Electrical & Electronic Engineering Research News

A round-up of recent news from our research groups.

March 2012

Dr Bikash Pal has been appointed Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Trans. on Sustainable Energy 2.

Prof Goran Strbac and his team have won five new grants totalling around £2m to the department:

• EPSRC's Grand Challenge on Energy Storage
• FP7 grant entitled "e-Storage", with Marko Aunedi 
• EPSRC grant entitled "Transition Pathways to Low Carbon Future", assisted by Danny Pudjanto
• An industry grant by National Grid on the project entitled "Including generation reserve in transmission planning standards" 
• EU FP7 proposal "Ene.Field".

Esther Villegas (PI), Andy Holmes (co-I) with their RAs Alex Casson and David Yates, have been chosen as one of the CRACKit Challenge winner for their project "Wireless recording of the electrophysiology of cognition in psychiatric disease models", in a competition organised by the National Centre for Refinement, Reduction and Replacement of animals in research.

TK Kim has been successful in his EPSRC first grant proposal: "3D Intrinsic Shape Recognition Under Deformation and View Changes". TK Kim has also won an Omron industrial grant to support his research.

Nir Grossman has been awarded the Welcome Trust's "Wellcome Trust-MIT Postdoctoral Fellowship" on the project entitled "Optical Transcanial Magnetic Stimulation". He will be spending three years working with Prof Ed Boyden's group at MIT and a year back at Imperial.

George Constantinides and Christos Bouganis are part of the CHREC team that won the 2012 Alexander Schwarzkopf Prize for Technology Innovation for 'Novo-G: An innovative and synergistic research project and the world’s most powerful reconfigurable supercomputer.'