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Iain Collings is a Professor in the School of Engineering, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, since 2014, where he has served terms as Head of Department and Deputy Dean of School. He received a PhD in systems engineering from the Australian National University in 1995. In between he spent nine years at the CSIRO, where he held a number of roles including Deputy Chief of Division, Research Program Leader, and Theme Leader, and nine years at the Universities of Melbourne and Sydney. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, and has published over 300 papers in the area of wireless communications. He has been awarded: * The Engineers Australia IREE Neville Thiele Award in 2009 * The IEEE CommSoc Stephen O. Rice Award in 2011 * While at CSIRO he was a memeber of a research team that was awarded the Chairman's Medal in 2012. * Best Paper prizes at international conferences including IEEE Globecom 2010 and the Asia Pacific Communications Conference 2023 He has made pioneering contributions in adaptive multiple user and multiple antenna wireless communication systems. These are key technologies in all outdoor mobile and indoor wireless systems. His work spans fundamental research, prototype development, postgraduate teaching, and consulting. His contributions were essential for the development of high spectrum efficiency (MIMO) wireless communication systems, and he has made several fundamental contributions to practical transmitter and receiver system design. In 2000 he co-founded the Australian Communications Theory Workshop (AusCTW), that has since been run 21 times over the past 24 years. He continues to lead the Steering Committee. He is a member of the Australian Academy of Science National Committee for Information and Communication Sciences (NCICS). He is a member of the General Assessor Panel of the Australian Research Council (ARC) National Intelligence and Security Discovery Research Grant (NISDRG) Program. He is an Associate Editor for the journal Sensors, and has served as an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. He publishes research and education videos on a YouTube channel that has more than 53,000 subscribers and has been viewed over 4.4M times. It is ranked in the top 6% of all Australian channels, and in the top 8% of all Education channels globally. He recently published an Engineering Education paper titled: "Online Delivery of Solutions-Based-Learning Focused Tools for Engineers with Global Impact" at the 33rd Australasian Association for Engineering Education (AAEE) Conference.

Research interests: Nanophotonics: light interacting with matter at the nanoscale. Structured light. Random lasers. Nanoparticles. Lasers for sensing, communications and biomedical applications.   Current projects: Optical free-space communications Optical sensing and spectroscopy Light propagation in water and turbid media Contact for information re PhD candidature.   Expertise: A focus on applications of optics tailored for the needs of end-users in medicine, dentistry, communications and environmental monitoring.    Postdoctoral and Research student supervision and co-supervision   5 Postdoctoral associates and 18 PhD graduates – of whom 14 are working in Australian or international photonics industry or universities: others are working in teaching, patent law or managerial roles. 11 Masters graduates - all are working in photonics or related industry or university positions 11 Honours (4th year) graduates – 8 are working in photonics or related industry, 2 are working in medicine, one is in patent law.   Education 1988, Ph.D., University of Sydney, Australia. 1985, Rotary International Foundation Fellowship, University of Rochester, NY.   Research Funding-External Competitive: Australian Research Council (~AU$47 million) Research Funding-Competitive & Internal to the University (~ $3 million)   Professional Societies 1984-present, American Physical Society. 1984-present, Optica. (Fellow from 2019) 1990-present, Australian Optical Society. 1995-present, SPIE (Fellow from 2018) 2021-present, Royal Society of NSW, (Fellow from 2021).  1996-2006, American Society for Lasers in Surgery and Medicine (Fellow from 2002-2006) 2007-2014, elected Councillor of the Australian Optical Society. 2008-2012, elected Vice President then President, of the Australian Optical Society. 2017- 2021, elected Honorary Treasurer, Science and Technology Australia. 2021-2024, Australian delegate to International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, and commission on Laser Science and Photonics. 2022-2024, elected Director at Large, Optica Board of Directors, (formerly OSA).    Macquarie University Administration  Head of Department, Physics and Astronomy (2013-2015), Elected member of Academic Senate (2017- 2022), Chair, Faculty Women in STEM committee (2016- 2019) Director, MQ Photonics Research Centre (2019- ) Research Director, Deputy Head, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences (2022- )  

Dr. Inaltekin is currently a Senior Lecturer at Macquarie University. He received his B.S. degree (High Honors) in electrical and electronics engineering from Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, and his M.S./Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Prior to joining Macquarie University, he held various researcher and faculty positions in Australia, Europe and United States. He is the recipient of highly competitive career integration grant from the European Research Council. To date, he managed funding budget around $1,000,000 as the lead CI. He is the author of more than 70 research papers. His research interests include fog computing, IoT technology, wireless communications, wireless networks, social networks, game theory, and information theory.

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Annabelle McIver trained as a mathematician at Cambridge and Oxford Universities. Her research uses mathematics to analyse security flaws in computer systems. Annabelle has had a number of international visiting positions and fellowships at institutions such as MIT (USA), Birmingham (UK),  LRI and INRIA (France), ETH Zurich, and was a Junior Research Fellow in Mathematics at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She is a member of the Programming Methodology technical working group of the International Federation of Information Processing. She was (co-) recipient of th 2014 Best Cybersecurity Research Paper awarded by the US National Security Agency. More about her research activities can be found at the Topete Research Group.