Case for Support: Adaptive Hardware Systems with Novel Algorithmic Design and Guaranteed Resource Bounds

Dr John Thompson is a Reader in Electronics at the University of Edinburgh. He is a member of the joint research initiative in signal and image processing, which is part of the Edinburgh Research Partnership with Heriot-Watt University. He has been conducting research into the topic of antenna array processing for thirteen years and has over 100 publications in the area, including several journal papers analysing antenna array techniques and three invited book chapters. He is an editor in chief of IEE Proceedings Vision, Image and Signal Processing and has participated in the Mobile Virtual Centre of Excellence (VCE) Core 2 and Core 4 programmes. He is the principal investigator on the EPSRC award GR/S58782 which investigates the use of multihop and Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) techniques in wireless cellular networks. This project involves significant collaboration with researchers from Nortel Networks, Vodafone and Carleton University in Canada.