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Assoc Professor Thushara ABHAYAPALA

Position:Director, Research School of Engineering
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Personal website:http://users.rsise.anu.edu.au/~thush/
Phone:+61 2 612 55141
Building:Ian Ross (31)
Room:R205 and B141 RSISE
Groups:Eng, ASP
Staff category:Academic

Research interests:

Physically inspired signal processing problems in the areas of Acoustic and Audio; Wireless and Mobile Communications; and Bio-medical applications. These include broadband/ nearfield beamforming, array signal processing, wireless channel modelling, sound propagation modelling, spatial soundfield recording and reconstruction, MIMO systems, space-time-frequency coding.

Duties:

Head, Research School of Engineering

The role of the Head is to advance the Research School with the specific aim of achieving world-class excellence in research and teaching in line with ANU goals and the College Strategic Plan. Specifically, this includes:

  • academic leadership of the Research School, including responsibility for the management, development and quality of the teaching, research and student support services;
  • development and management of the academic and general staff in the Research School;
  • Development and management of the School's finances and infrastructure; managing and implementing change.

Bio:

He received the B.E.(hons 1) degree in interdisciplinary systems engineering in 1994 and the Ph.D. degree in Telecommunications Engineering in 1999 from ANU. From 1995 to 1997, he worked as a Research Engineer at the Arthur C. Clarke Centre for Modern Technologies, in Sri Lanka. Since December 1999, he has been a faculty member at ANU.

Thushara considers 'research training' as a top priority. He has supervised 22 PhD students and 2 Mphil students. He has co-authored over 170 peer reviewed papers. He rarely writes alone.

He is an associate editor for EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking.

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