Peter Cole is the Professor of Radio Frequency Identification Systems in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at The University of Adelaide.

He completed his undergraduate and postgraduate studies at Sydney University in 1964, receiving degrees of B.Sc., B.E. and Ph.D., and then worked in the Center for Materials Science and Engineering and the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Since his return to Australia in 1967, he has lectured at the Universities of Sydney and Adelaide, and pursued research interests in the development and industrial applications of electromagnetic identification systems. He has had a particular interest in technology transfer to industry, and served for 15 years as Chairman of Directors of Integrated Silicon Design Pty. Ltd., a University technology transfer company, working on both microelectronic design software and RFID systems.

His recent interests have led to a close collaboration with the seven EPCglobal linked Auto-ID Research Laboratories, which include the Auto-ID Laboratory in the University of Adelaide, of which he is the Research Director.

He received two degrees from The University of Adelaide, B.Sc., and B.E(Hons). He has spent the last 26 years working on various RFID technologies. His early work was with Surface Acoustic Waves (SAW) RFID devices, working for TABTEK Electronics. Over the past 15 years has been working with modulated backscatter systems, working for Integrated Silicon Design, Gemplus Tag Australia and TAGSYS Australia as Engineering Manager, Sales and Marketing Manager, Production Manager, Operations Manager, Standards Liaison and General Manager. He has worked in many different industries sectors such as Automotive, Mining, Waste Management, Library, Transportation, Sugar, Oil and Gas, and has managed a team of Engineers in the development of RFID systems at 13.56 MHz, 27 MHz, 433 MHz, 889-928 MHz, and 2.45 GHz.

Over the past 5 years he has contributed at International Standards Organisation meetings for sub-committee SC31, and was appointed the project editor for ISO 18000-6, the RFID air interface for item management at UHF (860 to 960 MHz). He has also worked with the Hardware Action Groups of both The Auto ID Center (at MIT, Boston) and EPCglobal, on the UHF Class 1 Generation 2 air interface.

He has had extensive experience in RFID site surveys, installation and commissioning and has conducted a number of training courses both in IC Design and RFID Systems. Working with SIEN (one of its founders), he was the chairman of the ISO 9001 sub-committee that successfully saw 7 companies in the SIEN Network achieve ISO 9001. He is also a consultant to EPCglobal Australia on the activities of the Hardware Action Group (HAG) and Software Action Group (SAG).
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Behnam Jamali graduated with an honor degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from The University of Adelaide. He also received his PhD degree from the University of Adelaide.

Currently, he is a lecturer at the School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. His research interests include low power communication circuits, analogue CMOS circuits, as well as design of efficient rectifiers.

Damith Ranasinghe received a BE in Information Technology and Telecommunication Engineering from The University of Adelaide with first class honours, in 2002. Since graduation he has worked in Auto-ID Labs at MIT, the University of Cambridge and in The University of Adelaide, where he completed his PhD degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering in 2007.

His current research interests are focused in the areas of RFID technology, systems, integration of RFID and sensor technology and in particular the areas of lightweight cryptography for low cost RFID systems. Damith is presently involved in a research project looking at building robust, scalable and layered information architectures for managing RFID data in large scale traceability networks enabled by RFID technology.

Mr. Raja graduated with BE (Hons), Electrical and Electronics Eng., BITS Pilani, India 1979, and M Tech in Computer Science, IIT Kanpur, India, 1982. He has spent 4 years in India, with local computer manufacturers (ORG Systems, HCL) in the R&D divisions in software development, and with NEC Melbourne 1988-1991, on communications software and user applications development. He was a lecturer, School of Computer Science, RMIT University, Melbourne, 1991- 2002, lecturing in data communications, operating systems, queuing theory, and computing theory. He was also lecturer, C-DAC (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing), Noida (New Delhi), Govt of India, India, 2004-2005, in areas such as mobile computing and communications, operating systems, wireless and CDMA technologies. Now a doctoral candidate at the Auto-ID Lab, Adelaide, his interests include computational theory, complexity of algorithms, heuristics and intelligent computation such as via ants colony optimisation (ACO), and security, encryption, in RFID systems.

Zhonghao received bachelor degree from Northwestern Polytechnical University, China and became a postgraduate in the smae university in 2006.

Now, he is an exchange student who is pursuing two master degrees from both The Northwestern Polytechnical University and The University of Adelaide. His current research interests include tag antenna design and artificial magnetic material design.

Mun Leng graduated from The University of Adelaide in 2003 with an Honors degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
She is was awarded her PhD in 2009.

Kin Seong graduated from The University of Adelaide in 2003 with an honours degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He received his PhD degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering in 2009.

Mr Manfred Jantscher from Graz University of Technology was here in Adelaide for a six month study visit. He received his Bachelor Degree of Telematics (Telecommunications and Informatics) from Graz University of Technology, Austria in 2004. He has now completed his Master Degree in Telematics, specialising in Technical Informatics / RFID Technologies and he is currently working for CISC Semiconductor.