Roger Woods public CV

Roger Woods

Professor

Phone+44 (0)28 9097 4081
EmailR.Woods@qub.ac.uk

Room 07.021 - Ashby Tower
United Kingdom

Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

There are PhD opportunities open in creation of innovative embedded systems: - New Edge Computing Solutions for Machine Learning - Physical Layer Security Approaches for Internet-of-Things - Advanced Data Analysis for Manufacturing Applications

Research output per year

If you made any changes in Pure these will be visible here soon.

Personal profile

Research Interests

Roger is Research Director for the Electronics and Computer Engineering Cluster in the School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. His research interests includes computing systems archiectures particularly those involving Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) technology, innovative telecommunications hardware platforms and acceleration of Big Data analytics.

Teaching

Roger's main teaching area is in the implementation of digital systems. He also runs the 3rd year "Engineering Entrepreneurship" module which involves students going through all of the processes of setting up a company to commercialise an engineering product.

Achievements

Founder and Chief Scientist of Analytics Engines a company which provides the business backbone for data analytics and management with the world’s most flexible, scalable data platform and which won the “ITLG Emerging Technology Award 2013” at the Global Technology Leaders Summit in the US.
Leadership role in establishing the EFuturesthe academic community engaged in all aspects of electroncis research in technology/design.
Designer of a number of innovative microchips with industry some of which were used in commercial standards conversion technology.
Advisory board member to the IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Committee on the Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems.
Expert on STEM to the Northern Ireland Assembly.
Vice-Chairman of the Engineering Policy Group Northern Ireland since 2012.
General chair of the International Conference on Field Programmable Logic (FPL2001), Applied Reconfigurable Computing (ARC2009, ARC2011) and the Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers (USA, Nov. 2014).

Fingerprint Dive into the research topics where Roger Woods is active. These topic labels come from the works of this person. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

28 Similar Profiles

Network Recent external collaboration on country level. Dive into details by clicking on the dots.

Projects

5 Finished
12 Active

R1129ECI: Kelvin-2 - The High Performance Computing Centre in Northern Ireland (HPC-NI)

Woods, R., Chevallier, O., Gillan, C., Hu, P., Rafferty, K., Salto-Tellez, M., Tikhonova, I. & Vandierendonck, H.

04/12/2019 → …

Project: Research

R1057ECI: eFutures2 : exploiting the UK's rich heritage in electronics

Woods, R.

15/04/2019 → …

Project: Research

R1917CNR: Health Data Research UK (HDR UK)

Lawler, M., Blayney, J., Coleman, H., Dunne, P., Heaney, L., Kee, F., McArt, D., Nikolopoulos, D., O'Reilly, D., Overton, I., Salto-Tellez, M. & Woods, R.

29/10/2018 → …

Project: Research

R6551CSC: Open TransPREcision COMPuting

Woods, R., Karakonstantis, G. & Vandierendonck, H.

03/11/2016 → …

Project: Research

R6410CSC: NanoStreams: A Hardware and Software Stack for Real-Time Analytics on Fast Data Streams

Nikolopoulos, D., Spence, I. & Woods, R.

01/08/2013 → …

Project: Research

Research Output

An Investigation of Using Loop-back Mechanism for Channel Reciprocity Enhancement in Secret Key Generation

Peng, L., Li, G., Zhang, J., Woods, R., Liu, M. & Hu, A., 01 Mar 2019, In : IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. 18, 3, p. 507-519 13 p., 8370120.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access

File

9 Citations (Scopus)

215 Downloads (Pure)

Evaluation of FPGA Partitioning Schemes for Time and Space Sharing of Heterogeneous Tasks

Minhas, U., Woods, R. & Karakonstantis, G., 31 Mar 2019, International Symposium on Applied Reconfigurable Computing TU Darmstadt 09 - 11 April 2019. Springer, (Lecture Notes in Computer Science ).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Open Access

File

FPGA-based Processor Acceleration for Image Processing Applications

Siddiqui, F., Amiri, S., Minhas, U. I., Deng, T., Woods, R., Rafferty, K. & Crookes, D., 13 Jan 2019, In : Journal of Imaging. 5, 1, 22 p., 16.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access

File

1 Citation (Scopus)

204 Downloads (Pure)

Impact of Wireless Backhaul Unreliability and Imperfect Channel Estimation on Opportunistic NOMA

Lee, S., Duong, Q. & Woods, R., 02 Sep 2019, In : IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. p. 1-1

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access

File

82 Downloads (Pure)

Optimisation of System Throughput Exploiting Tasks Heterogeneity on Space Shared FPGAs

Minhas, U., Woods, R. & Karakonstantis, G., 05 Oct 2019, (Accepted) International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology. IEEE

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution