My IEEE Biography
Anthony Zaknich (M'87-SM’00) was born in
Vela Luka, Croatia,
and immigrated to Australia
in the 1950’s. He received the B.E. (Electronics) and M.E.Sc. (Electronics)
degrees from the University of Western Australia (UWA) in 1974 and 1986 respectively;
the B.A. and B.Sc. (Psychology) degrees from Ambassador College, Pasadena,
California, USA, both in 1978; and the Ph.D. degree from UWA in 1996.
He is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering
Science at Murdoch University, Perth
Western Australia, and an Adjunct
Associate Professor with Centre for Intelligent Information Processing Systems
(CIIPS) at UWA. From 1990 to 1999 he held the position
of Technical Manager for Industry Projects working as a Research Fellow and
Lecturer at CIIPS in the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department,
UWA. His main work at CIIPS was involved with supervision, teaching, research and development related to signal processing and
artificial neural networks at the undergraduate, postgraduate and
professional-development levels. Previously, he was involved in the research
and development of underwater control and acoustic signalling systems in
private enterprise, and also in the establishment of a
public company, Nautronix Ltd, producing and marketing products in these areas
for the international market. He has supervised numerous Honours and ten
postgraduate research projects, including three Ph.D.’s.
He has also authored/co-authored more than 61 refereed papers in technical
journals and conference proceedings, has contributed five research book chapters,
and authored two books in his areas of interest since 1988. His special
research interest is related to the philosophy, theory and applications of
intelligent signal processing - statistical learning theory; support vector
machines; pattern recognition; artificial neural networks; adaptive systems; signal
and image processing; system and signal modelling and identification; time-frequency
filtering; time delay spectrometry; audio, Hi-Fi, and underwater acoustic
communications systems.
Dr Zaknich is a Member of the Audio Engineering
Society (AES). He served on the IEEE Western Australian Regional Interest Group
Committee on Neural Networks at various times since 1993. In 1998 he won the
1996-98, UWA Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department’s Outstanding Early Researcher Award,
which is given to the best researcher below Senior Lecturer level over any
three year period.
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