Professor of Microelectronics Engineering

Research Interests

- VLSI architectures for signal and image processing, automated design of DSP ASICs 
- Rapid design and prototyping for DSP ASICs and DSP ASIC cores 
- Computer arithmetic for advanced DSP processors, algorithm to architecture mapping
- DSP silicon intellectual property (IP) cores 
- Low power DSP systems 

Teaching Interests

Digital Signal and Image Processing, VLSI systems design 

School Responsibilities:

1. Director of DSiP Laboratories (major research facility for design of advanced DSP chips) 
2. School management committee 
3. School research committee 
4. Responsible for school’s research assessment submission to UK Higher Education Funding Council

University Appointments:

1. Member of university strategic review committee
2. Member of university research committee 
3. Technical promoter of QUB’s initiative to establish a new Research and Enterprise Park
4. Selection panel Director of Communications 

Outside Appointments:

1. Chair IEEE Signal Processing Society’s technical committee on design and Implementation of Signal Processing
     Systems (1999-2001) 
2.  EPSRC Electronics and Photonics research peer review college 
3.  CTO, Integrated Silicon Systems Ltd. (http://www.iss-dsp.com) 
4.  Non-executive Director, Invest Belfast - a not for profit company established to promote investment in the city of
     Belfast 
5.  National Microelectronics Research Centre, Cork, Academic Advisory Board 
6.  N. Ireland Foresight/Growth Challenge Steering Panel 
7.  External examiner for Master of Engineering Science degree at University College Cork 
8.  N. Ireland Foresight Networks and Systems Panel 
9.  N. Ireland Department of Economic Development Strategic Review Committee on Electronics, 1998- 
10.N. Ireland Department of Economic Development Strategic Review Committee on Design and Innovation, 1998- 
11.N Ireland Partnership to promote inward investment in N Ireland 
12.Editorial board, Journal of VLSI Signal Processing, Kluwer Academic Press (Boston) 1988- 
13.Technical committee IEEE Signal Processing Society, International Workshop on the Design and Implementation of
     Signal Processing Systems, Boston, USA, October 1998 
14.Technical committee IEEE Signal Processing Society, International Workshop on the Design and Implementation of
     Signal Processing Systems, Taipei, Taiwan October 1999 
15.Technical Committee International Engineering Consortium, "DesignCon" , San Jose, California, February, 1999 
16.Technical committee IEEE Information Theory Workshop, Killarney, June 1998 
17.Reviewer IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing, Seattle, USA, 1998 
18.Technical committee IEEE Information Theory Workshop, Killarney, June 1998 
19.Technical Committee IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing, Phoenix, USA,    
      1999 
20.Technical coordinator, (TC Chair) for papers on Design and Implementation of Signal IEEE International Conference  
     on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing, Istanbul, Turkey, 2000 
21.Technical committee, European Solid State Circuits Conference, Germany, 1999 

Recent Awards:

Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal for outstanding contributions to UK engineering leading to commercial
exploitation, 1996. 

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