- B.E.(Hons), Electrical Engineering, The University of Western Australia, 1982.
- Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, The University of Western Australia, 1991.
- Fellow, The Insitution of Engineering and Technology (FIET)
- Chartered Engineer (CEng), U.K.
- Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (SMIEEE)
- Fellow, The Institution of Engineers Australia (FIEAust)
- Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng), Australia
- Feb. 2016 - present
Professor, Department of Information Technology and Software Engineering,
School of Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand.
- Jan. 2011 - Feb. 2016
Associate Professor, School of Engineering and Advanced Technology, Massey University, Albany, New Zealand.
- Jun. 2006 - Dec. 2010
Senior Lecturer, School of Engineering and Advanced Technology, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand.
- Dec. 1999 - Jun 2006
Associate Professor, School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
- Jan. 1996 - Jan 1998
Lecturer, Department of Computer Engineering, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia.
- Jan. 1995 - Dec 1995
Research Fellow, Australian Telecommunications Research Institute, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia.
- Aug. 1990 - Dec. 1994
Lecturer, Department of Information Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
- Feb. 1985 - Dec. 1989
Tutor, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia.
- Feb. 1998 - Nov. 1999
Independent Consultant.
Areas of consultancy: technical training in digital signal processing, optimization and scheduling software development, project management, and embedded system development.
- Mar. 1982 - June 1983
Product Engineer, National Semiconductor (HK) Limited, Hong Kong.
- Best Lecturer in Engineering Award, Engineering Student Society, Edith Cowan University, 1998.
- Exchange Studentship, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) Corporation, 1985.
- Commonwealth Postgraduate Scholarship 1984.
- 2010
Filterbanks for Cognitive Radios (Massey University Research Fund, Amount: NZ$6580).
- 2008-2011
Design Methodology for Reconfigurable Low Power Secure Software Defined Radio Handset (Academic Research Fund Tier 2. Amount: S$769,000).
- 2008
Mass Spectrogram Peak Detection (Massey University Research Fund. Amount: NZ$6130).
- 2005-2008
Low Power Reconfigurable Receiver Architectures for Migrating Software Defined Radio Technology from Basestation to Mobile Handsets (University Research Fund, NTU, Singapore. Amount: S$64,500).
- 2004-2006
Robust Speech Codecs for Wireless Communication (Defense Science and Technology Agency, Singapore.
Amount: S$42,000).
- 2002-2005
Scheduling for High-mix Low-volume Flexible Manufacturing (CEI Contract Manufacturing Pte. Ltd., Singapore.
Amount: S$28,000).
- 2004-2005
Ubiquitous Mobile Asynchronous Systems Using Ultra-Wideband Radio Technology (A*STAR, Singapore.
Amount: S$45,000).
- 2001-2004
Embedded Biometric System for Security Access. (AcRF, Singapore. Amount: S$74,000).
- 2002-2004
Power Efficient WB-AMR Codec for Mobile Phones (STMicroelectronics Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd., Singapore.
Amount: S$19,000).
- 1996-1997
Advanced Modern Telecommunication Networks Design and Planning (Edith Cowan University, Western Australia. Amount: A$4500).
- 1992-1994
An Integrated Expert System/Simulation Approach to Telecommunication Network Planning (Croucher Foundation, Hong Kong. Amount: HK$662,242).
- 1992-1994
Analog VLSI Implementation of a Hopfield Neural Network for Adaptive Noise Cancellation (Earmarked Grant for Research, Hong Kong. Amount: HK$110,000).
- 1991-1994
Intelligent Software Tools for Telecommunication Network Management (Research Grant Council, Hong Kong CUHK
71/91. Amount: HK$640,000).
- 1990-1992
Speech Coding for Fast Packet Switching Networks (Ho Yin Research Grant, Chinese University of Hong Kong. Amount: HK$47,000).
- 1989-1990
Application of Artificial Neural Networks to Automatic Speech Recognition (Australian Research Council. Amount: A$28,000).