Phil Ho

Senior Research Engineer

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• Communications and Signal Processing

Biography

Phil Ho is currently the senior research engineer responsible for the real time signal processing in the Wireless Technologies Laboratory Indoor Radio Positioning Project where he is responsible for the real-time embedded system design and development of the CSIRO WASP devices and the MAC, network and transport layers of the WASP multi-hop ad-hoc network protocol stack.
From 2003-2005 he developed real-time signal processing algorithms for detection heart and respiration rates with the CSIRO non-contact sensor.
From 2002-2004 he leaded the smart signal processing research under the Hospital without Walls project; and initiated the Healthy Living Spaces project under the Smart Spaces Emerging Science initiative.
From 2000-2002 he carried out research in knowledge-based image analysis and real-time video processing; with results he developed the SmartRoom Demonstrator for the SmartVision project.
From 1995-1999 he involved in contract defence research for the Acoustic Mine Imaging project where he devised a fast parallel 3D sparse array image reconstruction and a real-time received elements position calibration algorithm which he implemented, carried out experiments, performance evaluated and wrote technical reports to customer. He received the letter of appreciation from Thomson Marconi Sonar for his AMI works; and the project won the Engineering Excellence Award from the Institution of Engineers, Australia in 1999.
From 1992-1995 he leaded the Ultrasonics Laboratory STARS scanner system software development for aberration correction research.
From 1989-1991 he joined CSIRO Ultrasonics Laboratory and worked in contract projects for the Australian Meat and Livestock Corporation that developed the real-time bovine RTUS ultrasound scanner.
From 1986-1989 he was with the Commonwealth Department of Health lead developer of the Ultrasonics Institute Twodimsy signal and image processing software package.
From 1986-1987 he developed embedded real-time software for the UI Experimental Tissue Characterisation XTC scanner.
From 1984-1986 he held the Electronics Engineer position for Plessey Australia responsible for automatic system testing development of the Plessey Satellite Receivers.
From 1982-1984 he was an Electronics Engineer for Standard Telephones and Cables Pty Ltd responsible for production test development of first generation 40xx microprocessor-based PABX series.