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Bill is a Senior Lecturer and researcher in optical communications, focusing on using novel photonic technologies to fix problems in the systems that provide the backbone of the internet.

Bill’s work leverages interesting optical physics and photonic devices to improve optical communications systems. His more recent work has focused on using optical microcombs to support tens of terabits-per-second in optical fibre links, stimulated Brillouin scattering and optical injection locking to take some of the guesswork out of receivers in optical communications systems, and using nonlinear optical devices to change the wavelength (‘colour’) of optical signals and to sample them with high precision.

Bill is a Associate Professor at Monash University, in an ongoing position with the Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering, that spans both research and undergraduate teaching. Bill completed his PhD at U. Sydney in 2011, moving to a post-doctoral research position at Chalmers University (Gothenburg, Sweden), before joining Monash University in late 2013.

From April 2023, Bill is an ARC Future Fellow, looking into methods to expand the bandwidth we can use in optical communcations systems. From December 2023, Bill is co-lead on the Information and Intelligence Theme of the ARC Centre of Excellence on Optical Microcombs for Breakthrough Science (COMBS). Bill will be looking at using microcombs to carry and process information and data in novel and efficient ways.