
Associate Professor Brian Ng
Associate Prof/Reader
School of Electrical and Electronic 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.
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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
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Journals
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Books
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Book Chapters
Year Citation 2014 Yin, X., Ng, B. W. -H., He, J., Zhang, Y., & Abbott, D. (2014). Unsupervised Segmentation of Blood Vessels from Colour Retinal Fundus Images. In Y. Zhang, G. Yao, J. He, L. Wang, N. Smalheiser, & X. Yin (Eds.), Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Health Information Science, HIS 2014 (Vol. 8423 LNCS, 1 ed., pp. 194-203). Switzerland: Springer.
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Conference Papers
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Conference Items
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)
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Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)
Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name 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 2018 Principal Supervisor Investigation of the Effects of Motion Errors in Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) on Soil Moisture Retrieval Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Rifat Afroz 2018 Co-Supervisor Terahertz Sensing Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mrs Jakeya Sultana 2016 Principal Supervisor Translational Motion Compensation Techniques for Radar Imaging of Non-Cooperative Target in Multi-Bistatic Scenarios Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Miss Emma Lucy Heading -
Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)
Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name 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 - 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 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 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 - 2010 Principal Supervisor Terahertz Spectroscopy and Modelling of Biotissue Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Gretel Png 2006 - 2013 Co-Supervisor Novel hardware for terahertz time-domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS) Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Benjamin Ung 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
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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
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