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Research Groups

audio-Visual Communications & Networks Group (AVCN)

Main Areas of Interest:

Video and image compression standards for multimedia applications, Audio signal processing, and Wireless and mobile networks.

Applied Computational Intelligence Research Unit (ACIRU)

ACIRU comprises 4 research groups:

(a) InterACT: Interactive Entertainment Research: Agents, Cognition, Technology

Researcher Position
Mr D Livingstone Coordinator
Prof C Fyfe Staff
Mr H Hildmann Research Student
Mr M Carey Staff
Mr R A Geary Staff

Main Areas of Interest:

Application of artificial intelligence to engineering design and in support of human learning

b) ACIRU - Artificial Neural Networks

Researcher Position
Prof C Fyfe Coordinator
Mr D Becerra Alonso Research Student
Mr B Chaperot Research Student
Dr V Tereshko Staff

Main Areas of Interest:

Digital signal processing for the enhancement of speech in noisy reverberant environments with the application to: future hearing aids; mobile communications; and speech recognition systems.

Information Systems Group (ISG)
Researcher Position
Mr M Bronte-Stewart Staff
Dr J K Feng Staff
Mr J G Howell Staff
Mr C Iliopoulos Staff
Dr Y Liang Staff
Dr M Stansfield Staff
Dr A Usoro Coordinator
Dr D West Staff
Mr G Majewski Research Student
Mr Imran Khan Research Student
Mr Mu Niu Research Student
Ms Xu Zheng Research Student
Ms Bridget Abiagam Research Student
Mr Faisal Shaikh Research Student
Ms Evelyn Fitzpatrick Research Student
Ms Shanaz Bashir Research Student

Information and Communications Technologies in Education

Researcher Position
Prof T Connolly Coordinator
Mr G Baxter Research Student
Ms C Gerrard Staff
Mr Tom Hainey Research Student
Ms Ashley Healey Research Student
Mr Mario Soflano Research Student
Mr J McQuillan Staff
Dr J Nixon Staff
Dr P Walder Staff
Dr N Pitcher Staff
Dr E Boyle Staff
Dr P Birch Staff
Dr P Tatner Staff
Mr G Affleck Staff

Main Areas of Interest:

Interdisciplinary research into the effectiveness of ICT based teaching and learning; the application of multi-media to educational processes.

Database Research Group
Researcher Position
Dr J Feng Coordinator
Prof M K Crowe Staff
Ms X Wang Research Student
Mr K Xu Research Student