Wayne Rowe

Associate Professor Wayne Rowe

Associate Professor

Details

  • College: School of Engineering
  • Department: School of Engineering
  • Campus: City Campus Australia
  • wayne.rowe@rmit.edu.au

Open to

  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision

About

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

Academic positions

  • Senior Lecturer
  • RMIT University
  • Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Melbourne, Australia
  • 2007 – Present
  • Lecturer
  • RMIT University
  • Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Melbourne, Australia
  • 2004 – 2007
  • Research Fellow
  • RMIT University
  • Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Melbourne, Australia
  • 2002 – 2004
  • Consultant/Tutor
  • RMIT University
  • Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • Melbourne, Australia
  • 1998 – 2002
  • Engineer
  • Ericsson Australia
  • , Australia
  • 1998 – 1998

Supervisor projects

  • Development of Ultrasensitive Gas Sensors Based on Two-Dimensional MoS2 Nanohybrids
  • 2 Jul 2024
  • Flexible and Wearable Communications Devices Antennas and Circuits Utilising Novel Materials
  • 12 Mar 2024
  • Flexible and Wearable Communications Devices and Circuits
  • 13 Feb 2024
  • Flexible Lead-Free Piezoelectric Nanogenerators for Energy Harvesting and Sensing Applications
  • 20 Dec 2023
  • Integrated microwave sensors for chemicals and biologicals analysis
  • 30 Oct 2023
  • Signal Processing for Communications and Radars
  • 19 Jul 2023
  • Intelligent and Reconfigurable Satellite Communications
  • 3 Dec 2021
  • Optimal Networking Strategies for Multi-Access Edge Computing.
  • 30 Oct 2020
  • Photoacoustic Sensors with Composite-Layer-based Plasmon Waveguide Resonance
  • 31 Aug 2020
  • Wireless systems for vehicles
  • 29 May 2020
  • Liquid Metal Derived 2D Post-Transitional Metal (In, Sn, Bi) Compounds and Their Sensing Properties
  • 2 Mar 2020
  • Machine Learning Method for Radio Frequency Identification
  • 21 Feb 2020
  • Direction-of-Arrival (DoA) Estimation Performance in Next-Generation Wireless Systems (5G and Beyond)
  • 1 Oct 2019
  • Satellite-based Localization Methods for Internet-of-Things Applications: Modeling Approaches and Performance Evaluation
  • 13 Dec 2018
  • Evolved Antennas for Biomedical Implants
  • 31 Jul 2018
  • Highly Selective Miniaturised-Element Frequency Selective Surfaces with Tuning Capabilities
  • 2 Jul 2018
  • Performance Modeling and Enhancement for Next Generation Wireless IoT Networks
  • 1 Sep 2017
  • Electric Stress Control in High Voltage Insulators using Multi-layered Functionally Graded Materials
  • 4 Jul 2017
  • Localization Using Hidden Markov Models in a Multipath Environment
  • 24 Apr 2017
  • Beam Shaping Metasurfaces.
  • 8 Aug 2016
  • Microwave Antennas for Biomedical Application
  • 29 Feb 2016
  • Early Identification of Bushfires Using Radar to Detect Burning Plant Ionisation
  • 4 Mar 2013

Teaching interests

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.).

Research interests

Communications Technologies, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Engineering, Other Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering

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
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Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.