:: Staff

Academic Staff

Professor Emmanuel C. Ifeachor	Professor of Intelligent Electronic Systems Head of SPMC research Group
Dr Nicolas Outram	Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Informatics and E-Health
Dr Lingfen Sun	Associate Professor (Reader) in Multimedia Communications and Networks

Research Fellow

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Dr Is-Haka Mkwawa

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow FP7 GERYON project

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Dr Emmanuel Jammeh

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow FP7 GERYON project

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Research Students

Mr Athanasios Anastasiou	PhD student Biomarkers for early detection and characterisation of dementia
Mr Paul Hopkins	PhD student Biopattern Analysis of Cardiac Signals
Mrs Asiya Khan	PhD student Voice and Video Quality Assessment over 3G Networks
Mr Edwin Madu	PhD student Neuro-Fuzzy Diagnosis of Ovarian Cancer
Mr Martin Metz	PhD student Techniques for Classifying Pigmented Skin Lesions
Ms Peng Zhao	PhD student Early Detection and Assessment of Dementia
Mr Alcardo Alex Barakabitze	PhD student Quality of Experience Control and Management in Emerging Multimedia Services
Mr Avsar Asan	PhD student Innovative Quality of Experience Models
Mr Ali Alfayly	PhD student QoE-aware transport layer protocols for real-time multimedia applications over wireless networks
Mr Li Liu	PhD student QoE-driven Mobility Management for 4G Mobile Networks

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Pictures of Centre for SPMC Staff

Associated Staff

Professor Desmond Mapps : d.mapps@plymouth.ac.uk / Homepage
Associate Dean (Research and Enterprise), University of Plymouth, England

Mr John Curnow : John.Curnow@phnt.swest.nhs.uk
Principal Medical Physicist, Derriford Hospital Plymouth

Professor Robert Sneyd : robert.sneyd@phnt.swest.nhs.uk
Associate Dean and Professor of Anaesthesia, Peninsula Medical School, Plymouth

Mr Nigel Hudson : Nigel.Hudson@phnt.swest.nhs.uk
Chief EEG Technician, Derriford Hospital, Plymouth

Dr Sunil Wimalaratna (Swindon, Oxford)
Consultant Electro-physiologist at Derriford Hospital in Plymouth

Dr Peter Kersey : Peter.Kersey@phnt.swest.nhs.uk
Consultant Dermatologist, Derriford Hospital, Plymouth.

Professor Wolf-dieter Groch : w.groch@fbi.fh-darmstadt.de / Homepage
University of Applied Science, Darmstadt, Germany

Dr Robin Clark :  ( Home page )
Allen &  Heath Ltd, Penryn, Cornwall, England

Past Research Staff/Students

Dr Pin Hu - now at Harris Corporation, Reading, UK Biopattern Analysis of Cardiac Signals
Dr Zizi Qiao - now at China Unicom, Beijing, China Voice Quality Prediction and Control for Voice over IP Networks
Dr Zhuoqun Li - now at PA Consulting Group, Cambridge, UK Quality of Service Provisioning in the Wireless Grid

Dr Victoriya Stalbovskaya - now at Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Switzerland Research in bioinformatics, statistics in medicine (email: vstalbovskaya@gmail.com)

Dr Cindy Goh - now at the University of Glasgow, Singapore Associate Professor, Director of Postgraduate and Research Programme

Dr Geoff Henderson - BAE Systems, Plymouth, U.K.  Ph.D. Thesis 2005 - Early Detection of Dementia using the Human Electroencephalogram
Dr Brahim Hamadicharef - now at the Institute for Infocomm Research (I^2R), A-Star , Singapore Ph.D. Thesis 2005 - Artificial Intelligence-based Approach to Modeling of Pipe Organs
Mr Athanasios Anastasiou - now PhD student, SPMC, SoCCE, University of Plymouth, UK M.Res. Thesis 2004 - Robust acoustic link for underwater data communications
Dr Chao Dong  - now Engineer at ARC International UK Ph.D. Thesis 2003 - Closed-loop control of total intravenous anaesthesia
Mr Pin Hu  - now PhD student, SPMC, SoCCE, University of Plymouth, UK M.Sc. Thesis, 2003 - The Impact of Adaptive Playout Buffer Algorithm on Perceived Speech Quality Transported over IP Networks
Mr Zhuoqun Li - now PhD student, SPMC, SoCCE, University of Plymouth, UK M.Res. Thesis, 2003 - Improving Perceived Speech Quality for Wireless VoIP By Cross-Layer Designs
Mr Charles Marzin - now at Transpac, France M.Sc. Thesis, 2003 - Prediction of Audio Quality for Personal Audio Devices
Mr Yifan Zhang - now PhD student, Distributed Systems Research Group, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand M.Res. Thesis, 2003 - Automated Modeling and Synthesis of Piano Sounds
Mr Jeremie Grizard M.Sc. Thesis, 2003 - Sound Synthesis using Independent Component Analysis
Dr Julian Tilbury Ph.D. Thesis 2002 - Evaluation of Intelligent Medical Systems
Mr Jon Skinner M.Phil. Thesis 2002 - Intelligent techniques for reducing uncertainty in retrospective CTG analysis
Dr Stephen Harris Ph.D. Thesis 2001 - Natural Algorithms in Digital Signal Filter Design
Dr Robin Clark - now at Allen &  Heath Ltd, UK Ph.D. Thesis 2001 - Investigation into Digital Audio Equaliser Systems and the Effects of Arithmetic and Transform Error on Performance
Mr Hatta M.Sc. Thesis, 1998 - Investigation of delivery of packet data over fixed wireless access
Dr Edward Riddington - now at Nokia, UK Ph.D. Thesis 1998 - Automated interpretation of the background EEG using fuzzy logic
Dr Nicholas Outram - now Senior Lecturer, SoCCE, University of Plymouth, UK Ph.D. Thesis 1997 - Intelligent pattern analysis of foetal electrocardiogram
Dr Jonathan Garibaldi - now Associate Professor, ASAP, University of Nottingham, UK Ph.D. Thesis 1997 - Intelligent techniques for handling uncertainty in the assessment of neonatal outcome
Dr Robert Keith - now  at K2 Medical Systems, Plymouth, UK Ph.D. Thesis 1993 - Intelligent fetal monitoring and decision support in the management of labour
Dr Mark Hellyar - Ph.D. Thesis 1991 - Investigation, development and application of knowledge based digital signal processing methods for enhancing human EEGs

June 2010 - SPMC / SoCCE / UoP