Rate My Professor Adrian Sutinjo

Associate Professor Adrian Sutinjo holds a position in the School of Electrical Engineering, Computing and Mathematical Sciences at Curtin University, where he is also actively involved with the Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy (CIRA). His academic credentials include a Bachelor of Science from Iowa State University, a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Missouri University of Science and Technology, and a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Calgary focused on antennas and electromagnetics. Prior to completing his PhD, Sutinjo accumulated seven years of industry experience as a radio engineer. His research interests center on antennas, RF and microwave engineering, particularly as applied to radio astronomy instrumentation. He contributes to the CIRA Engineering and Operations program, addressing radio frequency interference mitigation and developing new imaging methods such as m-mode imaging for all-sky radio telescopes.

Sutinjo leads the prototyping and verification task for the Aperture Array Verification System (AAVS) for the SKA-low telescope project. In 2014, his team characterized a 16-element prototype, deployed it at the Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory, and integrated it with the Murchison Widefield Array for data processing by ICRAR researchers; this effort represented the first on-site verification system and identified key issues for SKA construction preparation. The group has progressed to a 256-element prototype, matching the scale of a full SKA-low station and comprising one part of the eventual array. He supervises postgraduate projects, including fast radio burst receivers for coherence detection, and his student Daniel Ung received a global engineering prize in 2016 for supervised research. Sutinjo's scholarly output includes key publications such as 'Sensitivity of a low-frequency polarimetric radio interferometer' (Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2021), 'System Equivalent Flux Density of a Polarimetric Tripole Antenna' (Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2022), 'Impact of bandwidth on antenna-array noise matching' (Electronics Letters, 2021), 'Low-Frequency Radio Astronomy Engineering in Western Australia' (2017), and 'First results from AAVS 0.5: A prototype array for next-generation radio astronomy' (2013). These contributions have advanced low-frequency polarimetric interferometry and prototype development for next-generation radio telescopes.