University Defence Research Centre (UDRC) in Signal Processing at Imperial College

A.G. Constantinides is the Professor of Signal and the head of the Communications and Signal Processing Group of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He has been actively involved with research in various aspects of digital filter design, digital signal processing, and communications for more than 30 years. Professor Constantinides' research spans a wide range of Digital Signal Processing and Communications, both from the theoretical as well as the practical points of view. His recent work has been directed toward the demanding signal processing problems arising from the various areas of mobile telecommunication. This work is supported by research grants and contracts from various government and industrial organisations.

Kin K. Leung is the Tanaka Chair Professor in Internet Technology, a joint appointment of the Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Computing Departments at Imperial College. He started his career at AT&T Bell Labs in 1986 after completing his Ph.D. at University of California, Los Angeles. As Lucent Technologies was spun off from AT&T in 1996, he moved with his organization to AT&T Labs. In 2002, he re-joined and worked at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, until joining Imperial College in 2004.

Professor Manikas holds the Chair of the Communications and Array Processing in the Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London.

He has published an extensive set of journal and conference papers in the area of digital communications and array signal processing and is the Author of a book (monograph) entitled "Differential Geometry in Array Processing". He is on the editorial board of IET Proceedings Signal Processing and the editor of the ICP research book-series on Communications and Signal Processing (jointly with Prof. A.G. Constantinides). He has held a number of research consultancies for the EU, industry and government organisations. He also has had various technical chairs at international conferences and has been a TPC member of major IEEE conferences

He has served as an Expert Witness in the High Court of Justice (UK) and is currently a member of the Royal Society's International Fellowship Committee (1st Jan 2008 until 31st Dec 2010).

He is leading a strong group of researchers at Imperial College and has supervised successfully 29 PhDs and more than 100 Masters project-students.

Professor Manikas is a Senior Member of IEEE, a Fellow of IEE and a Chartered Engineer.

Eric M. Yeatman has been a member of academic staff in Imperial College London since 1989, and Professor of Micro-Engineering since 2005. He is deputy head of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and has published more than 130 papers on optical devices and materials, and micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS). He holds several patents, and is co-founder and chairman of Microsaic Systems Ltd., a MEMS product development company spun-out of the college. He has been principal or co-investigator on more than 20 research council and industry supported projects, with over £6M in research funds raised. He has acted as a design consultant for several international companies, and technical advisory board member to two venture capital funds. His current research interests are in radio frequency and photonic MEMS devices, and energy scavenging for wireless sensor nodes.

Dr. Mandic received the Ph.D. degree in nonlinear adaptive signal processing in 1999 from Imperial College, London, London, U.K. He is now a Reader with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, London, U.K. He has previously taught at the Universities of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk, U.K., and Banja Luka, Bosnia Herzegovina.

He has written over 150 publications on a variety of aspects of signal processing and a research monograph on recurrent neural networks. He has been a Guest Professor at the Catholic University Leuven, Leuven, Belgium and Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT), and Frontier Researcher at the Brain Science Institute RIKEN, Tokyo, Japan. Dr. Mandic has been a Member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Committee on Machine Learning for Signal Processing, Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II, and Associate Editor for International Journal of Mathematical Modeling and Algorithms. He has won awards for his papers and for the products coming from his collaboration with industry.

Tania Stathaki was born in Athens, Hellas. In September 1991 she received the Masters degree in Electronics and Computer Engineering from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) and the Advanced Diploma in Classical Piano Performance from the Orfeion Athens Conservatory of Music. She received the Ph.D. degree in Signal Processing from Imperial College in September 1994. She is currently a Reader in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of Imperial College. Previously, she was Lecturer in the Department of Information Systems and Computing of Brunel University in UK, Visiting Lecturer in the Electrical Engineering Department of Mahanakorn University in Thailand and Assistant Professor in the Department of Technology Education and Digital Systems of the University of Pireus in Greece. Her current research interests lie in the areas of signal and image processing and computer vision.

Dr. Athanasios (Thanos) Gkelias is the project manager of the University Defense Research Centre (UDRC) in Signal Processing at Imperial College. Part of his repsonsibilities is to assist the Center's academic staff and manage the administration function of the Centre, to co-ordinate Centre meetings and quarterly reports and to oversee the Centre website.

Thanos received his Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering (major in Telecommunications) from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in 2000. He received his MSc and PhD degrees in 2001 and 2005, respectively, both from the Department of Electronic Engineering, King's College London. Currently, he is also working as a post-doctoral researcher at Imperial College London on Mobile-VCE Core 5 program.