Dr Carlo Kopp was born in
Perth [More ...],
Western Australia. He attended the University
of Western Australia [More...] , and
graduated in Electrical Engineering with First Class Honours, in
1984. In 1996 he
completed a research
Masters degree in Computer Science at Monash
University [More ...] in
Melbourne, dealing with interprocess communications and I/O abstraction
in secure password-capability operating systems [More ...].
In September, 2000, he
completed his PhD thesis, which dealt with the properties of high
capacity ad hoc networks and
long range microwave datalinks,
using X-band
and Ku-band radar apertures [More...]. Both theses
were
done under the supervision of the late Prof
Chris Wallace [More
...].
His professional and
career interests have been
broad, spanning defence analysis, strategy, systems engineering and
computer science. He currently holds a part time position at the Monash
University Clayton School of IT, involving research, postgraduate
supervision, and both undergraduate and postgraduate teaching duties.
He consults and writes in his remaining time.
He also held a wide
range of
positions in the computer and communications industries, primarily as a
design engineer, computer programmer, systems integrator and
consultant. His best known project in the computer industry was
the design
and development of the first
Australian manufactured SPARC computer, in 1993 [More ...]. He has also designed
or developed high
speed optical fibre and free space infra-red datalink communications
equipment, medium speed multiplexer
equipment, graphics adaptors, and miscellaneous other items of computer
and communications equipment and embedded software, and performed
reliability
modelling of equipment [More ...].
Dr Kopp has consulted
to private industry and government organisations,
in areas ranging from computer and network performance, to strategy and
operational analysis.
He has been most visible
publicly as a defence analyst, since 1980. In October
2004 he
cofounded
the Air Power Australia think tank
and Air Power Australia Analyses
peer reviewed online journal
- he remains editor of both.
His current research
interests in the science and engineering domains include the
information theory underpinning information warfare (the four canonical
strategies of information warfare), the evolutionary impact of
information warfare [More ...],
mobile
ad
hoc
and
survivable
networking,
network
integration
of
satellite
navigation systems [More ...],
systems
survivability
especially
in
relation
to
electromagnetic
weapons,
radar
performance and signature modelling. He has authored or
co-authored to date four book chapters, seventeen peer reviewed journal
papers
and thirty conference papers, one of which received a
best
paper award. In 2006, Dr Kopp developed and taught the
first ever university level honours topic on Information
Warfare [More
...] in Australia.
Dr Kopp is an Associate Fellow of the American
Institute of Aeronautics
and Astronautics , a
Senior Member of the Institution of
Electrical and Electronic Engineers, and a Member of the Association
of Old Crows. In 2010, Dr
Kopp received the Australian Industry Certificate
award from the Association of Old
Crows.
Last updated April 2012
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