Electronic Engineering Group Alistair Duffy

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Electronic Engineering GroupAlistair Duffy
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• Aim
• Introduce the group its history and
  capabilities

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History

• EEG was formed post RAE
• The Electronic Engineering entry is one of the
  University success stories from the RAE.
• Placed above Reading and Swansea. 29th in the UK
  (nearly 90 Universities run electronic UG
  courses)
• A broader group than EMTERC and Wireless

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Purpose

• Capture the body of existing research outside the
  narrower remits of EMTERC and Wireless
• Use breadth of knowledge as a strength (input
  from one area can solve problems in another)
• Exploit interesting problems at interfaces

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Membership

• Alistair Duffy Electromagnetics (EM)
• Chris Oxley High Frequency Electronics (HF)
• John Gow Power Electronics (PE)
• Scott Linfoot Digital TV / Metadata Analysis
  (DM)
• Cristian Serdean Image / Video Processing (IP)
• Akil Bashagha Signal processing / comp.
  arithmetic (SP)
• Xin Kai Li Mathematical Modelling (MM)

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One way to look at the relationships!
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Another view - consider two dimensions
Application
DM
IP
SP
PE
HF
EM
MM
Physical
Theoretical
Practical
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A brief tour of people and projects

• Scott Linfoot (digital television and metadata
  analysis). Currently working on a major
  automated metadata insertion project and has a
  spin-out company developing and marketing
  technology to archive vast quantities of video
  tape to hard disk. A member of the IEEE Consumer
  electronics Society AdCom.

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A brief tour cont.

• Cristian Serdean (Image/Video processing).
  Current projects include stereo imaging, wavelets
  and multiwavelets, and digital watermarking. Has
  developed high capacity wavelet based
  watermarking techniques robust to geometrical
  attacks. Cristian is a regular reviewer for
  EPSRC applications and papers.

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A brief tour cont.

• Akil Bashagha (Signal processing/ Computer
  algorithms and architectures). Currently working
  on High radix and digit serial arithmetic
  processors and their applications in signal
  processing. Akil has published in the highest
  regarded journals in the field.

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A brief tour cont.

• John Gow (power electronics and high speed
  embedded systems). Currently working on
  photovoltaic power systems, global satellite
  navigation data processing. Works closely with
  local industry e.g. embedded system firmware
  development. John has published in the highest
  regarded journals in the field.

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A brief tour cont.

• Alistair Duffy (electromagnetics). Currently
  working on validation of CEM, cable and antenna
  technology, technology forecasting. Validation
  method now an IEEE standard, developed new method
  for antenna efficiency measurement. Alistair is
  an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer.

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A brief tour cont.

• Xin Kai Li (mathematical modelling and numerical
  simulation for engineering problems). He has
  developed a spectral element model for blood flow
  and is solving transmission matrix problems in
  comms systems. Xin Kai is a consultant for the
  Shell Research Centre.

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A brief tour cont.

• Chris Oxley (solid state microwave devices).
  Currently working on thermal mapping of
  electronic devices and modelling of devices on
  wide-band gap semiconductors. Chris has set up an
  internationally recognised infrared imaging
  facility, collaboration with many universities
  and industries. He reviews for EPSRC and European
  framework 7 related projects.

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Recent advances

• Feature Selective Validation now IEEE1597.1

Visual assessment Analysis
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Summary

• Electronic Engineering Group
• New
• Broad-based
• Good record of achievement

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