A/Prof. Steve Weller
Personal
Bio sketch
I was born in Sydney, Australia, in 1965. I received the B.E. (Hons I) degree in Computer Engineering in 1988, the M.E. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1992, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1994, all from the University of Newcastle, Australia. From April 1994 to July 1997 I was a Lecturer in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and was a member of the Centre for Sensor Signal and Information Processing (CSSIP).
In July 1997 I joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Newcastle, Australia as a Senior Lecturer. Since January 2007 I have been an Associate Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Previously affiliated with the Centre for Integrated Dynamics and Control (CIDAC) and the Centre for Dynamic Systems and Control (CDSC), I am currently Associate Director of Signal Processing Microelectronics (SPM).
During 2004, I was on sabbatical leave at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and Agere Systems Australia in North Ryde (Sydney, Australia), where I worked in the area of application-specific integrated circuits for third-generation (3G) terminals. I was the General Chair of the 2004 Australian Communications Theory Workshop (AusCTW'04), and served on the Executive Board of the Australian Research Council (ARC) Communications Research Network (ACoRN) in 2004--2005. During 2006 I served as Chair, IEEE SA/ACT/Vic/NSW Information Theory Chapter. My primary research interests are in the area of low-density parity-check codes and iterative decoding algorithms, but I am also interested in space-time coded communications, OFDM, multi-user detection and combinatorics. I am a member of the IEEE, and the American Mathematical Society.
In January 2007 I was appointed Head of School, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.