Phone:	+44 (0)28 9097 1700 (Secretary) +44 (0)28 9097 1700 (Direct)
Fax:	+44 (0)28 9066 3992
E-Mail:	j.mccanny@ecit.qub.ac.uk
WWW:	http://www.ecit.qub.ac.uk/
Location:	Room 1.25 Riddel Hall, 185 Stranmillis Rd, Belfast, BT9 5EE.

Research Interests:

System-on-Chip (SoC) architectures for signal and image processing, DSP SoCs for video and broadband wireless communications, including hardware cryptography. Design methodologies for DSP SoCs including heterogeneous, hierarchical and re-usable architectures, DSP semiconductor intellectual property (IP). Algorithm to architecture mapping methodologies, computer arithmetic for DSP, low power SoC architectures and chip designs. Creation of high technology spin-off companies based on research, including Amphion (www.amphion.com).

Teaching Interests:

Digital Signal and Image Processing, SoC and VLSI systems design

School responsibilities:

1. School Management Committee
2. School research committee
   

University Appointments:

1. Director of Institute of Electronics Communications and Information Technology (ECIT) - £40M project which is creating a world class research facility on the Northern Ireland Science Park) (www.nisp.co.uk)
2. Member of the University Professorial review committee 2002
3. Various appointment panels for senior staff
   

Outside Responsibilities:

1. Chief Technology Officer and Director Amphion (www.amphion.com)
2. Royal Society Sectional Committee 4 (Engineering, technology, instrumentation, materials science, experimental and fluid dynamics) 2004-6, Chair 2005
3. Member of the Royal Academy of Engineering's Standing Committee on Engineering 2001-
4. Royal Society’s Fellowships Committee (Chemistry and Engineering), 2003-5
5. Royal Society’s committee for review of higher education in the UK, 2003
6. DTI’s Electronics Innovation and Growth Team Steering board including the Innovation sub-committee, 2003-4
7. Member, IEEE Signal Processing Society’s technical committee on design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems (Chair 1999-2001)
8. Associate Editor IEEE transactions Circuits and Systems II. Analog and Digital Signal Processing.
9. Editorial Board, Journal of VLSI Signal Processing for Signal Image and Video technology, Kluwer Academic Press
10. Technical committee IEEE Signal Processing Society, International Workshop on the Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems, Seoul 2003, Austin 2004
11. Technical Committee IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing, Hong Kong 2003, Toronto, 2004
12. Technical Committee, IEEE International Conference on Application Specific Array Processors, The Hague, Netherlands 2003, Houston USA, 2004