UC Electrical and Computer Engineering

Our department seminar this Friday is entitled "2D Gaussian for Visual and Wireless Representation" and will be presented by visiting student Mufan Liu. Mufan is a third-year PhD student at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His research focuses on multimedia processing, adaptive video streaming, and Gaussian Splatting. All welcome!

Don't miss this! Erskine Fellow Emeritus Professor Roy Smith will be presenting our department seminar this Friday, 2pm Link 309.

Congratulations to Dr Kate Wislang, who successfully defended her PhD thesis on 13th April (see image below). Kate’s thesis is entitled “Sol-gel Ga2O3 Thin Films: Synthesis, Characterisation, and Devices”.

Kate’s supervisors are Prof Martin W. Allen, Prof Roger Reeves, and Dr Rodrigo Martinez Gazoni. Her examiners were Professor Maria Luz Martinez Ricci, University of Buenos Aires, Institute of Materials, Environment and Energy Chemistry and Physics (INQUIMAE), and Associate Professor Natalie Plank, Victoria University of Wellington, School of Chemical and Physical Sciences. Dr Ciaran Moore was the oral examination Chair.

Kate will be moving to Adelaide soon to take up a postdoc position. We will miss her, and we wish her all the best for her career and future.

Our department seminar this week is entitled "The development of a microbiota sampling capsule robot", come along to Link 309 at 2pm tomorrow and check it out!

On today!! Come along to Link 309 at 2pm and hear Emeritus Prof Maan Alkaisi speak about his trip to Kruger National Park

We have our Department Seminar this Friday in Link 309 at 2pm presented by Master's student Luc Scholl from Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland. All welcome!

You are warmly invited to our first department seminar for 2026! It will be on Friday 30th Jan at 2pm in Link 309 lecture theatre.
Our guest speaker is Prof Yue-Ming Hsin, Distinguished Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering, National Central University (NCU), Taiwan and the topic of the seminar is "From GaN-on-Si epitaxy to MHz-class power conversion" All welcome!

Congratulations to Dr Ryan Adams, who successfully completed his PhD degree on 23 December 2025. Ryan’s thesis is entitled “Devices and Applications of Square SnO2 Nanotubes Grown by Mist Chemical Vapour Deposition” and his oral defense was held on 19 November 2025.
Ryan’s supervisors are Prof. Martin Ward Allen and Prof. Roger J. Reeves, pictured below left and right respectively. His examiners were Professor Pawel Kowalczyk, University of Lodz, Poland, and Dr Simon Granville, Robinson Research Institute, Victoria University of Wellington. Prof Volker Nock was the Oral Chair.
We wish Ryan all the best for his future and career!