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Panel 16 – systems science
is highly appreciated and has great potential. The focus on activities in
vehicular networks is very important and could lead to important future
research developments.
The group is small and in that sense could benefit from merging with
another group in order to obtain a larger critical mass. There might be a
potential in closer collaboration with the communication research group
within EIT.
5.5 Group Circuits & systems
5.5.1 Research quality
Grade: Good
Judging from the web pages, the circuit & Systems group consists of
1 Professor, 3 Visiting Professors, 4 Associate professors, 2 Assistant
Lecturers, 1 post-doc and 3 PhD students. The number of PhD students
seems low compared to the teaching staff.
The group is active on the following research topics: digital baseband
architectures for wireless communications, digital image processing
architectures, low power architectures, reconfigurable computing, digital
holographic imaging, asynchronous custom DSP, RF and mixed signal,
and digital information systems and knowledge architectures. This seems
a large number of different topics for the current staff. It could therefore
be a good idea to better focus the activities of the group and also seek
closer collaboration with other groups and departments. Although the
research topics are relevant, they rather target incremental innovations
instead of breakthroughs. Digital holography might be an exception. The
group regularly publishes its research results (40 papers in 2007) but the
citations for these papers are rather limited. No patents of the group were
found. However the research already resulted in one spin-off company
(Phase Holographic Imaging).
In summary, the circuits & systems group is a good quality research
group, mainly of national significance, and with strong ties to industry.
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