Curriculum Vitae
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
- BE (Electrical Engineering), First Class Honours, University of Melbourne, 1970
- PhD (Electrical Engineering), University of Melbourne, 1976
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS
- Fellow, Australian Academy of Science
- Fellow, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering
- Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- Fellow, Optical Society of America
- Fellow, Institution of Engineers, Australia (IEAust)
AWARDS AND PRIZES
- IEEE Aron Kressel Award, 2007
- Australian Research Council Federation Fellowship, 2002 – 2007
- Australia Prize, awarded by the Australian Government in 1997, for outstanding contributions to Telecommunications. The Australia Prize is Australia’s premier award for achievements in Science and Technology.
- M.A. Sargent Medal, awarded in 1995 by IEAust., for outstanding contributions to Electrical Engineering
- IEEE Lasers and Electrooptics Society, Distinguished Lecturer award, 1995
- Harkness Fellowship, Commonwealth Fund of New York, 1975
- Fisk Prize, Institution of Radio and Electronics Engineers, Australia, 1970
OTHER AWARDS
- ISI Highly-Cited Researcher
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
1990-present:
- Laureate Professor, Department of Electrical and Electrical Engineering, University of Melbourne
- Department Head (1990-1992, 1996), Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Melbourne
- Founding Director (1990-2000), Photonics Research Laboratory, University of Melbourne
- Founding Director (2000 - 2002) and Executive Research Director (2002 -), ARC Special Research Centre for Ultra-Broadband Information Networks, University of Melbourne
- Director (1992-1998), Australian Photonics Cooperative Research Centre
1990-2000:
- Research Scientist, Hewlett Packard Laboratories and Agilent Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA, USA (on leave from the University of Melbourne)
2000-2001:
- Department Scientist (part-time appointment), Agilent Laboratories, Palo Alto, CA, USA
1982-1990:
- Member of Technical Staff, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Crawford Hill Laboratory, Holmdel, NJ, USA
1978-1982:
- Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in Electrical Engineering at the University of Queensland
1977-1978:
- Principal Research Scientist, Allen Clark Research Centre, Plessey Research (Caswell), Northants, U K
1975-1977:
- Visiting Harkness Research Fellow, School of Electrical Engineering, Cornell University, NY, USA, and Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, USA
1973-1975:
- Lecturer in Electrical Engineering, University of Melbourne
RESEARCH GRANTS:
Total research funding attracted to University of Melbourne (1990 – 2006): $20 million
GRADUATE STUDENT SUPERVISION:
Number of PhD students supervised: 20
EDITORSHIPS
- Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques: 1988-1990
- Guest Editor, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics Special Issue on Semiconductor Lasers, June 1995
- Guest Editor, IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, Special Issue on Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Photonics, September 1995
- Associate Editor, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters : 1997 - 2006
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY ACTIVITIES
- Member, Administrative Committee, IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society: 1988-1991
- Member, Board of Governors, IEEE Lasers and Electrooptics Society : 1996 - 1999
- Secretary-Treasurer, IEEE Lasers and Electrooptics Society : 1997 - 1999
- Member, Australasian Council on Quantum Electronics: 1992
- Member, Management Committee, Australian Telecommunications and Electronics Research Board: 1991 - 1993
- Founding Chair, Victorian Photonics Network: 2002
ADVISORY COMMITTEES AND TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEES
- Member, Technical Program Committee, International Semiconductor Laser Conference, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1996, 2000.
- Member, Technical Program Committee, International Conference on Integrated Optics and Optical Communications (IOOC) 1991, 1993, 1995, and Member, International Management ComZittee, IOOC, 1995, 1997.
- Member, Technical Program Committee, Topical Meeting on Photonics in Switching, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997.
- Australian/Asian Liaison and Member, Technical Program Committee, Conference on Optical Fibre Communications (OFC), 1994, 1995, 1996.
- Member, Technical Program Committee, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) 1994, 1995, 1996.
- Member, Technical Program Committee, European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC), 1994.
- Member, International Advisory Committee, Optoelectronics and Communications Conference (OECC), 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006.
- Member, Technical Program Committee, CLEO/Pacific Rim, 1995 1997. Member, Steering Committee, CLEO/Pacific Rim, 1996-1999.
- Chair, International Advisory Committee, International Conference on the Optical Internet (COIN), 2003 -
- General Chair, International Conference on the Optical Internet (COIN), 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007
- Technical Chair, Asia-Pacific Optical Communications Conference (APOC), Shanghai, November 2005.
- Member, College of Experts, Canadian Research Chairs Committee, 2005 -