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Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

1. Explainable and Ethical AI for trust
2. Understanding energy demand and energy-intensive activities through data-driven AI methods
3. Non-Intrusive Appliance Load Monitoring (NILM)
4. Understanding subsurface processes for mitigating landslides or extracting geothermal energy through AI-driven micro-seismic signal analysis
5. Understanding the value of pipeline and end-to-end learning methods for different applications and datasets
5. AI methods for non-intrusive rehabilitation and telehealthcare

Personal profile

Personal Statement

My research expertise is in Signal and Information Processing (inc. AI technologies and machine learning), with focus on representation, processing, temporal and spatial information mining, and data management for a range of signal types acquired from sensors.  My key strength is in extracting meaningful information from real data, including electrical, seismic, health/biological and other environmental sensor data, developing algorithms to handle dynamic and complex data that is often sparse, noisy, heterogeneous and multimodal, gathered from distributed sources. My research is multi-disciplinary by nature and has a strong focus on tackling emerging challenges pertaining to climate change and United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, working closely with international collaborators and non-academic stakeholders to lead innovation in the field. 

My work is particularly aligned with the following university strategic research themes (Measurement Science & Enabling Technologies, Energy, Health & Well-Being)

I am currently Deputy Head of Department Learning & Teaching. 

Expertise & Capabilities

Signal information processing with application to the following problems:

  • Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM), load profiling and disaggregation, activity recognition and anomaly detection from smart meter data (Energy)
  • Downstream benefits of NILM for the built environment, agriculture and transport inc. EV (Innovation and Industry)
  • Landslide mitigation and informing geothermal extraction through micro-seismic event analysis (Geosciences)
  • Motion capture and person-centric kinematrics analysis using portable depth and infrared camera systems (Health & Wellbeing)

Research Interests

  • Smart meter energy analytics, including load disaggregation, prediction and profiling
  • AI for the Decarbonisation of the Built Environment, Agriculture and Transport 
  • Environmental impact assessment of consumption cycle of Food Systems and Appliances inc. Electric Vehicles
  • Detecting, classifying, understanding and characterising subsurface processes arising from natural slopes for landslide mitigation and human activities, such as geothermal extraction
  • Model-fitting/system characterisation
  • Sensor deployment and data acquisition

Academic / Professional qualifications

PhD and BEng (Hons) in Electronic Communication Systems from Lancaster University

Teaching Interests

Current classes:

1st year Engineering Design for Software Development inc. Python programming

4th/5th year Information Transmission and Security, inc. Digital communications principles, channel coding

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
  • SDG 4 - Quality Education
  • SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
  • SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
  • SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
  • SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
  • SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production
  • SDG 13 - Climate Action
  • SDG 15 - Life on Land
  • SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
  • SDG 17 - Partnerships for the Goals

Education/Academic qualification

Doctor of Philosophy, A Multifunctional Turbo-based Receiver using Partial Unit Memory Codes, School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University

Award Date: 1 May 2003

Bachelor of Engineering, Electronic Communications Systems, Lancaster University

Award Date: 15 Jun 1999

External positions

Committe member of the European Science Foundation, The European Science Foundation

Dec 2018Dec 2021

Editorial Board, Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks

12 Feb 2018 → …

Carnegie Trust Research Assessor for Science, Engineering and Technology, Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland

Feb 2018 → …

EPSRC Peer Review College Member , Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

1 Apr 2010 → …

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