Qualifications
Teaching Interests
Research Interests
Publications
Professional Interests

Dr Jegathisvaran Balakrishnan

Telephone	+61 8 8313 0518 / +61 8 8313 4115
Position	Director of eSMART 21 / Research Associate
Email	jega.balakrishnan@esmart21.com.au / jega@eleceng.adelaide.edu.au
Fax	+61 8 8313 3421 / +61 8 8313 4360
Building	Milne Mews 24 / Innova21
Floor/Room	8 / 3 28
Campus	Thebarton / North Terrace
Org Unit	ECIC / Electrical and Electronic Engineering, School of

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Qualifications

2010 GCert Innovation and Entrepreneurship, The University of Adelaide, South Australia.
2010 PhD in Electronic Engineering, The University of Adelaide, South Australia. Thesis: Developments in Double-Modulated Terahertz Differential Time-Domain Spectroscopy, under Prof Derek Abbott and Dr Bernd Fischer.
2005 BE (Hons) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Adelaide, South Australia (Hons Project: GPS-Based Frequency Standard).
2003 Dip (Merit) in Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering, Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Singapore (Final Year Project: Ultrasonic Radar).

Teaching Interests

Current Teaching Activity

Mathematics I
Engineering Mathematics I & II
Mathematics for Information Technology

Past Teaching Activity

Electrical Engineering I
Radio Frequency III
Digital Electronic
Signals and Systems
Control III
Transform Methods and Signal Processing

Research Interests

Areas

Infrared and Terahertz Biosensing
Spectroscopy
Micropump

Publications

Journal Publications:

J. Balakrishnan, B. M. Fischer, and D. Abbott, Low noise spinning wheel technique for THz material parameter extraction, Optics Communications, Vol. 283, No. 10, pp 2301 - 2307, 2010.
J. Balakrishnan, B. M. Fischer, and D. Abbott, Fixed dual-thickness terahertz liquid spectroscopy using a spinning sample technique, IEEE Photonics Journal, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 88 - 98, 2009.
J. Balakrishnan, B. M. Fischer, and D. Abbott, Sensing the hygroscopity of polymer and copolymer materials using terahertz time-domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS), Applied Optics, Vol. 48, No. 12, pp. 2262 - 2266, 2009.
W. Withayachumnankul, G. M. Png, X. X. Yin, S. Atakaramians, I. Jones, H. Y. Lin, B. S. Y. Ung, J. Balakrishnan, B. W.-H. Ng, B. Ferguson, S. P. Mickan, B. M. Fischer, and D. Abbott, T-ray sensing and imaging, Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 95, No. 8, pp. 1528 - 1558, 2007 (Invited).

Professional Interests

Areas:

Automated Parking Management
Technology Commercialisation
Application Software Development

Entry last updated: Tuesday, 6 Dec 2011

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