Konstanty Bialkowski
Advance Queensland Research Fellow (Mid-Career) Photonics and Microwave Engineering Group,
School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering
Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology
Contact Details
Room 78-615
General Purpose South (Building 78)
T: 3365 2766
F: 3365 4999
Research Interests
Dr. Konstanty Bialkowski's research interests lie in the area of communication systems, passive radar and signal processing, and specifically in the areas of wireless sensing and communication. Some interesting aspects include the baseband processing and channel estimation using software defined radios, FPGAs and DSPs and the applications to high reliability or high data rate communications, radio-frequency identification, wireless sensing and biomedical applications.
Projects
- Road monitoring and anomaly detection using microwave based sensors
- Continuous monitoring of whole-body vibration and jolts and jars associated with earth moving equipment
- Biomedical microwave/electromagnetic imaging: in applications like stroke detection, or fluid accumulation in the lungs
Past student projects
I have supervised over 60 thesis projects over the years, with the topics being mainly from the following areas:
- Multistatic passive radar: detection, clutter cancellation, real-time processing using CUDA and OpenCL, DAB, DVB-T and DVB-S based.
- RFID: resolving collisions using multiple antennas and source separation techniques, applications in road sensing using RFID enabled license plates, SDR based readers for ISO 18000, ISO1443, ISO15693.
- Microwave/Electromagnetic Imaging systems: Low-cost systems using SDR, Solid-state switching systems, Microwave transceiver system, wideband frequency oscillator, agricultural applications of EM imaging.
- Communication systems: 5G waveforms, channel esimation for LTE, DVB-T decoder, transferring video via x264, ADS-B, Cognitive radio wireless networks
- GPS: software defined GPS, extensions using RTK for higher accuracy
Teaching
- COMS4105/COMS7410 - Communication Systems
- ENGG7302 - Advanced Computational Techniques in Engineering
- COSC2500 - Numerical Methods in Computational Science
- COMS4100/COMS7105 - Advanced Digital Communications (obsolete course code)
- COMS3100/COMS7100 - Introduction to Communications (obsolete course code)
Links
Other items
- Howto/Guides
- Bit operations - Conversion between ASCII codes, hex, binary (with LSB and MSB byte ordering).
- A simple SVG based UI for displaying time domain data. - here.
