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, 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
- Al Homssi, B.,Hourani, A.,Krusevac, Z.,Rowe, W. (2021). Machine Learning Framework for Sensing and Modeling Interference in IoT Frequency Bands In: IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 8, 4461 - 4471
- Masoumi, S.,Baum, T.,Ebrahimi, A.,Rowe, W.,Ghorbani, K. (2021). Reflection Measurement of Fire over Microwave Band: A Promising Active Method for Forest Fire Detection In: IEEE Sensors Journal, 21, 2891 - 2898
- Robel, M.,Ahmed, A.,Baum, T.,Rowe, W. (2021). Microwave power penetration enhancement inside an inhomogeneous human head In: Scientific Reports, 11, 1 - 12
- 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
- Ahmed, A.,Robel, M.,Rowe, W. (2020). Metasurface-Enabled Antiparallel Dual-Beam Rectangular-Waveguide Antenna In: IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, 19, 641 - 645
- Robel, M.,Ahmed, A.,Rowe, W. (2020). Effect of A Superstrate on On-Head Matched Antennas for Biomedical Applications In: ELECTRONICS, 9, 1 - 11
- Robel, M.,Ahmed, A.,Baum, T.,Rowe, W. (2020). Compact coplanar waveguide fed wideband directional antenna for medical diagnosis In: Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 53, 1 - 14
- Mohamad Hashim, I.,Hourani, A.,Rowe, W. (2020). Machine Learning Performance for Radio Localization under Correlated Shadowing In: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ICSPCS 2020), Adelaide, South Australia, 14-16 December 2020
- Sun, S.,Li, Y.,Wang, X.,Rowe, W.,Moran, B. (2020). On parameter mismatch for hidden markov models applied to indoor localization In: Proceedings of 23rd International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION 2020), Online, 6 - 9 July 2020
Note: Supervision projects since 2004
20 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 2024)
- 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)