Professor Robert Piechocki

Summary

Robert J Piechocki is Professor in the School of Computer Science, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Engineering Maths. His research interests span all areas of connected intelligent systems. His domain expertise is Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAV), and wireless sensing for eHealth.  

He has published over 170 papers in peer-reviewed international journals and conferences and holds 13 patents in these areas. Robert is leading wireless connectivity and sensing research activities for the IRC SPHERE project (winner of 2016 World Technology Award). Robert is also a PI for several current high-profile projects in networks, connectivity and sensing funded by industry, Innovate UK and EPSRC such as VENTURER, FLOURISH, NG-CDI, OPERA.

Biography

Dr Robert Piechocki is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Bristol. He received an MSc degree from the Technical University of Wroclaw Poland in 1997, and a PhD from the University of Bristol in 2002.

He has authored and co-authored over 60 international journal and conference papers and holds 12 patents.

Keywords

• connected intelligent systems

Memberships

Organisations

Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering

Other sites

• Eeng

Research Groups

• Communication Systems and Networks - Core
• Smart Internet Lab
• Digital Health Engineering - Core

Links

• Smart Internet Lab
• Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
• Communication Systems & Networks research group

Recent publications

• Tassi, A, Mavromatis, I, Piechocki, R, Nix, A, Compton, C, Poole, T & Schuster, W, 2019, ‘Agile Data Offloading over Novel Fog Computing Infrastructure for CAVs’. in: 2019 IEEE 89th Vehicular Technology Conference. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• Mavromatis, I, Tassi, A, Piechocki, RJ & Nix, A, 2019, ‘Efficient Millimeter-Wave Infrastructure Placement for City-Scale ITS’. in: 2019 IEEE 88th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Spring). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• Tassi, A, Mavromatis, I, Piechocki, RJ & Nix, A, 2019, ‘Secure Data Offloading Strategy for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles’. in: IEEE 89th Vehicular Technology Conference, 2019 (VTC-Spring 2019).. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• Chakravarty, J, Johnson, O & Piechocki, R, 2019, ‘Convex Scheme for the Secrecy Capacity of a MIMO Wiretap Channel with a Single Antenna Eavesdropper’. in: 2019 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) Proceedings.
• Graham, M, Ganesh, A & Piechocki, R, 2019, ‘Fountain Coding Enabled Data Dissemination for Connected and Automated Vehicles’. in: Fountain Coding Enabled Data Dissemination for Connected and Automated Vehicles. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2019 IEEE 89th Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC2019-Spring
• McConville, R, Byrne, D, Craddock, I, Piechocki, R, Pope, J & Santos-Rodriguez, R, 2019, ‘A dataset for room level indoor localization using a smart home in a box’. Data in Brief, vol 22., pp. 1044-1051
• Beach, C, Krachunov, S, Pope, J, Fafoutis, X, Piechocki, RJ, Craddock, I & Casson, AJ, 2018, ‘An Ultra Low Power Personalizable Wrist Worn ECG Monitor Integrated with IoT Infrastructure’. IEEE Access, vol 6., pp. 44010-44021
• Tsimbalo, E, Tassi, A & Piechocki, RJ, 2018, ‘Reliability of Multicast under Random Linear Network Coding’. IEEE Transactions on Communications.
• Tan, B, Chen, Q, Chetty, K, Woodbridge, K, Li, W & Piechocki, R, 2018, ‘Exploiting WiFi Channel State Information for Residential Healthcare Informatics’. IEEE Communications Magazine, vol 56., pp. 130-137
• Mavromatis, I, Tassi, A, Piechocki, RJ & Nix, A, 2018, ‘MmWave System for Future ITS: A MAC-layer Approach for V2X Beam Steering’. in: 2017 IEEE 86th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Fall): Proceedings of a meeting held 24-27 September 2017, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), pp. 2088-2093

View complete publications list in the University of Bristol publications system

Courses

Professor Piechocki currently teaches 4 courses: