Dr Said Al-Sarawi
Associate Professor/Reader
School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering
College of Engineering and Information Technology
Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.
Said Al-Sarawi finished his PhD with special commendations in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Adelaide, 2003 and he was awarded the University Medal (formerly Culross) for outstanding academic merit at the postgraduate level, where only award a year for the whole University. In 2006 he finished his Graduate Certificate in Education (Higher Education) from the same University. Currently he is the director of Centre for Biomedical Engineering (CBME) and associate director of The Centre for High Performance Integrated Technologies and Systems (CHiPTec). After finishing his Grad Certificate he help establishing The Education and Research Group of Adelaide (ERGA) of which he is current an executive member, also he is Electrical and Electronic Engineering School’s convener of both the Learning and Teaching, and the Research Committees. Also, the school’s representative on the Faculty Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Sciences and part of The skills & development subcommittee for South Australia Technology Industry Association (TIA).
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Advanced integrated Circuits using Gallium Nitride technology
Project Supervisors: Dr Said Al-Sarawi (CBME, Uni of Adelaide), Dr Aaron Pereira, Prof Derek Abbott and Prof Neil Weste
Funding: N/A - Seeking collaboration
Recruiting Students: 2 PhD students are needed
Postdoc: Currently 0.5 FTE postdoc
Contact Persons: Dr Said Al-Sarawi
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Fall Detection and Prediction for Elderly People
Project Supervisors: Dr Said Al-Sarawi (CBME, Uni of Adelaide) and Dr Damith Ranasinghe (AutoID Lab, Uni of Adelaide).
Funding: Premier’s Research and Industry Fund (PRIF): Collaboration Pathways Program
Recruiting Students: 2 PhD students are needed (3 already on board)
Postdoc: Currently 0.5 FTE postdoc for 24 month to start in Nov 2014
Contact Persons: Dr Said Al-Sarawi or Dr Damith Ranasinghe.
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A novel NEMS-based Lab-On-Chip Sensor and SOC for Glucose Monitoring in Human Saliva
Project Supervisors: Dr Said Al-Sarawi (CBME, Uni of Adelaide), A/Prof Baker Mohammad (ECE, KUSTAR, UAE), Prof Mohammed Ismail (ECE, KUSTAR, UAE), Prof Derek Abbott (CBME, Uni of Adelaide) and Prof Kamal Alameh (ECE, ECU, WA)
Current Students: 2 PhD Student
Funding: Global Research Collaboration, US - Lead by A/Prof Hani Salah
Contact Person: Dr Said Al-Sarawi
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Memristor Modeling, Design, and Fabrication, for Memory, Logic and Neuromorphic Applications
Project Supervisors: Dr Said Al-Sarawi (CBME, Uni of Adelaide), A/Prof Baker Mohammad (ECE, KUSTAR, UAE), A/Prof Dirar Al Homouz (Physics, KUSTAR, UAE), A/Prof Nicolas Christoforou (BME, KUSTAR, UAE), Prof Mahmoud Al-Qutayri (ECE, KUSTAR, UAE), A/Prof Maguy Abi Jaouude (Chem, KUSTAR, UAE) and Prof Kamal Alameh (ECE, ECU, WA)
Current Students: 2 PhD Student
Funding: KUIRF L2 Funding- Lead by A/Prof Baker Mohammad
Contact Person: Dr Said Al-Sarawi
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Radio Frequency Controlled Microvalve for Biomedical Applications
Project Supervisors: Dr Said Al-Sarawi and Prof Derek Abbott (CBME, Uni of Adelaide)
Current Students: 2 PhD students
Funding: ARC Discovery - lapsed
Contact Person: Dr Said Al-Sarawi
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Wireless Controlled Passive Stent for Cardiovascular Disease
Project Supervisors: Dr Said Al-Sarawi (CBME, Uni of Adelaide)
Current Students: 1 PhD Student
Contact Person: Dr Said Al-Sarawi
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An Electronic Device for patients with Nyctalopia Disease
Project Supervisors: Dr Said Al-Sarawi (CBME, Uni of Adelaide) and Dr Danny Gibbins (EEE, Uni of Adelaide)
Current Students: 2 Masters students - minor thesis
Contact Person: Dr Said Al-Sarawi
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Memristive-based Circuits and Systems for Security and Memory Applications
Project Supervisors: Dr Said Al-Sarawi (CBME, Uni of Adelaide), Dr Damith Ranasinghe (AutoID Lab, Uni of Adelaide), Dr Omid Kavahei (RMIT University) and Prof Derek Abbott (CBME, Uni of Adelaide)
Current Students: 2 PhD Student
Funding: ARC Discovery - Lead by Dr Damith Ranasinghe
Contact Person: Dr Said Al-Sarawi
| Date | Position | Institution name |
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| 2001 - ongoing | Associate Professor/Reader | University of Adelaide |
| Language | Competency |
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| English | Can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review |
| Date | Institution name | Country | Title |
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| The University of Adelaide | Australia | PhD |
| Date | Title | Institution name | Country |
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| 2006 | Graduate Certificate in Education (HIgher Education) | University of Adelaide | Australia |
| Year | Citation |
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| 2018 | Mansouri, N., Al-Sarawi, S., Mazumdar, J., & Losic, D. (2018). Fabrication and Characterization of 3D Graphene-alginate Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering Applications. Poster session presented at the meeting of First Australian-Europe Graphene Workshop. |
| 2010 | Willison, J., Al-Sarawi, S., Ng, B., Karanicolas, S., Snelling, C., & Hazel, S. (2010). Research skill development and assessment across entire undergraduate degrees. Poster session presented at the meeting of The Education Research Group of Adelaid. Adelaide, Australia: The University of Adelaide. |
| Date | Role | Research Topic | Program | Degree Type | Student Load | Student Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Principal Supervisor | Investigation of future wide bandgap semiconductor materials for integrated circuit applications | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Mr Michael Palmer |
| 2024 | Principal Supervisor | Enhancing Hip Migration Detection: A Machine Learning Approach for Improved Accuracy and Clinician-Friendly Interface | Master of Philosophy | Master | Full Time | Miss Nujhat Khan |
| 2023 | Co-Supervisor | Regenerative medicine for gynaecological scarring: efficacy of combination treatment of fractional CO2 laser and platelet-rich plasma treatment. | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Part Time | Ms Nadia Willison |
| 2023 | Co-Supervisor | One-step procedure to engineer tissue growth using platelet-rich plasma (PRP) | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Part Time | Mr Tran Tuyet Thi Nguyen |
| 2022 | Principal Supervisor | Graphene Based Scaffold for Neural Tissue Engineering (NTE) and Biomedical Engineering Applications | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Mr Mohammad Alsenaide |
| 2021 | Co-Supervisor | Solar panel structural optimization for maximum PV power conversion efficiency | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Part Time | Mr Wing Kong Ng |
| Date | Role | Research Topic | Program | Degree Type | Student Load | Student Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 - 2024 | Co-Supervisor | Towards Securing Quantized Deep Learning | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Ms Hua Ma |
| 2018 - 2022 | Principal Supervisor | Analysis, Modelling, Design, and Control of DC-DC Converter for Renewable Power Generation Systems | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Mr Mohammad Parvez |
| 2017 - 2021 | Principal Supervisor | A Study of 3D Graphene-based Scaffolds for Advanced Neural Engineering | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Ms Negar Mansouri |
| 2015 - 2019 | Principal Supervisor | UHF Energy Harvesting and Power Management | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Part Time | Mr Menghan Sun |
| 2015 - 2018 | Co-Supervisor | Multilevel Monte Carlo Approach for Estimating Reliability of Electric Distribution Systems | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Mr A. S. Nazmul Huda |
| 2015 - 2017 | Principal Supervisor | Analytical Modeling of Electric-based Microgenerators under Sinusoidal Vibrations | Master of Philosophy | Master | Full Time | Mr Cuong Cao Nguyen |
| 2015 - 2021 | Co-Supervisor | Power System Modelling and Simulation using Collocation Methods | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Part Time | Mr Hang Yin |
| 2015 - 2018 | Co-Supervisor | Probabilistic Hosting Capacity and Risk Analysis for Distribution Networks | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Hassan Al-Saadi |
| 2015 - 2019 | Co-Supervisor | Numerically robust load flow techniques in power system planning | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Mr Alberto Jose Sarnari |
| 2013 - 2017 | Principal Supervisor | Efficient Solid State Power Amplifiers: Power Combining and Highly Accurate AM/AM and AM/PM Behavioural Models with Application to Linearisation | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Part Time | Mr Paul Owen Fisher |
| 2013 - 2017 | Principal Supervisor | Physical Unclonable Functions Based on Silicon and Nano Elements: Designs, Analyses and Applications | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Mr Yansong Gao |
| 2012 - 2016 | Principal Supervisor | Metamaterial-Inspired Structures for Microwave and Terahertz Applications | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Mr Amir Ebrahimi |
| 2012 - 2016 | Co-Supervisor | Uniform-Electric-Field-Approximation Based Modelling of Longitudinal Piezoelectric Transducers | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Mr Yangkun Zhang |
| 2011 - 2020 | Co-Supervisor | Electrical Switching in a Diakoptics Based Tram Traction Simulation Tool and its Implementation in a Scada Environment | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Part Time | Mr Md. Abul Hasnat |
| 2010 - 2014 | Principal Supervisor | Neuromorphic VLSI Designs for Spike Timing and Rate-based Synaptic Plasticity with Application in Pattern Classification | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Mr Mostafa Rahimiazghadi |
| 2010 - 2014 | Co-Supervisor | Dynamic Phasor Estimation in Electrical Power Systems Based on IEC61850 Process-Bus | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Mr Ahmed M S Abdolkhalig |
| 2010 - 2015 | Co-Supervisor | Induction Motor Parameters Estimation and Faults Diagnosis using Optimisation Algorithms | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Miss Fang Duan |
| 2009 - 2011 | Co-Supervisor | Practical Issues of Using Negative Impedance Circuits as an Antenna Matching Element | Master of Engineering Science | Master | Part Time | Mr Danny Wong |
| 2009 - 2010 | Co-Supervisor | Diagnostics of Rotor and Stator Problems in Industrial Induction Motors | Master of Engineering Science | Master | Full Time | Miss Fang Duan |
| 2009 - 2014 | Co-Supervisor | Metamaterial-Inspired Structures and Their Applications in Microwave, Millimeter-wave and Terahertz Planar Circuits | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Mr Ali Karami Horestani |
| 2009 - 2015 | Co-Supervisor | Generic Substation Event Monitoring Based on IEC 61850 and IEEE 1588 Standards | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Part Time | Mr Yang Liu |
| 2008 - 2014 | Principal Supervisor | A Recoil Resilient Luminal Support | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Mr Arash Mehdizadeh |
| 2008 - 2010 | Principal Supervisor | Performance Estimation of Oversampled Bio-Inspired Velocity Estimator Based on Reichardt Correlator | Master of Engineering Science | Master | Full Time | Mr Bin Guo |
| 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 - 2012 | Principal Supervisor | Memristive Devices and Circuits for Computing, Memory, and Neuromorphic Applications | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Mr Omid Kavehei |
| 2007 - 2008 | Co-Supervisor | Investigation and Development of a Real-Time On-Site Condition Monitoring System for Induction Motors | Master of Engineering Science | Master | Full Time | Mr Syaiful Bakhri |
| 2007 - 2013 | Co-Supervisor | Reference Spurs in an Integer-N Phase-Locked Loop: Analysis, Modelling and Design | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Mrs Noorfazila Kamal |
| 2006 - 2010 | Principal Supervisor | A SAW Correlator Driven, Wireless, Passive Microvalve for Biomedical Applications | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Mr Ajay Tikka |
| 2006 - 2010 | Principal Supervisor | Modelling and Analysis of Wirelessly Interrogated SAW Based Micropumps for Drug Delivery Applications | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Dr Don Dissanayake |
| 2005 - 2011 | Co-Supervisor | Arithmetic Data Value Speculation | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Mr Daniel Kelly |
| 2002 - 2004 | Principal Supervisor | Low-Power Low-Phase Noise LC Oscillators in Silicon-on-Sapphire CMOS Technology | Master of Engineering Science | Master | Full Time | Mr Wan Kong |
| 2001 - 2008 | Principal Supervisor | Design of a Direct Downconversion Receiver for IEEE802.11a WLAN | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Dr Yingbo Zhu |