The RFCT laboratory is currently seeking high calibre and keen candidates to pursue PhD degrees.
Studying with RFCT
VACANCIES AND SCHOLARSHIPS
UTS engineering scholarships
Our current areas of research include:
- Application-specific RF Technologies
- Sustainable RF Technologies
- RF-Electronic Devices Prototyping
- Software Defined Communication Systems
- Remote Sensing, Data Acquisition, Signal Processing and Control Systems
- Cybersecurity
Interested student should have:
- First class honours
- Publications (preferred)
- Industry experience (preferred)
- Projects and skills in hardware and/or software development
Internships at RFCT
Are you looking to expand your knowledge and build your expertise? Do you have an interest in our list of multidisciplinary R&D areas? Would you like to work on a paid internship at RFCT or undertake a Capstone or Directed Study? We are looking for students with good hands-on skills and solid academic record. Contact us!
Please contact Dr. Negin Shariati.
RFCT recent projects and grants
Year |
Funding or Partner Organisation |
Project Title |
Project Team |
2022-2025 |
Food Agility CRC and Bosch |
Collaborative Privacy-Preserving Digital Agriculture |
Lead CI: Justin Lipman CI Team: Mehran Abolhasan, Daniel Franklin, Massimo Piccardi, Negin Shariati |
2022-2023 |
Food Agility CRC and Zetifi |
Farm-wide Wi-Fi: Next Generation RF and Antenna Technologies for Enhancing Rural and Agricultural Connectivity |
Lead CI: Negin Shariati CI Team: Justin Lipman, Mehran Abolhasan Postdoc: Rasool Keshavarz |
2021 |
Department of Industry, Innovation and Science and Zetifi |
Multi-band MIMO Antenna for Enabling Long-range Communications in Rural and Remote Areas |
Lead CI: Negin Shariati CI Team: Justin Lipman, Mehran Abolhasan Postdoc: Rasool Keshavarz |
2021-2024 |
Avesta Consulting Pty Ltd |
IoT Enabled Digital Twin MPC System Development for Industry 4.0 Applications |
Lead CI: Mehran Abolhasan CI Team: Justin Lipman, Negin Shariati |
2021-2024 |
Food Agility CRC |
Towards Precision Farming: Simultaneous Wireless Information and Power Transfer (SWIPT) for IoT Devices |
Lead CI: Negin Shariati |
2021-2026 |
Food Agility CRC |
Near field Sensing Technology Enhanced by Optimization Algorithms for Agricultural Applications |
Lead CI: Negin Shariati |
2020-2022 |
Food Agility CRC |
Designing self-powered agriculture sensor for remote sensing purposes |
Lead CI: Mehran Abolhasan CI Team: Negin Shariati, Justin Lipman |
2020-2023 |
Food Agility CRC |
Sustainable Energy Solution for Smart Farms: Efficient RF Energy Harvester for Wearable loT Devices
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Lead CI: Negin Shariati CI Team: Justin Lipman, Mehran Abolhasan, Eryk Dutkiewicz |
2020-2023 |
Food Agility CRC |
Intelligent frost prediction and active protection through cyber-physical systems in the agricultural sector |
Lead CI: Justin Lipman CI Team: Mehran Abolhasan |
2020 |
NBN |
Quantitative Evaluation of the Relationship between Objective Layer 2 Performance Metrics and End-User Quality of Experience in High Speed Broadband Networks |
Lead CI: Daniel Franklin CI Team: Justin Lipman, Mehran Abolhasan, Eryk Dutkiewicz |
2019-2022 |
Food Agility CRC |
Extending the Lifetime of Remotely Deployed Sensors Using RF Energy Harvesting
|
Lead CI: Negin Shariati CI Team: Justin Lipman, Mehran Abolhasan |
2019-2020 |
Department of Industry, Innovation and Science (Innovation Connections) And FluidIntel Pty Ltd |
Low Power IoT Design for Remote Telemetry |
Lead CI: Justin Lipman CI Team: Mehran Abolhasan, Negin Shariati |