Asghar Tabatabaei

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
(Previously PhD student)
Phone: +61 2 9385 4202
Fax: +61 2 9313 7493
Room Number: EE Building 414B
Email: asghart@unsw.edu.au

B.Sc. (Electrical Engineering), Sharif University of Technology Tehran, Iran, 1998.

M.Sc. (Electrical Engineering), Sharif University of Technology Tehran, Iran, 2000.

Ph.D., University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 2008.

Present. Post Doctoral Research Fellow in the School of Surveying and Spatial Information Systems, UNSW.
2004 - 2007: Research on the subject of Radio Frequency Interference in the Global Navigation Satellite Systems
2000 - 2002: Employed by Bamdad Computer Limited, Tehran, Iran. System Engineer and Project Manager on the development of testing and measuring equipments. 

• Digital signal processing in both time and frequency domains.
• GPS data analysis and algorithm development: navigation, attitude determination, relative navigation algorithms using pseudorange, Doppler, carrier phase measurements.
• GNSS receiver techniques: receiver architecture, software receiver, digital signal processing, tracking loop design, GNSS algorithm.
• Software program using C/C++.

Current Research:

System Design and Signal Processing focused in the area of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Receivers.

Interests:

• Tabatabaei Balaei A, Dempster A G, “A Statistical Inference Technique for GPS Interference Detection” Accepted for publication in the IEEE Transaction on Aerospace and Electronic systems, Mar, 2008
• Tabatabaei Balaei A, Dempster A G, Lo Presti L, “Characterization of the Effects of CW and Pulse CW Interference on the GPS Signal Quality” Accepted for publication in IEEE Transaction on Aerospace and Electronic systems March 2008
• Tabatabaei Balaei A, Motella B, Dempster A G, “A Preventative Approach to Mitigating CW Interference in GPS Receivers” Accepted for publication in GPS Solution Dec 2007
• Motella B, Tabatabaei Balaei A, Lo Presti L, Leonardi M, Dempster A G, "Characterization of Radar Interference Sources on Galileo E6 Band" Submitted to the IEEE Transaction on Aerospace and Electronic systems, Feb 2008
• Tabatabaei Balaei A, Akos D, Dempster A G, “Quantization Degradation of GNSS Signal Quality in the Presence of CW RFI” Proceedings of IEEE ISSSTA 2008
• Tabatabaei Balaei A, Wu J, Dempster A G, “Comparison Between GPS and Galileo Satellite Availability in the Presence of CW Interference” IGNSS, Australia, December 2007
• Tabatabaei Balaei A, Motella B, Dempster A G, “GPS Interference Detected in Sydney- Australia” IGNSS, Australia, December 2007
• Mumford P, Tabatabaei Balaei A, Dempster A G, ”UNSW GNSS Interference Detection Unit” IGNSS, Australia, December 2007
• Mazaheri M, Theo J, Tabatabaei Balaei A, Dempster A G, “The Application of Multicorrelator Receiver in Bistatic Radar” IGNSS, Australia, December 2007
• Dempster A G, Mumford P, Parkinson K, Qaisar S, Wu J, Tabatabaei Balaei A, Glennon E, “NAMURU, a Platform for GNSS Research”, Location April 2007            
• Tabatabaei Balaei A, Motella B, “Satellite Exclusion Zone in the Presence of CW Interference – Experimental Results” ENC-GNSS 2007
• Tabatabaei Balaei A, Dempster A G, Rizos C, Motella B, “Mutual Effects of Satellite Signal Quality and Satellite Geometry on Positioning Quality” ION 2007
• Tabatabaei Balaei A, Motella B, Dempster A G, “Exclusion Zones for GNSS Signals When Reconfiguring Receiver Hardware in the Presence of Narrowband RFI “ IAIN / GNSS October 2006, Korea
• Sadati N, Tabatabaei Balaei A, “Fuzzy Goal Coordination of Large-Scale Systems Using Tamura’s Method “ 2006 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre Hotel, Vancouver, BC, Canada July 16-21, 2006
• Tabatabaei Balaei A, ”Statistical Inference Technique in Pre-Correlation Interference Detection in GPS Receivers” ION/GNSS September 2006, Fort Worth, USA.
• Tabatabaei Balaei A, Dempster A G, Barnes J, ”A Novel Approach in Detection and Characterization of CW Interference of GPS Signal Using Receiver Estimation of CNo” PLANS( ION IEEE)- April 2006
• Tabatabaei Balaei A, Dempster A G, Barnes J, ”Application of Post-Correlation Interference Detection and Characterization of the GPS Receivers in the Receiver Reconfigurability“ IGNSS July 2006
• Tabatabaei Balaei A, Barnes J, Dempster A G, ”Characterization of Interference Effects on GPS Signal Carrier Phase Error” SSC (2005)

Interests:

Walking, Climbing, Listening to Music, Travelling.