School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Dr. Ian Abraham's research sits at the intersection of robotics, optimisation, optimal control, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. His interests are in developing computational methods that enable robotic systems to intelligently interact with, explore, and learn in extreme and remote environments and through collaboration with other robots. He has been recognised with numerous prestigious awards, including an NSF CAREER award as a professor in the US. Previously he was an Assistant Professor at Yale University in the Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science Departments after spending some time as a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. 

Dr Sid Assawaworrarit is Lecturer in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He holds a prestigious Sydney Horizon Fellowship investigating the role of electromagnetics in addressing climate and energy challenges.

His research expertise is in the energy applications of electromagnetics - how can we efficiently and robustly move energy wirelessly; how can we envision the power converters in future electronic devices; and how can we harvest renewable energy out of the cold universe.

After his undergraduate studies at Caltech, Sid completed his Master's degree and PhD in electrical engineering at Stanford University.

His research at Stanford has been internationally recognised. He invented a robust new method of wirelessly transferring power from a source to a moving device. This innovation opened a new direction in the field and received the award of 1% highly cited paper in physics from Web of Science.

In his postdoctoral research, Sid demonstrated that the coldness of the universe can serve as a source for renewable energy harvesting. His work on nighttime solar cell energy harvesting opens the door to all-day electricity generation from solar cells without relying on battery storage.

He was also part of the collaboration that pioneered a photonic transformer, a novel device design that uses light to convert one dc voltage to another. This innovative design offers a major advantage over conventional dc voltage converters by providing noiseless voltage conversion.

Dr. David Boland completed his MEng. and PhD. at Imperial College London in 2007 and 2012 respectively. He worked at Monash University as a lecturer from 2013 to 2016, before moving to the University of Sydney in 2017.

Thomas Chaffey is a lecturer in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, specialising in nonlinear control theory, and its intersection with optimisation, circuit theory and learning. Dr Chaffey joined the school in 2025. He obtained his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2022, and from 2022 to 2025 held the Maudslay-Butler Fellowship in Engineering at Pembroke College, University of Cambridge.

Harini Hapuarachchi earned her PhD from the Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering at Monash University, following a First-Class Honours degree in Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. Earlier in her career, she served as a software engineer in the London Stock Exchange Group (Malabe, Sri Lanka).

Following her PhD, Harini served as a sessional lecturer in the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications at UNSW Sydney and held a Research Fellowship within the ARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science (RMIT node). She then held the prestigious Vice-Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in the Department of Physics at RMIT University prior to her current role as a Lecturer at the University of Sydney. 

Harini's research focuses on theoretically and computationally investigating pathways to enhance room-temperature quantum technologies, including magnetometry based on colour centres in diamond and Rydberg-atom-based quantum sensors emerging as highly sensitive radio-frequency receivers.

Harini was named one of IEEE Computing's Top 30 Early Career Professionals and received the Rising Star Academic Award for Women of Colour in STEM Australia in 2024, for her research and outreach.

Wibowo Hardjawana received a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Sydney, Australia. He is a Senior Lecturer in Telecommunications at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Sydney. Before that, he was an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Research Award(ARC-DECRA) Fellow at the same university. Before his academic career, Wibowo was with Singapore Telecom Ltd., managing core and radio access networks. His research outputs include publications and patents in AI applications for 5G/6G cellular radio access and long-range WiFi networks. He focuses on system architectures, resource scheduling, interference, signal processing, and the development of wireless standard-compliant prototypes. His research is supported by the Australian government and industry partners.

David J. Hill is Professor Emeritus in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Sydney. During 2022-2024 he was also Professor of Electrical Power and Energy Systems at Monash University and continues in that role part-time.

Professor Hillreceived the BE (Electrical Engineering) and BSc (Mathematics) degrees from the University of Queensland, Australia, in 1972 and 1974, respectively. He received the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Newcastle, Australia, in 1976 in a world-renowned research group for systems and control engineering. He then did postdoctoral work at the University of California, Berkeley before starting his academic career back at the University of Newcastle. He then held positions at the University of Sydney including the Chair of Electrical Engineering during 1994-2002 and again in 2010-2013 along with an Australian Research Council Professorial Fellowship. He was Foundation Director of the Centre for Future Energy Networks during 2010-2018 and part-time Professor 2013-2020. During 2005-2010, Professor Hill was an ARC Federation Fellow ( the antecedant of the current Laureate scheme) at the Australian National University and, from 2006, also a Theme Leader (Complex Networks) and Deputy Director in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematics and Statistics of Complex Systems.

During 2013-2020, Professor Hill held the Chair of Electrical Engineering in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Hong Kong; he was also the Program Coordinator for the multi-university RGC Theme-based Research Scheme Project on Sustainable Power Delivery Structures for High Renewables. He has also held academic and substantial visiting positions at the universities of Melbourne,Lund (Sweden), Munich City University of Hong Kong and UNSW Sydney 2020-2022 with roles including being a Program Leader in the CRC RACE for 2030. During 1996-1999 and 2001-2004, he served as Head of the respective departments in Sydney and Hong Kong. Professor Hill is a consultant in the area of power and energy issues in Australia and internationally. He holds or has held numerous honorary professorships in Australia, Hong Kong and China.

Professor Hill has pursued a range of research interests over his career in energy systems, control systems, complex networks, learning systems and stability analysis. His work is now mainly focussed on issues for future energy and power networks with the the aim to bring science to accelerate the clean energy transition. In recognition of his work, he is a Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, USA, a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, USA, the International Federation of Automatic Control, the Australian Academy of Science and the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering. He is also a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. He received the 2021 IEEE Power and Energy Society Prabha S. Kundur Power System Dynamics and Control Award and the 2022 IEEE Control System Society Hendrik W. Bode Lecture Prize. In 2024 he was named in the inaugural list of ScholarGPS Lifetime and Prior 5 Years Highly Ranked Scholars (top 0.05% of all scholars in peer group).

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Abbas Jamalipour is the Professor of Ubiquitous Mobile Networking at the University of Sydney, Australia, and holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Nagoya University, Japan. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical, Information, and Communication Engineers (IEICE), a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia, a Fellow of International Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance (AIIA), and a Fellow of International Academy of Artificial Intelligence Sciences. He is the Deputy Director for the Centre of Excellence in Telecommunications, and leads the Wireless Networking Group (WiNG) at the University of Sydney. He is the author of nine technical books, 11 book chapters, and over 650 technical papers in scholarly journals and international conferences, as well as five patents, all in the area of wireless communications. He is the recipient of several prestigious awards including 2026 IEEE James Evans Avant Garde Award, 2025 Neville Thiele minence Award from Engineers Australia, the IEEE ComSoc Harold Sobol Award, the Royal Academy of Engineering UK Distinguished Fellowship, the IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Contribution to Satellite Communications Award, the IEEE ComSoc Best Tutorial Paper Award, and 15 best paper awards. He is one of the most cited researchers in the field of mobile, cellular, and satellite networks (Google Scolar) (Scopus).

He was the Editor-in-Chief IEEE Trans. on Vehicular Technology (2022-2025), IEEE Wireless Communications (2006-2008), and the IEEE VTS Mobile World (2014-2019), and an editor for several scholarly journals. He has served in many IEEE positions including a member of IEEE TAB Periodicals Committee (2024-2025) and IEEE TAB Nominations and Appointments Committee (2024-2025), IEEE Vehicular Technology Society President (2020-2021), IEEE ComSoc Vice President for Conferences (2012-2013); Executive Vice President of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (2018-2019); Member ComSoc Finance Committee; Member ComSoc On-Line Contents Committee; Member ComSoc Education Board; Member ComSoc Conference Boards; Member IEEE TAB/PSPB Products & Services Committee; Chair Communication Switching and Routing TC; Chair Satellite and Space Communications TC; Vice-Director Asia Pacific Board. He has been a General Chair/Technical Program Chair/Vice Chair of major IEEE conferences. He has also served as an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer.

Professor Jamalipour is currently the IEEE Communications Society Vice President-MGA (2026-2027) and the IEEE Vehicular Technology Vice President Publictions (2026). He has been an elected and voting member of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Board of Governors since 2014. 

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Dr. Li received the Ph.D. degree in electrical and electronic engineering from The University of Hong Kong, HK, in 2014. He has been with The University of Hong Kong and The University of Bath, U.K., as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow and an Assistant Professor, respectively, in2014-2019. He joined The University of Sydney in late 2019. He is the recipient of the 2021 Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA), the 2019 Best Paper Award (Second Place) of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER ELECTRONICS, and two world-renowned invention awards, including the prestigious Gold Medal with Special Recognition by the International Jury of Experts in The INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF INVENTIONS OF GENEVA, 2018. He is an inventor/co-inventor of 7 worldwide patents; 3 of these technologies have been commercialised. He serves as a Guest Associate Editor for IEEE JOURNAL OF EMERGING AND SELECTED TOPICS OF CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS and several other journals. He was a Founding Member of the IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu (HKN) at The University of Hong Kong. His research interests include all areas of power electronics.

Yonghui Li received his PhD degree in November 2002. Since 2003, he has been with the Centre of Excellence in Telecommunications, the University of Sydney, Australia. Li is now a Professor and Director of Wireless Engineering Laboratory in School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Sydney. He is the recipient of the Australian Research Council (ARC) Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship in 2008 and ARC Future Fellowship in 2012, and ARC Industry Laureate Fellowship in 2025. He is an IEEE Fellow for contributions to cooperative communications technologies. He is a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher. 

His current research interests are in the area of wireless communications, IoT and wireless networked control, with a particular focus on 5G/6G, WiFi system, wireless sensing, IIoT, machine to machine communicaitons, MIMO, millimeter wave communications, channel coding techniques, game theory, machine learning and signal processing, human machine collaboration and wireless networked control. Li holds a number of patents granted and pending in these fields.

Professor Li was an editor for IEEE transactions on communications, IEEE transactions on vehicular technology and guest editors for several special issues of IEEE journals, such as IEEE JSAC, IEEE IoT Journals, IEEE TII, IEEE Communications Magazine. He currently serves as the Specialty Chief Editor, Frontiers Signal Processing Journal. He received the best paper awards from IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2014, IEEE PIMRC 2017, and IEEE Wireless Days Conferences (WD) 2014.

He has published two books, more than 300 papers in premier IEEE journals and more than 300 papers in premier IEEE conferences. His publications have been cited more than 30000 times. He is a Clarivate highly cited researcher. Several of his papers have been the top most 10 most cited papers in the respective journals since the year it was published. He has been listed as AMINER AI2000 Most Influential Scholars in the field of Internet of Things (IoT).

Li has attracted more than $25 million in competitive research funding over the past 10 years, including more than 14 ARC grants. He has participated in $500 Millions Australia national demonstration project “Smart Grid Smart City” and designed last mile access networks.

He is the founder and director of IoT undergraduate major at the University of Sydney.

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Professor TJ Lim joined the University of Sydney in January 2020 as Associate Dean (Education) of the Faculty of Engineering and a professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. This role involves the management and oversight of education programs and students at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, as well as contributions to teaching and research.

Prior to this he was Vice-Dean (Graduate Programs) of the Faculty of Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and a professor in that university's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; and previously a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto.

Beginning his career with a BEng (Hons I) in Electrical Engineering at the National University of Singapore, Professor Lim went on to complete a PhD at the University of Cambridge in adaptive signal processing, immediately after which he joined the Centre for Wireless Communications in Singapore where he applied his signal processing expertise to a wireless communications project. He went on to explore the field of wireless communications further, and over the course of almost 25 years has published widely in many subtopics within that field. His current research focuses on the security of the internet of things (IoT), as well as other topics within the broader 5G (fifth generation) mobile communications sphere.

Professor Lim's interest in this field stems from the fact that it has made a real impact on all of our lives, as evidenced by the widespread use of wireless communications both in the personal space and in industry. He feels fortunate to have had the privilege of living and working in three wonderful cities on three continents, with excellent colleagues and good friends in all three places, and to have been able to contribute to academic research at the international level for more than 20 years (and counting).

He enjoys interacting with and guiding students through his classes and his research work, as well as helping students through difficult times. In his role as the Faculty of Engineering's Associate Dean (Education), he looks forward to introducing meaningful changes to curriculum and procedures that will lead to improved outcomes - such as better student experience, greater readiness for the job market and better matching with industry needs - as well as contributing to making the University of Sydney's Faculty of Engineering the top engineering faculty in Australia.

Professor Lim is a Fellow of the Institution of Electrical & Electronic Engineers (IEEE), and has served on a number of IEEE conference committees and editorial boards, including of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, Wiley Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, IEEE Signal Processing Letters and IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.

Zihuai Lin (S’98–M’06–SM’10) received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, in 2006. Prior to this, he worked at Ericsson Research, Stockholm, Sweden. Following his Ph.D. graduation, he worked as an Associate Professor at Aalborg University, Denmark. He is currently an Associate Professor at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Sydney, Australia. His research interests include IoT Wireless sensing and networking, 5G/6G cellular systems, IoT in healthcare,TeraHertz communications, see-through wall radar imaging, Ghost Imaging, wireless Artificial Intelligence (AI), AI based ECG/EEG signal analysis, information theory, communication theory, source/channel/network coding, coded modulation, MIMO, OFDMA, SC-FDMA, radio resource management, cooperative communications, small-cell networks and others.

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Professor Minasian is a Chair Professor with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research has made key contributions to microwave photonics, and he is internationally renowned as a world leader in the field of photonic signal processing. He is recognized as an author of one of the top 1% most highly cited papers in his field worldwide. Professor Minasian has contributed over 427 research publications, including Invited Papers in the IEEE Transactions and Journals. He has presented over 100 Plenary, Keynote and Invited Papers at leading international conferences. He has served as Chair, Program Chair, steering and technical committees of numerous international conferences. He is the Founding Director of the Fibre-optics and Photonics Laboratory. Professor Minasian was the recipient of the ATERB Medal. He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, a Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (now Optica), and a Fellow of The Royal Society of NSW.

Gaoyang Pang received a B.Eng. degree in mechanical design, manufacture, and automation from the College of Mechanical and Vehicle Engineering, Hunan University (HNU), Changsha, China, in 2017, received the M.Eng. degree in mechatronics engineering from the School of Mechanical Engineering, Zhejiang University (ZJU), Hangzhou, China, in 2020, and received a Ph.D. degree in engineering from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the University of Sydney (USyd), Sydney, Australia, in 2025. He has been a post-doctoral research associate at USyd since 2025. Before joining USyd, he built flexible sensing devices and systems for safe and natural human-robot interaction. Now, his focus is on wireless communications and control for networked human-machine collaboration. As of the time, he has co-authored 20+ peer-reviewed publications, including 1 ESI highly cited paper, and 8 Cover Articles. Hehas been granted 25+ invention patents and participated in 8 research projects funded by NSFC, ZJNSFC, etc. He serves as a peer reviewer of 50+ journals and conferences for 300+ reviews. He is a member of theAmerican Chemical Society (ACS) andthe Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE).

Sri Parameswaran is a Professor and the Head of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Sydney. Prior this, he was a Professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the Universtiy of New South Wales, and has also held the position of Acting Head of School at the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of New South Wales from 2019 to 2020. He has also served as the Program Director for Computer Engineering and Post Graduate Research Coordinator at the University of New South Wales, and was previously an academic at the University of Queensland. Sri Parameswaran has held visiting academic positions at Kyushu University in Japan and the University of California, Irvine, worked as a consultant at NEC Research Labs in Princeton and the Asian Development Bank, and served as a member of the Australian Research Council College of Experts. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.

Sri Parameswaran served as the Editor in Chief of the IEEE Embedded Systems Letters from 2016 to 2019. He was the General Chair of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (2017) and the Asia South Pacific Design Automation Conference (2012). He was an Executive Committee Member of the Design Automation Conference from 20212-2013. He serves or has served on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design, ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, the EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems, and the Design Automation of Embedded Systems. He has served on several Program Committees, such as ones at Design Automation Conference (DAC), Design and Test in Europe (DATE), the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), the International Conference on Hardware/Software Code-sign and System Synthesis (CODES-ISSS), and the International Conference on Compilers, Architectures, and Synthesis for Embedded Systems (CASES).

His research interests are Design Automation, System Level Synthesis, Low power systems, High-Level Synthesis, Computer architectures for bioinformatics, and Networks on Chips. Sri Parameswaran received his B.Eng degree from Monash University and his Ph.D. from The University of Queensland.