Welcomes and farewells

The last few weeks have seen a quite a lot of staff movement within the HPI group. We said farewell to the six summer scholars, who handed in their final reports Friday, 29-Jan. Farewell also to Dr. Jian (Andrew) Zhang - who has taken up a tenure track position at the CSIRO lab in Marsfield Sydney.

We welcome two new staff to the machine learning track of HPI: Mr. William Han, research programmer and Dr. Hanna Suominen, post-doctoral researcher, both join the algorithm development team.

Research assistant enrols as post-graduate student

Having worked as a research assistant with HPI since July 2009, Ms. Vasanta Chaganti has now enrolled at the Australian National University as a Research Masters post-graduate student, in Telecommunications. Ms. Chaganti is currently developing new time-variable models of radio channels for the human body.

Welcome: Dr. Tharaka Lamahewa

Dr. Lamahewa started work with the Human Performance Improvement group in Canberra. Tharaka joins us on secondment from the Australian National University, where he works as a postdoctoral fellow with the College of Engineering and Computer Science.

Dr. Lamahewa will be working on the wireless component of HPI, and brings with him substantial experience in information theory, wireless channel models and low-power sensor systems.

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