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Employment

• Professor, Colorado State University (CSU), 2001 - present.
• Adjunct Professor, Purdue University (PU), 2001 - present.
• Associate Professor, Purdue University (PU), 1997 - 2001.
• Assistant Professor, Purdue University (PU), 1991 - 1997.\

Teaching Interests

• Communication principles
• Random variables & stochastic processes
• Optimization methods for control & communication
• Nonlinear programming
• Engineering risk analysis

Research Interests

• Control, optimization, modeling, communication networks and wireless systems.

Publications & Presentations

• Authored and co-authored 3 books and more than 8 book chapters and several book reviews.
• Coauthored with S.H. Zak this best-selling book, An Introduction To Optimization. 3rd Edition, Wiley-Interscience, 2008.
• Published more than 70 international refereed journal papers, more than a dozen media citations and written 152 working papers for conference proceedings
• Presented more than 200 presentations at conferences, seminars & corporate bodies.

Awards & Honours

• George T. Abell Outstanding Faculty Research Award, 2008.
• Professional of the Year in Education/Computer Engineering Award, 2007.
• Professional of the Year in Electrical Engineering Award, 2007.
• Professional of the Year in Electrical Engineering Award, 2006.
• IEEE Control Systems Society Distinguished Lecturer Award, 2001-1003.
• Purdue University Faculty Scholar Award, 1999.
• ASEE Frederick Emmons Terman Award,1998.
• National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, 1995.
• IEEE Section Recognition Award, 1994.
• Outstanding IEEE Branch Counselor & Advisor Award, 1993.
• Purdue Student Government Leadership Award, 1993.
• South Australian Chamber of Commerce & Industry-Electrical & Electronic Engineering Awards, 1987.
  

Funded Research Projects

• Received over 40 research grants that total more than US$6M dollars from government and industry.
• Undertaken 40 research projects that total more than US$6M dollars.

Professional Membership

• Fellow of IEEE, 2004 - present.

Professional Activities

• Strathmore Who's Who Roundtable (elite group of 50 professionals) in 2008.
• Member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Control Systems Society, 2006 - 2008.
• Full Member of Sigma Xi (the Scientific Research Society), 2002 to present.
• He was a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at Princeton University in 1991.
• Research Assistant at Princeton University, 1988 to 1991.
• Research Assistant at the University of Adelaide, 1986 to 1987.
• An editor of Journal Computer Networks as well as the Journal of Control Science & Engineering.
• Senior Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.
• Conference Editorial Board of the IEEE Control Systems Society, 1994 - 1995.
• Associate Editor at Large of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2009.
• Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 1994 -1997.
• Founding chairman of the IEEE Technical Committee on Discrete Event Systems, 1999.
• Programme & Organizing Committees of more than 50 conferences and symposiums.

Others

• Consultant to Numerica Corporation, Loveland, Co, 2004 - present.
• Consultant to the John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, 2003 - present.
• Consultant to Essential Software Solutions, Denver, CO, 2003.
• Consultant to Caterpillar, Inc., Ungaretti & Harris, Barners & Thornburg, and Howrey & Simon, 1996 - 1998.
• Consultant to Bells Lab, Lucent Techologies, Holmdel, NJ in 1998.
• Supervised 22 Ph.D. students in PU and CSU.
• Supervised 7 M.S. students in PU and CSU.
• Conducted 58 invited lectures in over 50 universities in 7 countries.