MARIMUTHU PALANISWAMI

Palani received his ME from the Indian Institute of science, India, MEngSc from the University of Melbourne and Ph.D  from the University of Newcastle, Australia before rejoining the University of Melbourne.  He has been serving the University of Melbourne for over 16 years. He has published more than 180 refereed papers and a huge proportion of them appeared in prestigious IEEE  Journals and Conferences.  He was given a Foreign Specialist Award by the Ministry of Education, Japan in recognition of his contributions to the field of Machine Learning. His academic excellence is recognised by several invited presentations of plenary/keynote lectures and panel member for several top International Conferences. He was the associate editor of Journals/transactions including IEEE Transaction on neural Networks. His research interests include SVMs, Sensors and Sensor Networks, Machine Learning, Neural Network, Pattern Recognition, Signal Processing and Control He is the co-director of an active research centre, Centre of Expertise on Networked Decision & Sensor Systems, attracting grants from industry and defence agencies in Australia and USA.  He currently holds four large Australian Research Council Discovery and Linkage grants with a successful industry outreach programme.  He is now leading an Australian Research Network bid for the emerging area of Sensors and Sensor Networks to be administered by the University of Melbourne.  The network will have the participation of 40 world class researchers from various institutions including MIT, Cambridge, University of Melbourne, Louisiana State Univ.  One of the most important goals for this centre is to bring researchers from Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics to work on challenging problems with immediate benefit to society. He has successfully supervised 10 Ph.Ds and 13 M.Eng.Sc (Research).  He is currently supervising six  postgraduate students. He is also serving external boards as member and director.

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