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Kandeepan SithamparanathanSenior Research Staff Member |
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Kandeepan Sithamparanathan completed his undergraduate level of studies in Colombo in the field of communications and control systems engineering, and went on to complete his Master’s in Engineering majoring in Telecommunications, and PhD in Electrical Engineering thesis titled ‘Synchronization Techniques for Digital Modems’ at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) in 2000 and 2003, respectively. During his PhD he worked with the Cooperative Research Centre for Satellite Systems (CRC-SS) on Ka-band receiver design for the Fedsat microsatellite project in Australia. He also won the ‘Earth Station Satellite Fellow Award’ to conduct his research with the CRCSS and to test the satellite earth station at Ka-band for performance measurements. From, Feb-2004 to June 2004, he worked as a DSP Engineer with the CRCSS designing baseband algorithms on digital signal processors for advanced receiver designs.
Kandeepan joined Create-net in May 2008 as a Senior Researcher and he is currently working on the EUWB Cognitive Radio project. At Create-net he is involved in interference analysis and spectrum sensing techniques for UWB cognitive radio communication systems.
In 2004, he joined the National ICT Australia (NICTA) as a Researcher with the Wireless Signal Processing group in Canberra. At NICTA he worked on short range wireless receiver designing techniques and was the chief investigator for a team of researchers and engineers on a collaborative project with the Western Australian Telecommunications Research Institute (WATRI) in Perth. During this time, he worked on baseband designs for inner receivers mainly on synchronization, demodulation, equalization and detection, using DSP and FPGA for high speed baseband communications. He has also worked on underwater telemetry communication design, channel estimation and measurements for waterborne communications at 2.4GHz, and various testbed designs for high and low data rate applications at 400MHz, 900MHz and 2.4GHz. In 2007-2008, he worked on wireless Body Area Networks (BAN) for medical and sporting applications, in the process of designing medical-band wireless transceiver chips. He has also worked on body are channel measurements in 400MHz and 2.38GHz frequency bands.
Kandeepan is currently an adjunct academic with the Research School of Information Science and Engineering (RSISE) with the Department of Information Engineering (DIE) at the Australian National University (ANU). He has supervised several honors students and research scholars at ANU and currently supervising two PhD students in wireless communications. In the past, he has taught several undergraduate and post graduate courses, at UTS and ANU, in wireless technologies, mobile communications, communications theory, signal processing and electronics. He has also generated internal training documents for NOKIA on the evolution of 2G to 3G wireless networks and IPGPRS. Kandeepan has produced over 25 conference and journal publications, and has served as an organizing committee member for the AusWireless 2006/07 conference in Sydney and ICMICT 2007 conference in Oulu, and as a technical program committee member for various conferences. He has presented several invited talks in the areas of nonlinear signal processing, parameter tracking loops and body area networks namely at the Communication Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California, Korea University, Seoul, Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai and Delhi, the Panasonic research lab, Singapore, Macquarie University, Sydney and at several other places.
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