Professor Peter Grant

Emeritus Professor

Telephone

+44(0)131 6517125

Location

nfo No Fixed Office

Research Institutes

Imaging, Data and Communications
Research Publications
Professor Peter Grant

  • 1962-1966 Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh BSc (Hons), 2nd year class medal
  • 1972-1975 PhD University of Edinburgh "The Design of Surface Acoustic Wave Filters and Applications in Future Communication Systems"
  • Honorary DEng, Heriot-Watt University
  • Honorary DEng, Edinburgh Napier University

  • Fellow Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng)
  • Fellow Institution Engineering and Technology (FIET)
  • Eurasip Fellow
  • Fellow Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE)
  • Fellow IEEE
  • Honorary Professorial Fellow Head School of Engineering and Electronics, 2002-2007
  • Regius Professor of Engineering 2007 - 2009
  • Professor of Electronic Signal Processing to 2007
  • University Curator of Patronage, 2003-2006
  • International Professional Awards and Recognition Faraday Medal, Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE), 2004
  • Fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York (FIEEE)
  • IEEE Signal Processing Society distinguished lecturer on DSP for Mobile Communications, 1998
  • President, European Association for Signal, Speech and Image Processing (EURASIP), 2000-2002
  • National Professional Fellowships Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng)
  • Fellow of Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE).
  • Fellow of Institution of Electrical Engineers, London (FIEE)
  • Committee Chairs Electronics and Electrical Engineering Panel for the 2001 UK research assessment exercise (RAE)
  • Royal Society of Edinburgh Electronics and Electrical Engineering Sectional Committee, 1999-2003
  • Mechanisms for Excellence group of the Scottish Science Advisory Committee, 2002-date
  • Proceedings IEE Editorial Advisory Panel, IEE 1990-98
  • Editorial Advisory Panel, IEE Electronics and Communications Engineering Journal, 1996-2002
  • EPSRC Communications Signal Processing and Coding programme, assessment 1993-95 and monitoring panels 1996-97
  • Conference Committee Chairs Technical programme, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Glasgow in May 1989
  • European Signal Processing conference (EUSIPCO 94), Edinburgh
  • Paper Premia Awards Bulgin premium, Institution of Electronic and Radio Engineers (IERE) in 1974 and again in 1977
  • IERE Lord Mountbatten premium in 1982
  • IEE Marconi premium 1992
  • IEE J Langham Thompson premium 1992
  • Commercial activities Executive Committee, Mobile Virtual Centre of Excellence in Mobile and Personal Communications, 2002-2004
  • Board Member, Mobile Virtual Centre of Excellence in Mobile and Personal Communications, 1997-date
  • Independent Member, Strategic Advisory Board to the UK Defence Technology Centre in Electromagnetic Remote Sensing, 2003-date
  • Board Member of Edinburgh Technology Transfer Centre, 2003-date