Academic Staff

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Professor Thomas Bräunl

Professor

Thomas Bräunl received his Diploma degree from the University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany, M.S. degree from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA, and Ph.D. and Habilitation degrees from the University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany. He is a Professor at the University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia, where he directs the Renewable Energy Vehicle Project, and has converted several road-licensed cars to battery-electric drive. He is the Technical Director of the West Australian Electric Vehicle Trial and the Principal Investigator of the ARC Electric Vehicle Fast-Recharging Project. He has worked on driver-assistance systems with Daimler and on electric vehicle charging systems with BMW.

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Associate Professor Cosimo Faiello

Associate Professor

Cosimo Faiello received his B.Sc. and D.Sc. of Agricultural & Horticultural Science, University of Catania, Italy. He received his MBA and Master of Marketing from the University of Western Australia in 2005 and 2007 respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor with the School of Electrical, Electronic, and Computer Engineering, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia. His research interests include Project Management and Engineering Practice.

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Adjunct Associate Professor Shervin Fani

Adjunct Associate Professor

Shervin Fani received the B.Eng. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the University of Western Australia in 2003. He has since been engaged by industry as a Chartered Professional in both the Engineering and Management disciplines. Presently he is employed by Western Power as a Principal Engineer advising on power grid transformation, as well as serving in an Adjunct Associate Professor capacity within the Faculty of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences at the University of Western Australia.

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Professor David Huang

Professor

Defeng (David) Huang received his B.E.E.E. and M.E.E.E. degrees in electronic engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1996 and 1999, respectively, and Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, in 2004. He is currently a Professor with the School of Electrical, Electronic, and Computer Engineering, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia. His research interests include power line communications. He serves as an Editor for IEEE Wireless Communications Letters. From 2005 to 2011, he was an Editor of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Commutations. .

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Associate Professor John Lau

Associate Professor

John Lau received the B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong. He is currently an Associate Professor in School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia. His research interest are bayesian Non-parametric and Semi-parametric Modeling Monte Carlo computation, Statistical bioinformatics and application of statistical methods to power systems.

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Associate Professor Mariusz Martyniuk

Associate Professor

Mariusz Martyniuk received the B.Sc. (Hons.) degree from the University of Toronto, ON, Canada; the M.A.Sc. degree from McMaster University, ON; and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Western Australia (UWA), Perth, Australia, in 2007. He was with the industry sector as an Electronics Engineer before rejoining UWA, where he is currently a Research Professor with the Microelectronics Research Group, and manages the Western Australian Node of the Australian National Fabrication Facility. His research interests include energy harvesting using micro-electro-mechanical systems. Dr. Martyniuk’s research contributions were recognized by the Inaugural Australian Museum Eureka Prize for Outstanding Science in Support of Defense or National Security Award in 2008.

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Professor Brett Nener

Professor

Brett D. Nener received the B.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Western Australia, and the M.Sc. degree from the University of Tokyo. He has been a Visiting Professor with the U.S. Navy Space and Naval Warfare Center, San Diego, CA, USA, and the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is currently a Professor with the School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Western Australia, where he was the Head of the School from 2008 to 2014. His research interests include application of signal-processing techniques to power systems.

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Professor Mark Reynolds

Professor

Mark Reynolds obtained his first degree at The University of Western Australia (UWA) in Pure Mathematics and Statistics in 1984, his PhD at Imperial College London (IC) in Logic Programming in 1988 and a Diploma in Education from UWA in 1988. Mark lectured in the Department of Computer Science at UWA in 1988 and 1989. From 1990 until 1995 he worked as a Research Assistant then Research Fellow on various United Kingdom and European Research Council funded projects on temporal logic, coordination programming and specification of safety-critical systems. In July 1995, he became a lecturer at Kings College London and in July 1998, he moved to Murdoch University. After rejoining the Computer Science and Software Engineering school at UWA as an Associate Professor in 2004, he became a Professor in 2009, where he is currently the head. His research interests include power network optimization and micro-grid identification.

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Professor Michael Small

CSIRO–UWA Chair of Complex Engineering Systems

Michael Small received the undergraduate and doctoral degrees in pure and applied mathematics from the University of Western Australia (UWA). He joined the faculty of the Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2001-2011). He is an Australian Research Council (ARC) Future fellow and Winthrop professor of applied mathematics in the School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Western Australia (UWA). He is on the editorial board of several international journals including IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine and Newsletters. His research interests include complex systems, complex network, chaos and nonlinear dynamics, nonlinear time series analysis, and computational modelling.

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Professor Victor Sreeram

Professor

Victor Sreeram obtained Bachelor's degree in 1981 from Bangalore University, India, Master's degree in 1983 from Madras University, India, and PhD degree from University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada in 1990, all in Electrical Engineering. He worked as a Project Engineer in the Indian Space Research Organization from 1983 to 1985. He joined the School of Electrical, Electronic, and Computer Engineering, University of Western Australia in 1990 where he is now a Professor. He has held Visiting Appointments at the Department of Systems Engineering, Australian National University during 1994, 1995 and 1996 and at the Australian Telecommunication Research Institute in Curtin University of Technology during 1997 and 1998. He is on the editorial board of many journals including IET Control, theory and applications, Asian Journal of Control, Cogent Engineering, Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization, and Smart Grid and Renewable Energy. He was the General Chair of 3rd Australian Control Conference (AUCC2013), Perth, November 4-5, 2013, and the Vice Chair of Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference (AUPEC2014), Perth, WA, September 28-1 October 2014. He is currently the chair of AUCC steering committee, a member of NCACI (Engineers Australia committee) and a Fellow of Institution of Engineers, Australia. His research interests are control, signal processing, communications and Smart Grid and Renewable Energy.

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Professor Roberto Togneri

Professor

Roberto Togneri received the B.E. degree in 1985, and the Ph.D degree in 1989 from the University of Western Australia. He is currently a professor with the School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering at the University of Western Australia. His research interests are in signal processing and pattern recognition, including applications to power quality assessment and disturbance, power signal enhancement, and detection, classification and prediction of power usage and fault patterns. He has published over 140 refereed journal and conference papers in the areas of signal processing and recognition. He has served as the chief investigator on three Australian Research Council Discovery Project research grants since 2009 and has been an Associate Editor for IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Lecture Notes and IEEE Transactions on Speech, Audio and Language Processing since 2012.

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Dr. Christopher Townsend

Senior Lecturer

Christopher Townsend received the B.E. (2009) and Ph.D. (2013) degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Newcastle, Australia. Subsequently he spent three years working at ABB Corporate Research, Sweden working on next-generation high-power converter technologies. Since then he has held various post-doctoral research positions including at the University of New South Wales, Australia, the University of Newcastle, Australia and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. In 2019, he joined the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering at the University of Western Australia as a Senior Lecturer. He has authored more than 50 published technical papers and has been involved in several industrial projects and educational programs in the field of power electronics. His research interests include topologies and modulation strategies for multilevel converters applied in power systems, renewable energy integration and electric vehicle applications. Dr. Townsend is a member of the IEEE Power Electronics and Industrial Electronics Societies.

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Dr. Xinan Zhang

Senior Lecturer

Xinan Zhang received the B.E. degree in electrical engineering and automation from Fudan University, China, in 2008. He received the Ph.D. degree from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, in 2014. Then, he worked as postdoc researcher in NTU and the University of New South Wales from 2014 to 2017. He worked as a Lecturer in NTU from June 2017 to September 2019. Since September 2019, he joined the University of Western Australia as a Senior Lecturer. His research interests include electrical machine drives, control and modulation of power electronic converters and management of hybrid energy storage systems.