Dr Phil Yeoh (S’08-M’12–SM’23) received the B.E. degree with University Medal and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Sydney, Australia, in 2004 and 2012, respectively.
After his PhD, Dr Yeoh joined The University of Melbourne as a research fellow with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering where he successfully won an ARC DECRA Fellowship in 2014 to work on large-scale multiple antenna communications. In 2017, he joined The University of Sydney as a teaching and research academic working in the Centre for Internet of Things (IoT) and Telecommunications. In 2018, he visited the Institute for Digital Communications at University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany supported by an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship. After returning to Sydney, he collaborated on an ARC Discovery Project (2019-22) on secure communications and was awarded a USYD Robinson Fellowship (2020-23) to work on physical-layer security in wireless communication systems.
In 2023, Dr Yeoh joined the University of the Sunshine Coast as a full-time teaching and research academic. His current research at UniSC is on secure wireless aerial networks using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), also commonly known as drones, to provide flexible on-demand connectivity to ground users especially in areas of poor wireless coverage. In 2023, his work on secure UAV communications received the best paper award at the IEEE PIMRC which is a flagship conference of the IEEE Communications Society. His research has practical applications in a wide range of industries requiring secure, reliable, and low-latency communications including transport, agriculture, health, and manufacturing.
Dr Yeoh has an excellent track record in research supervision with 2 PhD students supervised to completion as principal supervisor, and 9 PhD students co-supervised to completion at the University of Sydney and the University of Melbourne. He has also supervised over 15 UG and Master thesis projects on real-world industry applications such as UAV communications, blockchains for wireless security, and machine learning for wireless communications.
Professional Memberships
- IEEE Senior Member
- HEA Associate Fellow
Awards/Fellowships
- The University of Sydney Robinson Fellowship, 2020 – 2023
- Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Experienced Researcher Fellowship 2017 – 2018
Professional Social Media
Potential Research Projects for HDR and Honours Students
- Wireless UAV communication modelling and trajectory optimization
- Security analysis of wireless quantum key distribution under noisy channel conditions
- Energy and bandwidth aware federated learning in wireless Internet-of-Things
- Secure and intelligent resource allocation for low-latency wireless communications
- Privacy and security preserving distributed machine learning and data storage in large-scale Internet-of-Things
Research Grants
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Grant/project name |
Investigators |
Funding body and AUD$ value |
Year(s) |
Focus of research grant |
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ARC Discovery Project Information-theoretic Secure Communications via Caching (DP190100770) |
L. Ong, P. L. Yeoh, S. J. Johnson, J. Kliewer |
Australian Research Council, AUD$ 420,000 |
2019-2022 |
Secure Communications |
|
ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award Large Scale Multiple Antennas for Energy-Efficient Heterogeneous Wireless Networks (DE140100420) |
P. L. Yeoh |
Australian Research Council, AUD$395,000 |
2014 - 2018 |
Wireless Communications |
Research areas
- wireless communications including physical-layer security and quantum communications
- wireless aerial networks including unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and drone communications
- federated learning for wireless security and resource allocation in large-scale Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications
- wireless relaying and multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antenna transmissions