Seminar Series: Technology Trends 2005
Rob Evans
Rob Evans was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1947.
After completing a BE degree in Electrical Engineering at the
University of Melbourne in 1969, he worked as a radar systems
engineering officer with the Royal Australian Airforce. He completed
a PhD in 1975 at the University of Newcastle followed by
postdoctoral studies at the Laboratory for Information and Decision
Systems, MIT, USA and the Control and Management Department,
Cambridge University, UK.
In 1977 he took up an academic position at the University of
Newcastle, where he was Head of the Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering from 1986 - 1991, and Co-Director of the Centre
on Industrial Control Systems between 1988 - 1991.
In 1992 he moved to the University of Melbourne, where he was
Head of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
until 1996. He was Research Leader for the Cooperative Centre for
Sensor Signal and Information Processing until 2000 and Director of
the Centre for Networked Decision Systems until 2004. He is
currently Director of the Victoria Research Laboratory of National
ICT Australia.
His research has ranged across many areas including theory and
applications in industrial control, radar systems, signal processing
and telecommunications. He has published more than 300 research
papers and supervised 45 PhD students in these areas. He is a Fellow
of the Australian Academy of Science, a Fellow of the Australian
Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, a Fellow of the
Institution of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (USA).
Seminar:
Sensor Networks - no-wire SCADA systems or something more?
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