Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment

School of Engineering

Assoc Prof Pubudu Pathirana

   Phone   +61 3 522 72914
Email   pubudu.pathirana@deakin.edu.au
Position   Associate Professor
Campus   Geelong
Research grouping   Networked Sensing and Control

Pubudu N. Pathirana received First Class Honours in B.E(Elec) Engineering and B.Sc(math) in 1996
from the University of Western Australia(UWA). His PhD is in Missile Guidance from the
same university in 2001. He was a recipient of EMSS and OPRS scholarships for his undergraduate
and post graduate education respectively. He was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Oxford
University, UK, Reseach fellow at UNSW, a consultant to the DSTO and a visiting professor at Yale
University.

Research interests

  1. Mobile robotics, Wireless networking, Radar based autonomouse platforms


Career

Associate professor Deakin 2010
Senior lecture Deakin 2006
Lecturer Deakin 2003
Reseach fellow UNSW 2002
Postdoctoral reseach fellow Oxford University UK, 2001

Key publications

Pathirana,P.N.,Bulusu,N.,Savkin,A.V.,Jha,S. (2005) “Node Localization using Mobile Robots in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing 4(3), 285-296 USA

Pathirana, P.N.,Savkin,A.V., Jha,S. (2004) Location Estimation and Trajectory Prediction for IEEE Transactions on Vehicle Technology 53(6), 1903-1913 USA

Pathirana,P.N.,Lim, A, Savkin, A.V., Hodgson, P.D. (2007) Robust Video/Ultrasonic fusion based IEEE Transactions on Vehicle Technology 56(4), 1631-1639 USA

Pathirana, P.N., Herath, S.C.K., Savkin, A.V. (2012) Multi-target Tracking via Space Transformations Using a Single Frequency Continuous Wave Radar IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing 60(10), 5217-5229 USA

Savkin,A.V.,Pathirana, P.N.,Faruqi,F.A (2003) The problem of precision missile guidance : LQR and H1 control framework IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems 39(3), 901-910 USA

View entire list of audited publications

Professional activities

Senior Member Institue of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) ,USA
Australian Research Council (ARC) assessor under the category of “Expert of International Standing”
Editorial Board of the “International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems”
Editorial Board of the “International Journal On Advances in Telecommunications”
Editorial Board of the “International Scholarly Research Network (ISRN)

Related links

Personnel page
www.deakin.edu.au/~pubudu

Networked Sensing and Control Lab
www.deakin.edu.au/sebe/eng/nsc /index.php

Google Scholar
scholar.google.com/citations?u ser=QtU8YbsAAAAJ

 

Teaching areas

SEE 321 Electro-Mechanical Systems
SEE 312 Data Communications
SEE 307 Systems and Signals
SEE 711 Sensor Networks



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8th February 2013