The Australian Centre for Space Engineering Research

ACSER was founded in 2010 and is currently operating two satellites in orbit. Professor Andrew Dempster will discuss the current activities of the centre, from cubesats to off-earth mining, and framing the space debate in Australia.

Prof Andrew Dempster

is Director of the Australian Centre for Space Engineering Research (ACSER) in the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). He has a BE and MEngSc from UNSW and a PhD from the University of Cambridge in efficient circuits for signal processing arithmetic. He was system engineer and project manager for the first GPS receiver developed in Australia in the late 80s and has been involved in satellite navigation ever since. His current research interests are in satellite navigation receiver design and signal processing, areas where he has six patents, and new location technologies. He is leading the development of space engineering research at ACSER.