Postgraduate Students

This page provides a list of students who are studying or who have studied postgraduate degrees under my supervision. In most cases my students are jointly supervised and I think this works well for all concerned. If you are interested in finding out more about postgraduate study then please email me, or drop by my office. The first forty two visitors will win a set of steak knives.

Current Students

Felix Li received his bachelor degree in Information Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2004. During his undergraduate study he received two enterprise scholarships (Schneider Scholarship and Lenovo Scholarship). In 2005, he won a Melbourne International Research Scholarship and joined the department as a postgraduate student. He is now working on the distributed detection and estimation problems in wireless sensor networks. He is considering taking Japanese as his third language after working for SHARP and NEC. Felix loves LATEX but he doesn't like cats (he would rather have a pet python).

Jian Wang received the B.Eng. degree from Beijing Institute of Technology, China, in 2004. He received an MTE degree from the University of Melbourne in 2005 and is currently working towards a research Masters. His research interests include wireless communications and mobile networks, OFDM, and adaptive resource allocation. Jian loves soccer, although he is a better fan than player. His favourite team is AC Milan because it is an anagram of "ina calm".

Huan Deng graduated with a bachelor degree from TianJin University majoring in Control and Measurement Technology in 2005. He then moved to the University of Melbourne and received a postgraduate diploma in telecommunications. He started his research in July 2006 and is interested in information theory and error control coding. Huan believes that Melbourne is the thirty-seventh most livable city in the world.

Nasreen Badruddin graduated with first class honours from RMIT University in 2000, with a B.Eng. in Electronic Engineering. She later received her M.Sc. in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University, USA in 2002. She returned to Malaysia to serve as a lecturer at Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS for four years. Nasreen received a 2007 Endeavour Postgraduate Award from the Australian government, and started her PhD studies at the University of Melbourne in January 2007. Her research interests are in wireless communications and multimedia processing. Nasreen's world revolves mostly around food and her favourite thing in the world is durian.

Liang Chen completed a Masters degree at the University of Melbourne in 2006 in the area of multiuser OFDM systems. He is now studying towards a Ph.D. in the area of optical OFDM. He used to be a crazy basketball player, until he realised that he was never going to make it in the NBA. He is now just crazy.

Past Students

Alex Leong completed his Ph.D. at the University of Melbourne in 2008. His thesis looked at signal processing problems in wireless sensor networks. Alex is now working as a research fellow at the University of Melbourne. He believes that is is hard to be humble when you own a Border Collie.

Boon Ng completed his Ph.D. at the University of Melbourne in 2007. His thesis title was "Cellular Networks with Cooperating Base Stations: Performance Analysis and Distributed Algorithms." Like most Malaysians, footy and cricket were a complete mystery to to him when he arrived in Australia. It took him seven years to develop an appreciation for these fine sports, a feat that is considered to be one of his greatest achievements by many of his Malaysian peers. It should come as no surprise that his favourite cricketer is David Boon. He now works for NEC (Boon Ng that is, not David Boon).

Muhammad Naeem Bacha is from Rawalpindi in Pakistan, the home of the cricketer Shoaib Akhtar (who is known as the Rawalpindi Express). Naeem completed his Ph.D. at the University of Melbourne in 2007. His work concerned the design of wireless networks where transmitters and receivers are equipped with multiple antennas. Naeem thinks that Ricky Ponting is a better batsman than Sachin Tendulkar.

Vivian Chen graduated with a Ph.D. from the University of Melbourne in 2007. Her thesis title was "Signal Processing for Optical Performance Monitoring and Impairment Mitigation". Vivian won a 2006 Excellent Chinese Overseas Student Award however her greatest achievement was learning to say "G'day Mate" with a perfect Australian accent. Vivian does not like to eat Koalas. She is now an Assistant Professor at the Technical University of Eindhoven.

John Papandriopoulos completed his Ph.D. at the University of Melbourne in 2006. His thesis looked at resource optimization in multiuser communication networks. John is currently working for Adaptive Spectrum and Signal Alignment (ASSIA) in Silicon Valley. John's nickname is `JPap' which I reckon is derived from `Journal Papers'. His thesis was awarded the Chancellor's Prize for his Ph.D. Thesis.

Nam Nguyen completed a Masters degree at the University of Melbourne in 2003. His thesis examined the optimization of pilot assisted modulation schemes in Rayleigh fading channels. He is now a graduate student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This is rather unfortunate as Nam is allergic to corn.

Kegen Yu completed his Ph.D. at the University of Sydney in 2002. His thesis focused on synchronization and channel estimation for fast-fading CDMA channels. After graduating he was a research fellow in the Centre for Wireless Communications at the University of Oulu, Finland. He is now a Research Scientist at CSIRO ICT Centre in Sydney.

Louis Trichard completed his Ph.D. at the University of Sydney in 2001. His thesis looked at the design and analysis of multiuser receivers for CDMA systems. After graduating, he worked for about a year as a research fellow at Yokohama National University in Japan. Louis is now a patent attorney in London.