He is a Guggenheim Fellow and a New York Times-bestselling author published in 32 languages.He is the writer and presenter of the international television series The Brain with David Eagleman and the host of the podcast Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman. His podcast has been ranked as the number-one science podcast on Apple several times and in 2024 was nominated for the best science podcast of the year at the iHeart Podcast Awards at SXSW.
After his career at Sun Microsystems, where he became a Sun Fellow, Diffie served for two and a half years as Vice President for Information Security and Cryptography at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (2010–2012). He has also served as a visiting scholar (2009–2010) and affiliate (2010–2012) at the Freeman Spogli Institute's Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, where he is currently a consulting scholar.
Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering
Public Service Medal, Australia
Centenary Medal, Australia
He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) and was awarded a Centenary Medal (2002) for services to marine sciences and a 2011 Australian Honours Public Services Medal (PSM) for services to primary industries research and development. Professor Lewis has a BSc(Hon) from the University of Adelaide and a DSc (honoris causa) from Flinders University. He is currently an Adjunct Professor at Flinders University. He is an Honorary Fellow of SARDI.
Member of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE), IEEE, and the Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ)
Research Areas: Access methods in wireless communications, fixed/low Earth orbit satellite communications, stratospheric aircraft systems, mobile communications, optical wireless communications, and multi-body communications. Additionally, research is conducted on the development of multiple access schemes, modulation and demodulation methods, and the establishment of fundamental antenna control technologies, with a focus on integrating these areas with applied technologies.
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