Rob Evans is a Laureate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at The University of Melbourne.
Prof Evans is also the Director of the Victoria Research Laboratory of National ICT Australia (NICTA) at The University of Melbourne.
After completing a BEng degree in electrical engineering at The University of Melbourne in 1969, he worked as a radar systems engineering officer with the Royal Australian Airforce. He completed a PhD in 1975 at the University of Newcastle followed by postdoctoral studies at the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, MIT, and the Control and Management Department, Cambridge University, UK.
In 1977 he took up an academic position at the University of Newcastle, where he was Head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering from 1986-1991, and Co-Director of the Centre on Industrial Control Systems between 1988-1991.
In 1992 he moved to The University of Melbourne, where he was Head of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering until 1996. He was research leader for the Cooperative Centre for Sensor Signal and Information Processing until 2000 and Director of the Centre for Networked Decision Systems until 2004. His research has ranged across many areas including theory and applications in industrial control, radar systems, signal processing and telecommunications. Prof Evans is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA), a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (FTSE), and Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia (FIEAust) and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (FIEEE).
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Robin Evans' highlights
FEATURED Book Chapter
Impact of quantized inter-agent communications on game-theoretic and distributed optimization algorithms
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Projects
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Project Types
34
Research Contracts
14
Research Grant
4
Internal Research Grant
Scholarly Works
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Honours, Awards and Fellowships
SIAM Outstanding Paper Prize
FIEEE - Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
FAA - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science
FTSE - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering
FIEAUST - Fellow of the Institution of Engineers of Australia
Credentials
Positions
Chair Of Electrical Engineering
Electrical And Electronic Engineering
Education
Master of Engineering
The University of Newcastle
Doctor of Philosophy
The University of Newcastle
Bachelor of Engineering
University of Melbourne