Currently the most senior person at Caulfield is Irena Cosic , who is a Deputy Head of the whole department, but with special responsibilities at Caulfield. Thus there will eventually be a single degree in electrical and computer systems engineering at Monash. It will be sad to see the distinctive nature of the two courses, each with their own proud history, disappear, but the exigencies of current government policies and management attitudes are forcing this to happen. On the credit side, however, these changes should enable the department to face existing and new challenges with greater strength. The department is large by Australian standards.
Some congratulations are in order.
During his undergraduate studies he was awarded the SECV Undergraduate Scholarship and won the Sir Willis Connolly Prize for excellence in electrical engineering studies. His final year thesis was on the topic of chaotic systems supervised by Kishor Dabke . Justin completed his PhD thesis in a remarkably short time. The thesis investigates the spectral properties of time series which arise in a number of physical and biological systems to determine if they are chaotic. The work resulted in several publications in international journals and conference proceedings before it was submitted for final examination.