Karu Esselle

Karu P. Esselle is an Australian scholar, professor, inventor and engineer. He is the Distinguished Professor in Electromagnetic and Antenna Engineering[1] at University of Technology Sydney, Australia. He was named Australia's Professional Engineer of the Year for 2022[2] by Engineers Australia - the national body that oversees engineering practice and profession in Australia. He is also a visiting professor of electronic engineering at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.

Distinguished Professor Esselle's other most recent awards include the top Space award in Australia – the “Winner of Winners” Excellence Award – as well as the Academic of Year Award at the 2022 Australian Space Awards,[3] UTS 2022 Chancellor's Medal (which is the top Research Excellence award at UTS), Engineers Australia 2022 Sydney Professional Engineer of the Year title and the Bradfield Award (in addition to the national title mentioned previously), and both the most prestigious Excellence Award and the Academic of the Year Award at 2021 Australian Defence Industry Awards.[4]

Awards

He was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales in 2020.[5] He is also a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)[6] and a Fellow of Engineers Australia. In 2019, The Australian Special Report on Research named Esselle the National Research Field Leader in the field of Microelectronics and Electronic Packaging in Engineering as well as the National Research Leader in the field of Electromagnetism (in Physics & Mathematics Disciplines).[7]

He was the leader of the team that designed the high-gain antenna system on board the world's first entirely Ka-band CubeSat spacecraft - Audacy Zero.[8] The space craft was made by Audacy, USA, and launched to space in December 2018 by SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket. This is believed by Australian experts to be the first Australian-designed high-gain antenna system launched to space since CSIRO-designed antenna systems on board Australia's own FedSat satellite launched in 2002.

He and his co-authors were awarded the 2019 Motohisa Kanda Award[9] for the most cited paper in the previous five years in IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility. He also won the 2019 Macquarie University Research Excellence Award for Innovative Technologies,[10] a 2019 Australian Research Council Discovery International Award, the 2017 Excellence in Research Award from the Faculty of Science and Engineering,[11] the 2017 Engineering Excellence Award for Best Innovation, the 2017 Highly Commended Research Excellence Award from Macquarie University, the 2017 Certificate of Recognition from IEEE Region 10, and the 2016 Engineering Excellence Awards for Best Published Paper from IESL NSW Chapter.

References
  1. Esselle, Karu. "Distinguished Professor Karu Esselle". profiles.uts.edu.au. Retrieved 12 February 2023.
  2. Hava, Chloe (5 October 2022). "Excellence an understatement for Australia's top engineering award winners". Create. Retrieved 7 March 2023.
  3. "2022 Winners and Finalists". www.spaceconnectonline.com.au. Retrieved 7 March 2023.
  4. "2021 Winners and Finalists". www.defenceconnect.com.au. Retrieved 7 March 2023.
  5. "Fellows - The Royal Society of NSW". royalsoc.org.au. Retrieved 2 September 2021.
  6. "2016 elevated fellow" (PDF). IEEE Fellows Directory.
  7. "Research September 2020 — Research special report". Research September 2020. Retrieved 2 September 2021.
  8. "Our faculties".
  9. https://www.emcs.org/assets/documents/Awards/awardprogramguides/emc2019_EMCS_AwardWinners_2Page_FINAL.pdf
  10. "And the winners are… | This Week At Macquarie University".
  11. "Staff Portal - Research Awards". staff.mq.edu.au. Archived from the original on 30 March 2018.


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