Seminar Series: Technology Trends 2005

DENNIS COOPER

Dennis Cooper graduated from the University of Adelaide with a PhD in Electrical Engineering.  He joined CSIRO in 1968 to undertake antenna research and from 1972 was primarily involved in technology transfer from the research environment to industry.

Dr Cooper was appointed Chief of CSIRO Radiophysics in 1988. After a corporate restructure Dr Cooper led CSIRO Telecommunications & Industrial Physics, managed NASA's Australian facilities and coordinated CSIRO's Information Technology & Telecommunications Sector from 1996 to 2000.

Dr Cooper held consulting contracts with Radiata, Inc. developing an antenna product and Nortel Networks advising on technology investment during 2000. He is a fellow of the Academy of Technology Sciences and Engineering and the Institution of Radio and Electronic Engineers, elected to Honorary Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia, a Senior Member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (NY) and a member of the Institute of Electrical Engineers (London).  Dr Cooper is also a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Dr Cooper is currently appointed the official Visitor to the Sensor Signal and Information Processing and Chairman of the Advisory Board for the Centre for Networking Technologies for the Information Economy (CeNTIE).

Dr Cooper has an extensive background in communications and space related systems. Other experience crosses research, industry liaison and commercialisation in geophysical imaging, biosensors, microwave integrated circuits, antenna systems and communication systems.

Seminar: Networking with a difference

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