Robin Braun

Robin started his academic career at the University of Cape Town in the area of Communications Engineering. He had previously spent 10 years in industry, mostly with Philips where he worked in Communications Engineering and Plessey, where he worked on the design of precision electronic distance measuring equipment.

His recent work has been in network protocols and the management of complex next generation networks. He is very active in Software Defined Networks, and is a founder member of ANZSDN. He has a strong interest in complex and complicated systems, and the application of biological/ecological metaphors to the creation of autonomic network management. He has created new paradigms in Autonomic Network Management ontology and a Distributed Active Information Model for Autonomic Communications.

Robin is a Senior Member of the IEEE. He is very active in professional circles, having Chaired, or Chaired the Program Committee of a large number of international conferences, including a number of the IEEE Comsig conferences, WARS'02, Broadbandcom'09 and the ITHET conferences since 2004.

Some of his other activities are associate editor of the Engineers Australia Technical Journal, AJEEE, past Commission C representative on URSI and an editor of an IEEE Transactions on Education special edition on plagiarism.

Education

• MSc(Eng) University of Cape Town (1980 — 1982)
• BSc(Hons) University of Brighton (1977 — 1980)
• NDip University of Johannesburg (1970 — 1974)

Companies

• Adjunct Professor University of Technology Sydney (2020)
• Member GBDTC, University of Technology Sydney (2017)
• Professor of Telecommunications Engineering UTS: University of Technology Sydney (1998 — 2020)
• Core Member CRIN, University of Technology Sydney (2007 — 2017)
• Snr Lecturer University of Cape Town (1986 — 1998)
• Radiation Scientist South African Department of Health (1985 — 1986)
• Senior Development Engineer Plessey Tellumat (1980 — 1985)
• Assistant Engineer Philips (1972 — 1977)