Bill Cowley worked at the University of South Australia for over 30 years, mainly in the Institute for Telecommunications Research at Mawson Lakes. He retired in September 2015 from his UniSA position of Professor of Communication Signal Processing and is currently an adjunct researcher at UniSA.  Bill became involved with the ISU during the SSP04 which was held in Adelaide.  Since then he's assisted with a couple of SSPs and most of the SHSSPs, mainly in areas related to satellite communications.