Staff: Iven Mareels

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Dept of Electrical & Electronic Engineering

Iven Mareels was born in Aalst Belgium. He obtained the Bachelor of Electromechanical Engineering from Gent University, Belgium in 1982 and the PhD in Systems Engineering from the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia in 1987.

Since 1996, he is Professor at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Previously he was a Reader at the Australian National University (1990-1996), a lecturer at the University of Newcastle (1988-1990) and the University of Gent (1986-1988).

He is a co-editor in chief, together with Prof. A. Antoulas for the international Journal Systems & Control Letters. He is Fellow of the Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Australia, a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (USA), a member of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, a Fellow of the Institute of Engineers Australia, Vice-Chair of the Asian Control Professors Association, He is a member of the Board of Governors of the Control Systems Society IEEE. He is the chair of the National Committee for Automation, Control and Instrumentation. He is registered with the Institute of Engineers Australia as a professional engineer. He has extensive experience in consulting for both industry and government.

Iven has taught a broad range of subjects in both mechanical and electrical engineering curricula.  In 1994, at the Australian National University, he was a recipient of the Vice-Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching.

His research interests are in adaptive and learning systems, nonlinear control and modelling. At present he has strong research interests in modelling and controlling of large scale systems, irrigation systems in particular. He is using his knowledge and experience in systems engineering to address systems and signals questions in the context of biomedical engineering. He has supervised to completion 24 PhD students and 7 ME students.

At present Iven supervises a number of PhD and ME students in the broad area of bio-engineering. Andrea and Gareth are working on the problem of predicting the onset of epilepsy using eeg signal analysis techniques. Eugene is working in the broad area of functional magnetic resonance imaging techniques using statistical methods. Chris is completing research to achieve a fully automated function atlas of the cortex. Jamie is working towards purely objective techniques to determine the quality of hearing in neo-natals. He uses classical signal processing techniques. Tim is developing new ways to determine the effectiveness of cancer treatments using novel imaging techniques. All of these projects are collaborative in that we work with neuro-scientists from The Howard Florey Institute, St-Vincent Hospital and the Bionic Ear Institute.