Laurence S. Dooley

Laurence S. Dooley received his B.Sc. (Hons), M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wales, Swansea in 1981, 1983 and 1987 respectively. From 1999 to 2006, he was a Professor of Multimedia Technology in the Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Australia. His major research interests are in multimedia signal processing, mobile communications, image/video object segmentation, bioinformatics, wireless sensor networks and R&D commercialisation strategies for regional small business. He has edited one book and published well over 170 international scientific peer-reviewed journals, book chapters and conference papers and was jointly awarded the IEEE Communications Society sponsored Outstanding Paper Prize at the 1st International Conference on Next Generation Wireless Systems (ICNEWS‘06) this year. He has successfully supervised 13 PhD/Masters research students as well as being in receipt of many external grants from both government and industry to support his multi-faceted research projects. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, a Chartered Engineer (C.Eng), and a corporate member of the BCS.

Publications

Mobile Multimedia Communications: Concepts, Applications, and Challenges
Mobile Multimedia Communications: Concepts, Applications, and Challenges
Gour Karmakar, Laurence S. Dooley. © 2008. 420 pages.
With rapid growth of the Internet, the applications of multimedia are burgeoning in every aspect of human life including communication networks and wireless and mobile...