Research Interests

There are PhD opportunities open in creation of innovative embedded systems:

• New Edge Computing Solutions for Machine Learning
• Physical Layer Security Approaches for Internet-of-Things
• Advanced Data Analysis for Manufacturing Applications

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Public outreach & key achievements

• Co-founder and Chief Scientist of university spin-off company, Analytics Engines Ltd
• Academic Award by Enterprise Ireland in 2017
• Winner of the Northern Ireland Science Park’s £25k HiTech/ Entrepreneurship Award
• Queen’s University’s Woods says FPGAs becoming more accessible, Water Technology, 23 November 2012 available via website (http://m.waterstechnology.com/sell-side-technology/interview/2226945/queens-universitys-woods-says-fpgas-becoming-more-accessible )

Research students

PhD area	Adaptive algorithms for hardware acceleration of dynamic Bayesian networks
Name	Caoimhe Carbery
Country	Ireland
PhD area	Efficient resource allocation in cloud systems and data centres
Name	Umar Minhas
Country	Pakistan
PhD area	FPGA-based programmable embedded platform for image processing applications
Name	Fahad Siddiqui
Country	South Korea

Alumni: Where are they now

PhD area	Design exploration of image processing algorithms using FPGA based soft-core processors
Name	Colm Kelly
Years of study	2011-2016
Country	UK
Current Position	Thales
PhD area	Key generation and physical layer encryption for secure wireless communications
Name	Junqing Zhang
Years of study	2012-2015
Country	UK
Current Position	Research Fellow, University of Liverpool
PhD area	System-on-chip Heterogeneous Architecture Recognition Engine for Speech
Name	Jianhua Lv
Years of study	2007-2010
Country	USA
Current Position	Speech Scientist at Nuance Communications

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