Academic staff
Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering - Academic staff
Professor Yan Wong
Head of Department
Biomedical Engineering Course Director
Research Interests:
Biomedical Engineering: Brain Machine Interfaces for upper limb movement control, visual cortex and retinal stimulation, improved cochlear implant fitting techniques, new electrode technologies such as stentrodes and the use of local field potentials to improve neural prostheses. Neuroscience: spike-LFP coding, movement planning and decision making
Dr. Faezeh Marzbanrad
Senior Lecturer
Research Interests:
Biomedical Signal Processing, Machine Learning, Time-Frequency Analysis, Statistical Data Analysis, Time Series Analysis and Classification, Maternal and Fetal Healthcare.
Dr. Fatemeh Babaeian
Research Interests:
Applied electromagnetics, RF sensors and Identification, Antennas, Microwave, and Signal processing.
Professor Behrooz Bahrani
Research Interests:
My research is focused on application and control of power electronic converters. The aim is to explore advanced topologies and control techniques to facilitate massive integration of renewable energy resources.
Dr. Michael Burke
Director Graduate Research & Graduate Experience/Culture ECSE
Research Interests:
Robotics, Robot learning and control, Control as inference
Dr. Pamela Carreno-Medrano
Early Career Research Representative ECSE
Research Interests:
Human-robot interaction, human-centred and embodied AI, robot learning, socially assistive robotics, affective computing
Mr. Aaron Choong
Equity Diversity and Inclusion Director ECSE
Ms. Taylor Christie
A/Professor Bill Corcoran
Research Interests:
Applied Physics, Communication Systems, ENGINEERING, Electro-optical Technology, Electronic/Optical Materials, Fiber Optics, Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Lasers, Optical Communications, Optics, Photonics, Physical Sciences, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY/MATHEMATICS/COMPUTER SCIENCE, Signal processing, Telecommunications
Dr. Mehdi Ghazavi Dozein
Research Interests:
1) Power System Dynamics and Stability of Emerging Renewable-Rich Power Systems, 2) Power System Integration and Operation of Hydrogen Technologies. 3) Understanding the real-life operational challenges in emerging power systems, also investigating their physical and operational characteristics.
Dr. Tian Yu Goh
HSW Chair ECSE
Dr. Wynita Griggs
Deputy Director of Education (3rd & 4th Year) ECSE
Director of Postgraduate Education ECSE
Research Interests:
mathematical control theory, stability theory, dissipative systems, ergodicity under feedback control, robust control, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), connected vehicles, vehicle-/pedestrian-in-the-loop simulation (e.g., SUMO)
A/Professor Mehrtash Harandi
Research Interests:
Machine Learning Computer Vision Signal Processing
Professor David Hill
Research Interests:
Energy and power systems, dynamics, control, security, reliability, resilience
A/Professor Yi Hong
Research Interests:
Wireless Security, Error Control Coding, Modulation Techniques, Communications Technology, Secure UAV communications, Intelligent reflecting surface-aided Communications
Dr. Shahed Khan
Director of International ECSE
Dr. Gayathri Kongara
Research Interests:
Software Defined Radios, Signal processing algorithms for wireless communication systems and Education focused research.
Professor Dana Kulic
Director of Research ECSE
Research Interests:
human-robot interaction, robot learning, human motion analysis
A/Professor Jonathan Li
Research Interests:
Engineering Education - Student Engagement and Scalability using Technology, Mobile and Web applications, Network dimensioning, simulation and modeling, TCP/IP optimisation, Quality of Service (network and user-perceived),
Dr. Timothy Molloy
Research Interests:
Decision and control under uncertainty, competition, and information constraints for robotics and related domains. Specific interests include inverse optimal control, partially observed Markov decision processes (POMDPs), quickest change detection, dynamic and differential game theory, and event-based sensing and perception.
Professor Rajendran Parthiban
Research Interests:
Optical Networks Visible Light Communication Vehicular Communication Grid/Cloud/Fog Computing Internet of Things VR/AR in Education
Professor Malin Premaratne
Research Interests:
Optics, BioOptics, Numerical Analysis, Numerical Software, Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Electrodynamics, Modeling and Simulation, Semiconductor Theory and Devices, Optics of Nano devices, Plasmonics, Software Engineering, Mathematics
A/Professor Liz Ratnam
Research Interests:
My overarching research thrust is to accelerate the energy transition toward net-zero power grids. My current research interest is in developing new control, estimation and optimisation frameworks to facilitate robust grid operations, advance transactive energy markets, and to improve the security and resilience of cyber-physical power grids.
A/Professor Reza Razzaghi
Industry Advisory Committee Chair ECSE
Research Interests:
My research aims to deliver real-time monitoring, control, and advanced protection techniques to enhance reliability and security of power networks with the presence of volatile renewable energy resources.
Mr. James Salamy
Deputy Director of Education (2nd Year) ECSE
Dr. James Saunderson
Director of Education ECSE
Research Interests:
My research is in mathematical optimization and its applications. I am particularly interested in the algebraic and geometric aspects of optimization models and algorithms. In terms of applications, I have worked on problems in areas such as signal processing, machine learning, power systems, (quantum) information theory, and quantum metrology.
Professor Emanuele Viterbo
Research Interests:
Error control coding for data storage, Information storage in synthetic DNA, Modulation and coding for wireless communications, Sphere decoder, Algebraic space-time codes: Golden code and Perfect space-time codes, Lattices in wireless communications and algebraic number theory, Irregular and jittered sampling.
Dr. Wenle Weng
Research Interests:
• Photonic sensing and precision metrology • Nonlinear and microresonator photonics • Advanced lasers and frequency combs • Photonic computing and imaging
Ms. Jessica Woolley
Professor Mehmet Yuce
Research Interests:
Wearable sensors, IoT Sensors, electronics, implantable devices, wireless body Area network (WBAN), energy harvesting, biosensors, neural engineering/recording, analog/radio-frequency/digital integrated circuits for wireless, biomedical, and RF applications.
Dr. Elizabeth Zavitz
Deputy Director of Research ECSE
Research Interests:
Dr Zavitz’s research investigates the neural and computational mechanisms underlying visual perception with an aim of developing biologically inspired algorithms that describe how neural populations encode and transform visual information. This work contributes to advancements in artificial perception and biomedical engineering.