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Core members
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- Industry A/Prof Justin Lipman (RFCT Director & FEIT Director of Research Translation)
- Dr Negin Shariati (RFCT Co-Director)
- A/Prof Mehran Abolhasan (Deputy Head of School, Research)
- Dr Daniel Franklin
- Dr Rasool Keshavarz
- Dr Nick Bennett (School of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering)
- Dr Mickey Clemon (School of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering)
Associate Members
- Mr Kevin Sharp, FEIT Senior RF Manager
- Dr Kumars Rouzbehi, University of Seville, Spain, UTS Visiting Professor
- Robert Colby, Intel Principal Engineer in IoT - Manufacturing and Automation
- 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, University of New England (Precision Agriculture Research Group), Australia
- Dr Tim Parsons, Executive Director, Delta-V Newspace Alliance
- Dr Wei Ni, CSIRO (Research Scientist)
Visiting Scholars
- Dr Imran Mahkdoom
- Dr Saber Jafarizadeh (Rakuten Institute of Technology, Japan)
PhD students
- Ms. Azadeh Arnaz (PhD Topic: 6G Intelligence)
- Mr Muhammad Ahmad Raza (PhD Topic: Key Enabling Mechanisms for Mission-Critical Communications)
- Mr Ian Zhou (PhD Topic: Cyber Physical Systems for Active Frost Detection and Prevention)
- Mr Md. Amanath Ullah (PhD Topic: Extending the Lifetime of Remotely Deployed Sensors Using RF Energy Harvesting and WPT)
- Ms. Prerna Dhull (PhD Topic: Waveform Design and Modulation Techniques for Simultaneous Wireless Information and Power Transfer (SWIPT))
- Mr Nastouh Nikhkah (PhD Topic: Efficient RF Energy Harvester for Biomedical Wearable Devices)
- Mr Eistiak Ahamed (PhD Topic: Metamaterial Inspired Wireless Power Transfer Systems)
- Mr Ali Raza (PhD Topic: Simultaneous Wireless Information and Power Transfer (SWIPT) for IoT Devices)
- Mr Kourosh Parsaei (PhD Topic: Near field Sensing Technology Enhanced by Optimization Algorithms for Agricultural Applications)
- Mr Sepehr Ashtari Nakhaei (PhD Topic: Knowledge Defined Strategies for Next Generation Wireless Networks)
- Mr Majid Amiri (PhD Topic: RF Self powered sensor to Develop Fully Autonomous IoT Devices)
- Ms Mahrokh Abdollahi Lorestani (PhD Topic: Multi-hop Device-to-Device Routing Protocols for Software Defined Wireless Networks)
- Mr Roumani Alabd (PhD Topic: BrachyShade: Real-time Quality Assurance for High Dose Rate Brachytherapy)
- Ms Hamideh Bour (PhD Topic: Software Defined Networking (SDN) Security)
Alumni
- Dr. Mahdi Saki (PhD) 2020 (PhD Thesis: Data Classification and Transportation in Rail Networks)
- Dr. Imran Mahkdoom (PhD) 2020 (PhD Thesis: Defense Against Integrity and Privacy Attacks in The Internet of Things)
- 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 Title: Non-intrusive methods for crowd estimation)
- Dr Bushra Ismaiel (PhD) 2018 (PhD Title: Scalable MAC protocol for D2D communication for future 5G networks)
- Ms Sarvin Sadra (ME) 2018 (Thesis Title: DEVELOPMENT OF EFFICIENT MEDIUM ACCESS CONTROL PROTOCOLS FOR WIRELESS BODY AREA NETWORKS
- Dr Samaneh Movassaghi (PhD) (NICTA/ANU, Co-Supervisor) 2018 (PhD Title: Wireless Body Area Networks: Efficient Coexistence by Interference Management and Avoidance)
- Dr Ali Rafiei (PhD) 2017 (PhD Title: Resilient Wireless Sensor Networks)
- Dr Craig Cooper (PhD) (UoW, External Student) 2015 (PhD Title: Clustering in VANETs under realistic channel conditions)
- Dr Abhinay Mukunthan (PhD) (UoW, External Student) 2015 (PhD Title: Routing and propagation in urban vehicular ad hoc networks)
- Ms Ammara Khan (ME) 2015 (Thesis Title: An Evolutionary Game Theoretic Approach for Stable Clustering in Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs))
- Dr Nidhal A S Odeh (PhD) 2014 (PhD Title: Resource Allocation for Multi-cell OFDMA based Cooperative Relay Network)
- Dr. Brett Hagelstein (PhD) 2013 (Thesis Title: Opportunistic Cooperative Retransmission Enhancements for the IEEE 802.11 Wireless MAC)
- Dr Huda Mubarak Ali Al-Amri (PhD)(UoW, External Student) 2013 (PhD Title: Enhancing the scalability of heterogeneous MANET routing protocols)
- Ms. Samaneh Movassaghi (Master by Research) (2012) (Thesis Title: Addressing and routing schemes for body area networks
- Dr. Mehrnoush Masihpour (PhD) (2012) (Thesis Title: Cooperative Communication In Near Field Magnetic Induction Communication Systems)
- Dr. Bappi Barua (PhD) (2012) (Thesis Title: Performance analysis of cooperative relay networks in presence of interference)
- Dr. Jerry Wang (PhD)(UoW, External Student) 2010 (PhD Title: Routing instability in ad hoc networks)
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Academic partners
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