RFCT members

Core members

School of Electrical and Data Engineering

• Industry A/Prof Justin Lipman (RFCT Director)
• A/Prof Negin Shariati (RFCT Director)
• Prof Mehran Abolhasan 
• A/Prof Daniel Franklin
• Dr Rasool Keshavarz

School of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering

• A/Prof Nick Bennett

Postdocs

• Dr Mahdi Saki
• Dr Imran Makhdoom
• Dr Farzad Tofigh
• Dr Ian Zhou
• Dr Da Xiao (Chris)

Technical Support

• Mr Kevin Sharp
• Dr Majid Amiri 

Associate Members

• Dr Kumars Rouzbehi, University of Seville, Spain, UTS Visiting Professor 
• Professor Kamran Ghorbani, RMIT University, Australia (Director of the Communication Technologies Research Centre)
• Professor Dominique Schreurs, KU Leuven University, Belgium (Chair of the Information and Communication Technology Centre), UTS Visiting Professor
• Professor Derek Abbott, The University of Adelaide, Australia (Director of the Biomedical Engineering Centre)
• Distinguished Professor David Lamb, Food agility CRC, Australia
• Dr Tim Parsons, Executive Director, Delta-V Newspace Alliance
• Dr Wei Ni, CSIRO (Research Scientist)

PhD students

Name	PhD Topic
Mr Ali Raza	Development of Integrated Wireless Power Transfer, Sensing, and Communication Using Compact Reconfigurable RF Structures
Mr Eistiak Ahmed	Development of Metamaterial Inspired Lens System for Dynamic Beamforming Application
Mr Nastouh Nikhkah	Sustainable Non-Invasive RF/Microwave Sensing for Smart Agricultural Health Monitoring
Mr Kourosh Parsaei	Near field Sensing Technology Enhanced by Optimization Algorithms for Agricultural Applications
Mr Javad Jafaryahya	Designing a Novel Solution for IoT-enabled Smart Farming by Ultra-Low Power Sensor Networks
Mr Ashkan Agahi	3D Laser Direct Structuring Microwave Structures for Autonomous Vehicles
Ms Amber Abdullah	RF Energy Harvester using Metamaterials
Ms. Prerna Dhull	Waveform Design and Modulation Techniques for Simultaneous Wireless Information and Power Transfer (SWIPT)
Mr Md. Amanath Ullah	Extending the Lifetime of Remotely Deployed Sensors Using RF Energy Harvesting and WPT
Suleman Qamar	Privacy Preserving Technologies
Ali Sarabadani	Privacy Preserving Technologies
Iqra Sadia	Privacy Preserving Technologies
Asher Sajid	Acceleration of Privacy Preserving Technologies
Azadeh Arnaz	Open RAN Security
Jahedul Islam	Multipath TCP

Alumni

• Dr. Mahrokh Abdollahi Lorestani (PhD) (PhD Thesis: Multi-hop Device-to-Device Routing Protocols for Software Defined Wireless Networks)
• Dr Muhammad Ahmad Raza Key Enabling Mechanisms for Mission-Critical Communications
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• Dr. Mahdi Saki (PhD) 2020 (PhD Thesis:  Data Classification and Transportation in Rail Networks)
• Dr Ian Zhou (PhD Thesis: Cyber Physical Systems for Active Frost Detection and Prevention)
• Dr. Imran Mahkdoom (PhD) 2020 (PhD Thesis: Defense Against Integrity and Privacy Attacks in The Internet of Things)
• Dr Majid Amiri (PhD Thesis: RF Self powered sensor to Develop Fully Autonomous IoT Devices)
• Dr Sepehr Ashtari Nakhaei (PhD Thesis: Knowledge Defined Strategies for Next Generation Wireless Networks)
• Dr. Mahmoud. Gamal (PhD) 2020 (PhD Thesis: Resource Allocation and Optimal Scheduling of Virtual Network Functions in Software Defined Networks)
• Dr Ammara Khan (PhD) 2019  (PhD Title: Optimized Communication in 5G-Driven Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs))
• Dr Farzad Tofigh (PhD) 2019 (PhD Thesis: Non-intrusive methods for crowd estimation)
• Dr Roumani Alabd (PhD Thesis: BrachyShade: Real-time Quality Assurance for High Dose Rate Brachytherapy)
• Dr. Mahrokh Abdollahi Lorestani (PhD) (PhD Thesis: Multi-hop Device-to-Device Routing
  Protocols for Software Defined Wireless Networks)
• Dr Muhammad Ahmad Raza Key Enabling Mechanisms for Mission-Critical Communications