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

• Krachunov, S, Beach, C, Casson, AJ, Pope, J, Fafoutis, X, Piechocki, R & Craddock, I, 2100, ‘Energy Efficient Heart Rate Sensing using a Painted Electrode ECG Wearable’. in: 2017 Global Internet of Things Summit (GIoTS 2017): Proceedings of a meeting held 6-9 June 2017, Geneva, Switzerland. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), pp. 297-302
• Fafoutis, X, Elsts, A, Oikonomou, G, Piechocki, R & Craddock, I, 2018, ‘Adaptive static scheduling in IEEE 802.15.4 TSCH networks’. in: 2018 IEEE 4th World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), pp. 263-268
• Li, W, Tan, B & Piechocki, R, 2018, ‘Passive Radar for Opportunistic Monitoring in e-Health Applications’. IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine.
• Elsts, A, Fafoutis, X, Pope, J, Oikonomou, G, Piechocki, R & Craddock, I, 2018, ‘Scheduling High-Rate Unpredictable Traffic in IEEE 802.15.4 TSCH Networks’. in: 2017 13th International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS 2017): Proceedings of a meeting held 5-7 June 2017, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), pp. 3-10
• Margelis, G, Fafoutis, X, Oikonomou, G, Piechocki, R, Tryfonas, T & Thomas, P, 2018, ‘Efficient DCT-based secret key generation for the Internet of Things’. Ad Hoc Networks.
• 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
• Li, W, Tan, B, Xu, Y & Piechocki, RJ, 2018, ‘Log-likelihood clustering-enabled passive rf sensing for residential activity recognition’. IEEE Sensors Journal, vol 18., pp. 5413-5421
• McConville, R, Archer, G, Craddock, I, Horst, Ht, Piechocki, R, Pope, J & Santos-Rodriguez, R, 2018, ‘Online Heart Rate Prediction using Acceleration from a Wrist Worn Wearable’.
• Mavromatis, I, Tassi, A, Piechocki, RJ & Nix, A, 2018, ‘A city-scale ITS-G5 network for next-generation intelligent transportation systems: design insights and challenges’. in: Ad-hoc, Mobile, and Wireless Networks: 17th International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks and Wireless, ADHOC-NOW 2018, Saint-Malo, France, September 5-7, 2018. Proceedings. Springer, Cham, pp. 53-63
• Tassi, A, Piechocki, RJ & Nix, A, 2018, ‘Poster: High-speed data dissemination over device-to-device millimeter-wave networks for highway vehicular communication’. in: 2017 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC 2017): Proceedings of a meeting held 27-29 November 2017, Torino, Italy. IEEE Computer Society, pp. 27-28

View complete publications list in the University of Bristol publications system

Courses

Professor Piechocki currently teaches 4 courses: