Dr. Hugh S. Bradlow
Chief Technology Officer, Telstra Corporation Limited
Speaker Biography: Hugh S. Bradlow is Chief Technology Officer for Telstra Corporation Limited and leads a group responsible for investigating the future technologies that will impact Telstra’s business.
Prior to joining Telstra in September 1995, Professor Bradlow was Professor of Computer Engineering at the University of Wollongong in Australia. During his time at the University of Wollongong (from 1987 to 1995), he directed the Centre for Information Technology Research (CITR) and was Head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He also took leave of absence from his University duties for 4 years to be Foundation Director of the NorTel Technology Centre, a R&D facility established on the campus of the University of Wollongong, by Nortel Networks.
Before coming to Australia in 1987, Professor Bradlow was Professor of Electrical Engineering (Digital Systems) at the University of Cape Town and a Control Systems Engineer at ICI Plastics Division in the United Kingdom. Professor Bradlow is a graduate in electrical engineering from the University of Cape Town in 1973 and received the D.Phil. degree for research in experimental nuclear physics from the University of Oxford. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, an Emeritus Professor of the University of Wollongong, a Professorial Fellow of the University of Melbourne and a Member of IEEE Communications Society Board of Governors. He is a member of the Federal Government’s CRC Committee, and was previously a member of the Victorian Government’s ICT Advisory Group and the Advisory Group that assisted the Chief Scientist in developing the “Backing Australia’s Ability” plan.
