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Kwan-Wu Chin

Associate Professor

School of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering

Orcid identifier0000-0003-1547-9272
  • Associate Professor
    School of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering

BIO

An academic with extensive experience in teaching, governance and research. He has delivered undergraduate and postgraduate subjects on computer/wireless networks; his teaching score is significantly above the faculty and university average. He has successfully supervised a large number of research students (to date, 38 PhDs, 8 MPhils); they have also landed prestigious academic and industrial research positions after graduation; e.g., Columbia university, Amazon. He has published  more than 220 research articles (150+ journals in high impact, prestigious Q1 or top-tier journals) in areas relating to resource allocation in communication and transport systems. A key highlight in 2021 is publishing 9xIEEE Internet of Things Journal (IF>9) articles; in 2020, he published 12xIEEE Trans. articles -- both are flagship journals of the IEEE and highly ranked within the Q1 band).  To date, he has won more than $3M AUD in funding, including as the lead chief investigator of a prestigious ARC Discovery Project.  He was the Head of Postgraduate Studies (HPS) from 2010 to 2025 (15 years) for the School of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering.  He was also previously the inaugural director of SICOM, deputy head of school (research) and a research integrity adviser (2018 to 2021). He also has extensive industry experience, where he led a team of engineers to deliver on an industry sponsored project, was a Senior Research Engineer at Motorola for a number of years, a voting member of the IEEE 802.15.3 working group, and completed a number of technology transfers to product groups. He holds four highly cited USA patents. More info: https://documents.uow.edu.au/~kwanwu

UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG APPOINTMENTS

  • Associate Professor
    Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences, School of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering, Wollongong, Australia2022 - present

DEGREES

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Network Engineering
    Curtin University
  • Bachelor of Science (Computer)
    Curtin University, Australia

LANGUAGES

  • English
    Can read, write, speak, understand and peer review
  • Malay
    Can read, write, speak and understand
  • Chinese (Cantonese)
    Can read, speak and understand
  • Chinese (Mandarin)
    Can read, speak and understand

AVAILABILITY

  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision

FIELDS OF RESEARCH (FOR)