Dr Yuvaraja Visagathilagar of RMIT University and University of Melbourne

"Engineering Perspective of a Graduate engineer to Professional Engineering roles in Industry including Academic Research and Teaching''  where I will discussing and providing key elements of a engineer graduate to this day what has been achieved, successful and some of the downfalls in Academic Research and Teach, Manager in R&D, Design, Proof-of-Concept, Production, Management and Product Delivery/Advertising, Customer Survey, Customer Service, Engineering Service, etc. This showcases the experience and expertise that you will acquire in the years of work. What are the benefits of being an Academic or Industry contribution? Change of roles of an engineer during various workplaces and who is suited to be an Academic including sacrifices that you make during the career span.

Biography:

Dr Yuvaraja Visagathilagar has over 26+ years of extensive expertise and experience in academia, research and industry. He graduated with Bachelor of Engineering in Communication Engineering and Doctorate in Engineering (with a highly prestigious scholarship from the Australian Government) in 1996 and 2003 respectively from RMIT University, Melbourne Australia. His dissertation was in “Narrow-band Optical Modulator on Lithium Niobate” for telecommunication applications but it can be applied for other transceivers applications.

In research and industry, he has contributed in over 40+ pier reviewed international journals and conferences. He has visited and presented at universities in USA (i.e. UCLA and UCSD), Peregrine Semiconductor Corporation and in Japan (i.e. Science and technology Organisation).He has collaborated with Defence Science Technology Organisation (DSTO) in Australia where he has contributed in the design, fabrication, packaging and testing of “High-Speed Lithium Niobate Optical Modulator” including documentation of processes for quality certification (ISO 9001) and flip-chip packaging of narrow-band optical modulators on Lithium Niobate and Ceramic materials.

He has extensive academic teaching as a lecturer and post-doctorate research fellow in Photonics, Fibre-Optics+System, RF System and Integration where he was involved in research of novel design of narrow-band optical modulators. His research has been in Narrow-band Lithium Niobate Modualators but also in finding a solutionsfor packaging of optoelectronic devices (i.e. ceramic and Silicon materials).During the collaboration, he worked with sub-contractors in system integration and packaging of the modulator devices in hemically sealed packages for defence applications.

In 2006, he joined “Future Fibre Technologies Ltd (FFT)” who are the global leading organisation in optical sensing technologies and has extensive experience over 9 years in optical sensing. He was a senior manager at FFT and held positions as Senior Fibre Systems Engineer, R&D Team Leader and Applications Engineering Manager (and part of the key management team) where he contributed in the FFT products enhancements and novel products for intrusion sensing applications for defence and commercial industries including a consultant with DSTO for intrusion detection using novel devices. He has contributed in 2 patent solutions for novel systems for optical fibre sensing. He has contributed to over 110+ reports which is commercial-in-confidence classified during his period within the organisation with his team and other fellow colleagues.

From July 2016 to March 2018, he was a Senior Academic at RMIT University for postgraduate and undergraduate courses in Electrical Engineering Analysis using MatLab, Electronic Engineering, Radar technologies, Communication systems, Optical/Photonic Engineering, Microwave Circuits & System and Advanced Mathematics for various program levels (or years). He contributed in the development teaching materials of a core course in Optical Fibre Systems aand Networks for Bachelor and Master’s Program.

Since April 2018 to June 2020, he is a Senior Academic with the Department of Electrical and Electronics Technology & Engineering, Applied Engineering College (AEC), Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia which is affiliated  with Lincoln College International and University of Hull, UK with accreditation of Colleges of Excellence by the Government of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia where he is undertaking teacching in Electrical and Electronics technologies & principles for various Bachelor level program.

Currently July 2020, he is a researcher and senior academic at the University of Melbourne undertaking photonics research into reservoir computing and from Jan 2021, he has joined RMIT University as a researcher and senior academic undertaking research in optical fibre systems and transmission.

He has key interest in coherent detection optical sensing for pipelines, undersea exploration, sceismic detection and temperature sensing, Bioelectronics & Biomedical sensing, high-speed and narrow-band optical modulators on Lithium Niobate for defence and telecommunication, flip-chip technologies for minitaurized transceivers with electronics, RF and optical devices and finally Silicon Photonics integrated with other optical materials (i.e. Lithium Niobate) for high frequency transceivers and receivers for telecommunication and defence applications. Now he is looking at other sensing technologies and applications using nanotechnology, RF/Microwave and Conversion Architectures.

He is a Senior Member of the IEEE (where he was the Chair of the Victorian IEEE Electron Devices & Photonics Society Joint Chapter and representative in the Victorian IEEE Section Committee, Australia from October 2017 – March 2018 before leaving for Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. He is a active member of IEEE where he is a key volunteer for the Senior Member Elevation reference in Victoria, Australia (or globally), Member of OSA, SPIE, AIP, AOS, BCS and also certified in PRINCE2® management and leadership methodologies. He is in various editorial boards for peer-reviewed international journals and key reviewer for many international scientific journals and conferences.

Since July 2020 – present, he is a Senior Academic and Researcher at the RMIT University and University of Melbourne in Electronics, Electrical and Telecommunications, School of Engineering, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He provides professional engineering consultancy to organisations locally and globally but passionate about teaching, so he teaches high school students from year 7 - VCE (or support remote teaching, other states) in all Mathematic types, Physics, System Engineering, Chemistry and Technology.

Email:

Address:9 Sarah Court, , WANTIRNA SOUTH, Australia, 3152