Electronics and Electrical Engineering

• 2007-2012: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge
• 2003-2007: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Physics, University of Durham
• 1995-1999: MSci Physics, University of Durham
• 1999-2003: PhD Condensed Matter Physics, University of Durham

• Microelectronics 2 (Lecture course)
• Electromagnetics 3 (Lecture course)
• Electromagnetics 4 (Lecture course)
• Applications of Liquid Crystals in Sensing (Lecture course)
• Electrical Engineering 1 (Tutorials)
• Electronics Project Laboratory 2A  (Labs)
• Electronics Project Laboratory 2B  (Labs)

• MicroRNA biosensors
• Adaptive photonic systems and devices
• Liquid crystal lenses
• Polymer composites
• Liquid crystals
• Liquid crystal lasers
• Wireless and flexible pressure sensors for wearable electronics

Dr. Serb is a reader in Unconventional AI Hardware Technologies at the University of Edinburgh.

He is a MIET and SMIEEE.

He has led a grant portfolio of  ~£2M worth of projects, including a DSTL contract for studying the feasibility of adiabatic capacitive neural networks and the UKRI New Investigator Award "ANAGRAM".

He has further been a co-investigator in UKRI MINDS CDT.

He has supervised 20+ PhD students and 6× postdocs. His research interests span across circuit and system design and AI, with particular focus on emerging technologies such as memimpedance elements.

He has published 50+ journal articles and 50+ conference papers, and filed 5× patents.

Furthermore, he is co-founder and CTO of ArC instruments ltd., a company that manufactures instrumentation for memimpedance device characterisation and testing (https://www.arc-instruments.co.uk/).

PhD degree in EEE - Imperial college, London, 2014.

MEng degree in BioMedical engineering - Imperial college, London, 2009

MIET - Member of the IET

SMIEEE - Senior member of the IEEE

ELEE08015 - Digital System Design 2

PGEE11136 - Applications of Sensor and Imaging Systems (component module leader)

I lead a research group focused on developing and applying signal processing algorithms to biomedical data. Our main aim is to reveal the subtle changes that major diseases (e.g., Alzheimer's and epilepsy) cause in the brain activity and how this changes in different conditions and mental states.

In October 2013, I joined the Institute for Digital Communications, School of Engineering, as a Chancellor's Fellow in biomedical signal processing. I was tenured in August 2016 and promoted to Senior Lecturer in August 2020.

Previously, I held a post-doctoral position at the School of Computing and Mathematics of Plymouth University.

My training includes an MEng in telecommunications engineering from the University of Valladolid (Spain) in 2005 and a PhD in biomedical signal processing from the same university in 2010.

• 2010 - PhD in Telecommunications Engineering - University of Valladolid (Spain)
• 2005 - MEng in Telecommunications Engineering (First) - University of Valladolid (Spain)

• Senior Member of the IEEE
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

• Programme Director of the MSc in Signal Processing and Communications
• Course organiser of Image Processing
• Teacher in Engineering Software 3
• Tutor in Engineering Mathematics 2A
• Supervision of final year projects and MSc theses

• Biomedical signal processing
• Brain connectivity
• Graph theory
• Machine learning
• Nonlinear analysis

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Themis holds the Regius Chair of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh and is Director of the Centre for Electronics Frontiers. His work focuses on developing metal-oxide Resistive Random-Access Memory technologies and related applications and is leading an interdisciplinary team comprising 30 researchers with expertise ranging from materials process development to electron devices and circuits and systems for embedded applications. He holds a Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies and a Royal Society Industry Fellowship. He is an Adjunct Professor at UTS Australia, visiting Professor at the Department of Microelectronics and Nanoelectronics at Tsinghua University, and Honorary Fellow at Imperial College London. He is Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, the British Computer Society, the IET and the Institute of Physics and is also Senior Member of the IEEE. He served as the Director of the Lloyds Register Foundation International Consortium for Nanotechnology and Co-Director of the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Machine Intelligence for Nano- Electronic Devices and Systems (MINDS). In 2015, he established ArC Instruments Ltd that delivers high-performance testing infrastructure for automating characterisation of novel nanodevices in over 21 countries and in 2019 he founded SoneT.ai that is building new power-efficient AI hardware solutions. His contributions in memristive technologies and applications have brought this emerging technology one step closer to the electronics industry for which he was recognised as a 2021 Blavatnik Award UK Honoree in Physical Sciences and Engineering.

Istvan Gyongy received the M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Oxford, UK, in 2003 and 2008, respectively. Following a period in industry, where he worked on processors for smartphones and a cloud-connected activity tracking system for dairy farms, he joined the University of Edinburgh. His initial research at the University was on hydrodynamic modelling relating to the development of FloWave, the combined wave and current test facility. His research is now focused on the development of single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) cameras and their application in a range of domains including LIDAR and the life sciences.

Dr Sun is a Chancellor's Fellow (equivalent to AP) in Energy Systems Integration within the School of Engineering. His research focuses on planning and operating low-carbon energy systems with high renewable penetration, using applied data science and advanced optimization techniques. Dr Sun previously worked on building a multi-scale energy system integration architecture for National Centre for Energy Systems Integration (CESI) and as a lead researcher on Hydrogen’s Value in the Energy system (HYVE). 

Dr Sun has also contributed to Realising Energy Storage Technologies in Low-carbon Energy Systems (RESTLESS) and Adaptation and Resilience In Energy Systems (ARIES).

Dr Sun is holding a visiting research fellowship at UCL.

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• PhD Electrical Power Engineering, University of Edinburgh, 2015

• Chartered Engineer (CEng)
• Member of the Institution of Engineering & Technology (IET)
• Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)

• Hydropower Interdisciplinary Group Design Project [MEng]
• Electrical Engineering Fundamentals of Renewable Energy [MSc]
• MSc Sustainable Energy Systems - Dissertation supervision
• MSc Advanced Power Engineering - Dissertation supervision

• Network Integration of DER
• Electricity Network Modelling
• Gas/Hydrogen Network Modelling
• Climate Change Impacts on Renewable Energy
• Optimisation Modelling
• Statistic analysis 
• Data Science applications in Power Systems

Dr Jonathan G. Terry is the Deputy Head of the Engineering Graduate School at the University of Edinburgh.  He joined the School of Engineering in early 1999 as a Post-doctoral Research Associate and later became a Chancellor’s Fellow. He currently lectures in the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Discipline teaching undergraduate students in the 1st, 3rd, and 4th year, as well as those within the MSc Electronics programme.

He is based in the Institute for Integrated Micro and Nano Systems, where his current research activities are in the production of smart sensor systems, exploiting the extensive toolset in place at the fabrication facilities of the Scottish Microelectronics Centre. These involve the development and use of novel fabrication processes and materials, and their integration with post-processed foundry CMOS circuitry. To date, his research has included the development of sensing systems for physical, biological, chemical, medical, astronomical and harsh environment applications.He is a named inventor on three patents and has authored over a hundred journal and conference publications.

Recent and current funded research projects include:

• IMPACT: Implantable Microsystems for Personalised Anti-Cancer Therapy
• New Engineering Concepts from Phase Transitions: A Leidenfrost Engine
• EMBOSS: Enhanced Multiscale Boiling Surfaces - From Fundamentals to Design

• 1993 BEng(hons) Electronic Engineering (UMIST)
• 1994 MSc Microelectronic Materials and Device Technology (UMIST)
• 1998 PhD Solid State Electronics (UMIST)

• Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)
• Member of the Technical Committee of IEE International Conference on Microelectronic Test Structures
• Officer of the Scottish Chapter of the IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS)
• Regional Editor of the IEEE EDS Newsletter (UK, Middle East & Africa)
• Counsellor to the University of Edinburgh IEEE Student Branch

• Course Director: ELEE09021 Microelectronics 3
• Course Director: ELEE10017 Professional Issues for Engineers 4
• Course Director: PGEE11038 Microfabrication Techniques

• BEng
• PhD

• SFHEA
• MIEEE

• MSc (2001), University of Nis, Serbia
• PhD (2004), UMIST, UK

• Member of Joint CIGRE/CIRED WG C4.42 and CIGRE WG C4.63
• Co-chair of two CIGRE/CIRED Joint Work Groups: C4.110 (Voltage Dips) and C4.605 (Load Modelling)
• Advisory Member of IES Controls Protocol Committee
• MIET, SMIEEE
• Several EPSRC, EU, TSB, ETP and DECC Research Projects
• Member of BSI/IEC Committees L/013 (Smart Grids) and GEL/210 (EMC)
• Chair of Task 3: Electric Power Systems Perspective, IEEE PES WG on Sustainable Future Electrical Energy System Design

• MSc in Sustainable Energy Systems, Dissertation Project (PGEE11017)
• Power Systems Engineering and Economics (PGEE11016)
• Power Systems and Machines 4 (ELEE10005)
• Power Systems Engineering 5 (ELEE11054)
• Power Engineering Fundamentals (MSc, PGEE10013)

• Electrical Power Systems
• Distributed Generation
• Modelling of Microgeneration and Small-scale/Medium-scale Distributed Generation
• Illuminating Engineering
• Load Modelling and Demand Side Management
• Power Quality and Reliability/Security Assessment
• Assessment of Steady State and Transient Perfromance of Distribution Networks
• Multi-Vector Energy Systems (Electrical, Heating/Cooling, Transportation...)

• Deputy Programme Director of Sustainable Energy Systems MSc Studies
• Previous Employment: 1992-2001 University of Nis, 2001-2005 University of Manchester/UMIST