Richardt H. Wilkinson

Richardt H. Wilkinson (Senior Member, IEEE) was born in Vereeniging, South Africa. He received the B.Eng. degree in electrical and electronic engineering and the M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, South Africa, in 1994, 1998, and 2004, respectively. He joined the Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town, South Africa, as a Postdoctoral Researcher, in 2005, after which he was appointed as a Senior Researcher, in 2007. In 2008, he was appointed as the Head of the Centre for Instrumentation Research and promoted to Associate Professor, in 2011. He joined RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, in 2012, where he is currently a Senior Lecturer with the School of Engineering. His research interests include multilevel power electronic converters, modulation techniques, Fourier techniques, digital signal processing, artificial intelligence, digital audio amplifiers, FPGA development, and embedded controller design. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, the IEEE Power Electronics Society, the IEEE Industry Applications Society, the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, and the IEEE Power Engineering Society. He served as the Chapter Chair for the South Africa Section’s Joint Industry Applications/Industrial Electronics/Power Electronics Chapter, from 2007 to 2012.