Prof Evans is the Director of the Victoria Research Laboratory, National ICT Australia, and a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the  University of Melbourne. Rob was a Professor of Computer Engineering at the University of Newcastle before becoming Head of Electrical Engineering and Research Leader for the Co-operative Research Centre for Sensor Signal and Information Processing at the University of Melbourne. He has worked extensively with industry throughout his career, has over 450 peer-reviewed publications and is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, the Institution of Electrical and Electronic Engineers USA, and the Institution of Engineers Australia.