Rate My Professor Brian Anderson

Brian Anderson is an Emeritus Professor in the School of Engineering at the Australian National University. He obtained undergraduate degrees in Pure Mathematics (BSc, University Medal, 1962) and Electrical Engineering (BE, University Medal, 1964) from the University of Sydney, and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1966. His academic career included early positions as Teaching Fellow at the University of Sydney and research and teaching roles at Stanford University from 1964 to 1967. He then served as Foundation Professor and Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Newcastle from 1967 to 1981. At ANU, Anderson was Head of the Department of Systems Engineering from 1982 to 1989, and later Professor and Head from 1994 to 2002, while also directing the Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering during 1994 to 2002. Subsequent roles included inaugural CEO of National ICT Australia (2002-2003), Chief Scientist of NICTA (2003-2006), and Distinguished Researcher at NICTA then Data61-CSIRO from 2006. He held visiting appointments at institutions such as Stanford University, University of California Berkeley, Yale University, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, and Tokyo Institute of Technology.