Professor Farzad Safaei

Farzad Safaei graduated from the University of Western Australia with the degree of Bachelor of Engineering (Electronics) and obtained his PhD in Telecommunications Engineering from Monash University, Australia. He has been conducting and managing advanced research in the field of data communications and networks since 1990. Currently, he is the Professor of Telecommunications Engineering and Managing Director of ICT Research Institute at the University of Wollongong. Before joining the University of Wollongong, he was the Manager of Internetworking Architecture and Services Section in Telstra Research Laboratories.

His current research focus is on network support for immersive and distributed virtual environments. A key aspect of this research is large-scale delivery and real-time creation and processing of multimedia content with judicious adaptation of the spatial location of computation performed on multimedia streams. The application of this research on provision of immersive voice communication capability for massively multiplayer network games has been successfully commercialized through a start-up company, which was later acquired by Dolby Corporation, which is the world leader in spatial sound technology.