Rate My Professor Toby Boyson

Dr Toby Boyson is an education-focused Senior Lecturer in electrical engineering at the School of Engineering and Information Technology, UNSW Canberra, University of New South Wales. In his current role, he dedicates most of his time to teaching and student support, delivering courses in analog circuits and practical engineering within the Electrical Engineering degree. He manages the Protolab, UNSW Canberra's makerspace, and was previously co-chair of YoWIE, an outreach program encouraging young women to pursue engineering studies. Boyson is recognized for fostering inclusive learning environments, particularly for neurodivergent students, earning the 2022 UNSW Students’ Choice Teaching Award. Prior to his education-focused appointment, he conducted research on optoelectronic instrumentation for detecting explosives and chemical warfare agents, characterizing hypersonic flows, and validating control algorithms. Techniques he developed in instrumentation and signal processing were finalists in the UNSW Innovation Awards in 2012 and the Australian Museum Eureka Prize in 2015. He holds several patents and patent applications in signal processing and spectroscopic instrumentation, with efforts toward commercialization in the United States. Additionally, he invented methods for desalinating water and degrading biodegradable plastics.