The RFCT laboratory is currently seeking high calibre and keen candidates to pursue PhD degrees.
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: Negin Shariati.
RFCT Recent Funded Industry Projects/Grants:
Year | Funding or Partner Organisation | Project Title | Project Team |
2024-2028 | Australian Research Council | ARC Training Centre for Automated Vehicles in Rural and Remote Regions | Lead CI: Negin Shariati |
2023-2026 | NTT (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation) and Food Agility CRC | Sustainable Sensing, Enhanced Connectivity, and Data Analytics for Precision Urban and Rural Agriculture | Lead CI: Negin Shariati CI Team: Rasool Keshavarz, Daniel Franklin, Mehran Abolhasan, and Justin Lipman |
2023 | Department of Industry, Innovation and Science and Zetifi | Multi-service, Compact and Low-Cost RF and Antenna Systems for Enhancing Rural and Agricultural Connectivity | Lead CI: Negin Shariati Senir Research Fellow: Rasool Keshavarz |
2022-2024 | NTT (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation) | IoT Sensors and Networks for Next Generation Autonomous Urban Greening and Hydroponics | Lead CI: Mehran Abolhasan CI Team: Daniel Franklin, Justin Lipman, Negin Shariati |
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 |
2022-2024 | 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 Senir Research Fellow: 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 | 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 |