Prof. Neil Weste

Founder and Director

NHEW R&D Pty Ltd

 

As a highly successful entrepreneur, a visionary technologist and a distinguished researcher, Neil Weste has a BSc, BE(Elec.) and PhD from the University of Adelaide. He spent 18 years in the US working for Bell Labs, the Microelectronic Center of North Carolina, Duke University, the University of North Carolina and Symbolics Inc. before co-founding TLW Inc., an integrated circuit (IC) design house in Burlington, MA.

Neil returned to Australia in 1995 as Professor of Microelectronic Systems at Macquarie University. In 1997, he co-founded Radiata Communications, which pioneered single chip implementations of the IEEE 802.11a Wireless Local Area Network standard. Cisco Systems acquired Radiata in 2001. In 2004, he founded NHEW R&D Pty Ltd, which manages angel investments in Australian high technology companies and carries out R&D in the RF IC area.

Neil Weste is co-author of a best selling text on CMOS integrated circuit design originally published in 1985 and now in its third edition and is still used throughout the world in electrical engineering courses. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering. He is currently chairman of the IT&T committee for the AusIndustry Commercial Ready grant program and a member of the IR&D board. He is also a member of the ITR advisory board at the University of South Australia. Neil is an adjunct professor at Macquarie University, University of Adelaide and holds a conjoint appointment at the University of Newcastle.