Former Chair of COST 297 - HAPCOS WG1 'Radio Communications'
Member, IEEE Comsoc Technical Advisory Council (2013/14)
Vice-Chair, Special Interest Group on Cognitive Green Communications and Computing Networks (2014/15)
Research Experience
Oct 2009–present: Professor (Research) at University of York (formerly Senior Research Fellow)
Oct 2011–Sep 2018: Guest Professor at Zhejiang University, China
Oct 2004–Sep 2009: Senior Research Fellow, University of York
Jun 1999–Sep 2004: Research Fellow, University of York
1994–Jun 1999: Research Assistant, University of York
Mar 2021–present: Director and Founder of Mercurius Technology Ltd
Sep 2014–Oct 2018: Non-Executive Director of Stratospheric Platforms Ltd
2001–2009: Director of SkyLARC Technologies Ltd
1989–1993: Placements with BT, including 6 months at BT Labs
Background
Research interests include communications from High Altitude Platforms (HAPs) and other aerial platforms
Wireless communications for Connected Autonomous Networks
Artificial intelligence applied to wireless networks
Radio resource management, including dynamic spectrum sharing and coexistence, economics-based spectrum assignment, and distributed dynamic channel assignment (especially in wireless ad hoc networks)
System-level design of wireless communications, interference analysis and mitigation for mixed wireless systems
Cognitive Communications: Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI), regulatory policy and economics, and implementation