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| awards              = {{nowrap|[[University of Adelaide Divisional Scholarship]] (2009)}} <br> {{nowrap|[[Walter and Dorothy Duncan Trust Grant]] (2010)}} <br>{{nowrap|[[IEEE SA Chapter Travel Award]] (2010)}} <br> {{nowrap|[[IEEE SA Chapter Travel Award]] (2011)}} }}
  
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'''Mayank Kaushik''' was born in Gujarat, India in 1983. From 2001-2005, he was educated
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'''Derek Abbott''' was born in South Kensington, London UK in 1960. In 1977, he began work at the [[GEC Hirst Research Centre]], Wembley, UK, and graduated from [[Loughborough University]], UK, with a BSc (Hons) in Physics. At Hirst, he was a research engineer until 1986, working in CCD, SOS, CMOS, and vacuum microelectronic technologies. He also worked on solid-state imagine sensors in the optical and infrared regimes. He migrated to Australia in 1986, and worked at [[Austek Microsystems]] as an analog VLSI design engineer until 1987. In the 1987-1991 he was a visiting scholar at the University of Adelaide, and also consulted for a number of companies including [[Austek Microsystems]] and British Aerospace. In 1992, he took up a postition as a Lecturer at the University of Adelaide, with tutoring resposibibilites.
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at the NRI Institute of Information Science and Technology at Bhopal, India, where he
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obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering with
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honours. During his Bachelor Degree, he worked as a trainee at the Space Applications
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Centre (Ahmedabad), Indian Space Research Organisation, in the Microwave Remote
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Sensing Area (MRSA) and Microwave Sensors Data Acquisition and Processor
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Division (MSDAPD), on a project entitled ''Matlab Simulation of Digital Pulse Compression
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and its Implementation on Xilinx FPGA Device'' and successfully designed a Synthetic
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Aperture Radar range compression chip.
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In 2006, he came to Australia to pursue higher education and received his Master’s Degree
 
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in Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering (Adv.), from the University of
 
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Adelaide in December 2007. Soon after that he was appointed as a research assistant at
 
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the University of South Australia (and later at the University of Adelaide) to work on
 
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various audio signal processing related projects for the Defense Science and Technology
 
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Organisation (DSTO).
 
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In August 2009, he was granted the University of Adelaide Divisional Scholarship to study
 
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towards his PhD under the supervision of [[Brian W.-H. Ng]], [[Bernd M. Fischer]], and
 
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[[Derek Abbott]]. During his candidature, Kaushik was successful in publishing his research
 
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work in a number of high impact journals. He received two IEEE South Australia Section travel
 
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scholarship awards and the Walter & Dorothy Duncan Trust Grant to present his research work at the 35th
 
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and the 36th ''International Conference on Infrared Millimeter and Terahertz Waves'', held
 
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at Rome in 2010 and in Houston, TX, in 2011, respectively. In March 2012, he obtained
 
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a position at the  Defense Science and Technology Organisation, Edinburgh, as a radar
 
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research scientist.
 
  
 
==Bachelor's degree==
 
==Bachelor's degree==
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* Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering (2005), NRI Institute of Information Science and Technology at Bhopal, India
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* Physics (1982), [[Loughborough University]]
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* Project: ''Matlab Simulation of Digital Pulse Compression and its Implementation on Xilinx FPGA Device,'' under Nilesh M. Desai, Indian Space Research Organization
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* Project: ''Microprocessor control of a 4 Kelvin cryostat,'' under Mike A. Brown
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==Master's degree==
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* Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering (2007), [[University of Adelaide]]
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* Project: ''Radio Frequency Stabilization,'' under Christopher Coleman.
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==Doctoral degree==
 
==Doctoral degree==
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* Electrical & Electronic Engineering (2013), [[University of Adelaide]], Australia
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* Electrical & Electronic Engineering (1995), [[University of Adelaide]], Australia
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* Thesis: ''Characterizing and Mitigating Scattering Effects in Terahertz Time Domain Spectroscopy Measurements,'' under [[Brian W.-H. Ng]], [[Bernd M. Fischer]], [[Derek Abbott]].
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* Thesis: ''GaAs MESFET Photodetectors for Imaging Arrays,'' under [[Kamran Eshraghian]] and [[Bruce R. Davis]].
 
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==Postdoctoral positions==
 
==Postdoctoral positions==

Revision as of 00:43, 10 June 2013

Derek Abbott
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Person_Name: Derek Abbott
Birth_Date: 1960
Birth_Place: South Kensington, London, UK
Fields: complex systems, photonics, biomedicine, energy policy
Workplaces: GEC Hirst Research Centre
Austek Microsystems
University of Adelaide
Undergrad_University: Loughborough University
Undergrad_Degree: Physics (1982)
Project_Advisors: Mike A. Brown
Doctoral_University: University of Adelaide
Doctoral_Degree: Electrical & Electronic Engineering (1995)
Doctoral_Advisors: Kamran Eshraghian and Bruce R. Davis
Awards : University of Adelaide Divisional Scholarship (2009)
Walter and Dorothy Duncan Trust Grant (2010)
IEEE SA Chapter Travel Award (2010)
IEEE SA Chapter Travel Award (2011)


Derek Abbott was born in South Kensington, London UK in 1960. In 1977, he began work at the GEC Hirst Research Centre, Wembley, UK, and graduated from Loughborough University, UK, with a BSc (Hons) in Physics. At Hirst, he was a research engineer until 1986, working in CCD, SOS, CMOS, and vacuum microelectronic technologies. He also worked on solid-state imagine sensors in the optical and infrared regimes. He migrated to Australia in 1986, and worked at Austek Microsystems as an analog VLSI design engineer until 1987. In the 1987-1991 he was a visiting scholar at the University of Adelaide, and also consulted for a number of companies including Austek Microsystems and British Aerospace. In 1992, he took up a postition as a Lecturer at the University of Adelaide, with tutoring resposibibilites.


Bachelor's degree

  • Physics (1982), Loughborough University
  • Project: Microprocessor control of a 4 Kelvin cryostat, under Mike A. Brown

Doctoral degree

Positions

  • 2012 Radar research scientist, DSTO, Edinburgh, South Australia

Awards

Scientific genealogy

Google Scholar profile

Publications

See also

External links

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