Research Group Manager
Victoria Research Laboratory

Professor Efstratios (Stan) Skafidas received the Doctoral Degree in Electrical Engineering in 1997 at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Prior to joining NICTA he co-founded Bandspeed, an Austin Texas based company that designs and manufactures semiconductor products for enterprise class wireless systems. In his role as Chief Technology Officer at Bandspeed he was responsible for research and new product development. At Bandspeed he co-invented Adaptive Frequency Hopping a coexistence mechanism that is an important part of the Bluetooth standard. This technology is part of every Bluetooth device (ver 1.2 and later).

In July 2004 he joined NICTA as program leader of sensor networks at the Victorian Research Laboratory. Professor Skafidas is now Research Group Manager - Embedded Systems. He is a member of the IEEE 802.11/802.15 standard committees for Wireless Local and Personal Area networks.

In February 2008, Stan and his team were the first in the world to announce the development of an integrated transceiver using the Complimentary Metal Oxide Semiconductor process which is capable of wirelessly delivering data multi gigabit per second data rates. This next generation wireless technology will enable the truly wireless office and home of the future.

His research interests include RF CMOS, Antennas and Propagation, Wireless Communications and Implantable devices.