Casual Academic
College of Science and Engineering
Richard is a graduate of Adelaide University in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and is a senior academic at Flinders University. Prior to joining Flinders University a few years ago, he worked for the Australian Department of Defence at Edinburgh. He commenced his 24 year defence career working on the Jindivik remotely-piloted target jet aircraft for Navy, before moving to working on electronic warfare systems, research and development for autonomous-UAV systems, and finally moving into a role to provide assistance to Australia’s Army deployed overseas. This included advice on communications systems and IED detection research. Richard is an expert in Electronic Warfare Systems and Ethics applied to autonomous systems in the battlespace. Richard’s research interests include multi-sensor data fusion, ethical autonomy, cooperative intelligent systems and safe emergent behaviour in autonomous systems. Richard has also been a senior adjunct lecturer with The University of South Australia and supervised Honours, Masters and PhD students at the three universities in the area of distributed intelligent control systems. Richard is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (SMIEEE), a Member of Engineers Australia, and a Member of the Systems Engineering Society of Australia. He is a long-standing academic contributor to the National Youth Science Forum (NYSF), and has been a Rotarian for many years.
Bachelor Degree in Electrical and Electrical Engineering (Adelaide University)
Master of Engineering Science Degree by Research (Adelaide University)
Nearing completion of PhD in Self-organising sensor/actor networks for battlespace situation awareness
Recipient of 20 Year Australian Defence Service Medal
Honour Roll, IEEE Foundation
Topic Lecturer for ENGR9742 Systems Engineering
Topic Lecturer for ENGR1722 Engineering Materials and Systems
Former Teaching Computer Organisation and Design Laboratory
Former Teaching Electrical Circuits and Machine Laboratory
Research into Autonomous Systems and Robotics
ENGR8802 Electrical Circuits and Machines GE - 2018 S2 TON
ENGR2702 Electrical Circuits and Machines - 2018 S2 TON
ENGR2791_ENGR8991 Electrical Engineering Principles - 2018 S1 TON
ENGR3701_9781 Computer Organisation and Design - 2018 S1 TON
Member of IEEE
Member Systems Engineering Society of Australia
Member of Engineers Australia
Science Judge for National Youth Science Forum
Rotarian , Member of the Rotary Club of Burnside
Member of The Naval, Military and Airforce Club, Adelaide
Congregational member of St. Matthews Anglican Church, Kensington Road, Marryatville