Mark McDonnell

Education

McDonnell graduated from the Salesian College, Adelaide. He received a Bachelor of Science in Mathematical & Computer Sciences (1997), a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) in Electrical & Electronic Engineering (1998), and a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Applied Mathematics (2001) all from The, Australia. He received his Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical & Electronic Engineering (2006), under Derek Abbott and Charles East. M. Pearce, also from the University of Adelaide, for a thesis entitled Theoretical Aspects of Stochastic Signal Quantisation and Suprathreshold Stochastic Resonance.

During the course of his Doctor of Philosophy, he was also a visiting scholar at the University of Warwick, United Kingdom, under Nigel G. Stocks.

Career

McDonnell worked as a research assistant in electromagnetic propagation, ice-penetrating radar, and as a computer systems engineer, at the University of Adelaide. His main research interests are in the field of nonlinear signal processing, with applications in computational neuroscience, complex systems, and lossy compression, reliable communication, and coding of noisy signals.

Achievements

• In 2002, McDonnell was awarded a D. R. Stranks Fellowship, and in 2003, he was awarded a Santa Fe Institute Complex Systems Fellowship, as well as the AFUW Doreen MacCarthy Bursary. In 2004 he was the recipient of an Australian Academy of Science Young Researcher’s Award. He was awarded the Postgraduate Alumni University Medal for his Doctor of Philosophy thesis. In 2007, he won a Fresh Science award, the Gertrude Rohan Prize, and an Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship that he took up at the University of South Australia.

Works

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