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

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Personal profile

Research Interests

Roger is a member of the AI Research Theme. His research interests includes:

Novel computing systems including multi-precision computing, edge computing solutions, Field Programmable Gate Arrays
Big Data analytics particulalrly focused at manufacturing.
Innovative telecommunications hardware platforms incorporating edge AI technology for advanced secuirty and IoT applications.

Teaching

Teaching areas include:

Digitals systems design including module ELE3038 and relevant final year/MSc projects.
ELE3044 Engineering Entrepreneurship module which puts students through their paces in establishing a company to commercialise an engineering product.

Achievements

Co-founder and Chief Scientist of Analytics Engines Ltd., a company providing data analytics solutions which reduces complexity, optimises performance and builds intelligence
Leadership role in establishing and running the EFutures academic network engaged in all aspects of electroncis research in technology/design
Principal Investigator for the Kelvin-2 Tier-4 High Performance Computing centre involving Queen's University Belfast and Ulster University
Member of the EPSRC's Strategic Advisory Team on ICT
Designer of a number of innovative microchips with industry for data processing, 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
Chair of the Engineering Policy Group Northern Ireland
General chair of the 2018 International International Symposium on Applied Reconfigurable Computing and the 2014 Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers.

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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

Optimisation of System Throughput Exploiting Tasks Heterogeneity on Space Shared FPGAs

Minhas, U., Woods, R. & Karakonstantis, G., 03 Feb 2020, International Conference on Field-Programmable Technology. IEEE

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

Open Access

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12 Downloads (Pure)

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

10 Citations (Scopus)

239 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

1 Citation (Scopus)

24 Downloads (Pure)

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

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3 Citations (Scopus)

257 Downloads (Pure)

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

Lee, S., Duong, Q. & Woods, R., Nov 2019, In : IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. 68, 11, p. 10822-10833 12 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access

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1 Citation (Scopus)

106 Downloads (Pure)