Research grants & funding

Our outstanding track-record of Australian Research Council (ARC) grants is testament to the quality of our research.

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ARC grants are consistently awarded to our researchers for their work across electrical engineering and telecommunications, these national competitive grants fund a range of projects that contribute ground-breaking discoveries and technologies to our society.

We also regularly secure research funding from various state and federal government bodies, major private organisations and industry.

Grant outcomes 2019

  • Professor David Taubman 

    “Efficient multi-view video coding with cuboids and base anchored models” 

    $380,000 

    Professor Andrey Savkine

    “Control and state estimation in the next-generation interconnected systems”

    $380,000 

    Professor Jinhong Yuan; Dr Wing Kwan Ng

    “Millimetre wave communications for mobile broadband systems”

    $450,000 

    Professor Eliathamby Ambikairajah, Professor Julien Epps and Dr Vidhyasaharan Sethu; “Integrating biologically-inspired auditory models into deep learning” 

    $385,000
  • Dr Jarryd Pla                                                                                                              
    “Superconducting hybrid quantum technologies” 
    $405,000 
    Dr Lei Yang                                                                                                                   
    “Extremely-high-speed and reliable coding for next generation communications” 
    $398,000 
  • Dr Beena Ahmed, Prof Julien Epps, Dr Vidhya Sethu,                                                    
    Prof Eliathamby Ambikairajah  
    “AusKidTalk: an Australian children's speech corpus” 
    $600,000 

Grant outcomes 2018

  • Professor Victor Solo and Dr Syed Pasha                                                                      
    “Vector network system identification”  
    $353,000
    Professor Victor Solo and Professor Gregory Chirikjian                                                   
    “Modeling stochastic systems in Riemannian manifolds” 
    $363,000 
    Professor Zhao Yang (Joe) Dong; Dr Guo Chen (new Scientia Fellow)                            
    and Professor David Hill 
    “Power system security assessment given massive intermittent energy sources” 
    $403,000
    Professor Andrea Morello, Dr Jarryd Pla and Professor Klaus Moelmer                           
    “Observing the quantum chaotic trajectories of a single nucleus” 
    $387,000
    (In collaboration with RMIT) 
    Professor Donald Holmes; Professor John Fletcher;                                                        
    Associate Professor Brendan McGrath; Dr Lasantha Meegahapola 
    “Advanced inverter control for distributed energy systems” 
    $363,000

Grant outcomes 2017

  • Associate Professor Wei Zhang; Professor Lingyang Song; Dr Shaohui Sun 

    Project title: Efficient Signal Transmission Techniques for Large Scale Antenna Systems 

    Partner Organisations: Peking University, China; Datang Telecom Technology & Industry group 

    ARC Funding Awarded: $285,000 [2017-2020] 

    Associate Professor Julien Epps; Dr Vidhyasaharan Sethu, Dr Michael Chen, Dr Mark Larsen, Professor Helen Christensen;  

    Project title: Automatic Speech-based Assessment of Mental State via Mobile Device 

    Partner Organisations: Sonde Health, US; Black Dog Institute 

    ARC Funding Awarded: $303,000 [2017-2020 ] 

Grant outcomes 2016

  • Professor Andrew Dzurak; Adjunct Professor Mikko Mottonen;                                      
    Dr Alessandro Rossi; Dr Dimitrios Georgakopoulos; Dr Antti Kemppinen; 
    Dr Masaya Kataoka 
    $470,000 
    Professor Jinhong Yuan; Associate Professor Mark Reed; Professor Li Ping  $530,000
    Associate Professor Wei Zhang; Professor Xiang-Gen Xia    $360,000 
    Professor Nigel Lovell; Professor Francois Ladouceur;                                                  
    Dr Amr Al Abed (in collaboration with School of Biomedical Engineering) 
    $457,600 
  • Professor Branko Celler; Professor Andrey Savkin;                                                         
    Professor Siaw-Teng Liaw; Dr Karen Irvine; Mr Norm Good  
    $270,000 
    Professor Josep Pou; Professor Vassilios Agelidis; Dr Alireza Nami;                                
    Dr Frans Dijkhuizen; Dr Georgios Demetriades 
    $280,000 
    Associate Professor Wei Zhang; Professor Lingyang Song; Dr Shaohui Sun      $220,000  
    Professor Jinhong Yuan; Dr Wing Kwan Ng; Dr Xingqing Cheng; Mr Raja Pillai  $466,000 
  • Professor Andrew Dzurak; Professor David Jamieson; Professor David Reilly;                  
    Associate Professor Andrea Morello; Professor Michelle Simmons; 
    Professor Darren Bagnall; Professor Allen Barnett; Professor Lloyd Hollenberg  
    $700,000 
    Associate Professor Andrea Morello; Dr Arne Laucht; Professor Andrew Dzurak;              
    Dr Thomas Volz; Associate Professor Gabriel Molina Terriza 
    $370,000