Postgraduate Prospectus

www.essex.ac.uk/csee | Electronics and Telecommunications
Staff and their research interests
Michael Adams, BSc London, MSc PhD
Wales, ARCS CEng FIEE (Professor)
Optoelectronic physics and technology;
development of photonic amplifiers
and semiconductor lasers; novel
optical devices
Naci Balkan, BSc Ankara, PhD Glasgow,
CPhys FInstP (Professor)
Non-equilibrium carriers in semiconductors
– physics and technology; optoelectronic
devices operating in the 0.35-2.8µm
wavelength range – VCSELs, HELLISH
devices, wavelength convertors and optical
amplifiers; novel materials for photonic
devices
David Bebbington, MA PhD Cambridge
(Senior Lecturer)
Meteorological radars; radar imagery;
electromagnetic wave propagation in
remote sensing
Adrian Clark, BSc Newcastle, PhD
London, CPhys MInstP MIEEE (Reader)
Computer vision; virtual and augmented
reality; wearable computers; genetic
programming
Steve Fitz, BEng Southampton, CEng
MIEE (Senior Lecturer)
RF communication components and
systems; wireless location and position
fixing; short-range proximity devices;
MM-wave indoor wireless networks
Malcolm Hawksford, BSc PhD DSc
Aston, CEng FIEE FAES FIOA (Professor)
Audio engineering; loudspeaker systems;
spatial and multi-channel audio;
perceptual-modelling; high-resolution
audio; audio measurements; circuit design;
digital signal processing; digital power
amplification; ADC/DAC conversion;
sigma-delta modulation; network
applications; teleconferencing using
spatial audio
David Hunter, BSc PhD Strathclyde,
CEng MIEE SMIEEE (Reader)
Telecommunications and data
networking protocols; protocols for
wireless sensor networks; protocols for
WDM Grid networks; optical local area
networks; optical packet switching and
networking; performance evaluation of
communications systems; communications
switching architectures
Dariush Mirshekar-Syahkal, BSc
Tehran, MSc PhD London, CEng FIEE
SMIEEE (Professor)
Microwave passive components, including
antennas and filters; numerical techniques
in electromagnetic field problems;
non-destructive evaluation of materials
by electromagnetic techniques
Reza Nejabati, BSc Tehran, MSc PhD
Essex, MIET MIEEE (Academic Fellow)
Service oriented and application-aware
networks; programmable and virtual
network infrastructure; grid computing
infrastructure for e-science
Nigel Newton, BSc Bath, PhD London,
DIC (Reader)
Numerical methods for stochastic
processes with application to signal
processing, control engineering,
economics and physics; nonlinear
filtering and stochastic control;
information theory and its connections
with statistical mechanics
Martin Reed, BEng Surrey, PhD Essex,
MAES (Lecturer)
Quality of service mechanisms for Internet
protocol networks; management and
control of optical and core networks;
multimedia Internet applications;
multi-dimensional signal processing
algorithms; non-linear system identification
Steve Sangwine, BSc Southampton,
PhD Reading, CEng FIET SMIEEE
(Senior Lecturer)
Colour-image processing; hypercomplex
Fourier transforms; vector image filters;
medical image analysis (colour skin
images); networks-on-chip; digital circuit
design and test
Dimitra Simeonidou, BSc MSc
Thessaloniki, PhD Essex, MIEEE
(Professor)
Long-haul fibre networks; broadband
networks; network management; optical
transmission; optical signal processing
Alexi Vernitski, BSc MSc Ural State,
PhD Essex, PGCHE Middlesex (Lecturer)
(Joint appointment with the Department
of Mathematical Sciences)
Finite automata; computability;
computational complexity; encryption
techniques; discrete neural networks;
computer viruses
Anthony Vickers, BSc PhD Lancaster
CEng FIEE (Reader)
Photonics – optoelectronic devices;
high-speed lasers and photo detectors;
THz devices; ultrafast measurement
techniques; advanced RF measurement
techniques; THz spectroscopy; biophysics
Stuart Walker, BSc Manchester, MSc
PhD Essex (Professor)
High-capacity optical network systems;
semiconductor laser characteristics;
broadband optical receiver design; optical
transmission; local access architectures
based on arrayed waveguide gratings
John Woods, BEng PhD Essex (Senior
Lecturer)
Image processing; multimedia;
model-based coding and 3-D
modelling; IP and ATM networks;
telecommunications principles; robotics
and autonomous vehicles; sensor
networks and robotic aviation
Kun Yang, BEng MSc Jilin, PhD UCL,
MIEE MIEEE MDMTF (Reader)
Wireless networks; mobile networks;
heterogeneous networks; fix-mobile
convergence; pervasive service
engineering; mobile computers;
network management
Nick Zakhleniuk, BSc MSc PhD Kyiv,
FInsP (Lecturer)
Computational nanotechnology and
TCAD tools; modelling of electronic and
optoelectronic devices and photonic
components; theory of semiconductors
and low-dimensional systems
Staff in our School whose interests are primarily in
computer science are listed on page 82.
Postgraduate Prospectus 2012 | 97