student) to
assist each course and liaise with
students online and face-to-face in
Weeks 4 and 8.
Quality Assurance
The School is active in ensuring the
quality of our programs and of our
teaching is of a superior standard, thus
maximising the learning experience
for our students. During 2009, the
School engaged in several new Quality
Assurance processes which proved
External Examiner for Quality
Assurance Assessment
An external examiner was invited
to visit the School and evaluate the
School’s undergraduate programs.
The purpose of the visit was to carry
out Quality Assurance assessment on
the programs, course, facilities and
staff. For this task, Emeritus Professor
Professor David Wilcox was selected
and visited the School in November
2009. Prof. Wilcox originally came
from the National University of Ireland
Galway (NUIG), however has recently
retired and spends much of his time in
Melbourne with a visiting appointment
at Monash University. The assessment
involved (but was not limited to):
Analysing
and assessing the
program content for each of the
School’s programs.
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Assessing
the undergraduate
examination papers and providing
feedback.
Assessing
some of the School’s
laboratory materials.
Moderating
a selection of
undergraduate theses.
Meeting
undergraduate students
from varied cohorts.
Meeting
and having discussions
with, the staff and the AEC.
Observing
some of the various
teaching activities within the School.
Professor Wilcox is to return in early
2010 to complete his assessment and
provide documented feedback and
recommendations.
Collaborative Peer Review
(CPR) of Teaching
In 2009, the School piloted a new
program initiated by the Learning and
Teaching Unit (LTU), and designed
to provide constructive feedback to
staff on their methods of teaching.
From academic staff, 10 volunteered
to participate, with each academic
observing, and providing feedback on,
one (or some) of the teaching activities
of another. A pre-observation meeting
was held for each activity whereby
the aims of the teaching activity were
stated for the observer. Feedback
was given on not only the methods of
teaching, but also how effective the
method of teaching was in delivering
the stated aims.
Overall, this process proved quite
effective, such that the intention of
the School is to carry out similar peer
reviews each teaching session.
Student Focus Groups
The School held a student focus
group in the latter half of semester
2. Student representatives from each
of the 4 stages of the undergraduate
degree were invited to attend to
provide feedback on various aspects
of the School, including:
The
quality of the programs in general.
The
quality of courses in each of the 4
stages.
The
quality of the teaching facilities
and the learning environment within the
School.
Present at the meeting was Chair and
Head of School, Professor Eliathamby
Ambikairajah, Director of Academics
Studies, Dr Ray Eaton, as well as 9
student representatives spanning all
stages. Feedback from the students on
each aspect was constructive and mostly
positive, in particular with respect to the
improved School environment. In addition,
the students also indicated areas of
potential and additional improvement.
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ELEC9716 Electrical Safety
This course existed previously before
2005 and has been re-introduced due
to popular demand. It is to be offered
in 2010 to postgraduate students
and also undergraduate students with
approval of the program authority.
ELEC4445 Entrepreneurial Engineering
This is an existing course offered as an
L4 elective to our 4th year students.
Due to its broader applicability to
postgraduate coursework students,
approval in 2009 was granted for it to
be included in the list of Engineering
and Technical Management courses
within the Faculty postgraduate
coursework programs.
The following courses were run for
the first time in 2009:
SESSIONAL TEACHING
WORKSHOP
NEW OR APPROVED
COURSES
A comprehensive workshop was
organized by Julien Epps and Eliathamby
Ambikairajah for all new and existing
sessional teaching staff (tutors, lab
demonstrators and casual teaching
staff). The workshop covered aspects
of the UNSW Guidelines for Teaching
and Learning, expectations of students,
expectations of sessional staff, student
and staff evaluation, occupational health
and safety issues, and administrative
matters.
Several new or revised courses were
either approved or run for the first time
in 2009.
The following new or revised courses
were approved during 2009:
ENGG9758 Network Systems
Architecture
This new postgraduate course is to be
run in 2010 as a result of collaboration
with CISCO Systems and The School of
Computer Science and Engineering.
GSOE9510 Ethics and Leadership in
Engineering
A course on ethics and leadership is
currently offered to undergraduate 4th
year students in the School. This new
course to be run in 2010 is catered
for postgraduate students and will
form a part of the Engineering and
Technical Management courses within
the Faculty postgraduate coursework
programs.
ELEC2146 Electrical Engineering
Modelling and Simulation
This course primarily addresses a
need for elective courses at stage 2/3
of the current and future BE programs
in Electrical Engineering. ELEC2146
addresses a long-standing need for
generic analytical and simulation
skills associated with many electrical
engineering theses undertaken at
honours or masters level. In terms
of relevance to the existing program,
skills developed in simulation and
modelling will be directly applicable
to coursework in the area of systems
and control and signal processing, and
practical work will include simulation
in nearly all other major areas of
electrical engineering, including energy
systems, electronics and computer
networks.
An ambitious lab program (entirely in
MATLAB, but not using specialised
commands) tightly geared around
the lecture content and emphasising
numerical computing was constructed,
and this was given serious weight in
the assessment. Students commented
that the course was helpful not only
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towards applying fundamental 1st
and 2nd year principles to higher
engineering but also towards their
thesis. Student survey feedback
indicated all felt that the lab program
was quite challenging, however also
that their programming skills improved
as a result of the course.
ELEC/TELE/PHTN4123 Electrical/
Telecommunications/Photonics Design
Proficiency
These new 4th year courses were
designed as a part of the current
program which started in 2006.
Hence 2009 marks the 4th year for
the first intake of students into current
program, and also the first year to run
these courses. The design proficiency
courses essentially bring together the
fundamental knowledge gained in each
of the core sub-disciplines within the
School and tests students’ proficiency
or competency in each. Constructive
student feedback for the courses will
allow the improvement of the course
and its assessments in 2010, however
students agreed that the courses were
unique and challenging.
Cisco Certified Networking Academy Courses
A Cisco Certified Networking Academy, established and
located within the School of Electrical Engineering &
Telecommunications, 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. During 2009,
approximately 50 students undertook CCNA courses.
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THE NEW 2-YEAR
MASTER OF
ENGINEERING (ME)
The School has introduced a
new 2-year professional Master
of Engineering (ME) coursework
program in Electrical Engineering or
Telecommunications, which received
approval in early 2009, and is
expecting its first intake of students in
semester 1, 2010.
EXISTING
NEW IN 2010
Master of Engineering Science
(MEngSc) – Not Accredited
Master of Engineering
(ME) – Accredited
YEAR 5
YEAR 5
60 Days Approved
Industrial Training
Bachelor of Engineering
(BE) – Accredited
YEAR 4
YEAR 4
For a number of years now, there has
been increasing motivation for new
Engineering program structures which
augment the traditional Australian
4-year Bachelor of Engineering. This
has been driven by several factors,
including student desire for increased
flexibility, a desire for increased
specialisation within the profession,
compatibility with European models
for engineering education, and
improved, flexible pathways leading
to accredited engineering degrees for
students with non-accredited Bachelor
degrees. The Master of Engineering
degree was constructed specifically to
address these needs. This articulated
program structure has been designed
specifically to supplement our existing
4-year BE, and provide alternative
and flexible pathways to accredited
postgraduate education.
Features of the new program
include:
Professional
accreditation: The
School is seeking and anticipating
accreditation of the program
with Engineers Australia, such
that students with non-accredited
4-year Bachelor degrees may
receive a professional accredited
postgraduate qualification.
A
professional development
pathway: Apart from accreditation,
the program offers provides
industrial training, management
WAM > = 65
60 Days Approved
Industrial Training
YEAR 3
YEAR 2
YEAR 1
1ST YEAR ENTRY
courses, and the ultimate skill set
for any technology-based career.
Greater
specialisation: Students
may choose to specialise to
a greater depth in a particular
discipline within electrical
engineering or telecommunications,
or select course across a huge
range of course offerings.
Increased
flexibility: the program
comprises approximately seventy
percent electives, and a substantial
engineering project, affording
students maximum choice and a
valuable exposure to research.
ENTRY
TRANSFER1
– Graduates from 4-year Bachelor of
Engineering degrees in Electrical
Engineering or Telecommunications
from a recognised institution, with a
minimum overall average of 65% or
equivalent.
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NEW EDUCATIONAL
TECHNOLOGIES
The School boasts the use of innovative teaching
methodologies with the increasing utilisation of
educational technology. Proprietary software developed
within the School, VCPlayer (short for Virtual Classroom
Player) affords students the ability to review lectures
at their own pace with all the realism of a live lecture
theatre. This, coupled with state-of-the-art teaching
laboratories, provides an innovative and much
appreciated learning experience for students. 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.
2009 saw an increased use of the technology, with
five courses featuring recorded lectures in this
fashion. Such utilisation also facilitated the prerecorded “live” lectures which were central to the
running of the three summer courses.
In addition to the use of existing educational
technology, the School’s laboratory manager, Dr
Ming Sheng, initiated a proposal for 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.
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SCHOOL OF
F ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING & TELECOMMUNICATIONS
TELECOMMUNICA
A TIONS
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The Dean’s Awards
UNSW Engineering recognises its
highest achieving students with the
Faculty’s annual Dean’s Awards.
These awards are given each year to
students whose results are in the top
two per cent of overall marks.
In an exceptional achievement,
Electrical Engineering students Adrian
Ratter and Yu Zhu received their fourth
award in as many years.
Dean of Engineering, Professor
Graham Davies, said the students had
demonstrated outstanding ability.
“These awards are the Oscars of
undergraduate achievement and it’s
very special to be able to celebrate
the achievement of our top students,”
he said.
AWARDS, PRIZES, AND SCHOLARSHIPS
University Medal
The University Medal is awarded by the university to students who have exhibited
outstanding academic performance during their program. Within the School in
2009, the university medal was awarded to Patrick Johnstone.
The recipients of awards and prizes during 2009 are summarised below.
University Medal
Patrick Johnstone
Thesis Poster Competition - 1st
Scott Macarthur-King
Thesis Poster Competition – 2nd
Nicholas Wong
Thesis Poster Competition – 3rd
Ben Cassidy
NICTA Telecommunications Prize – Stage 1
Gian Frez
Ni Ding
Voon Hian Lee
Nicholas Wong
Adrian Ratter, now 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.
Yu 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.
Student from EE&T to receive a
Dean’s Award include Manas Bellani,
Chi Cheng, Thomas Cooney, Fergal
Cotter, Duncan Edwards, Gian Frez,
Sam Jiang, Rachpon Kalra, Raymond
Lao, Voon Lee, Adrian Ratter, Richard
Sofatzis, Yu Zhu and Di Yan.
ANNUAL REPORT 2009
Scholarships
2009 saw the introduction of three new Scholarships
and awards in recognition of academic achievement. A
brief description is offered for each, and the recipients
are due to be announced in 2010.
Name
Scholarship
Andrew Brodie
Faculty of Engineering Rural Scholarship
Luke D’Anna
Michael Riordan
Tim Davison
Sam Shan Jiang
A & D Gotthard Scholarship in Electrical
Engineering
Jaclyn Egan
Vida Balshaw Women in Engineering
Scholarship
Deeksha Dhananjaya
Murthy
Xstrata Coal Undergraduate Electrical
Engineering Award for 3rd Year Students
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. Nine awards, each of $1000 value are available.
The Doble Undergraduate Engineering Scholarship
This scholarship was created to recognise and support
outstanding academic achievement from continuing
students in their 3rd or 4th year of study in EE&T. Three
scholarships, each $10,000 in value, will be awarded.
The Ross Mackellar Award
This award, sponsored by alumni Ross Mackellar, was
created to recognise academic achievement by a
student showing outstanding improvement in his/her first
5 semesters of study within the School of EE&T. One
award valued at $1000 will be given.
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ALUMNI
OUT OF AFRICA, AND INTO EE&T@UNSW
STUDENT PROFILE: OLIVIER NSABIMANA
Olivier is a welcome first year addition to
the School of Electrical Engineering and
Telecommunications in 2009 on a UNSW
scholarship scheme to support students from
disadvantaged backgrounds and who excelled
in high school. Olivier is already showing signs
of continuing to excel, promising a successful
university life and Engineering career.
FELICITY ALLEN
Graduated in S2/2005 – 3723
BE/MB with First Class Honour
plus University Medal
Currently an engineer at
Cochlear Ltd
RAMI BANNA
BE in EE with First Class Honour
plus University Medal
Olivier was born and raised in Rwanda, Africa,
where he undertook most of his secondary
schooling at Ecole Technique Officielle de
Gitarama. He came to Australia as an exchange student, spending a year at
Kinross Wolaroi School in Orange, NSW. Olivier chose electrical engineering
as a field of study because he “was always amazed by electronics and
electricity” since he was very young. He also recognises that electrical
engineering provides a foundation or “stepping stone” for all new
technologies which have changed, and will continue to change, people’s
lifestyle every day
Outside his university life, Olivier enjoys sports, and in particular plays
soccer and enjoys dance. He is also involved in several associations and
services including Orange Rotary Club, the African Student Association
UNSW, Rwanda Diaspora in Australia and Rotaract UNSW.
We wish Olivier success in his studies at EE&T!
Currently at Cochlear as a
Principal Systems Engineer and
Project Manager
TIM NEAL
SERENA TEH
ADRIAN CLARK
BE with First Class Honour plus
University Medal
Currently at Beca Pty Ltd on
secondment to Goodman Fielder
Currently at EnergyAustralia
managing the Smart Grid
Program
Currently in the audio advanced
development group at Dolby
Laboratories

2009 Annual Report - Engineering

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