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Professor Thushara ABHAYAPALA

Position:Director, Research School of Engineering
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Personal website:http://users.rsise.anu.edu.au/~thush/
Phone:55141
Building:Ian Ross (31)
Room:R205 and B160 RSISE
Groups:Eng, ASP
Staff category:Academic

Research interests:

Physically inspired signal processing problems in the areas of Acoustics and Spatial Audio; Wireless and Mobile Communications; and Bio-medical applications. These include spatial sound-field recording and reconstruction, broadband/ nearfield beamforming, array signal processing, photo-acoustics, wireless channel modelling, capacity analysis of spatial channels, wave propagation modelling, and MIMO systems.

Bio:

He received the B.E.(hons 1) degree in interdisciplinary systems engineering in 1994 and the Ph.D. degree in Telecommunications Engineering in 1999 from ANU. From 1995 to 1997, he worked as a Research Engineer at the Arthur C. Clarke Centre for Modern Technologies, in Sri Lanka. Since December 1999, he has been a faculty member at ANU.


Thushara considers 'research training' as a top priority. He has supervised 23 PhD students and 3 Mphil students. He rarely writes alone and has co-authored over 190 peer reviewed papers.


He is an associate editor for EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking and an elected member of the Audio & Acoustics Signal Processing Technical committee of the IEEE Signal processing Society.

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