SPM Members
Academic Staff
- Prof. Brett Ninness
- A/Prof. Steve Weller
- Dr. Sarah Johnson
- Dr. Chris Kellett
- A/Prof. Peter J. Schreier
- Dr. Adrian Wills
- Dr. Mehmet Rasit Yuce
Post-Doctoral Fellows
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:
Dr. Chris Kellett
Dr. Kellett's research interests are in analysis and design of nonlinear dynamical systems with applications in power networks, telecommunications, and numerical analysis.email:
A/Prof. Peter J. Schreier
Current research interests:Statistical signal processing, with particular focus on detection and estimation, and nonstationary time series (time-frequency) analysis;
Applications of signal processing in radar, sonar, wireless communications, the natural sciences, and biomedicine
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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. 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
Geoff Knagge
Geoff's research primarily focuses on the development 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. Part of this has involved the development of the c4Hardware and c4HDL projects to assist in the modelling of hardware designs.email:
Dr Lawrence Ong
Lawrence Ong received the BEng degree in electrical engineering from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore, in 2001. In 2002- 2003, he pursued and received the MPhil degree from University of Cambridge, UK, working on recipe representation, interpretation, product resource communication, and negotiation mechanisms. After receiving the MPhil degree, he enrolled at NUS for the PhD program and worked on information theoretic approaches to understanding wireless networks. He received the PhD degree in July 2008.email:
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:
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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