Research and academic awards

The latest awards and achievements from the Department of Electrical Engineering.

March / April 2013

An exceptional number of award successes this month.  

Danilo Mandic has been awarded an EPSRC grant entitled: "Multiscale Signal Processing for Next Generation Electroencephalography" which is worth £391k to the Department over 3 years.

Dr Mandic has also been successful in winning a pump priming grant for "In-ear Sleep Monitor" with Prof M Morrell of Royal Brompton, which is worth £36k for 6 months, and has been awarded a Pathway to Impact grant by EPSRC/Imperial for his work in Ear-EEG, worth £52k over 10 months.

In addition Dr Mandic has been appointed to the Board of Governors of the International Neural Networks Society.

Dr T-K Kim has won an industrial grant from Samsung AIT entitled: "3D hand posture recognition". This grant is for one year and is worth £95,000 to the department.

T-K Kim has also taken over, from Prof. Maria Petrou, the European FP7 grant, NOPTILUS, for "underwater vision", since Jan 2013. This previously announced EU grant is for a duration of 4 years until March 2015, and is worth £352,000 to the department.

Pantelis Georgiou (PI) and Chris Toumazou (Co-I) have won a £408k Wellcome Trust grant on the project: "The Bioinspired Artificial Pancreas for control of blood glucose in the home.

Tim Constandinou has been awarded a facility support grant by EPSRC for "Next Generation Neural Probes for Large Scale Recoding in Living Brain" which is worth £16k.

Christos Bouganis has been awarded a DSTL grant of £27k on "Application of super-resolution algorithms for the image enhancement of a human face in PAL video stream".

Jeremy Pitt has been successful with the Marie Currie IEF application for Dr Regis Riveret. This is worth £164,152 to the department.

Bikash Pal (PI) and Goran Strbac (Co-I) have been successful with †he EPSRC application under the UK-India Smart Grid programme entitled: "Advanced Communication and Control for the Prevention of Blackouts" This £972k project is led by Manchester and is partnered with Imperial and Strathclyde.

Dr Pal has also been successful with the EPSRC application entitled: "Reliable and Efficient System for Community Energy Solution- RESCUES" This £955k project is led by Bikash and is partnered with Queen's Belfast and Exeter.

Goran Strbac (Co-I) and Nilay Shah from Chemical Engineering (PI) have been successful in the EPSRC application entitled: "Whole System Energy Modelling", which is led by UCL partnering Imperial, Cambridge and Surrey. This Grand Challenge project is worth just over £1m to Imperial, and the department's share is £500k.

Tim Green (PI), Balarko Chaudhuri and Goran Strbac (Co-Is) have been successful in the EPSRC grant proposal: "Reconfigurable Distribution Network", and it is worth £450k over three years.

Paul Mitcheson (PI) and Eric Yeatman (Co-I) have been awarded an £82k industrially funded project from EADS entitled: "Low Power Charge".

Patrick Naylor has been successful in winning Phase 1 of the LINOPS project from Qinetiq, which is worth £20k.

Thomas Parisini (PI) and Alessandro Astolfi have won ABB funded project entitled: "Increased functionality energy-autonomous sensor networks for self-monitoring industrial environments". This is worth US$80k over three years.