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
• Vafeas, A, Elsts, A, Pope, J, Fafoutis, X, Oikonomou, G, Piechocki, R & Craddock, I, 2018, ‘Energy-efficient, noninvasive water flow sensor’. in: Proceedings - 2018 IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing, SMARTCOMP 2018. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), pp. 139-146
• Mavromatis, I, Tassi, A, Piechocki, RJ & Nix, A, 2018, ‘Efficient V2V Communication Scheme for 5G MmWave Hyper-Connected CAVs’. IEEE International Conference on Communications.
• Fafoutis, X, Elsts, A, Piechocki, R & Craddock, I, 2018, ‘Experiences and lessons learned from making IoT sensing platforms for large-scale deployments’. IEEE Access, vol 6., pp. 3140-3148
• Pope, J, McConville, R, Kozlowski, M, Fafoutis, X, Santos-Rodriguez, R, Piechocki, R & Craddock, I, 2018, ‘SPHERE in a Box: Practical and Scalable EurValve Activity Monitoring Smart Home Kit’. in: 2017 IEEE 42nd Conference on Local Computer Networks Workshops (LCN Workshops 2017): Proceedings of a meeting held 9 October 2017, Singapore. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), pp. 128-135
• Mavromatis, I, Tassi, A, Piechocki, RJ & Nix, A, 2018, ‘Agile calibration process of full-stack simulation frameworks for V2X communications’. in: 2017 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC): Proceedings of a meeting held 27-29 November 2017, Torino, Italy. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), pp. 89-96
• 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
• Fafoutis, X, Elsts, A, Oikonomou, G & Piechocki, R, 2018, ‘SPHERE deployment manager: A tool for deploying IoT sensor networks at large scale’. 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. 307-318
• Fafoutis, X, Marchegiani, L, Elsts, A, Pope, J, Piechocki, R & Craddock, I, 2018, ‘Extending the battery lifetime of wearable sensors with embedded machine learning’. in: 2018 IEEE 4th World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT 2018): Proceedings of a meeting held 5-8 February 2018, Singapore. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), pp. 269-274
• 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

View complete publications list in the University of Bristol publications system

Courses

Professor Piechocki currently teaches 4 courses: