STAFF PROFILE
Associate Professor Wayne Rowe
Position:
Associate Professor
College / Portfolio:
STEM College
School / Department:
STEM|School of Engineering
Phone:
+61399253968
Email:
wayne.rowe@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
City Campus
Contact me about:
Research supervision
Areas of research and consulting expertise
- Microstrip antenna and array design
- Conformal and Embedded Antennas
- Antennas and Microwave Components for MMIC/Optical Integration
- Wireless Power Transfer (Provisional Patent application)
- Metamaterials – Microwave and millimetre-wave
- Electromagnetic Sensors for High-Voltage Transmission/Distribution Lines
Employment history
- 2007-Present, Senior Lecturer, Electrical and Computer Engineering, RMIT University
- 2004 – 2007, Lecturer, Electrical and Computer Engineering, RMIT University
- 2002 – 2004, Research Fellow, Electrical and Computer Engineering, RMIT University
- 1998 – 2002, Consultant/Tutor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, RMIT University
- 1998, Engineer, Ericsson Australia
- BEng (Communications) RMIT, 1998
- PhD RMIT, 2002
Industry collaboration and funding
- DMTC Project 2.3 - Multifunctional Composite Materials
- Novel Partial Discharge Detection Technique based on an Overhead Transmission Line Sensing Architecture, ARC Discovery Project
- Photonic Antenna project, BAE Systems, Australia, ARC Linkage Project
- Embedded Antenna in Polymeric Materials, CME Pty Ltd, Australia, ARC Linkage Project
- Behind-the-Ear Hearing Prosthesis, Cochlear Ltd, Australia
- Load Bearing Antenna, DSTO/JSF
- Millimetre-wave anechoic chamber infrastructure development, RMIT University
Affiliations/professional memberships
- IEEE Member, MTT and AP chapters
- Sun, S.,Li, Y.,Wang, X.,Moran, B.,Rowe, W. (2023). Exploiting Environmental Information Using HsMMs for Smartphone User Tracking In: IEEE Sensors Journal, 23, 4043 - 4051
- Afzal, W.,Ebrahimi, A.,Robel, M.,Rowe, W. (2023). Low-Profile Higher-Order Narrowband Bandpass Miniaturized-Element Frequency-Selective Surface In: IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 71, 3736 - 3740
- Khan, I.,Thompson, A.,Hourani, A.,Sithamparanathan, K.,Rowe, W. (2023). RSSI and Device Pose Fusion for Fingerprinting-Based Indoor Smartphone Localization Systems In: Future Internet, 15, 1 - 17
- Hasib, M.,Sithamparanathan, K.,Rowe, W.,Hourani, A. (2023). Direction-of-Arrival (DoA) Estimation Performance for Satellite Applications in a Multipath Environment with Rician Fading and Spatial Correlation In: Sensors, 23, 1 - 18
- Al Homssi, B.,Chan, C.,Wang, K.,Rowe, W.,Allen, B.,Moores, B.,Csurgai-Horvath, L.,Fontan, F.,Sithamparanathan, K.,Hourani, A. (2023). Deep Learning Forecasting and Statistical Modeling for Q/V-Band LEO Satellite Channels In: IEEE Transactions on Machine Learning in Communications and Networking, 1, 78 - 89
- Sun, S.,Li, S.,Li, Y.,Moran, B.,Rowe, W. (2022). Smartphone user tracking by incorporating user orientation using a double-layer HMM In: IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, , 1 - 12
- Hasib, M.,Kandeepan, S.,Rowe, W.,Hourani, A. (2022). Direction of Arrival (DoA) Estimation Performance in a Multipath Environment with Envelope Fading and Spatial Correlation In: 2022 13th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology Convergence (ICTC), Jeju Island, Republic of Korea, 19-21 October 2022
- Hasib, M.,Sithamparanathan, K.,Rowe, W.,Hourani, A. (2022). Fusion-Based Direction-of-Arrival (DoA) Estimation with Spatial Diversity in Multi-Cluster Systems In: Proceedings of the 7th IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Wireless and Mobile (APWiMob) 2022, Bandung, Indonesia, 09/12/2022-10/12/2022
- Khan, I.,Sun, S.,Rowe, W.,Thompson, A.,Hourani, A.,Sithamparanathan, K. (2022). Comparison of classifiers for use case detection using onboard smartphone sensors In: Proceedings of the 32nd International Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (ITNAC 2022), Wellington, New Zealand, 30/11/2022 - 02/12/2022
- Huang, D.,Hourani, A.,Sithamparanathan, K.,Rowe, W.,Bulot, L.,Thompson, A. (2021). Deep Learning Methods for Device Authentication Using RF Fingerprinting In: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ICSPCS 2021), Sydney, Australia, 13-15 December 2021
Note: Supervision projects since 2004
24 PhD Completions and 1 Masters by Research Completions8 PhD Current Supervisions
Antennas, Metamaterials, and Frequency Selective Surfaces (FSS) at Microwave, Millimetre-wave and THz frequencies.
Integration of antennas and RF devices with flexible, stretchable and composite materials using novel micro/nano-fabrication technologies. Electromagnetic sensing (strain, partial discharge, etc.).
- Sensor and data innovation for smart triaging for at-risk Australians (administered by Vlepis Solutions). Funded by: Cooperative Research Centres Projects (CRC-P) Grant from (2022 to 2025)
- Australian 3D Beam Measurement Platform from Radio Waves to Terahertz Waves (externally led by University of Technology Sydney). Funded by: ARC Linkage Infrastructure Equipment and Facilities (LIEF) Grant from (2022 to 2023)
- V-Band Radio Channel Prediction for Next Generation LEO Constellations. Funded by: SmartSat CRC from (2021 to 2022)
- Hybrid Terrestrial-Satellite Access System for IoT Applications. Funded by: SmartSat CRC from (2021 to 2021)
- Wireless systems for vehicular access, security and safety. Funded by: Automotive Engineering Graduate Program from (2019 to 2022)