Brian Ng

Associate Professor Brian Ng

Associate Prof/Reader

School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering

Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.


Brian Ng has active interests in digital signal processing and its numerous applications. His areas of expertise include: wavelets and multi-rate systems, pattern recognition, radar imaging and terahertz time domain spectroscopy.

  • Appointments

    Date Position Institution name
    2020 - ongoing Associate Professor University of Adelaide
    2012 - 2015 Associate Dean (International) University of Adelaide
    2011 - 2019 Senior Lecturer University of Adelaide
    2002 - 2010 Lecturer University of Adelaide
  • Language Competencies

    Language Competency
    Chinese (Cantonese) Can read, write, speak and understand spoken
  • Education

    Date Institution name Country Title
    University of Adelaide Australia PhD
    University of Adelaide Australia B. E. (E&E) (First class Honours)
    University of Adelaide Australia B. Sc. (Ma. & Comp. Sc.)
  • Research Interests

Space Analytics Engine for On-Board Machine Learning and Multimodal Data Fusion (co-investigator)

SmartSat CRC Project 2021-22

$500,000

3D ISAR classification research

DST Group Project Agreement 2021-22

$186,186

Multistatic Passive Radar

DST Group Project Agreement 2021 $1,000

Towards In-situ Terahertz Sensing of Adhesives in Aged Assemblies

DST Group Project Agreement 2020-22

$209,510

Improved 3D ISAR Techniques DST Group Project Agreement 2019-21 $376,749
Maritime Target Detection using Sparse Signal Separation DST Group Project Agreement 2019-22 $68,858
Optimal Target Detection for Marine Radars Using Waveform Diversity (co-investigator) Defence Innovation Partnership 2019-20 $150,000
Target Detection in Sea Clutter DST Group Project Agreement 2018-19 $21,043
Next Generation Solutions for Passive Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar (ISAR) and Improved Situational Awareness (co-investigator) Defence Innovation Partnership 2018-19 $149,450
Progress in Radar Research DST Group Collaborative Project Agreement 2016-19 $72,295

Beyond the diffraction limit: sub-difraction T-ray biochip sensing using planar metamaterials (co-investigator)

ARC Discovery 2014-16

$405,000

Investigation of Self and Peer Assessment for Honours Research Projects Using MyUni (co-investigator)

University E-Learning Development Grant 2012

$12,400

 

Courses taught:

  • Signal Processing Applications (2022-present)
  • Digital Signal Processing (2017-present)
  • Radar Principles (2017-present)
  • Signal Processing/Principles of Signal Processing (2010-present)
  • Electronic Circuit (2019)
  • Business Management Systems (course coordinator, 2016, 2018-2019)
  • Engineering Communication & Critical Thinking (course coordinator, semester 2, 2016, 2018)
  • RF Engineering/Principles of RF Engineering (2014-2015)
  • Signals and Systems (2008-2013)
  • Electronics (2012)
  • Circuit Analysis (2011)
  • Signal Processing IV (2006-2009)
  • Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

    Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
    2023 Principal Supervisor Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar-based Surface and Underwater Object Detection and Classification Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Elliot Jes Hansen
    2021 Principal Supervisor A cognitive approach to interference and collision avoidance for HF calling systems Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Mr Paul James Hirschausen
  • Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

    Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
    2018 - 2023 Principal Supervisor Motion Error Compensation in Airborne Stripmap Synthetic Aperture Radar Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Rifat Afroz
    2018 - 2022 Co-Supervisor Terahertz Hollow Core Antiresonant Fibre Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mrs Jakeya Sultana
    2017 - 2021 Co-Supervisor Design and Analysis of Advanced Photonic Devices for Electromagnetic Transmission and Sensing Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Md. Saiful Islam
    2015 - 2018 Principal Supervisor Maritime Radar Target Detection Using Time Frequency Analysis Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Vichet Duk
    2013 - 2017 Co-Supervisor Tri-Orthogonal Polarisation Diverse Communications Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Nicholas Paul Lawrence
    2013 - 2018 Co-Supervisor Long-Term Memory for Cognitive Architectures: A Hardware Approach Using Resistive Devices Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Peng Wang
    2012 - 2018 Principal Supervisor Effects of the Troposphere upon Radio Communications and Implications for Weather Measurement Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Nathan John Anderson
    2012 - 2017 Principal Supervisor Underdetermined DOA Estimation of Deterministic Signals using High Order Statistics and Noncircularity Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Yuexian Wang
    2011 - 2017 Principal Supervisor Large Scale Antenna Array for GPS Bistatic Radar Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Chow Yii Pui
    2010 - 2014 Co-Supervisor Techniques for Quality of Service Improvement in Internetworks Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Jianghe Zhou
    2009 - 2013 Principal Supervisor Characterizing and Mitigating Scattering Effects in Terahertz Time Domain Spectroscopy Measurements Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Mayank Kaushik
    2009 - 2015 Principal Supervisor An Investigation of Automatic Feature Extraction for Clustered Microcalcifications on Digital Mammograms Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Aqilah Baseri Huddin
    2009 - 2015 Co-Supervisor Bio-Inspired Vision Model Implementation In Compressed Surveillance Videos Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Saman Poursoltan
    2009 - 2014 Principal Supervisor Design of bi-orthogonal rational Discrete Wavelet Transform and the associated applications Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Si Tran Nguyen Nguyen
    2008 - 2013 Co-Supervisor Detailed Investigation of Negative Sequence Current Compensation Technique for Stator Shorted Turn Fault Detection of Induction Motors Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Syaiful Bakhri
    2008 - 2010 Co-Supervisor Performance Estimation of Oversampled Bio-Inspired Velocity Estimator Based on Reichardt Correlator Master of Engineering Science Master Full Time Mr Bin Guo
    2007 - 2009 Co-Supervisor Signal Processing for a Brain Computer Interface Master of Engineering Science Master Full Time Mr Ruiting Yang
    2006 - 2013 Co-Supervisor Novel hardware for terahertz time-domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS) Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Benjamin Ung
    2006 - 2010 Principal Supervisor Terahertz Spectroscopy and Modelling of Biotissue Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Gretel Png
    2005 - 2009 Co-Supervisor Pattern Recognition and Tomographic Reconstruction with Terahertz Signals for Applications in Biomedical Engineering Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Xiaoxia Yin
    2004 - 2008 Principal Supervisor Collaborative Information Processing Techniques for Target Tracking in Wireless Sensor Networks Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Mr Hui Ma
    2003 - 2006 Co-Supervisor Testing Digital Receiver Performance Through an HF Environment Simulator Master of Engineering Science Master Part Time Mr Wayne Phillip Pennington
  • Board Memberships

    Date Role Board name Institution name Country
    2022 - ongoing Board Member Eynesbury College Academic Board Eynesbury College Australia
    2014 - ongoing Board Member Higher Education Academic Board TAFE SA Australia
  • Offices Held

    Date Office Name Institution Country
    2022 - ongoing Secretary IEEE South Australia Section Australia
    2020 - 2021 Treasurer IEEE South Australia Section Australia
    2017 - ongoing Chair IEEE SA Communications & Signal Processing Chapter Australia
    2015 - ongoing Treasurer IEEE SA Communications & Signal Processing Chapter -
  • Position: Associate Prof/Reader
  • Phone: 83135054
  • Email: brian.ng@adelaide.edu.au
  • Fax: 83134360
  • Campus: North Terrace
  • Building: Ingkarni Wardli, floor 3
  • Org Unit: Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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