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Dr Phil Yeoh

Dr Phil Yeoh

Senior Lecturer in Electrical and Electronic Engineering

School of Science, Technology and Engineering

Email: pyeoh@usc.edu.au

Telephone: +61 7 5456 5239

Location: Moreton Bay, MB-MBA1-1-1.112

Dr Yeoh is a Senior Lecturer at UniSC focused on digital signal processing and communications engineering. His current research is on designing secure wireless communication systems to provide reliable low-latency connectivity to users in areas of poor wireless coverage. His research has applications in a wide range of industries requiring secure, reliable, and low-latency communications including transport, mining, agriculture, health, and advanced manufacturing.

Dr Yeoh has previously worked at The University of Melbourne, The University of Sydney, and University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany, to develop secure multiple-antenna wireless protocols for large-scale IoT applications based on machine learning and blockchain technologies. His research in wireless communications has been supported by the ARC DECRA Fellowship, ARC Discovery Project, and Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship schemes. He has also received best paper awards at top international engineering conferences of the IEEE Communications Society including ICC, VTC, and PIMRC.

Dr Yeoh has an excellent track record in research supervision with 2 PhD students supervised to completion as principal supervisor, and 9 PhD students co-supervised to completion at the University of Sydney and the University of Melbourne. He has also supervised undergraduate and Master thesis projects on wireless communication applications for drones, IoT blockchains, decentralised machine learning, quantum key distribution, and molecular communications.

Research

Research Summary

Potential Research Projects for HDR and Honours Students

  • Wireless UAV communication modelling and trajectory optimization
  • Security analysis of wireless quantum key distribution under noisy channel conditions
  • Energy and bandwidth aware federated learning in wireless Internet-of-Things
  • Secure and intelligent resource allocation for low-latency wireless communications
  • Privacy and security preserving distributed machine learning and data storage in large-scale Internet-of-Things

Research Grants

Grant/project name

Investigators

Funding body and AUD$ value

Year(s)

Focus of research grant

ARC Discovery Project Information-theoretic Secure Communications via Caching (DP190100770)

L. Ong, P. L. Yeoh, S. J. Johnson, J. Kliewer

Australian Research Council, AUD$ 420,000

2019-2022

Secure Communications

ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award Large Scale Multiple Antennas for Energy-Efficient Heterogeneous Wireless Networks (DE140100420)

P. L. Yeoh

Australian Research Council, AUD$395,000

2014 - 2018

Wireless Communications

Teaching and supervision

Teaching

  • ELC207 Communications Engineering
  • ELC302 Digital Signal Processing
  • ELC401 Advanced Digital Communications

Professional

Awards and memberships

Professional Memberships

  • IEEE Senior Member
  • HEA Associate Fellow

Awards/Fellowships

  • The University of Sydney Robinson Fellowship, 2020 – 2023
  • Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Experienced Researcher Fellowship 2017 – 2018

Professional Social Media

LinkedIn

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Dr Phil Yeoh's specialist areas of knowledge include Wireless Communications

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