Professor Robert Piechocki
Ph.D.(Bristol), M.Sc.
Current positions
Professor of Wireless Systems
Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
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Research interests
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 200 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.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
8031 SYNERGIA 53707
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
Contemporary IoT platforms typically adopt a cloud-based approach, with some offering optional backend installation at customer premises. This approach implies a requirement to transmit, process and store all data points…Managing organisational unit
Department of Electrical & Electronic EngineeringDates
01/11/2020 to 31/10/2022
OPERA - Opportunistic Passive Radar for Non-Cooperative Contextual Sensing
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of Electrical & Electronic EngineeringDates
01/01/2019 to 31/12/2022
SPHERE2
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of Electrical & Electronic EngineeringDates
01/10/2018 to 31/01/2023
EPSRC-BT Prosperity - Next Generation Converged Digital infrastructure (NG-CDI)
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of Electrical & Electronic EngineeringDates
01/11/2017 to 31/10/2022
ICON: Intelligent control (for nuclear efficient applications)
Role
Co-Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of Mechanical EngineeringDates
01/11/2017 to 30/04/2018
Thesis supervisions
Driverless Car and Multiagent Model Predictive Control
Supervisors
Physical Layer Security for Next Generation Wireless Systems
Supervisors
Low latency group communication over broadcast erasure channels
Supervisors
Multi-hop Wireless Networks with Network Coding Techniques
Supervisors
5G Communication Framework for Smarter Autonomous Vehicles
Supervisors
Robust and Efficient Residential Indoor Localisation for Healthcare
Supervisors
End to End System Optimisation of Wireless Interconnected Sensors for Healthcare Monitoring at Homes
Supervisors
Publications
Recent publications
12/01/2023Self-Supervised WiFi-Based Activity Recognition
2022 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps)
Transmit Power Control for Indoor Small Cells
2022 IEEE 96th Vehicular Technology Conference, VTC 2022-Fall 2022 - Proceedings
Federated Meta-Learning for Traffic Steering in O-RAN
Multimodal sensor fusion in the latent representation space
Scientific Reports
Streamlining Multimodal Data Fusion in Wireless Communication and Sensor Networks
Streamlining Multimodal Data Fusion in Wireless Communication and Sensor Networks
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