SPM Members
Academic Staff
- Prof. Brett Ninness
- A/Prof. Steve Weller
- Dr. Tharaka Dissanayake
- Dr. Chris Kellett
- Dr. Peter J. Schreier
- Dr. Mehmet Rasit Yuce
Post-Doctoral Fellows
Postgraduate Students
Honours Students
Academic Staff
Prof. Brett Ninness
My research interests are in the areas of noise corrupted systems as they occur in control, signal processing and telecommunications applications, with particular interests in system identification and wireless communications.email:
A/Prof. Steve Weller
Research interests include low-density parity-check codes, iterative decoding algorithms, space-time coded communications, OFDM, and combinatorics.email:
Dr. Tharaka Dissanayake
Research interests are in designing small antennas for mobile wireless devices, implanted UWB antennas, Antenna arrays for radar and MIMO systems, Wireless power transfer using EM methods, UWB Microwave imaging techniques, Numerical simulations and modeling techniques for EM engineering.email:
Dr. Chris Kellett
My research interests are in analysis and design of nonlinear dynamical systems with applications in telecommunications and numerical analysis.email:
Dr. Peter J. Schreier
Current research interests:Statistical signal processing (detection and estimation, nonstationary time-series and time-frequency analysis)
Applications of signal processing in radar and wireless communications
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Dr. Mehmet Rasit Yuce
Research interests are low-power VLSI circuits for communications,highly integrated, low-cost, new receiver architectures in CMOS technology, and emerging technologies in wireless communications such as software radio and cognitive radio design.email:
Post-Doctoral Fellows
Dr. Sarah Johnson
Research interests include low-density parity-check codes, repeat-accumulate codes, iterative decoding algorithms and network coding.email:
Dr. Geoff Knagge
Geoff's research primarily focuses on the devleopment and optimisation of algorithms for implementation in VLSI devices, including ASICs and FPGAs. His current work is with the Model-Predictive Control project, and extending his postgraduate work that dealt with combinatorial optimisation in VLSI, with application to the wireless communications topics of multiuser detection and MIMO. He has also been involved in the programming and testing for the wireless testbed project.email:
Dr. Björn Rüffer
Currently I am interested in the dynamic behavior of iterative algorithms, and especially in iterative decoding of LDPC codes. Other research interests include monotone maps and monotone dynamical systems, nonlinear perron-frobenius theory, large-scale systems, input-to-state stability and related concepts.email:
Dr. Adrian Wills
My research interests are in the areas of:1. Constrained optimisation problems as they occur in the fields of system identification, control, signal processing and telecommunications.
2. Estimation of parameter values for mathematical models of dynamic systems using measurements of the systems input/output response.
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Postgraduate Students
Dale Bates
Research interests are OFDM synchronisation techniques and carrier frequency offset estimation methods for 3GPP LTE systems.email:
Ian Griffiths
I completed my undergradute studies in Computer Engineering in 2005. For my honours project I worked on implementing a 2x2 MIMO system using the Alamouti code on the first version of the testbed. I am currently investigating applications of Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms to MIMO communications systems as part of my postgraduate studies.email:
Soren Henriksen
Working with Markov-Chain Monte-Carlo analysis for multi-user detection and applications to system identification. My work with SPM also includes hardware design and embedded software development related to the MIMO wireless testbed. I have experience in the implementation and refinement of computational algorithms and have completed a masters degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of Newcastle with a project implementing predictive current control for induction machines on an FPGA.
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Adam Mills
Graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering (Computer) in 2006. Honors project was an LDPC Codec for an AWGN on an FPGA. Current research MPC and VLSI implementation of algorithms.email:
Alan Murray
Alan was awarded BEng (Comp) (Hons 1) and BCompSc Degrees as well as a GCertIC from the University of Newcastle in 2005 and 2007 respectively.
Previous to this, he completed an internship in the summer of 2003/2004 with the University of Newcastle working on a wireless communications testbed. In 2004 he was awarded the Agere Systems Australia and Australian Microelectronics Network's Undergraduate Award for Excellence in Microelectronics Design and Telecommunications Engineering which saw him complete a summer internship in 2004/2005 with the Agere Systems Sydney Design Office.
In 2005, Alan completed his honours project in conjunction with Agere Systems Australia. He has since been working on his PhD Thesis work on Microelectronics for Wireless Communications as part of the University of Newcastle Signal Processing Microelectronics group.
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Honours Students
David Hayes
My research interests include low-density parity-check codes and iterative decoding algorithms.email:
