Department of Electrical Engineering
The University of Mebourne
Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia.
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Graeme
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Graeme has B.Sc. (First Class Honours) (1988) and M.Sc (RF and Microwave Electronics) (1990) degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Univeristy of Cape Town, South Africa, and a Ph.D. (Optics)(1993) in Engineering from the University of Cambridge, UK.
Graeme has experience working in both
research and industry in a range of positions and companies. He
started work as an electrical engineer for Plessey-Tellumat (Cape Town)
working in RF and Microwave systems for avionics products. He
later joined the Photonics Research Lab, here in the Department, in
1993
where he was first a Research Fellow, and then later a Senior Research
Fellow. During this period Graeme worked on optical coherence
multiplexed systems, spectral sliced transmission, ASE noise in
systems,
wavelength conversion and optical transmission. He developed the
optical transmission simulator that was later commercialised by Virtual
Photonics.
In 1998 Graeme joined the Lightwave
Systems Department at Lucent Technologies (Bell Labs), NJ, USA, as a member
of
technical staff. During
this time he worked on optical transmission, studied
novel transmission formats, and investigated nonlinear effects in
optical amplifiers. In 1999 he joined start-up Sycamore Networks, MA, USA
as Senior Scientist, and them later as Senior Engineering Manager, where he was the lead optical system engineer for
their ULH (4000 km), high capacity WDM (160x10Gb/s) transport platform. He managed the group responsible for the
transmission design, system testing and integration, route design
and final system deployment. In
2002 he started his own company, Tegwan Technologies, NH,
consulting in the design, modelling and verification of optical
systems.
In 2003 he re-joined the Department of
Electrical Engineering at The University of Melbourne as an Associate
Professor. Graeme is currently working on developing Wireless Sensor Networks
for Environmental Monitoring Applications. Graeme is an electonic hobbyist
and has a general interst in analog, RF and digital electronics as well
as working with embedded systems (asm and C on PIC and AVR) and programming in the
Linux environment. He continues his research interests in Optics and
Telecommunications, where he believes in the importance of a solid
background in engineering, clear objectives with outcomes and applications, the necessity of a wide range of practical
and analytic skills in order to adapt to this changing environment, and
the need to maintain a balanced view on the application and relevance
of ones own work.
Assoc. Prof.
Graeme Pendock
Department of Electrical Engineering
The University of Melbourne
Parkville, VIC. 3010
Australia
Tel : +61 3 8344 3838
Fax : +61 3 8344 6678
g.pendock@ee.unimelb.edu.au