NSSN welcomes Professor Julien Epps as new Co-Director
The NSW Smart Sensing Network (NSSN) announced today the appointment of Professor Julien Epps, Head of UNSW School of Telecommunications and Electrical Engineering, as the new Co-Director of the NSSN.
An expert in signal processing and machine learning, Professor Epps replaces one of the NSSN's founding co-directors, Professor Justin Gooding.
NSSN Board Chair Dr Susan Pond AM welcomed Professor Epps and said: "We are delighted to have Julien onboard. His wealth of experience in R&D in university and industry settings, and practical knowledge of the local and global industry make him a perfect fit for the role."
"On behalf of the Board, I would like to thank Professor Justin Gooding for his tremendous contributions to NSSN. As a founding co-director of NSSN, Justin has played a key leadership role in establishing the NSSN and creating the successful and vibrant enterprise that it is today,” said Dr Pond.
Professor Epps said: "I'm very energised by the role and I hope to share my enthusiasm for new sensing technologies with as many people as possible in the coming years."
"Innovation networks like the NSSN are the glue that brings together researchers with industry and government to develop solutions that lead to real economic and social benefits for NSW," Professor Epps said.
"For industry, developing solutions in collaboration with universities can be the difference between being a market follower or a market leader.
"I look forward to NSSN showing industry and government the first glimpses of the novel and cleverly applied sensor technologies and sensor processing algorithms that are being developed in NSW universities."
"Most sensors produce lots of data, and for practical applications, we need systems that can take large volumes of raw data and automatically make sense of them. My expertise is in developing such practical sensing and machine learning applications for complex challenges," said Professor Epps.
Professor Epps is a Contributed Researcher at Data61, CSIRO, and a Scientific Advisor for Sonde Health. Before joining UNSW, Professor Epps held research appointments with the A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research, National ICT Australia and Motorola Labs.
Professor Epps is the author or co-author of around 250 journal articles, conference publications and patents related to sensor signal processing. His work has been cited more than 9,000 times (Google Scholar). He has given multiple keynote and invited tutorial presentations to several major international conferences and is currently serving as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing.