Rate My Professor Brian Ng

Associate Professor Brian Ng serves in the School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering within the College of Engineering and Information Technology at the University of Adelaide. He obtained his BSc in Mathematics and Computer Science in 1996, B.Eng with First Class Honours in Electrical and Electronic Engineering in 1997, and PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering in 2003, all from the University of Adelaide. Ng's academic career at the University began as a Lecturer from 2002 to 2010, followed by Senior Lecturer from 2011 to 2019, during which he also held the position of Associate Dean (International) from 2012 to 2015. Since 2020, he has been Associate Professor and currently acts as Academic Lead for Electrical and Electronic Engineering as well as Director of the Adelaide Radar Research Centre.

Ng's research centers on digital signal processing and its applications, with expertise in wavelets and multi-rate systems, pattern recognition, radar imaging, and terahertz time domain spectroscopy. Key areas include signal separation in clutter, terahertz sensing, and advanced radar techniques such as 3D inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR). He has supervised over a dozen PhD students to completion, with theses covering topics like terahertz hollow core antiresonant fibre, motion error compensation in airborne synthetic aperture radar, maritime radar target detection, and large-scale antenna arrays for GPS bistatic radar. Notable grants include Improved 3D ISAR Techniques from DST Group ($376,749, 2019-21), Space Analytics Engine for On-Board Machine Learning from SmartSat CRC ($500,000, 2021-22), Beyond the diffraction limit terahertz biochip sensing from ARC Discovery ($405,000, 2014-16), and multiple DST Group projects totaling over $1.5 million. Select publications encompass 'Target Classification for 3D-ISAR using CNNs' (IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 2024), 'Dual-Frequency Phase Unwrapping for 3D InISAR Imaging of Non-Cooperative Targets' (IEEE Transactions on Radar Systems, 2024), '3D-ISAR for an Along Track Airborne Radar' (IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 2020), 'Detection in Sea Clutter Using Sparse Signal Separation' (IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 2020), and terahertz fiber and metasurface studies (Advanced Photonics Research, 2021, 2023). Ng earned the University of Adelaide Medal in 1997 and contributes editorially as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Radar Systems and Guest Editor for IET Radar, Sonar and Navigation.