Professor Derek Abbott
Position | Professor |
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Org Unit | Electrical and Electronic Engineering |
derek.abbott@adelaide.edu.au | |
Telephone | 831 35748 |
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3
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Ingkarni Wardli
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North Terrace
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Biography/ Background
- Main Hompage: https//researchers.adelaide.edu.au/profile/derek.abbott
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Qualifications
- 1982 BSc (Hons) in Physics, Loughborough ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Technology (LUT), UK
- 1995 PhD in Electrical & Electronic Engineering, ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide. Thesis: MESFET Photodetectors for Imaging Arrays, under Kamran Eshraghian and Bruce R. Davis
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Teaching Interests
Current teaching activity
- Supervision of PhD students
- Communications IV
- Optical Communications Engineering
Other teaching activity
- 1998 Stephen Cole the Elder Prize
- 2002 PGSA Supervisor of the Year Award
- 2004 Member of DVCE’s working party on Recognition of Quality in Teaching
- 2005 Member of SPIE (USA) International Scholarship Committee
- 2013 Award for Excellence for Higher Degree by Research Supervision
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Research Interests
Areas
- Biomedical and bioinspired engineering
- Optical/Infrared/mm-Wave/T-ray vision systems and sensors
- Novel analog VLSI circuits
- Game theory and information theory
- Complex systems and quantum systems
- Stochastic phenomena
- Computational neuroscience
- Forensic engineering
- Forensic genealogy
Honours
- 1977 General Electric Company (GEC) Bursary, UK
- 1998 Stephen Cole the Elder Prize
- 2002 PGSA Supervisor of the Year Award
- 2003 SPIE Scholarship Award for Optical Science and Engineering, USA
- 2004 Tall Poppy Award for Science, ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥
- 2004 SA Great Award for Science & Technology, ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥
- 2012 ARC Future Fellow (Level 3)
- 2013 Award for Excellence for Higher Degree by Research Supervision
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Publications
Books
- Mark D. McDonnell, Nigel G. Stocks, Charles E. M. Pearce, and Derek Abbott, Stochastic Resonance, Cambridge ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ Press, 2008, ISBN 9780521882620.
- Derek Abbott, Paul C. W. Davies, and Arun K. Pati (Eds.), with Foreword by Sir Roger Penrose, Quantum Aspects of Life, Imperial College Press, 2008, ISBN 9781848162532.
- Xiaoxia Yin, Brian W.-H. Ng, and Derek Abbott, Terahertz Imaging for Biomedical Applications, Springer-Verlag, 2012, ISBN 1461418208
Selected journal publications
- G. P. Harmer and D. Abbott, "Losing strategies can win by Parrondo's paradox," Nature (London), Vol. 402, No. 6764, p. 864, 1999.
- J. M. R. Parrondo, G. P. Harmer and D. Abbott, "New paradoxical games based on Brownian ratchets," Physical Review Letters, Vol. 85, No. 24, pp. 5226-5229, 2000.
- M. D. McDonnell, N. G. Stocks, and D. Abbott, "Optimal stimulus and noise distributions for information transmission via suprathreshold stochastic resonance," Phys. Rev. E, Vol. 75, No. 6, Art. No. 061105, 2007.
- I. Jones, L. Ricciardi, L. Hall, H. Hansen, V. Varadan, C. Bertram, S. Maddocks, S. Enderling, D. Saint, S. Al-Sarawi, and D. Abbott, "Wireless RF communication in biomedical applications," Smart Materials and Structures, Vol. 17, Art. No. 015050, 2008.
- W. Withayachumnankul, B. M. Fischer, and D. Abbott, "Material thickness optimization for transmission-mode terahertz time-domain spectroscopy," Optics Express, Vol. 16, No. 10, pp. 7382-7396, 2008.
- A. P. Flitney and D. Abbott, "Quantum version of the Monty Hall problem," Physical Review A, Vol. 65, Art. No. 062318, 2002.
- G. P. Harmer, B. R. Davis, and D. Abbott, "A review of stochastic resonance: circuits and measurement," IEEE Trans. Instrum. & Meas., Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 299-309, Apr. 2002.
- M. Baumert, N. Wessel, A. Schirdewan, A. Voss, and D. Abbott, "Scaling characteristics of heart rate time series before the onset of ventricular tachycardia," Annals of Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 35, No. 2, pp. 201-207, 2007.
- D. Abbott, P. C. W. Davies, and C. R. Shalizi, "Order from disorder: the role of noise in creative processes," Fluctuation and Noise Letters, Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. C1-C12, 2002.
- D. Abbott and X. C. Zhang, "T-ray imaging, sensing, and retection," Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 95, No. 8, pp. 1509-1513, 2007.
- L. T. Hall, H. J. Hansen, B. R. Davis, and D. Abbott, "Performance analysis of a series transformer for complex impedance matching," Microwave & Optical Technology Lett., Vol. 45, No. 6, pp. 491-494, 2005.
- W. Withayachumnankul, B. M. Fischer, and D. Abbott, "Uncertainty in terahertz time-domain spectroscopy measurement," JOSB, Vol. 25, No. 6, pp. 1059-1072, 2008.
- Y. Lee, A. Allison, D. Abbott, and H. E. Stanley, "Minimal Brownian ratchet: an exactly solvable model," Physical Review Letters, Vol. 91, No. 22, 220601, 2003.
- A. P. Flitney, D. Abbott, and N. F. Johnson, "Quantum walks with history dependence," J. Phys. A: Math. Gen., Vol. 37, pp. 7581-7591, 2004.
- P. Amengual, A. Allison, R. Toral, and D. Abbott, "Discrete-time ratchets, the Fokker-Planck equation and Parrondo's paradox," Proc. Royal Society London A, Vol. 460, pp. 2269–2284, 2004.
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Professional Associations
- Fellow of the Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers (IEEE), USA
- Fellow of the Institute of Physics (IOP), UK
- Fellow of Engineers ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥
- Fellow of the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥n Institute of Physics (AIP)
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Media Expertise
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