Dr. Rodney Vaughan

Senior Research Engineer
Industrial Research Limited, 69 Gracefield Road, PO Box 31310, Lower
Hutt, New Zealand.

Phone: +64-4-5690782
Fax:   +64-4-5690754
Email:  R.Vaughan@irl.cri.nz

  Rodney Vaughan was born in Hamilton, New Zealand.  He received BE and ME from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, in 1975 and 1976 respectively, and PhD from Aalborg University, Denmark, in 1985, all in electrical engineering.
  He joined the New Zealand Post Office (now Telecom NZ Ltd) in 1972 where he worked on communications network analysis and telephone traffic forecasting.  In 1978, he joined the Physics and Engineering Laboratory of the NZ Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR).  Here, he helped to pioneer New Zealand industrial applications of microprocessor technology through the design and development of industrial equipment ranging from hardware solutions to software protocol simulators for networks.  In 1982, he received a DSIR Public Service Award for PhD study and undertook this at Aalborg University, Denmark.  He was an URSI Young Scientist in 1982/83. In 1992, the DSIR was restructured and he transferred to the New Zealand Institute of Industrial Research Limited (IRL, formerly part of the DSIR).  He initiated and developed a research programme on communications technology and this receives contractual funding support from the New Zealand Foundation for Research, Science and Technology.  He founded the Communications Team at IRL, running several scientific and industrial research projects. His research projects revolve around multipath communications theory (electromagnetic, line and acoustic media), diversity design, signal and sampling theory, and signal processing.  Recent industrial projects have included the design and development of specialist antennas for personal and satellite communications, and spatial field theory for antenna design.
  His current research involves multipath propagation mechanisms, multipath analysis and prediction, space-time processing and DSP applications.
  He is a Senior Member of the IEEE since 1988, a registered engineer in New Zealand, an URSI Correspondent and is the New Zealand URSI Commission B (Fields and Waves) representative.