Research interests:In brief: signal processing with applications primarily in (wireless) communications, and audio.
In more detail: wireless communications, equalization, blind algorithms, ion channel modeling, broadband arrays and beamforming, nearfield arrays, spatial information theory, RF antenna analysis, information theory, servo control, medical imaging, GPU accelerated computation, wireless channel modeling, MIMO systems, inverse problems, statistical and Markov channels, dimensionality of systems, measurement and modeling head related transfer functions, dummy heads, pitch shifting speech, digital TV receivers, discretization of continuous systems, image registration, direction of arrival estimation, nonlinear filtering, convergence of algorithms, detection and estimation, ultrawideband communication systems, reduced complexity Viberbi and sequential estimation, error propagation in feedback receivers, multipath richness estimation, spatial correlation, sensor coupling and correlation, signal concentration and uncertainty principles, and compressed sensing (compressive sampling). |
Bio:Professor Rodney Kennedy has been Professor in the Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering at the Australian National University since 2000 and is currently the Head of the Applied Signal Processing research group. He is an electrical engineer with research specialisation in wireless communications, signal processing and audio signal processing.
He has been Head of the Departments of Information Engineering and Telecommunications Engineering in the Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering between 1994 and 2009. Professor Kennedy has received 29 external grants and industry contracts/university consultancies including 14 ARC grants. In addition he has a leading participant in major research centres including the Cooperative Research Centre for Robust and Adaptive Systems (CRASys), National ICT Australia (NICTA) and the ARC Communications Research Network (ACoRN).
He is an IEEE Fellow and has published 320 journal papers, conference papers and patents, and has supervised 40 PhD students. He was an Associate editor for 11 years in the IEEE Transactions on Communications and the member of a number of editorial boards. He is a former QEII Fellow and recipient of a number awards including the ATERB medal and the UNSW University medal. His h-index is 29 or so.
Currently obsessed with windsurfing and violent sports.
Favourite sayings: "People have died for less" and "Small things amuse small minds". |
