Stephan Weiss

I received the degree of Diplom-Ingenieur in Electronic & Electrical Engineering from the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg in 1995, and the PhD in the same subject from the University of Strathclyde in 1998. Interrupted by a leave in 1996/97 as a visiting scholar at the Signal and Image Processing Institute, University of Southern California, I was a research student in the Signal Processing Division, University of Strathclyde. I held a visiting lectureship in the EEE Department at Strathclyde in 1998/99, and joined the Communications Research Group of the Electronics and Computer Science Department at the University of Southampton as a lecturer in 1999. I was promoted to a senior lecturership in 2003.

Teaching Duties in 2004/2005:: 19.343 Computer Aided Design; EE504 / EE904 Advanced DSP for Communications / Adaptive DSP; EL220 Communications II; EL334 Digital Transmission; EL335 (Elec3029) Signal Processing; EZ422/622 Radio Communications Engineering; EL432/632 Real Time Systems Design; EZ6Y1 MSC Research Methods; D4 Part II Lab, "packet radio transmission" design exercise; C2 Part II Lab, DSP exercise

Research Interest:: Adaptive filtering (mostly for beamforming and equalisation), filter banks, and signal expansions for audio, communications, and biomedical applications

Research Team:: Samir Bendoukha: blind and differential receivers for space-time spreading; Adel Daas: fast blind and semiblind adaptation and tracking; Choo Leng Koh: subband and frequency domain based adaptive broadband beamforming; Chunguang Liu: channel coding using overcomplete expansions; Waleed Al-Hanafy: smart antenna schemes / broadband MIMO; Chi Hieu Ta: joint Tx and Rx beamforming, filter banks

Former Students:: Dr Wei Liu: PhD July 2003, "Digital Beamforming Employing Subband Techniques". Now lecturer at the University of Sheffield.; Dr Hafizal Mohamad: PhD December 2003, "Subband Adaptive Equalisation for Communication Transceivers". Now Lecturer at Multimedia University, Malaysia.; Dr Hubert Dietl: PhD May 2005, "Signal Processing Techniques for Detection Applied to Biomedical Data". Working on CCTV video processing for a company in Fuerth, Germany.; Dr Charles Tibenderana: PhD December 2005, "On A Low-Cost High-Performance Bluetooth Receiver". With Aeroflex, Cambridge.; Dr Soydan Redif: PhD September 2006, "Polynomial Matrix Decompositions and Paraunitary Filter Banks". With QinetiQ Ltd, Malvern.; Dr Viktor Bale: PhD October 2006, "Computationally Efficient Equalisation of Broadband Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Systems". With PA Consulting, Cambridge.; Mahmoud Hadef: PhD March 2007, "Fast Blind Adaptive Equalisers for the UMTS TDD Downlink". Now at QUeen Mary, Uniersity of London.

Collaboration:: Dr Wei Liu: broadband beamforming, filter banks, filter design; Prof. Bob Stewart (University of Strathclyde): adaptive filtering, beamforming, filter banks & filter design; Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr rer.med. Ulrich Hoppe (Technische Universität Ilmenau): time frequency analysis and detection; Prof. Dr. Paul Pauli (University of Würzburg): detection of evoked potentials; Dr. Rudi Rabenstein (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg): filter banks; Prof. Dr.-Ing. Markus Rupp (Technical University of Vienna): equalisation, receivers, prototyping

Some Other Activities:: Chair, 2nd IEE/EURASIP Conference on DSP enabled Radio, September 2005, Southampton, UK.; Guest co-editor of EURASIP JASP special issue on "DSP Enabled Radio" login; Associate Editor for Signal Processing; Associate Editor for Transactions on Mobile Computing; Referee for IEEE Trans SP, and IEEE SP Letters.; Lecturer, IEE Residential Course on Adaptive Signal Processing, Cambridge, April 1999, May 2002, and 2005.; Chair, SMI Software Radio Conferences, July 2002 and July 2003, London; Technical Co-Chair, Colloquium on DSP enabled Radios, September 2003, Livingston, Scotland.; Guest co-editor of special issue on "Active Noise and Echo Cancellation"; Intramural volleyball with the Microcomms team; Bass in the Southampton Philharmonic Society

Awards:: Förderpreis der Forschungsgemeinschaft Deutscher Hörgeräte-Akustiker 2001, with Ulrich Hoppe

Address:

Dr. Stephan Weiss

Department of Electronics and Computer Science

University of Southampton

Southampton SO17 1BJ

United Kingdom

Tel.: +44-(0)2380-59-7645

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Last modified: Wed Feb 24 10:57:29 GMT 1999