Role
- A Ph.D. student in the Fixed & Mobile Communications Research group.
- Turbo codes.
- Interleaver design and optimisation.
- Iterative decoding.
- Ordered reliability list decoding.
- Voluntary (not endorsed by Plymouth University) Christian faith advisor.
- Independent tutor in Mathematics, Electrical and Electronics.
Now making final corrections to the thesis and will submit them in April 2012. Many thanks to the Graduate School for their support.
Professional membership
Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology.
Roles on external bodies
GNU software developer for xc3sprog and libFTDI.
Find out more about me from my website.
Teaching interests
During my PhD I have had the opportunity to teach (not lecture, but lab support) 8031 assembler, AM & FM modulation, computer operating systems (GNU/Linux), op-amps and transistors.
UoP customers requiring tutor support in Electrical, Electronics,
Computing, Mathematics or related disciplines please do get in touch. I will not provide answers to coursework or exam questions. I hope that my teaching is of a quality that enables you to derive the answers yourself and understand the topic in more depth.
I hope that after having completed my PhD I can become part of the School of Computing and Mathematics and promote our school to an international audience. Following the success and fame of our Robitics group it has become increasingly necessary to re-address electronics design and development in house. To this end my professional experience will hugely benefit advances in Robotics at Plymouth University.
Quality of teaching is an important value to me and I desire to work with Plymouth University to improve the quality of teaching in Electrical and Electronic engineering. I have applied for a teaching role and await feedback. Until employed I am able to offer quality private tutoring. Please get in touch.
UPDATE: Failed to get the above mentioned job. However, you may still tap into my knowledge through tutoring, get in touch!
Research interests
A Ph.D. student in the Fixed & Mobile Communications Research group.
Turbo codes:
- Currently writing corrections to a Ph.D. thesis.
- High speed decoding of block codes on FPGA architectures.
Remote Procedure Call (RPC) for embedded systems. Current investigations are based on RPC over USB to a 32-bit ARM processor (STM32F103). The self-developed light-weight protocol is believed to be suitable for 8-bit microcontrollers and I hope to test it with the PIC18F25J50. The work includes a self-developed Interface Description Language (IDL) that is syntactically similar to C. This makes it very usable for embedded software engineers used to writing C code. We are at an exciting time with ARM technology where we see performance expected to exceed that of PC processors. At this time the RPC work will be used to implement a low-cost cluster to solve complex problems (like those I faced in analysing turbo code performance). If you are about to undertake a student project there are some spin-off projects ideas available. Please get in touch.
Other academic activities
Recently the UoP achieved a higher position in the University ranking. I would like to help our university achieve even higher positions, not by false advertising but by genuine effort and change. Having close contact with our customers has allowed me to identify areas where we can improve our image and quality of teaching.
I take the view that students are customers and that the university provides a service to its customers. I am not currently employed (but am on the staff list) by the University of Plymouth but my desire is to bring the standard of teaching up to ever higher levels. Customer satisfaction will be high on my list of priorities.
Additional information
- Member of the Postgraduate Society
- Member of the Christian Union
- International student friendly
As a convinced Christian I am happy to engage in dialogue with anyone regarding the reasonableness of faith in an academic world.
Links
My Website
