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Email

nirmalat@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Dean, Engineering & IT
Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology – Admin
Education
PhD
University of Melbourne
Bachelors Degree (Honours)
University of Melbourne
ORCID

0000-0001-7328-5359

Prof Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas

Dean, Engineering & IT
Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology

785 Scholarly works
50 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2026

    Journal article

    Color-Blind Image Sensors: Toward Digital Twin of Human Retina
    DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.6c00567
  • 2026

    Journal article

    Spectral-Efficient Carrier-Assisted Differential Detection Incorporating Quasi-Interleaved Subcarrier Loading Scheme and Low-Complexity Successive SSBI Cancellation Algorithm
    DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2025.3638909
  • 2026

    Journal article

    Modular Polarization-Engineered Optical Phased Arrays for Optical Wireless Indoor Networks
    DOI: 10.1109/OJCOMS.2026.3677407
  • 2026

    Conference Proceedings

    An Open-Source mmWave Analog Radio-over-Fiber Dataset Enabling Machine Learning Applications
    DOI: 10.1364/ofc.2026.m3m.3
  • 2025

    Research grants (ARC, NHMRC, MRFF)

    Photonics Computing Enabled Ultra-Broadband Wireless Communications
  • 2023

    Research grants (ARC, NHMRC, MRFF)

    Lattice Panel Based Optical Apertures for Optical Wireless Networks
  • 2018

    Research Contracts

    New High-Frequency Service-Specific Wireless Transmission System
Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas

Latest Honours,
Awards and Fellowships


2022
University of Melbourne
2022
Fellow of the Academy of Technological Sciences & Engineering Australia (FATSE)
2007
Fellow of the Institution of Engineers of Australia (FIEAust)

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2026

    Journal article

    Performance Analysis and Optimization of Relay-Assisted Free-Space Optical Communications Based on Incremental Hybrid Decode-Amplify-Forward Scheme Over Atmospheric Turbulence
    DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2026.3662416
  • 2026

    Journal article

    Dual-Carrier Modular Phased Arrays for Near-Field Links: Polarization-Aware QPSK and Performance Evaluation
    DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2026.3652084
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Floquet‐Engineered Noise‐Resilient Terahertz Receiver with Modular Phased Array Architecture for Scalable Chip‐Scale Communication
    DOI: 10.1002/adpr.70103
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Floquet‐Engineered Noise‐Resilient Terahertz Receiver with Modular Phased Array Architecture for Scalable Chip‐Scale Communication
    DOI: 10.1002/adpr.202500079
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Cylindrical vector beam shaping techniques for optical wireless communications
    DOI: 10.3788/COL202523.100010
  • 2025

    Journal article

    IMS2025 Future G Summit
    DOI: 10.1109/mmm.2025.3535190

RECENT PROJECTS

  • 2025

    Research contracts (non-grants)

    Memorandum of Understanding Between UoM-FEIT and RIKEN-AIP
  • 2026

    Research grants (other domestic)

    Converged Intelligent Millimetre-Wave and Edge-Ai for Revolutionizing Robotics Communications to Transform Advanced Manufacturing

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