Biodata

Branko Ristic received all his degrees in electrical engineering: Ph.D. from Queensland University of Technology ( Australia) in 1995, M.Sc. from Belgrade University ( Serbia ) in 1991, and B. Eng. From The University of Novi Sad ( Serbia ) in 1984.

Dr Ristic has been involved in R&D related to signal processing, estimation, tracking and data fusion for over 25 years. He began his career as a research engineer in 1984 at Vinca Institute, Belgrade , until he emigrated to Australia in 1989. From 1989 to 1994 he was with two universities in Brisbane, The University of Queensland and the Queensland University of Technology. During 1995 he was a DSP engineer in GEC Marconi Systems in Sydney and in 1996 he joined Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) where he stayed until present. His role in DSTO has been to carry out research, develop new capabilities and provide technical advice to the Australian Defence Organisation on topics of target tracking and data fusion. During 2003/04 he spent a year in IRIDIA (Université libre de Bruxelles , Belgium ) on a study leave. Since 2006 he is affiliated with the Melbourne Systems Lab at The University of Melbourne.

Dr Ristic has co-authored two books (``Beyond the Kalman filter'', and ``Reasoning under uncertainty''), over 120 technical papers and presented several invited talks, short courses and tutorials. He served on technical committees of several international conferences, and was the Chair of the Fourth Australian Data Fusion Symposium in 2007. He won two best-paper awards at international conferences (Information Fusion 05 and DICTA 05).  From 2005-2008, he lectured a post-graduate course "Multi-Sensor Data Fusion" at The University of Adelaide. His two-day short course “Tracking and Data Fusion” has been delivered eight times in Australia, once in Singapore and once the UK . In 2009 he received a DSTO Fellowship and a DSTO Australia day award.