Professor Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh

Winner: 2020 Robert Boyle Prize for Analytical Science

University of New South Wales

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Professor Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh is a 2018 SHARP Professor and an Australian Research Council (ARC) Laureate Fellow at UNSW Sydney, Australia. Formerly, he was a Distinguished Professor of Electronic Engineering at RMIT, Melbourne. Kalantar-Zadeh is also 乐天堂app下载 Director of 乐天堂app下载 Centre for Advanced Solid and Liquid based Electronics and Optics (CASLEO) at UNSW.

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