Author: Anthony Zaknich
Bio: Anthony Zaknich is currently an Adjunct Professor with the Centre for Intelligent Information Processing Systems (CIIPS) in the School of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering at the Uniersity of Western Australia (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 has been 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 to completion numerous Honours and 15 postgraduate research projects, including 7 Ph.D. theses. He has also authored/co-authored more than 79 refereed papers in technical journals and conference proceedings, has contributed five research book chapters, and authored/co-authored three 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.