Expert Details

Video Communication including over Wireless

ID: 729970 United Kingdom

Expert's research expertise is in the use of packetization, interleaving, error resilience, forward error correction, unequal error protection, and other techniques to mitigate video streaming over wireless networks. He has a good working knowledge of video coding. For example, he was a leading contributor to an Ofcom report on future video codecs. He regularly reviews for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology and IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, as well as reviewing for related IEEE Transactions journals. Consequently, he has many recent research papers on video communication over WiMAX and also over Bluetooth. Additionally, he has researched congestion control methods for video communication over the wired Internet. He came to this research field through parallel computing, including the use of FPGAs and modular parallel processors, and in that connection (high-speed processing thrugh parallelism) he has worked in the related applications of document compression, and low-level image compression. His total research output over 17 years is over 200 papers.

Advice on patent applicability to Sony Playstation 2, i.e. had Sony infringed a patented video processing architecture in their design --- consulted by branch of EMI, UK at Central Research Labs.

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Education

Year	Degree	Subject	Institution
Year: 1997	Degree: PhD	Subject: Parallel image processing systems	Institution: University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom
Year: 1992	Degree: MSc	Subject: Parallel Computing	Institution: University of South-West England, Bristol, U.K.
Year: 1990	Degree: MSc	Subject: Astrophysics	Institution: Queen Mary College, University of London, U.K.
Year: 1990	Degree: BA	Subject: Mathematics/Physics subjects	Institution: Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
Year: 1973	Degree: BA	Subject: Modern History	Institution: Oxford University

Work History

Years	Employer	Title	Department
Years: 1992 to Present	Employer: Undisclosed	Title: Senior Lecturer	Department: School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering
Responsibilities: Director of Research (Graduates); Research publications as part of research team; Supervision of PhD, MSc and final year under-grad. students; Lecturing on MSc and Undergraduate modules; Has been responsible for student admissions.

Government Experience

Years	Agency	Role	Description
Years: 2006 to Present	Agency: Ofcom, UK (Telecomms. regulator)	Role: Report Writer and Lead Contributor)	Description: Ofcom report on future performance of video codecs

Career Accomplishments

Associations / Societies
Member of IET Member of IEEE

Publications and Patents Summary
He cuurrently has 78 journal, 126 conference, and 12 book chapters and other publications (including a monograph).

Language Skills

Language	Proficiency
French	Good to fair

Fields of Expertise

parallel computer processing, video communication, concurrent software, discrete cosine transform, occam programming language, embedded processing, image processing hardware, video signal decompression, advanced signal processing system architectural design, MIMD computer architecture, reduced-instruction-set computing, video signal compression, image compression, computer system, computer, parallel processing, computer architecture, broadband communication