Australia ICST P.O. Box 8301 Station Arcade SA 5000 AUSTRALIA Chapter Chair: Matthew Sorell

Matthew Sorell

Biography
Dr Matthew Sorell is lecturer in telecommunications and multimedia engineering in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Adelaide. He is also the Research Director of the Convergent Communications Research Group and in 2007 was appointed inaugural chair of the Australian branch of ICST.

Before joining the faculty in 2002, Dr Sorell was Senior Research Engineer and Business Development Manager with the Centre for Telecommunications Information Networking, a commercially-focussed consulting and research centre also based at the University of Adelaide. In that role, he was responsible for developing licence bidding strategy and aspects of the business case for third generation mobile network operators in Italy, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Malaysia.

Dr Sorell's research interests lie in three inter-related areas: a wide range of commercially relevant telecommunications systems topics; regulation of multimedia content; and forensic techniques applied to crime in the digital domain. He has been an advisor for several years to the Office of Film and Literature Classification (the administrative body of Australia's classifier of films, video games and publications) on technical issues arising from new and emerging technologies, and contributions to national legislation.

Dr Sorell is an award winning educator, having received several faculty and university teaching prizes since 2005. He is an active leader in the development of new and innovative teaching techniques, exploiting in particular the potential of multimedia to explain complex concepts to his students. He is also highly regarded as an industry trainer in technical and commercial aspects of multimedia and mobile network operations and is a regular presenter on local, regional and national radio on technology and science.

Dr Sorell holds bachelors degrees in Science (physics) and Engineering (computer systems), and a Graduate Certificate in Management, from the University of Adelaide; and a PhD from George Mason University (Fairfax VA, USA). He is an alumnus of the Australian Science Olympiads, having represented Australia at the International Physics Olympiad in 1987, and a member of the IEEE. He serves on the advisory boards of two Australian IT companies - Komodo CMS Pty Ltd and eHound Pty Ltd.