SPM Members
Academic Staff
Postgraduate 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
My research interests are in the theory and applications of signal processing and dynamical systems. I'm also interested in sustainable energy, and the ways in which a smart electricity grid can support distributed generation, energy storage and energy efficiency.email:
Dr. Sarah Johnson
Sarah Johnson received the B.E. (Hons) degree in electrical engineering in 2000, and PhD in 2004, both from the University of Newcastle, Australia. She then held a postdoctoral position with the Wireless Signal Processing Program, National ICT Australia before returning to the University of Newcastle where she is a senior research fellow. Sarah's research interests are in the field of error correction and information theory, and in particular low-density parity-check codes, repeat-accumulate codes, iterative decoding algorithms and network coding. She is the author of a book on iterative error correction published by Cambridge University Press.email:
A/Prof. Chris Kellett
A/Prof. Kellett's research interests are in analysis and design of nonlinear dynamical systems, power systems, and information and communication theory.email:
Dr. Adrian Wills
My research interests are in the areas of constrained optimisation problems as they occur in the fields of system identification, control, signal processing and telecommunications. My interests also include estimation of parameter values for mathematical models of dynamic systems using measurements of the systems input/output response.email:
Dr Lawrence Ong
Lawrence Ong received the BEng degree in electrical engineering from the National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore, in 2001. He subsequently received the MPhil degree from the University of Cambridge, UK, in 2004 and the PhD degree from NUS in 2008. Lawrence Ong was with MobileOne, Singapore, as a system engineer from 2001 to 2002. He was a research fellow at NUS, from 2007 to 2008. From 2008 to 2011, he was a postdoctoral researcher at The University of Newcastle, Australia. In 2011, Lawrence Ong was awarded the Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) [success rate: 12.8%] by the Australian Research Council (ARC). He is currently a DECRA fellow at The University of Newcastle.email:
Dr Vikram Arkalgud Chandrasetty
Vikram Arkalgud Chandrasetty received Bachelor Degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Bangalore University (India) in 2004, Master Degree in VLSI System Design from Coventry University (UK) in 2008 and PhD in Computer Systems Engineering from University of South Australia (Australia) in 2012. He was working with Core Networks Division at Motorola as Software Engineer (2005–2007) and also with SoftJin Technologies as Senior Software Engineer (2007–2008). He is currently working as a Research Fellow at the University of Newcastle. He is also an author of the book 'VLSI Design' published by Springer.
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Postgraduate Students
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:
David Hayes
My research interests include low-density parity-check codes and iterative decoding algorithms.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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Elizabeth Ratnam
Elizabeth completed her B Engineering (Electrical) degree in 2006 with 1st class honours at the University of Newcastle. She was a recipient of an Australian Postgraduate Award (APA) and CSIRO top-up scholarship in September 2011. She has approximately 7 years of industrial experience in power engineering. Elizabeth is currently investigating a demand management framework to mitigate the grid challenges associated with large-scale uptake of residential solar photovoltaic (PV).email:
