CURRICULUM VITAE of Dr Beata Joanna Wysocki
Professional qualifications:
  1. 2000 – Ph.D. Australian Telecommunications Research Institute, Curtin University of Technology; Thesis:
    “Signal Formats for Code Division Multiple Access Wireless Networks,”
  2. (1983 - 1990)- M.Eng.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology, for the thesis:
    “Numerical analysis of temperature fields in cylindrical structures with inductive heat sources”,
  3. (1980 - 1982) B.Eng. course in Telecommunications and Electrical Engineering, Academy of Technology
    and Agriculture in Bydgoszcz, Poland (not completed – because of the introduction of a Martial Law in
    Poland),
  4. Electrical Engineering Trade Certificate - license No: 1595/WA/63.


Current appointment:
    February 1, 2008 – Assistant Research Professor, Department of Computer and Electronics
    Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln


Professional experience:
  1. 6/07 - 1/08/81 - student industrial training at "Industrial Design and Installation Electrical Company
    ELEKTROMONTAZ", Bydgoszcz Poland as junior research assistant,
  2. 2/07 - 28/07/84 - student industrial training at "Research and Development Centre POLAM - Warsaw"
    (currently "Philips Lighting - Poland") as junior research assistant,
  3. 2/05 - 9/06/89 - Academy of Technology and Agriculture in Bydgoszcz as research assistant,
  4. 1/10 - 30/11/91 - Academy of Technology and Agriculture in Bydgoszcz as graduate research assistant,
  5. 18/01 - 23/12/93 - FernUniversitaet Hagen, Germany as voluntary graduate research assistant,
  6. 1/08/95 - 1/12/97 Edith Cowan University, graduate research assistant, level 5/6,
  7. 26/10/99 - 25/10/00 University of Wollongong, Research Fellow, level A,
  8. 26/10/00 – 31/12/02 Part Time Research Fellow level B, University of Wollongong.
  9. 01/03/03 – 31/12/07 – University of Wollongong, Research Fellow

Awards and memberships:
  1.       1997 IEEE - Student Member Travel Grant to attend ICC’97 in Montreal, Canada,
  2.       Polish Association of Electrical Engineers - Member since 1984,
  3.       1981 Dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering award for outstanding students,
  4.       Australian Postgraduate Award with Stipend - 1/03/1996 - 28/02/99.


Grants:
    2005 -07 – Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project: “Diversity Improvements in Ultra-Wide
    Band Communications”, $300,000.